Episode Details

How can you experience God’s love in your everyday life? Kelly Balarie shares a practical way to recognize God’s love in ordinary moments, experience His presence, and allow His love to transform how you live and love others.

God’s love is more than something we learn about—it’s something we can personally experience. In this devotional, Kelly Balarie reflects on Ephesians 3:19 and the importance of moving beyond simply knowing about God’s love to intentionally looking for His presence in the ordinary moments of everyday life.

Highlights

• Discover the difference between knowing about God’s love and personally experiencing it.
• Learn how ordinary moments can become reminders of God’s presence and love.
• Consider how phones, distractions, and the noise of the world can keep us from noticing God.
• See how intentionally looking for God can cultivate greater joy and awareness of His faithfulness.
• Reflect on how receiving God’s love enables us to love others more genuinely and sacrificially.
• Practice looking for God’s love in creation, circumstances, people, and everyday experiences.

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Full Transcript Below:

A Super-Practical Tip to Encounter God’s Love 
By Kelly Balarie

Bible Reading:
“and [that you may come] to know [practically, through personal experience] the love of Christ which far surpasses [mere] knowledge [without experience], that you may be filled up [throughout your being] to all the fullness of God [so that you may have the richest experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely filled and flooded with God Himself].” – Ephesians 3:19 AMPC

I wake, deep into the night hour. My mind circles one thought: All that matters is love. I can’t get my mind off this thought. Besides love? Everything else is like a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

In this midnight hour, this thought both consumes me and compels me. I understand the sobering truth; I have one life to live.  This is it! One grand stage to go all out for Jesus… It is here. I don’t want the world’s conveniences, accumulation of material items, or online contempt to drive me; I want love of Christ to compel me.