In this final installment of What Love Does, Cherri Campbell encourages listeners to deepen their understanding of love’s transformative power. Drawing from scripture, Campbell emphasizes the importance of acknowledging God’s unwavering love for us as a foundation to love others genuinely. With practical steps, such as confessing love and yielding to compassion, listeners are guided to a more fulfilling spiritual journey.
Good morning. Welcome to Victorious Faith. I’m Cherri Campbell. This morning, I’m going to continue and conclude the two-part message that I’ve been sharing with you in the last couple of weeks that I preached in two of our Victorious Faith services called What Love Does. I believe this series has been very informative and practical for you. If you want to study the notes, you can go to my YouTube channel, which is under my name, Cherri Campbell, C-H-E-R-R-I Now, join me in our live service for part 12 and the conclusion of this message, What Love Does. So that this life I live and the life of love that I live, I live by faith because Christ lives in me. 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. Hallelujah. God loves me. You have to know that. And that takes the time and 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. Everybody say, God loves me. 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. So saying, I love you. Say, I love you to your family every day. And you don’t necessarily have to say to your coworker, I love you, but you confess your love for others by speaking it to yourself. I mean, especially when you’re angry, you go get a drink of water and say, I love him in the name of Jesus. Lord help me. But I, I love him no matter. And so you can go off by yourself, get a drink of water, sit in your car and whoever it is, whatever they, you don’t necessarily, I mean, people at work, your family, you do say it to their face. Yes. But people at work might think you a little strange and we don’t need anybody strange, but you can say it to yourself. I love him in the name of Jesus. I’m going to love him every till I die. No matter what he says, no matter what he does, I love him still. And you make that confession though, is what I’m saying. Make it a confession to love those, especially when those are the hard ones to love. It’s easy to say, I love you to the easy ones. But it’s when they’re hard to love is when you’ve got to make a choice and you make it a confession. I love him in Jesus name. No matter what he says, I love him. No matter what he does, I love him. And so you make it a confession. Confess your love. Number six. Six, yield to compassion. Give way. Allow God in you to rise. Compassion and mercy. Allow compassion and mercy to rise in your heart from the Holy Spirit. Being angry, bitter, resentful, or judging other people. Like I said, it hardens. It just makes a hardening of your heart. When you start getting that feeling in you, you can feel inside your heart getting hard and stiff. But you have mercy and compassion on them. Your heart starts to melt toward that person. That’s what it is. It’s a melting of your heart, a softening of your heart. So let your heart be soft. Let your heart be tender. Don’t harden your heart. Yield to compassion and mercy. Compassion and mercy soften the heart. Number seven, act in faith. That includes giving so love, whatever you did for one of the least you did for me. Consider you are doing it for Jesus. It is easier to serve Jesus than people. So do good things, acts of kindness and love and serving one another. Put on love. Colossians 314 over all these virtues, put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Yes, it’s a put on. Because you don’t always feel it. The feelings can come later after you’ve grown a little bit more. But sometimes you just got to put it on. I’m loving this person. And I put it on like you put it on a shirt. Put it on like you put it on a jacket. I’m going to put on love. It’s a put on. It’s an act of faith. So yes, you put it on. It’s an act of faith. Act in faith. And letter C, give. The greatest expression of love is giving. Give gifts, give compliments, give kindness, acts of kindness, etc. Give. And then number eight, intercede for them. Intercession is the key to the purest kind of love. Remember Jesus and Stephen. Jesus on the cross said, forgive them. Stephen, as he was being stoned, said, forgive them for they do not know. Jesus said, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing. Stephen said, forgive them. Do not lay this sin to their charge. So they both, even in being… martyred, killed, crucified, stoned, they interceded, they prayed to the Father for the ones who were doing them wrong. When you intercede for a person, you fall in love with the one you are interceding for. The more you pray for them, God puts them in your heart. The more you pray for them, God puts them in your heart. And you develop a prayer burden for them. Or you can if you yield to it. Finally, the victory of love. 1 John 5, 4. For everyone born of God, God is love, overcomes the world. So what we see, love overcomes the world. Love overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. Love is victory. Love is victory. 1 Corinthians 13, 8. Love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13, 13. And now these three remain, faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. And we will be known for our love. Amen? Amen. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Let’s pray. Father God, we thank you and praise you right now for the power of your word. Lord, your word, yes, like we said before, it’s Hebrews 4.12. Your word is like a double-edged sword, dividing soul and spirit, bone and marrow, and the thoughts and intents of the heart. Lord, it cuts into us and shows us where we have been wrong. But at the same time, it brings the healing balm of the anointing to heal us and to restore us and to make us whole. And Lord, we know that you are purifying us because you want to use us and that you flow and operate in vessels of love. The gifts of the Spirit operate by love. And ministry is by love and your outpouring of your spirit that you have promised us now in these last days that we will want to be part of. It’s going to be by love and you will use people who are in love, people who are ready and prepared. And so, Lord, we are are receiving your word and. We are yielding to your word and we say, Lord, forgive us for coming short in times past and help us now by the strength of your spirit and by the power of your anointing, your divine power in us, enabling us to come to a higher level of the God kind of love that we will walk in the love of God and we will be known by our love. I thank you, Father. We commit ourselves to you. We ask you to wash our hearts right now with the blood of Jesus. Our hearts are cleansed from unforgiveness right now. Lord, we say forgive us and we release those who have hurt us and wronged us. We release them and forgive them. And now your love is shed abroad in our hearts. We receive it and we walk in it. by faith, by your spirit, by your word, by your enablement, by your divine power, by your anointing. We thank you for it in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. What you just heard was part 12 and the conclusion of a message that I preached in two of our victorious faith services called What Love Does. This has been a very insightful message, I believe, for you. And you can download the notes if you 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 Broadcast, you will see this message called What Love Does. You can listen to the message again and in the description box below the video, you can see the link to download the notes. Now join me again tomorrow for a very powerful message. And remember, God loves you. You are blessed and highly favored by the Lord.
