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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Crosswalk devotional. We are glad to have

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Speaker 2: you listening with us. Today's topic is on how to

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Speaker 2: encounter God's Love. Well return with the devotional after a

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Speaker 2: brief message from our sponsors. A super practical tip to

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Speaker 2: encounter God's Love written and read by Kelly Blurry, and

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Speaker 2: that you may come to know practically through personal experience

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Speaker 2: the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge without experience,

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Speaker 2: that you may be filled up throughout your being to

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Speaker 2: all the fullness of God, so that you may have

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Speaker 2: the richest experience of God's presence in your lives, completely

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Speaker 2: filled and flooded with God himself. Ephesians three nineteen. I

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Speaker 2: wake deep into the night hour. My mind circles one thought.

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Speaker 2: All that matters is love. I can't get my mind

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Speaker 2: off this thought. Besides love, everything else is like a

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Speaker 2: noisy gong or a clanging symbol. In this midnight hour,

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Speaker 2: this thought both consumes me and compels me. I understand

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Speaker 2: the sobering truth. I have one life to live. This

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Speaker 2: is it, one grand stage to go all out for Jesus.

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Speaker 2: It is here. I don't want the world's conveniences, accumulation

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Speaker 2: of material items or online contempt to drive me. I

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Speaker 2: want the love of Christ to compel me. I want

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Speaker 2: to be so driven by love that people will reflect

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Speaker 2: upon my life and say, Wow, that could have only

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Speaker 2: been Jesus. Wouldn't that be amazing? An amazing legacy we

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Speaker 2: saw Jesus in her theology studied will not produce that.

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Speaker 2: Bible Versus intellectually memorized, will not result in that. More

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Speaker 2: messages heard will not miraculously make this happen. Only love,

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Speaker 2: real love, outpouring love, genuine love, caring love, moving love.

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Speaker 2: It's not just what we know. It is the love

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Speaker 2: experienced in Christ Jesus that changes us, and that you

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Speaker 2: may come to know practically through personal experience, the love

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Speaker 2: of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge without experience, that

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Speaker 2: you may be filled up throughout your being to all

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Speaker 2: the fullness of God, so that you may have the

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Speaker 2: richest experience of God's presence in your lives, completely filled

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Speaker 2: and flooded with God himself Ephesians three nineteen. Love transcends

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Speaker 2: the mind to live out from our heart and real action.

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Speaker 2: This morning, provoked again by this thought, I come to

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Speaker 2: terms with the fact that God's love is beyond me,

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Speaker 2: But still He miraculously welcomes me into it in my

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Speaker 2: day to see forth Ephesians three nineteen. I can do something.

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Speaker 2: I can look for God's love in the minuscule, in

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Speaker 2: the ordinary, and in the mundane. I can seek him

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Speaker 2: and find him. What does it look like? I see

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Speaker 2: a heart in the concrete of the sidewalk I walk on.

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Speaker 2: Many would just see a small hole. I see and

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Speaker 2: remember God's love for me. God, you love me so

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Speaker 2: very much. I notice the waves that are continual. They

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Speaker 2: never stop or end. God's faithfulness always works like those

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Speaker 2: waves will never stop. So do his promises for me

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Speaker 2: never stop or end. I am giving grace on a

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Speaker 2: speeding ticket and only given a warning God like this

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Speaker 2: warning for a speeding ticket. Your mercy has entirely let

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Speaker 2: me off the hook, and your grace even more blesses me.

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Speaker 2: I notice the bird with the worm in its mouth.

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Speaker 2: Oh God, you always provide the daily bread needed right

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Speaker 2: on time. God is encountering me all the time. If

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Speaker 2: I look for him, and to seek him is to

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Speaker 2: find him. When I receive his love, I am filled

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Speaker 2: with his love. When I am filled with his love,

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Speaker 2: I can impart his love. If he floods me, then

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Speaker 2: I can flood the world. This is life changing and

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Speaker 2: even world changing. The presence of His love is the

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Speaker 2: starting point of real joy, contagious joy. Doing this requires

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Speaker 2: one to move past the distractions of the world to

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Speaker 2: dive into the attentionality of God's heart in creation, in people,

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Speaker 2: in circumstances, in the skies above, and the world around.

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Speaker 2: He is speaking, though many miss him. He is telling

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Speaker 2: us often how much He loves us. Intersecting faith and life,

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Speaker 2: how does the world distract you? Are you buried in

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Speaker 2: your phone or looking for God wherever you go? What

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Speaker 2: would it look like for you to forego the world

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Speaker 2: to find His love? Perhaps today start with asking God

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Speaker 2: to give you understanding of his love. Ask him to

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Speaker 2: show you his love. Ask him to help you to

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Speaker 2: receive his love. Then keep your eyes open to what

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Speaker 2: God may be doing or saying in your world. Notice him,

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Speaker 2: Permit him to love you as he makes his word

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