What does the Bible say about love lost?
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The Bible teaches that when love is lost or wounded, believers may bring their grief, need, and desire for restoration to God, trusting his wise and fatherly care. He invites his people to cast every anxiety on him (1 Peter 5:7), pray continually, and give thanks even in hardship (1 Thessalonians 5:17-18). God hears prayers that accord with his will (1 John 5:14-15), though he does not promise to grant every relationship or desire exactly as we ask. Even painful losses are not outside his providence, for he works all things for the good of those who love him (Romans 8:28). Christians are called to seek God sincerely, repent of selfish desires, and find their strength in Christ (James 4:2-3; Philippians 4:13).
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- Matthew 21:22
All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
- 1 John 2:19
They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
- 1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
- 1 Peter 5:7
casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:18
In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
- Romans 8:28
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
- James 4:2-3
[2] You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask. [3] You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
- Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
- 1 John 5:14-15
[14] This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. [15] And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:17
Pray without ceasing.
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