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May 1, 2016 · God’s love poured into your heart is a real heart-experience of being loved by God. God’s love proven to your mind is the conclusion of an argument, with or without the sweetness of feeling loved by God in the heart.
Nov 30, 1999 · How then do we pursue the fullness of the experience of the love of God poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit? One key is to realize that the experience is not like hypnosis or electric shock or drug-induced hallucinations or shivers at a good tune.
- John Wesley
- Jonathan Edwards
- Dwight L. Moody
- Blaise Pascal
Wesley was a pastor. He had preached on two continents—in England and in Georgia, here in the States. Something happened to him on the 24th of May, 1738, while he was listening to a man read the preface to Luther’s work on Romans in Aldersgate Street in London. Here is Wesley’s description of what happened to him: What is so amazing about this is t...
In 1737, Edwards rode out into the woods for time of prayer: He went out into the woods, tied up his horse, and saw the love of Christ in a way that he had not seen it before. He had a “view” of it, and he got a glimpse of it. Its sweetness came home to his soul
In 1871, Moody’s church building was destroyed in the Chicago fire. He went to New York to seek financial help: His soul was so overwhelmed by the love of God that he said, “I can’t take it anymore.”
One of the most intense descriptions of this kind of experience comes from Blaise Pascal, a Roman Catholic. It would be easy for some of us to dismiss experiences where people feel God’s love by saying that there are certain, more emotional, types of people who alone have these experiences. But Pascal was a mathematician and a scientist, so his sto...
May 20, 2024 · Here are three practical steps to experience more of God’s love: 1. Be dissatisfied with your present spiritual experience. Cultivate a holy discontent. The person who prays this prayer is looking for something more than he or she already has: “Lord, direct my heart into your love.”
Feb 11, 2021 · God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us (Rom. 5:5). Notice how Romans 5:5 and Romans 5:8 complement each other so beautifully in giving us a full picture of the love of God, which is universal in its scope and personal in its application.
Jan 2, 2023 · The source of our experience of God’s love is the Holy Spirit. Tim Keller says Paul is praying for a “spiritual inner sensitivity to gospel truth”—that the Holy Spirit may prepare your inner being to grasp God’s love.
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“God is love” does not mean that everything is sweet, beautiful and happy, and that God’s love could not possibly allow punishment for sin. God’s holiness demands that all sin be punished, but God’s love provided a plan of redemption and salvation for sinful men and women.
