But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלוהים) says:
Forever love is and only love is forever.
I am love and to be forever with Me you must be love too.
The love I am talking about is higher than the sky and deeper than the sea. It is pure and allows no alloy.
For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work. 1 Corinthians 3:11-13.
I think in love, I talk in love, and I walk in love. I have one purpose for your life and all life, it is the reason I made all things and the reason I saved all things: love. The love that is in Me and is Me. And you were made in My image and according to My likeness. I must see the love in your heart in which I see My reflection.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit. 2 Corinthians 3:17-18.
To spend eternity with Me I must see and love in you what I see and love in Christ—a heart of pure love in which Satan has no place, i.e., a heart free of guile.
The god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. . . For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. 2 Corinthians 4:4-6.
Imitate Me as My dear children and walk in love just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for you, an offering and a sacrifice to Me as a fragrant aroma. Ephesians 5:1-2.
But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is adequate for these things? 2 Corinthians 2:14-16.
How can you, in your human frailty, be pure love with no alloy? Only by the anointing, which is My love poured in your heart, but you must work out what I am working within. Consistency with what is within with what you produce without. The spirit manifesting out of your inner well spring as rivers of living water to a thirsty, dying world. A world that is thirsting and dying for love. You were planned by love, created by love, sustained by love, and saved by love. You will die without love, that is, My kind of love which is not an alloy but is a pure element that stands alone permitting no admixture, just as a fish has to live within the medium from which he was drawn forth so you too must abide in My love.
Jesus is God and Man, but you must understand that while known in human estate when He lived among you on earth He emptied Himself of the powers of God and walked among you as one just like you in all respects but He never sinned or gave any place in His spirit, soul, or body to Satan. He was perfectly consistent with the Holy Spirit in Him, He only spoke what I spoke and only did the works I showed Him for He knew they held eternal life for those would hear His Words and know His works. And by My written Word passed on from those who experienced Jesus you too can hear and know.
And you, as He was, are now temples of the Holy Spirit, for My Spirit has been poured into your hearts when you received Jesus as Lord, regenerating you by My imperishable Word as children of God. You are children of light rescued out of the realm of darkness and translated into the Kingdom of My beloved Son with whom I have made you joint heirs to the double portion of the firstborn. You are a new creation in Christ, recreated in love as in the beginning by My Word and are now born from above and not below as in your natural birth of the perishable seed of Adam, who was born from below by submitting his life to the lies of the evil one.
It is time for you to know who you are in Christ. You have been recreated in My image and are to go from faith to faith, and from glory to glory, as you enlarge your heart by the flow of the anointing within to run in the way of My commands, which under the New Covenant are summed up in two: to believe in the Name of My Son and to love as He commanded you. And He commanded you to love as He loved and to enable you to do this He breathed and poured My Spirit into your heart and clothed you in power from on High.
And what did He tell you to do with this power within and without? He told you to be His witnesses. And that does not just mean telling others the good news of Salvation and the Kingdom, although it includes that, but it is far more reaching. I am talking about every thought, every word, and every action of your days and nights, not just by your words but BY YOUR LIFE. In other words, your life is to show the world who I am by your actions and words about everything and anything that takes place each day in your life. The world around you is watching you and what your life shows them either testifies to Me or it is an alloy, a mixture of the worldly minded and of the Word, and the two cannot mix together. You cannot serve two masters. You cannot harbor malice, offense, fear, jealousy, and bitterness in your heart and have a pure heart of My love.
Do all things without grumbling or disputing; so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights, bright luminaries, in the world, holding forth and holding fast the Word of life. Philippians 1:14-16.
Anything done out of malice, rudeness, fear, revenge, anger, or greed, no matter how just it appears to the world, is not of Me and is not of love. I am talking about the purity of the heart. I am looking at the intentions behind your words and your actions and I must see that pure love is the motive, the anointing allows no admixture to flow freely. That is what Jesus meant when He said you must lay down your life for your friends.
