The love of God revealed in the believer can make us partakers of all God has for us.
Knowing The Love of God
Ephesians 3:14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height; 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. 20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Last week the Bible study was on prayer; this too begins with prayer but a very specific prayer the Apostle Paul prayed for the Ephesians church. It is a prayer for a revelation of the love of God!
The prayer for the Spirit of God to strengthened us in our inner man can lead us into the triumph God desires us to walk. Victory in Jesus is not elusive; we can walk in full victory! Christ dwells in your heart through faith; when the inner man is strengthened there is a rooting and grounding in the love of God. Knowing the love of God is not beyond our knowing yet it is not founded in our knowledge of our mind. It is intimacy with God. There is the knowing of the love of Christ which surpasses our human understanding. God desires that we know His love to the width, length, depth, and height filling you with all the fullness of God.
The prayers prayed by our strengthened inner man will allow us to see prayers answered exceedingly and abundantly above all that we ask or think. Being strengthen in our inner man is the revealing of the power of God that works in us. To God be glory in the church by Christ Jesus! May every believer reading this be strengthened in their inner man even now, in Jesus name!
Psalm 35:27 Let them shout for joy and be glad, Who favor my righteous cause; And let them say continually, "Let the LORD be magnified, Who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant."
Psalm 40:16 Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; Let such as love Your salvation say continually, "The LORD be magnified!"
The love of God in your inner being will bring to your mouth “Let the Lord be magnified”. I often pray let the Lord be magnified in this house. Both in my home and my church home! It is time for us to put a new word in our mouth. The love of God brings us to continually say “Let the Lord be magnified”.
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
God’s love is so great. That which is destined to death and condemnation can be moved to imperishable and everlasting life. Jesus came to halt the condemnation of the world. What you think of Jesus determines your destiny. Jesus being the object of your faith can move you from darkness to light and from condemnation to everlasting life. He who believes in Jesus is not condemned. At the name of Jesus, sin consequences can be removed.
1 John 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us… Stop and behold the love of the Father! His love is so great we can be called the children of God. The love of God is so life changing it compels us to walk in purity.
2 Corinthians 5:14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; 15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.
When one has a true revelation of the love of God he no longer lives for himself, but there is a living for Him who died for them and rose again. Some claim to be born again but have never had a changed life; it is a pseudo conversion. If one truly believes in the Son there is a new nature within that pursues and hungers for the righteousness of God to be fulfilled in their life.
1 John 4:9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
What a powerful passage! The love of God was manifested that we might live through Him! In this is love… What ever the next words are I want to know. Not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. If you want a revelation of the love of God, begin to meditate upon the work Christ accomplished on the cross. The greatest measure of love is not how well I have loved God; but rather the degree to which He loved me first! When I get the revelation knowledge of His great love manifested toward me, I am free to love God and man without prejudice. Until this revelation I can not love the Lord my God with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength; nor can I love my neighbor as I love myself.
1 John 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.
True revelation of the love of God changes us. We can love the unlovely and it comes from the abiding of Him in us. We are made partakers of His Spirit. The love of God brings transformation to the one it has been revealed.
1 John 4:14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. 17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.
Jesus is the Savior of the World; we call it a confession of faith. If the object of your faith is in Jesus, the crucified one, God abides in you and you in God. Verse 16 is so powerful. We have known and believed the love that God has for us. The most powerful love and the greatest love to be known is the love that God has for us! Abiding in His love is not my love toward Him; rather, it is me knowing and believing in the love that God has toward me. Love that has been perfected has revelation of the love the Father has toward us. This perfected love is so great it brings boldness in the day of judgment. Yes it is so strong it knows as Christ is so are we in this world.
1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. 19 We love Him because He first loved us.
A perfect love is a knowing and believing in the love God has manifested toward us. God never intended for His children to be tormented with fear. The children of God living in fear have not been made perfect in love. The birthing of a sound mind is to know we love Him because He first loved us!
2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
What a precious truth God so loved… whosoever believes in Jesus shall not be condemned. The power of the cross in action! Come against the spirit of fear and accept the spirit of power and love and soundness of mind.
Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved.
He chose us in love and made us accepted in the Beloved, and all before the foundation of the world. Oh the strength of His love toward us! What an awesome God!
Ephesians 5:23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.
Jesus loves the church so much he gave Himself for Her! Submit to the washing of water by the word of God.
Ephesians 5:29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. 30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. 31 "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Can you hear the truths of Christ and the church. We are his bride; with purpose and intent Jesus nourishes and cherishes us. His great love made us members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.
Hebrews 12:6 For whom the LORD loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives." 7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.
God loves us so much he corrects us as sons; submit to the correction of the Father of spirits and live. If you know Him as your loving Father you can trust His correction to bring profit and enable you to be partakers of His holiness.
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