MERCY OF GOD SERIES

THE REALM OF MERCY AND LOVE

           

            We are going to look at the realm of mercy and love that God has been showing lately. Sometime back, I experienced an angelic visitation and I received some deposits of the presence of God into my life.

            That presence has always been there. It has always been burning like a fire. Every time I just think about the presence of God, the fire rises up. But the presence continues to grow into something that has been quite interesting that I want to share with you. From time to time in our past Christian experiences, we have experienced the love of God. But now there seems to be a permanent development of that love from that presence. And every time that presence is strong, there is a peculiar kind of the love and mercy of God. The Lord has been showing me increasingly that where there is love, there is power. When the power of God is present, there will also be love present. It is not by might not by power but by His Spirit. Many things are produced from natural power and soul power. But these types of power do not produce the love of God. Where the power of God moves and works, there will always be the love of God. There will always be that sense of God’s love. The presence of God always comes with the love of God. The power of God always comes with the love of God. The two are one and they should be released from our life to bless people around us.

 

            Let us look at Eph. 3 in Paul’s prayer for the church of Ephesus from verse 14. For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever, Amen.

 

            Notice here in verse 19 he talks about the love of God. Verse 17 speaks about being rooted in the love of God. Both of them are linked up to the fullness of God. We all realize what the fullness of God can do. In the fullness and presence of God, there is no sickness; all diseases will be healed. In the presence and the fullness of God, there is great power. All hurts will be healed. And here is a description of the fullness of God that ties up to the love of God. It seems that where love is, God is present. Where love is absent, God is absent. And every time when the power of God was about to flow, there is always this awesome presence of the love of God.

 

            Let us look in our bible for some examples. Mk. 1:40 Jesus was just beginning His ministry and one day as He was preaching the Word from place to place, a leper knelt before Him and said in verse 40, If you are willing, You can make me clean.  He was able to do this. He is always willing and He is always able. But look at how the power of God flows in verse 41, Then Jesus moved with compassion - Its not just compassion, it was a pulsating force inside Him. Anything that moves is a force. It is not just an attitude. Compassion is not just an attitude. Here is a living vital force that flows through Jesus. He was moved with compassion - stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.” It was the compassion of God. One of the greatest keys to the power of God is to walk and move in love.

 

            The lack of love of God is the only barrier to the healing and miracle that God can have for your life. Even the faith that moves mountain is limited by the lack of this quality. Jesus said in Mk. 11:22, Have the faith of God. Verse 24 whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you received and you will have them. Verse 25 when you pray, forgive. Do not forget verse 25 when you want to have the kind of faith that can move mountain. You can say to this mountain be up rooted and remove yonder and it will be moved. Verse 22, 23, and 24 speak about mountain-moving faith but then in verse 25, Jesus connects that kind of faith to love and forgiveness. Jesus is saying in one breath, “When you pray, believe and when you pray, forgive.” Prayer is the coin where one side is faith and the other side is forgiveness. If you will only know that, all the fullness of God, all the miracles of God will be available to you. Standing between the miracles of God and us is just one little key - love. Love your neighbor, love your loved ones, love your enemies, love all who are wrong and the miracles of God will constantly flow in your life like an ocean.

 

            The compassion of Jesus was the key behind the healing power that flows from Jesus’ life. And yet love is something we all struggle with. As humans, we struggle to love. We struggle to love the unlovable. It is easy to love the lovable. We struggle to love those who do not understand us. We struggle to love those who hurt us. Love is a struggle. But if you could ever succeed in love, the power of God is yours. If we fail, there is no power. There is no power to help us. If we fail to love and fail to forgive, even the mountain moving faith is rendered ineffective. Yet, we have to struggle to love despite the fact that God has loved us so much. Why do we struggle to give forgiveness to people when God has forgiven us so greatly and so freely? Why do we struggle to love our enemies when Jesus loved us and God loved us while we were still enemies of God? Why do we struggle to love when we were born to love? We were of the nature of God and God is love. We were born with the seed of God in our life. We were born with a spirit of love in our life. Why do we still struggle? If only we know all we have to do is to surrender and let God love through us. The day we learn to love is the day the power of God will be manifested in ways that we have never seen before.

