LOVE YOURSELF FIRST

LOVE will have to start intrapersonal, with yourself.

Before you sow LOVE, fill your own cup with it. Soak yourself in “LOVE which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith” (1 Timothy 1:5).

Many love and fail simply because they try to give away something they do not have. They are running on empty. No one can drink coffee from an empty cup. No one can give what he does not have. Run a car on an empty gas tank and it will sputter and come to a full stop.   

Fill your cup with uncontaminated LOVE. Be sure to empty your cup of erroneous love before filling it. Erroneous love is of Lucifer. Just as nobody gets to his destination by stepping on the gas and the brake at the same time, so you will not rise to heaven by letting the devil pull your leg.

¹¹ Go now and leave your life of sin. JOHN 8 

Draw and drink from the well of God (Acts 2:38 tlb). Soak your heart 100%, your soul 100%, your mind 100%, your strength 100%...

¹² Plow up the hard ground of your hearts, for now is the right time to seek the Lord, that He may come and shower righteousness upon you. HOSEA 10 nlt

²⁰ Here I am. I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with Me. REVELATION 3

Soaking is a continuing process. Just as walking in the rain can saturate you with wetness, so you must keep on returning to God. What do we call the driver who waits for his gas tank to empty before he looks for a refilling station? In the spiritual realm we call them wise who refill themselves with LOVE before they run dry. 

Make God your constant companion, wherever you are, whatever your situation. After all every child needs a loving and caring Father to nourish and enlighten him, to strengthen and protect him.

¹⁴ Those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. ROMANS 8

One of the disciples asked Y’shua, “Rabbi, you said constant companion. How can we at every moment have God in our mind? It seems impossible.”

Y’shua replied, “Barnabas, have you seen the men at the quarry? How by constant practice, they talk to each other and at the same time, without looking, strike the moil without injuring their hands? Make a conscious effort to be mindful of God until it becomes a constant practice. Water cleaves the hardest of rocks with single drops over a period of time.” (Gospel of Barnabas, chapters 109 and 75)

⁶ And now just as you trusted in the Messiah to save you, trust Him, too, for each day’s problems; live in vital union with Him. ⁷ Let your roots grow down into Him and draw up nourishment from Him. See that you go on growing in the Lord, and become strong and vigorous in the truth you were taught. Let your lives overflow with joy and thanksgiving for all He has done. COLOSSIANS 2 tlb  

Soaking should visibly result in new birth. E. W. Kenyon said, “LOVE is proof of New Birth.” (Advance Bible Course, p. 18)  

³ How can we be sure that we belong to Him? By looking within ourselves: are we really trying to do what He wants us to do? ⁴ Someone may say, “I am a Christian; I am on my way to heaven; I belong to the Messiah.” But if he doesn’t do what the Messiah tells him to, he is a liar. ⁵ But those who do what the Messiah tells them to will learn to love God more and more. This is the way to know whether or not you are a Christian. ⁶ Anyone who says he is a Christian should live as the Messiah did. 1 JOHN 2 tlb

LOVE is an action word. It should stir you into action. Make it a personal habit. The more you walk in LOVE, the more you shall smell like Y’shua, an aroma pleasing to God.   

² Let love and faithfulness never leave you. PROVERBS 3

¹ Let love be your highest goal! 1 CORINTHIANS 14 nlt

¹⁶ Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. 1 JOHN 4 

¹⁶ [But] anyone who does not love remains in death. 1 JOHN 3