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  • EPISODE 25 – LOVE ONE ANOTHER 3; JESUS OUR PATTERN 2 (A New Commandment 4)

    EPISODE 25 – LOVE ONE ANOTHER 3; JESUS OUR PATTERN 2 (A New Commandment 4)

    By Benjamin Nana Amissah Ansah

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    Thursday 16th February, 2023
     
    LOVE ONE ANOTHER: JESUS OUR PATTERN 2 (A New Commandment 4)
     
    ” A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:34-35
     
    This commandment of Jesus, is specifically for the people of His household.
    He didn’t give this commandment to the multitudes. He gave this commandment during His final moments with His disciples before His death.
    The importance of loving one another is the testimony of our oneness to the world.
    God truly loves the world, however, it is His desire that we share His special love, with one another.
     
    The only way we can reach out to the world is when we are one and love one another.
     
    “By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:34
     
    Jesus had to include the need for the oneness of the saints in His heartfelt prayer in John 17 
     
    “I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me” John 17:21 (NLT).
     
    Beloved, the need for all the saints to be one and to love one another is imperative.
     
    Love is an action and not just an utterance. (1 John 3:18).
     
    Jesus demonstrated His love of service to us, by how He washed the feet of His disciples.
     
    ” If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.(John 13:14-15)
     
     
    I ask the question again, how are you serving your fellow brother in Christ?
    Today we look at another example of the love of Jesus.
     
    Paul the apostle, puts it this way:
    “But *God clearly shows and proves His own love for us*, by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8 (Amplified Bible)
     
    Jesus’ death was God patiently showing and demonstrating His love to us.
     
    This wasn’t Apostle Paul trying to make it up.
     
    See what Jesus said,
     
    ” This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
    Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.” John 15:12-14
     
    Jesus demonstrated His greater love through His sacrificial service.
    We also love one another through our sacrificial service.
     
    Apostle Paul admonished the brethren in Philippi with this ardent instruction:
     
    ” If you’ve gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life,if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care – then do me a favor: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don’t push your way to the front; don’t sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don’t be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand. Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn’t claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death – and the worst kind of death at that: a crucifixion. Because of that obedience, God lifted him high and honored him far beyond anyone or anything, ever, (Philippians 2:1-9, MESSAGE)
     
    This is how you follow the example of Jesus; to love others is to serve them. You love others when you do things for them without expecting anything in return. You do things you may not like to do, and that will cost or inconvenience you. (NB: Not things that make you live contrary to God’s word).
    There is no love without service. Jesus said He came to serve others:
     
    “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Matthew 20:28
     
    Beloved, we know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters. ( 1John 3:16)
     
    Hatred towards one another is not an option. You walk in darkness if you hate a brother or a sister. (1 John 2:9)
     
    The greatest among you shall be your servant. (Matthew 23:11).
     
     
    Have a blessed day.
     
    Let me know how this blessed you in the comment session.
    DIG DEEPER
    (1 John 4:9-11; Philippians 2:17; 1 Corinthians 13 )
     
    WE PRAY
    That the Lord grants us more opportunities to demonstrate His sacrificial love towards the brethren as Christ Jesus loved us.
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2023
    Day 17: Genesis 16-18
     
    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    I make great sacrifices for the brethren. I refuse to walk in hatred. Through me the brethren see the reality of the love of Christ. I gobthe extra mile to help the brethren. I am a great lover of the saints. I refuse to be selfish. I refuse to esteem myself above the brethren. I serve the brethren with all humility.
    Hallelujah!!!
  • EPISODE 24 – LOVE ONE ANOTHER 2; JESUS OUR PATTERN 1 (A New Commandment 3) 

    EPISODE 24 – LOVE ONE ANOTHER 2; JESUS OUR PATTERN 1 (A New Commandment 3) 

    By Benjamin Nana Amissah Ansah

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    MACHAIRA

    (Pronounced makh’-ahee-rah)

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    Wednesday 15th February, 2023
     
    LOVE ONE ANOTHER 2: JESUS OUR PATTERN 1 (A New Commandment 3)
     
    ” A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:34-35
     
    About 13 times in the New Testament of the Bible, we see the phrase “love one another”.
     
