Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth reminds you how crucial it is to love.

To lack love, to be measured in our love, is not just something we need to work on or think about.

It really matters because love matters to God.

God is love and anyone who is in God loves. This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with

Nancy DeMas Walgeneuve, author of A Place of Quiet Rest. For love in songs, movies, books, or even conversations.

But even though love's constantly talked about, it's rarely really seen in the way we live. Nancy prays that the Lord will help her to

genuinely love through his power. It's one of the ten things she prays regularly for herself,

and we're exploring how to pray effectively in this series, My Personal Petitions. I want to ask you

today, how's your love life? How's your love life?

Some of you are looking at me like, what love life? I wish I had a love life. No, really, how's

your love life? First Corinthians 13 tells us that if we have all kinds of amazing gifts and we serve the Lord and we

are sacrificial in our lives, we have all kinds of knowledge and faith, but we don't have

love, then all of that rest, the rest of that gets canceled out. It's nothing. It's worse than

nothing in some cases. It can make a lot of

noise. It can make a lot of clatter. But it doesn't have any eternal value if it's not undergirded by

love. If love isn't the source of our service and the way we use our gifts isn't in love,

then it leaves us not being fruitful. So love is the key thing

it talks about there. And God's word tells us that we are to pursue love. First Corinthians 14,

verse one. Right after that, First Corinthians 13 chapter, it says pursue love. That means be intentional

about learning to love. in a starting place is to

just pray about it. Say, Lord, fill me with your love. I need more love, more love for you, more love for

others. Colossians 3 tells us that we're to put on love. We're to clothe ourselves with love. You get dressed every

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