Today’s Readings:
John 17
1 John 4
Isaiah 60
15 All who declare that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God. 16 We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. 17 And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world.
1 John 4:15-17
The Lord says,
Let your love for Me be what guides your life. Let your love for Me be what guides your actions, your choices, your thoughts and your words. Wrap yourself in the comfort, the luxury and the protection of the unmatchable love of Jesus. Let worship of Jesus fill your heart and mind. Be consumed with love for Jesus. Chase after Jesus for a great wild adventure. Chase after Him with a song in your heart and the light of My countenance shining on your skin. Be enamored by the love of Jesus. Be completely swept up and consumed by His love for you.
Worship Him in response to His love. Let your love become a song and an anthem for Him. Be cleansed and lit up. Shine forth with a bright burning love for Jesus. Where we are going, you will be a bright burning torch of love for Jesus. People will come to you as a source of light in the darkness, as a trustworthy one with no agenda but love. The love you have for Jesus and His love for you will literally roll off of you in waves, and that love will cause people to take notice and be drawn. They don’t understand that kind of love. They have no grid for it. Yet they desire it in their innermost parts, in the deepest places of their soul they long for this richness, this luxuriant, this selfless union of love.
60 “Arise, shine; for your light has come,
Isaiah 60:1-5
And the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
2 For behold, darkness will cover the earth
And deep darkness the peoples;
But the Lord will rise upon you
And His glory will appear upon you.
3 Nations will come to your light,
And kings to the brightness of your rising.
4 “Raise your eyes all around and see;
They all gather together, they come to you.
Your sons will come from afar,
And your daughters will be carried on the hip.
5 Then you will see and be radiant,
And your heart will thrill and rejoice;
Because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you,
The wealth of the nations will come to you.
You will burn brightly like a massive living torch of flames, and you will light the way for many. You will bow with them, and in bowing together in unity and humility, you will light the flame of Jesus’s love in them. Being consumed with love for Jesus will lead to a great relay of torch lighting. It will lead to many bowing and being consumed by love for Jesus and by His love for them. People will catch fire and will burn brightly, deeply and with an endless supply of fuel, because of the love of Jesus. Jesus’s love IS the unending source of fuel that causes them to burn. This is what revival looks like.
15 “Whereas you have been forsaken and hated
Isaiah 60:15
With no one passing through,
I will make you an object of pride forever,
A joy from generation to generation.
The changed and the lovers will be obvious in a crowd. They will look like burning torches of love, and many will desire what they have. Many will desire to be touched by the love of Jesus in a way that causes them to be purified, healed, delivered, set free and to burn as an individual Jesus-fueled flame of passionate love — burning in passionate unity of love with their Savior, Jesus. Get comfortable with being noticeable. Get comfortable with standing out. When My power, My glory, when this revelation of My love, the love of Jesus and the Holy Spirit hits you, you will burn brightly.
22 The glory which You have given Me I also have given to them, so that they may be one, just as We are one; 23 I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and You loved them, just as You loved Me.
John 17:22-23
This love will burn up self-consciousness. This love will burn up a lot of life as you know it. What seems to matter now will become very secondary to the love that you burn with and the desires that love lights anew in your heart. These are going to be different days — the days of burning love for Jesus, the days where the past gets left behind once and for all, the days of boldly walking out into the unknown — fully equipped with the Spirit of the Lord, the burning love of Jesus and the full armor of God. This is new terrain, a new day and a new era. The time we have been in will be a faint memory compared to the vibrancy and life, the adventure and the new revelation of the fiery, passionate love of Jesus. It will consume you, and you will be consumed with your love for Him in response.
How to Respond
- Declare, Lord, I am here and I love you. Consume me with your fiery love Jesus and let me be consumed with love for you. Transform me into a burning torch of love that draws many to you.
- Declare, witchcraft has no place here. This is a time and a place consumed by the love of Jesus. There is no room for the spirit of witchcraft.
- Declare, the glory of the Lord and the powerful revelation of the passionate love of Jesus are coming to transform the world.
- Sing love songs to Jesus.
- Get rid of anything that might hinder the flow of the Spirit in your heart, mind or home. Negative thought patterns and words have no place here. Speak from hope, faith and expectancy of great things.
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