    And that reveals the importance of this commandment. How we love one another is what makes others know we are disciples of Jesus. (Johm 13:35)
     
    The newness of this commandment of Jesus, is Himself. Jesus didn’t just give us His command to love one another. He made Himself the pattern and supply of that commandment.
     
    We are not to love one another by how we love ourselves. We love one another according to the portrait of Jesus.
     
    “This is my commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you” John 15:12 (ISV)
     
    What is the extent of Jesus’s love for us? How has he loved us?
     
    Love is not just an utterance, love is a walk.
     
    “Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions.” 1 John 3:18 (NLT)
     
     Love is a life-lived or an action. Love is not suppositious or conjectured. Love is demonstrated and experienced.
     
    Understand that love is more than a feeling. To love is to serve.
     
    Today lets begin to look at some practical ways Jesus demonstrated His love of service for us:
     
    Before Jesus gave the new commandment in John 13:34, look at what happened in the earlier verses:
     
    “Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end… Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;
    He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.
    After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded…
    So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?
    Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
    If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.
     For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
    Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.”
    (John 13:1,3-5;12-17)
     
    From these verses, we realise, there is no room to guess what Jesus meant by “as I have loved you” in John 13:34.
     
    He has showed us the clear example of what we should do in verse 15; 
     
     For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
     
    What did Jesus really do?
     
    He served His disciples by washing their feet.
     
    Feet washing is an art of hospitality among the Israelites.
     
    Most oriental people, which includes the Israelites, wore sandals instead of shoes, in the past times, and as they usually went barefoot in the house, frequent washing of the feet was a necessity. Hence among the Israelites, it was the first duty of the host to give his guest water for the washing of his feet. To omit this was a mark of unfriendliness. This was done either by the wife or the servants.
     
    Mostly, its done before meals. 
    (See Genesis 18:4; Genesis 19:2, Genesis 24:32; Genesis 43:24).
     
     
    This is a symbol of honour, service and humility for one another.
     
    We love one another by serving one another with that which God has given us. And that was what Jesus showed His disciples.
     
    “Just as each one of you has received a special gift [a spiritual talent, an ability graciously given by God], employ it in serving one another as [is appropriate for] good stewards of God’s multi-faceted grace [faithfully using the diverse, varied gifts and abilities granted to Christians by God’s unmerited favor]” 1 Peter 4:10 (Amplified Bible).
     
    Beloved, are you in pursuit of your own interest?
    Or you are in pursuit of serving the brethren?  
     
    As Christ has loved you, serve one another.
     
    Shalom
    DIG DEEPER
    (1 John 4:20; 1 Peter 4:10-11; Romans 12:10; Philippians 2:1-11)
     
    WE PRAY
    That we enjoy abundance of grace to relentlessly love the saints by serving them in humility and honour.
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2023
    Day 16: Genesis 12-15
     
    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    I serve the saints in love. I am an example of the love of Christ to others. I love with ease because Christ is the supply of my love. I refuse to be selfish. I am committed to serving others in humility.
    Hallelujah!!!
  • EPISODE 23 – LOVE ONE ANOTHER 1 (A New Commandment 2)

    EPISODE 23 – LOVE ONE ANOTHER 1 (A New Commandment 2)

    By Benjamin Nana Amissah Ansah

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    MACHAIRA

    (Pronounced makh’-ahee-rah)

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    Tuesday 14th February, 2023
     
     
    A New Commandment 2
     
    ” A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:34-35
     
    From yesterday, we have seen that there is a difference between the commandments of Jesus and the Law of Moses. Jesus did not leave His disciples without clear instructions. The instructions of Jesus are life. 
     
