Love Notes 3: Mirrored Reflections of Love

By Lola Campbell-Brown

God is love and He finds ways to communicate His love to humankind. We in turn, engage in acts of worship to reciprocate His immeasurable love for us.
Love Notes 3 is the third in a trilogy of books about love. This latest edition depicts Gods love through worship and, more specifically, fasting and prayer. The lessons learnt through these reflections are effectively Lola Campbell-Brown communicated and extrapolated over three years during the Christian time of Lent.
The author takes us on a mirrored reflection of victorious advocacy where personal, godly, encounters are evident, showing us definitively that Gods love is palpable even during adversity.
A recurring theme in this trilogy and in this latest edition is that love should be practised even in adversarial circumstances. In todays society, where there is much pain and turmoil, Gods love needs to be demonstrated and administered to all.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Nov 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504991728

Lola Campbell-Brown

Lola is grateful to her family, and church family who have remained faithful to their belief in her. They have surrounded her with much love when she has needed it most. Lola Campbell-Brown is a Minister of Religion, a renowned ecumenist, a singer, musician, song writer recording artist and international worship leader. She has ministered throughout the United Kingdom, The USA, South Africa, Italy, Holland and Germany.

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Love Notes 3

Mirrored Reflections of love

Lola Campbell-Brown

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Fasting

Appreciating what you have and making use of it

Stepping towards Transformational Corporate Worship

Cuss Control

Flying High

Fruitfulness: Pause for Thought

Being Unequally Yoked with Unbelievers

The Prophetic Woman

Giving Birth to Seth

Spiritual or Spooky

Unwanted Ministry

What Does Our Ministry Portray?

Valuing You

He raises up a Standard

The Lord my Victory

Using Mothering Sunday Appropriately

Unwanted Gifts

Keeping Our Wounds Clean

Poetry Collection

The Janine Collection

Bestowed Love

Can you see?

Come Drink

Come See

Fantasma

How Lovely is Love

I Sang a Song of Love

It’s in Your Eyes

It Was Love

It Was You

Last Night I Dreamt of Love

Let Love Arise

Love Opened its Arms

Love Flew In

Sacred Love

The River of Love

The Sound of Love

The Gift of Love

Your Words of Love

Your love raised me

Family and Friends Collection

I Baked a Cake

I Have a Friend

Love is in my Cooking Pot

My Pot

Loving Ruminations

And I have loved

How Beautiful

How Love has Overcome

How I Love You

I’ve learnt to stand

You are so far

Sweet Love

Forty Days to Pray

A prayer based on Psalm 37

A prayer based on Psalm 143:8

A prayer based on Psalm 27

A prayer based on Lamentations 3:22-23

A prayer based on Psalm 18:3

A prayer based on Psalm 46:1

A prayer based on 2 Samuel 22:33

A prayer based on Isaiah 55:12

A prayer based on Ephesians 6:10-20 and Romans 8:31-39

A prayer based on Proverbs 4:23

A prayer for rebuilding confidence

A prayer based on Exodus 15

A prayer based on 2 Tim 4:18

A prayer based on Psalm 139:14

A prayer based on Colossians 4:6

A prayer based on Deuteronomy 28:6

A Prayer based on 2 Timothy 1:7

A prayer based on Jeremiah 29:11

A prayer based on Isaiah 54:17

A Prayer Based on Psalms 90:17

A Prayer Based on Ephesians 2:10

A Prayer Based on Proverbs 18:24

A Prayer about Relationship with God

A Prayer based on 2 Corinthians 5:7

A Prayer based on Proverbs 3:4 and Psalm 37:23

A prayer for families who have lost children

A Prayer based on 2 Corinthians 5:17

A Prayer Based on Psalm 32:7

A Prayer based on Psalm 18:39

Acknowledgements

This book is dedicated in loving memory of my dear mother the Pastor-Campbell McFarlane who passed away on 7th September 2014. Mum, you were an inspiration and encouragement to me, and taught me lifestyle habits of prayer and Bible study. I love and miss you. I thank God for the love and blessing you were to me.

I am grateful to the Tabernacle of Refuge church family for believing in me. I love you all so much.

Foreword

Every once-in-a-while the Body of Christ is blessed with a gift whose significance to its time is as understated as the uniqueness within it. I am convinced that, in our time, the Revd. Lola A Campbell-Brown (or Elder Brown, as she is known within the Tabernacle of Refuge faith family) is one such gift, and it is with pleasure that I invite you to join her as, through the pages of this text, she explores, as only she can, what it means to mirror the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the finished work of the cross.

As you embark upon this journey, guided by Elder Brown’s personal Lenten reflections, you will be enlightened with a fresh understanding of the nature and importance of our commemoration of Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. You will also be provoked into considering more deeply how to share effectively the radical love of a heavenly father whose heart pursues, with a seemingly reckless abandon, the humanity He has created and with whom He desires a relationship.

From her anecdotes and reflections, to the poems and prayers, drawn from her seemingly inexhaustible reservoirs of literary and practical creativity, Elder Brown skilfully shares with us her heart to challenge, to reach, to restore, and to empower. Her words are characteristically sensitive, yet dynamic, profound, and persuasive. While on the one hand, we are drawn into her inspirational world of comedy and anecdote, we are on the other hand – at the same time – challenged to look beyond the opposition we, sometimes, face in living out the purposes of God for our lives and to delay no further in developing balanced and Biblically authentic models of belief and practice.

Love Notes III is not simply another devotional. It is a watershed moment in re-evaluating cultural and ecclesiastical norms and preconceptions, with a view to reaching the unchurched, for restoring the excluded and empowering the disenfranchised.

I pray that all who read it will receive it as such.

Bishop Otis V. Wilks

Pastor, Tabernacle of Refuge, London, UK

Prelate, Tabernacle of Refuge Int’l Fellowship of Churches & Ministries

Introduction

Mirrored Reflections of Love

Throughout the Bible, we are encouraged to reflect God’s love. We are reminded to forgive one another and to pray for those who hurt, insult, or use us. In essence we should mirror God’s precious love towards each other. This will mean constantly reflecting on our behaviour, actions towards others, and our relationship with God.

The process of reflection can be an empowering learning tool because it requires a concerted effort to think about events and develop insights into them. Once you habitually engage in reflective practice, you may find it useful at home, work, and in your daily Christian worship. Moon (1999) states in the book entitled, Reflection in Learning and Professional Development, Theory and Practice that:

"Reflective practice is an active, dynamic action-based and ethical set of skills, placed in real time and dealing with real, complex and difficult situations".

In Love Notes 3, I describe the insights gained through my Lenten devotions. These considerations are the lessons I have learnt and processed. They are critical reflections through the lens of my Christian influenced life. I explore issues of Christian fasting, prayer, vocational ministry, and worshipping God in adverse circumstances.

I learnt the importance of reflective practice in my role many years ago as a social worker. In its simplest form, it is thinking about and processing the concepts behind your decisions and actions. It is closely linked to the theory of learning from experience. Experienced social workers think about what they do and they must be willing to explain and examine their actions or non-interventions, particularly in the event of a tragic outcome such as, the death of a child.

The reflection process was extremely useful during my Lenten meditations and has come to be a powerful and effective worship tool, acting as an aide memoire about situations when I believe God has advocated on my