“Strengthen, O God, what You have done for us” (Psalms 68:28)

Saints should ask God to strengthen their love. “This is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another” (1 John 4:10-11).

Our Life is His love. “If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love” (John 15:10). “The love of Christ compels us” (2 Corinthians 5:14). “Be imitators of God as dear children. And walk in love” (Ephesians 5:1-2). God wants nothing less than unconditional love: “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind” (Matthew 22:37).

God encourages us by the love we feel when we work for Him. Everything we do for God should be done with love (1 Corinthians 16:14). We’re rooted and grounded in love (Ephesians 3:17). Our faith works through love (Galatians 5:6). It’s through love, we serve one another (Galatians 5:13). Our works of faith are labors of love (1 Thessalonians 1:3). Our goal is love from a pure heart (1 Timothy 1:5). The heavenly armor we wear over our heart is not only faith, but love (1 Thessalonians 5;8).

Without faith it’s impossible to please God, but without love, the life of faith would be a worthless hypocrisy.  “Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing” (1 Corinthians 13:2-3).

Let your encouragement from God be His love. “Put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another … above all these things put on love” (Colossians 3:12-14).

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