LOVE

Love’s real meaning and purpose is being lost in today’s society. I would dare to say both in the world system and also in the church. God’s Love creates courage, resilience, faith and good character toward all mankind. The world’s expression is “Love is Love” so anything goes; there is no standard.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but the who does the will of God abides forever. I john 2:15-17

The world system pushes a love that can be any kind of relationship as long as you just “call It love.” It creates a weak emotional kind of character that is really uncertain of what it believes and moves through life on total feelings. It is love that worships self and seeks to satisfy the flesh at any cost. The bible calls it lasciviousness which means an unbridled sexual desire, often accompanied by shamelessness, lewdness, and a disregard for sexual purity and decency. It undermines human dignity, and Gods pan for human relationships. The world calls this love. Believers must guard their hearts from this spirit creeping into their lives.

The truth is God is Love! God is the origin of Love! He loves us, His creation, so much that He would give His only son to die for the sins of every human being who would receive that truth. Jesus is truth! He embodied truth. His love was truth, it was pure, strong, purposed and without favoritism. He was not afraid of pain or persecution, suffering for a cause, or enduring for a greater cause. Much of Christianity has so watered down the real meaning of walking in love. Love is not living by any other standard other than the word of God. It does not create a passive mixture or compromise what is right and what is wrong to make peace or avoid trouble. It is not a love that cowers or bends the truth because it is not popular. God’s love has a modesty that is hard to find today even in the church.

God’s love is so much higher than ours, so much deeper, so much wiser that it can only be experienced by having His own Spirit born within us. We can only discern by His own Spirit within us what and how high or wide or long His love will go. God’s love has eternal purpose and even in His judgement He loves in order to give people mercy and save them from an eternal darkness.

Finally, my reason for writing this word is that we, disciples of Christ, must not allow the world system to give us weak standards to guide our lives. We cannot allow weak fearful ways of  self-protection or self-gratifying love to creep into our lives. We are to be bold and courageous warriors of truth. Are we standing for what is  the pure truth of the word. Do we live with a surrender to the inner voice of God in us or is our conscience seared from so much compromise and mixture. We have to live by the pure word of God in every single area of our lives. You cannot have genuine love without pure truth. Love can be hard, Love can be painful and even be hurtful, but it has an end purpose to save and perfect. I just feel deeply that believers must search their hearts and lives on this matter of what is truly means to walk in the love of God.                    Janee

LOVE
Love’s real meaning and purpose is being lost in today’s society. I would dare to say both in the world system and also in the church. God’s Love creates courage, resilience, faith and good character toward all mankind. The world’s expression is “Love is Love” so anything goes; there is no standard.

“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but the who does the will of God abides forever. I john 2:15-17”

The world system pushes a love that can be any kind of relationship as long as you just “call It love.” It creates a weak emotional kind of character that is really uncertain of what it believes and moves through life on total feelings. It is love that worships self and seeks to satisfy the flesh at any cost. The bible calls it lasciviousness which means an unbridled sexual desire, often accompanied by shamelessness, lewdness, and a disregard for sexual purity and decency. It undermines human dignity, and Gods pan for human relationships. The world calls this love. Believers must guard their hearts from this spirit creeping into their lives.

The truth is God is Love! God is the origin of Love! He loves us, His creation, so much that He would give His only son to die for the sins of every human being who would receive that truth. Jesus is truth! He embodied truth. His love was truth, it was pure, strong, purposed and without favoritism. He was not afraid of pain or persecution, suffering for a cause, or enduring for a greater cause. Much of Christianity has so watered down the real meaning of walking in love. Love is not living by any other standard other than the word of God. It does not create a passive mixture or compromise what is right and what is wrong to make peace or avoid trouble. It is not a love that cowers or bends the truth because it is not popular. God’s love has a modesty that is hard to find today even in the church.

God’s love is so much higher than ours, so much deeper, so much wiser that it can only be experienced by having His own Spirit born within us. We can only discern by His own Spirit within us what and how high or wide or long His love will go. God’s love has eternal purpose and even in His judgement He loves in order to give people mercy and save them from an eternal darkness.