I want you to understand something that many see in a negative way but really is a very positive way of seeking your own best interests. I tell you that if you seek only yourself, that is, trying to assure that you have all you want for yourself and care nothing about others except how they can serve you, then you will ruin your life. This is exalting flesh and its lusts above the spirit. Judas sought only himself and filling his own needs and feeding his own pride, but he had the opportunity and the destiny to be on one of the twenty four thrones in Heaven and having his name engraved in the jewels of the foundation stones of the heavenly city. In trying to make himself great without Christ he lost all the greatness that could have been his in seeking higher things than just his own comfortable earthly life and praise from the powers of the world.
People who only seek themselves, bring themselves to ruin, because My plan for greatness for you is using your special gifts in serving one another as good stewards of My manifold grace. The good fruit you bear on the vine of Christ glorifies you and the whole body of Christ, it raises all to a new level of glory as your life glorifies the head of the body, Jesus, the Messiah, the Anointed One.
Your life is hidden now with Christ in Me, you are living in and through Him, walking in love with all the body of Christ on earth, but when He appears you too shall appear in glory. Step into the light to be sure your deeds are done in Me.
Watch yourself and all you think and do. If you are faithful each day in the little things, you will be faithful in the greater things and I can trust you. Judas started by being unfaithful in his daily tasks and because he never denied his flesh, his flesh took over and he lost all. When your flesh takes over, that is, the seeking of self alone with your god as your belly, the devil has free entrance to come in and ravage your house, and he will tear it down with your own hands.
The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish tears it down with her own hands. Proverbs 14:1.
You need to guard your heart by walking in the Spirit and not in the flesh, and it is the anointing that will give you the strength and the wisdom to do that. And that is walking in love.
By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. Proverbs 24:3-4.
I have poured My love in your heart by the gift of the Holy Spirit, and He is the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, counsel and strength, knowledge and honor, and delight in reverent devotion.
Be diligent to keep your gifts and your calling intact, 2 Peter 1:10, free from admixture and alloy. And there is only one way to do that. By love. Earnestly desire spiritual gifts but above all pursue love. That should be your motive. Love of Me and love of others. Not just your own interests should be your thoughts and desires but Mine and those of the people I have sent to you to shepherd to My Kingdom. And you will find that if you delight in Me, I will give you your heart’s desires. I will direct your heart in My ways of pure love so that becomes your foremost desire and joy. And it is a joy, it is My joy, come share My joy. In My presence is fullness of joy, the delights at My right hand forever. And the only way you can come in and stay in My presence is in the joy of love. For those who understand My Words they are pure joy, for they are your very life. My Words are life to those who find them and health to all their flesh.
If everything is done with My love in your heart, you will be witnessing and giving the testimony of Jesus, which is the spirit of prophecy, all the time and you will be leading people to all truth in every circumstance in life. You should be, in any situation, the one who sets the response. And it should not be filled with negativity and fear, backbiting and blame, as is in the case even in the lives of many who profess to be believers in Jesus. It should be a positive response that has no confusion but only the solution. And the solution? To call upon Me for the answer and you will find the answer in My Word through drawing on the anointing within. The Holy Spirit will teach you all things and remind you of all I have said.
You are My witness, in seeing you, people should see Me shining in the world. Flood the world with the light of My pure love. Not what the world calls “love” that permits evil and tolerates it as being loving, such love causes the one so loved to be caught and destroyed by Satan, caught in deception of worldly philosophies, addictions of various kinds, and definitions of love that have nothing to do with true love, nothing to do with the beauty, freedom, and goodness of My Kingdom. Never diagnose demons as chemical imbalance or deviant genes. Never deem teachings contrary to My Word as truth. They are not, they are deception, and lies are not eternal. They will die the death that you do not want to die.
And even with actions that appear good and holy, check out the thoughts and motives of your heart, and, above all, check out the impact of what you are doing does to others in what you are saying to them. Are you edifying them or tearing them down to shame? Is your heart self-righteous, proud and hard as were those of the Pharisees that spoke what was deemed holy but condemned love incarnate to death? My Son said they put heavy burdens of religious ritual on the people but did not lift a finger to budge them. They were harsh taskmasters to others, making serving Me a burden, and shaming the sheep as lost and unholy.
