Today’s Reading:
1 John 5
1 Corinthians 13
John 15
“We are convinced that everyone fathered by God does not make sinning a way of life, because the Son of God protects the child of God, and the Evil One cannot touch him.”
1 John 5:18 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul? Stay right with Me. Stay in good standing with Me, and watch as the world bends to your needs.
“The words I have spoken over you have already cleansed you. So you must remain in life-union with me, for I remain in life-union with you. For as a branch severed from the vine will not bear fruit, so your life will be fruitless unless you live your life intimately joined to mine. “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 15:3-5 TPT
The key to having your needs met is not by asserting your rights or imposing your will, it is by walking in humble obedience and a servant’s heart with Me. Then, Heaven and Earth will bend to supply your need. The extraction method by force of your will may squeeze something out and may accomplish your near-term goal. But walking in the worship, delight and awe of the Lord as a child that is ready to help, that is ready to serve, that is filled with love — will cause all of Creation to bend and serve so your need can be met. This is the way of the Kingdom. The Kingdom is not moved and does not recognize extraction or will-assertion methods as valid economic means. How you transact in the Kingdom is humility, love, preferring one another and refusing to assert your right. That is when the Kingdom births the response to your need.
“But if you live in life-union with me and if my words live powerfully within you—then you can ask whatever you desire and it will be done. When your lives bear abundant fruit, you demonstrate that you are my mature disciples who glorify my Father! “I love each of you with the same love that the Father loves me. You must continually let my love nourish your hearts.”
John 15:7-9 TPT
For the one with a wayward heart, the way to return to the track is humility, repentance, thanksgiving, worship and service — not out of religious duty but out of love. The way up in the Kingdom is by going lower. The way of sanctioned transacting in the Kingdom is by love. No other currency will do. It is love that produces faith. It is love that enables and produces endurance. It is love that births hope. And it is love that will move mountains, Heaven and Earth to accomplish My will. Don’t walk like the world or use the means of operating and transacting that that the world does. It’s time to transact by love. I Am the source of love with in you. I Am love itself. So through tapping into My love, your resources will never run dry. This is the way of the Kingdom.
How to Respond
- Pray, Lord, I humble myself before You. I ask You to help me to change my ways of thinking, expecting and transacting. I want to be moved by the impulses of the Spirit in love. I don’t want to assert my own will to manipulate or manufacture the outcome I desire or to meet my very real need. Help me to be so tapped into Your love — You as the Source of all love and love itself — that I operate and flow effortlessly in that love and I begin to see and recognize Creation bending to meet my needs. Because of my love.
- Declare, “For now we see but a faint reflection of riddles and mysteries as though reflected in a mirror, but one day we will see face-to-face. My understanding is incomplete now, but one day I will understand everything, just as everything about me has been fully understood. Until then, there are three things that remain: faith, hope, and love—yet love surpasses them all. So above all else, let love be the beautiful prize for which you run.”
1 Corinthians 13:12-13 TPT - Decree, The Lord Jesus is love. He is the Creator of Heaven and Earth. In Him I live and breathe and have my being. He is the root source of love, and He holds all things together. I will not be moved to operate or transact in the way the world does. Instead, I will tap into love itself, King Jesus. I will be filled with love and moved by love, and all of Creation will respond to meet my needs.
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