This is one of those subject that we can share about because the minute we read the word Love thoughts come to us like rushing water. Love is so scary for so many because it makes you vulnerable, I am a lover, and like most people got my heartbroken and my share of pain but love is such a gift that i just can not resist to it. The thing is our Love is always imperfect even though we tried to give the best of us. There is only one true Love and that is what i want to share with you.
Many times I heard the phrase at church return to your first love, and it always point it out to me to that first time when I met Jesus and fall completely in Love with Him. However, recently the Father started to share with me about the FIRST LOVE, and I must tell you that I have not arrived , but I am learning to experience it completely different. It is not about how much I believe that I love God but HOW MUCH I KNOW THAT HE LOVES ME.
We need to remember that "HE is good, HIS steadfast Love endures forever, HE is abounding in Love and Faithful"...... then why we do not feel it at time. These are HIS words "As the Father loved me, I also have loved you, abide in MY LOVE" (john15:9) (by the way i just love the book of John, so much love)
The Father and The SON have the perfect love; this was the FIRST LOVE. We love because HE first loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins (1john4:10). The HOLY SPIRIT whom is such a fantastic teacher, was showing me that when we abide in Jesus we partake of the same relationship that Jesus has with the Father. How do I abide in Him? it was one of my questions. The Hebrew definition for abide is to dwell, remain,sit, to stay. I remember the first time HE said to me in His audible voice : "be still and know I am God". I must confess the word still has been one of those words outside my dictionary; however, when i began to allow HIS Spirit to lead me instead of me driving, i began to experience Peace, and I could feel His pleasure over me. I stay in His presence, and this does not means that i do not get out of my house, but in everything i do, i want to invite HIM to be the center.
The picture that HE always shows me is this: The FATHER and The SON delighting in each other; then here i come to CHRIST in whom I live, move and have my being. A gift of LOVE freely given to me; nothing I did perfect. All i did was to receive. The FATHER who loves me so much, who is crazy about me, gave up HIS beloved SON to bring me back to HIS perfect LOVE. We sometimes are too concerned about doing when is in receiving where everything began for us.
We can do all the good deeds, we may try to do our best in all situations, and more but outside Jesus these are dead works because it is in Christ that we come together under the banner of Love where God the Father works through for His glory. What this world needs is people willing to Love others without limit. Can you stop and think for a moment what could have happen if Jesus would have put limitations on His love? I truly do not want to know. Instead of judging, labeling, condemning, we are to walk in HIS LOVE displaying it so that we can be the light and salt of this world. "Love does not harm to its neighbor, Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law" (Romans13:10)
The FIRST LOVE as the Holy Spirit shows is to be in Christ because there Love is perfect, remaining in HIM so that I receive HIS love, Abiding in HIM so that I can love others. HIS love is perfect, outside of HIM love is just an emotion, a feeling, a sensation."He who does not love does not know God" 1john 4:8. HE is LOVE.
I leave you now with these questions; Do you want to experience HIS perfect love? Do you want to remain in the First Love? HE is saying:" Come, you are my passion, I want to lavish you with a love that never end." Remember there is nothing that can separate us from HIS love, because HIS love is always there like liquid oil running down from heaven towards us because HE LOVES US.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Saturday, January 8, 2011
" Out of Shame into Glory" by Amarilys Bocz
Do you at the end of the day when the night rest upon the earth feel that your heart is heavy with worry, anxiety, heartache, no hope? You find yourself saying this phrase "another day has gone by". You look at your circumstances around, the market crisis, the loss of income, loss of job, basic needs at time are not met, everything looks out of place, and you are running in this treadmill of life, where you seem not to find the button to stop it all.
The truth is that you can not stop it. it once was like a drop of snow and now everything its too big and impossible to stop on your own. You have tried everything there is and tried to find a way out, but nothing seems to work.
I understand your situation because like you. I had suffer loss and pain. For a time i did not where to run, where was a safe place where i could rest and find answer to all of these. On those days so much shame surrounded me. The more i tried to get out of the hole, the more deep it seems like i was falling; but in His GLORY i found an answer to my situation.
Now, you are asking; how can you find His Glory? It is not difficult, but it is not easy either; i must be truthful. However, i can assure you that every bit of it is worthy.
First, let me tell you the easy part so you are encourage; i only had to receive it; but because of the pain and shame in my life, i felt unworthy of such great gift and that is the difficult part. When life has taken a toll on us or even if we have had the most wonderful life, we feel unworthy or our belief systems cause us to magnify situation in negative ways.
We do not understand the consequences that we face when shame comes into our life. Shame causes tremendous pain in our soul, and those wounds prevent us from prospering in all areas of our life. Shame clothes our life, but in the spiritual realm which is real, shame is like a covering from head to toe and radiate in a way that only attracts that which do not belongs to us. Shame comes with guilt, condemnation, dishonor, disgraced, lost hopes, idolatry, lack, poverty, death, humiliation and much more...
Do not be discourage, because for every negative, there must be a positive. Now let me introduce you to the positive side of that. The answer to it is to behold the glory of the only begotten son Jesus Christ. Remember that which you behold, you empower.
In the GLORY, there is abundance of goodness, creativity, power, restoration, healing, freedom, financial miracles, amazing love, majesty. Just know that your imagination can not comprehend it, its beyond our ability to understand. But It is more real than what you can imagine.
At this point, you have tried everything without much success; at time the situation seems to ease but them everything repeats all over and you find yourself in the same place or similar. If this is you, and you are feeling as you read that something needs to happen in your life. You can not go on anymore on this path where the return is just pain, worry, anxiety, depression, lack, and more; then i ask you the question: why not to take all your chances at the only true living GOD? who send His only son to deliver you and set you free. He lay down His life for yours, so that you will not longer be bound to live on this world system, but to have eternal life, in His Glorious Kingdom where everything is Yes and amen when you encounter the Father who created you.
