God is big and God is love, so God’s love is big. It’s huge, it’s immense, it’s wonderful and glorious. We all have free access to God’s presence and when we get into the presence of God, we never walk in and find a Judgment Seat but always find a Mercy Seat. A throne of grace where we can obtain mercy in times of need.
We will win every battle, have eternal victory when we learn to rely on God’s love, and meditate on how big God’s love is. We should be living and acting and speaking and thinking about how much God loves us! He really loves us. God is love!
The more we realize God is love, the more we understand Him. Many people do not understand God because they fail to understand He is love. They fail to understand Jesus is love. They fail to understand how much God loves us.
Now one of the things that God wants us to know is that He is not a hypocrite. He never asks us to do anything that He is not prepared to do. When John tells us “If anyone has enough money to live well, and sees a brother or sister in need and shows no compassion, that person doesn’t have God’s love in them” (1 John 3.17, NLT), then you need to know God has that same love inside Him! God will never leave you in need because He loves you. The reason you doubt whether your needs will be provided for in your life is because you doubt how big God’s love is for you! The reason you doubt you can live in divine health is because you doubt how big God’s love is for you!
One of the biggest problems and hindrances to faith and living in victory in the church is people blame God for circumstances in their life. They get sick and think God made them sick, they are broke and blame God, they pray and don’t get an answer to prayer and then they get bitter at God and angry at God. They feel they turned to God in their time of need and God let them down, not seeing they just did not operate in the principles of faith, and did not know how to receive from God’s grace by faith, and they felt it was God holding back on them rather than realizing it was their ignorance or unbelief.
Every blessing is ours in Christ, but we have to do our part to receive it in our lives – do not blame God for what you are lacking. God has already blessed us with all the blessings, He has already given us all things – but we need to learn how to live by faith and receive it.
When you realize that God is love and God loves you then you will never wonder whether God wants to meet your needs, you will never wonder if God wants to provide for you and make you healthy.
Imagine another human loves you, and wants to help you in your financial situation. But you don’t know they love you, and even if someone told you – you don’t even believe it. You could never benefit from that love, it would not change your life. We need to reach the place John reached “We have known and we believe the love that God has for us!” (1 John 4.16).
I would find time today to ask the Lord to reveal to you how much He loves you. Do not be surprised if His answer is for you to spend some time praying in tongues or fasting or reading the Word, because that is the way you will develop your soul capacity to believe God’s love and God’s goodness for you. I know from years of experience ministering that most people – most Christians – even grace Christians – do not know and believe how much God loves them.
Faith is so much more than a way of getting healed and blessed. Faith is receiving God’s love for us – which often comes as provision. In fact, a failure to receive healing and abundance is really a rejection at a soul level of how much God loves us.
Many Christians are seeking miracles and anointing. Trust me, I have learned this over many years, when you know the love of God, you will have miracles and anointing. Start with love, make love your quest, your goal. Pursue love!
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