Finally, my reason for writing this word is that we, disciples of Christ, must not allow the world system to give us weak standards to guide our lives. We cannot allow weak fearful ways of self-protection or self-gratifying love to creep into our lives. We are to be bold and courageous warriors of truth. Are we standing for what is the pure truth of the world. Do we live with a surrender to the inner voice of God in us or is our conscience seared from so much compromise and mixture. We have to live by the pure word of God in every single area of our lives. You cannot have genuine love without pure truth. Love can be hard, Love can be painful and even be hurtful, but it has an end purpose to save and perfect. I just feel deeply that believers must search their hearts and lives on this matter of what is truly means to walk in the love of God.                                          Janee

JESUS YEARNS FOR HIS BODY

I feel like Jesus is so hungry yearning in His heart for His body to be one and do the greater works He so wants to do, but He has to have His body do them. He is only on the earth in His body….us! He is our head; we are His body. He empowered us with the same indwelling Holy Spirit as was in Him in order to accomplish and finish the work He started. We are not lacking anything to accomplish this for Him. His Divine power has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness through knowing Him.

If we can keep His fire burning in us every day and walk in surrender to Holy Ghost within us, we can give Him great joy. That will be our strength. Oh Lord I pray for your body on the earth to rise up, to wake up, to see you, to hear you, and to give everything in complete surrender for you. Oh Father, I pray in Jesus Name, for a generation of all ages, and colors to arise wearing your glory, each one in their place, like a gold chain that links us to You Jesus our head. I pray for Your body to be beautiful in holiness, powerful in Your might, white as snow in Your purity and unstoppable in Your love.

Janee Hawks

“NO ONE!”

As I was reading I John 4 this morning in the amplified, the Lord began to speak to me.These are my thoughts from the Lord , I believe. Jesus revealed fresh to me again His love.

 What I am seeing is there is no one like Jesus, and no one who can love us more than He does. I am seeing Him in a fresh new light of how much He gave everything out of  His love for us. He gave up His glory in heaven with the Father to become like us so we could become like Him. He will never return to that some place. He is a resurrected man, 100% God, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords now, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.

In the beginning with God, Jesus existed as the word of God. He was the second person of the Godhead. Three persons, one God, each with His Divine character and purpose. The counsel was set over the fall of man on Gods beautiful earth. The word of God chose to strip Himself of His current place in Glory to come to earth in the form of a baby and live out for 33 years what it was like to live in a fallen world as a real human. He remained sinless all His days feeling love for mankind, knowing it was His love and mission to pay the price for their sin debt of revolt. Satan had taken mankind captive, and He was sent to set them free.

What was burning into my spirit was how much He loves us. What caused Him to suffer, to be abandoned, to pay the price of our sin debt with the worst death anyone could have because of His  deep love for us. And Jesus, more than anyone else knows our every trial, test, challenges, and heartaches because He was tempted in every way we are. He experience it all. There is nothing we go through that He cannot understand as He too experienced everything we do. Jesus conquered the cross out of love for us. He conquered pain and sorrow out of love for us. When He took His last breath He said, “It is Finished!” He changed everything for us.

Out of love for us, knowing us like no other, Jesus gave us the way to live with Him forever. He gave us the way to be just like Him. He gave us the chance to exchange the fall we were born with for His divine nature at the cross. He gave us the chance to experience freedom from the devil’s orphanage in which we were bound. He set us free from ourselves and showed us the path of liberty though the power of Holy Spirit.

He understands mind battles we face, the raging emotions, and the breaking of our wills. He has so much compassion for us. NO ONE could love us more or know us better. We are His pearl of great price he bought with His own life. We are His treasured possession, the apple of His eye, His bride, His body. He sees us washed in His blood forgiven and grieves at anything that would hinder us from His presence. He can hardly wait for us to become His complete redemption, a beautiful spotless bride forever. We complete Him and He completes us. WOW, What a Savior, what a friend, what a love! NO ONE can understand me like He can , No one can understand you like He can. No one could ever love us more than He does. His love for us is perfect!

