{"id":550,"date":"2024-12-25T15:44:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T20:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/?p=550"},"modified":"2024-12-25T15:56:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T20:56:30","slug":"we-love-because-he-first-loved-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"We Love because He First Loved Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Love-2-lea-khreiss-PuXLavCTUvk-unsplash-122524.jpg?resize=800%2C295&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-551\" style=\"width:656px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Love-2-lea-khreiss-PuXLavCTUvk-unsplash-122524.jpg?resize=1024%2C378&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Love-2-lea-khreiss-PuXLavCTUvk-unsplash-122524.jpg?resize=300%2C111&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Love-2-lea-khreiss-PuXLavCTUvk-unsplash-122524.jpg?resize=768%2C284&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Love-2-lea-khreiss-PuXLavCTUvk-unsplash-122524.jpg?resize=1536%2C567&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Love-2-lea-khreiss-PuXLavCTUvk-unsplash-122524.jpg?resize=600%2C222&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Love-2-lea-khreiss-PuXLavCTUvk-unsplash-122524.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Love-2-lea-khreiss-PuXLavCTUvk-unsplash-122524.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/verse\/en\/John%203%3A16\">John 3:16 <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Imperfect upbringings and experiences often lead many souls into a mindset of either not being worthy of love; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">or minimal capacity to receive and express love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only reason humans hearts are able to love others with purity and righteousness is because there is a Creator Who First Loved us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God says that everyone is worthy of His Love and therefore able to love all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God&#8217;s Love washes life&#8217;s hurts away so we can be free to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and master it (have dominion).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>He predestined us to adoption as sons and daughters through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will<\/strong>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Ephesians%201%3A3-5&amp;version=NASB\">Ephesians 1:3-5 NASB<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Experiencing The Father&#8217;s Love builds a mindset of safety where making mistakes is not punished through shame and condemnation but through Father&#8217;s Saving Love.  We can therefore surrender to the truth that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We love, because He first loved us<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/quicksearch\/?quicksearch=we+love+because+he+first+loved+us&amp;resultspp=250&amp;version=NASB\">1 John 4:19<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">A Beloved Christmas to you and your loved ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Manger-walter-chavez-TEFSPAaoKlA-unsplash-122524.jpg?resize=800%2C534&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-552\" style=\"width:446px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Manger-walter-chavez-TEFSPAaoKlA-unsplash-122524.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Manger-walter-chavez-TEFSPAaoKlA-unsplash-122524.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Manger-walter-chavez-TEFSPAaoKlA-unsplash-122524.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Manger-walter-chavez-TEFSPAaoKlA-unsplash-122524.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Manger-walter-chavez-TEFSPAaoKlA-unsplash-122524.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Manger-walter-chavez-TEFSPAaoKlA-unsplash-122524.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Manger-walter-chavez-TEFSPAaoKlA-unsplash-122524.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,4],"tags":[45,43,44],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-purpose","category-spiritual","tag-chosen","tag-love","tag-sacrifice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kingdomworth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Love-2-lea-khreiss-PuXLavCTUvk-unsplash-122524.jpg?fit=1920%2C709&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomworth.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}