Paul Email -5Dec2013- Do Everything in Love

How you doin? As much as I seek God's face and voice, sometimes He doesn't say what I want to hear. For some reason I allow external situations to affect me WAY too much. Work is my biggest battle as it is for many. I allow financial insecurity to give fear (Satan) a stronghold on me. As if God hasn't demonstrated that He provides ALL that I need/want. I found myself eating yesterday until I was bloated and sick. The Holy Ghost convicted me to stop eating for comfort. That He is the Comforter. I felt bad about myself and at the same time great about the fact that I was convicted by the Holy Ghost even in my weakness. 1 Corinthians 16 today.

The final chapter of 1 Corinthians. Verse 13-14, "Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. ¹⁴ Do everything in love." It's interesting that being on guard, standing firm in faith, being courageous and strong, are associated with doing everything in love. Love is the ultimate weapon in spiritual warfare that rages on. I love what Bill Johnson says, "spiritual warfare is the only war that you don't look at your opponent... you stare at the Victor." "Do everything in love." 4 powerful words. God is love. Could this read, "Do everything in God"? Jesus made clear that He was in the Father and Father was in Him. John 14:10-11, "Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. ¹¹ Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves."  This is something that really can't be missed. John 5:19-21, "Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. ²⁰ For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed. ²¹ For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it." COME ON !!!!!!! Jesus, as a man, was the perfect reflection of Father God. Can you imagine seeing all that God does. POWERFUL!!!!!!! We actually have it better. John 14:15-21, “If you love me, keep my commands. ¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— ¹⁷ the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. ¹⁹ Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. ²⁰ On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. ²¹ Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.” WOW!!!!!!! The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead lives in me. Jesus saw everything that the Father did because the Father loved the Son. By loving Jesus with 100% of myself He will show Himself to me. COME ON!!!!!!! Jesus' acts on the cross reconciled us to the Father. Here comes the oil and tears. AWESOME!!!!!!! John 14:20-21 is mind blowing and mind changing. "On that day", when Jesus defeats death. I get to live on this side of the cross. PRAISE JESUS!!!!!!!

When God calls me out onto the "Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)". Into the mystery of the great unknown. "The Spirit of truth", will reveal the mysteries. The mysteries that God hinds for me not from me. Colossians 1:25-27, "I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness— ²⁶ the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord’s people. ²⁷ To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory." I say YES & AMEN!!!!!!! I feel free. COME ON!!!!!!! Christ in me. HOLY MAC A LOLY!!!!!!! I'm a mess and I  don't want to be fixed up. Lord just lay me out. Rend my heart oh Lord. Fill me to my capacity of Christ in me. Do everything in love today.

PS   I so seek an intimate relationship with the Father. Jesus makes it possible. The Holy Ghost allows it possible for the fullness of Christ to be known to me. I don't care how it manifest. I just want to be in His Presence.