All you need is Love

It's interesting how a line from a beetles song actually hits the mark. Love is all we need, more importantly,God's Love is all we need. We are created by Love for love. To receive and give love is at the centre of creation. Adam and Eve walked in love with God in the cool of the day. Christians can now walk with Abba, and Jesus, in and because of the special gift of the person of the Holy Spirit. The Good news truly is too good to be true news.

Love is manifest in Jesus

God gave us Jesus, and Jesus gave us His life and His kingdom. What can we give Him in return? What have we got that He didn't create for Himself? Jesus has given us grace, and faith, to be able to give our hearts fully to the one who loves us. So we can all make a choice to respond to His love or ignore Him.

It's a lifestyle

I enjoy reading John's letters to the church. He was the one who laid his head on the bosom of Jesus, and Jesus didn't mind. There's a big hint for us. Love is a recurring theme for John. If you love your neighbour in deed as well as word, God is manifest in you. I dwell on the verses that encourage me to meditate on my union with God, and the truth that as we communicate with God all the day and night Agape is perfected in us. I want Agape to be perfected in me and push all fear out of my heart. So for me, walking with Jesus is a lifestyle, not something to be contemplated but something to be activated.

CAN'T GET AWAY FROM IT

I just can't seem to get away from it, John 17 that is. There is so much revelation in those few verses of scripture, and I'm sure Daddy is ministering these truths all over the church right now. Recently I added Kris Vallotton from Bethel Church to my podcast list and downloaded one of his Sunday morning messages Imitating Christ on my ipod. Getting back from a very relaxed and blissed morning with the Bridge Community today I thought I would listen to the message after lunch. Sitting comfortable I heard Kris say,' Now open your bibles to John 17...'
Thank you so much Jesus for loving us the way you do. It's such a privileged to be your bride.

COINCIDENCE?

I just popped down the town on the bus this morning following the leading of the Holy Spirit. After walking around a bit listening to the voice of the Lord I was beginning to get cold, and I thought about returning home on the bus. 'Don't get the hourly one, get the quarter past'. God spoke to my heart. With that I walked around the corner and met a woman I have known for years. We started to chat, and she began to unload the last 6 years of her life to me and the scary, weird situation with her parents. She is a single parent and I've often met her in town and passed the time of day, but this morning she was open to some real ministry from the Lord. I had the opportunity to pray with her regarding her family situation and to encourage her on her journey of discovering Jesus.
On the way home the Lord said that He was so pleased with me, and that He had sent H. not only to be ministered to, but to bless me too. Then He said, 'You have not finished your prayer for her. As well as asking Me to intervene, you must take authority over the situation. Bind what is bound in heaven son, and loose into that situation what is loosed in heaven.'
As soon as I got home I did exactly that. ISN'T GOD GOOD! 

Healed in His Presence

For a while now I have been praying for the presence of Christ on me to have an effect on the people around me. This morning I was meditating on 2 Cor. 2:14-15

'But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him. For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.'

Later on I found myself outside the store in Wildmill talking to D. who is in the St. Johns Ambulance and volunteers with us on Street Pastors triages. As we were talking L. a work colleague of her's came towards us from his car quite clearly in pain. When he got close to us I asked him what was wrong, he said he had just put his back out getting out of the car. I asked him if he had had trouble with it before and he said he said he had hurt it last year.


He was stretching tentatively and I offered to pray for him but I didn't touch him as he continued to move his torso about. In a very short space of time he was moving freely and said the pain had gone and was smiling. I later confirmed with D. that L. was fine and that he had indeed been in pain when he approached us from the car. It is as though the Holy Spirit confirmed to me that when people get around the presence of Jesus anything can happen.

REQUIREMENT

One requirement to radical obedience is the ability to hear. To hear God and to hear other people.This is best managed as I LISTEN. Simple?

Remember

Whatever else we think about as we walk with the Holy Spirit is that not only is He Holy, He is love. The anointing in us and upon us is love. God who is love desires His church to release love to the world. Our loving Father is so gracious, accepting, and merciful, towards everyone that we cannot grasp it this side of eternity. But know what? I'm going to have a try.

