Tuesday, 11 August 2009

Love is an action, not an emotion.

Love is an action created from your thoughts and is acted out in your choices and decisions.

“He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”

1 John 4:8 (KJV)

ather God is spirit. Father God is love. Love is spirit. We have been taught by the antichrist that love is an emotion; something you feel. Pinch yourself. Go ahead and pinch yourself. That is a feeling. A feeling is something you feel. Spirit is something you do or an action which is done.

Let me say that again for those who missed it. A feeling, like touch is something you can physically feel. Key words here are: physical and feel. A kiss, a pinch, a lick of the ice cream cone, a muscle twitch, an orgasm, a cramp, the pain of arthritis; these are examples of things that you and I feel. They are feelings—not emotions. The antichrist, the devil, evil and for those who just cannot get themselves to say it—shadows or negative persuasions—have conditioned us, socialized us to believe love is a feeling. It is not. Father God is not a feeling; He is action. The universe was created in His Acting—His creating it. His action—His Spiritual Action; not in Him physically feeling Himself nor in His emoting emotion.

I will digress for only a moment here. Emotions are those things which we emote, i.e., an action or circumstance happens, we respond physiologically by our bodies producing in the brain, chemistry which increases our heart rates, temperatures, perspiration and other bodily functions. Our brain based on past conditioning, television conditioning, parental or environmental conditioning moves us through our decisions, our choices, to respond based on how we have been taught to respond. These responses we have been calling emotion: jealousy, envy, love, hate, happiness, joy, etc. We feel like (there’s that word again—feel), we believe that we are emoting these sensations which we call emotion. They are not emotion at all—they are you and I reacting to stimuli. We have to learn to react to stimuli with an action called—LOVE.

Love is action. Love is an action. Love is an action made from your choice. Love is action derived from your decision. Love is an action created from your thoughts and is acted out in your choices and decisions. Feelings is that which touches your flesh. Action is spirit (not a demon or an Angel). Spirit is action; the spirit of a thing is the action of it. The spirit of a person is the action of a person. Example: A person has integrity. They do not steal office supplies from work, nor lie on other employees. This action is spirit. The spirit is integrity. Did you understand that example?  The person has integrity and they act it out.

Please note this: Life and everything in it has as its origin spirit. From spirit comes the earthly. From the Spirit of Father God came other spirits then humankind—the earthly. So, always remember, if there is a physical manifestation, it has a spiritual origin. If there is a spiritual manifestation, it has a physical fingerprint or action. In other words, a person with a schizophrenic spirit will have a physical chemical imbalance in their brains, which would be the physical fingerprint and their acting out would be the physical manifestation of a spirit of schizophrenia. Read it again if you did not understand or receive those words, but first ask The Messiah (MSSH) for understanding.

Let’s take this a step further—into the spirit realm. Example: A woman likes to sleep around; or a man. This person has the action of an adulterer or a whoremonger. The person spends time and energy sleeping around; and finding someone with whom to sleep around. This time and energy amounts to spirit, i.e., a spirit in a person moving them to act out the spirit’s desire and need to sleep around.  This is a spirit of adultery or fornication or a spirit of prostitution or any number of spirits in that vain of action.

Let’s move on. So we want to model our behavior from our Messiah (MSSH). He is and was a man of love. He responded to stimuli with an action of love. You can call it emotion all you want, but love is action. Someone can be standing in front of you who hate your guts. You can stand there all day and try to emote love—to project love from your heart—to project love from mind—to project love from your spirit soul. But until you pick up your hands and do something in love (give them something they do not expect and something they want or like) – until you say something out of your mouth that demonstrates you love them (this something probably has to be something they won’t expect but will love to hear)—until your feet moves towards them with your body demonstrating an action of love, they will probably continue in their hatred towards you.

By the way, this person will probably continue in the hatred or distrust of you anyway until you deal with that spirit that is moving them to act and think and live they way they are acting, thinking, and living. That was some salt for your life.

Let’s continue.

“Sensing” or “Knowing.” The “feelings” other than being physically “touched” which most people experience and which they believe are emotions are really spiritual “sensing.”  This is a very real characteristic of Father God which we experience daily. We experience it daily because It is a power which we can use to change our worlds; and the world as a whole daily by making every response (emotion) and choice (decision) be a positive one.

This “sensing” or “knowing” is really “illumination” which comes from an Angel or any number of different members of your Heavenly Family (not necessarily a deceased family member—but possibly from one of the millions of Saints who have gone on to be with the Lord Jesus (Emmanuel (MMNL); or Cherubims, Seraphims, Archangels, or from the “evil-side” of life or from the “selfish-side” of life. An example of “evil-side” or “selfish-side” spiritual “sensing” is fleshly lust or fleshly desire for a person, a piece of clothing, a house or a car. The lust is often considered an emotion; more often than not people assume it is from Father God, but instead it is from the evil ones. This is a “mammonite” spiritual trap. I will address mammonites in another book and on the eBlessings web site.