But My Son told you to come to Him to be refreshed and blessed for His burden is easy and His yoke light. He pulls the load with you and lifts it off you onto His strong shoulders where dominion rests. Learn from Him for He is strong and sustains the universe by His Word of power but He is meek and humble of heart. He does not crush a bruised reed or blow out a spluttering candle, instead He props up the reed and fans the candle into flame.
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3.
What is this pure love that I am talking about that I am looking for in your heart, that is, in your thoughts, your words, and your actions every moment of night and day? Let Me define it in a concrete way for your daily life.
Love never harms the neighbor. You may have to rebuke or exhort him, but you never do evil to him. You do not shame, demean, or chastise another with your words, you edify, encourage, and exhort. You speak the truth in love to set others free, not to trap them in your net of hatred and revenge. Jesus never tried to get even. He did not come to condemn but to save. And you should rejoice in that, for of His fullness you have all received, grace on top of grace. He is My gift to you to rescue you from darkness into light. In Him you can find, receive, and learn pure love. Forgive as I have forgiven you. Love is a lifestyle of receiving forgiveness from Me and giving forgiveness to others. As you have freely received, freely give.
Now I am going to break down the following passage from My Word: Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly and it is not rude; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered (does not keep a record of wrongs), does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never falls flat or descends to a lower level, and it never ends.
Love is patient. It is consistent in doing good and being faithful in all situations and challenges. It does not change because the desired outcome takes time. Some things take longer to grow than others, especially when it is dependent on others and not just you. Joshua and Caleb were ready, willing, and able to take the land I had promised them but most of the people they were bound up with would not enter. So they waited for forty years but they never gave up and they persevered in patience. They never lost faith, hope, or love that entire time. They thanked Me for keeping them strong when the time did come to enter. And they led all the rest in taking possession of the good things I had promised them with love and gratitude for so great an adventure.
Love is kind. Kindness is never harsh or rude to others. It is gentle with those who are weak and carries the lambs in its bosom. Even when exhorting and correcting kindness does not yell or scream. Kindness stays calm and speaks wisdom. It has nothing to do with revenge. It is not about pride or having your way all the time. Kindness thinks of the way to encourage and grow others into the person I made them to be. Kindness has no malice, deception, or overreaching in it. Flattery is not kindness, but the seeking of favors by feeding another’s pride.
Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord. 1 Peter 2:1-3.
Love is not jealous. When you love you want the best for everyone, including yourself. You want everyone to experience My love as you do. And you know that what you see and love in others, by the spiritual standard, will come back to you as your own too and in even greater measure. See others goodness and excellence as adding to you and not detracting from you. And this is where the body of Christ comes in and it all has to do with the anointed One, who is the head of the body, and the anointing which pours down from the head to all the members.
When you understand the body of Christ, as they do in Heaven, you rejoice in the good you see in others and in their great deeds of excellence, because you know as part of the body with them that increases your glory and raises you higher as well. If you give to a prophet’s ministry, you receive the prophet’s reward along with him. That is why the cloud of witnesses, those who proceeded you in works of faith and love, are cheering you on. Every good thing you do is accounted to you and to all of them, that is, to the whole body and ultimately to the head. Live for the praise of His glory and your glory will increase in every good deed you undertake in love. I honor those who honor Me.
We are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. Ephesians 4:14-16.
You build up the edifice of your life, and that of the body of Christ on earth, on the foundation of Jesus by and in love. You build with the skill and strength of the anointing in you and on you.
And He came and preached peace to you who were far away, and peace to those who were near; for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit. Ephesians 2:17-22.
Love is not puffed up. Avoid pride, the proud one is not right with Me. Pride is hostile to Me. Pride must have all attention on itself and take all the credit. Love boasts but it boasts in all I have done for you and in you. You know that by yourself alone you can do nothing that produces eternal fruit. But with Me you can do all things wonderful and produce fruit that endures. I do great things in you and with you. Extol what I have done for you and do for you in Christ! You are beloved, forgiven, blessed and favored.
But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, so that, just as it is written, “Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:30-31.
Love is not arrogant. It does not see itself as better than others and as having reached perfection. This was the mistake of the Pharisees, and it caused them to reject all teaching and correction from My Son.
Love does not behave unbecomingly. It is not rude, crude, immodest, sarcastic, or subject to anger fits, that is, childish tantrums. Love does not embarrass others and especially not Me as one known to be a believer in Me.
