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PRAYER AND LOVE!

Text: Matthew 22:36-40

Prayer is a command, an instruction and path from God for mortal men to reach God.
Love is the cardinal virtue and command given by God to christians.
Prayer generates a powerful force.
Love is a powerful force.
Together, prayer and love work to bring results.
God answers the prayer of those who love Him.
So love is a vital force in the prayer equation.
The primary call of sons and daughters of God is a call to love. 
Love is the greatest virtue, the first of the fruits of the Spirit and love is the reason we enjoy the mercy, the grace, the blessings and the benevolence of God in our lives.

Love is our purpose in God.
Our purpose is to love God and bring Him pleasure.
We can't separate love from our purpose. We can't separate our purpose from love.
We can't separate love from our dealings and relationship with one another, God desires we love Him and love one another.
God is a God who loves and desires relationship.
We can't have successful relationships without communication. Prayer is communication with God.
So there is a link between our prayer life and our love walk.
If you want your prayers answered, love God.
If you want God to favour you, love people. 2 Chronicles 1:7
Mark 12 verse 31 makes it clear that we are to love our neighbor as ourselves.

How we treat one another has a lot to do with how God responds to us in the place of prayer.
Luke 6:31, Luke 6:35
God blessing King Solomon with riches, honour and majesty had to do with Solomon loving God and loving God's people. 1 Kings 3:3,5,7-9
Solomon's loving the Lord lead to God telling him to ask what he wants, ins asking what he wants it reveals Solomon loved God's people, his loving God's people lead to Solomon receiving answered prayer of wisdom and extra additions. Matthew 6:33

Solomon's love for God's people attracted God's favour to his life, Solomon's love for God; made God give him a blank check. Because Solomon asked for what is God glorifying and for the benefit of others, he got the answer to his prayer.
Prayer and meditation is great, prayer and fasting is wonderful, but prayer mixed with love for God and our fellow man is awesome!
Solomon's love for God's people as we see in 1 Kings 3:9 is in line with the new testament instruction in Galatians 6:10 to do good to all men, especially those of the household of faith.
For how can we say we love God who we do not see, when we do not love our fellow man who we see as 1 John 4:20 informs us.
Our Lord Jesus Christ points out to us in very clear terms the correlation between prayer and love.
To get answers to the prayers we pray, love has to be in play.
We love God when we obey is commandments. John 14:21, John 14:23, John 14:15, Philippians 1:9
Love is the silver thread that runs through the scripture.

The Bible is a book with many topics in it.
There is history, geography, warfare, miracles, marriage, prosperity, holiness, righteousness, blessings, prayer, money, health, the supernatural, angels, demons, deliverance and many other topics in the Bible. 
But the greatest of all these subjects we find in the Bible is love.
Love is the primary focus of the Bible.
God Himself is love. God has a love nature within Him. 1 John 4:8
The Bible is God's love book to man.
The Bible is full of many letters and promises that shows God loves us.
The Bible also reveals that God rewards those who love Him.

Love should be our major motivation for praying to God, not fear.
Love should be what God sees in our heart that makes God's grace abound towards us.
The nature God has put in His children is a nature of love. 2 Timothy 1:7
As God heard the speech of Solomon and Solomon's speech pleased God, God can and will hear your own speech too. 1 Kings 3:10
Love is of the heart and God's love looks at the heart. 1 Samuel 16:7
Love is what makes our sacrifice, our giving, our effort and our work acceptable to God.

Our gifts, talents, abilities, knowledge, wisdom, giving, education, tenacity and determination mean nothing without love in our lives. 1 Corinthians 13:1
Love is what makes the exercises that can accompany prayer effective. Love is what helps meditation.
Love is what enhances prayer and fasting.
Love for God is what makes us pray to God continuously and stick with God through thick and thin. Romans 8:35-39
Love is what holds up the law and the Words of the prophets in our life. Every promise, law and instruction can be likened to designs or decorations on a curtain, while love is the pole that holds the curtain up.
It's love for the Father, and love for humanity that took Jesus to the cross. It's love that kept Jesus on the cross not nails.
It's love that made Jesus lay down His life. John 10:18

Olutosin Ogunkolade shares this message out of The Light Of Jesus Christ Assembly!

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