Today’s Reading:
John 15
Psalm 107
“I am the sprouting vine and you’re my branches. As you live in union with me as your source, fruitfulness will stream from within you—but when you live separated from me you are powerless.”
John 15:5 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
When you catch My love, when you really catch My love, you can’t contain it. It gushes out of you. It bubbles forth. It’s the very wellspring of life frothing and flowing from inside of you. I didn’t make you a stagnant container who sits and only receives. I designed you as a container to flow and overflow. Do what you need to do to reconnect and refill and immerse yourself in My love, and then flood it out from every angle.
“I love each of you with the same love that the Father loves me. You must continually let my love nourish your hearts. If you keep my commands, you will live in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands, for I continually live nourished and empowered by his love. My purpose for telling you these things is so that the joy that I experience will fill your hearts with overflowing gladness!”
John 15:9-11 TPT
Just as a sprinkler head is positioned to turn and maximize the plants it waters, refreshes and sustains, so should you. And I have made you more mobile than a sprinkler head. Gush forth with your love for Me, and watch the goodness, the favor and the increase that follows. My love is the most attractive force in the world. Watch what gushing it forth everywhere you go attracts to you. This is the springtime of My favor, and My favor is attracted like a magnet to the love you spill forth. Watch what I won’t do. I will do more than you can think, dream or imagine — as you generously and hilariously flood the world with My love.
“So this is my command: Love each other deeply, as much as I have loved you. For the greatest love of all is a love that sacrifices all. And this great love is demonstrated when a person sacrifices his life for his friends.”
John 15:12-13 TPT
Live in sacrificial love, and watch the flood of favor that comes in. My joy will give you the strength to do it. My love will give you the will to do it. My favor will supply all you need to move forward and then some — to continue the cycle in a new way. This is My glory manifesting for you, in you and through you.
How to Respond
- Stir up your love for the Lord. Recount His goodness and faithfulness to you.
- Pray, Lord thank You for Your goodness, Your kindness, Your faithfulness and Your nearness. Help me to live with an ongoing awareness of Your love, Your sacrifice and Your promises. Help me to live as a flowing, gushing fountain of love — because I have been redeemed, restored and made whole. I was lost, but now I’m found. I was blind, but now I see.
- Declare, So, go ahead—let everyone know it! Tell the world how he broke through and delivered you from the power of darkness and has gathered us together from all over the world. He has set us free to be his very own!
— Psalms 107:2-3 TPT - Decree, I am returning to the well of my salvation. I am revisiting the countless ways the Lord has protected me, helped me, rescued me and saved me. I am stirring up the joy and love of the Lord in my heart, priming the pump so I can gush forth generously in the unending love of the Lord. I will not be quiet. I will be one who shows the love of the Lord in word and in deed. As I do, the Lord will meet me with His great favor wherever I go.
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