Limitless Love

373 Pages·2017·3.19 MB·English

Kenneth
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Limitless Love
A 365-Day Devotional
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Gloria January 1
A Life Worth Living
“By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His
commandments. The one who says, ‘I have come to know Him,’ and does
not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; but
whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected.
By this we know that we are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him
ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.”
1 John 2:3-6, New American Standard
A great many people claim to know God. They call themselves Christians and say, “The
LORD told me this…” or “The LORD told me that….” Yet, it’s not just what we say that proves we
know Jesus, it’s how we live. The Bible says if we are abiding in Him, we will live as He lived.
How did Jesus live? First and foremost, He lived a life of love.
Jesus didn’t live for Himself. He didn’t seek to do His own will. He lived to do the will of
His Father. He lived to pour out His life for others.
You might say it this way: Jesus lived to give Himself away.
Worldly people don’t understand that kind of life. They’ll warn you against it. They’ll say,
“If you live like that, you’ll be miserable…. You’ll never have any fun…. You’ll never get
anywhere…. You’ll be a weakling, and people will walk all over you!” But don’t listen. They
don’t know what they’re talking about.
Jesus lived like that and His life was wonderful! He walked the earth in total victory. He
defeated Satan and destroyed his works at every turn. Everywhere He went He loved people.
He made the blind see, the deaf hear and the lame walk. He cast out demons and raised the
dead. He made people know the love of God.
No matter how the world tries to convince us that it’s more rewarding to live in sin and
selfishness than in love and obedience, Jesus proved it’s not. He lived the most rewarding life
in history.
If you’ll live the life of love by faith in Jesus, you’ll have the same kinds of experiences
He had. Jesus said in John 14:12 you’ll even do the works that He did. You won’t be cheated
out of the good things in life. On the contrary, you’ll enjoy the most thrilling life of victory you
could ever imagine. You’ll experience God pouring His power out through you. You’ll know the
joy of The LORD.
Now, that’s what I call a life worth living!
January 2 Gloria
A Simple, Supernatural Secret
“He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth
me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him,
and will manifest myself to him…. This is my commandment, That ye love
one another, as I have loved you.”
John 14:21, 15:12
Something about the manifest presence of The LORD is indescribable. Although we know
God is with us always––when we can sense His presence and when we can’t––every believer
who has ever experienced the tangible presence of God hungers for it more and more.
That’s why we often hear believers praying, “LORD, I want more of You!” Having tasted the
sweet awareness of God’s presence, they are seeking it with greater fervency than ever before. They
want to experience His nearness and hear His voice. They don’t just want to know theological facts
about God, they want to have living contact with Him!
Some try to experience His presence by running from one meeting to another, seeking
spectacular signs and wonders. Others pray for hours, begging and pleading for God to reveal Himself.
Certainly, Holy Spirit-anointed meetings are wonderful and prayer is essential, but Jesus gave us the
major key to His manifest presence that many people overlook—the key of love. In essence He said, “I
will manifest Myself to those who believe in Me and keep the commandment of love.”
Living a lifestyle of love is essential if you want to maintain vital contact with God. Every step in
love is a step toward Him and every step out of love draws you away.
Years ago, Rufus Moseley caught sight of the revelation that if we live by the commandment
of love, God’s presence will always be with us. He said:
I knew this was the secret. If we abide in His love and always go in love, feeling and willing
and giving out nothing but love and all possible love to all men and all things, we will
always be in Him and under His anointing. It was made known to me that I could write
editorials and do everything else that can be done in the loving Spirit of Jesus. I could even
be in heavenly places while plowing with a mule, pruning trees, in courtrooms, in death
cells, in all places of need, provided all was done in the spirit of love.1
What a wonderfully simple yet supernatural secret! The more we live by love, the more we’ll
experience the manifest presence of God. As we walk in love, we’ll be increasingly able to sense
our LORD Jesus walking with us everywhere we go! And since His presence brings fullness of joy
(Psalm 16:11), that will make everything we do a delight!
1 Rufus Moseley, Manifest Victory (Plainfield, NJ: Logos International, 9171) p. 117.
Gloria January 3
You’re Not on Your Own
“Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or
vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily. It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude
(unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God’s love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own
way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no
attention to a suffered wrong]. It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth
prevail. Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its
hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening]. Love never fails.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-8, The Amplified Bible
When you see in the Bible what it really means to live a life of love, your first thought may
be that you could never do it. How can I consistently be unselfish and kind to those who are
harsh and thoughtless toward me? you wonder. How can I continually overlook insults and
mistreatment, refusing to take account of a suffered wrong? It’s just too hard to do!
Frankly, you’re right. Walking in love is hard for human beings to do. In fact, when we try
to do it on our own, we find it’s impossible.
But, thank God, we’re not on our own! If we’ve been born again, Jesus Christ—the
Greater One—lives within us by His Spirit. He makes us able. In fact, as we trust in Him, His
own love will actually flow through us.
While weak, human attempts to walk in love will always fall short, Jesus’ love within us
will overcome every challenge, every situation, every hurt and offense. His love released in our
lives will perfectly fulfill the description in 1 Corinthians 13. His love in us will never fail!
What can we do to tap into that love? Begin by meditating on what the Bible says about
it. Fellowship with God in the truth of these verses by saying, “I thank You, LORD, that Your
love in me endures long and is patient and kind. Your love in me is never envious, conceited
or self-seeking. Your love within me is not touchy nor resentful but believes the best of every
person…” (see 1 Corinthians 13:4-5, 7, The Amplified Bible).
