Love
After a long season I finally feel so much permission from the Father to write publicly again. Over the last year, I’ve had the pleasure of just removing all of the distractions, laying down all of the things that I thought were important (ministry), and just focusing on the person of love. Now, the prophetic has been a huge part of my life and my growth in my relationship with God because it’s directly related to hearing his voice, not because of ministry. In my humble opinion, the term “ministry” is overrated. Jesus didn’t do ministry. He only did what his father was doing out of relationship and sonship (John 5:19). It was simply a lifestyle for him or better yet, a life poured out in love.
I’ve revisited the topic of love over last year when it comes to prophecy and I have been left completely undone by the Holy Spirit has shared with me. Enjoy!
“If I were to speak with eloquence in earth’s many languages, and in the heavenly tongues of angels, yet I didn’t express myself with love, my words would be reduced to the hollow sound of nothing more than a clanging cymbal. And if I were to have the gift of prophecy with a profound understanding of God’s hidden secrets, and if I possessed unending supernatural knowledge, and if I had the greatest gift of faith that could move mountains, but have never learned to love, then I am nothing.” 1 Corinthians 13:1-2 (TPT)
I’ve been asking this a lot: “Abba, why must we learn to love if we are going to prophesy?” He said, “Because people cannot encounter what you haven’t.” Simply put, when we have encountered the unconditional love of the Father, it allows us to express that same love through prophetic utterance. Love has got to be expressed, not just talked about.
We can have all of the knowledge, understanding of the mysteries of Yahweh, and still not learn to love through those avenues. We cannot release the love of God without knowing the God of love.
Over the past year, I have been learning to be love and be loved all over again. I have been on this continuous journey of discovering the love of Abba in numerous areas in my life and in return I have pleasure and permission to release that same love unto others. Love looks like something and it looks like Jesus. John 3:16 says this, “For here is the way that God loved the world— he gave his only, unique Son as a gift.” The Father gave us a literal person. He gave us the tangible experience of love through his son Jesus. He released to us through the gift, not just a gift. I find this incredibly beautiful. We now know what love looks like. Now we know that through prophecy, the love of Abba is to be the primary thing to experience and express.
“The Father wants us to first experience, then express.”
I want to land here by saying that the chief end of man is to know the Father and know his love. We cannot learn to love until we have learned to be loved by him.
