Praise the Lord, the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, and now we have a spirit of love to love God and the brothers with God as our love!
How we thank and praise the Lord that He not only infuses us with faith but also with love; by faith we receive Christ and through love, we enjoy the Christ we have received.
When we contact the Lord and spend time with Him in His word when we place ourselves under the hearing of the faith, we are infused with the element of God, and He Himself becomes our faith.
We believers in Christ are special people who possess a special ability, the ability to receive God and contact God; this, however, is not of ourselves but of the One who is infusing Himself into us.
By faith, we receive the Lord and contact Him, and through love, we enjoy and experience Him in our soul. Faith is in our spirit, and love is in our soul; love is also in the spreading of the spirit into the soul.
The Lord loved us, and when we see and touch His love toward us, we simply respond in kind by loving Him.
Our love toward the Lord and toward the brothers is a response and a reflection of the Lord’s love toward us.
And our love for the Lord must be absolute, for He commanded us to love Him with our whole heart, our whole mind, and our whole strength.
The Lord doesn’t want us to merely love Him partially, with part of our mind and heart; He requires our whole heart and mind and strength – our whole being.
To love the Lord is to give Him the first place in all things, to give Him the preeminence in all the things of our daily life.
This means that we need to love Him with our first love, our best love; this is not the love with which we loved the Lord when we first met Him but the perfected love, the best love.
We need to give Him our best love, the love that we received from Him and has been perfected in us.
May we be those who seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and may we trust in the Lord for all other things.
We are not here on earth for a career or merely to take care of our family, our house, and our job; our career is Christ and the church, and our full-time job is to build up the church as the Body of Christ.
May we be those who learn to daily set our entire being – our spirit, soul, and body, together with the heart, soul, mind, and strength – absolutely on the Lord!
May we let our entire being be occupied by Him and lost in Him so that He becomes everything to us and we are one with Him practically in our daily life.
In such an intimate organic union, in such a sweet fellowship with Him, our faith is developed and our love is perfected, and we are produced to be the Lord’s overcomers who bring Him back and end this age.
The Love of God has been Poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit to make us More than Conquerors
Rom. 5:5 says that the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
This happened at the time of our regeneration. All believers in Christ, when they received the Lord as their life and Savior, received the love of God into their heart.
No matter what they do after regeneration, even if they backslide or fall into the world, the love of God has already been poured out into their heart.
The love of God is in the Spirit with our spirit; when we receive God in Christ as the Spirit with our spirit, we receive God with His attributes.
God has poured out His love in our hearts with the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us, as the motivating power within us, so that we more than conquer in all our tribulations.
What can separate us from the love of God? Can tribulation, distress, peril, famine, persecution, or sword separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus? No, nothing can separate us from His love; even more, in all these things we more than conquer through Him who loved us.
The greek word for “overcome” means “more than overcome”, “super-overcome”; those who are loved by the Lord and are motivated by the love of God poured out into the hearts are overcomers.
This doesn’t mean that we are saved or taken out of the tribulation but rather, that in the midst of all these things we more than overcome.
In the midst of tribulation and suffering, when we are distressed or persecuted, we can enjoy the poured out love of God and overcome, even more than overcome.
As we love the Lord and experience Him, we do not “barely make it” but rather, we transcend the situation, we more than overcome.
To overcome doesn’t mean that we make it through the situation we’re in but that we are transcending.
If we look at the situation in the world today, it is really crazy what we see happening; people are at their wit’s end, so worried about the pandemic, the financial crisis, the supply chain being broken, the stock market, their retirement fund, etc.
As part of our gospel, these days is that we bring others to touch the love of God, and the love of God poured out in their hearts causes them to overcome.
The only way the problems today can’t affect us but rather, we more than overcome, is when we live an overcoming life so that we may end this age and bring the Lord back.
It is not by trying to put the right person in power, running for office to become a politician, or protesting against the current situation; it is by enjoying the poured-out love of God in our heart, loving the Lord and letting Him love us, and more than overcoming through Him who loves us.
The love of God is God Himself; God is love, and He as love was poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit.
We shouldn’t try to love God or others with our natural love; rather, we should love others with God as love.
We were created with the capacity to love, the virtue of love, and through regeneration, the love of God was poured out in our hearts to fill our virtue of love with the reality of love, which is God Himself.
Day by day as we spend time with God, He infuses Himself with all that He is into us, and the love of God is poured out in our heart; the result of our genuine enjoyment of Christ is that we love Him and we love man, and we also more than overcome in the situation we are in.
We overcome not because we are strong and powerful in ourselves but because of Him who loves us.
