A Year Of Radical Love

RADICAL LOVE IS LOVE FOR NO REASON

Mercy Culture Church exists to take people from corporate encounters with God to daily personal encounters with God. Each year we take time to pray and ask God for His heart and His mind for that next year. This year, we heard the Lord say 2025 will be a year of Radical Love!

In the Job 1, Satan approaches God, proposing the only reason Job serves God and fears Him is because of the blessings God has given him. God then permits Satan to take everything away from Job, except his life. Throughout the book, we see Job suffer loss after loss, but still steadfast His faith in God. Through testing and tribulation, Job showed His love for God was not built on what God blessed Him with. Rather, Job loved God radically, because He loved God for no reason at all. When you love God for no reason, no reason can take that love!

When you catch this revelation of radical love, you will grow to love God with everything you have. Jesus in Matthew 22:37 teaches the greatest commandment is to “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” Over the next 5 days, you will learn what it means to love God with everything you have. Once you radically love God, you can begin to radically love the people around you with His heart.

PRAYER

Father, thank you for loving me radically! Replace the ideas of love I have with Your love. Help me to love You with everything I have. Highlight what doesn’t please you in me and give me Your heart for this year. Amen.

APPLICATION

• Prepare your heart, soul, and mind to receive God’s heart for the word of the year.
• Write down the reasons you love God.
• Evaluate which reasons reflect the character of God and which reflect the blessings He’s given you.