If we are determined to bring change to this dying world, we need to set ourselves on fire. We need to be ablaze with the Love of God. Only love- a wave of His life to send forth until others feel His love and are also kindled into a flame of grace.
We are to be flames - the very essence of the Word- the life of Jesus. Jesus is life and the Holy Ghost is the breath, and He breathes through us the life of the Son of God, and we give it to others and it gives life everywhere! -Wigglesworth
We must be aflame with the agape love of the Father, self-less love.
God is love. God is Agape. 1 John 4:8
The Nature of Agape:
Love for the neighbor is love for him in all his strange, irritating, distinct createdness..
Love is eternal, leveling righteousness because it justifies no man according to his desire.
Love edifies the fellowship because it seeks fellowship only.
Love expects nothing, because it has already reached the goal.
Love does not intend, because it has already done.
Love asks no questions, it already knows.
Love does not fight, it is already the victor.
Love is not Eros, that lusteth ever, it is Agape that never faileth! -Karl Barth
Agape is personified in the nature of Jesus.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love
never gives up.
cares more for others than for self.
doesn't want what it doesn't have.
doesn't strut.
doesn't have a swelled head.
doesn't force itself on others.
isn't always "me first."
doesn't fly off the handle.
doesn't keep score of the sins of others.
doesn't revel when others grovel.
takes pleasure in the flowering truth.
puts up with anything.
trusts God always.
always looks for the best.
never looks back.
keeps going to the end.
Love never dies!!
Jesus has come for one purpose, that He might so be made manifest in us that the world shall see Him, and we must be burning and shining lights to reflect such a holy Jesus. - Wigglesworth
Lord, let us be flames of your love for all the world to see so that your kingdom comes and your will be done on this earth as it is in Heaven.
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