    He didn’t come to die for us, resurrect and ascend to Heaven without giving us clear commandments. 
    Beloved, He gave us the Holy Spirit (of whom we will be discussing much about later) and He also gave us His commandments.
     
    Most at times we hear people say, we are not “UNDER A LAW…”
    Then we begin to think we have no Law and commandments.
     
    That is not entirely true. Because the Bible never said that.
     
    Of course we are not “UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES”
     
    Whenever the Bible says, we are not under the law, it is referring to the LAW OF MOSES.
     
    That law couldn’t bring us into the full expression of God.
     
    In Christ, we have A NEW LAW OF LIFE (Romans 8:2). This law is also the law of Christ (Galatians 6:2).
     
    The commandments of Jesus are not the Commandments of Moses.
     
    As we have seen previously, the commandments of Jesus are not merely demands. The commandments of Jesus also supply us with life and ability. 
     
    The truth is, His commandments are the dispensing of Himself.
     
    Let me talk to You:
     
    Whatever, Jesus tells you to do is what He has become to you and what He has made you.
     
    He doesn’t just demonstrate what He tells you to do. He becomes what He tells you to do in you.
    Our Lord Jesus doesn’t show you how to live His life externally. He has indwelt you through the Holy Spirit to do what He tells you to do, with you.
     
    You don’t walk in the obedience of His commandments alone. You walk in obedience of His commandments with Him.
     
    Paul said, “Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God” 2 Corinthians 3:5
     
    See The Passion Translation:
     
    “Yet we don’t see ourselves as capable enough to do anything in our own strength, for our true competence flows from God’s empowering presence”
     
    This is what it is when I say, “The commandments of Jesus are Life”.
     
    He says, “without me you can do nothing” (John 15:5).
     
    The golden rule of the commandments of Moses is, “Love your neighbour as yourself”
     
    This is demanding and limited.
     
    It means the ability to love is issuing out of your love for yourself. And you can only love as far as you love yourself.
     
    How far can you love with this limited ability of love in you.
     
    And even until Jesus came, we had not seen the full expression of love.
     
    Through Jesus, we saw a whole new civilization of love. 
     
    Paul says, “to know the love of Christ which surpasses all knowledge…” Ephesians 3:19.
     
    Which means Moses’ commandment of love cannot bring you into full expression of the love of God.
     
    And till today, many are still living by “love your neighbour as yourself”.
     
    But Jesus is inviting us to a higher dimension of love.
     
    He said, a “New” Commandment I give. It means from now onwards you don’t operate by the Mosaic law. 
     
    The Lord is saying, I bring you something new. The word for new is “Kainos”, it means freshness, recently made, unused, unworn, unprecedented, uncommon, unheard of.
    It is not “new” in terms of time, but “new” as to form or quality, of different nature from what is contrasted as old.
     
    It relates to being not previously present; as set over against that which is outworn, the effete or burnt-out through age.
     
    Beloved, this New Commandment of love Jesus gave was beyond any human comprehension and experience.
     
    It is a supernatural commandment.
     
    The new commandment of Jesus says:
     
    ” …as I have loved you, that you also love one another. “
     
    This love is beyond the domain of men. It is beyond the standard of men. This is a higher standard of love. And no man can meet its demand. This is why God designed it to only be supplied to you by Himself.
     
    This love doesn’t work just by utterance. It works by life. And you cannot wake up one day to just start loving as He has loved you. Unless you have received Him into you.
    The greatest mind couldn’t imagine this love. He Himself has to be the picture of this love.
     
    To walk in this love, you must know more and more the extent by which He has loved you.
     
    “All this is proceeding along lines planned all along by God and then executed in Christ Jesus. When we trust in him, we’re free to say whatever needs to be said, bold to go wherever we need to go. So don’t let my present trouble on your behalf get you down. Be proud!
    My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you’ll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:11-19 (The Message)
     
    Glory to God!
     