But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints; and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Ephesians 5:3-5.
Love speaks the truth. My Word is truth. But speak the truth in love, not in anger at the neighbor as a sword but in love as with a pruning hook.
Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil an opportunity. Ephesians 4:25-27.
Love speaks to edify and give grace. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit, do not stop the flow of the anointing.
Let no unwholesome (rotten) word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. Ephesians 4:29-32.
Love does not seek its own alone and walk over others, remember how Ahab took Naboth’s vineyard? Do not be like that. Love gives and then love receives. You give to receive. You do not murder to get what you want. Whether it be in the heart or physically. Naboth’s reputation was ruined by lies and then he was unjustly put to death just so Ahab could take Naboth’s ancestral heritage as his own.
Love is not provoked. Love does not pick up on insults or get offended when it is not treated as it thinks it should be. Do not be so quick to take exception at what someone says to you. Be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger. Let it go and save a soul. Everyone should see how kind and reasonable you are.
The Lord’s bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will. 2 Timothy 2:24-26.
Love does not keep an account of wickedness (keep a record of wrongs done), bad, evil, or inner malice against others. Do not bring up all the things someone has said to you or done that offended you to others, to the person, or even to yourself. Handle this with care. Love covers a multitude of sins that are not worth remembering. And that will set you free from torment and the prison of unforgiveness in your heart so you can go forward to the life of good deeds I prepared for you in advance. I remember your sins and offenses no more, I put them all on Christ and it is as if you never did them. They are not just forgiven, they are gone. I never bring them up to you again. The devil will, but not Me. Tell the devil you do not remember them anymore. Just like Me.
Love never rejoices in evil behavior and unrighteousness, even if it is directed at someone that offended you, even if it achieves a result that you want. You overcome evil with good.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. Love rejoices in the truth, for the truth will set you free if you renew your mind in truth. And the truth is eternal. It is impossible for Me to lie. And I am love. So it is impossible for love to lie. If you are lying to others, Me, and yourself that is not from Me but from the father of lies. And he is a murderer from the beginning.
Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:7-8.
Often in translations of 1 Corinthians 13:7, you will read that love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. This is a very poor translation. Love does NOT believe all things. Love only walks in truth. Love does not bear all things, love casts out evil. Love does not hope all things, it hopes for what I promise in My Word with certainty. It does not just endure, it overcomes and changes things.
Let Me tell you what that passage says in the original language in which it was written, which is Greek. It states that love covers closely, and wards off evil, for every part and every event. Love protects the good and casts out the evil. It says that in all and every part of the whole of life, love has faith, that is, love believes in trust that what I say will come to pass. Love is fully persuaded of My love and the truth of My Word in every part of every day, of every hour, and every moment of what makes up the whole of your life. The word there is “pas,” which means “all, every,” in the sense of each and every part that makes up the whole. The total picture with one piece at a time. Viewing the whole in terms of individual parts and having faith in every one of the parts of your day. Yes, fully persuaded faith in every circumstance of your life. And that is the same word used for hopes all, endures all. It means that in every part of life, you face it with fully persuaded faith in My Word.
And the next line is translated “Love never fails.” The word translated “fails” is the Greek word “pipto”, which means to fall, fall under, fall flat, in other words to descend from a higher place to a lower place, to come to an end, to be defeated. Love never falls flat or descends to a lower level, and it never ends. Love, true love, is eternal.
In the end of life as you know it now on earth, three things remain, faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of these is love. Why? Faith and hope both work by love. Love is the answer to everything for I am love and I am your answer. I am your reason to be and your eternity.
I love you. I think in love, talk in love, and walk in love. Imitate Me as My dear children and walk in love and you will spread the sweet fragrance of the Messiah (Christ) the anointed One everywhere according to the odor of your anointing. The oil of joy is the fragrance of Heaven and it is tangible and sweet.
May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine. Your oils have a pleasing fragrance, Your name is like purified oil; therefore the maidens love you. Draw me after you and let us run together! The king has brought me into his chambers. We will rejoice in you and be glad; we will extol your love more than wine. Rightly do they love you.” Song of Songs 1:1-4.