In this part of the series, Cherri Campbell delves deeply into the practical steps of walking in love. She explores how essential it is for every Christian to develop and exercise the fruits of the Spirit, especially focusing on love as the greatest commandment. Cherri emphasizes the importance of nurturing these seeds with the ‘water of the word’ and how making conscious choices in everyday situations can reflect God’s love to others. You’ll learn from real-life testimonies about how love can transform hearts and relationships when it is properly cultivated and expressed.
Good morning. Praise the Lord. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Welcome to Victorious Faith. I’m Cherri Campbell. This morning, I’m going to continue sharing with you the message that I’ve been sharing with you for the last two weeks that I preached in two of our Victorious Faith services called What Love Does. This is very, very practical how to walk in love. And I know every single Christian is needs to learn how to walk in love to a higher degree. This is our greatest commandment and our highest calling. This is the only thing in life that counts, how we have walked in love. So I encourage you, take notes and listen in now as we continue this message in part 11 of What Love Does. How great is the Father’s love for the Son? beyond comprehension. And he said that the love you have for me, it’s going to be inside of them. Wow. That’s amazing. Praise the Lord. So just say it right now. God’s love is in me. God, say it again. God’s love is in me. Say it again. God’s love is in me. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. We must yield to the love of God. Remember the fruit of the spirit. I talked about it. I mentioned at the very beginning, Galatians 5, 22. Fruit come from faith. seeds. And this is what I started to talk about this. And then I got sidetracked on spirit, soul, and body. But when you’re born again, you’re created in the image of God and all the fruit of the spirit, the nine love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and self-control. They are born into you when you’re born again, because the spirit of they’re the fruit of the spirit. The spirit is in you. They are created in you. They’re created in you, but they’re in seed form. And what do you do with the seed to get a plant? To get a tree, you plant it and water it. You plant it and water it. And if you don’t ever plant it and water it, it doesn’t grow. So God gives us the seed of love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and self-control. But we have to develop them through the water of the word. And we’re going to talk about that. You speak the word of God and you speak in agreement with the word of God. Don’t ever say, I just don’t have any patience. That’s a terrible thing to say. And it’s a bad confession, but it was born in you when you’re born again. It’s in you. It’s in you. Joy is in you. And actually, usually the first fruit that manifests is joy. And then right behind it, love for everybody you see around you. You know, if you had one of those experiences when you’re more of an adult. Anyway, I’ve, I’ve heard that testimony so many times when people get born again, their first feeling is joy. Then they turn around. I heard one man, he had been an alcoholic and he got saved, went to the altar and got saved at a service. And there was this big fat lady next to him and he just tried to wrap his arms around. He just loved everybody. As soon as he got saved, he was just crying and he goes and puts his arms around this big fat lady. He just loved her. You know, just love starts oozing out of you when you get saved. But we need to feed the love. Everybody say, feed the love. Feed the love. Feed the joy. Feed the peace. Feed the faith. We know we have to feed our faith. We’ve heard that. Feed your faith. Well, we also have to feed our love. Feed our joy. Peace. Meekness. Love, joy, peace. Long-suffering. Gentleness. Goodness. Faith. Meekness. Self-control. We’ve got to feed them or else they’re starving. Or else they’re starving. Feed them and water them. Feed them and water them. And another thing is exercising. Exercise it. Feed it and exercise it. How do you make your muscles grow? Feed it and exercise it. Drink lots of protein and exercise. Right? So that’s how you make your fruit of the spirit grow. Is by feeding it and exercising it. And feeding it is feeding it with the word of God. The love scriptures. And then we’re going to get to something else here I’ll tell you about. But yield to it. Because God’s love is in you. But usually in every situation, it’s really we’ve got to stop and control ourselves and make a decision. How am I going to respond? Am I going to get angry? Or am I going to be patient? And am I going to overlook this or am I going to take an offense? Am I going to speak angrily or am I going to speak softly and gently? We’ve got to hold ourself in check enough to think before we speak and act to make a decision to choose love. Just like we said, forgiveness, you choose forgiveness. It’s not a feeling. You choose it. Well, you have to choose love and try to hold the reins on yourself before you speak and act. Make your choice to choose love. And of course, like I said, this has to be developed. This is something you work on every day, all day long, right? But that’s yielding to the love. It’s in you. You’ve just got to give it room and give it place. I liked when I was in Australia, you know, we have a red triangle sign that says yield. the yield sign. In Australia, it’s give way. That makes sense. Give way. Give way. So yielding means give way, yield to the love of God, give way to the love of God, or allow God’s love to manifest. Allow God’s love to rise. And if you’re quick to get angry and to make other responses, you’re not yielding to that love that’s there if you’ll let it. If you’ll let it. So we have to yield to it, give way to it, allow it to rise