God is love: He first loved us.


 God is love: He first loved us.

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Title: God is love: He first loved us.


“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; 

and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, 

that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.

 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and

 sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”‭‭I John‬ ‭4:7-10‬ ‭NKJV‬‬.


Point of Reflection:

Notice verse 10: In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

 We are responding to the love of God.

 That is why Jesus Christ asked Simon Peter:

So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, 

"Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?"

 He said to Him, 'Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.' He said to him,

 "Feed My sheep.".

He said to him again the second time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?"

He said to Him "Yes, Lord You know I love You."

He said to him "Feed my sheep."

He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?"

 Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, "Do you love Me?"

And he said to Him, "Lord You know all things, You know that I love You." Jesus said to him,

"Feed my sheep." ‭‭John‬ ‭21:15-17‬ ‭NKJV‬‬. 

 

The question was asked three times until Simon Peter became agitated, 

Jesus was asking Peter for a love commitment because He Jesus Christ needed Peter.

 There are things that Almighty God needed Simon Peter to do for Him. 

In exactly the same way, Almighty God is asking for a love commitment from you, 

because there are things He need you to do for Him.

 To shine His light where you are, to be a salt or condiment to people where you are, 

to give a word of hope and encouragement where you are and to play your part in His mission and agenda on Planet Earth today.

Jesus Christ is asking you the same question: Do you love Me more than these?

How do you answer  Him?

 
Are you ready to answer the question that Jesus Christ is asking you today?

 Do you love me?

When you are ready-

Prayer of commitment:

Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ, I thank you for giving me Jesus Christ as a propitiation for my sin.

 I respond today to the love of Jesus Christ.

 I acknowledge the risen Jesus Christ as Lord of my life today.

 I reject, renounce  and denounce every working and influence of the enemy satan and his demons upon my life.

I rebuke you satan and every demon in my affairs

 and the affairs of every child of Almighty God across Planet Earth in the name of Jesus Christ.

 I set myself apart and consecrate myself for you Almighty God.

 I ask you Father in the name of Jesus Christ to fill me with your Holy Spirit right now.

 I receive the abundant outpouring of your Holy Spirit upon my life in the name of Jesus Christ.

  Lord I love you because you loved me first.

 I need you Lord more than you need me.

 I hand myself over  to you to do your will Lord everyday of my life.

 I commit my family and loved ones to you, to serve you the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

I desire to do your will and ask for your guidance and wisdom in all I do.................................................................

I commit every child of God across Planet Earth to you, to serve you alone the only true God

 and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

In the name of Jesus Christ I pray. Amen.

 

Additional resources:


Https://planetministries.org.uk/message/needs/understandingredemption

Https://planetministries.org.uk/message/promises/characterstatureandachievement

Https://planetministries.org.uk/message/youarewitnessestothesethings


Https://planetministries.org.uk/message/yourcallingtointercede


Https://planetministries.org.uk/message/needs/righteousness

 

With best wishes for the Year 2023, the year in which the Lord God is visiting His restless ones with an anointing that breaks the yoke of bondage of the enemy. 

There is a big financial dimension to the victory for the restless ones in 2023. The yoke of poverty and financial struggles is being broken. 

a) Things you need to know: 

The year in which the restless ones rise up with the zeal of Almighty God to cause the spreading of the cities of Almighty God through prosperity. 

Almighty God says: proclaim saying 'Thus saith the Lord of Hosts: "Iam zealous for Jerusalem with great zeal."' Zechariah 1:14

He also says: 'Thus says the Lord, "I am returning to Jerusalem with mercy; My house shall be built in it," says the Lord of Hosts, 

"And a surveyor's line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem."' Zechariah 1:16. See also Zechariah 8:1-5, 12-13, 15, 21 and 23.

He goes further to say: "Again proclaim, saying, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts: "My cities shall again spread out through prosperity;

The Lord will again comfort Zion, And will again choose Jerusalem."' Zechariah 1:17.

He says: "Take the silver and gold, make an elaborate crown, and set it on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest." Zechariah 6:11. 

Almighty God wants to put a crown of gold upon your head.

 

b) What you need to do:

1. In 2023, take away your measuring line. Do not limit what God can do for you and through you in the way you think, the way you speak and the way you act.

Do not limit the Holy One of Israel. ( Zechariah 1:1-5 )

In Psalms 78:41: His word says:Yes, again and again they tempted God,
And limited the Holy One of Israel.

Remember also Ephesians 3:20 says: He is able to do exceedingly abundantly, above all we think and ask, by the power at work within us.

2. Call with a strong conviction on the Almighty God for whom all things are possible, for whom nothing shall be impossible.

Remember His waord says in Genesis 18:10-14:

10 And He said, “I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son.”
(Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.)

11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
13 And the LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?’

14 Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.”

See also Jeremiah 32:17-22, Jeremiah 32:26-27.

In Luke 1:34-38 we read:

34 Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?”
35 And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you;

therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.

36 Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren.

37 For with God nothing will be impossible.”
38 Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.

See also Mark 10;27 and Matthew 19:26.

Remember the Holy Spirit come upon you and the power of the Most High overshadow you- to make the will of Almighty God happen in your life and in the work of the Ministry.

In Jeremiah 32:19 -21 we read that our Almighty God is great in counsel and mighty in deeds and that He brought out His people Israel from the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, 

with a strong hand, and an outstretched arm and with great terror and He gave them the land that flows with milk and honey- they came in and took possession of it.

Let Him give you His counsel, let Him show you His signs and wonders, go in and take possession.

c) What you need to understand (have a revelation of): 

You need to understand the following things:

1. There is in the calendar of God something called the fullness of time.

In Genesis 21:1-2 we read: 1 And the LORD visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had spoken.

2 For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

2. Almighty God fulfils His promises.

In Numbers 23:19-20 we read: 

19 God is not a man, that He should lie,
Nor a son of man, that He should repent.
Has He said, and will He not do?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
20 Behold, I have received a command to bless;
He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

In  Isaiah 46:9-11 we read: 

9 Remember the former things of old,
For I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like Me,
10 Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things that are not yet done,
Saying, My counsel shall stand,
And I will do all My pleasure,’
11 Calling a bird of prey from the east,
The man who executes My counsel, from a far country.
Indeed I have spoken it;
I will also bring it to pass.
I have purposed it;
I will also do it.

3. It has been done before- 

Remember in her restlessness Rachael cried: Give me children or else I die (Genesis 30:1). God answered her prayer and she bore Joseph, who subsequently received

the portion of the first born of Israel.

In her restlessness, Hannah prayed for a male child and pledged to give him to the Lord all the days of her life. God answered her prayer and she bore Samuel,

a mighty prophet of God who was also a judge of Israel. (1 Samuel 1:11).

In her restlessness Mary Magdalene sought to find where they had laid the body of the Lord Jesus Christ and she refused to be comforted.

The Lord Jesus had to make an unscheduled visit to the tomb while on His way to the Father. The Lord Jesus Christ had to appear to Mary. (John 20:11-18).

We love you and continue to pray for you as you set yourself apart and consecrate yourself for the purposes of Almighty God on the Earth in our day.


Apostle Dr Max and Joyce Matonhodze.

Planetministries.org.uk

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