The 30-Day Love Language Minute Devotional Volume 2

By Gary Chapman

Are you and your spouse speaking the same language? He sends you flowers when what you really want is time to talk. She gives you a hug when what you really need is a home-cooked meal. The problem isn’t love—it’s your love language. Each one of us responds well to a different type of expression of love. The 30-Day Love Language Minute Devotional Volume 2 will be your daily guide for a month to express heartfelt love to your mate in a way that he or she can appreciate it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
• Release date: Nov 7, 2014
• ISBN: 9781414392202

Gary Chapman

Dr. Gary Chapman is best known for helping to improve or heal our most important relationships. His own life experiences, plus over fifty years of pastoring and marriage counseling, led him to publish his first book in the Love Languages™ series, The Five Love Languages®: The Secret to Love that Lasts. Millions of readers credit this continual #1 New York Times bestseller with saving their marriage by showing them simple and practical ways to communicate love to one another. Since the success of his first book, Dr. Chapman has expanded the Love Languages™ series to specifically reach out to teens, singles, men, children, and military families. Dr. Chapman speaks to thousands of couples nationwide through his weekend marriage conferences. He hosts nationally syndicated radio programs, A Love Language Minute, and Building Relationships with Dr. Gary Chapman, that air on more than 300 stations. After fifty years of service, Dr. Chapman recently retired from his role as senior associate pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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Day 1

CHOOSING LOVE

Now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.

JOHN 13:34

The Five Love Languages, a book I wrote several years ago, has helped hundreds of thousands of couples rediscover warm emotional feelings for each other. Now, this did not happen because someone decided, I’m going to have warm feelings toward my spouse again. It began when one person decided, "I’m going to express love to my spouse in spite of the fact that I don’t have warm feelings toward him or her." That person learned the love language that spoke most deeply to his or her spouse and spoke it regularly.

What happened? The person who was receiving such love began to have warm feelings toward the spouse who was loving. In time, the recipient reciprocated and learned to speak the other’s love language. Now both of them have warm feelings for each other.

Emotional love can be rediscovered. The key is learning your spouse’s love language and choosing to speak it regularly. Warm feelings result from loving actions. Jesus commanded his disciples—and, by extension, all believers—to love each other as he loved them. His love is not measured in warm feelings, although I have no doubt those are present. Rather, we know Jesus loves us because of what he did for us. Love is a choice, and when we make that choice, we emulate our Savior.

Lord Jesus, thank you for loving me so much that you died on the cross to save me. You are the ultimate example of love. Please help me to make the choice to love my spouse. As I act lovingly, I know that loving feelings will come.

Day 2

EXPRESSING LOVE

Let love be your highest goal!

1 CORINTHIANS 14:1

Would you like to know your spouse’s love language? Then observe how he or she most often expresses love to you. Is it through words of affirmation? gifts? acts of service? quality time? or physical touch? The way a person expresses love to you is likely the way he or she wishes you would express your