Jesus made it possible for us to be resurrected in Spirit, Soul and the final redemption, a glorious new immortal body as He has. He awaits us in Heaven as 100 % God and 100% man. There is no one ever to exist like Him,  but we have a chance to follow Him and become as He is forever.  He is the Way, the truth and the Life! This is the only door. There is no substitute. No one has ever done what the Lord Jesus has done.        NO ONE!

  We must know Him in this great love, for He is our life.  As we chose to believe, obey and live in an intimate relationship with Him now in this fallen world the roots of our hearts will go down so deep into His love. We will keep conquering from His victory until He comes to change it all. He owns the title deed to the earth, and He will prevail. Right now, He wants to prevail through His body on the earth. We will prevail through this same love that He loved us with and gave to us through the power of Holy Spirit. As He walked in the power of the Holy Spirit so must we every day. Holy Spirit reveals Jesus to us, keeps us in His heart, hearing His voice, feeling His touch and fuses His supernatural power into our human strength. His love for us is beyond our human understanding.

This love is so much higher than we can even comprehend. It is so beyond us that we need to Ask the Father to reveal this love to us in a way that we may truly know this incredible Savior , Jesus Christ as He deserves to be known. Just to know that Jesus lives in me is to know that His love is in me. Deep within our spirit let it arise and fill us with the overflowing love that will bring Him great joy. It will spill out in miracles of love and power to this world who so desperately needs Him. Remember He said in His word “As He is, so are we in this world.”.

       As I finish writing this Jesus , I am weeping in my spirit over this fresh revelation of How much you know me in every way. You understand me like no other and You love me like no other. You love me with a perfect love that  never ends, it will always be there. Nothing can separate me  from Your love Jesus. How great is this love. I have known this but now as you reveal a fresh revelation to me, I am changed again and falling in love with you again and again. This love revelation draws me into your heart. Help me life in your heart. Let this bless others Lord.                       J.H.

 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven ad dearth 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 your 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 fulness of God Ephesians 3: 14-19 NKJ

“KINGDOM PEACE STORY”

Janee Hawks

Lord, we ask you today for real peace! Peace is “freedom.”  Webster says peace is freedom from war, violence, and all disturbances that would keep you from quiet tranquility or mental calm and serenity. 

Peace is a heavenly commodity that has to come to earth through the kingdom of God. It is His gift to us who believe and see Christ Jesus for who He is. Jesus said when he went away, I will not leave you comfortless but I will give you another in My place. He will be My peace in you.  Peace I leave with you, it is My gift to you, and it is not the same as the peace the world gives. This peace that is so beyond our understanding is found in communion with the Holy Spirit who Jesus has given to His own. 

I want to share one experience that has made this truth a reality that lives in me.  In 1970 I experienced a peace that I knew was supernatural and would always be with me.  My three-year-old son died after five days in a hospital struggling to live due to a tonsillectomy. Respiratory complications existed in recovery room and he was not able to regain the damage done.  I leaned into Jesus who I was just getting to know. He graced me with a holy peace and wrapped His arms of strength around me. The strength of His peace gave me a sense of security. Even though there was the shock of crisis and the deep grief of loss I was able to function in a calm state of serenity. In the weeks, months and years to follow I was to learn about His peace and His great faithfulness in the midst of the worst crisis I could imagine.

 In the midst of this particular lengthy life-storm I was divinely kept in a state of freedom from damage and despair. It was real peace. The peace rested faithfully in my heart and mind. It was not dependent on what difficulties I had to face going through a funeral, or telling his two sisters why he was no longer with us. It was not dependent on the rough days ahead for me of missing his smile and giggles, or his hugs and kisses. When I had to remove his clothes and toys from his room my tears flowed like a river but it felt that they were being kept and used to wash away my grief.  When I had to set the table without my little son’s plate my aching heart struggled in desperation for comfort and I found it in a divine person who knew pain and heartache beyond any man. Jesus shared His comfort with me and now I know how to share comfort with others.  This Peace had His strength in it that enabled me to do what I would have never believed I could do. I found a part of me that I did not know existed. There were times of grieving that I felt so life-less and despondent but as I leaned into Jesus it would change. Looking back the best description of what I experienced is it seemed like a liquid healing ointment would touch me and was being smeared on my heart. I know now it was the love of God. You see this became Jesus revealed to me. This touch was a person; it was Jesus, who has been my faithful redeemer and friend now for 38 years. And it was Holy Spirit; Who Jesus gave as His gift to be in me and with me. And through every trial of life I am still learning to lean into His Peace more and more. 

