My message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God. 1 Corinthians 2:4-5.
Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes; and immediately they regained their sight and followed Him. Matthew 20:34.
For the love of Christ impels (seizes, holds together) us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God says:
Not just information but manifestation. Paul preached the good news of the Kingdom but his words were backed up with mighty works of healing, deliverance, and resurrection power. I performed extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, so that handkerchiefs or aprons were even carried from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out. Acts 19:11-12. Why? He was a man like any of you, and he had a past of persecuting My Church, so why was his life so filled with extraordinary demonstrations of My power? He told you himself, “the LOVE of Christ impels (seizes, holds together) me.” 2 Corinthians 5:14. He was consumed by love. Galatians 2:20.
Paul was so fascinated and enthralled and filled with My love for him that it made him reach out in compassion to heal and set everyone free. He was so enthralled by My love that he was filled up to all My fullness, which is power, and My power flows out of My compassion. And he prayed that you would be the same, consumed by love: “that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:17-19. And the result? To reach out to others with the overflow of My love in you, rivers of healing, provision, restoration, and resurrection power flowing out of your spirit into the world. John 7:37-39. “Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.” Ephesians 3:20-21. And that is the power of love working out of a heart of compassion.
You will notice when Jesus healed, I tell you why He did—His heart was moved with compassion. He came to undo the works of the devil that had bound you with a spirit of infirmity way too long. He came to loose you and let you go free. And why did He desire to come and share your weakness and take on your sins and die for you? He was consumed by love. Love for Me and love for you as the perfect Godman.
If you want manifestation and not just information, if you want to lay your hands on the sick and see them recover, if you want to raise a widow’s son from the dead, if you want to make the blind to see, the lame to walk, and the deaf to hear, if you want to call people out of their chains of addiction and fear and bring them into Kingdom living, if you want to multiply provisions for the hungry world, then you MUST be motivated and consumed by love. Everything else is only a noisy gong of information with no revelation and, thus, with no manifestation. Paul prayed that the eyes of your heart would be enlightened to KNOW the riches of My inheritance for you. And it is pure love. Love gives joy and love gives life. Love provides and love heals. Love teaches and love declares. Love leads you on righteous paths. Love overflows your cup. Love never fails. An action done is love become manifestation of glory.
“Put me like a seal over your heart,” I sing in the Song of Songs, “like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, its ardor is inflexible, it is as obstinate as Sheol; its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD. Many waters cannot quench love, nor will rivers overflow it; if a man were to give all the riches of his house for love, it would be utterly despised.” Song of Songs 8:6-7.
Love is a fire, a flame, burning in My heart igniting yours. Luke 24:32. My Son’s eyes are like flames of fire. Revelation 1:14; Revelations 2:18; Revelation 19:12. They are loving eyes gazing upon you. And in seeing Him you see Me. And He came to baptize you in the Holy Spirit and FIRE! Consuming love—it consumes all the impurities, all the sickness, all the deformities, all the sins, and all the curse. The end of the world is reserved for fire, 2 Peter 3:7, and the curse will be no more. Revelation 22:3. The fire of love will cleanse the world of all that is evil, all that is death, all that is sickness, all that is not love. It will consume the wood, hay and stubble and leave only the precious gems and gold of love. 2 Corinthians 3:12-14. Consumed by love. It takes out all that is evil, all that is not of itself. Love turns everything into love. Just as light turns all in it to light.
Jesus was consumed by love as your sin offering. The burnt offering was to atone for and cleanse the sins of the one offering it, it was an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to Me. Leviticus 1:9, 13, 17; Leviticus 2:9; Leviticus 3:5, 16. Do you understand the offerings of the Old Covenant were a shadow of the good things to come in Jesus, who is the substance from which the shadows fall? I think you will better understand what Paul wrote to you by inspiration of My Spirit, “Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for you, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.” Ephesians 5:1-2. Consumed by love your life will become sweet—a life of power and a life of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Kingdom living on earth, everyone in Heaven is caught up and enthralled in love, pure love, My Love. In Me who am Love.
“Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire.” Hebrews 12:28-29. An unshakeable Kingdom, with the foundation of My Word and I am My Word and I am Love and I am Light. Filled with love and light, you become love and light, and you become unshakeable and unquenchable. A flood cannot quench love, the fire of love cannot be put out once it begins to burn in your heart—a joy no man and nothing can take from you. But you have to fan it into flame and not let it sit as a smoldering ember. Paul reminded Timothy, “Fan into flame the gift of God which is in you. Stir up – rekindle the embers, fan the flame and keep burning the gracious gift of God, the inner fire.” 2 Timothy 1:6. Keep that compassion burning by fueling it with prayer and meditation, spend time with the fire of My love and it will light your lamp. Psalm 18:28.
Information gives people knowledge of Me and introduces Kingdom living on earth, but manifestation will set the captives free, give sight to the blind, produce prosperity, and heal all who are oppressed by the devil. It is the power of compassion—the power of love—in action.
In the end, the eternal three—faith, hope and love remain, but the greatest of these is love. Faith is the substance of things hoped for and faith pulls hope out of the future into the NOW, but faith works by love. You are saved by grace through faith, and faith works by love. Everything comes down to love. Consuming love. Your source is love. Me. And the reason behind all you do should be love.
Love is behind all that is good.
Consumed in love—the world calls it falling in love. Paul had fallen in love with Me. And I invite you to do the same, since I already am in love with you. Love then consists in this, not that you have loved Me, but that I have loved you and given My Son as propitiation for your sins. My love ignites your love and nothing can separate you from My love as manifested in Christ Jesus your Lord.
When you read, speak and meditate Scripture do it consumed by love. My Words to Paul as he read and heard them by revelation of the Spirit within his heart were love. And it inflamed his heart with love of Me and love of neighbor. And My Son told you all the law, all commandments, come down to two—consumed with love for Me and consumed with love for your neighbor. And when you love, you are born of Me. 1 John 4:7.
Do you see why Moses heard My voice from the flames of fire? My heart had been moved with compassion for the plight of My Covenant people and I had come to manifest Myself in redeeming power into their dark world. Consuming love. And My love led them to the Promised Land in a pillar of fire.
And when I taught Moses how to have the priests bless the people, do you remember the invocation of the BLESSING? “May the LORD let His Face shine on you!” Did you ever think why they try to heal cancer with radiation therapy? But the true source of healing is in the light of My love. David sang, “Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; remember me only in the light of Your love, for You, LORD, are good.” Psalm 25:7. Live on, abide, remain in My love. John 15:9. Keep yourself always aware of, living in, and consumed by love, the miracles will flow. Information will become revelation and manifestation.
And how do you do this? Listen to My servant Jude’s advice from the Spirit, “But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God.” Jude 1:20-21. How do you fan the gift of the Holy Spirit that Jesus baptized you in into flame? By praying in the Spirit, which is praying in the language of your spirit and the Holy Spirit, which is tongues. Do not neglect praying in the Spirit and singing in the Spirit. My apostle Paul did it more than any of you, by his own admission, and he lived consumed by love. 1 Corinthians 14:18. And his life was filled with revelation and manifestation. Do not ignore so great a gift of divine communication and impartation.
I love you with consuming love. If you open your heart to My love, it will consume all that is not love out of you so that you stand healed, whole, righteous, and powerful in Me and the power of My might, which is love, and it will overflow into a cursed world to burn out the curse and create a Garden of Eden, THE BLESSING. Love is the most powerful force there is, for I am love and I am the Most High. Spend your days and nights consumed in love. Love of Me and love of neighbor—caught up in a love that exceeds all you can ask or imagine and everyone will be blessed by you. Love never fails.
“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” Galatians 2:20.