DIR Return Create A Forum - Home
---------------------------------------------------------
Love God Only
HTML https://lovegodonly.createaforum.com
---------------------------------------------------------
*****************************************************
DIR Return to: Things of the Spirit
*****************************************************
#Post#: 2205--------------------------------------------------
Tabernacles: Love of the Spirit
By: Justin Mangonel Date: November 29, 2012, 12:07 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
God has given us the Old Testament and the New Testament to form
the foundation upon which we build our faith. Our Father says,
“I AM the Lord they God, I change not.” Therefore, the word
that He has spoken does not change either. However, though the
word of God does not change our understanding of it often
develops and expands over time. Why is this so? It is because
we still look through a glass darkly and our understanding is
imperfect. As God reveals more of Himself our knowledge of whom
He is and What He thinks matures and becomes ever more complete.
Sometimes you may hear people say, “God’s word says it, I
believe it, and that settles it.” Unfortunately, because what
we believe about God’s word is imperfect we make assumptions
that are not correct and thus what we believe is only an
approximation of His truth. Thankfully, this is why our Father
gave us another Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, who desires to
lead and guide us into all truth. When we lack wisdom or
understanding we can simply ask the Holy Spirit and He will help
us see things God’s way. Standing upon the word of God is good
but we must always remain open to correction by our Father so
that He can help us mature and know Him better.
What many people do not fully realize is that we are currently
living in a “Present Testament.” Just as holy men of God, in
times past, spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost so too
holy men of God, in times present, are speaking God’s word as
they are moved by His Holy Spirit. This present day revelation
of God is a “Present Testament” of what God is speaking to His
church. As holy men of God speak as the Spirit moves them these
current revelations build upon and expand our understanding of
the scriptures allowing God to speak directly to His people into
our present age.
Traditionally, Christians are taught to love one another and are
encouraged to practice agape (self sacrificial love) towards
everyone. Hearing these scriptures we all try to practice them
to the best of our ability but nevertheless many fall short of
living this ideal. Still, we each desire a true love that bears
all things, hopes all things and believes all things. We yearn
for a love that never fails. We know from the Bible that this
type of love exists but few of us ever experience it. For many
the closest we ever come to tasting such love is during the
courtship of our spouses or through the love we feel towards our
children. We find it hard to love those outside our family with
the type of unselfish and self sacrificial love that Christ
commands us to have.
Here is a central truth,
[center]“True love, the type of love the Christ showed to others
and commands us to have is a spiritual experience we must be
given and not something we can produce in and of
ourselves.”[/center]
Truly, the only love is from above. Divine love is
the love of God shed abroad in our hearts through a profound
spiritual experience He gives us when we seek it. Just as there
is a Salvation experience, just like there is the Pentecostal
experience, so to there is a Tabernacle experience. The essence
of the Tabernacle experience is to be filled with divine love
from our Father and it completes the work that God started in
our hearts when we experienced salvation. Born of love we,
through being filled with God’s Spirit, will become
manifestations of His heart to a lost and hurting world and
complete the work that Jesus began.
What we all seek and what the church as a whole desperately
needs is to experience the “love of the Spirit” from our Father.
Only as we receive our Father’s love can we understand how to
love others. While earthly love, at some point, always fails
God’s love never does. When the love of God fills us He allows
us to see with His eyes and feel with His heart so that loving
each other unconditionally is as easy as speaking in other
tongues. Just as we yield our tongues to God as the Spirit gives
the utterance so to we yield our hearts to God as His Spirit
loves through us. Allowing divine love to flow through you is
effortless, complete, and satisfying in a way that brings us
back into harmony with our Father, ourselves, and those around
us.
Love is the only force strong enough to break down the barriers
that keep us apart. It is an experience we must ask for just
like we asked to be saved and asked to be Spirit filled. We
cannot fully understand it for it is a foretaste of the type of
love that exists in a perfect place, the New Heavens and New
Earth, which God is creating. In fact, it is the first love, the
agape that existed in the Garden of Eden between God and mankind
and which God intends to restore in New Jerusalem.
