Love

💭 Reflect
To hold fast to God’s love and faithfulness means believing that He will never leave you alone and that He will always do as He promised. Even when circumstances change, God’s love stays the same and we find our hope in Him for every new day He gives us. When you do this love and faithfulness will be fruit of the Holy Spirit that is evident in your life.

📖 Proverbs 3:3
“Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.”

❔ Questions

• How can you live out love and faithfulness in your daily life, like a necklace you carry with you?
• Who in your life can you support with God’s love today?
• Send this message to a friend who always shines out the love of God.

🙏 Talk to God
Become still now and talk with Jesus: Lord, help me to not only know Your love, but to carry it in my heart every day and to live it out. I want to cherish it like a precious necklace that I never take off. Amen.

📢 Identity statement
Say it out loud: “I am holding on to love & faithfulness.”

🎨 Respond
Cut a heart out of paper and write on the one side, “God’s love” and on the other side, “God’s faithfulness”. Take a piece of ribbon or string and tie the paper heart to it. Then bind it around your wrist or to your school bag, or give it to someone who might need to hear this.

🤳Social media
Think of 1 practical way how you can live out God’s love on social media.

👥 People
Identify 1 person to whom you broke a promise or whose trust you lost. To be a person of faithfulness, take responsibility for your mistake today and ask for forgiveness.

🔥 Go Deeper

This month’s Scripture is = Proverbs 3

Read the rest of the chapter today and notice:

• Why do you think the verse says that love and faithfulness must be “bound around your neck”?
• What happens with friendships when there is love but no faithfulness? Find 2 other places in the chapter that talks about relationships and mark them with a star.
• When someone looks at your life, will they see love and faithfulness?