LOVE IS A FORM OF CREATION

RESPONSES TO THE UNMET NEED FOR LOVE
1. Physically Distant
2. Emotionally Disconnected
3. Intellectually Distorted

CONSEQUENCES TO THE UNMET NEED FOR LOVE
1. Independence And Self Reliance
2. Isolation And Detachment
3. Focus On Material Provision
4. Lack Of Warmth
5. Inability To Express Love And Intimacy
6. Inability To Understand Their Deficiency
7. Focus On Duty And Discipline

THE TRUTH –WE WERE CREATED FOR LOVE
1. We Need Love To Be Healthy
2. We Were Created For Love
1 John 4:16a, NASB –“And we have come to know [experience] and have believed the love which God has for us.”
1 John 4:16b, NASB –“God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.”
Psalm 139:17-18, GW –“How precious are Your thoughts concerning me, O God! How vast in number they are! (18) If I try to count them, there would be more of them than there are grains of sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.”
1 Corinthians 13:5, NKJV –“Love thinks no evil.” … and God is love.
3. Our Self-Protective Boundaries Keep Out Love
Intimacy = “in-to-me-see”
4. We Are Deceived By A Lie About God
John 8:44, NIV –“… the devil … is a liar and the father of lies.”
If Satan can convince us that God has rejected us, is upset with us, or has withdrawn from us because of some sin we have committed, he knows we will hide from God

Romans 5:5, NIV –“… God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.”
John 17:23, NIV –[Jesus said] “… you … have loved themeven as you have loved me.”
RESPONSE
1. Release Your Earthly Father –Through Forgiveness
2. Receive The Father’s Love
Jeremiah 31:3, NIV –“The LORD appeared to us … saying: ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.’”
Hebrews 11:16, NIV –“… God is not ashamed to be called … [your] God …” [your Dad]
John 5:22, NIV –“… the Father judges no one …”.
John 14:18, NIV –“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.”
John 14:21, GW –“… Those who love me will have my Father’s love, and I, too, will love them and show myself to them.”
John 14:23, NIV – “… My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.”