The fact of the matter is that there is no lack of resources for
any need within the Body of Christ only a lack of love. We can
only wear one set of clothes at a time, drive one vehicle at a
time, and eat one meal at a time. Unfortunately, life has
taught us to horde our wealth to protect ourselves and those we
care about from want. We have learned through painful experience
that, in general, we cannot depend on others to help in our time
of need and so we continually gather dust around us in order to
feel some sense of security. Thus the resources that God needs
to care for and nourish His Body are not available for use as He
sees fit.
Through yielding to divine love we will form bonds of affection
towards each other as God connects us. These love bonds within
the Body of Christ will be so strong and so trusting that we
will no longer feel the need to store up treasure on Earth. We
will find security in the divine relationships that God forges
between us and when our brother asks for our coat we will gladly
offer our shirt also. When a sister in Christ lacks a car,
seeing that we have two, we will offer one. No one will ever
hunger within our congregations because the strong bond of love
between us will allow the Holy Spirit to make us sensitive to
their needs and no matter what time of night it is, even if we
are asleep with our children, we will gladly get up to give them
bread. No one will be sick among us and no one will sleep
prematurely because our spirits will be so open to those around
us we will immediately discern that they need prayer and God
will flow through us in love and heal them. In fact, the love of
God flowing through us, which is in fact God Himself, will meet
any and all needs of His people without reserve, without
reproach, and without concern for what others may think.
In order to receive the Tabernacle experience of divine love you
must first realize that it is a gift that God wants to give you.
Secondly you must ask for it just like you asked to be saved
and just like you asked to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Thirdly, by faith, when you feel the love of God start to flow
you must yield to Him and do what the Holy Spirit in you wants
to do. This can be as simple as saying a kind word to someone
or giving them a hug. It can be as dramatic as calling someone
up in the middle of the night because the Spirit in you is
telling you that they need encouragement. The point is that when
the love of God starts to flow through you it is important that
you yield to His Spirit and allow Him to accomplish His will.
The more you allow God to flow in and through you the more
confidence you will gain as you see the results of yielding to
His love.
My friends, it is the love of the Spirit that will bring about
the Unity of the faith. This is the love that will build us all
up into the perfect man of Christ. We must seek this love and
ask God for it. Our Father which is in heaven desires to give us
good gifts and His divine love is indeed a gift that is very
good.
#Post#: 2208--------------------------------------------------
Re: Tabernacles: Love of the Spirit
By: Amadeus Date: November 29, 2012, 5:05 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[quote]Justin: God has given us the Old Testament and the New
Testament to form the foundation upon which we build our faith.
Our Father says, “I AM the Lord they God, I change not.”
Therefore, the word that He has spoken does not change either.
However, though the word of God does not change our
understanding of it often develops and expands over time. Why
is this so? It is because we still look through a glass darkly
and our understanding is imperfect. As God reveals more of
Himself our knowledge of whom He is and What He thinks matures
and becomes ever more complete.[/quote]
[font=courier]This that you describe is called increasing up in
the things of God or moving ever forward toward God... into His
favour. No stagnant water here is the key!
"And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with
God and man." Luke 2:52
Jesus did it, and so must we.. if we are ever to become like
him!
"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear
what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we
shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." I John
3:2[/font]
[quote]Justin: Sometimes you may hear people say, “God’s word
says it, I believe it, and that settles it.” Unfortunately,
because what we believe about God’s word is imperfect we make
assumptions that are not correct and thus what we believe is
only an approximation of His truth. Thankfully, this is why our
Father gave us another Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, who
desires to lead and guide us into all truth. When we lack
wisdom or understanding we can simply ask the Holy Spirit and He
will help us see things God’s way. Standing upon the word of
God is good but we must always remain open to correction by our
Father so that He can help us mature and know Him
better.[/quote]
[font=courier]God's Word is settled, but His Word is more than
the letter on the page of a Bible, any Bible, written in any
language or version. The Word of God is alive, but it is ALIVE
only when and if it is quickened (brought to Life) by His
Spirit.
"Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not
of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but
the spirit giveth life." II Cor 3:6
Being open to correction means to me, "continuing to seek His
face". What we see through a "glass darkly" must continue to
grow clearer all of the time or it will return to darkness. We
cannot endure long riding the fence.[/font]
[quote]Justin: What many people do not fully realize is that we
are currently living in a “Present Testament.” Just as holy men
of God, in times past, spake as they were moved by the Holy
Ghost so too holy men of God, in times present, are speaking
God’s word as they are moved by His Holy Spirit. This present
day revelation of God is a “Present Testament” of what God is
speaking to His church. As holy men of God speak as the Spirit
moves them these current revelations build upon and expand our
understanding of the scriptures allowing God to speak directly
to His people into our present age.[/quote]
[font=courier]This is the unbroken thread. This is the carrying
of God has already said to others and to one another so that we
all can continue to grow closer to Him.[/font]
[quote]Justin: Traditionally, Christians are taught to love one
another and are encouraged to practice agape (self sacrificial
love) towards everyone. Hearing these scriptures we all try to
practice them to the best of our ability but nevertheless many
fall short of living this ideal. Still, we each desire a true
love that bears all things, hopes all things and believes all
things. We yearn for a love that never fails. We know from the
Bible that this type of love exists but few of us ever
experience it. For many the closest we ever come to tasting
such love is during the courtship of our spouses or through the
love we feel towards our children. We find it hard to love
those outside our family with the type of unselfish and self
sacrificial love that Christ commands us to have.[/quote]
[font=courier]The teaching is helpful as is the Bible studying
helpful, but we must seek and ask and knock continuously to
continue to receive what God has for us. How is that Peter was
able to say at the Beautiful Gate, "silver and gold have I none,
but such as I have give I unto to thee"? The man stood up and
walked who had not walked for a lifetime. What did Peter have?
What do we have?
Do we not have the Love, which God is? Do we not have the Power
spoken of here?
"But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come
upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem,
and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part
of the earth." Acts 1:8
If we do not, why do we not?
"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock,
and it shall be opened unto you:" Matt 7:7[/font]
[quote]Justin: Here is a central truth,
“True love, the type of love the Christ showed to others and
commands us to have is a spiritual experience we must be given
and not something we can produce in and of ourselves.”
Truly, the only love is from above. Divine love is
the love of God shed abroad in our hearts through a profound
spiritual experience He gives us when we seek it. Just as there
is a Salvation experience, just like there is the Pentecostal
experience, so to there is a Tabernacle experience. The essence
of the Tabernacle experience is to be filled with divine love
from our Father and it completes the work that God started in
our hearts when we experienced salvation. Born of love we,
through being filled with God’s Spirit, will become
manifestations of His heart to a lost and hurting world and
complete the work that Jesus began.[/quote]
[font=courier]Something is being built, is to be built in each
of us, if we will allow it, if we are allowing it. It is
something being built without the interference or help of the
hands of men. It is something accomplished by the Love (God) in
us. Quench not the Spirit![/font]
[quote]Justin: What we all seek and what the church as a whole
desperately needs is to experience the “love of the Spirit” from
our Father. Only as we receive our Father’s love can we
understand how to love others. While earthly love, at some
point, always fails God’s love never does. When the love of God
fills us He allows us to see with His eyes and feel with His
heart so that loving each other unconditionally is as easy as
speaking in other tongues. Just as we yield our tongues to God
as the Spirit gives the utterance so to we yield our hearts to
God as His Spirit loves through us. Allowing divine love to
flow through you is effortless, complete, and satisfying in a
way that brings us back into harmony with our Father, ourselves,
and those around us.[/quote]
[font=courier]"He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." Matt
11:15
"I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou
mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed,
and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint
thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see." Rev
3:18[/font]
[quote]Justin: Love is the only force strong enough to break
down the barriers that keep us apart. It is an experience we
must ask for just like we asked to be saved and asked to be
Spirit filled. We cannot fully understand it for it is a
foretaste of the type of love that exists in a perfect place,
the New Heavens and New Earth, which God is creating. In fact,
it is the first love, the agape that existed in the Garden of
Eden between God and mankind and which God intends to restore in
New Jerusalem.[/quote]
[font=courier]"Love suffers long and is kind; love does not
envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked,
thinks no evil;
does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures
all things." I Cor 13:4-7 [/font]
*****************************************************