As we spend this week wholeheartedly seeking to know God with all we are,

we'll take time today to experience God's love for us.

We all may live with the head knowledge that God loves us,

but go long spurts of time without actually experiencing God's love.

God's love is most radical and life-changing upon encounter, and it's my hope today you'll press

into him and really feel firsthand yourself how much God truly loves you.

Welcome to the first 15 podcast.

Thank you. Our scripture for today comes from Romans 5 verse 5.

Scripture says,

and hope does not put us to shame because God's love has been poured into our hearts

through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

There is nothing in this world like experiencing the unconditional love of God.

His love extends farther than the width of the skies.

His love goes deeper than the deepest sea.

His love is more powerful than a raging fire,

and it is closer than the heartbeat within your chest.

Experiencing his love is like becoming new again and again.

With each taste of his affection, the wounds of the past become healed and restored, that one

no longer regrets pain but rejoices in the opportunity it gives to experience the love

of a good and near Heavenly Father once again.

When we seek to know God, we gain experiences with His love because it's who He is.

1 John 4 8 says, anyone who does not love does not know God because God is love.

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