     
    DIG DEEPER
    (1 John 4:9-10; John 15:12,13,17)
     
    WE PRAY
    That we will comprehend the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge.
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2023
    Day 15: Job 40-42
     
    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    The love of Christ floods my heart. I have Christ’s ability to love. I walk in love. I grow in the incomprehensible love of Christ. I experience the fullness of God’s love in all matters. My understanding is deepened in the love of Christ.
     
    Hallelujah!!!
     
     
     
  • Episode 22 – A New Commandment

    Episode 22 – A New Commandment

    By Benjamin Nana Amissah Ansah

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    MACHAIRA

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    Monday 13th February, 2023
     
     
    A New Commandment
     
    “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.”
    John 14:15 (NASB1995)
     
     During the last conversation with His disciples, Jesus shared some deep essential matters with them. These were things that will sustain them in the fellowship He has established with them. And He even gave them the promise of the Holy Spirit as their Helper, who is also going to bring the clarity of the things He has shared and also reveal more truth to them.
    In John 17, we also see Jesus praying for His disciples.
     
    You will realise that, the last few hours Jesus had with His disciples were imbued with great truth. He didn’t just speak words, He enriched them with a kingdom treasure chest of verities. 
     
    This was why He had to admonish them to keep (delight, value, highly esteem, preserve, guard) His commandments.
     
    As we have established earlier, the commandments of Jesus are not lists of burdensome rules and regulations; they are life.
     
    Take note: the things Jesus shared with His disciples in His last hours, were not things only meant for them. He was also speaking to those who shall believe in Him even after. Beloved, this includes you and I.
     
    Look at what He said in His prayer for His disciples within the same period:
     
     “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. *I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word” John 17:9;20
     
    Do you believe in the Lord through the Word ministered?
     
    If you your answer is “yes”, then Jesus prayed for you and His commandments are also to you.
     
    Hallelujah.
     
    Now in the commandments Jesus gave His disciples, He specifically, spoke of a “New Commandment”. 
    Which is:
     
    ” A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.* By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:34-35
     
    Why did Jesus refer to this as a New Commandment?
     
    Before the last hours of Jesus’ conversation with His disciples, the Pharisees and the Sadducees, attempted several times to entangle Him with their questions. After they had failed at different attempts, they decided to ask another question,
     
    “But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
    Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, *which is the great commandment in the law*? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
    This is the first and great commandment.
    And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
    On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” Matthew 22:34-40 (NKJV)
     
    The law mentioned here, is clearly the law of Moses. One thing you should know is that, there is a difference between the Law of Moses and the Commandments of Jesus.
    The law of Moses is not necessarily bad or evil (Romans 7:7). However, the law of Moses is the knowledge of sin (Romans 3:20) and exposes man’s weakness. It did not make anything perfect. (Hebrews 7:19). This is because the Law demanded obedience but did not supply the ability of obedience. This was why the law was burdensome. Peter called it unbearable yoke (Acts 15:10).
     
    However, the commandments of Jesus are the speaking of His life. Jesus’ commandments are first a supply of life and ability.
     
    From our previous episodes, we see that, we are not the source of love. The love which we have towards God, is dependent on God’s love for us. Which means God’s love is the ability of our love.
     
    Meanwhile, the Old covenant (which was a shadow of things to come through Christ (Hebrews 8:5; Hebrews 10:1), couldn’t make supply of love because of its terms.
     
    You will understand this by comparing these two:
     
    1. The second great commandments of the law says:
     
    “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself“
     
    2. The new commandment of Jesus says:
     
    “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; *as I have loved you, that you also love one another. “
     
    Do you see the premise of each commandment?
     
    The commandment of the law of Moses is dependent on *YOURSELF Effort* .
     
    However, the New commandment of Jesus is dependent on HIS LOVE.
     
    Beloved, understand that, you cannot walk in the richness of His love towards others until you BEHOLD AND ENJOY THE LOVE OF CHRIST.
     
    Live by the new commandments of Jesus and not by the commandments of the law. 
     