up in us. Second, Peter one, three, and four, his divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness. And through our knowledge of him, uh, who called us by his own glory and goodness through these, he has given us as very great and precious promises so that through them, you may right here participate in the divine nature. What is God’s nature? Love. God’s nature is love. And so we participate in love by his divine power. We participate in God’s love by his divine power that he has given us everything we need for life and godliness to walk in love through our knowledge of him and through his great and precious promises. So through our knowledge of him, through his great and precious promises, we participate in his nature. So his power is in his word that he gives us and his power is in the anointing that he gives us. He anoints us. Hallelujah. And the anointing, the empowerment of God to love. 1 John 4, 7. Dear friends, let us love one another for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. So we know, believe, and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God and God in him. So it’s by faith. Galatians 5, 6. Faith which works by love. Faith works by love. Love works by faith. And Galatians two 20, I have been crucified with Christ. I no longer live or the flesh, that sinful flesh, but Christ, the anointed one in his anointing lives in me. The life I live in the body. I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me so that this life I live in the life of love that I live. I live by faith because Christ lives in me. Yeah. Amen. Hallelujah. So how to grow in love? Number one, God is love. So we must first partake of his love. We must first receive his love for us. God loves me. God loves me. You have to know that. And that takes the time of meditation. We all need that. We need to hear it again and again. We need to remind ourselves, God loves me. He really does. I mean, we’ve heard it as long as we’ve been in church, but we forget it and we lose touch with that. How much does God really love me? Did he forget about me today? No, you are the apple of his eye. You are engraved on the palm of his hand. He’s continually thinking about you. You are continually before his face. His mind is on you every second, every millisecond. He loves you. He rejoices over you. He sings over you. He dances over you. He delights in you. You are his prize. You are his reward. You are the joy of his life. You are the sparkle in his eye. You are the spring in his step. Hallelujah. Amen. But I have to remember and I have to remind myself because there are times when you just feel like there’s a little bit less than others, right? So you remind yourself you’re loved by God. God loves you. God. Everybody say God loves me. God loves me. God loves me. Hallelujah. Meditate on that. Remember that again and again. Number two, then we must love God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength. God loves me. I love God. Then God’s love is shed abroad in our heart. Number three, we then receive his love for others. His love is shed abroad in my heart. The love that the father has for the son is in me. We receive his love for others. Number four, we meditate on the scriptures. Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word. Well, love comes by hearing and hearing by the word. Hallelujah. So meditate the scriptures. Number five, confess your love. This is so important. Just like you confess your healing. By his stripes, I’m healed. By his stripes, I’m healed. Confessing your love. Each time you say, I love you, that love is sparked in your heart. And the more you say, I love you, the more that love will grow. And I heard a testimony of a couple that went to the pastor. One last chance to save a marriage. They were planning to get a divorce. They fell out of love. They no longer loved each other. They couldn’t stand each other anymore. And one last resort, they went to the pastor and they said, pastor, we’re ready for a divorce. We don’t love each other anymore, but we wanted to come see you first. And the pastor said, okay, I want you to do one thing for me. In the next 30 days, every day, look at each other and say, I love you. Is that it? Yep. That’s it. You go. And they started out, they started out by saying, I love you. I love you too. I love you. I love you too. Well, they said it every day and what they did by those words rekindled the fire. It was just lighting a match in the kindling, sparking that love that had been there. And they said it day after day. By the end of the month, they could look at each other and say, I really do love you. I really do love you. And it saved their marriage. And I had the privilege of doing a wedding this spring. And I did one marriage counseling session with them. And this is one of the points I taught. And I said, one thing is for every day of your life, never fail to say, I love you. And now I said earlier, actions are stronger than words. And you can say it, but not act it. And that doesn’t work. But say it, but then follow it up with the action to show it. But if you will say that love and choose to do the acts of love, you will keep kindling that fire. You’ll keep that fire lit all of your life. What you just heard was part 11 of a two message series that I preached in two of our victorious faith services called What Love Does. And if you’d like to download the notes or listen to this message again or share it with friends and family, you can go to my YouTube channel, which is under my name, Cherri Campbell. C-H-E-R-R-I Campbell, C-A-M-P-B-E-L-L. And there in the top category called radio broadcasts, you will see this message called what love does. And when you click on the video there in the description box below the video, you will see the link to download the notes. Now join me again tomorrow as we will continue this message. And remember, God loves you. You’re blessed and highly favored by the Lord.
