Last week we studied The Secret Place, and how it’s a place of love. This week we’re going to study how to actually make changes into righteous living. If you’ve went to church anywhere for any length of time, you’ve heard preachers and teachers telling you don’t do this, don’t dress like that, this beer drinking is a sin, that name calling is displeasing to God, stop this, quit doing that or else…. you’re living in sin and going to be punished by God. So, how do we deal with this? How do we change? Their scolding if far more clearly understood than their help! The answer is simple… you don’t, He does.
You might be thinking, “What? You want me to pray He changes me? It didn’t work!” No, you don’t really pray for it at all. I never really did, and we’ll get to that shortly. Most people have a path to tell you how to change, “Read your Bible more. Pray more. Go to church. Put on praise and worship music. Read Christian books. Do everything you can.” What’s the real answer to righteous living? Today, you’ll clearly know! Here is the simple answer…
Essentially, you need to feed on love. When you feed on love, you will produce love. Love breaks the darkness. Let’s look at a couple love scriptures really quick….
1 Corinthians 13 is the love chapter of the Bible. I encourage you to make time to read it after this study. For time’s sake, we’ll just read…
v.7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
This is your soul; mind, will, and emotions. Godly love affects your soul and how you view life. It’s part of being spirit ruled. One more…
Galatians 5:22-23 NKJV
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
Love is the first fruit mentioned. The remaining fruit, as we studied in the fruit series, is a mature form of love. This fruit is God’s Breath Breathing through you, and that is how God, Yahweh, uses love to break up the darkness and also set up a hedge of protection around you. That’s how you dwell in The Secret Place. You’re hidden in His Breath, His Love, and His protecting shadow and wing of Psalms 91. I’m so excited about this!! Can you see the mystery revealed to us today?
Producing fruit, or better said maturing in the spirit realm, is what will produce the change into righteous living! Love is both the ground and first fruit (see The Fruit series for an explanation). When you pour love in, the love ground in your heart will begin to break up the ground and vomit out the stones, bad seeds, and weeds living there; more easily said unrighteous living. I live near the coast and the ground here does something amazing that I have never seen happen so quickly before. A good heavy rain will purge the ground of things planted in it. For example, I bought cheap bags of dirt at the store. After a good hard rain, cigarettes started coming out, pieces of plastic, and metal came up. I never bought those dirt bags again!! But what I want you to see, it works the same way in the spiritual realm. A good hard rain of love will cause your ground to purge (but you’ll remember vomit better) out the junk that you can’t see. Once you get your good hard rain of love, then The Holy Spirit (not you!) will get your constrainer in working order.
Love is so important. We have to take walking out of love very seriously. The internet has made it cute. If you get on Google, you can find the saying, “I love Jesus, but I cuss a little,” on mugs, travel mugs, t-shirts, stickers, coasters, digital art, and even a pillow. Think that’s bad? I love Jesus, but I drink a little,” is on all that plus socks, drink holders, Christmas tree ornaments, and wall art. What those types of sayings mean is, “I love Jesus, but I don’t feed on His love.” That’s exactly why God uses a depiction of fruit. You have to feed your love ground so it produces love fruit. Just like your dog is supposed to eat dog food. Your dog will eat cat food, but it’s too high in fat for them. Your dog will eat human food, but what you eat isn’t always nutritious or healthy for them for them, matter of fact grapes are highly toxic to most dogs and can cause death. What you’re feeding on can be toxic to your love ground. Pouring love breaks up the ground, pouring more love will purge (or cause you to vomit out) the cussing, gossiping, manipulating, self-importance, unrighteous judgments, and other ill-mannered behavior. We’re not doing the changing, because we’ll struggle or even fail. We’re letting Elohim, God in 3 Parts, do the work on us. Here’s some great news! It’s easy. You already have the ability to love.