    Glory to God
    DIG DEEPER
    (1 John 2:8-10; Ephesians 5:2; John 15:12,13,17)
     
    WE PRAY
    That we shall increase in the knowledge of the love of Christ, so we may love others as He has loved us.
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2023
    Day 14: Job 38-39
     
    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    Thank you Lord for your unconditional love. I enjoy the unconditional love more and more. By this love, I am enabled to love all I cannot be intimidated by any condition. I walk in the love of God according as the Lord has loved me.
     
    Hallelujah!!!
  • EPISODE 21 – THE SEAL OF GOD’S INTIMACY WITH YOU 2 (God’s Love Language 12) 

    EPISODE 21 – THE SEAL OF GOD’S INTIMACY WITH YOU 2 (God’s Love Language 12) 

    By Benjamin Nana Amissah Ansah

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    MACHAIRA

    (Pronounced makh’-ahee-rah)

    •  Daily revelatory thoughts to sharpen you and to

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    Sunday 12th February, 2023
     
     
    The Seal of God’s Intimacy With You 2 (God’s Love Language 12)
     
    “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.”
    John 14:15-17 (NASB1995)
     
    The Holy Spirit in you is the seal of God’s Intimacy with you.
     
    God didn’t just want to have an outward relationship with you. God wanted have a deeper inward relationship with you. This is why He comes to   indwell you through the Holy Spirit.
     
    The thing is, God didn’t come to dwell in you, with a plan or a condition to exit. He came to make His Home in you forever. Which means you are God’s residential address through the Holy Spirit. 
     
    God didn’t just indwell you, He made it possible legally.
     
    Through the death of Jesus, the old sin nature was terminated or crucified, so that you can receive the new life, which is Christ. (Galatians 2:20).
     
    Through Christ’s death and resurrection, you were justified, sanctified and made Holy. Your body now became the temple of the Holy Spirit.
    You were made pure in Christ, that now God can dwell in you.
     
    This was not just achieved by God through Christ, so that you will practice a “religious worship”. This was achieved by God with the goal of intimacy.
     
    God didn’t want you to know Him by mental assent. He wants you to be in Him and He shall also be in you, to bring you into full experience of His love beyond utterance.
     
    Through Christ’s death, God demonstrated His greatest love towards you. Now, by indwelling you through the Spirit, He seals His love for you.
     
    The Holy Spirit in you is the consummate expression of all that God began in Christ.
     
    Your recognition and engagement of the presence of the Holy Spirit in you, is the most beautiful way to enjoy all that Christ has achieved for you.
     
    Through the Holy Spirit, God daily makes His love real to you.
     
    The Holy Spirit in you is the evidence that God didn’t come to show you one time love through Jesus’ earth walk. He is in you now as the evidence that you can receive, enjoy, experience and share in His love forever.
     
    The Holy Spirit in you is also the continuous supply of the ability of God’s love in your heart.
     
    Which means, He is in you not only for you to enjoy God’s love, but to make you a dispenser of the Love of God.
     
    Now you have the ability to love, to walk with God intimately, and to share the unfathomable unconditional love with others.
     
    True intimacy with God doesn’t end when you stand in a “Church auditorium“, with your hands lifted, having tears in your eyes and crying out how you love the Lord. That experience may be real as His love overwhelms your heart. Nevertheless, true intimacy with God is a daily walk. 
     
    The Holy Spirit is not dwelling in you seasonally. He is in you FOREVER!
     
    “…He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever…” John 14:16 
     
    You don’t enjoy the love of God annually, nor weekly. The Holy Spirit in you, means you have daily avalanche of the Love of God flowing in your heart forever.
     
    Now, to commune with God through prayer should be a restful flow. To fellowship with the Lord and to delight in Him, should be expressed by you organically. To have deep moments of ministering to the Lord and receiving the ministrations of the Lord should be unforceful.
     
    Beloved, the Holy Spirit is in you now. You have the living spring of life within you by which you can fellowship and worship the Lord in spirit and in truth.
     
