The first time God said to me, “Love never fails”, I slammed the Bible shut and replied, “Yes it does!”

I was an extremely hurt and damaged 20 year old.

He said this to me on the way to a Christian festival.

While there, in the ruins of Dudley Castle, God told me to give up a past boyfriend I had had, who was still very much in my heart.

God told me, “It’s idolatry”.

I thought idolatry was to do with golden calves, but He said to me, “You looked to him for everything you should have looked to me for.”

As I wrestled in the castle grounds, I said to God, “Nothing in me wants to give this up, but do it anyway.”

I walked out of a festival tent later that day, and my Pastor walked over to me. I told Him what God was saying and asked him to pray. As he prayed, I saw and felt a wave of the Spirit coming at me. The next thing I knew I was waking up on the floor, delivered of soul ties and a lot of baggage that had come from that failed relationship.

Love never fails.

Then yesterday, God spoke those words to me again. For the first time in nearly 29 years.

This time, it wasn’t about His love coming for me. It was about His love coming through me for someone else.

I had been telling God how at the end of myself I was and that I needed Him to help me and speak to me.

I didn’t know what I needed, or when He’d give it, but I was asking Him like He tells us to.

Straight away I had a picture of an empty vessel and the scripture about being a cheerful giver.

I knew He was saying that because I was empty, I wasn’t cheerful anymore in what I was needing to give into a specific situation in my life, and that was why I was feeling more distressed.

I understood from that, that my cup needed filling, but I didn’t know with what, or how to get it. I mean, I may be really stretched in life now, but I am still praying and reading my Bible, what more could I do?

Then He said, “Love never fails.”

And I knew…I needed more of His love in me for my situation. His love had to grow in me and fill my cup.

The demands I am facing require more than purely human love and more of His love than I currently have flowing through me.

He was wanting His love to fill me up, because His love will never fail and His love can meet every need.

This is a powerful hope, not just for me, but for the situation I am facing that needs His love through me at the moment.

It doesn’t matter the size of the need, problem, sin, or brokenness, His love is far bigger and far more powerful. Nothing is impossible with His love and no one and nothing is beyond His reach!

Father, I say yes to your love filling me. Help me to choose your way of love in every circumstance. Show me in each moment what your love would do. Bring your scriptures back to my memory and give me the grace I need at that time. Let my flesh die that your Spirit would have more room. And in the situation in my life that needs your love right now, may your love do the impossible. Thank you for your love. Thank you that it’s tangible and more powerful than any other force on earth. Amen.