Let’s look at some scripture…
Romans 5:5NKJV
Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
If you have the Holy Spirit, God’s love is already in your heart. It’s “has been poured out” not will be. All the loving you ever need is already there. What happened? Well, you take steps everyday in love or in hate. Your boss or a coworker treats you poorly. You think, “I wish they’d fire you.” That’s hate. You’re driving and someone cuts you off. You say, “You idiot!” That’s hate. Someone steals from us… I’m not even gonna type what some of you might say! When we’re wronged, we start talking! We’re pouring something out into our ground every day; love or hate.
Now that we understand the Biblical process… How exactly do we pour love out on ourselves and tap into this love in our heart? These are the ways that you can feed yourself.
Reading your Bible. Simply put the Bible is God’s love revealed.
Praise and Worship. Pouring your love out on God, will in turn cause Him to pour His love back out on you. You can check out the study on music for more information how this takes place.
Listening to sermons or reading books from ministers who walk in love. Not all ministers walk in God’s love. Some need healing from wounds and some haven’t yet received a revelation on love. Doesn’t matter if we like the “telling it like it is…” We need to feed on love!
Choosing Love. This is how you get love flowing out of your spirit. When you choose love, love starts to flow. God is a God of increase. If you use His love, He’s happy to help supply more love.
But with that being said, you might be thinking that’s confusing. You just said you have to pour love, but God will give it to you. Yes! This is how the Holy Spirit brought the explanation to me….
Being born again is like a pond. God’s love being “poured out in our heart” is like having fish put in that pond. Fish will reproduce and make more fish, just like God’s love can generate Its own flow. But when you fish in that pond multiple times a day, you’re using up your supply of fish faster than they can reproduce. You must add more fish to your pond so when you need the fish, they will be there. Does that make sense? I’ll keep going to make sure we get what the Holy Spirit is teaching…
Some people say when a person is newly saved, “They’re on a honeymoon with Jesus, then reality hits them!” It’s always followed up by some type of cynical laughter. What happens when “reality hits?” Their love pond was emptied out. Some ministers like to describe this “love pond” like a bank account. You can’t keep making withdraws without deposits. You’re going to run dry. But I like what the Holy Spirit gave us, because different fish can be put in the pond! Reading small bits of scripture will give you bait fish, but reading and feeding on larger portions will give you bigger fish like a whale shark. When you’re done with your whale shark, it can be put back into the water because it’s full potential wasn’t used up. Those bigger fish won’t get away easily. Let’s look at scripture…
Psalm 68:19 NKJV
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits, The God of our salvation! Selah
Daily loaded with benefit! DAILY LOADED! Love is one of the benefits we’re daily loaded with by God. When you think about…
1 John 4:8 NKJV
He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
We already read love has been poured out in our heart. It’s easy to see love is one of those daily benefits. So now that we understand how to work God’s love in our life so we can live righteously, let’s get to the constrainer.
2 Corinthians 5:14KJV
For the love of Christ constraineth us…
How do we get our constrainer working? That’s easy. If you’re pouring in love, and flushing out the bad it will work on its own. It’s automatic. The love of Christ does the constraining, the heavy lifting, the work! Can’t believe it’s that easy? Lets look at one more passage of scripture before we end for this week.
Matthew 11:28-30 Original Hebrew Translation
28Let all those who are troubled and oppressed come unto me, and I myself will help you. 29And carry my yoke upon you and learn from me, that I am humble and restful of heart, and you will find rest in your nephashot (soul) 30for my yoke is restful and my burden is easy.
Religious people want to make everything hard and difficult. We don’t have examples of that in scripture. Our examples are easy and restful. What’s the requirement, LEARN FROM ME. What do we need to learn? Learn to love like Christ loved. It’s easy and restful, because the Holy Spirit is living in you.
You can supercharge the process by submitting to God. I’ll give you a sample prayer.
Lord, break me where I need broken. I submit myself to Your changes. Please mold me and shape me, make me who You called me to be. Give me Your eyes to see and Your ears to hear not only what The Holy Spirit is trying to teach me, but also to hear and see people as You see and hear them. Thank You, Father, for changing me. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Thank you for going through this study with me. Next week will be the last week on true Biblical humility. I hope this revelation has been eye opening and exciting to you as it has been me. Until then, be blessed with all spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus, and use up your daily benefit!
Christi
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