External Link: Pastor Rick Warren's Devotional

Devotional Links Posted

on: May 9 and 22, 2017 and 

June 10 and 26, 2017

External Link: Pastor Rick Warren’s Devotional (S-2017-13)

The Width of God’s Love

http://pastorrick.com/devotional/english/full-post/the-width-of-god-s-love1

“God never made a person that he didn’t love. He made you and he loves you — and God doesn’t make junk! He loves you unconditionally. He loves you very, very much.” - Pastor Rick

 External Link: Pastor Rick Warren’s Devotional (S-2017-14)

The Length of God’s Love

http://pastorrick.com/devotional/english/full-post/the-length-of-god-s-love1

“God’s love never wears out. God’s love is patient, persistent, and persevering.” - Pastor Rick

External Link: Pastor Rick Warren’s Devotional (S-2017-15)

The Height of God’s Love

http://pastorrick.com/devotional/english/full-post/the-height-of-god-s-love1

“There is no place that you can go where God’s love isn’t. You’ll never be separated from God’s love…. an antidote for loneliness….” - Pastor Rick

External Link: Pastor Rick Warren’s Devotional (S-2017-16)

God’s Love Is Deep Enough

http://pastorrick.com/devotional/english/full-post/god-s-love-is-deep-enough1

“Where is God when you hit bottom? He’s right there underneath you…. Drop into his arms of love. Let him catch you and support you when you have nowhere else to go.” - Pastor Rick

External Link: Pastor Rick Warren’s Devotional (S-2017-17)

To Love Well, Get Emotionally Recharged

http://pastorrick.com/devotional/english/full-post/to-love-well-get-emotionally-recharged

“When your emotional tank is empty, you’re unable to keep on loving people. You just give up! You are overwhelmed and feel inadequate. To keep on loving people, you have to keep your emotional tank full, because when it gets low, it’s going to make a difference in your relationships.” - Pastor Rick

External Link: Pastor Rick Warren’s Devotional (S-2017-18)

You Can’t Love Well When You’re Exhausted

http://pastorrick.com/devotional/english/full-post/you-can-t-love-well-when-you-re-exhausted

“Love is exhausting. Most people don’t understand that their physical condition has a strong impact on their relationships and ability to love. It takes physical energy to listen to people, to put their needs first.” - Pastor Rick

External Link: Pastor Rick Warren’s Devotional (S-2017-19)

Fill Your Life with Love

http://pastorrick.com/devotional/english/full-post/fill-your-life-with-love1

“Love is the only thing that can change the unchangeable. Love invigorates. Love revitalizes. Love renews. Love refreshes. Love is the most powerful force in the universe, because God is love.” - Pastor Rick

External Link: Pastor Rick Warren’s Devotional (S-2017-20)

We Love Because God Loves Us

http://pastorrick.com/devotional/english/full-post/we-love-because-god-loves-us

“…love started with God. He loved us first, and that gives us the ability to love others (1 John 4:19).” - Pastor Rick

External Link: Pastor Rick Warren’s Devotional (S-2017-21)

The Bible Says Love Is a Choice

http://pastorrick.com/devotional/english/full-post/the-bible-says-love-is-a-choice1

Main Bible Verse: “That you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” (Deuteronomy 30:20 NIV).

Pastor Rick: “Today we’ve bought into this myth that love is uncontrollable, that it’s something that just happens to us…. You must choose to love God. He won’t force you to love him (Deuteronomy 30:20)…. This same principle is true about your relationships: You can choose to love others, but God won’t force you to love anyone.”

External Link: Pastor Rick Warren’s Devotional (S-2017-22)

Love Is a Skill That Can Be Learned

http://pastorrick.com/devotional/english/full-post/love-is-a-skill-that-can-be-learned1

Main Bible Verse: “Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God” (1 John 4:7 NLT, second edition).

Pastor Rick:  “Love is a skill that can be learned. In other words, it’s something you can get good at, and that means you get better at love by practicing love.”

External Link: Pastor Rick Warren’s Devotional (S-2017-23)

Love Is an Action

http://pastorrick.com/devotional/english/full-post/love-is-an-action1

Main Bible Verse: “Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions” (1 John 3:18 NLT, second edition).

Pastor Rick: “Love is more than attraction and more than arousal. It’s also more than sentimentality, like so many of today’s songs suggest. By this standard, is love dead when the emotion is gone? No — not at all — because love is an action and a behavior.”

External Link: Pastor Rick Warren’s Devotional (S-2017-24)

Bring Your Love and Work Together

http://pastorrick.com/devotional/english/full-post/bring-your-love-and-work-together1

Main Bible Verse: “Do all your work in love” (1 Corinthians 16:14 TEV).

Pastor Rick: “The apostle Paul says, ‘Do all your work in love’ (1 Corinthians 16:14 TEV). He doesn’t say some of your work but all of your work. He also says that no matter ‘what I do, I'm bankrupt without love’ (1 Corinthians 13:3 MSG).”

External Link: Pastor Rick Warren’s Devotional (S-2017-God-Word-Love/1)

Fill Your Life with Love

http://pastorrick.com/devotional/english/full-post/fill-your-life-with-love1

Main Bible Verse: “Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good. Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other” (Romans 12:9-10 NLT, second edition).

Pastor Rick: “Love is the only thing that can change the unchangeable. Love invigorates. Love revitalizes. Love renews. Love refreshes. Love is the most powerful force in the universe, because God is love.”

External Link: Pastor Rick Warren’s Devotional (S-2017-God-Word-Love/2)

We Love Because God Loves Us

http://pastorrick.com/devotional/english/full-post/we-love-because-god-loves-us

Main Bible Verse: “We love because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19 NIV).

Pastor Rick: “…love started with God. He loved us first, and that gives us the ability to love others (1 John 4:19).”

External Link: Pastor Rick Warren’s Devotional (S-2017-God-Word-Love/3)

Build Your Life on a Solid Foundation: God’s Word

http://pastorrick.com/devotional/english/full-post/build-your-life-on-a-solid-foundation-god-s-word

Main Bible Verse: “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock” (Matthew 7:24 NIV).

Pastor Rick: “Jesus says this in Matthew 7:24: ‘Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock’ (NIV). Popular culture changes, traditions grow stale, reason can be faulty, and emotions lie. Yet God’s Word never changes.”

External Link: Pastor Rick Warren’s Devotional (S-2017-God-Word-Love/4)

You Need Spiritual Food for Spiritual Strength

http://pastorrick.com/devotional/english/full-post/you-need-spiritual-food-for-spiritual-strength

Main Bible Verse: “Search for the LORD and his strength. Always seek his presence” (1 Chronicles 16:11 GW).

Pastor Rick: “Just like you need physical food for physical strength, you need spiritual food for spiritual strength.... You’re not going to have much success in winning the spiritual battles you face if you’re starving yourself to death. That’s why we need to feed on the Word of God.”

External Link: Pastor Rick Warren’s Devotional (S-2017-God-Word-Love/5)

Applying God’s Word Is Vitally Important

http://pastorrick.com/devotional/english/full-post/applying-god-s-word-is-vitally-important

Main Bible Verse: “Knowledge puffs up while love builds up” (1 Corinthians 8:1b NIV)

Pastor Rick: “James 1:22 says, ‘Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says’ (NIV). What a person knows should find expression in what he or she does. We’re deceiving ourselves if we think we’re growing simply by taking notes on a Bible study. God’s commands are not optional.”

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