AN UPRISE BEFORE ANY POWERFUL REVIVAL
October 31, 2022
THE FULLNESS OF LOVE PRODUCES FAITH
November 3, 2022
It is very important that we become what the Word expects us to be, and also to be reminded of what we must be.
[1 John 4: 17 –21]
There is love that is not perfect and it cannot cast out fear but only perfect love can cast out all fear. There will be fear where there is no perfect love. Fear involves torment, where there is fear you will be tormented you will; continually be put in distress. Where there is love there is no fear. No one has seen God physically hence no one can say that they love God and yet they hate their brother because the love that you have for God is in loving your brother.
The commandment is that if you say you love God, you must love your brother. This shows us that it is not difficult to love because when you love the Lord you are obeying the commandment. It’s impossible to love God and not to love our brothers. Read what love is in 1 Corinthians 13:3
Early this year I spoke about perfect forgiveness, where you don’t forgive and keep them afar, but you forgive and forget. We must not forgive like the world where they say they forgave you and then they love you from afar. Rather we must forgive the way God forgave us because He forgave us and is still keeping us closer and loving us closer not from afar.
God forgives us even though He knows that we will do the same mistake in the next 10 seconds. Although He knows that He still gives us the best of love in those 10 seconds. Most of you who knows what would happen in the next month, you wouldn’t even forgive that person. Yet, God knows what will happen to whom and when and yet He gives out the best month of love despite knowing what is to come. That is how God expects us to love.
A record of wrong predicts the future; the minute you keep a record of wrong you already predict the future. God expects us to love to a point that if forgiveness can’t forget, love will forget. The world says forgive but don’t forget yet love says do not keep a record of wrong, meaning that we must forget every wrong. So, we ought to move with the kind of love that forgets and keeps no wrong.
[Mathew 7:9]
God likens Himself to the fathers of the earth and He says how much more will the Heavenly Father give out. Our Heavenly Father is more gracious than our earthly fathers. We are not fathers according to the pattern of the world but we are fathers according to the pattern of God. Our children must receive more love than the earthly children because they are experiencing the father according to the Heavenly Father.
The standard of our Heavenly Father is that when we forgive, we keep no record of wrong. Forgiveness can fail to make you forget but love never fails, it must make you forget. If we are pushing for perfection, we must be the way God is. We must love the way God loves. When you feel like it is too much, it’s a sign that you are still lacking and we need to be as Christ is.
If our love doesn’t look like foolishness, then we have not yet reached perfection. Love looked stupid to those who don’t understand. Love doesn’t have manipulation, deception, or lies and doesn’t seek its own. Many times when we seek our own but love says we need not to seek our own but we need to move in the love of God. God is teaching us to have a hard cold truth; we need to reach that perfection. Knowledge and love do not walk together. Love does not walk with experience.
What kind of love is this that Jesus forgave them even before they repented? While they crucified Him, He said, “forgive them for they do not know what they are doing” even though they knew that they were killing Him but Jesus had to look at it in a spiritual way, not in a canal way. Love makes you look at things in a spiritual way, not in a canal way. They knew what they were doing physically but spiritually they did not know and that is why they deserved forgiveness.
Love is forgiving in the process of being wounded, He loved when He was in the process of being hurt and rejected and He forgave. There is no other expression of love other than that one. As Christians, we need to be portraying no other kind but this kind of love. Immortality comes with love; you are not going to live eternally keeping the records of wrong. I have realized that love brings peace. We want peace but we don’t want to love.
[Galatians 5:12-13]
When we don’t serve one another through love it means we have given an opportunity to the flesh. When you live out of love you are still bound, it is not only demons that possess people and bind them. Many churches are free from demons yet bound by such feelings and emotions. The characters like anger, hatred, separation, completion, despising each other, envy and other characters same as these are binding the church. Pride is expensive, segregation is expensive, competition and everything else that is not of God are very expensive and as long as it is not of God, the price will be paid by you. What is of God has been paid on the cross. Do not be the cost, all these negative emotions and feelings are costly and they are the works of the flesh.
An opportunity might not mean there is a big hole or a big door has been opened but a slight opening is an opportunity. The minute it says do not use your flesh as an opportunity, it means a slight opening of competition, hatred, anger, looking down, selflessness, or despising will make you carnal and bring you down and pull you away from the presence of God. Receive the extreme love that even when you walk by the streets it may be visible before the world. When Jesus was on the cross, He did not come up with revelations but He said forgive them for they don’t know what they are doing.
When a Christian doesn’t want to love, he comes with revelations, we come up without ways of wisdom because we don’t want to love. It’s simple, just love. When we don’t want to love we come up with things that deny us to love because it is difficult to love. Love comes with things; we search scriptures that will hinder us to respond to love because love expects much from us. The only way we can close the opportunity that is pulling us down is through love and serving one another. The kind of love that allows you to serve another.
The first commandment of love is to love God with all the heart and soul and mind, the second is to love your neighbor as though you do to yourself. When Jesus said love your enemies He was not talking to Christians moving in love but He was talking to those who are failing to love just to teach them how to love. Understand that the minute you love, you won’t have enemies. It is only a person who does not know how to love who has enemies. Love changes the state of those around you.
