We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 1 John 4:16.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Eternal life is to know Me, your Creator, Father, and LORD, and the One whom I sent to save you forever, Jesus, and to be filled with My Holy Spirit as My life and My love pour into your heart, for love is My life and life is My love. For life is the joy of My love in you, on you, with you, surrounding you to fill you with My nature, My image, and according to My likeness and that is when time and eternity become a place of celebration.
From them will proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who celebrate; and I will multiply them and they will not be diminished; I will also honor them and they will not be insignificant. Jeremiah 30:19.
What is your heart seeking? I will tell you because I am seeking the same: Fellowship in love. A relationship where you are cherished and there is constant communication of revelation and beauty beyond all you can ask or imagine. A refuge where you find not only all the answers you seek but the One who is there to give you those answers in honor and graciousness of genuine care for you for who you are. A place where you can pour out your heart to the One who loves to hear what is in your heart and then to tell you what is in His heart about you. I want you to be so confident and happy in My presence that your heart is always in turned toward Me and attuned with Me so that you can always hear My answers and My directions.
When I become your delight, your first place to turn in every question, challenge, need, or just for loving friendship and companionship though every joy, sorrow, disappointment, or temptation to worry or fear, when I become the answer you need in every situation with every breath you take, when My joy becomes your joy and your joy My joy so that our joy is complete, it is then you have come to know the joy of My love. And that life of joy is the joy of My abiding presence that never leaves you and you never leave. It is the place of grace. It is the place of love.
But pause a moment and ask yourself what is love? Love gives you your provision, your joy, your healing, your strength, your salvation, and eternal life, but what is it? It is the first of all the commandments and the only commandment that Jesus gave you is to love as He loves. It is so powerful and so necessary that every work done without it, no matter how amazing, means NOTHING. 1 Corinthians 13:1-4. It is not seen but it is what everyone is looking for and longing for.
Why is love such a powerful, attractive force that everyone is seeking it and is not complete without it? Why do babies and children wither away and die without love? Why do older people give up hope and have no desire to live if they are not surrounded with it?
The answer is simple, love is your source. You were created by love, you were created with love, you were created for love, and you were created to love. It is who you are and it is who I am, for I am your source and I made you in My image and likeness and I am love. You are Mine and until you live, abide, and rest in My love you will be restless and unstable. You will not be complete. True life is the abiding life of love. Abide in My love for that is where I made you to be.
Adam left it but it was always there drawing back hearts to home. People don’t understand what that is within them as they frantically go from one marriage to another, one job to another, one city to another, drink alcohol, take drugs or become “nervous eaters” thinking something will give them relief from that emptiness in their heart but only one thing will, as Jesus told Martha, “you are busy and occupied with many things but only one thing is necessary,” and Jesus told you it is the first commandment (opportunity to be blessed) (commandments are My laws that produce blessings if followed), that is to love Me with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind. The more deeply you love Me, the more you will know Me, and the more you know Me, the more you will love life, and the more you love life the more you will value Me, yourself and others, and what you value you will protect and cherish and the devil cannot steal it.
But let us go deeper, when you are seeking love what are you really seeking? It is not found in the flesh, though that is where a majority are seeking it, that kind of love is temporal and subject to change, loss, selfishness, and envy. It goes up and down. True love that never fades or changes is found in the Spirit realm. Without love you are not complete. I so loved the world I gave you Jesus so you will never perish but have eternal life. Without love people perish with love they live a blessed life. Jesus makes you complete.
See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ. For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete. Colossians 2:8-10.
Love is the home that you are always looking for. People who have had strokes or damages to their bodies or minds will often just keep saying they want to go home, and yet you can take them to the place where they had been living and they will still keep asking to go home. It is much deeper, your home is love and that love is found only in your source, i.e., your home in Me. The prodigal son knew for joy, provision, and life itself he had to return to his source, his father’s house. And so do you.
How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house; and You give them to drink of the river of Your delights. For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light. Psalm 36:7-9.
Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. John 14:23.
Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. Psalm 23:6.
How blessed are those who dwell in Your house! They are ever praising You. Psalm 84:4.
Love is shalom. Nothing missing, nothing broke, and no one alone. Love is My plan for you.
For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for your peace and prosperity, your provision and your well-being (shalom) and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. Jeremiah 29:11-12.
Love is in the heart of everyone. I put eternity in each person’s heart, but no one wants an eternity without love. Love is what every person is looking forward to in Heaven, for My Kingdom is one of love, pure love. Love is the light that illumines Heaven. Come live in the light of My love. Love is a real substance in the spirit realm that you can experience as much as the sunshine on your back on a cold day. It forms an entire atmosphere around you and the places where you gather in My Name in love.
Love casts out fear. Love has no torment. Love is not ill at ease but at ease with Me knowing I take all your care from you and work all together for your good. Love is confident assurance of good. But love can only be found in the one who is all good.
I created you in love, by love, for love and to love. Live on in My love.
Love is what everyone is seeking but true love can only be found in My everlasting arms for I am your source and the source of all life. All life originates and flows out of Me.
Love is My lovely dwelling place that is your sun and your shield, your refuge and your fortress, your secret place, your holy ground, your home where you would rather be than anywhere else.
I reveal Myself to those whose hearts are stirred to seek Me, I would like to introduce Myself to you. I am Love and I am Light, but I am a Person in My own eternal right. You are in My image and likeness though the first man and woman distorted and defaced that image in themselves and their descendants, but in Jesus I purify and make you anew to once again be My family, My own special treasure, set to reign with Me forever.
Most do not know Me, but all can know Me. I am speaking from the rising to the setting of the sun (and I sing in the night) but many people are not listening for one or all of primarily three reasons: they think they know already, they are not interested, or they do not think the person speaking is worthy of attention. Turn those around and you will see why people listen: they do not think they know already and are seeking the answer, they are interested (and the more interested you are in Me the more you will hear), and they think the person speaking is worthy of attention.
If you are interested in Me, you will hear from Me, and if you delight in Me, I give you the desires of your heart. Are you interested to draw closer and learn My ways? You will never be the same again, because once you have had a taste of My goodness, you will never turn back but go forward to higher and higher levels of intimacy with Me until we become one in purpose, plan, power, and above all, in love.
I have made your spirit your place of contact and access to Me. Within you are the pathways to Zion, My holy dwelling, perfect in beauty from where I shine forth. Let My light and fidelity lead you on so I can make you joyful in My house of prayer. And the good news is you never have to leave that place, you carry it around in your hearts—treasure in earthen vessels. I am available to you at all times and am as close as your heart. If you seek Me with your heart, you will find Me right there with you.
I love you. Do you really know and believe in the love I have for you? If you do, your life will become a well-watered garden of delight, a place of answers.
YOU WILL NEVER HAVE TRUE JOY UNITL YOU KNOW AND BELIEVE IN THE LOVE I HAVE FOR YOU AND EXPERIENCE THAT LOVE BY REFERRING TO ME IN EVERYTHING—THAT IS, IN SWEET FELLOWSHIP—THE JOY OF THE ABIDING LIFE IN CONTINUOUS FELLOWSHIP.