Devotionals
Written
Jul 10 2004 12:00AM
Beloved,
My cherished one, I would have you to know more of My nature and attributes. Many want to prophesy, to do miracles, to teach and to hold titles, such as apostle, prophet, teacher, evangelist. And I have set many in the church to be such, and it is good for I have placed many in positions and they each have a purpose in My plan and destiny for the church to bring in the kingdom of God. They each have a purpose in preparing my body for My coming. But there seems to be a competition among many that bring jealousy and envy which is not from me.
But I encourage you to covet earnestly the best gifts, and yet I show you a more excellent way. The highest and best gift you can give anyone, is LOVE. I Am LOVE and when you give love to someone from the heart you are giving them Me. There is no greater gift. Love is the most powerful gift, most powerful tool in wining souls, and in touching hearts. Those who do not believe in me, believe in LOVE, they long for it, they seek it, they will even fight for it. But they have rejected me for a cheap imitation.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not love, I am become as a sounding brass or clanging cymbals. You make a lot of noise, but it means absolutely nothing but noise to the ears, without LOVE behind it.
And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand ALL mysteries and through faith could remove mountains, without LOVE, I am NOTHING. My prophetic messengers are very needful to speak to My people who are hard of hearing, they do not hear Me, so I send my prophets to speak for Me. But I could show them all the mysteries of old and the mysteries of the universe, and the faith to pick up and remove a mountain from its position, but without attaining to LOVE, My LOVE which is residing in them they are absolutely nothing. Their words become useless, their purpose is useless. Many words do not convey in any language My heart, without LOVE.
And though I bestow all the goods to feed the poor, and though I am called to lay down My body to be burned, and I have not love for those individuals it profits me nothing.
Many of you have been given many gifts but if you bite and devour one another they are useless. I see this one thing lacking in many of My Chosen Ones. Love suffereth long and is kind, love does not envy others, love does not vaunt itself and is not puffed up with pride.
Beloved I would not have you to compete for position, but to learn the highest way, the way of LOVE. Knowledge puffeth up, and the more knowledge attained the more apt you are to get puffed up with pride. Pride is a great sin, and it spreads like a disease, this is the sin of the evil one. There is nothing to be haughty and prideful about in the use of the gifts, as it is all of Me, and nothing of you. You are just the vessel or voice that I use. If you think it is you, then it definitely is not of me, and your pride is in vain.
I am not a respecter of persons, I do not elevate one above another, and I would have you treat everyone equally.
Where strife and all manner of confusion exists, I am not there. LOVE does not reflect anything other than LOVE. It doesn't act rude or selfish. It doesn't seek it's own glory, nor is it SELF centered, it isn't easily provoked, nor does it think evil. Love rejoices in the truth and never rejoices in evil, nor does it rejoice when someone gets their due.
It bears all things, all trials and suffering, it looks for and believes the good in another, it never ceases to hope for the best, and it endures all things.
Love never fails, but prophecies will fail, tongues will cease, and knowledge will vanish away. But LOVE NEVER FAILS.
Beloved, I would have you come to KNOW AND UNDERSTAND MY LOVE. It is the highest order of the universe and you can only stand before Me in My Presence when you have attained My love. That it flows freely through you to others. All the law and the prophets were fulfilled in this one commandment, to LOVE the Lord Your God, with all your heart, all your soul and all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself. This is a commandment, it isn't optional, and you must not be selective. You have been called to walk in love to follow the footsteps of Yahshua. Though you may go through persecution, though you may be hated for My name sake, you must respond in LOVE in every situation.
If you lack in this area, I would have you ask me to perfect you in LOVE that there will not be any fear, perfect LOVE cast out all FEAR, and that you will be bold in whatever you face.
Remember to forgive quickly when you have been offended, as this will unblock the flow of love in the heart, as unforgiveness puts up a barrier in the heart to block the flow of love.
Remember that as you abide in Me continually, My LOVE will flow through you very freely, it isn't forced, it flows like the sap from the vine to the branch, but you must learn to give me your heart and your thoughts and allow Me to just love through you.
Above ALL learn to KNOW MY LOVE by spending time with Me, that I may pour out My fullness, that you would radiate My LOVE. There is no way of knowing just what love is until you come to KNOW ME AS LOVE, it cannot be taught it must be experienced first hand. As you learn the more excellent way
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