Now eagerly desire the greater gifts. And yet I will show you the most excellent way. 1 Corinthians 12:31.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
People do not so much need you to impress them, they need you to love them. When you allow Me into your life, I do not come to impress you, I come to love you. I come to lift you to a whole new way of life. My ways are higher than your ways because they are the ways of perfect love and truth. Anything done without love profits nothing. Why? Because if you do it without love, you are doing it without Me. And I am your source. What did Jesus tell you? He told you, “I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.” John 15:5. Nothing.
Apart from Me you never really know love. There is only one kind of love. Mine. All else is not true love. And you were made by Love, in Love, for Love and with Love. And that is why everyone loves a love story. It is your story with Me.
I give you many gifts and many perfect things, and I want you to desire the grace endowments I give you by the Holy Spirit but even in the supernatural power these gifts bestow if all is not driven by love it is not of Me.
If I speak with the tongues of mankind 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 away all my possessions, and if I surrender my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, it does me no good. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3.
Everything I made for you in the earth and all that I do for you are for only one motive: Love. That may surprise you but it should not, because that is who I AM in every part, to the very core, of My being. I cannot be anything else and be the truth. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, and He is Love, for we are One.
My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand. My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.” John 10:27-30.
You see this love in the image of the Good Shepherd that I give you. I told My prophet Ezekiel that I Myself will shepherd My sheep and I have fulfilled this in Jesus. He is the good Shepherd who came to lay down His life for the sheep. He came to give you life, life in abundance now and forever. The eternal life of knowing love in Me and Him. The life of resting in the arms of love, the everlasting arms of your good and gracious Shepherd who emptied Himself of all He had to give it to you. He took your emptiness and nailed it to the Cross so you could be filled with all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
He made you one with Me and Me one with you in a bond of everlasting love. And that is the everlasting Covenant of love. Everything I do is for love of you. Consider that when you look at My Covenant Promise Names.
When I speak of My Covenant Names I am referring to the Names whereby I join My Covenant Memorial Name, that I revealed to Moses from the burning bush of My mountain of Horeb (Sinai), with adjectives that form magnificent promises concerning you.
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, for His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. Through these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world on account of lust. 2 Peter 1:2-4.
My Covenant promise Names make you partakers of My divine nature. How is that? They give you what they contain, for in Christ I have blessed you with every spiritual blessing in Heaven. In Him, ALL My magnificent promises are “yes” and “amen” to you who believe. Believing is always the key to miracles and works of power.
The power is in My Name as it is in the Name of Jesus as well. Remember the power in the Name raised the man crippled from birth seeking alms at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple when Peter and John released that power by faith. For within them, as in every believer, dwells My Spirit. And you have that power in you now to heal, to deliver, and to make things work as they should. You will notice they did not do a long prayer about it to Me or beg Me to heal the man if it was My Will. No, they knew it was My Will, for in seeing Jesus they saw Me, and He healed anyone who came to Him. So they released My power which I had given to them in Jesus by commanding the man to walk and raising him up in the Name of Jesus.
Release My power that is in you and speak to things as Jesus did to the storm and the tossing waves and watch My Word go to work. Set things in motion for the good, pleasing, and perfect result of My Will in the earth, “Your Kingdom come, Your Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.” That prayer is a power releasor an authorizer.
My Son showed you and told you how to speak to things, even mountains, to make them get in line with the plumbline of My Word, but very few of you do this. Instead you sit there begging Me to give you what you already have dwelling within you ready to be released by faith, and that is by YOUR faith. Jesus would often tell those healed that it was their faith that had made them whole. Why? The power to heal was there but not everyone was taking it. Others would have said My promise of healing did not work for them but that is not the truth.
Now that the Holy Spirit abides on the earth since the day of Pentecost was fulfilled, the power is there for anyone that will take it and release it by faith to do its work of love, for it is My power and that is the power of love. My power cannot do any other thing than good. Remember? I anointed Jesus with the Holy Spirit and POWER and He went about DOING GOOD and healing all who were oppressed of the devil. Acts 10:38.
And you are to do the works He did and greater. I have entrusted you with My power and that is love. You can use it and be most blessed thereby. I SENT My Word to heal you and deliver you from all your destructions. It is already sent, and My Word has a purpose which is in the promise. Once you receive the promise by faith you must release it into the physical realm by putting it to work. And it will not return to Me void but will achieve the purpose for which I sent it. And that is love. I have given you EVERYTHING you need for life and godliness.
So stop whining and begging and make use of the POWER I have put in you in My great love for you and the world I made. Win the world by love, it is the highest power for I am the Most High. Or are you not aware that you are a temple of the Holy Spirit who resides within you? Do not be begging Me to heal you and thinking I am not answering. I already have once for all in My Covenant promise Name, the LORD your Healer, Exodus 25:26, and in the life and death of Jesus I have fulfilled that promise, for He took your illnesses and pains and by His stripes you were healed. Isaiah 53:5; 1 Peter 2:24.
And that is love in action but you must join in and receive that action by faith.
