All About Love

1 Corinthians 13 (Context)

"Without love, we are nothing" do you really believe it? ", "So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love". Again Jesus said (Matthew 22:36-40)

36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” 37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets"

Tonight the Lord spoke to me about this in the prayer room. We are truly nothing without love, and completely unable to fulfill the law unless our hearts are awakened in love. Jesus also said "If you love me you will obey my commands". It's not because God is a slavedriver, it's because God is a lover! He knows that if we love Him, then we will naturally obey Him. We will have a heart that is alive and in love with Him. So what then if our hearts are not alive in love? We have nothing.
How do we get our hearts alive in love? Read His word, and fellowship with the Holy Spirit. What is the Holy Spirit anyway? It is GOD living inside of us. Us ONE with Him. We cannot awaken to love on our own, it takes God to love God, and it is God who must do the awakening in our hearts to love Him. He prayed (summary)"Father, I DESIRE, that she be with me where I am, that she would be one just as You and I are one", He promised us He would never leave us or forsake us, He is married to us, and He will never abandon us! In His words "Therefore what God has joined together let man not separate". Let's be alive in love, and not let sin separate what God has joined together! Can you imagine? ONE with the Uncreated God! Let us give the only one who is worthy of us our all! Let Him take you to the unsearchable depths of the riches of His love for you. Let Him free your heart to love. Let Him speak to you. He is the ONLY one who sees you rightly and can speak truth to you. So often we run to our friends or wish for a significant other to affirm us and tell us good things about ourselves to make us alive in love. But it is only through God that they can even speak these truths! The Lord is the ONLY one who cannot lie, and even the disciples testified and said "Where else have we to go Jesus? You alone have the words of life". Whenever a friend affirms us, or whenever a significant other admires something about the other, they are not doing this in and of themselves, they are prophesying and speaking the testimony of Jesus to the other person, building them up in love. Even those who are unsaved prophecy and speak the testimony of Jesus to each other when they see beauty and speak the truth about it. God is not put in a box so that He can only use believers to prophecy...He once used a donkey. In Proverbs it says "He who gives an honest answer kisses the lips", and in Song of Solomon it says "Kiss me with the Kisses of your mouth"...the kisses of the Word of God. Words of truth! "When the Lord has spoken who can but prophecy?" The fact that Truth remains if you will "listen and incline your ear" is testimony that the God of Genesis 1 has not ceased to speak, to prophecy about Himself, Jesus, His plan for the human race, and about His emotions regarding us, His bride...and that means YOU! You have never ever been unwanted, unloved, or undesired. Come and let the God of passion and emotion awaken your heart to love and speak the truth about who you are to Him!
With a heart overflowing
Anna