Warrior Church Home Fellowship Study
Dr. Kevin Zadai 08-22-2021
God’s Love
We actually are already hooked up to love, because we're hooked up to God.
~Kevin Zadai
We love because he first loved us.
--- 1 John 4:19 ESV
DISCUSSION:
When I was in school, there was a great emphasis on faith and it helped me grow, but I hardly heard anything about the love of God. Paul said, “There remaineth, faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of these is love.” (see 1 Corinthians 13:13) You would’ve thought the greatest of these would have been faith, but it wasn’t. It was love. When I met Jesus, the main thing He wanted me to know was how much He loved me. He took me around to different places in Heaven, and I saw that I was cared for and loved. I had not experienced that kind of love on the Earth. When I saw God on the throne, I wasn’t allowed to look upon His face. If I did, I wouldn’t be able to return to my earthly body. My body wouldn’t be able to handle seeing His face because it’s fallen. Our bodies are a part of the fall, so when we die, we don’t take them with us —they remain here, and our spirit goes to Heaven to be with the Lord.
When I was in the throne room, I could pick up certain things about God. One of those things was that He wanted us to be grateful for what He did for us on the cross. The appropriate response for what God’s done for us is loving others, loving God back and thanking Him. He preemptively took care of the sin problem through Jesus by dying on the cross. When you acknowledge Jesus, and you believe in your heart that He died for you on the cross, rose from the dead, and then you confess it with your mouth, you are saved. How we thank Him for this is by loving Him and loving others.
o Discuss: The topic of loving out of the love God has for us. How does that encourage us to love Him and love others? What is your response to God’s love? Does it cause you to love Him and others?
o Discuss: If we have freely received love from God, we can freely give. Talk about If you have not received the love of God or experienced it, then it’s not possible to love others because you’re at a deficit. Have you or have you not encountered the love of God? Remember, you don’t earn God’s love; it’s freely given.
1 John 4: 7 TPT: Those who are loved by God, let his love continually pour from you to one another, because God is love. Everyone who loves is fathered by God and experiences an intimate knowledge of him.
We need to experience God’s love in order to have something to give. You are loved by God. Let His love pour out from you to others. When you encounter His love and experience that intimate knowledge of Him, it causes you to operate in that love.
Everyone who loves is fathered by God. He is your father, and He is fathering you. o How does this make you feel that He loves you so much? What does it mean to you that God is fathering you? What does God mean when He says He’s fathering you? Go deeper and discuss the difference to unveil the meaning of this.
1 John 4:16 TPT: “We have come into an intimate experience with God’s love, and we trust in the love he has for us. God is love! Those who are living in love are living in God, and God lives through them.”
You are in God, and God is in you. There’s an exchange going on between the two of you. Based on what I’ve encountered, we are not walking in true love because we have no idea what the father's steadfast love is. We have no idea that before man came into existence, God, through foreknowledge, had already discussed that when He made the world, He would make man, and they would need a savior. God had it all planned out before He formed the Earth, which is hard for us to fathom. You have to experience the love of God to know of His love. It changes you.
Warrior Church Home Fellowship Study
Dr. Kevin Zadai 08-22-2021
RECEIVING GOD’S LOVE
Often our receiver is broken, and people compare the Father's love to the love they’ve encountered on the earth. The lack of love that we have not received can cause us to compare earthly love to God’s love. If you’ve experienced the loss of a Father or your Father didn’t know how to express love, you may think that God’s love is that way. If not dealt with properly, it can lead to abandonment issues or feelings of rejection, and it can cause you not to know how to receive the love God has for you. When you learn how to receive God’s love, then you’ll begin to walk in His love. His love never changes.
It takes us seeking the King rather than the attributes of Him. When you understand who the Father is by reading the word of God, it transforms you. Believing for miracles from the Father is easy because that’s who He is and what He does. We need to grasp God’s love from His perspective and not from our own. To do that requires intervention and a supernatural impartation from God in our lives by the Holy Spirit to reveal His nature to us. It's not going to come naturally. Each of us can demonstrate a side of God’s love by how we treat each other. Jesus said that the sum of all the commandments is when we love God and love our neighbor as ourselves (see Matthew 22:37-39). By doing this, you have fulfilled all the laws.
You can also remain in the love of God by staying in the Spirit of God, by building yourself up in the most holy of faith and praying in the spirit. To remain in the love of God, you’ve got to be one with God. Why? Because God is love.
Jude 1:20-21 NLT: But you, dear friends, must build each other up in your most holy faith, pray in the power of the Holy Spirit, and await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will bring you eternal life. In this way, you will keep yourselves safe in God’s love.
We are already connected to love because we’re one with God. We’re one with God in the spirit because God is Spirit. Those who worship God worship Him in spirit and truth (see John 4:24). It’s about yielding to that love that’s already in you.
1. Discuss: What does it mean to yield to the love of God that’s in you. How do you yield?
2. Discuss: How is the Gospel simplified so that a three-year-old can understand it.
3. Discuss: When Paul said, If you have all the gifts of the spirit, but you don’t have love, you’re nothing.
4. Talk about how praying in the spirit builds up your faith, hope and love.
PRAYER:
Father, we just agree it's touching this one thing that there will be unity in the body and that your glorious church would arise all over the Earth and that you would use Warrior Fellowships Lord, to bring in the harvest and to fulfill the law of love among us, that everyone would be ministered to and everyone would feel loved and accepted just as God has accepted us.
And so, Father, I just thank you for this. Thank you for a miracle and a movement of love all over the world, through all those, all of our friends meeting all over the world right now. And I break the power of the enemy right now. And the Lord is just saying He loves us. He loves us with an everlasting love. And He said, you know, you are in my heart. That's what the Lord is saying to everyone. You're in my heart. You're inside of me. I can't let go of you. That's what the Lord is saying.
