When we as Christians shall begin to believe in the love that God has for us, we will begin to walk in the reality of who we really are, as we are experiencing the power in that love. Everything we need in life are all in the knowledge and workings of His loving kindness towards us by the Holy Spirit. His blessings are manifested into our lives, through the workings of His loving kindness (Hesed), as we begin to walk in the reality of His “Hesed” towards us.
I remember a crisis that I went through many years ago. I knew it was going to take God, to get me over and out of that crisis. Oh yes, He did! But not in the manner that I thought He would. You see, for every crisis in your life, God has His own plan and agenda to get you out of it (Jeremiah 29:11). The earlier you realize that you are loved of God, and you begin to walk in the knowledge of His love towards you, the better and quicker you will come out.
I cried to God in the midst of the crisis. My crying to God never moved Him. But the moment that I began to worship Him in the midst of the crisis, He revealed His “Hesed” towards me. His words comforted me at that time, just as much as those words are still comforting me till today. He told me in the midst of it all:
“I love you and that is all that matters.”
As I released my faith to receive and to start walking in the reality of that love, my attitude towards what I was going through began to change. Those words from His mouth transformed me like never before. God had spoken many things to me before this particular experience, but this very one was different. His spoken words kept me strong in the midst of that crisis. I knew from that moment onwards, that God was about to begin many things in my life in affirming His love towards me, even in the midst of the crisis.
The crisis never went away, but His loving kindness (Hesed) towards me started getting stronger and stronger than ever before. I began to walk in the reality of what those words meant to me. I began to understand how by experiencing His loving kindness, that we will not only be strong; but also that His loving kindness is the key that opens the flood of His blessings into our lives.
I had read before the crisis in the scriptures about His love for me; but for Him to speak those words to me personally, was something different and special. I had always believed in His love, but it was a different thing when God reaffirmed that love to me personally. That kept me strong in the midst of that storm of life. When we personally experience the love of God, it will change our lives.
You may have heard many people talk about God’s love, just as you are reading about it in this newsletter right now. But have you personally experienced His love in your life? There is a difference between knowing about something from the Bible, and experiencing it personally when the Holy Spirit speaks those words to you. You had better start paying very close attention to His Word to you personally. God will always do whatever He tells you. He will affirm every one of His Word in your life, and make you stronger with them.
Your spiritual strength comes from the revelation of His loving kindness towards you. All you’ll have to do is to start believing in His love, as you’d received them with all of your heart. You can forget about everything else, God’s Word to you will come to pass. His Word alone kept me strong and stable, when other words of humans has always failed.
God’s spoken Word to me helped me in developing my spirit man in a new way. His Word will bring spiritual growth into your life, as you open up your heart to start walking in the reality of those very words of love. Being a doer of His Word changes us. Being a doer of His spoken Word will transform your life.
So stop praying for spiritual strength to go through the storm of life; but rather seek to experience His loving kindness towards you. Reposition yourself by faith in the knowledge of His love. God’s strength for you is in His “Hesed” (loving kindness) towards you.
The truth is that you can never fully experience the depth, width and height of His love towards you. It is something bigger and larger than you can ever imagine. You can not even fathom it. The moment you think you know it, the more you begin to realize that you have not really understood it all. His love is so huge, and the moment you decide to begin growing and developing your spirit man, with the knowledge of His love in you, the stronger you will become in Him. God’s love grows in us and changes us as we seek out for more of Him in our lives. For eternity we will be learning about the power of His love towards us. But the revelation of His love that we do have now, is all that we need to overcome every obstacle in this life.
THE GLORY OF HIS LOVE IS TOO HUGE TO FATHOM
Paul once prayed for the believers in Ephesus to grow in the love of God. He told them:
“I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.”
Ephesians 3:16-19 NLT
By having a full understanding of God’s love for us, we’ll be fully equipped not only for every good work; but in His love is the fullness of life and the power that comes by His Spirit living in us.
God’s strength comes by His Spirit, living inside of us. And the first evidence of that strength in us, is revealed in His love for us through the workings of the Holy Spirit in us (Galatians 5:22). The fruit and all the gifts of the Holy Spirit flows out of the revelation of His love in His strength to us.
If Apostle Paul had never experienced God’s love before, he wouldn’t be writing about it in this way. He experienced God’s love for the first time on the road to Damascus (Acts 9). That first encounter with Jesus changed him. You can not encounter God’s love and remain the same again. God’s love is stubborn, unfailing, unyielding, never giving up and incomprehensible.
