CATCHING A REVELATION OF THE LOVE OF GOD*
Wednesday 25th September 2024-
*"Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?" John 21:15-17*
Jesus loves to be loved; His voice still reverberates through the ages the same way He asked Peter. The question was not only directed to him but to this generation too.
*Jeremiah 31.3 The LORD has appeared of old to me, saying: "Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.*
People celebrate power, wealth, success etc which isn't bad but the testimony of John 3:16 that came out of heaven is the answer to the bottom of every question and things that we go through.
God is not power but love; He uses every other thing (power, wealth etc) to show His love. This explains why our capacity to love must increase because everything else may fail but love never fails. *1 Corinthians 13:8*
The cry of God is for us to long for the pure love that is incorruptible; that is the kind of love that caused the Creator (the Father) to become a creature in the form of a man (in the person of Jesus) because He saw me and you.
*Philippians 2:6-8*
He didn't stick to His title of being a God but He came like a baby and when His star appeared to the wise men in the East, they carried gifts and entered Jerusalem looking for Him.
*Matthew 2:1-11 ...[10] When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. [11] And when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshiped Him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.*
What did the wealthy wise men see in little baby Jesus that they couldn't hold back their gifts and worship?
All the struggles about giving, worshipping God, surrendering to the Master etc can be reduced to zero only if we get a revelation of God's love and see how much He has done to prove to us that He loves us.
This explains why men like Peter, Paul, Thomas etc were not afraid to lay down their lives; they had a revelation of God's love and they knew that the best they could offer was themselves.
*Acts 10:38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.*
Jesus went about doing good because He loves us. At the cross, He was spat on, slapped, kicked and mocked but He held back His power and didn't do anything because He saw me and you. *Isaiah 53:7*
How many people can handle such lowering and hold back and yet they have the power? The greatest restraining power is love. This explains why Jesus reduced the commandments to two: loving God and our neighbors.
Jesus showed us that the way to live is not for ourselves. We are the body of Christ: He has no mouth, eyes, ears etc. Therefore, everything that we do must represent Him and this is only possible if we capture the revelation of His love such that He can use our bodies to express Himself.
*John 17:26 I have made Your Name known to them and revealed Your character and Your very Self, and I will continue to make [You] known, that the love which You have bestowed upon Me may be in them [felt in their hearts] and that I [Myself] may be in them. (AMP)*
The last move of God will be carried out by men and women who have the love of God because they are going to be entrusted with so much that it will require love to restrain them. That is why we must pray for an encounter with divine love because there are things we shall never do to God's people if we have His love.
*2 Corinthians 13:14, Romans 5:5*
Jesus supplies grace, the Father releases love and it is the Holy Spirit that brings us into fellowship and experience of the love and grace of God.
*STAY BLESSED AND HIGHLY FAVORED, WE LOVE YOU. PASTOR BEN OCHOLA.!*