You do not find real peace when your bank account is full, or when your job is secure, or your health insurance is paying the doctor bills. You don’t find real peace when life is handing you all sunshine and roses. You find real peace that passes all human understanding in great trials, impossible challenges, and the raging storms of life. His treasures are found in dark lonely places of emptiness, pain and brokenness. He is very near in times of trouble and so ready to show us who He is for us. He is always there to give His peace.

Today this country is facing a storm of great velocity that will shake the lives of many, including believers. People need the Lord. This world cannot find this kind of peace until the King of peace returns again to the earth. His Kingdom is peace. Jesus Christ is real peace personified. He gives Himself to us in the gift of the Holy Spirit Who will forever be with us and in us regardless of the worst circumstances. Holy Spirit is comfort and much more.

Lord, again, we ask you today for real peace! There is hardly a nation, a family or a person who is not in need of this real peace today.

But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Standby), the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name [in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf], He will teach you all things. And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you. “Peace I leave with you; My [own] Peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.] John 14:26-27 Amplified

“THE CHRISTMAS BABY “

HE SAID YES!

 What is the depth of meaning in Christmas and a baby Jesus in a manger? The story began in eternity past as God the Word, being of the Triune God head, said yes to do what it would take to save mankind and earth. You see He was called the Word. He said yes to becoming flesh. He said yes to leaving all the glory of Heaven and His place beside the Father to be born like a human as a baby. He said yes to humble Himself as the most vulnerable human, a baby. He said yes to become just like us, with all the human experiences, feelings, pain, trials, & temptations. He said Yes, to encounter all it meant to be a human in a world that had been stolen by the Angel called Lucifer. They called him Jesus because He was sent to save. He said yes to giving his life, shedding His blood to cleanse all the rebellion or revolt against Heaven and mankind. He experienced everything in life that any of us would and died the most horrific death known to man on a cross after severe beatings and cruel persecutions.

Think a moment of what I just said and put yourself in this picture. What kind of love is this? What kind of love would completely give everything, your life, position, peace, your whole state of being; becoming something else in order to save your enemies who were lost in a rebellion.  That is the depth of meaning to this Christmas baby who said yes. This baby, the son of God, was the Word who became flesh, a man, yet 100% God. He said yes to experience in every way what we experience, to feel everything we feel and to be persecuted his whole life for who he was, and finally to go the cross for every one of us to be able to say yes to Him and His plan of salvation. The whole creation groans in Lucifers domination over earth but because of this Love that said yes, the title deed to the earth has been redeemed back to the Father God. This Christmas baby grew, lived, and died and now reigns as a resurrected man who is 100% God, called the King of Kings, The Lord of Lords. He will return to bring the earth into the light of His peace, joy, and the greatest of all His love.  What kind of Love is this? It actually can live in you and me. This is the reason for the Christmas baby that said YES! Will you say that kind of YES to Him?                                                                                                                        Janee Hawks

“ For our light affliction which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding weight of glory” 2 Corinthians 4:17

There is a weight you want to gain if you are living your life for Jesus Christ.

