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The gospel of Jesus is God's revelation of His love for each one

by Lorraine Taylor
04/16/20
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"None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. Rather, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him." But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God..." 1 Corinthians 2:8-10

In the letter to the Galatians in the Bible, the apostle Paul was addressing issues in that fellowship, and when reading this letter, we can replace those believers with the modern American believers today.

Biblical interpretation, when in context, the meaning and purposes of God are what will go forward and what will be accomplished - no matter what we choose to believe. God always operates according to His will and intentions.

So, when praying, we align and join with the divine realm of the Spirit. In this way, we are praying according to the will of God in discerning his will.

When praying, according to the will of God, what is prayed about flourishes and will occur. Prayers, declarations, demands, or commands when spoken that do not align in God's perfect will, no matter how hard we believe or how loud we shout, will fall on deaf ears if it stems from self-will or a self-wanting.

No matter what we believe, no matter how long we find it and no matter if we shout and declare God's word, if what we are proclaiming is not in His will, it will not occur, and it will not come to pass.

When one puts on a positive thinking cap or tries to believe something will come to pass ---- this form of belief often comes from our desperation or wanting and those beliefs or wanting do not necessarily line up with God's will for us or those we are interceding for.

For example; we can believe, proclaim, declare, and shout healing over someone, but if it is not God's will that person not be healed, then that person will not be cured. This has nothing to do with one's faith or one's relationship with God or some 'sin' in one's life.

It has everything to do with the activity of God and what He has purposed, and what He intends as He plans are ones we often do not or don't want to see that are beyond our ability to comprehend, know or visualize.

Same with our lives - am I living for the purposes which God has created and designed me to fulfill?

Beyond our circumstances, beyond our knowing, beyond our beliefs, ----- lies the supernatural realm where God dwells, moves, is and breathes, and this is the divine holy realm.

God desires to manifests His greatest gift to us in that the gospel of Jesus Christ is the revelation of God's Love for us.

Yet early believers and believers today are no different. We add many 'things' to this gospel that are the revelation of a person(s), and in this, we are living a false gospel. Paul wrote to the Galatians, and we can read it as if he is writing to the American church today.

Paul was addressing similar issues in how we 'add' our methods, rules, requirements, beliefs, lists of expectations, conditions, and all kinds of 'things' to what one has to do to gain approval or acceptance from God.

The gospel of Jesus is God's revelation of His Love for us, and His Love is given freely to anyone who believes, regardless of behavior and regardless of what one does or does not do.

There are no forms, no methods, no scripted prayers, no works, and no acts and no outward way of holiness we can do that stems from our own wanting where we gain God's approval, no matter how good a person we think we are.

The only way to God is to believe Jesus is His son, and this is the Love He has poured upon the earth, and this is the manifested Love He desires to show each individual.

God is always drawing each person closer to His heart of Love, and no matter what we feel, no matter what condition we find ourselves living in and no matter our beliefs - God's Love is our sufficient source in it all.

God is faithful and remains true to His being whose essence is Love.

His activity in us and His activity today is always motivated by His display of sincere, genuine, and authentic Love.

God is unchanging in His holy pursuit of each one, and He longingly calls, patiently beckons and gently invites us to come closer, come nearer and to gaze upon and behold what manner of Love He holds for each one that we should be called the children of God!