 

            Matthew 9: 35, Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. Although verses like the above occurred a few times elsewhere in the gospels, we need to know they portrayed a consistent picture of the life of Jesus. That should be our desire. Our desire should be that we would have so much of the presence and the power and the fullness of God in our midst that every single sick person, every single broken heart would become whole the moment they step into the presence of God. That should be the goal; that every sickness and every disease among the people be healed.  But when He saw the multitudes, I want you to know behind the healing, behind the power, was a heart aching to love humanity. Behind all the power, behind all the presence so powerful that demons cried out was a heart that was pulsating with the love of humanity.

 

            When Jesus saw the multitude, He was moved with compassion for them because they were scattered like sheep having no shepherd.  He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.” Let me tell you, He is not just telling us to go out and teach the gospel. Look carefully behind the command to go is a command to love. We Christians need to see this fact we were not just called in Matt. 16:16-18 to preach to every creature. We were not just called in Matt. 28:18-20 to preach and teach all nations and make disciples. We Christians need to see that we have a call to love this world as God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. There are far too many Christians trying to go out and fulfill the great commission without love. And they are not very successful. There are far too many people trying to do too many things without love. Behind the command when Jesus said there are not enough laborers, what Jesus was also saying is there are too few who love mankind and people.

 

            A lot of laborers are doing things that the Father may not have asked them to do. They are doing things that are not as important as it is to help somebody else who needs our love. That is the call of God. When you read the story of the wise man and the foolish man, do you realize the foolish man is also as busy? Everyone is busy. So what do you mean by the laborer being busy about God’s work? There are a lot of people trying to do God’s work, so what is the problem? The problem is very few laborers are moved with love and compassion.  Paul calls it the labor of love. That should be birthed inside each one of our hearts. Do you know that visitation and caring should not be something that we organize? No doubt, we need to organize when things grow bigger but caring for others should be natural for us as Christians. We are not born of this world; we are born of the Spirit of God. It should be natural for us to go and care for someone who needs care. It should be natural for us to offer a helping hand to someone in need coming to church. In some way, even though you cannot help them, you can still give them some encouragement. It should be natural for us to help people who are lonely, in prison or are in difficult situations. It should be natural for Christians to go and put their hand over a hurting person’s shoulder and say, “We care for you. We love you and we will carry you through.” Laborers of love are few but the harvest is plentiful.

 

            Let me tell you, there is real shortage of laborers who could be moved with the same compassion that Jesus had moved in. Some of us will say, “I have many needs to take care of. I have to take care of my food, clothing, and shelter. I have this thing and that thing to do. Can’t you give a little time to care for somebody else? Do you have to devote a hundred percent of your life 24 hours a day seven days a week to increasing your possession and money? If you do so, you are just thinking of yourself. Can’t we just give a little thought to care for somebody else? And the most beautiful miracle you can ever find, the greatest joy you could ever have is when you find that your life means something to somebody else. When your life means something to somebody else, it is because you have been helping somebody else.

 

            If some of us would be going right now to heaven, how many people would feel what they felt when Dorcas died and went home in the book of Acts? Or if your life were to be extinguished now, nobody else would know but your own family members would feel the duty and the responsibility to just bury you. Have your life been lived in love and in care for somebody else? Not that you want to make people dependent on you, no, but that you have made your life meaningful to God and to men. The laborers are few but the harvest is so plentiful. It is not just a matter of having laborers but it is a matter of having laborers with the same compassion as Jesus had. Behind all His healing, behind all His power, is the compassion, the love to care, to touch and to be with everyone who is in need.

