If you haven't read Parts 1 & 2, please scroll down and do so now. In Part 1, I talked about getting your heart ready for unbridled revival by getting anger and unforgiveness out. In Part 2, I talked about changing our thought patterns. In part 3, I want to talk about how to stir our love for Jesus and how to realize how much He loves us.
1 John 4:16-And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. The Apostle John, the author of this letter is highly qualified to write this statement. History tells us that the Romans tried to boil him to death in a cauldron of hot oil. Historians also tell us that he continued preaching while in the middle of the boiling oil. They could not kill him so they exiled him to the prison island of Patmos. There he wrote the book of Revelation. Yes, John knew and believed the love that God had for HIM. He not only believed in the verse he wrote in John 3:16 where he declared that God so loved the world. He believed that God had an everlasting, unbridled love for him that would see him through whatever circumstances he faced. Was he ready to die? Sure he was but the book of Revelation was not written yet.
Now, hold onto your hats, ladies and gentlemen because what you are about to read will change your life forever...........IF you put it into action. I have done this for the past several weeks and my outlook, my faith, my joy, my expectation of revival, and my love for Jesus has risen to new heights. Please, please, please. After you read this and it blesses you, please share this link with others that you know would enjoy it. This is such a simple concept that the youngest child of God could impliment it. I am convinced that if the body of Christ in this nation put this simple concept into practice, the United States of America would experience a life-changing unbridled revival.
Do you remember in Part 2 where I talked about your thought life being completely changed because you met someone you thought might be in love with you? I'll talk from the male point of view but you ladies can also think about it from your point of view. Either way, it points to knowing and believing the love that God has for us. So, I've walked down the hall at school, smiled and waved at the cute girl who smiles and waves back. My thought processes change into thoughts of how much love and joy might be brought about through a relationship with this person. Well, I want to check out that thought so I decide to ask her out for a date. So, first thing Monday morning, I STIR UP some courage and get BOLD enough to ask her out. Since I am just a teenager with limited income (mowing grass and washing cars), I ask her if I could take her to McDonalds on Saturday night. We could eat for hours off of the $1 menu, bring our laptops so we can talk to each other where no one could hear and just enjoy being together. Wouldn't you know it, she thinks that's a peachy keen idea and says "Yes." However, she has to be in by 9 p.m. That's okay with me because I'll be through cutting grass at 5, get cleaned up and pick her up at 6. That would give us three whole hours to just be with each other. Yippee!
Our first date is set.
I am on cloud nine. My smile is bigger. I am filled with joy. Aggravations don't bother me as much as they used to. My thought patterns change again. All of my thoughts are focused on Saturday night at McDonalds from 6-9. That day is not here yet, but I am still happy about it. Why? Anticipation at the word of somebody I love and that I believe loves me in return. Did you catch that? It is not Saturday at 6 p.m. yet, but I am overjoyed at a promise that was made to me. I know and believe the word of my lover. Dear God, I want to shout right now. So I begin telling my friends that I am going on a date with this girl and how happy I am. Nobody can convince me of anything different. I know and believe the word of my lover.
Did you go around school just thinking and smiling about your date? No. You talked about it. Maybe not to everybody. Are you ready for this? Every time you saw your lover, you told her how much you can't wait until Saturday at 6 p.m. You told her that you can hardly wait. You told her that it's going to be great to be with her at McDonalds from 6-9, eating from the $1 menu and typing notes to each other on your laptops. Your conversations did not include begging her to go out with you. Your conversations did include how much you look forward to Saturday. How about Tuesday? How about Wednesday? You never doubted even though it was not Saturday at 6 p.m. Why? Not only did you know and believe her love, you believed her word. You believed what she told you. Has any light come on in your heart yet?
When you asked her to marry you and she said yes, did you talk about it all the time? Yes!!! You talked about a future event that the two of you had never done before. You planned it with joy and not sadness. You planned it with anticipation of many, many, many good things and not bad things. When you talked to others about the promises the two of you had made, you talked with conviction in your conversation. You talked about it as if it was a future fact not just a wish that might or might not happen some day. I'll say it again......there was conviction in your conversation. Others, who had bad experiences in marriage told you it wouldn't work. But, you chose to know and believe the love that she had for you. You chose to believe her word. Saints, we need to clean up our act. We have sinned in trusting and believing people who may or may not prove themselves faithful instead of trusting and believing the One who has always proved Himself Faithful.
When that dawned on me several weeks ago, my love life and my faith life in Christ Jesus hit the afterburners. Doubt began to erase, joy began to erupt and by faith I grabbed a hold of His promises like never before. As I meditated on His Word, His precious promises, my prayer life took on newer meaning. I find myself meditating on His Word with joy throughout the day.
How do I know that God will bring revival? I know and believe the word of my lover. How do I know that God will save my loved ones? I know and believe the word of my lover. How do I know that God will heal my children? I know and believe the word of my lover. How do I know that He wll bring Godly spouses to them? I know and believe the word of my lover. How do I know that what I am going through right now will work to my good? I know and believe the word of my lover. How do I know that all my needs are met according to His riches in glory? I know and believe the word of my lover.
Dear friends, think about the relationship you had when you were dating. You believed that person you were in love with more than you believed anyone else. Other guys, probably ex-lovers, would try to persuade you that she was all wrong for you but your love for each other MADE you believe otherwise. You planned your life around her love. You made plans BECAUSE of her love. You believed the word of your lover. You believed the word of your lover.
Let's change our throught patterns. Let's believe the Word of the Greatest Lover of all. Let's believe the Word of the One who is Faithful in all He has promised. Instead of thinking those dark and forboding thoughts, let's bring our thoughts into captivity until they line up with the Word of our Lover. Life-changing unbridled revival WILL come my friends.
Please pass this link along to others who will take up this torch.
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