A KEY

To make sure I keep my eye on the ball, and stay in faith for a global revival, I'm going to go after a revelation Keith Moore has walked in for a number of years now. He has developed a lifestyle of thankfulness. I believe it's a major key in maintaining our close and precious walk with the Holy Spirit. No matter what is happening to me, no matter what the situation, I'm going to look to Jesus and give thanks in all things. Not for the situation but for the answer found in His word. To catch up with Keith and be blessed visit kcm.org and look in media.org

TRUTH

I'm in love with God, and God's in love with me. This is who I am and this is who I'll  be and  that settles it, completely.

FOCUS

What am I focussing on, what is my perspective? This question must be regularly visited as we journey towards full blown global, revival. If we focus on Jesus we will share the same focus and vision He had. Did He want to bring His Kingdom to earth in the here and now? Yes, but why?

The Lord showed me this morning that all the greed, power, and control in the geo political arena ; the warfare, famine, death, disease, addiction, poverty, rebellion. In fact all the negative stuff on the planet is in fact orchestrated by the agents of wickedness in the heavenly realms, and manifests on the earth. [see Ephesians ch.6]. Most of the time our focus is on the negative around us because it effects us, our loved ones, and the church. Unfortunately it seems that the church has fallen back into a defenceless mode here in our nation as the strategies against christianity increase. 

Jesus was a non conformist, but He was not rebellious. He didn't focus on the the political condition of Israel, instead He focussed on the oppression of the people caused by the works of the devil. He came to destroy the works of the devil John tells us. Luke explains in Acts 10:38 that Jesus was anointed by God to go around doing good, and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

Why doesn't the church do the same?

RADICAL OBEDIENCE

I'M NOT QUITTING, BACKING DOWN, COMPROMISING, SLACKING OFF, GIVING UP, OR TAKING MY EYE OFF THE BALL.

I NEED PRACTISE!

Before I go for a day or so with Trevor and Sharon Baker to be topped up and blissed, I thought I would tell you about today. I have been in the school of ministry with the Holy Spirit, and He has been impressing on me that if I minister it must be like Jesus. In town this morning I was strolling around listening for His voice and I saw a young man in the street who I think is a hari krishna. I heard a still small voice saying 'he has trouble with his eyes'. So I casually approached him and making eye contact I asked him if he had any trouble with his eyes.
'No.' was his direct reply. 'Oh', I said. 'I'm practising listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit to see if there is anything He wants to say to me about healing the sick, raising the dead, and casting out demons. You know just normal Christian stuff'.
The lad never said a word. Then I dried up, turning away I said, 'Have a nice day now.' Of course I had to resist the accuser from that moment on, but one thing has shifted.

I AM NOT GOING TO QUIT. WHEN I GET OUT THERE NEXT I'M STILL GOING TO LISTEN FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT.

UNQUENCHABLE

You cannot stop God loving, but you can quench the Holy Spirit. God's love is the most powerful force in the universe. God is love, and God is powerful. John tells us in one of his letters that perfected love (agape) forces fear out of our souls, for if we fear, love is not perfected in us.
I knew nothing about love as I grew up, you might as well have tried explaining nuclear physics to me as to talk about love. It is strange as you will often hear about love in our culture. It's in books, TV, films, everywhere, you can even hear people talk about love. But no one really understands love, unless they have been loved, and no one can love unless they have first been loved. God displayed His love for us in Jesus. Then Jesus told us to go out into the world and show God's love to others. He put His love in us at new birth, but sometimes our heads have to catch up and really believe His word to us.
The world is waiting to see how much the church loves each other, as well as how much the church loves the world.
Only a manifestation of Jesus in the church is going to cut it. John told us that in our union with Jesus, and our fellowship with Him love is perfected. It takes faith to release God's love to the world one person at a time. But it begins with an act of our will.
I am committed to love, as I am commanded to love, no ifs or buts.

Agape

All the way through Jewish and Christian history God's love has been displayed. In the gospels John seemed to have the greatest revelation of the love of God. He even had a revelation of how much Jesus loved him as he was secure enough to rest on Christ's breast, as often as he could. Paul told us in his epistle to the Romans that God had shed His love abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
But it was Jesus who gave us the command to love. To love God with all our hearts, minds, and strength; and to love our neighbour as ourselves. He then told us at the last supper that He was issuing another commandment. That we Christians love each other, so that the world would know that we were His disciples.
What happened? Two thousand years of grief, schism, bitterness, hatred, warfare, slaughter, and butchery. That's just between ourselves. How have we treated the world, the ones who are supposed to see this love?
We would rather not go there as it is too painful.
But Church it's got to end now.