 

            When we read Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan, we would be asking, “Who is my neighbor?” They are around you. You say, “I don’t know who to help.” Open your eyes and you will see. Ask God to open your eyes that you may see. There are always people to help. There is no end to helping people. Who are my neighbors? They are all these people around you that need help. They need encouragement; they need your love and your care in some way. If love has been given so freely to us, why are we stingy with our love? God has not been stingy in loving us. He loved us so freely, He loves us so ultimately, and He loved us so fully. Why do we need to be stingy with our love? We need to be generous with the love of God and to be willing to love each and everyone. We should not confine our loving to those who are easy to love. The greatest goal that you could ever set in your life if you want the greatest reward in heaven is to love every human being with the same love that Jesus had. Achieving that standard makes you god-like and godly.

 

            Matt.14:13 When Jesus heard it, He departed from there by boat to a deserted place by Himself. But when the multitudes heard it, they followed Him on foot from the cities. And when Jesus went out He saw a great multitude; and He was moved with compassion for them, and healed their sick.

 

            There we have again - the fullness of God is synonymous with the love of God. Many things are also synonymous. The power of God, the healing of God, the presence of God, is synonymous with the love of God. That is why when somebody says, “The presence of God is here,” the first thing I want to sense is that love. If that love is not there, it is an imitation. It is some other power of the evil one that is not God or some other things of the flesh that is not God. There are minds that do not come from the mind of God, or powers that are not of God.

 

            That is why the bible says Zach. 4:6 Not by might nor by power. That means there is some kind of power that is not of God. Not by might nor by power but by the Spirit of God.  Wherever the presence of God is, look for love. If you cannot find love where people claim the presence of God is, it is not God.

 

            We need to understand how the love of God can flow to our life and bring the reality of His presence. There we have it again in Matt. 14.  The compassion of Jesus moved the power of God to operate mightily.

 

            One of the interesting things I find about the power of God is the flow of compassion. This compassion is nurtured daily in the presence of Jesus. Since the day I had an angelic visitation, I would just burst out in ways I do not understand. Sometimes when some people share their life-stories with me, I do not know why everything they shared just make me cry. I felt for them. I felt their hurt. I felt their pain. And I do not mind that becoming a permanent feature because I know that is the love and compassion of God.

 

            There are three aspects of the presence of God that I want to point out.

 

The Manifestation Realm

 

            Firstly, there is the aspect of the manifestation. When the presence of God is there, there is always a manifestation. Now the manifestation is only the first aspect. It is a side effect of the presence of God. It can be any manifestation. Now that presence of God is only the beginning. Jesus did promise a manifestation.

 

            Turn to I Cor. 12 as the Spirit of God moves in our midst there will be a manifestation. Verse 7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all. A manifestation comes with the gift of the Holy Spirit.

 

            Turn to Jn. 14:21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. Here He is talking about a different aspect. As we continue to keep God’s Word, God’s commandments, meditating on His Word and loving Him, Jesus says, And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him. God is always there, God is always here, God is in every place you are. As long as you love God, the presence of God is there with you.

 

            Do you notice that the Spirit of God in I Cor. 12 and the Word of God in Jn. 14:21 bring about a manifestation? How do we bring about the presence of God? As you obey God’s Word, as you yield to His Spirit, the presence of God can increase to a point where I call it the manifestation point. A manifestation comes forth. It can have a side effect on various ways. It can have a different side effect on the physical body. It can have a side effect in the gift of the Spirit operating in different things. That is just the first aspect of the presence of God. When the manifestation comes, you realize some tangible thing about the spirit world. There is something real about the spirit world. But please do not stop there. Go beyond the manifestation to the second aspect of that presence.  I call it the revelation point. When you have a manifestation do not stop there. Go beyond.  Go further into a realm called revelation because God desires us to know Him. And He desires to reveal Himself to us so that we could know Him and love Him.

 

The Revelation Realm                                                                                                                          

 

            The second aspect of the presence of God is revelation. It brings a revelation of God and a revelation of some principles that have eluded us. A revelation of something that we need to know that has escaped us for a long time. When the presence of God comes, many times clarity comes in some spirit realm.