When Jesus said forgive them for they don’t know what they are doing He was expressing love, immediately they became brothers. Love is capable of changing people we just need to stop looking down on love. Many people in your life are the way they are because there is no love. The bible says whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. Have you realized how many people you have made your enemies? Some people were not even meant to be your enemies they just made mistakes and you made them enemies because you started binding them and called them enemies.
You need to realize that when you love, love covers things. It is able to take a mistake and make it be nothing anymore and that person becomes free. Two people can be married and fight so much but when there is love they can change. What makes marriages not to be saved or for another to be won over is that the more one makes mistakes the more love fades away. Love does not abound, but the love of God throughout the mistakes abounds and wins, serve one another through love.
[1Corinthians 13:3-4]
Love suffers long. Imagine you are an usher and every time you welcome a person he curses you and you end up giving up on them because you know how they respond to you. Then you should know that you have not served through love. What I like about love is that every scripture about love doesn’t need interpretation. Sometimes we take the context out of the scripture because we always want revelation. Love suffers long. If you are serving one another and the next person keeps you suffering through serving them, then know that love suffers long and through love, you will always be a mat that people will always step on.
Love does not seek its own. Many people are serving because they are afraid they will die spiritually, they are not serving out of love but they do because they know they will benefit from that. Love survives even when there are no benefits. Love wins even when there are no benefits, it survives. Do all things in love because God looks at the motive of what you are doing. Pray because you love God. What makes the prayer worthwhile is the love you have for God not because you want to benefit something. You must always have the love of God. One can pray to enhance his spiritual life but remember that love does not seek its own. Do all things in love.
Your braveness and strength must be love. Let all that you do, be done with love and God. Sometimes there are no results in our faith because there is no love. The motive for what you are doing should be love. Let us find love in the next act you are about to do, one needs to see the love that you have for God in your actions. Your actions must manifest the love you have for your brother, for God, and for your neighbor. This teaching is calling us to the introspection of love. When you are burdened just know that you are far from love. In love there is peace, but in hate everything is difficult. If you want anyone to teach you how to love, look at Jesus, look at His actions and you will see the expression of love. From now on, let all see love in us.
[Colossians 3:12-13]
“Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.”
The scripture says that we must put on. Saints must ‘put on’ not speak in tongues or pray but to put on. The minute you put on, you are saving time and energy on something you could have spent time praying for some attributes to come but they just want you to put them on. Put on kindness, put on love. These attributes will not come in your dreams or through impartation. These things are not contagious. Bear with one another, as easy as it is to bear with the weakness of your partner so it should be with your brother as well. Do not look at what you will benefit and just bear with another. Don’t be selfish.
The first commandment is to love because when you are in love, it’s easy to bear. Love must be bigger than benefiting from another. The teaching of love might not be a pleasant message but it is true. When you bear with another you will be able to forgive. Release love according to the measure that you have attained. As Christ forgave you, you must also do. Christ forgave and He forgot about it. He doesn’t remind you of it. He does not predict your future because of what you did, He doesn’t use it against you and importantly, He did not forgive you and placed you afar but brought you closer and the bible tells us to do as we have received.
It goes back to the Lord’s prayer “forgive us as we forgive those who sin against us.” meaning the measure in which you forgive is the measure in which you will receive from the Lord. You will experience God the way those who wronged you are experiencing you. The measurement that you put in of forgiveness is the way that you will experience it for yourself. If you feel like God is far from you, check how far the people who have wronged you are. It’s something else when they are the ones who play far from you yet it is something else when you are pushing them away as they try to come closer to you. The love of God is very deep. We must be careful about forgiveness every time because the same way we give out is the same way we receive.
[Romans 12:9-15]
Let love be without hypocrisy. We must not just preach it but we must walk the talk. Don’t just read the message and say powerful and yet you don’t become what you read. You shouldn’t find yourself quoting a certain scripture because it’s in the Bible, we don’t do wrong because someone in the bible has done so. Jesus is the one we must imitate. Paul said that we should imitate him as he imitates Christ, if anything he does as a minister does not reflect Christ then we should not imitate.
It’s an error for us to imitate the servant of old just because they are in the Bible because some have perfected the weakness that the old servant went through yet they want to imitate them. Their mistakes are written so we can learn from them; they are not a license for us to act on them. They were there to teach us that this is not the way we should do.
[Luke 9:51-55]
The disciples were saying they have a permit to do just as Elijah did. The answer that Jesus gave them was out of love. When you don’t operate in love you reject the spirit that we are born of. The spirit that you are born of is of love. Jesus could have told them to bring fire down but instead, He brought love down.
Let’s not just be hypocrites when it comes to love. Love must be sincere, hate, what is evil, and receive only love. If you find that there is evil in your brother, hate the evil and love your brother, separate sin from man. The cross was capable of separating man from sin. Cling to what is good and give preference to one another in honor.
[John 15:12]
This is My commandment that you love one another as I have loved you. We are robbing each other if we are giving each other the love that is lesser than what Jesus gave to us. Greater love has no one than laying down His life for His friends. It doesn’t say greater love is laying down your life for your relative but for your friends. Serve one another in love, give out first preference to another, not to self.
Commit yourselves to love even though it’s scary. Don’t be caught up in being a Christian while you are far from love. Let your pain not teach you to be rude, the only teacher must be Jesus and not what we go through. We need to be taught by Christ and receive the wisdom from above. Let’s walk in the love of God, it’s all about Jesus. I love you and God loves you.
Your father through the Gospel
Lutendo Abraham (Thee Unknown)
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