LOVE IS THE GREATEST, LOVE IS THE WINNER, LOVE OVERCOMES ALL!!
For in Christ, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value but what counts most is faith expressed through love. Galatians 5:6. Love is indeed the greatest. In 2013 I encourage you to walk in love. Express your faith in God through love. Love the Lord your God, love your neighbours, love your enemies and show mercy. Instead of a tooth for a tooth, or an eye for an eye or better still two eyes for an eye give love for an eye, give love for a tooth. It is the greater that shows mercy to the lesser. Though you could pray for your God (Jehovah) who is greatest and strongest to punish your enemies, you can rather pray for God to have mercy on the vessels of evil and bind the spirits that control them that they may be free. That is what shows that you have the power over them. God is merciful and we ought to be merciful to exhibit the nature of our Lord Jesus. If the Spirit of Christ dwells in us then it is love that dwells in us. Show me a Holy Spirit filled man and I will show you a man full of the love of God and bears the fruit of the Spirit, that is a man that belongs to the Kingdom. (Galatians 5). Love is the greatest!!! The love of God is greater than the hate of the enemy. Yahweh is not wicked but a loving and a just God!!! Do not fret over the enemies schemes for your life. The love of God is enough to deliver you from them. If he gave his son Jesus to be killed for your sake. What more wouldn't he do for you child of God!!! Matthew 5:43-48“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbour and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. In prayer one dawn the Lord gave this simple revelation: When we pray for our enemies and those who persecute us to be delivered and saved by the Lord (to also experience and taste the love of God which we enjoy), we are actually praying out our enemies because when they are delivered and saved by the Lord Jesus from the evil spirits that causes them to hate and persecute us, then they will no longer be our enemies. However, the more we pay evil with evil the more evil abounds. We are children of the good and there is no evil in us. The children of God will give love for an eye. Jesus said "father forgive them for they know not what they do", He knew who his enemy was (the devil and his demons). The apostles said same. Sometimes I wonder if Stephen was one of our popular gospel stars (popular preachers) today and was being stoned to death, what would have come out of his mouth (would it be a prayer of curses on the people or a prayer of deliverance of the people (where he repeated the words of Jesus "father forgive them for they know not what they do"?)). The blood of Jesus speaks better things, the blood speaks forgiveness and salvation not vengeance but the blood of Abel speaks vengeance. Thank God we take the blood of Jesus not the blood of Abel in communion so we have his very life (life is in the blood). We wrestle not against flesh, not your mother, not your father, not your grandmother, not your auntie, not your friend but against principalities and powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places ( thank God we are seated in high/heavenly places with Christ Jesus far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come). That is why our weapons of warfare are not carnal (physical fight like anger, envy, bitterness, exchange of blows, guns etc) but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
DOES JESUS KNOW YOU AND DO YOU KNOW HIM?
I want to know Jesus more and more truly and genuinely!!!! I don't want to stand before him and hear from him I do not know you!!!I I don't want to fake myself in religion thinking I know him whiles he does not know me anymore!!! Brethren each day and second of the time lets ask ourselves if He still knows us or we are now strangers to him!! It is a continual process of we knowing him and He knowing us. It is not a one time affair. Let us always make sure of our election or we be cut off unawares taken away by religion. He is the boss that fires you but keeps you doing the work. We don't want to prophesy, heal, cast out demons, do good, preach mysteries, experience heavenly visions .... and hear him say I do not know him. Let' us continually assess our spirits if he is in right standing with HIM (Jesus) for the spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet.
I want to know HIM more and the power of his resurrection and suffering of his death. I don't want to be complacent in him. I want to hunger and thirst for more of Him each day. I want to love him more!! I want his total and complete Lordship, every word I say, everywhere I go, every thing I do, every thought and desire of mine should be in total obedience to his will not my will and should be pleasing in his sight. We don't want to have any ambitions of our own but ambitions of HIM and HIS kingdom. Not our vision but HIS vision and mission. Save us oh Lord!! Draw us closer than we have ever been to you!!! You are our master, you are our saviour, you are the reason for our breath. Let all our life be about you not us. You are LORD!!!!
YOU ARE MY ALL
Vanity upon vanity is what this world offers. All I want is you, All I want to know is you, All I want to do is you. All I want to worship is you, All I want to study is you, All I want to talk to is you, All I want to eat is you, All I want to hear is you, All that will satisfy me is you, All I need is you, to bring you to the poor, the hungry, the thirsty, frustrated, the needy, the confused, the angry, the anxious, the impatient, the lost world. To see the poor rich, to see the captive set free, to see you as light to them in darkness, to satisfy the hungry because you are the bread of life, to see the oppressor destroyed, to see the wicked punished, to see the deceitful exposed, to bring your people back to you...........To walk with you, to cry with you, to laugh with you, to talk about you, to sing about you, to sing to you, to dance to you, to live for you, to die for you. All my heart I give to you, All my body I give to you. My soul I give to you, and my spirit to you, All my love, my life my all is to you.
YOU ARE JESUS CHRIST THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD!!! I LOVE YOU SWEET HOLY SPIRIT!!
OVERCOMING THE ENEMY (THE DEVIL)
Brethren, overcoming the enemy our adversary is not just about shouting, dancing, getting high during a worship service, praying all you can doing prayer meetings and conferences, its not just receiving prophetic words and shouting "I claim them!!" After all this, there should be a daily submission to His Spirit, there should be a hunger and a thirst to do his will, there should be a soaking in his word. In totality, there should be a daily and continual killing of self and walk with the Lord obeying His Presence in choices and making God's word the standard of your life with the absolute leadings of his Presence (The Holy Ghost). Seek him diligently with all heart mind and soul as His Spirit leads.
ASKING AND RECEIVING
James 4:3. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. You know, we have been preaching this thing of asking and receiving and we always say and Jesus said whatever you ask in my name you shall receive, and we begin praying and asking and asking but mostly we do not receive. Have you asked yourself why? The answer is only the righteous who walk after the Spirit but not the flesh, who seek and obey his will, who stay in his word, being in HIM and He in them that will ask and will receive. Why because they ask in his will, they ask being led by His Spirit. Before they asked, the Holy Spirit had already interceded and asked on their behalf. In other words the Lord had seen that they needed it and has provided already in the Spirit so they could access it immediately they ask for it.
If what you ask is not going to help you nor His kingdom, then you are asking out of His leadings and His will. Know also that you do not determine what is good for the Kingdom of God or even for yourself. It is He who know all things.
Lets look at the contest of whenever Jesus Himself spoke of asking and receiving.
In John 16:21-22, Jesus said to his disciples, "And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full." However before he said that he also said in John 16:7-14 "Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgement Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; Of judgement because the prince of this world is judged. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
In other words, when His Spirit takes over your life and teaches you, He will also teach you what to ask. Also lets look at John 14:12-14. "Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it."
John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
When you are in him and he in you, whatever you ask in his name you shall receive. When you are in him and he in you, you will do his will because you will know his will and you will ask in his will. The Holy Spirit who knows all things will reveal to you what you need as well as His church. He will give you the ability to be persistent in prayer like Daniel who humbled himself to serve the Lord in HIS will. When he fasted and prayed, God released the angel Michael and some angels to battle with the Kings of Persia so they could bring his answered prayer. Sometimes a delay in answer may not mean we asked out of his will but that the enemy and his demons are in battle against the will of God.
Daniel 10:12-13 "Then he continued, “Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them. But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, because I was detained there with the king of Persia.
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