 

            Let us look over at the book of Daniel. We have here a manifestation in Daniel’s life when the angel appeared to him. There are several occasions but I just take one of them. Lets take the one from Dan. 10:7 at the end of the twenty-one day fast he had a manifestation. It was a visitation from God. Verse 7 And I Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see the vision; but a great terror fell upon them, so they fled to hide themselves. Therefore I was left alone when I saw this great vision, and no strength remained in me, for my vigor was turned to frailty in me and I retained no strength.

 

            Now all these descriptions are called the side effect of the manifestation of God’s presence through the angel. What was the side effect? He had no strength and he became weak. His vigor and strength turned frail. In verse 9, Yet I heard the sound of his words; and while I heard the sound of his words I was in a deep sleep on my face, with my face to the ground. He was slain under the power of God. That is a side effect. Then in verse 10 Suddenly, a hand touched me, which made me tremble on my knees and on the palms of my hands. So, his knees were shaking and his palms were shaking. That was a manifestation. But that was not all there were some more things. I mean the angel did not just shake him and go off. He had a manifestation, a side effect of the presence of God. But is that what the angel came to do? No. He wants to give him some more things. He wants to impart a revelation in verse 11. O Daniel, man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright. Notice that he wants to go beyond the manifestation.

 

            What was the manifestation? In verse 8, he couldn’t stand upright. In verse 9, he couldn’t stand upright. But now God wants him to stand upright which is the opposite form of manifestation he had earlier. He was slain but the angel says, “Stand up.” God could have left him to enjoy all the presence of God. But God wants to move him into a revelation realm and said, “I want to talk to you.” God can talk to him while he was in deep sleep. There is a lesson to learn here. There is an aspect of the presence of God where there is a manifestation. But as you go further there is a revelation. This revelation will still be in line with God’s Word. God always delight in showing Himself. Some of us say, “If God can show Himself what is there more to see?” Even if you live for ten thousand years and have a revelation of God everyday, you would not have touched one drop in the ocean of God. God wants to reveal Himself so that we can know Him better and love Him more. That’s the second aspect called the revelation aspect where God begins to commune with you. There is a communion of Spirit with spirit.  Knowledge will be revealed to your finite mind. Things that we never saw before we suddenly see clearly. That is the spirit world. Beyond the manifestation is No. 2 a revelation.

 

Love and Mercy Realm                                                                                                                        

 

            But the most touching part is the third part. Beyond the revelation is another powerful point. Do you know why we need to go beyond the revelation knowledge? It is because knowledge puffs up. Even spiritual revelation can puffs us up. Look at II Cor. 12:7 Lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations. Did you see that? Paul says that he had revelation so great that he could not utter them in any earthly language. He saw things that he could not express. A spiritual battle took place in Paul’s life. In the end, Paul realized that though he was weak yet he is strong. There is an aspect beyond that revelation. There is another powerful aspect of that presence and I call it the realm of love and mercy. It is like liquid love.

 

            What is that realm like? In that realm, you cannot judge anyone and you do not judge anyone. What Jesus says is so true in Matt. 7 Judge not and you will not be judged. Jesus was teaching us not to judge one another. Do you know that at the back of our minds, we naturally judge one another? There is a point where we may judge something. In I Cor. 2, Paul writes that the spiritual man judges all things. Some things need to be judged in this life. To say that judgment is not needed is false and unscriptural. Because I Cor. 2 says the spiritual man judges all things. I Cor. 14 says when a prophet prophesy, let the others judge. That is why I never believe in people giving anonymous prophecies. Some people give anonymous prophecies so as not to allow others to judge them. If you ever give a prophecy, you must be willing to stand and be judged by the prophets.  There is no such thing as anonymous prophecy. When you prophesy in order to correct others, you must be willing to be corrected too. I Cor. 14:29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge. If you are not willing to let your prophecy be judged, then you should not prophesy.

