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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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Speaker 2: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 2: blessing and share it with a.

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Speaker 1: Friend, reappreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 1: your life.

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Speaker 3: Yes, let to be in the House of the Lord.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for coming today. You may be seated on.

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Speaker 2: Encourage you today with a scripture that Paul prayed over

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Speaker 2: the Philippian Church. And I think this is a great

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Speaker 2: scripture that we should pray each and every day.

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Speaker 3: It's found in Philippians One.

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Speaker 2: He prayed this, He said, I pray that your love

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Speaker 2: would abound in knowledge and depth of insight. His prayer

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Speaker 2: to the Philippian Church was this, I want you to

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Speaker 2: agree with me.

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Speaker 3: That's why I'm sending you this.

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Speaker 2: Letter, that your love would grow, increase multiply.

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Speaker 3: Now, let me tell you something.

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Speaker 2: He wasn't writing this letter better to them because he

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Speaker 2: had noticed and his visits that they weren't people of love.

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Speaker 2: Historically they were people who loved. But he was saying

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Speaker 2: to them, this is such an important prayer because your

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Speaker 2: love has so much potential to go so much further

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Speaker 2: and build such a greater foundation in your life. He

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Speaker 2: was saying, agree every day with me, as I pray

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Speaker 2: for you, that your love will reach its fullest. You see,

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Speaker 2: that's what we need to pray every single day. God,

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Speaker 2: would your love abound in me more and more in

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Speaker 2: depth and insight and knowledge and wisdom.

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Speaker 3: You see, we have to learn.

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Speaker 2: To love well because the way we love, how we

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Speaker 2: show our love, the mercy we give, the grace we extend.

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Speaker 2: You see, it's a direct impact on our own life.

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Speaker 2: The way we love has a direct impact on our

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Speaker 2: own life. We need to learn to love well. We

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Speaker 2: can't just put our love on autopilots. We can't just

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Speaker 2: push it on cruise control. Let's just say that because

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Speaker 2: we all have a cruise control on our car, we

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Speaker 2: set the speed and go. We can't just set the

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Speaker 2: speed and allow it to say stay the same all

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Speaker 2: the time in every situation.

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Speaker 3: We have got to understand that our.

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Speaker 2: Love has to mature, it has to develop, and it

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Speaker 2: has to grow. And in order for it to do that,

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Speaker 2: we have to make a commitment to love. Because it's

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Speaker 2: all about commitment, focus and determination.

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Speaker 3: I mean, why do you pray?

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Speaker 2: You pray because you want something to change, you're committed

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Speaker 2: to it. You pray because you know God has your

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Speaker 2: answer and that if you'll give it to him, he'll

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Speaker 2: help you. So we can't just set our love once

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Speaker 2: and keep it set at that same speed.

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Speaker 3: You know. I heard this woman.

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Speaker 2: I heard a story about this woman who was talking

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Speaker 2: to her husband and she said to him, honey, do

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Speaker 2: you really love me? And he looked at her so strangely,

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Speaker 2: and he said, why would you ask me that question?

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Speaker 2: He said, I told you twenty five years ago when

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Speaker 2: I married you that I loved you, and if it changes,

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Speaker 2: I'll let you know. You see, that man had one speed.

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Speaker 2: He didn't understand that love grows.

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Speaker 3: You see.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting because as people we evolve, we grow, we change,

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Speaker 2: our situations, change, things in our life change. So we

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Speaker 2: have to be willing to adapt our love to that change.

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Speaker 2: We cannot just let it stay the same. I think

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Speaker 2: about my children when they were small. I'd scoop them up.

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Speaker 2: They could be walking across the floor and I want

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Speaker 2: scoop them right up, tickle their little bellies, you know,

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Speaker 2: just cuddle with them, poke little food in their mouth,

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Speaker 2: they can't do anything about it. It's so fun, and

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Speaker 2: you're showing your affection, you're showing your love, and you're

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Speaker 3: But now my children are grown.

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Speaker 2: I can't cuddle them, poke food in their mouth, tickle

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Speaker 2: their bellies. No, they're adults. I have to understand. My

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Speaker 2: love has to adapt and grow to who they are.

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Speaker 2: If I want to grow with them, I'm going to

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Speaker 2: have to make some changes. Yes, I wish they stay

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Speaker 2: same love. I would love to say, just put that

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Speaker 2: we change, we evolve, and our love must be willing

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Speaker 2: have an opinion. I adapt to their abilities. I try

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Speaker 2: I want insight to who they are and what I

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Speaker 3: You see, you adapt.

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Speaker 2: Love is smart, That's what Paul was saying. He said,

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Speaker 2: I pray that your love would grow and abound in

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Speaker 2: knowledge and depth of insight. Your love should have wisdom.

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Speaker 2: Your love should see beyond the superficial. It should see beyond.

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Speaker 3: What's happening right now. Our love should be limited to

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Speaker 3: the love we're receiving. We can't just set a standard.

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Speaker 3: If you give me love, I'll give you love.

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Speaker 2: That's not building that foundation that God wants to build

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Speaker 2: in us. Can I tell you when we decide we're

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Speaker 2: be the person that loves in spite of how someone

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Speaker 2: of you. It strengthens your resolve. It causes you to

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Speaker 2: be able to be better.

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Speaker 3: And you know what, how many of you want to

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Speaker 2: I know I do. I long to get better. We

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Speaker 2: gotta be smart with our love. We can't be reckless

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Speaker 2: for things to happen. Love doesn't just hang around waiting.

