AUTHOR: LAURIE PINKINS
Take your Love
to another level
Learn self-love according to biblical principles to genuinely love yourself and others.
GOD is love. HIS love never fails. Nothing will be able to separate you from it. GOD loves you so much that HE sent HIS only begotten Son, JESUS CHRIST to die for your sins. To allow you to have eternal life. Why would you dwell on anything negative, when you are loved by the MOST HIGH GOD? In this article, we will discuss the importance of self-love.
“Master, which is the great commandment in the law? JESUS said unto him, Thou shalt love the LORD thy GOD with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.” Matthew 22:36-38 KJV
What is Self- Love according to the Bible?
Self-love is taking care of yourself in the respect that your body is the temple of the HOLY SPIRIT. You are a reflection of GOD’s love because you were formed in HIS image. Taking on the mind of CHRIST includes taking time to care for yourself. The most efficient way to practice self-love is to spend intimate time with GOD through prayer. Oftentimes, in the scriptures of the Bible, JESUS would take time away alone to pray.
“And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. ” Matthew 22:39-40 KJV
Prayer is an intimate communication between you and GOD. There are multiple methods of prayer which include gratitude, requests, complaints, instructions, warfare, and casual conversation. When you engage in self-love ask GOD for instructions on how you can love yourself better. HE may suggest you allow HIM to take you out for a pedicure and lunch date. YES, GOD will take you out on dates!
Ways to Practice Self-Love by the Bible
love god
Keep HIS commandments. Love HIM with all your heart, your mind, and your soul.
love your yourself
Remember you are valuable. Appreciate enjoying your own company. Trust in yourself to make good decisions.
LOve your neighbor
Love your neighbor as you love yourself.
give back
Discover opportunities in your community or local church to donate your time or resources.
be compassionate
Sympathetic concern for the needs of yourself and others.
be patient
Respect the process to regain your viewpoint as being a valuable asset to this world.
Affirm yourself with the Word of GOD
You are a reflection of GOD’s love. Have you ever heard of the phrase represent me right? This is how GOD feels about HIS children. HE desires for you to walk, live, breathe, and speak as someone who knows they are loved by the MOST HIGH GOD. Build your faith through the scriptures of the Bible. This includes pairing your affirmations with scriptures and speaking them over your life daily. The word of GOD will never return back void unto HIM. But they will do exactly what HE spoke. This means GOD watches over HIS word to perform it. Therefore, when you speak the scriptures of the Bible daily, it will come to pass. This is not manifesting or scripting. However, this is way more powerful, because you are relying on the power of GOD to build your faith. You don’t have to rely on your own strength or willpower, only the scriptures of the Bible. As a result, you will become a reflection of GOD’s love by affirming yourself with the Word of GOD daily.
SELF-LOVE AFFIRMATIONS
I LOVE GOD
I LOVE MYSELF
I LOVE MY NEIGHBOR
I AM COMPASSIONATE
I AM GIVING
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Love your neighbor as you love yourself.
Pair your daily affirmations with scriptures of the Bible.
Healthy Relationships
Healthy relationships will help you to improve your self-love routine. Surround yourself with individuals who you can aspire to be. They will encourage you to take the time you need to care for yourself. It will not be a strain to spend time together or apart. These relationships will be mutually beneficial without the emotional or financial strain required to maintain them. As a result, you will begin to mirror healthy and positive lifestyle habits. Including, self-love. You are a product of your environment. Therefore, if you remain around the same people who you experienced trauma with, this is a trauma bond. Unfortunately, you will not be able to effectively heal or build a healthy self-love routine in the same environment. You will be met with resistance and resentment. This is due to the fact of your changing. Inevitably will change all the relationships around you. Even if you are around people who ‘want to change.’ If they are not actively in pursuit of their healing, it is imperative for you to change your environment. Surrounding yourself with individuals who are healed will empower you to develop healthy coping skills, which include a self-love routine.
10 Scriptures for Self-Love
“I love the LORD, because He hath heard my voice and my supplications.” Psalm 116:1 KJV
There is power in speaking and meditating on the scriptures of the Bible daily. Read, speak, and meditate on the scriptures for love.
GOD desires for you to love yourself
GOD wants to be involved in every area of your life. Self-love is not for vanity or to boast of yourself. When you love yourself according to Biblical principles, you are a reflection of GOD’s love. HE desires for you to live an abundant life. This includes more than proseperity in finances. It also includes abundance in love, peace, joy, hope, faith, compassion, warmth, tenderness, more than you can ask or think according to the power that works within you. Once you start to tap into GOD’s love, you life will become overwhelmed with a sense of your value and worth. You will understand taking care of yourself is not a luxury but a priority. Self-love according to Biblical priniciples is you valuing yourself as the temple of HOLY SPIRIT. Welcome HOLY SPIRIT into your self-love routine and HE will lead and guide you into all truths about who you are in CHRIST. This is self love.
Next Steps
Finding support from a therapist, life coach, trusted friend, or support group can help you to build your self-love.
Use these steps to build a self-love routine according to Biblical principles.
- Love GOD
- Love yourself
- Love your neighbor
- Give back
- Be compassionate
- Be patient
- Speak daily positive affirmations paired with scriptures of the Bible
- Ask HOLY SPIRIT for direction to develop your self-love routine
Read, speak, and meditate on the scriptures of the Bible for self-love.
1 John 4:16 KJV – And we have known and believed the love that GOD hath to us. GOD is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in GOD, and GOD in him.
1 John 4:18 KJV- There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
Ephesians 3:17 KJV- That CHRIST may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
Ephesians 3:19 KVJ- And to know the love of CHRIST, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of GOD.
1 Thessalonians 5:8 KJV – But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
1 John 2:15 KJV- Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
John 14:15 KJV- If ye love Me, keep my commandments.
Matthew 22:37 KJV- JESUS said unto him, Thou shalt love the LORD thy GOD with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Psalm 91:14 KJV- Because he hath set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known My name.
John 14:23 KJV- JESUS answered and said unto him, If a man love Me, he will keep My words: and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him.
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