His love is so sweet providing healing to your heart, carrying your burden, freeing you. He has promised you that those clothes of shame will be removed and you will not wear them anymore, and His glory will be deposited in you. He will give you a double portion of Honor instead of carrying dishonor like a bag, He will crown you with Glory, raising in you the beloved child into a majestic queen or king to rule and reign with HIM; your joy will be everlasting and He will show you how He has catch each of your tears, because since you were created in your mothers womb He knew you and love you; your blessings will overflow to so many others, removing lack from you because He owns all the silver and gold.
invite Jesus to come and dwell in your heart; ask Him to become Lord of your life; ask the Holy Spirit who is the most wonderful, intelligent and incredible person to reveal Jesus and the heart of the Father to you; Ask the Father to reveal His glory.
If you had already done this, but you are asking how can i live there in that place where His promises are real, and i can also display His glory. And you have asked Him before to come into your life and nothing has changed. Then, ask the Holy Spirit to reveal Jesus again to you and to provide healing to you; reveling the power of the blood and the cross, the wounds on His hands and feet, the pain He endure for us. Let His light come into those areas where surrounding our will must take place. I do not pretend to have the answer, i just know the one who holds all the answers and as we walk close to Him, He reveals to us. Because He loves us with such a passionate love that HE can not hold back and desire to pour out His goodness upon us.
It is time to wake up from that place where there is not life, where hope does not have a place, where death reign and enter the Kingdom of Heaven where love abound, and perfect goodness rule, where eternal life has been granted. Let's bring heaven down to earth! and step into the GLORY.
The truth is that you can not stop it. it once was like a drop of snow and now everything its too big and impossible to stop on your own. You have tried everything there is and tried to find a way out, but nothing seems to work.
I understand your situation because like you. I had suffer loss and pain. For a time i did not where to run, where was a safe place where i could rest and find answer to all of these. On those days so much shame surrounded me. The more i tried to get out of the hole, the more deep it seems like i was falling; but in His GLORY i found an answer to my situation.
Now, you are asking; how can you find His Glory? It is not difficult, but it is not easy either; i must be truthful. However, i can assure you that every bit of it is worthy.
First, let me tell you the easy part so you are encourage; i only had to receive it; but because of the pain and shame in my life, i felt unworthy of such great gift and that is the difficult part. When life has taken a toll on us or even if we have had the most wonderful life, we feel unworthy or our belief systems cause us to magnify situation in negative ways.
We do not understand the consequences that we face when shame comes into our life. Shame causes tremendous pain in our soul, and those wounds prevent us from prospering in all areas of our life. Shame clothes our life, but in the spiritual realm which is real, shame is like a covering from head to toe and radiate in a way that only attracts that which do not belongs to us. Shame comes with guilt, condemnation, dishonor, disgraced, lost hopes, idolatry, lack, poverty, death, humiliation and much more...
Do not be discourage, because for every negative, there must be a positive. Now let me introduce you to the positive side of that. The answer to it is to behold the glory of the only begotten son Jesus Christ. Remember that which you behold, you empower.
In the GLORY, there is abundance of goodness, creativity, power, restoration, healing, freedom, financial miracles, amazing love, majesty. Just know that your imagination can not comprehend it, its beyond our ability to understand. But It is more real than what you can imagine.
At this point, you have tried everything without much success; at time the situation seems to ease but them everything repeats all over and you find yourself in the same place or similar. If this is you, and you are feeling as you read that something needs to happen in your life. You can not go on anymore on this path where the return is just pain, worry, anxiety, depression, lack, and more; then i ask you the question: why not to take all your chances at the only true living GOD? who send His only son to deliver you and set you free. He lay down His life for yours, so that you will not longer be bound to live on this world system, but to have eternal life, in His Glorious Kingdom where everything is Yes and amen when you encounter the Father who created you.
His love is so sweet providing healing to your heart, carrying your burden, freeing you. He has promised you that those clothes of shame will be removed and you will not wear them anymore, and His glory will be deposited in you. He will give you a double portion of Honor instead of carrying dishonor like a bag, He will crown you with Glory, raising in you the beloved child into a majestic queen or king to rule and reign with HIM; your joy will be everlasting and He will show you how He has catch each of your tears, because since you were created in your mothers womb He knew you and love you; your blessings will overflow to so many others, removing lack from you because He owns all the silver and gold.
invite Jesus to come and dwell in your heart; ask Him to become Lord of your life; ask the Holy Spirit who is the most wonderful, intelligent and incredible person to reveal Jesus and the heart of the Father to you; Ask the Father to reveal His glory.
If you had already done this, but you are asking how can i live there in that place where His promises are real, and i can also display His glory. And you have asked Him before to come into your life and nothing has changed. Then, ask the Holy Spirit to reveal Jesus again to you and to provide healing to you; reveling the power of the blood and the cross, the wounds on His hands and feet, the pain He endure for us. Let His light come into those areas where surrounding our will must take place. I do not pretend to have the answer, i just know the one who holds all the answers and as we walk close to Him, He reveals to us. Because He loves us with such a passionate love that HE can not hold back and desire to pour out His goodness upon us.
It is time to wake up from that place where there is not life, where hope does not have a place, where death reign and enter the Kingdom of Heaven where love abound, and perfect goodness rule, where eternal life has been granted. Let's bring heaven down to earth! and step into the GLORY.
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