Tag: Prayer

“Love others as I have loved you. Turn from thinking only of yourself. It consumes too much of your time and energy. When functioning outside of My ways, your carnal mind begins to worry and becomes concerned about the circumstances around you, because it can only function in carnal ways while living in carnal responses.

“When you love others with selfless love, you function in spiritual realms where the Holy Spirit moves to change you. My power anoints your days. My presence brings you the kind of peace that allows you to remain functioning with Me, no matter what is happening around you. Choose this day to love others as I love. I will then choose to bring Myself into your midst.”

Most of us fail to continually function in the spiritual realm because we have such limited knowledge of how it works. We don’t understand that powerful spiritual tools - such as loving someone or forgiving someone, especially someone who hates us or misuses us - initiate spiritual responses from our Lord. These responses change our character more and more into the character of Jesus each time we choose to function in them, rather than functioning in our old carnal ways of hate and unforgiveness. God’s spiritual responses bring us close to Him, while carnal reactions keep us imprisoned in our old carnal ways and submitted to the father of lies.

Most of us go through this walk with our God void of any of the fullness that was intended for us. Our days are filled with seemingly meaningless - but at the time urgent - tasks that fill our time until we are caught in an endless circle of lifeless days. There is reason for this: it is because we do not love others as God does.  Here’s what His Word says:

John 15: 9-14 NIV

9) “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.  Now remain in my love.

10) If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love.

11) I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

12) My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.

13) Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

14 You are my friends if you do what I command.”

 

The Father saw Jesus through His kind of love and His joy was complete.  Jesus saw us through His and His Father’s kind of love, and His joy was complete. He told us of His Father’s ways, so that our joy may be complete. He has us in mind in all that He does. We see others through our imperfect, selfish kind of love and wonder why we have little or no joy.  It doesn’t take much reasoning to figure out the simplicity of God’s equation.

It goes like this: Choose to love others with God’s motives for loving someone, and then there will be great joy in every area of your life.  If you choose not to love with God’s kind of love, joy will not be found in you, at least not complete joy.

Let Your joy be complete in me and through me,

Jim Corbett

“How much time have you spent in the last several days petitioning Me for the souls of those who are lost? What part of your life is spent in doing something so that those who don’t know Jesus may come to understand His Lordship? I know the answer! Why would you spend most of your days ignoring something that is so dear to My heart? Jesus gave His life to provide a means of hope for those who are lost. You need to pass on the incredible gift you have been given.”

Esther 4:13-14 AMP 

13) Then Mordecai told them to return this answer to Esther, Do not flatter yourself that you shall escape in the king’s palace any more than all the other Jews.

14) For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance shall arise for the Jews from elsewhere, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows but that you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this and for this very occasion?

Psalm 51:10 AMP  

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right, persevering, and steadfast spirit within me.

Isaiah 30:21 NIV 

Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”

Hosea 4:6 AMP 

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you [the priestly nation] have rejected knowledge…

Hosea 13:6 NIV

“When I fed them, they were satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; then they forgot me.”

 

God has a people who have been raised up to be His representatives, ambassadors who have the command to show others truth. It is their only purpose for taking in and releasing His air. To do anything other than that with their time and energy minimizes their time in doing what they are called to do. Those people are called His church.

Anyone who does not know the Lord, and therefore is not a member of His church, is not capable of obeying His commands. If we say that we are members of the church of Jesus Christ, then you and I have work to do if we say we honor God. Jesus showed us the way. It’s time to walk in it!

I choose to follow in Your footsteps, Lord,

Jim Corbett

“Will you pour your life into someone who doesn’t care if I ask you to do it? Will you continue to give and give when the ones to whom I send you can only take? When will you say, “Enough”? When will you lay down the cross I give you?

"I need lovers of those who hate Me. I need examples of the crucified life of Jesus. I need a people whose love is deeper than the hate that comes against them. Will you love as Jesus loved for My sake and for the benefit of someone who has no idea of your pain? Will you stay on the cross I give you until I remove you? Jesus stayed there for you! Now it’s your turn.”

Matt. 5:11-12 NIV

11) ”Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.

12) Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”

John 4:34 NIV

“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.”

John 15:12-14 NIV

12) “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.

13) Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

14) You are my friends if you do what I command.”

I Cor. 13:7-8a AMP 

7) Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].

8a) Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end]…

 

Compassion, which is stimulated by the spirit of mourning ever-present in the heart of Father God, is the conduit of the flow of power to heal infirmities and touch hearts. If it does not function in each of us, nothing eternal can be accomplished; only fleshly results will materialize. No wonder most of the church is powerless in so many situations.

Those who share the spirit of compassion with the Lord will not “weary in well–doing,” and will work unflaggingly until the last soul has been brought into the Kingdom of God. As Paul said, “I am again as if in birth pains until Christ is formed in you...”

When the last soul has been brought in, when all the intended work of the Father is finished, the compassion of the Father and those who have been made like Him will be satisfied. Only then will the compassionate be comforted and cease from laboring towards that end (mourning.)

Thank You for Your example, Lord,

Jim Corbett