As we renew our minds in this way, the God-kind of love will begin to dominate our
thought lives. Faith will grow strong in our hearts, giving us confidence, not in ourselves, but in
the One who dwells within us. As we act on that faith, we’ll be empowered to respond in love
to every kind of meanness, selfishness, persecution and hurt that comes our way.
We’ll find as we practice the walk of love that was so impossible to our flesh, it becomes
the natural outflow of our spirits that have been born again in the image of Jesus. We’ll find
we are truly able to love others with His mighty love!
January 4 Gloria
Abide and Bear Fruit
“But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within
accomplishes] is love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper,
forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness, gentleness
(meekness, humility), self-control (self-restraint, continence)....”
Galatians 5:22-23, The Amplified Bible
As you set your sights on living a life of love, you will be encouraged to know that love
isn’t something you have to struggle to attain. It’s not a work produced by your own efforts. On
the contrary, the Bible lists love as the very first “fruit of the spirit.” It is the natural outgrowth of
the life of God in you.
Actually, all the fruit of the spirit is put within you the moment you were born again. It will
forever be a part of your reborn spirit because your spirit is made in the image of God. He put
His own, divine nature inside you, and the fruit of the spirit is characteristic of His nature.
“If that’s true,” you might ask, “why haven’t I seen more evidence of it in my life? I’ve tried
very hard to be more loving and kind. I’ve struggled and I just can’t seem to do it.”
That’s because fruit bearing doesn’t come that way. Have you ever seen the branch of an
apple tree struggling, straining and trying with all its might to bear apples? Certainly not! All
the branch has to do is stay connected to the tree. As it draws life from the tree, apples come
forth naturally!
According to Jesus, the same is true for us. He said, “I am the vine, you are the branches;
he who abides in Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing”
(John 15:5, New American Standard).
As we abide in Jesus, spending time in fellowship with Him in prayer and in His WORD,
His life will flow through us and bear fruit in our lives. The force of His Spirit will cause the love
inside us to develop on the outside!
Praise God, we can live the life of love––not by putting forth great effort in trying to do
it, but simply by abiding in Jesus. When we focus our efforts on doing what it takes to stay in
union and communion with Him, we will bear fruit abundantly. Just as the grape is the natural
result of abiding connected to the vine, love is the supernatural result of abiding connected to
Jesus. He is the love vine!
Gloria January 5
Your No. 1 Priority
“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless
it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.”
John 15:4, New American Standard
Once you understand that love, as a fruit of the spirit, will only grow in your life as you
abide in Jesus, you’ll be more diligent to spend time with Him. You won’t try to live from
Sunday to Sunday, fellowshiping with Him once a week and ignoring Him the rest of the
time. You’ll draw near to Him daily, realizing the supernatural life of love comes only from
consistent communion with Him.
Actually, true, unbroken communion with The LORD comes from walking with Him all day
long. I’ve found when I set aside time each day to focus exclusively on Him, I can more easily
stay tuned in to Him during my other activities. By tending to my union with Jesus first thing
every morning, I can more easily maintain that union throughout my day.
This is very important because Jesus said, “If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a
branch, and is withered…” (John 15:6). The word wither means “to shrivel, to lose or cause to
lose energy, force or freshness.”
The moment a branch is broken off the vine, it begins to die. It doesn’t matter how close
it is to the vine, if the union has been broken, there will be no energy going into it. There will
be no sap flowing from the vine into the branch.
That’s a vivid picture of what happens to us if we don’t stay in vital contact and living
union with The LORD. When we become too busy to spend time with God in prayer and His
WORD, when we become preoccupied with natural, earthly things and disconnect from
communion with Him, we immediately begin to wither.
We still belong to Him. We still have His life within us, but His energy is not flowing
through us, so we can’t produce anything.
I don’t want to live that way, even for a day! Do you?
Glory to God, we don’t have to! If we’ll just make our time with The LORD our No. 1 priority
every day, we can produce fruit in Him. As a result, we’ll not only live BLESSED, we’ll be able
to share THE BLESSING with those around us. When they are in need of love, they’ll always be
able to find it flowing through us.
January 6 Gloria
The Choice Is Yours
“Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin:
but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and
your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not
have dominion over you….”
Romans 6:13-14
Although the life of Jesus in us produces the fruit of love, don’t make the mistake of
thinking you can just sit back and let Him do everything. He won’t grow the fruit for you any
more than the apple tree will take up the responsibility of the branch and grow apples straight
from the trunk of the tree.
Jesus provides you with the power and the life. Then you must do your part by choosing
to yield to that life. By an act of your will, you must let what He has put inside you manifest
itself on the outside.
When someone says something ugly to you, for example, you have to make a decision:
Will you yield to the irritation of your flesh and say something unkind in return? Or will you
yield to your spirit and respond in love?
The answer to those questions will be determined by two factors. The first, of course, is
the choice you make. The second is the condition of your heart.
If you’ve been neglecting your time with God, spending hours in front of the world’s
entertainment instead of attending to The WORD, you may find yourself too weak to obey the
voice of the Spirit. Although your heart’s desire is to act lovingly, your flesh will win the struggle
with your undernourished spirit and lash out in anger toward the one who wronged you.
But, if you have been daily abiding in fellowship with The LORD, your heart will be strong
and full of the spiritual energy necessary to overrule the flesh and let love flow. You’ll be well
able to make the right choice and Jesus’ love will reach others through you! That love could
be the avenue through which they discover the love of Jesus for themselves. We are living
love letters from God to others (2 Corinthians 3:2-3).