God’s love will empower you with inner strength. You will begin to know things, about His loving kindness towards you, that you never knew before. You will begin to grow on the inner man, with the revelation of that love working in you. You are unstoppable if you are walking in the love of God towards your fellow believers in Christ. The devil can’t do you any harm, as long as you are walking in love. He may try to push you into stopping the love talk and walk. But don’t ever give in to his tactics. Keep on loving the most unlovable people on earth, because love always wins. It may be tougher than you expected, but love will help you to overcome.
Paul went further by telling the Ephesians more about the workings of God’s love in our lives.
He said:
“Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church.”
Ephesians 4:15 NLT
When we speak the truth in love, we are speaking life and changing lives. Walking and speaking the truth in love is what makes us to grow up spiritually, as we develop the spirit man. Those who walk always in the love of God are spiritually matured in handling the things of God. God can trust them with greater things, because of their love walk. By speaking the truth in love we are not only changing lives, but we are growing up to be more matured in our Christian walk.
But just as we are speaking the truth in love, we must take heed of others who think that lying and deceptions are of great gain for them. Those who speak lies and deceits, are doing so out of hatred. By speaking lies in hatred, they are planting the seeds of death into their own lives, and into the lives of their listeners. People who are being deceived and lied to, are believing and receiving the spirit of death with their hearts. They will eventually reap the harvest from it. But the Spirit of Jesus in us is the Spirit of Truth that gives us life in abundance (1 John 5:6). The Spirit of Truth in a believer exposes the lying and deception spirits to that believer. You’ll always identify a liar by the Spirit of Truth in you.
That is why we need to be careful about how we listen and hear people. We judge every human word that we hear by our spirit man. We are slow to speak, but quick to listen (James 1:19). Only a fool will never judge the words that he hears before responding to it (Proverbs 29:20).
Jesus warned us about this when He said:
“For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. Therefore consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they think they have will be taken from them.”
Luke 8:17-18 NIV
Whoever has more of the words from the Spirit of Truth in him or her, will receive more of His loving kindness. The more we meditate on the workings of the Spirit of Truth in us, the more every lie and deception of the evil one will be exposed to us.
BEING A GOOD LISTENER HELPS YOU TO GROW IN LOVE
Our spirit man grows and develops in the love of God, as we cultivate the habit of good listening and responding to what we are listening to.
If all you are listening to are the bad news and negative things on the television, it will affect your spirit man. What we constantly listen to will be reproduced, out of our mouth and into our lifestyle as Christians. It will reveal the quality and quantity of God’s word in us. The mouth will reveal the truth in us. The mouth will eventually begin to confess what we are allowing into our hearts. Are you constantly listening to the words that brings death or the words that brings life?
The scriptures says about how God works in helping us to develop our spirit man in love.
It says:
“Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!”
Hebrews 12:9 NIV
Just as earthly parents can discipline their children, God disciplines us with His love on the inner man. Physical and spiritual discipline should always come out of love. God’s disciplining and corrections leads to our spiritual growth and development. His discipline helps us to grow up stronger in His love towards us.
God is the Father of all human spirits. He can touch and discipline anyone from the inner man. The quicker we take His discipline and corrections the better for us.
GROWING UP IN THE TRUTH AND IN LOVE
But the Spirit of Truth in us will always lead and guide us, into all spiritual things that we need to know, in order for us to be successful in life. There are so many spiritual truths out there in the spirit realm, but we don’t need all of them in order for us to be effective, in what God has called us to do. We only need what is necessary for us to do what God wants us to do.
Jesus said:
… “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6 NIV
When we are walking in the spiritual truth that is revealed to us, by being a doer of it, then we will be transformed. The Word of God is able to transform us only when we do what it says.
Spiritual things are as real as the physical things. We are able to take hold of healing, salvation and prosperity in the spirit by using our faith. They are all spiritual things, and the depth of the knowledge of the love of God inside of us, helps us to take hold of those things by faith.
Our spirit man is real, just as much as our physical body is real also. We take hold of spiritual things with our spirit man. We can’t do that physically. This is the problem with many in receiving salvation, healing and other things that God has given them. They will always be trying to take hold of spiritual things physically. And we cannot receive anything from God in this way. They are all spiritual things that are manifested in the spirit first. But our faith is used through the confession of our mouth, to make them physically available to us. With the heart we believe in them, and with the mouth we make them manifest physically, as we continually confess what we believe (2 Corinthians 4:13).
That’s why the spirit man inside of us must grow, and be developed in the love of God. God’s Word is given to us, to help us in developing our spirit man, and to make us grow in the love of God.
Even though the spiritual things of God are revealed to us as the will of God; but we can’t walk in the revealed will of God, until our human mind is renewed with the word of God (Romans 12:1-2). That’s why we cannot have fellowship with God, until our mind is renewed with the word of God.