 

            Here is an example in the bible to show forth that judgment is still necessary and we still need to judge things so that we will not be deceived. One more verse Philippians chapter one let your love grow in discernment, that is, in judgment. But here is another point beyond that. One of the problems that we can have is that the more knowledge, the more revelation we have the easier to judge. How do you judge something? Your judgment is based on your knowledge and you compare the knowledge. If you are not a musician or a pianist, you cannot really judge a musician’s work properly. You can roughly judge in a sense that you like it or you don’t like it. But you can’t judge as accurately as an accomplished pianist. Because the more knowledge we have the more we are able to judge. Do you realize something takes place if we grow in knowledge daily? The more knowledge you have, the more judgmental you can become. Is that not right? Without knowledge, you cannot judge. A little child cannot judge much. But as we grow in life, whether it is from natural knowledge or spiritual knowledge, we are able to judge. And the more capable and accurate our knowledge the more capable and accurately we are able to judge. Isn’t that dangerous? And that is why one of the requirements for leaders is that a leader must not only be able to have knowledge; he must be able to have love. If you have knowledge without love, you will be a very, very stern judge. It is only natural to judge more when you have more knowledge. So there must be a protection factor, love.

 

            As you grow in the Word and yielded to the Holy Spirit, the manifestation comes first. Then you press further into God. We do not only want the manifestation of shaking uncontrollably. We want more. Let me tell you what you should want. We want more of God. We want more of Jesus. We want more of the Spirit of God. We want more of the character of Jesus. As we press on, we pray, “O God we want to know You.”  You see I do not want to just have God. I want to know God. I want to love God. I do not want just be filled with God. Then I am just an empty vessel. I want to be a vessel that is living and vibrant, filled with God and knowing God. We want to be a living sacrifice. God does not want just a piece of clay. God wants sons and daughters who can relate to Him. And we need to move beyond the manifestation into the revelation of God.

 

            Now by revelation, I do not mean just mental knowledge. What I mean is an aspect of God that you never saw before. You want something of God that you can confirm with the Word of God. Something of God that changes your life. As we see Him so are we transformed. And God said blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. There is so much more to see of God. God is revealing Himself to us but to stop there is dangerous lest we be puffed up with so much revelation. Someone once said, “Talents are God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.” Pride comes before a fall.

 

            The first realm is the manifestation of the Holy Spirit. The second realm is the realm of truth and revelation. The third aspect is a realm of mercy and love. That is the realm where the love of God is so strong that when you look at somebody else you can never judge that person. Do you know why God calls the place where His presence dwells, the Mercy Seat? The book of Exodus tells us about the tabernacle of Moses where in the Holy of holies there is a piece of furniture called the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark of the Covenant is shaped like a box. There is one angel and cherubim and there is an empty place on the top of the box, which is called the Mercy Seat. Even in the New Testament, the real place where God sits on the throne is also called the Mercy Seat. Here is an interesting thing about mercy. Mercy can only be shown after knowledge in judgment. When you know that the person is guilty and you judged that he is guilty then only are you in a position to show mercy. If a person is innocent, does he need your mercy? No. It is a realm not only of love - it is a realm of love and mercy. When people are innocent, they do not need mercy. 

 

            One of the highest revelations of God is the mercy of God. Every time when people sing about His mercy, the glory of God comes in. In the book of II Chronicles, when the priests were exalting the mercy of God, the presence of God came in. Mercy can only be shown after we know what the judgment is. And we cancel the judgment. That is where mercy comes in. You know what is the judgment and you completely erase and eradicate it and count it as if its not there any more. You forgive and pardon a person – that is mercy.  There is the third realm in God where the presence of God is so strong that when you look at people, it is not a look without knowledge, but all you feel for them is that what I believe Jesus felt - the mercy and the love of God. Isn’t it wonderful when you move into a realm where you don’t judge people any more. Isn’t it wonderful when you move into a realm when you look at people you don’t condemn people for anything at all. Even if it is something wrong, all you show is mercy, love, and truth. You do not deny the truth. You know the truth but you have mercy and love. You walk in truth, mercy, and love.

