Imagine God sent us back to the beginning.
You hear God say, 'let there be light!' Instantly you see the light.
You hear God say over His creation, 'it is very good.'
You look up and see the living God in heaven. You see the Father, you see the Son and you see the Holy Spirit and the three of them are one. You physically are standing before the living God.
You realise and see that He is perfect relationship with Himself, serving each other, honouring each other. The Father giving everything of Himself to the Son, the Son giving everything of Himself to the Father, the Holy Spirit giving everything of Himself to empower the Son and complete unity, to the glory of the Father. Perfect love, of equal love.
God chose to create you because He so loves. You hear Him call you by name and tell you He created you because He loves you. You hear Him whisper again as He draws closer to you, 'I love you.'
Time passes.
He brings us to a stable, where all the smells and all the noises of the animals are there. In all the noise of all the animals you see and hear the angels sing in perfect harmony. They sing, 'Hallelujah, God is with us and with all men.' All the shepherds who are considered by the culture of the time to be common people are
gathered there.
You see three men enter, they are considered most important people, with all their riches they come. We see the rich and the poor, the great and the small bow down. They give honour and respect to a little baby. The creator of heaven and earth and all things good came as little as a little baby vulnerable and dependent on others. He made Himself of no reputation and gave up His glory and riches.
He surrendered all to be a servant for us. He chose to do this because God so loves. You start to understand God does everything out of love, because so loves. We can see the love of God as see the life of Jesus as a man.
You see Him heal the sick of physical, mental and spiritual sickness. You see Him train up leaders, casts out demons, setting the oppressed free and revealing the love of God the Father. You hear Him declare the good news that the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven has come on earth in, God with us.
You see many people gather to hear His Words. His words have light and life. He has compassion on the hungry. He is the Son of God, He could say to the rocks become bread to feed the multitude, yet He chooses to have us part of His miracle. You hold in your hand five pieces of bread and two fish that Jesus blessed and gave to you and says, 'you feed them.' You give to one, to two, to three to another and another, hundreds, thousands upon thousands are fed.
Can you imagine the excitement you feel as the fishes and bread multiply and multiply and multiply as you give out to others!
God knew how exciting it is for us to be part of His miracle. So He chose to give us an opportunity to be part of His miracle. Jesus simply blessed the food and in His power and authority as it was given out by the disciples multiplied it, each one receiving their full.The power of the living God flowed through His disciples because they chose to be part of His miracle.
Jesus never used His power for Himself or self gain. Instead He gave over His power to His disciples, to be the leaders of His Kingdom, to herald in His Kingdom on earth.
Today He gives us an opportunity to be part of His miracle, part of His wonders, to heal a dying world. For day after day, you just walk with Jesus.
Time passes.
You walk down an alley, up the stairs, open the door into a room and there is Jesus. The King of kings and Lord of lords kneels down before you. He gives you honour and respect and washes your feet as a servant. The creator of heaven and earth and all things good serves you and washes your feet.
He gets up and moves to the one over there. He knows all things, He knows that this one who is about to betray Him. Then before your very eyes He kneels down in front of the one who will betray Him and He washes his feet. He washes the betrayer's feet. The one who will spit in His eye and betray Him with a kiss.
You are thinking what love is this? Serving and washing the feet of the one who will spit in his eye and betray Him with a kiss. Your flesh cries out this is not justice. The one who causes the offence they should pay. Jesus turns and says to you, 'I love Him too. I love Him the same as I love you.'
Time passes.
It is dark. You see Christ, the Son of God, sitting all alone. He knows what He is about to endure and suffer. The tension is so great that He actually sweats drops of blood. In this moment of human weakness He stops and prays for you. 'Father all the glory you have given me I give to all who believe and receive in me. All the goodness, the glory, the power and authority of the living God He gives to all who receive and believe in Him.'
Why? For God so loves.
Time passes.
You receive the revelation that this man is the Son of God. You have seen the miracles, you have felt His power. You look up and see the King of glory nailed to a cross. His body whipped. His flesh beaten and ripped apart. A crown of thorns pressed into His head.
As the blood falls down to the earth, you think He could come down from there anytime. He could call down a legend of angels to set Him free. Yet you understand He chose to remain nailed to that cursed tree. He chose to pay the cost of all the offences done to us, all the offences done to others and all the offences done to God.
Because God so loves.
Remember our flesh cries out someone has to pay for doing me wrong. We can accept that someone has to pay for the offences I have done to others but our flesh cries out someone has to pay for the offences done to me.
He does all this to help us believe and receive the love of God. He does all this because God so loves.
Time passes.
You have a vision and dream and you open your eyes and see the resurrected Christ, the Son of God, standing before you in all His glory. You see His nail pierced hands and look into His eyes His eyes are like fire. To those who have received Him you see in His eyes are His passion, His power, His love burning for you.
You think back to the beginning how God, a Spirit three in one, and now you are looking at the eternal sacrifice of Jesus that He took upon Himself when you see His glorified resurrected human body.
Jesus looks into your eyes and says, 'I am the beginning and the end, I am greater than any time. In me is all things good, I am pure, I have life eternal, pure life. I have the keys to death and hell and I have unlocked them. I have power in my hands and I say to you take it! Take it! Take my love, take my power, take my victory. Take all of me and be part of miracle.'
You hear the angels singing, 'Glory and honour and blessing and majesty to the King.
Then you look and see the throne. All who have received Jesus and all who have rejected Jesus stand before Him. His eyes like fire. To those who have received Him His eyes of fire are not judgment, they have been passed from judgment, they see His love, they see His passion, they have experienced His power.
Jesus says, to them, 'I love you. I will test the things you have done in this life, not whether they are good or bad, but whether they are the will of the Father, or of your own selfish desires.'
What we do in this life will be accessed. We ourselves will won't be judged by our motive will. Without the transforming power and revelation of God's love in our heart, everything we do will be meaningless. Without the love of God everything is meaningless. We could have everything in this world but have nothing, if we do not have the love of God. Because we were created out of love to be loved. For God so loves.
This love of God is not rude or proud. This love of God we cannot create in our own hearts. We cannot force ourselves to love, we cannot say, 'I must love, I must love.' It has to come from within. From God's love within, a love we receive from Him. This love of God is never ending. This love of God is full of goodness and truth.
Even when we do things through our selfish desires this love of God never lets us go. He is waiting, waiting for all those who will come to Him and receive His love.
John 3:16 'For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.'
For God so loves, everybody. That God became flesh in human form and made Himself subject to the human condition. So that whoever who believes and receives Him would not die but have His everlasting life. Life of perfected love. Everyday is an opportunity to receive more of Him, more of His love. To surrender of self-will, surrender of strengths and weakness and receive more of Him.
For God so loves.
Let us close our eyes and give the King of kings and the Lord of lords a moment. Clear your mind and surrender all distractions. Focus on Him. Surrender all your strengths and weaknesses to the will of the Father. If you want a greater revelation of His love and experience the living God more simply just surrender everything. Open your heart and mind to Him. In a state of surrender say, Father your will be done. Father God in the name of Jesus we come before your glorious throne.
You see those who have opened their hearts and minds to receive more of you. I know you answer this prayer instantly because that is your heart. In the name of Jesus we look into your eyes of fire, your passion and your power and we just take it.
We declare you are the King of kings and Lord of all lords and every knee will bow and every tongue confess and the world will see, for God so loves. In the transforming power of your love in and through us each day, more and more as we surrender to you, we take it all in Jesus mighty name amen.
Take it, all of Him, in Jesus name!
