Friday, May 20, 2011

May 20 DEVOTIONAL


"Father, I made Your name known to them and revealed Your character and Your very Self. I will continue to make You known, that the love which You have bestowed upon Me may be in them - felt in their hearts - and that I Myself may be in them." John 17:26

Oh, how my soul leaps and dances! This truely is good news from the lips of Jesus, recorded by John.

Jesus declares that the same love the Father has for him, is also for me. WOW! WOW!

The love of God has been poured out into my heart by the Holy Spirit loving me. Romans 5:5
It takes God to love God. My love is inadequate
This is the measure of love I want to run through my heart, soul, mind.
Overpower my self-centered love for radical obedience to every word You say to me.

Prepare my heart, soul, and mind for new measures of enjoying Jesus, for recognizing His presence with me.
It is in the overflow of enjoying my God, that I find the strength to love.

Oh, Lover of my soul, let me experience love-sickness
that lifts me out of self-awareness and self-protection,
that lifts my thinking to heavenly themes,
that lifts me to demonstrate Kingdom realities here on earth.

We are to reign in life in Christ Jesus.