18/06/2026
*👑DAILY ENCOUNTER WITH GOD(NBC)*
*🌂FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2026*
*👓THE GREATEST LOVE*
*🕶️BH 212: Love Lifted Me*
1. I was sinking deep in sin,
Far from the peaceful shore,
Very deeply stained within,
Sinking to rise no more;
But the Master of the sea
Heard my despairing cry,
From the waters lifted me,
Now safe am I.
Love lifted me! Love lifted me!
When nothing else could help,
Love lifted me.Love lifted me.
2. All to Him I give,
Ever to Him I'll cling,
In his blessed presence live,
Ever his praises sing;
Love so mighty and so true
Merits my soul's best songs;
Faithful loving service, too,
To Him belongs.
3. Souls in danger, look above,
Jesus completely saves;
He will lift you by His love
Out of the angry waves;
He's the master of the sea,
Billows His will obey;
He your Savior wants to be,
Be saved today.
*🥽Golden Text:* "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends." — John 15:13, NIV
*🧳Text: John 15:9-17*
[9] “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.
[10] If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
[11] I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
[12] My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
[13] Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
[14] You are my friends if you do what I command.
[15] I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
[16] You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
[17] This is my command: Love each other.
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A pastor, while counselling an intending couple, asked the would-be husband if he loved his wife-to-be.
He responded that he loved her so much. Then, the pastor asked him again if he could die for his wife.
At this point, he breathed heavily and said, "Pastor, I cannot die in place of my wife.
My love for her does not mean I should die in her place."
Today's text emphasises the immeasurable love of God—the perfect love.
It illustrates the extent to which God loved us that He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus.
Jesus encouraged His disciples to love each other as He loved them (v.12).
This points out the need to emulate God's kind of love, and live just as He lived.
As disciples, we begin to love as Jesus loves when God's love touches us and shows us how great His love is for us, so that we obey His commands.
We fail to see how great God's love is because we fail to appreciate how far God's love has reached for us.
Jesus offered us the God kind of love — "agape", an unconditional love, the highest form of love.
Anyone who does not know Jesus but claims to love God is either denying their sinfulness; or is worshipping a false god who does not require the perfection that the true God demands.
No matter how broken, fallen, or messed up you are, Jesus died for you; He still loves you.
As you go out today, be sure to love others unconditionally, just as Jesus loves you.
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*Wisdom:* Jesus loved us even when we did not deserve it.
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*Food for Thought:* What can you do to reflect Jesus' kind of love?
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*Follow-up Action:* Determine today to live and love the way Jesus did.
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*Prayer:* Lord Jesus, help me to follow Your example to live as You lived and love as You loved.
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*Prayer:* Lord, help me to do what is pleasing in Your sight.
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*Pray for these ordained ministers and members of their churches:* Bamidele Oyekola, Ibadan; Tosin Makinde, Ibadan; Ogunbiyi D. Olarotimi, Lagos; Obrogor D. Oyovwino, Adagbrassa; Timothy O. Tijani, Lagos; Onyekachi P. Nwachukwu, Agada I; Victor B. Afolabi, Ika; Ayanrinde B. Ayantayo, Ibadan; Jeremiah Olafihan, Ogbomoso; Gbenga S. Oshagbemi, Ogbomoso.
*RBT: Psalms 78-80*
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