    Worship no longer becomes an act of religious demand. Worship becomes a response to the revelation of God in your heart through the administration of the Holy Spirit.
     
    To have the Holy Spirit in you, means you have the source of God’s loving ability. You have what it takes to daily demonstrate the love of God and the inward evidence to daily trust the Lord. You have the seal of God’s love and supply in you. 
     
    Glory to God.
     
    DIG DEEPER
    (Ephesians 3:18-19; Ephesians 5:2; Jeremiah 31:3; Isaiah 49:15; Zephaniah 3:17; John 4:10-25)
     
    WE PRAY
    -that by the wisdom of God, we shall take advantage of the Holy Spirit in our heart, to demonstrate total trust in the Lord and to share His unfathomable unconditional love with others.
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2023
    Day 13: Job 35-37
     
    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    I have the seal of the Lord upon me. The love of God is in my heart, therefore, I have the ability to love. I have an intimate relationship with God. I enjoy and demonstrate the avalanche of God’s love. I have a daily communion with God.
     
    Hallelujah!!!
  • EPISODE 20 – THE SEAL OF GOD’S INTIMACY WITH YOU (God’s Love Language 11)

    EPISODE 20 – THE SEAL OF GOD’S INTIMACY WITH YOU (God’s Love Language 11)

    By Benjamin Nana Amissah Ansah

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    Saturday, 11th February, 2023
     
     
    The Seal of God’s Intimacy With You (God’s Love Language 11)
     
    “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.”
    John 14:15-17 (NASB1995)
     
    Beloved, God’s heartbeat wasn’t just for Jesus to die for your sins; His heartbeat is to be mingled with you.
     
    God intentionally made man, that He will have His Family, which vibrates at His frequency of love. 
    His desire is to indwell you and to become one with you.
    God, through the Holy Spirit indwells anyone who desires and delights in Him.
     
    This is not to suggest that, the Holy Spirit is received according to our works.
     
    This only means that those who believe in the Lord, are those who love the Lord, delight in His words and receive the Holy Spirit.
     
    As you can see in the opening scripture.
     
    “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever;” John 14:15-16.
     
    There is no need to be wondering who the “Another Helper” is.
     
    Just in the next verse the Lord provides the answer:
    “that is the Spirit of truth…” (John 14:17)
     
    This clearly is the Holy Spirit and not any other person.
     
    However, the promise of the Holy Spirit, is not to be fulfilled in all men automatically. The promise of the Holy Spirit is to be fulfilled in those who believe and receive the Lord Jesus.
     
    “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me” Revelation 3:20. (NKJV)
     
    Have you received the Lord, as He knocked at the door of your heart?
     
    There is the invitation of the Lord to have a deeper relationship of love with you.
     
    The day you received the Lord, the Holy Spirit came to indwell you.
     
    When you received the Holy Spirit, God came to make His home in you.
    What was God’s goal for indwelling you?
     
    INTIMACY!
     
    The Holy Spirit in you is the seal of God’s Intimacy with you.
     
    Your ability to commune or have intimacy with God in a deeper way is by the Holy Spirit. He supplies you with the love of God (Romans 5:5), and empowers you with the truth of God’s Word, the life of God and leads you in your walk with God.
     
    “In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit” Ephesians 1:13 (ESV)
     
    DIG DEEPER
    (2 Corinthians 1:21-22; John 6:67; Isaiah 42:1;61:1; 2 Corinthians 5:5)
     
    WE PRAY
    – Thanking the Lord for the seal of the Spirit upon us.
     
    – And that we grow in the understanding of God’s Spirit to enjoy His communion.
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2023
    Day 12: Job 31-34
     
    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    I have the seal of the Lord upon me. I am set apart by the Lord to have intimate relationship with Him. The Holy Spirit is strongly at work in Him. I have the ability to fellowship with God. I am not ordinary. God lives in me through the Holy Spirit. 
     
    Hallelujah!!!