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The gift from GOD is the empowerment of His love through His only Son. The LORD is the fullness of His love and is in all respects the only One authorize to speak unto the Holy Father. Together, they work as a unit of One, and in saying this, we must look at what He said before He left us: I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. John 17:11
To be empowered by the LORD, you must be His disciple, and must be filled with the Spirit that He anoints with: Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God--children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God. John 1:12-13 So if you are a disciple of John, he said: "I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. Matthew 3:11 To articles of this covenant is written by John: who testifies to everything he saw--that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Not many doctrines of men specify Jesus as the LORD GOD, but as He said: "All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him." Even when He formed the nations of the earth, no one really knew how and why these things occurred, except those who are elected by Him. Those who really follow the Abrahamic faith are noted among the tribes of Israel, but even then there is a lot of contributions which they should not be doing. Take for instance the women at the well: The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us." Then Jesus declared, "I, the one speaking to you--I am he." John 4:27, so many folks without the empowerment from above are still waiting on Jesus to come instead of believing in what John said about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. So for them, the Apostle states this: And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because he first loved us. Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister. Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. 1 John 4-5
To be empowered first with this love comes with a price. The LORD said: If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. Luke 14:26-27 This is a strong price for many and it is unfortunate, because the miss the basic principle of what the LORD is teaching: The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor. Whoever heeds discipline shows the way to life, but whoever ignores correction leads others astray.
Misguided hatred is noted in our everyday lives, such as color, origin and even being in poverty. As Satan once said to the LORD about one of His servants: Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil." "Does Job fear God for nothing?" Satan replied. "Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face." Job 1 So people who receive not the Spirit of GOD will continue to provide excuses as why they should hate. However, to be truly empowered by the Holy Father, you must be able to worship Him in faith and truth. Jesus asked His disciples on the day He was arrested: And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me? I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled. Mark 14:50 Some of this can be applied to our daily life as Christians, because the only commission the LORD gave us to do is this: These were his instructions: "Take nothing for the journey except a staff--no bread, no bag, no money in your belts. Wear sandals but not an extra shirt. Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that town. And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, leave that place and shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them." They went out and preached that people should repent. They drove out many demons and anointed many sick people with oil and healed them. Mark 6:13-14 When you are empowered by the LORD in His love, no matter where you go as the Spirit leads, He has gone before you. I was talking to one of us on the phone, and she was telling all things that happened before she had a stroke. She spoke with such conviction, that I took of my work hat and put on my Lord garment. It was if I had walked in her shoes, but this is the encouragement that the Spirit spoke to her. Some things are meant out of the Love empowerment of Christ Jesus. She advised that when she had her stroke, she wasn't able to walk for four months, and she kept praying, then little by little she began to be able to walk. Although she is not fully recovered, each day is a training lesson for her in trusting her empowerment of love in Christ Jesus. So when I write, I am empowered by the Love He designed for me to share.
As the LORD said to Galilee: I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high." When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them.While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven. Amen
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