Learn To Let God's Love Dominate (2024)

Just walking in the love of God would solve all of our problems at home. And it would solve all of our problems in the church too. In fact, it would solve all of our problems in our marriages.

That's why the Bible tells us that we are to make the love of God our great aim in life. The Amplified Bible says it this way: "Eagerly pursue and seek to acquire [this] love make it your aim, your great quest..." (1 Cor. 14:1).

Since God's love is so powerful and enduring because it never fails, why don't more believers do what the Bible says and make the love of God their aim and their great quest in life? In fact, how many of us can honestly say we have made God's love our great quest in life?

Yet God's love working through us and reaching out to others can change anyone, even the most vile criminal, because the love of God can soften the hardest heart. The love of God can transform anyone.

The God-kind of love can even transform a marriage. I make mention sometimes about a minister's wife who called my wife for help because she was just about to leave her husband. Her husband was both mentally and physically abusive to her.

I told my wife, "See if you can get both of them to come over so we can talk to them."

When they arrived, among other things I asked them if they had The Amplified Bible. They did, so I told them, "On a 3 x 5 card, write out First Corinthians 13:4-8. Then when you go to bed at night, both of you read those verses out loud. Then read them again when you wake up in the morning."

After several weeks, the wife called my wife back and said, "You know, every morning and every evening we've done just what Brother Hagin said to do. We've read those verses on the love of God out loud."

Then she said, "Every single day since we've been reading those Scriptures, my husband has apologized to me. He's said, 'I can't believe I mistreated you as I did. I can't believe I said those things to you.'"

And instead of allowing his flesh to dominate him, this man began letting his spirit dominate him. The love of God had already been shed abroad in his heart or his innermost being. He just had to learn how to tap into that love.

When he started letting the God-kind of love dominate him, his wife told us, "He's just become a different person! Not only has he become a different person, but so have I.

"I realized that to a large extent, I'm to blame for him finally blowing his top because I just kept nagging him. I should have kept my mouth shut. But we're both different people now because the love of God has changed us." God's love never fails!

This was several years ago. My wife and I have seen this couple in more recent years, and they're very happy together.

They told us that their ministry is prospering and their lives are better just because they learned how to let the love of God dominate them. The God-kind of love changed them both.

Thank God they learned where the answer is. The answer to so many problems in life is found in this statement: God's love never fails!

Therefore, if you learn to walk in love, then you're never going to fail either, are you? I'm talking about divine love—God's love in us—not human love.

And if a husband and wife will walk in God's love, their marriage won't fail either. It would be absolutely impossible! You see, God's love is in us, but it is up to us to put it into action and exercise it so it can grow and develop.