God paid a staggering price to have a relationship with you. There's nothing you can do to make Him stop loving you. So just believe the love! What's even more amazing is this: God loves us all just as much as He loves Jesus.

The first time the Lord said that to me, my mind just couldn't comprehend it. I thought, "How can that be?" To this day, I don't fully know the answer to that question. I don't know how God could possibly love me as much as He loves Jesus, I just know that He does! Jesus said so Himself in John Chapter 17:20-21 & 23.

In His prayer to the Father, Jesus said: "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. ...and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me."

Use Your Faith

If there's one thing the Bible doesn't leave any doubt about, it's the fact that God loves us! Scripture after scripture bears it out. John 3:16 – "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son..." Ephesians 2:4 – "But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us." Romans 5:8 – "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." I John 3:1 – "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God."

Yet in the face of all this biblical testimony of God's love, I have heard Christians, (Word-believing, faith people) hardly believe God really loves them. They'll drop their faith and sit around waiting for the right "feelings" to chase them down and jump on them. If you've been doing that, I can tell you right now, it will not happen. Your "feelings" can never reveal to you the depth of God's love.

Faith works the same in every area. You didn't "feel like" you were saved or have a consciousness of salvation until you released your faith in the Word of God and believed He had saved you. You don't feel healed until you've released your faith and believed you've received that healing. By the same token, you won't feel the love of God on a consistent basis until you cultivate your faith in that area and start believing God loves you whether you feel it or not.

If you want to enjoy the benefits of that love, you'll have to get your faith involved. As I John 4:15-16 says, "Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." Notice that verse doesn't say, "We have known and felt the love that God hath to us." It says, "We have known and believed!"

Put the Word First

Exactly how do you go about cultivating faith in God's love? The same way you cultivate faith in any other area of life. First of all, you put the Word first place and not your feelings. The reason most of us have been so slow to do that in this particular area is because we've had love mixed up with feelings for so long. We've thought that if we didn't feel love, we didn't have any. But that's not true.

Remember this – just because you feel unloved, doesn't mean you actually are unloved! Just because you feel unwanted doesn't mean that God doesn't want you. He does want you. He paid a staggering price to have a relationship with you. And there's nothing you can do to make Him stop loving you. So believe it!