 

            Jesus speaks about mercy in a fine way in Matt. 23:23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law; justice and mercy and faith. Jesus considers mercy, justice and faith to be greater than any work that we can do for God which the Pharisees were not showing. They were so strict with the people that the people were suffering under the yoke. Jesus uses many interesting expressions to describe them. Mercy is what they forgot. May the church of Jesus Christ never forget mercy. Everyday you worship, where do the worship go? It goes to the Mercy Seat of God. If we worship at the Mercy Seat of God and don’t show mercy what are we doing? Mercy and love go together. Because of the love of God, the truth is still there, you know what is judgment but you show mercy and love. I believe that all of us need mercy. All of us need to realize that in the sight of God is the mercy of God that we are what we are. Why are we not generous with that mercy? Blessed are the merciful for they shall receive mercy. This realm of love and mercy is a tremendous realm of the presence of God. It is a realm when we look at people all we feel is that tangible love flowing like a liquid love toward them. And you don’t feel condemnation for them. You don’t feel judgment for them. All you feel is you want to hold them and love them. That is the third aspect of the presence of God.

 

            Let me describe something that John G. Lake experienced when he was in Africa. There was what I call a deluge of the Spirit. In the book “The New John G. Lake Sermons” editted by Gordon Lindsay and published by Christ for the Nations, it says here in page twenty:

 

            In 1908 I preached in Victoria, South Africa, when one night God came over my life in such power in such streams of liquid glory and power that it flowed consciously on my hands like streams of electricity. I could point my finger at a man and that stream would strike him down. When a man interrupted my meeting I pointed my finger at him and say, “Sit down.” He fell and lay for three hours. When he became normal, they asked him what happened. He said, “Something struck me. I thought I was shot.” At two o’clock in the morning I ministered to sixty-five sick people who were present. And the streams of God that was pouring through my hands was so powerful. The people would fall as though they were hit. I was troubled when they fell with such violence. And the Spirit said, “You do not need to put your hands on them. Keep your hands a distance away.” When I held my hand a foot from their heads they would crumble and fall in a heap on the floor. Almost everyone was healed. That was the outward manifestation. That was what the people saw. But something inspire in my heart that made my soul like the soul of Jesus Christ. There was a newborn tenderness of God that was so wonderful that my heart reached out and cried out and wept over men in sin. I will gather them in my arms and love them. And Jesus Christ flowed out of me and delivered them. During that period, men would walk down the isle and when they came within ten feet from me, I see them fall one on top of the other. A preacher who had sinned as he looked at me fall prostrate was saved, baptized in the Holy Spirit and stirred the nation with a message of love. In 18 months, God raised up one hundred churches in that land. Those hundred churches were born in the tabernacle at Johannesburg. The multitude of those who compose those hundred churches were healed or baptized in the Holy Spirit under my own eyes as I preached or prayed. I continued in the ministry of healing. I saw hundreds of thousand healed. At that time my heart kept crying, “O God let me know You better.” There was a cry in my soul for a greater consciousness of God; a yearning for God’s love.

 

            And here he talks about what he learned from that experience. And he says here:

 

            The greatest manifestation of the Holy Spirit baptized life ever given to the world was not in the preaching of the apostles, it was not in the wonderful manifestation of what that took place at their hand. It was in the unselfishness manifested by the church. Think of it three thousand Holy Ghost-baptized Christians in Jerusalem from the day of Pentecost onward who love their neighbors’ children as much as their own. Who were so anxious for fear that their brothers have not enough to eat that they sold their estate, brought the money, laid at the apostles’ feet and said, “Distribute it.” They carried the glow, the fire and the wonder of His divine salvation to the whole world.

