Dr D.K Olukoya

TOPIC: Evidence Of Obedience (Mountain Of Fire And Miracle Ministries Thursday, 30 August 2018)

FIRE SCRIPTURE: John 15:9-12

MEMORY VERSE: “Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.”John 15:14

The MESSAGE:

Love is a magnet, especially when we express unselfish love, which seeks to meet a need in the life of another person. As the magnet attracts that which is opposite to it, so a Holy God draws the sinner to Himself. Christ wants us to love our enemies (Matthew 5:44; Luke 6:27, 35). He does not want us to stay away from them, even as He did not stay aloof from those who hated Him. He wants us to recognise their need and meet it, even as He met our own need in our sinful condition. If you are estranged from people, try loving them by meeting a need in their lives. Thus you will build a bridge between you and them. The Lord does not want us to compromise ourselves by associating with those of opposite lifestyles. He does not want us to be unequally yoked with unbelievers (2 Corinthians 6:14). He advocates love that is based on a relationship of common interests, not for those who oppose and hinder the gospel. Jesus extended the same kind of love to us as the Father extended to Him in that while we were yet sinners, He died for us so that we may be reconciled unto the Father. The quality of the love which the Father showed to His only begotten, is the quality of love which the Son demonstrated to us as branches of His vine.

It was a love that would not spare Jesus’ suffering and death. It was a love that accomplished the Father’s purpose, Jesus giving eternal life through His death. The love of the Father did not mean escape from duty, but faithfulness. There was identity of purpose between the Father and the Son. There is no greater love than that between the Father and the Son. Love was not given because the Son needed it, but because of their complete unity of essence, character, and purpose. It is a historical love. It is sealed and no one can change it. No circumstances in the life of Jesus, or the disciples can classify the necessity of suffering by Christ. Love does not rescue from suffering but redeems through it. Obedience is the correct response to love. He who is loved should obey the One who loves him. Each act of disobedience to God’s commandments makes the relationship stronger. When it comes to Jesus’ keeping the Father’s commandments, there is no condition — not, ‘if I keep them’, but ‘I have kept them’. Jesus speaks of a completed fact. Obedience is the secret of abiding in God’s love. It was easy for Jesus to obey God to the end because of love. True love is sacrificial, enduring and pain-absorbing. It magnetises the presence of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit to you. True love enables you to identify with the suffering of Jesus and the sufferings of the dying sinner. True love makes you to go out to preach the gospel in order to rescue the perishing. The love makes your joy to be full. Take step today and demonstrate your love to God and your neighbours.

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE:
TRUE LOVE IS SACRIFICIAL, ENDURING AND PAIN-ABSORBING.

PROPHETIC WORD:
May the Lord empower your love to accomplish the Father’s purpose.

PRAYER POINTS:

MORNING
1. Give me love that cannot fail You, O Lord my God, in the name of Jesus.
2. Holy Spirit, empower me to love those who despitefully use me, in the name of Jesus.
3. Holy Spirit, deliver me from the cage of hatred towards others who wrong me, in the name of Jesus.

EVENING
4. Inability to address my personal weaknesses and faults, depart from me now by fire, in the name of Jesus.
5. Holy Spirit, show me the true picture of myself, in the name of Jesus.
6. Spirit of giving and selflessness, enter me now, in the name of Jesus.
7. I love You O Lord, help me to love You more than this, in the name of Jesus.

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