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Speaker 3: Love makes stuff happen.

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Speaker 2: Love builds relationship, ships, Love serves.

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Speaker 3: Love gives.

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Speaker 2: Love just doesn't give what it wants to give. Love

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Speaker 2: is willing to look into a situation and give what

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Speaker 2: the situation is in need of love is smart.

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Speaker 3: I want that. I want to get up every morning and.

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Speaker 2: Agree with Paul. I'm agreeing with that prayer. Anytime you

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Speaker 2: see a prayer in the Bible, like Paul said, he said,

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Speaker 2: I'm writing to you because I am praying this for you. Basically,

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Speaker 2: find those things in the Bible, get in contact with them,

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Speaker 2: get an agreement with them, pray them over yourself. They

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Speaker 2: have so much truth. The way we show love, it's

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Speaker 2: going to impact our life. It's thirty years Joel and

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Speaker 2: I have been studying each other and adapting to one another.

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Speaker 3: We've made love happen. We haven't waited for it to happen.

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Speaker 3: You know, love it's a feeling, but love is also

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Speaker 3: an action.

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Speaker 2: That feeling can either grow or that feeling can fizzle out.

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Speaker 3: I want my love to grow into a bound.

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Speaker 2: I want it to produce because that's what love does,

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Speaker 2: That's what God love does. It produces good fruit in

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Speaker 2: of the fruit that you produce. You're not gonna be

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Speaker 2: able to eat fruit that you don't produce. You can

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Speaker 2: eat only from the fruit that you produce. Just like

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Speaker 2: you can't drink out of an empty glass. You know,

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Speaker 2: some of you are saying to me, Victoria, I have

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Speaker 2: loved and loved and loved, and I'm not getting loved back.

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Speaker 3: Then I have to tell you something. You're drinking from

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Speaker 3: an empty glass.

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Speaker 2: And the reason I can say that is, in reality,

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Speaker 2: the only way that we can love is to.

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Speaker 3: Allow the love of God in us first. That is

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Speaker 3: the only way that we can love.

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Speaker 2: We don't have the potential in our human ability alone

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Speaker 2: but we don't have the capacity to love on our own.

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Speaker 2: In fact, Jesus told the Pharisees this in Matthew twenty two.

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Speaker 2: They said, Jesus, what's the greatest command in the Law

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Speaker 2: the command that you should keep the most the one

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Speaker 2: that is the most important, is this, Love the Lord

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Speaker 2: your God, with all your heart, with all your soul,

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Speaker 2: and with all of your strength.

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Speaker 3: See, they wanted to keep the law.

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Speaker 2: They thought if they could keep the law, they would

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Speaker 2: be right with God. And Jesus was saying this. He

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Speaker 2: was saying, you can't keep the law by yourself.

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Speaker 3: You can't do it. By yourself. You need a savior.

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Speaker 2: That's why I'm here to keep the continual flow of

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Speaker 2: to drink out of an empty glass.

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Speaker 3: There is a source of love that never runs dry.

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Speaker 3: And it's the Lord Jesus Christ. It's God, the Father.

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Speaker 3: He is love. The Bible says he is love.

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Speaker 2: When you come to him, you are coming to love.

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Speaker 2: I think about the woman at the well. There's a

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Speaker 2: very insightful. He says, you drink water that will go away.

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Speaker 2: You will thirst again with the water that you drink.

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Speaker 2: He was saying, what you have will not last. But

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Speaker 3: I have a flow of living water, of living love

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Speaker 3: that will fill you up.

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Speaker 2: That's the only way this love that Paul is talking

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Speaker 2: about can abound you. See, if you want good relationships,

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Speaker 2: if you want your life impacted.

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Speaker 3: You got to come to God.

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Speaker 2: You gotta let him transform you. You gotta let that

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Speaker 2: foundation of love be built in you. And then as

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Speaker 2: you release that love, there'll be a flow of love.

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Speaker 3: That'll strengthen you and it'll continue.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting because the Pharisees just asking what the first

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Speaker 2: commandment was, but he went ahead and talk them what

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Speaker 2: the second one was. And he said, let me tell

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Speaker 2: you what the second one is. And it's the same

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Speaker 2: as the first. Love your neighbor as yourself. What he

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Speaker 2: much easier.

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Speaker 3: Do you want to agree with me as I agree

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Speaker 3: with Paul, that this.

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Speaker 2: Love of God would just abound, abound, abound. It wouldn't

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Speaker 2: depend on our outer circumstances, but it would depend on

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Speaker 2: what's going on in the inside of us, the well

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Speaker 2: that we're connected to, the one with living love. I

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Speaker 2: want to pray for us right now, Father, I just

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Speaker 2: thank you, just as Paul prayed. We come into agreement

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Speaker 2: with that prayer, that Father, our love would increase and

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Speaker 2: abound in knowledge and depth of insight, that God, we

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Speaker 2: aren't superficial in our love. But it runs deep, it

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Speaker 2: has roots, It is full of wisdom and knowledge. It

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Speaker 2: adapts and it adjusts, and it brings us good fruit. Father,

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Speaker 2: I thank you that every day we'll fill our spicot

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Speaker 2: with the living love, the living water that causes us

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Speaker 2: to be able to abound and to release it to

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Speaker 2: the people around us. Father, we thank you that you

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Speaker 2: are love and that you love us with an everlasting love.

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Speaker 3: Father.

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