Because We Are Loved

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When you’re trying to hear God and live a prophetic lifestyle, it’s easy to slip into a hidden fear: “If I mess up, God will be disappointed.” We open with a real testimony of healing and the quiet courage it takes to respond, then we zoom out to the deeper question underneath it all: what does obedience look like when love is the foundation, not the reward?

We walk through John 15 where Jesus says “remain in my love,” ties obedience to friendship, and commands us to love one another. We talk honestly about how religion flips the equation into performance and how a servant mindset expects the stick. Then we explore the surprising biblical tension that Jesus “learned obedience” and “grew in wisdom,” and how that gives us permission to be in process without excusing sin. The invitation we keep hearing is simple and confronting: come close, abide, and let love reshape what you do.

We also bring this into local church life and healthy prophetic community. We talk about how gifting can create pedestals, why hearing God is meant to be practiced together, and how confessional community brings disobedience into the light so healing and interdependence can grow. We end by naming sacrificial love as the normal kingdom pattern and praying for grace to remain in Christ’s love as a community.

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