Dear Friend,

Wow — 2024 has certainly flown by! I am immensely grateful for every year on this earth and for the opportunity to witness God’s goodness and love in so many people’s lives daily. As we approach the end of this year and the beginning of a new one, I encourage you to seek out His exceeding goodness and love every day. It is all around us! As time passes, it might seem easy to fall into the routine of daily life, but when you pause to recognize Christ’s presence, you may find yourself becoming more present, grateful, and motivated to give your best every day, thanking the Lord for His abundant blessings and presence in your life.

Last month on my weekly program TIME with Denise Renner, I presented a series titled Rich, Richer, and Richest. In each episode, I discussed how, as believers, we are truly rich because God is faithful and always fulfills His promises. As I thought about the approaching new year, I felt inspired to write to you about one aspect of this wealth we inherit as Christians — we are rich because of God’s perfect, endless love for us!

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While many people in the world are financially wealthy, they are often impoverished where it truly matters — in their spirits. The wonderful news is that if you’re born-again, abundant riches are available to you within!

Scripture teaches us that as believers, we have a rich inheritance granted by the Lord and His sacrifice on the Cross. In my series, Rich, Richer, and Richest, I highlighted several ways in which believers are spiritually rich:

• You are spiritually rich because God is your Heavenly Father.
• You are spiritually rich because you are made alive in God.
• You are spiritually rich because Heaven dwells within you.
• You are spiritually rich because God’s exceeding power is directed toward you.
• You are spiritually rich because of God’s immeasurable love for you.

Today, I wish to further explore one of these incredible reasons why you are spiritually rich — because of God’s immeasurable, incomparable, boundless, exceeding, and perfect love for you!

The Bible says in Ephesians 1:17-19:

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of His glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power.

Essentially, it is God’s will for you to grasp the fullness of the Heavenly inheritance you accepted upon being born again. Understanding this inheritance is vital because to receive it fully, you must understand what it encompasses. These riches dwell within you, and as you delve into the Word, fellowship with your Heavenly Father, and meditate on your knowledge of Him, you will access and utilize these riches to their extent.

The Perfect Love of God Resides Within You

Ephesians 3:17-19 says:

That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height — to know the love of Christ that passes knowledge; that you may be filled with the fullness of God.

The reason it is possible for you to know God’s love is because this very love is what sent Jesus to earth, prompting Him to take on flesh and make the perfect sacrifice. He suffered beatings, torment, and crucifixion for our sins, paving the way for our salvation.

Upon being born again and accepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior, that same love shared between God and Jesus was poured into your heart by the Holy Spirit (see Romans 5:5).

This love is not something you earn by being “good enough,” tithing, or memorizing Scripture — it is freely given to you as you dedicate your life to Christ Jesus, spreading over every surface of your heart.

Security in God’s Perfect Love

As a believer, you share one spirit with the Lord according to First Corinthians 6:17, which says, “But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.” And wrapped in that oneness is the perfect love of God — and that love provides security in Him.

The flesh seeks security in knowledge, vanity, and possessions—in other words, temporary things. The Bible clearly states in Second Corinthians 4:18, “For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.” These temporary things offer no real security, but God’s love, wrapped around your heart, brings peace, patience, joy, confidence, and true security.

Although these are valuable, through the loving sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross, He offers them freely as our inheritance.

The Love of God is a Powerful Protector of Your Heart

Circle back to Ephesians 3:17-19. It says,

That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height — to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

God’s perfect love inside you enables you to do “unusual” things. For example, if you struggle with unforgiveness, His love within your heart takes disciplinary action against it! Whether it is unforgiveness, fear, offense, depression, or worry trying to take root, God’s love commands it to leave!

That is how powerful God’s love in you is! When you forgive someone, God’s love rebukes and casts out negative emotions, such as fear, hate, and resentment. As the Bible says in First John 4:4, “He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.”

God Wants You to Understand the Full Dimensions of His Perfect Love

According to Ephesians 3:18 and 19, it is God’s will for you to understand His love in its entirety. You have to open your heart to grasp His love’s depth, width, and height.

Many years ago, when I was in college, I had a tendency to believe the enemy and his lies. I felt deeply condemned, believing that I was displeasing to God and not accepted by Him. Although I knew I was a Christian, I felt like I was the worst one.

After dealing with this for some time, I contacted someone I considered a spiritual mother and opened up my heart to her about my struggle with condemnation. I felt so condemned, and I didn’t even really know why! She started to pray with me, and as we prayed, I had an experience with the Lord that I will never forget.

While we prayed, my spiritual mother said, “Denise, His banner over you is love,” and directed me to Song of Solomon 2:4, which says, “He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.” In other words, right over your head is a banner of God’s love. As she spoke these words to me, I began to see an ocean — volumes and volumes of water that never ended — and I knew it was a representation of God’s perfect love.

God was showing me that His love is truly so unfathomable and immeasurable that it’s able to break through any boundary — it’s able to heal, to deliver, to bring peace, and to chase out the enemy. And it could come against the condemnation of the enemy that was taking place in my mind!

This vision was shown to me to communicate something about the boundless dimensions of His love. This love already resides within your heart, and it’s God’s will for you to discover and understand its dimensions!

God’s Will is For You to Become Acquainted With His Perfect Love

Colossians 1:12 and 13 says:

Giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.

These verses reveal that when you became saved and made Jesus the Lord of your life, “this inheritance of the saints” became available to you. And it was the very love of God that reached out and pulled you out of darkness and placed that same perfect love inside your heart, transferring you into the kingdom of the Son of His love according to Colossians 1:12 and 13.

His love is wrapped around your heart, holding, touching, and reaching out to you every second of every day!

Many people often ask, What is the will of God for me? According to Ephesians 3:17-19, the will of God is that you be filled with all the fullness of God. How? By becoming acquainted with and coming into agreement with the love of God that’s been poured out into your heart by the Holy Spirit.

Begin to meditate on God’s perfect love, seek Him out for more understanding about His love, and stay diligent by reading His Word. The more you do this the more you will discover about the vast dimensions of the perfect love of God afforded to you by Jesus’ sacrifice — your inheritance.

In a world full of bad news, God’s Word offers good news — His perfect love within you is rich, pure, and immeasurable. Armed with this knowledge, you can declare confidently, “I possess the power and love of God and can withstand any challenge!” It is not your personality, intellect, appearance, or possessions, but the boundless love of God residing in your heart!

When you became saved, God gave you His very best — He gave you Himself, and that includes His perfect love. That’s powerful!

Acknowledge the love of God that has been stretched out to you and that is working against any confusion in your heart and mind. That is the presence of the Lord — the Holy Spirit — bringing forth that love of God in you. As you do this, you will discover more and more about the vast dimensions of His love and receive the revelations that come by faith in Jesus’ name!

Friend, I hope you learned something valuable about the perfect, immeasurable love of God living inside of you. I invite you to watch my newest TIME With Denise Renner series Rich, Richer, and Richest to discover more about the riches that are available to you through Christ! You can watch this series on my YouTube channel or on Renner.org.

As I close my letter, I want to remind you that our prayer team is just a phone call or email away! Whether you have a prayer request or want someone to rejoice over a praise report with you, our prayer team is full of faith and ready to lift your needs up to the Lord in prayer. Just call 1.844.473.6637 or email prayer@deniserenner.org.

We are moving forward together,

Denise Renner