Thank You, Jesus. Thank You for loving us. When we embrace Your love, we embrace Your power, we embrace Your goodness, we embrace Your faithfulness. Thank You for loving us. Even when we were not worth it, You reached down and you loved us. All we can do is thank You and love You back in return. So, this morning we say, “Lord Jesus, we love You”. We adore You. We magnify Your holy and majestic name. Who is like unto You, oh God? There is no God that loves like You. You love from the little details to the big issues. Your love envelopes us, encompasses us, encourages us, takes care of everything. Thank You for loving us, Jesus. Thank You for changing us with Your love. Thank You for hearts that have been healed this morning; hearts that have been reassured that You love them. Thank You for identities that have been restored already this morning. Thank You for bodies that have embraced Your power even as they embraced Your love. Thank You for changes and “shiftings” that have occurred in the supernatural realm even as we embrace your love. What a mighty and awesome God You are. Your people lift their hands to You. In the sanctuary, we lift our hands to You. In our worship, we lift our hands to You. With the confidence of a people who are loved by a loving Father, people who are favoured, whom the Father is partial towards, we lift our hands to you. And we say, “Thank You for loving us, Jesus”. We give You praise.
God wants you to know that His love towards you is not a feeling. God wants you to know that His love towards you is a commitment. God wants you to know that He can’t feel any other way towards to you but love. I will say it again: He cannot feel any other way towards you but love. Somebody needs to get a revelation of the love of God this morning. God is incapable of not loving you. God is not able to do anything other than love you. God cannot hate you. God cannot dislike you. God cannot even be tempted to hate you. It means there is nothing, absolutely nothing you will do that will make God stop loving you. There is absolutely nothing you will do that will change the love of God towards you. For anything to change the love of God towards you, that thing has established itself as something that can change the very nature of God. And there is nothing created by God, and all things were created by Him that can change the eternal existence and nature of God. God cannot love you any other way but the way He loves you. It is a commitment; it is His nature, and that nature is what He’s given to us; therefore, we can also love God and be committed to Him.
But get the revelation this morning that God cannot but love you. It is impossible. The way it is impossible for God to lie is the same way it is impossible for God not to love you. It is impossible. There is nothing you will do ever that will make God stop loving you. When you know that, then, you will truly embrace the love of God in its full package with nothing left. Thank You, Jesus. Thank You, Jesus. Hallelujah!
If we have this same love, does it, therefore, mean that there is nothing anybody can do towards us that will make us stop loving? When it gets tough, if it is the same love we have, does it therefore mean…? Except it is an inferior kind of love. My Bible tells me that the love of God has been shed abroad in my heart by the Holy Ghost, and there is nothing the Holy Ghost does that is not superior and excellent. So, if it is the same love of God that love us as a commitment regardless of what we have done that is in our hearts, does it therefore mean… there is nothing anyone will do towards you that will make you someone who does not love? Can you love a father who rapes you? Is it possible? Can you love a best friend who deceives you? Is it possible? What then is this love? Is it a feeling? Is it a commitment and a decision? Will your walking out of love and walking in offence and unforgiveness change your nature? Is it worth trading whom God has called you? So, how can we, therefore, walk in this love? The only way we can do it is by first of all embracing the source of that love. Because when you do that, then, you embrace your identity, and regardless, you can love.
I hear God’s Spirit say, “Love is a power, it’s a force. It is an anchor”. In these last days, the love of God will get you through tough situations. In these last days, the love of God will confound the enemy, for the love of God acts contrary to the enemy’s expectations; and so, when the enemy sets you up for failure, you confound him with the love of God. When the enemy positions you for poison and offence, you confuse him with the love of God. But that same love of God is a defence, it protects you; it keeps you from harm. So, in loving, you really cannot be hurt where it matters most because where that love is deposited is impenetrable. That is the revelation of the love of God.
It is not a feeling; it is not a bunch of emotions; it is a commitment. It is an expression of a kind of nature of who God is and whom He has made us. Therefore, this love cannot be understood by the human mind and comprehension. It can only be understood by revelation of Who God is. Glory be to God.
Your battles of faith are weakened by the lack of the love of God in your life, for faith works by love. So, many times there is an effort of faith, there are confessions being made, there are seeds being sown, but there is no anchor of the love of God that is a commitment. That is who we are. It is not understood by the human mind. It is received by a renewed mind that has revelation knowledge.
When I hug you, I love you. When I chastise you, I love you. When I direct you, I love you. When I discipline you, I love you. When I counsel with you, I love you. When I console you, I love you. That is the love of God; a commitment to keep you in the plans, purposes and nature of God for your life. Once we get the revelation of whom God is, then, we can get a revelation of who we are, and a lot of our battles will be won faster, easier when we can truly walk in His commitment; that is the love of God. Lift your hands and give Him praise. Thank You, Jesus.
Indeed, we have freedom. Freedom to walk in love because of Your love. Freedom to forgive because of Your love. Freedom to see the best in others the way God’s love saw the best in us. Thank You for loving us, Jesus. Because of Your love, we are free. Thank You for loving us, Jesus.