Thank You, Lord, for pouring out Your love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us! Hallelujah, the love of God has been poured out into us to be the reality of our loving God and loving man. We love You, Lord, and we love the brothers. Keep us enjoying You in love so that we may more than conquer in all our tribulations. Amen, Lord, it is by Your love that we can overcome. Hallelujah, nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus! Praise the Lord, we more than overcome in our situation through the love of God which has been poured out in our heart!
Exercising our Spirit and Heart of Love to Experience and Dispense God as Love
The love of God is God Himself; God is love (1 John 4:8, 16).
God has many attributes, and the most prominent among these are love, spirit, and light; many attributes describe what God is, but the Bible mainly says that God is love, God is light, and God is Spirit – these three attributes describe the very inner being of God Himself.
God as love is the divine essence that has been poured out into our hearts (Rom. 5:5).
The pouring out of the love of God in our hearts is a matter of the essence of God. The love of God has been poured out in our hearts; as believers in Christ, deep in our hearts we have something of the divine essence, and this is God the Father in His love.
The essence of God is in our heart right now; from the day we believed in the Lord Jesus, the love of God has been poured out in our hearts.
Whether we feel it or not, we have God’s love in our hearts; there is something deep within us of the divine essence of love.
Hallelujah, within the heart of every Christian there is a heart of love, for the love of God – the very essence of God – has been poured out in our heart.
We all can testify that after our regeneration we have a different heart; before this moment, we loved only ourselves and our friends and family, but after regeneration, we have a loving essence within us, even though we may be temporarily angry or upset with something.
The loving essence in our heart is God Himself as love, who has been poured out in our hearts through the Spirit.
This love motivates us, energises us, and even assures us of the love of God.
The indwelling Holy Spirit reveals the love of God in us, confirms His love, and assures us of and with the love of God.
We cannot deny the presence of God’s love within us; He not only reconciled us to Himself, but He is constantly dispensing Himself as love into us.
In a mysterious way, we not only have the human love, the capacity to love others, but the divine love fills our virtue of love so that we can love God and love the brothers.
In 2 Tim. 1:7 we see that God didn’t give us a spirit of cowardice but of love and of power and of sober-mindedness.
God gave us a spirit of love. We have both a heart of love and a spirit of love.
The source of our natural human love is or human emotion; the source of the love of God poured out in our hearts and infused into our spirit is God Himself.
The love of God is unconditional and not preferential. His love is unlimited, and it doesn’t run out – there’s no end to it.
Hallelujah, in our spirit there’s an endless supply of love for the Lord, for the saints, and for all mankind!
In our experience and enjoyment of God as the Father in His love, we experience and enjoy the dispensing of love as the nature of God’s essence into our hearts (Rom. 5:5, 8; 8:35, 39; 15:30; 2 Cor. 13:14).
We need to daily develop our faith and love toward the Lord by being in the word of God and by opening to the dispensing of God’s essence into us.
Day by day we need to be in the Word of God so that our faith can be developed, and day by day we need to exercise our spirit of love to love the Lord so that we may enjoy Him.
As we do this, we develop our faith and love, and we will live an overcoming life. It is through developing our faith and love that we can live an overcoming life, for the divine life within us is an overcoming life.
Lord, we open to the divine dispensing of Your love into us so that our heart would be a heart of love. Hallelujah, the heart of every believer in Christ is a heart of love because the love of God has been poured out in his heart! Thank You Lord for dispensing the divine essence of God, love itself, into our being, so that we may have a heart of love to love God and man. We want to continue to experience and enjoy You as love by exercising our spirit of love. Hallelujah, God didn’t give us a spirit of cowardice but of love and of power and of sober-mindedness! We open to You, Lord, and we want to cooperate with You to develop our faith and love to live an overcoming life for You on this earth to bring You back and end this age!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, a message by bro. Ron Kangas on this topic, and portions from, Life-study of Romans (msg. 9), by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Meeting God’s Need and Present needs in the Lord’s Recovery, week 3, entitled, The Need to Develop Our Faith in the Lord and Our Love for Him.
- Hymns on this topic:
– Have you felt the Father’s love? / Still there’s more to follow; / And His mercy have you proved? / Still there’s more to follow. / Oh, the love the Father shows, / Still there’s more to follow; / Freely He His love bestows, / Still there’s more to follow. (Hymns #668)
– The love for all the brothers, in our midst is found, / But in these days our love must increase and abound. / The Lord direct our hearts into the love of God / And prepare us in full for the day of the Lord. (Hymns #1305)
– What from Thee can separate me? / Thou wilt love me to the end! / Oh! Thy love is so prevailing, / E’en Thyself with me to blend! / We two one will be for ever; / I am Thine and Thou art mine! / This will be my testimony: / In Thy love we’ll ever twine! (Hymns #152)
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