Restoration Faith Centre

I am come that they might have life, and that they might

have it more abundantly. John 10:10 KVJ

 

 

Sunday 8th April 2007, Volume 5, Issue 11

 

Isn't living for Jesus great! Every day we experience His love, faithfulness, super-natural ability and power as we go about our work and allow His Love and Anointing which has been given each of us to touch those around us. LOVE IS THE ONLY KEY and the SECRET to SUCCESS.  It has been estimated that there are four to five million words in the English language. The majority of these are technical words. But basically the English language consists of about 750,000 words. Yet, within this enormous volume of words, there is only one word for love. Agape = divine love. God's total unselfish love towards all His people. His love gives and gives, then keeps on giving, never asking for any thing in exchange or return. It’s a love not based on emotions of feelings. It’s a Choice, a love that never looks for an affinity. Agape love gives us an ability to love that which is unlovely. God from the beginning of time made a choice to LOVE YOU. God loves each of us as if there were nobody else to love in the entire world. He doesn't love you because you are somebody....but so you can become somebody....an object of HIS LOVE.

 

God can never love you more in the future than He does right now. His love for you can never be added to nor detracted from. Even if you grieve Him, insult Him, wound Him and hurt him, you can never lessen the love that He has for you. So    often, even in Christian circles we hear it said; "I can love you as long as you serve my purposes, add to my happiness, and contribute to my cause. If you ever stop doing this, I will no longer love you”. This is phoney, manipulative, controlling kind of love. It says "You exist for only one purpose: to satisfy me”. This is not AGAPE LOVE.  Agape love will always say: "I only want what is best for you”. You're not an object to be bought and sold, used and discarded. We are not here today to be ripped off, taken advantage of, manoeuvred, manipulated, or exploited. We are here to be LOVED - this is unconditional {agape] LOVE. It’s never emotional. Jesus instructed us to love our enemies. God is saying to us today: "I was patient with you, now you be patient with them, I was long suffering with you, so you be long-suffering with them." God's {agape} love for each of us is this: our best interests at heart. That is the best description of GOD.

 

LOVE IS THE SECRET TO YOUR SUCCESS.

Today in the church we hear a lot about love. But sadly the truth is, very few believers know what LOVE is. Often it is    emotional phantom that appears...then vanishes...without warning. Illusive, indefinable, forever sought but rarely found. It’s amazing that for a number of Christians they have little or no-idea, yet the Bible tells us in [2.John vs 6.] '”And what this love consists in is this, that we live and walk in accordance with and guided by His commandments, His orders, ordinances, precepts, teaching. This is the commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you continue to walk in love....guided by it and follow it."  [Amplified Bible]. Simply, God says love is keeping His commandments. He has given us   instructions so we can love as He loves. His Word [Bible] is His LOVE MANUAL in black and white. All we have to do is obey and follow the instructions and we are walking in His love. The love of God has already been born in every true believer. The Apostle Paul said in [Philippians 1:9] "And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment." Today we need continual revelation knowledge and knowledge of this ROYAL COMMANDMENT - LAW. So as we act and do God's word His Love will be daily perfected in us. In 2007 we in RFC must daily seek and get perfected in living and walking in God's [agape] Love. In 1.John 2:5-6 we read: "But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God   perfected; hereby know we that are in him. He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked."  So as we act daily on God's word, His love will be perfected in us. That is when God's love will begin to flow from you out to others. As you aim to perfect your love walk you will accurately accomplish God's Perfect will for your life as FAITH works by love.

 

Sadly some in RFC are seeking knowledge and understanding of by-gone years but have failed to obey and perfect their LOVE walk. They are just a noise and have little super-natural ability or fruit of the Holy Ghost evident in their life. In [1.Corthinians 13} we read that; 1. Tongues is just a noise without LOVE. 2. Prophecy, understanding all knowledge, 3. Having Faith to move mountains etc

 

yet without love he is nothing. He or she can even give all to the poor and sacrifice their own lives but without the Love of God they gain nothing.

 

TO HAVE SUCCESS IN 2007 WE MUST LIVE AND WALK IN THE LOVE OF GOD.

In 1.Corinthians 13;4-8 paints a perfect picture for us how God's love acts and obeys;  "Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily, it is not conceited, arrogant and inflated with pride; it is not rude and does not act unbecomingly. Love does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it...pays no attention to a suffered wrong..................Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is every ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances and it endures everything. LOVE never fails never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end."  [1.Corinthians 13:4-8].

 

To have success we have to meet all of those requirements. They may sound hard and tough, but we are a love creature, God has created our spirit in the image of His love. He has also sent His Holy Spirit to live in us and to teach us how to love others as He loves them. YOU CAN LIVE THE LOVE WALK. Sadly if we don't obey the Love commandment we will be defeated. We are the only one who can make the decision to perfect the love of God in our lives. Love is directly opposed to our flesh senses. Our senses have been trained to selfishly seek their own way. But LOVE never seeks its own rights or its own way, we must daily command our flesh and senses to be subject to the WORD of GOD.  LOVE is the most powerful force on the planet. It cannot and has never failed. Jesus walked in it and so can each or us.Nothing works without LOVE. There can never be any failure with it. It is impossible to fail when we obey and walk in the commandment of LOVE. Never forget that natural man and his world are ruled by SELFISHNESS....and that shuts the door TO GOD'S LOVE...walking in LOVE gives you the power and ability to never FAIL. No person or thing has the power to hurt you, you no longer seek your own success yet your success is guaranteed. This love is the foundation for REVIVAL FOR WELLINGTON. SUPER-NATURAL MIRACLE MEETINGS, PROVIDES AN OPEN-HEAVEN FOR TRANSFORMATION, Jesus is Lord to the Praise and Glory of His name....Amen.

 

Monday and Wednesday night meetings as usual at 7.30pm at 5. Lerwick Terrace, Lyall Bay. Saturday mid-day City Out-reach departs 5.Lerwick Terrace, Lyall Bay. Sunday 4.30pm MIRACLE SERVICE at Evan's Bay Intermediate School, Kemp Street,  Kilbirnie.