Jesus said:
“If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.”
John 15:7 NIV
We need the word of God to renew the mind in order to fellowship with God. That’s why we also need to be filled in the Holy Spirit. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are given to us, to help us in fellowshipping with God more intimately. They are not just written about in the scriptures, to showcase our capabilities in God. No, they are written so that we may become doers of them.
But we must understand that spiritual truths and the gifts of the Holy Spirit can be misused or abused also. It is just as people misuse or abuse the use of physical or material things. And we do need to be very careful with that, because the world around us is very materialistic. The unsaved world relates more to material and physical things, than they do with spiritual things. But we do also know that materialism, is the substitution of people’s spiritual needs with material or physical things.
And there are lots of born again believers, who keeps falling into this trap of the enemy over and over again, as they try to balance their Christian life, with the mentality of the unsaved world around them.
Now it takes lots of common and simple sense to be able to apply spiritual truths, so as to be able to maximize its results.
I have often seen many Christian ministries and churches (as an example); in deep financial problems just because they are refusing to follow simple spiritual truths, that God had revealed to them to follow. When we follow the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit, in those spiritual truths that are revealed to us, we will prosper financially with them.
In many instances they are rejecting those spiritual truths, while they are trying to copy God’s path into financial prosperity for other churches and ministries. God never called us to be copycats of other people’s vision. He called us to do what He has called us to do individually. We are only called to copy Jesus and not fellow believers. It is when Christians don’t have a clear vision from God, that they often settle down with other peoples’ vision. There is nothing bad in following other people’s vision, but we don’t settle down with that as God’s ultimate principle in our Christian walk. God has so much potentials in you that He want to use in changing your world. When we are walking in the love of God, those potentials are brought out into the light.
So many of these ministries and churches eventually end up in deep financial troubled waters, because they are not following what God told them to do. Their mostly used excuse is that, they can’t do what God told them to do practically. And that is a big lie from hell. Faith will never say that anything God says are impossible. If God says anything to us, that means it is possible. We must become doers of what God says, and not only hearers. When we are not applying simple and common sense in following the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit, we will suffer and pay a huge price for it.
When the Lord told me to begin writing these weekly newsletters in 2003; He instructed me to write only about what He tells me to write. And He said: “wherever I send you… My provision is waiting for you there.”
Ever since, we had started other various Ministries to the nations, we had made the determination to only follow the Lord in this way. We only do what He tells us to do. And consequently we had never been in debt to anyone, because we only go to where He tells us to go, and we do only what He tells us to do. God has always made all kinds of provisions available to us all the time. And because of His (Hesed) loving kindness towards us, His provisions has always gone ahead of us into every one of those nations.
We don’t go to where God has not told us to go, because we do know that we will be leaving His arm of protection and provision if we do this. And we have seen an increase of those provisions, just as much as He is expanding our reaches to the nations.
I have also observed that most financial problems in churches and ministries, are connected with the love walk of those involved with those ministries and churches (especially the leadership). When believers in Christ are not walking in love, then they are spiritually dead. Our love walk gives us spiritual life. The love walk is the energy that drives our spiritual walk with God. The gifts and the fruit of the Holy Spirit are evident in our lives, when we are walking in love.
The scriptures says:
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-5 NIV
The Lord always supplies all of our needs in this Ministry, according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19). The prerequisite to this is in our love walk with one another, and towards our partners in the nations. The love of God connects us with one another, and God’s love supplies all that we need, to get the work of the kingdom done in those nations. Perfect love always casts out the fear of lack in our lives, as we make the quality decision to walk in love (1 John 4:18).
In many cases we had seen how the love of God takes care of difficult situations with people. It’s not that we don’t have people’s problems; but God’s love always covers all of them, as we decide to walk in love.
Many things are happening in those nations that we are touching today, as we choose to love the people. The gifts of the Holy Spirit flows easily in any ministry or church that chooses to walk in love always. When we are rooted and grounded in love, then we are laying a strong foundation for the gifts of the Holy Spirit to flow through our midst easily. No love walk, no spiritual fruit and spiritual gifts. Choose to start glowing in the glory of love today, and keep yourself alive in it by staying in God’s love. The love of God is your lifeline in the midst of the storms of life. Stick with it and stay on it. You will be transformed by it. Your home will be transformed by it. Your ministries and churches will be transformed by love. Your communities and nations will be transformed by the glory of God’s love working through you. Choose to start developing your spirit today to walk in love, and before you know it, you will be glowing, living and prospering in the glory of love.