My Covenant Memorial Name that in your translation from the original Hebrew you see written as “LORD” is much deeper in Hebrew. It is made up of three tenses of the Hebrew verb “to be,” that is of everlasting existence, in a shortened form of four letters that contain all the tenses, that is I AM, I was and I am to come. Haya, hoveh and yiyeh. What does this tell you of My everlasting love for you? I reach into your past and give you beauty for your ashes and restore to you the years the devil stole from you. I AM with you every moment in the present to lead you, protect you, direct you, guide you, comfort you, love you, forgive you, and bless you. And I am to come in that I have your future covered and a life of good deeds prepared for you in advance in Christ Jesus that you should walk in them and enjoy your amazing life that I planned for you.
And consider the Hebrew letters that make up My Covenant Memorial Name of love and be blessed thereby with revelation knowledge. The four letters that make up My Name are yod, hei, vav and hei. In Hebrew all letters have a numerical value, for they are used as the numbers, and have a pictograph and meaning. The first letter in My Name is “yad” or “yod,” (י), which is the smallest letter in the Hebrew alphabet. It is the tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet and its pictograph is a hand, in fact the word “yod” is the word for hand in Hebrew. It is My hand of power. It is number 10, which is completeness and the tithe is 1/10th and is from the work of your hands.
The next letter in My Covenant memorial Name is a letter “hei” (ה), which is the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet the pictograph of which is a man standing with his hands both raised in awe as he receives grace from Heaven. It is number 5 and its meaning is “grace.” So far in the letters of My Name you have a hand and you have grace.
The next letter is a “vav” (ו), which is the sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Its number is 6 and its pictograph is a nail, a large peg-type nail.
And after that there is another letter “hei.” You pronounce My Name “Yahavah” (יָהָוָה) which when said aloud signifies “hand of love,” being the Yad with the vowel sounds of Ahavah (love). You are all the works of My hands, and I am love.
But now, O LORD, You are our Father, we are the clay, and You are our potter; and all of us are the work of Your hand. Isaiah 64:8.
Please look at the lessons in My Name in pictograph and meaning and you will see a hand, grace, a nail, and more grace. A hand nailed with grace upon grace flowing to humanity from the divinity. I am telling you of the solution that I had in place since the foundation of the world. I sent My Son to save you and set you free from the law of sin and death. He is the cornerstone on which all is built.
But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed. All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; but the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him. Isaiah 53:5-6.
“I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.” Zechariah 12:10.
They pierced My hands and My feet. I can count all my bones. Psalm 22:16-17.
Everything in My Word has layers of lessons if you care to look deeper with My Spirit to guide you to all truth.
And it is this name of eternal existence that I join with adjectives that give you My magnificent promises for those who enter Covenant with Me. Do you know these? I lift you on high because you know My Name, that is the Name that fills your present need. Here are some of them and you will see every one of them has to do with My love for you and working in you.
The LORD your healer, Exodus 15:26, the LORD who sees ahead and provides for you, Genesis 22:14, the LORD who is there for you, Ezekiel 48:35, the LORD your Shepherd, Psalm 23:1;Ezekiel 34:16; John 10:11, the LORD your Righteousness, Jeremiah 23:6, 2 Corinthians 5:21, the LORD your banner (victory, miracle), Exodus 17:15, 1 Corinthians 15:57, the LORD your peace, Judges 6:24, John 14:27, the LORD your fortress, 2 Samuel 22:2, the LORD your shield, Genesis 15:1; Psalm 144:2, the LORD your Refuge, Deuteronomy 33:27, the LORD your strength, Psalm 18:2, the LORD your rock, Psalm 18:2, the LORD your sanctifier, Exodus 31:18, Leviticus 20:8, 1 Thessalonians 5:23, the LORD your redeemer, Isaiah 43:14; and the LORD your Savior, Isaiah 49:26. And Jesus adds His “I AM” names to the promises of the New Covenant as well, all of which you find in Him for I have given Him My Name as well: The Light of the world, and the promise with that Name is that no follower of His will ever walk in darkness, but will have the Light of life. The way, the truth and the life, the good Shepherd, the Bread of Life, the Door, the Good Shepherd, the Resurrection and the Life, and the Vine.
I win the world by love for I so loved the world I gave you My Son, My Covenant promise Names, His blood, My Spirit, My Word, and His life.
But there is so much more I want to tell you about today. I have given you a most excellent way. I have not only loved you with an everlasting love, I have poured My love into YOUR heart by the gift of My Holy Spirit. I have given you My love as your own to love with! And love is the most excellent way. It is the quickest way to perfection.
But what does love look like? When I tell you to imitate Me as My dear children and walk in love, you must know that I will not only empower you to do it (for My commands are empowerments in that they contain the power in them to enable you to live them with skill and excellence) but also I will define how you do it. So here is what it looks like in your life to walk in love and imitate Me as My dear children: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered or offended, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:4-6.
If this is the way you conduct yourself you will have a beautiful life. The most beautiful life ever lived. And you will have and enjoy your life and you will, if you walk in this manner, win the world by love.
I love you. And love is the most excellent way to the Kingdom. Walk in love and you never walk alone. I am with you.