You may “sense” or “feel” danger. You may say that you “feel” or “sense” the presence of evil. Someone may “sense” that something bad “is going to” happen to one of their loved ones. People often say, “I feel like something good (or bad) is going to happen,” rather than saying more correctly, “I sense that something good (or bad) is going to happen.” More correctly than that and how we should be speaking aloud into our worlds is this way. “The Lord is warning me that something good (or bad) is going to happen if I make this decision or that one.”  Or “The Lord rebuke that negative thought or emotion because it is from the evil ones. Messiah rebuke thee. Father God protect my loved ones from hurt, harm, and danger. Thank You Father. I praise You for it Father.” 

A negative thought or a positive thought can change, transform itself into a negative or positive emotion which in turn moves you into actions and more negative or positive thoughts—and more actions; you should see how this is an escalating cycle of “illuminations” – thoughts—“ sensing” (emotions)—and actions. They can escalate positively or negatively—it is your choice. Make your choices godly ones.

LOVE

(This is an excerpt from the “perfect-bound” book Growing Our Spirit Soul, Book One in the “Flesh Soul versus the Spirit Soul Series.”)

Bro. James Anthony Allen

Born-Again, Holy Ghost-filled, Tongue-speaking,

Lion of Judah, Evangelist and US Patriot

http://www.eBlessings.us ; eBlessings@gmail.com

USA, North America

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Thursday, 20 August 2009-Saturday, 22 August 2009

(from Monday, 27 July 2009)

There is faith that gives.

This is the kind of faith that challenges the Lord Himself.

“It is more blessed to give than to receive”

ACTS 20:35

Faith, Part 3b. (Please start at Part One; July 4th) Hannah inquired of the Lord for a son and God gave her and Elkanah, her husband one. She in turn gave her son, Samuel to God for His service. Samuel became a renowned prophet in Israel. God made David king over Israel who never even asked for it. Yet David served His generation according to the Will of God. Acts 13:36 – “For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:”

On the other hand, there is faith that gives. This is the kind of faith that challenges the Lord Himself. Those who engage in knowing God for themselves focus on giving their service to the Lord.

The Disciples were following the Lord to know Him, His ways and they continue to serve Him while the multitude continues to ask for bread and miracles. Many of them went away with bread and miracles without knowing Him. His disciples ended up becoming miracle workers like Him because they chose to know Him as they follow Him. He showed Moses who sought Him His ways, but, Israelites who never sought Him only knew His acts. Psalm 103:7.

Solomon never asked for anything when he offered one thousand bullocks sacrifice in burnt offering to the Lord in Gibeon. I King 3:3-5, I Chronicle 16:29.  Yet, that same night, the Lord told him to ask for anything and He was ready to give him just for the asking. The Lord ended up giving Solomon beyond what he had asked.

David paid for the threshing floor of Araunah or Ornan the Jebusite who had given it free. David would not offer God anything that would cost him nothing; especially on the alter for his God he was about to build. David wanted to offer God things of value. 2 Sam 24: 21-25, I Chronicles 21:24. Even when the Lord had asked him not to build the temple for Him, David ensured that he prepared for the temple in his distress. I Chronicle 2:14

Our Love for God is made manifest by our willingness to give our lives, time, intercession, service, word study and word-based lifestyle as well as commitment of our finances to advance His Kingdom here on earth. God is our example. The Bible says, “For God so love the world that He gave…..” John 3:16. Romans 8:32. What are the bad habits in your life you are willing to give away for the Lord? What are the good things in your life that you are willing to give for His Kingdom to expand? What we are willing to forgo and on the other hand, give to the Lord will enhance our faith and faithfulness in Christ.

Conclusion, when you develop faith that totally depends on God, He will surely give back to you. Much as we expect great things from the Lord, we must attempt great things for God. The Centurion whose servant was sick at home was introduced to Jesus by the Jews as one who had built a synagogue for them. Immediately, Jesus wanted to go with him to heal his servant (not even his Son: selfless and compassionate man). But he told Jesus to merely speak the word believing that his servant would be healed. And it was so. The man challenged the Lord by His faith through his giving heart. Luke 7: 1-10.

The Lord enables us to go extra mile to please Him by our faith in Christ Jesus. Amen. Therefore, to be able to effectively exercise faith that one receives, you should develop giving faith that challenges God to move in your favour. As we honour God, He will both honour us as well as honour Himself in our lives. As we draw near to God by faith, He too will draw near to us. He will help us to grow in faith that is grounded in love for God, His Kingdom and His people. For God to use you, your faith must seek and serve Him without reservation. Otherwise, it’s you that is using God if your faith in Christ is merely asking.

Joshua was fighting the Lord’s battle to the extent that he commanded the sun to stand still on Gibeon and the moon on Aijalon valley for him to finish the Lord’s battle. By their faith, many men of old subdued kingdoms, tore lions to pieces, some shut the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, wrought righteousness, etc and obtained the promise.

 YOUR FAITH SEEK AND SERVE FATHER GOD

Dr. Wole Gbogboade

Christ Family Evangelical Mission

(Church of the Firstborn)

P.O. Box 7572

Ikeja (100001), Lagos State, Nigeria

Tel. 234-1-8940823, Mobile: 234-8033250375

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Bishop Osagiede Osabuohien Godwin

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