{"id":14087,"date":"2016-08-18T00:47:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/31-pray-to-increase-love\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T00:47:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:47:21","slug":"31-pray-to-increase-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/31-pray-to-increase-love\/","title":{"rendered":"31 PRAY TO INCREASE LOVE."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2014Philippians 1:9<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Love intensifies as we pray. How is that? God is love. We love because He first loved us. When we commune with God in pray, we are surrounded by and indwelt richly by His love.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The more iron is in contact with electricity the more magnetized it becomes. The more we dwell in His presence, the more we abound in love. The more we pray, the more His contagious love fills and overflows us.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>God\u2019s love increases the knowledge of Him. Knowledge means intimacy and closeness. Intimacy with God fosters a deeper hunger to be with Him, to pray, to worship, to adore Him more and more.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>God\u2019s love intensifies discernment. Knowing spiritually what\u2019s happening \u2026 discerning spirits increases with loving God.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Pray for the love to increase so that those for whom you pray may know Him and discern the spiritual climate around them.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b><i>Jesus,<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'><b><i>Increase the love in ________. May they know You. May they discern the spiritual climate around them rightly dividing the word of truth you give them. Amen.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2014Philippians 1:9 Love intensifies as we pray. How is that? God is love. We love because He first loved us. When we commune with God in pray, we are surrounded by and indwelt richly by His love. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/31-pray-to-increase-love\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;31 PRAY TO INCREASE LOVE.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}