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LOVE — A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE ❤️

As the world prepares to celebrate love next weekend, let us pause and reflect on love from God’s standpoint — because Scripture is the truest definition of what love really is.

1️⃣ What Is Love According to Scripture?
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.” — 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Biblical love is not a feeling first — it is a fruit expressed through character.
It is sacrificial, enduring, forgiving, and truth-anchored.

2️⃣ How Do You Recognize Genuine Love?
Genuine love:

• Seeks your good, not just your presence — Philippians 2:4
• Corrects in truth, not control — Proverbs 27:6
• Produces peace, not confusion — 1 Corinthians 14:33
• Reflects God’s nature — 1 John 4:8

Love that wounds your spirit, pulls you away from God, or dishonors your value is not biblical love.

3️⃣ How Does God Want Us to Love?

Jesus gave the highest standard:

• Love God first — Matthew 22:37
• Love your neighbor as yourself — Matthew 22:39
• Love sacrificially — John 15:13
• Love even your enemies — Matthew 5:44

God’s love is not selective — it is transformational.

4️⃣ The Different Types of Love (Biblical/Greek Context)

• Agape — Unconditional, God-like love (John 3:16)
• Phileo — Brotherly/friendship love (John 11:36)
• Storge — Familial love (Romans 12:10)
• Eros — Romantic/marital love (Song of Solomon 1:2)

God calls us to operate in all, but to be governed by Agape, the highest form.

Final Reflection ✨
True love is not proven by words, gifts, or moments — but by sacrifice, consistency, and godly fruit.

“Let all that you do be done in love.” — 1 Corinthians 16:14

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Blessed & Highly Favored
Divine Intervention Ministry — SLB



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As news of a temporary storm filled the air this weekend, I watched people shift into preparation mode. The media emphasized readiness, and everyone began asking one another, “Are you ready?”

Yet when the question turns to something eternal—Are you ready for the return of Jesus?—many become uncomfortable or even offended.

There is urgency for storms that will pass, but little concern for eternity. Little thought given to where one will spend eternal life, and little preparation with the same level of motivation.

Temporary events stir action. Eternal truth calls for reflection.

📖 “Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
— Matthew 24:44

📖 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth… but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven.”

— Matthew 6:19–20
📖 “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?”
— Mark 8:36

📖 “For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”
— 2 Corinthians 4:18

Happy Sunday

BLESSED & HIGHLY FAVORED | DIVINE INTERVENTION MINISTRY — SLB

Very Good — Identity & Confidence in Christ

“I’ve been thinking a lot about how society keeps redefining beauty and confidence… and it led me back to Genesis.”

I recently heard a woman say that even without the financial ability, plastic surgery despise all the risks would give her confidence. And it made me pause—because I’ve been there, just in a different form, until the Lord Himself delivered me from that mindset I had at that moment.

There was a time when I believed losing more weight would finally make me confident. I pushed my body to extremes, ignored exhaustion, and kept chasing a lower number on the scale—even when people told me I looked sick rather than healthy.

What I was really facing wasn’t my body. It was an identity crisis.

Scripture tells us that when God created man, He looked at His work and said it was very good (Genesis 1:31).

God placed us on this earth as stewards of things and people and not as owners. Our bodies are not mistakes to correct—they are temples to steward. And before making decisions about them, we must remember that they belong to God, not to us (1 Corinthians 6:19–20).

Confidence is not found in altering ourselves to meet a standard that keeps changing.

True confidence is restored when we return to Christ and remember who we are in Him.

“You are complete in Him.” — Colossians 2:10

This post begins a series on identity and confidence in Christ—because what God called very good was never lacking.