 

            That showed what God had worked in their heart. I wish we could arrive at the place where the church was baptized to the degree of unselfishness. That would be a greater manifestation than healing, greater than conversion, greater than the baptism in the Holy Spirit, grater than tongues. It would be a manifestation of the love of I Cor. 13. People see what’s happening outside and they don’t see what’s happening inside. But the reality of the presence there is a tangibly liquid love.

 

            Look at it this way. How many people have we judged with our heart and our mind? Sometimes, we don’t say our judgment out but it is inside our thought. How many people have we judged by saying, “He is this kind of person; she is that kind of person.” How many people have we kept judging? When will the judgment end? When will we move into mercy? And Jesus said, “Judge not and you will not be judged.” When will we find that love to reach out to others, despite whatever problems and weaknesses they may have? Let us be honest. Not everyone of us is perfect. Some are more imperfect than others. Some may have different habits.  When will we stop judging others? The love of God and the mercy of God need to operate in our lives. There is a realm when judgment ends. There is a realm where you do not judge any single person any more. It is a realm of the presence of God where liquid love is flowing through you. And everyone you look, all you could feel was the same Jn. 3:16 love flowing out from you. God so loved the world and you love this very individual. And you love them. You want to care for them. You want to do good things for them. That is what the love makes you. It is a tangible love of God. It is the third aspect of the depth of God’s presence.

 

            John. G. Lake made an important statement in one of his books. He was with a very young minister. And he was observing this young minister. When this young minister prayed he had hundreds of people fell under the power. Then John G. Lake came to him and asked, “How is everything?” He said, “Wonderful.” Then John G. Lake told him frankly. He asked, “How many of them were healed?” Almost none of them were healed and John G. Lake as an elder minister advised the young. “You have concentrated the power of God on the manifestation and you have not brought healing. If you keep your eyes focused on the purpose that all manifestations are to reveal Jesus and to break the kingdom of darkness, you would see healing and miracles.” Jesus sent us out to cast out devils, heal the sick and open blind eyes. That is what the kingdom of God is about. Do not channel the power of God for your own entertainment. Channel it out and reach out to more of Jesus.

 

            Let it bring you into the realm of revelation. In the realm of revelation, move further into the realm of love. And as the love consumes you, let the love flow out from your life. Let the manifestation and the power you feel make you weep and cry for people. Kathryn Kuhlman saw so many sick people. In her days, the Charismatic Revival was going on. She went to tent after tent of healing preachers. She saw a lot of demonstration, a lot of showmanship, but very few people healed. Of course, people get excited when one or two people were healed but very few. She would cry. She would come back, lie on her bed and her eyes were red. She would cry when some took the sick home and they were not healed. “God, where is Thy real power?” She was not satisfied with what move there was and because her heart cried out, her heart was filled with love. You read the book “A Glimpse in the Glory.” When she ministered in her miracle service, do you know what she felt? She felt that realm that I am talking about - liquid love. When she saw some of the sick, she felt if only she could die so that the child would live. And because of such love that she moved into, the power of God moved and thousands upon thousands were healed. A lot of people want that same power.  They try the same manifestation but they do not have the same love. If you walk in love, you will be walking in the right path. If you grow in love, you are growing in the right path. If you do not grow in love you are growing in the wrong direction.

 

            Love is the greatest thing. And if we were to set up to love God with all our heart, mind and soul and to love all men as God loves them, it may take time but where love is, the power of God is there. Where the fullness of God is, the love of God is present. Where the power of God is, the love of God is. When you are moved with compassion in your heart, you are the members and the flesh of Jesus. When the compassions are flowing in your life, get ready. That is the time for signs and wonders. It is time where every blind eyes are opened and every sick person healed. And the kingdom of God is such power that has never been seen before. But it must start with the love of God burning in our heart. Liquid love starts by loving your neighbor. Start by loving all around you. Start by walking in love, moving in love and letting the power of God flow through your life. Let the love of God move you until all you feel is the heart beat of Jesus. As you keep moving in that direction, that right part will take you into the kingdom of God.     

 

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