Trials, temptations, hardships, tests, and various afflictions are a part of the true believers lives. The key is that all we face in this life is working for us a transformation into the Image of Christ. But we must keep the faith that all things are working together to conform us into the image of Christ, even if we don’t feel it or see it at the time. (Romans 8:28-29; 8:18)

The bible says many are the afflictions (pain and suffering) of the righteous, but the Lord will deliver them from them all. (Psalm 34:19) The key here is in spite of all of the hardships in life Holy Spirit will always cause us to triumph in victory when we stay abiding in Jesus. (2 Corinthians 2:14) Jesus completely conquered the revolt; He won all the battles first for us. And now he gives us a chance to own the same triumphant victory by giving us His own empowerment to overcome everything this life has for us. He gave us His authority to release His powerful Victory in everything.

Holy Spirit is doing something valuable and eternal deep within us every time we overcome in life and continue to walk in the victory. We are “gaining the eternal weight” of the very presence of Christ Jesus Himself growing in us. We are gaining glory with every affliction. It is weighty because it is the exceeding (always increasing, progressive) eternal glory of God. However this weight of glory will enable us to see the invisible, to see the eternal value of things, to understand that we have such a great treasure of power in our earthen vessel. Love for Him will cause it to shine outward to give God all the glory and not us.

The glory helps us to live in the Rest of the Lord.’ (Hebrews 4:10) It also makes what we do for the Lord easier because it is His power, His wisdom, and His love that empowers from our inner man outward to whatever assignment we are given. This is why we can count it all joy when hardships and trials come our way for it is working in us the glorious weight of Christ Himself, who is our Glory. I pray many times, “Fill me so full of you, Lord Jesus, that you can do whatever you desire through me; just make me Your clothes.  If Jesus is lifted up and if the Excellency of power moving through us is seen to be God and not us, then many are drawn heavenward to Father God.

This is a weight I want to gain as long as I live on this earth. The glory of God is the Lord Jesus Christ fully alive in you and fully present with you wherever you go and in whatever you do.  It works out of a pure heart of love that causes all you do to follow His way a narrow path but not a grievous or fearful one. This should become our greatest pursuit; it is a process of climbing every single day, and pressing on to reach the Prize of being possessed by the One you love, Christ Jesus our Lord. To know Him who gave His life in your place is the greatest thing in the entire world. So rejoice in Him and gain this weight, the eternal weight of Glory.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with    the glory, which shall be revealed in us. Romans 8:18

For our light affliction which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding weight of glory” 2 Corinth 4:17

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God is NEVER against us.  He is NEVER working against us. His dealings with us are always for our Good. It does not matter what the situations or hardships, or prayers delayed, or even in a crisis, God will always work the very best for us in the midst of it all. He will always be there with us in the midst of our trials. He NEVER leaves us or forsakes us. In the good times and in the bad times God is always working in us and for us, but NEVER against us. God is on our side!

When life has given you the darkest hour, when you can’t hear God or feel His presence, or see and understand what is happening then is the time to go deep into Jesus and just KNOW, without doubt, that God is working for you, NOT against you.  We just have to call upon Him and fall utterly dependent into His love and amazing empowerment called GRACE. God is always for you, never against you. Many times my heart is grieved when I hear others blame God for every bad thing that happens in the world or for the hard times’ life brings them. God is the Father of light and the giver of every good gift. He is not the one who steals, kills or destroys, rather He gives life and abundance but it must be found in the person of His Son, The Lord Jesus.

When my 3-year-old son left earth and went to heaven I saw God move for me in marvelous miraculous ways. He touched me so strongly with comfort and revelation of Himself that I came through it knowing our Great God cannot do wrong, He is ALWAYS JUST in all His ways. He is All-Knowing, Righteous and Merciful. He is Comfort and Love beyond our human understanding. He is Faithful and does not show favoritism. It is His Faithfulness every time that gives me access through the door into His presence. This is Who God is. May we “never blame our God” who loves us enough to let His only begotten Son pay the price for all mankind’s fallen sinful state.

^“And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And having called them, he gave them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he gave them his glory. What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?  Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?”Romans 8:30-32  (NLT)

 Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and His ways! For who can know the Lords’ thoughts? Who knows enough to give him advice? And who has given Him so much that he needs to pay it back? For everything comes from Him and exists by His power and is intended for His glory. All glory to Him forever. Amen  Ro.11:33-36                                             Janee