*Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. Summary: Everything that God does is based in His love, though we may not understand it at first His discipline is because He loves us and wants a close relationship with each of us. Show Notes: • The Lord does not condemn anyone while going through discipline • We know what it is to live without love, we are learning what love really is • The Prodigal son learned honestly how his father loved him. References: Romans 8:1  Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Proverbs 24:16  For though the righteous fall seven times, they rese again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes. Psalms 145:14  The Lord upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down. Luke 15:11-32 Story of the Prodigal son 1 John 4:8, 11  Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. Hebrews 12:7  What you endure disciplines you: God is treating you as sons. Is there a son whom his father does not discipline? John 13:35 KJV By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another 1 John 4:19  We love each other because He loved us first. Quotes: • He will give you another opportunity to have the victory • You fail, the Lord is not condemning you • The Prodigal son got to know his father much better than his brother did. Take Away: There is no love if one is not disciplined and one who loves has had discipline .

Ron:

How do you respond to God’s discipline? Are you finding His love and His victory in your daily walk with Him? I’m Ron your host, and today the family discusses the many facets of God’s dealings in our lives.

Laurie:

I had a very deep experience many years ago, I went through back surgery, and I was very angry and mad at the Lord. I didn’t go through that trial where I was victorious in it. And last year the Lord gave me another opportunity, where I went through another surgery, and I went through that with worship and faith and love for Him in my heart, and He said you’ve gone through that with victory. And it is like He gives you chances; it is not the end of the world if you are in a trial and you fail. He will give you another opportunity to have victory in the things He takes you through. And that is so important.

Ron:

Sounds like there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus, and I love that Laurie because one thing it speaks a lot of your maturity to be able to voice where you fail. Without condemnation, you fail, the Lord’s not condemning you, and we’re not. And that is important that is a very important atmosphere, and I would speak that to anybody out there for an atmosphere like that. Where if you feel condemned because you not doing this, is it your brain condemning yourself? Is it your friends condemning you? Where is this condemnation coming from? That’s not from the Lord for sure. Even when you fail the Lord, He is not standing there condemning you. This is a process, and He realizes that we are weak and that it is a process, and we will fail. What does the scripture say, a righteousness man falls seven times and the Lord upholds him with His hand. In this, you start learning the Spirit of the Lord. You start learning what it is to be in His presence, and what is not His presence.

Sandy:

My husband has been writing his memoirs basically, but of course, it includes a lot of things about the Lord too. And He took the story of the prodigal son, and it was a revelation to me what he said because the prodigal son it was the father who was really the story there because he was the forgiving person. He said something at the end of this talk about the prodigal son, he said the prodigal son probably got to know his father much better than his brother did. Because the brother thought he was being good just because he was there the full time and he put down his brother. He wouldn’t go to his feast. The prodigal son learned that he was nothing, and so he came back so humbly, and because of that, he found the love of his father with more revelation than probably his father and his brother ever had. When we go through things and we blow it, which all of us do, and have, and probably will again. If we can come back and learn, go through it, and then learn it and then come back and really glorify the Lord. Then we have grown up, and we have gotten to have that relationship with the father more than ever before.

Laurie:

You know, it is interesting how it always comes right back to His love. No matter what He puts us through. It all exposes how much He loves us, and how much He wants us to become what He had in His heart from the foundations of the world. He is just creating us to be so that we can move and become His Sons in the earth. What is behind God’s motive in it? His motive is love for us.

Jim:

Says John: 13:35

Ron:

It’s by God’s discipline in our daily lives that He works His love in us so that we will be those who show the love of God to all people.