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The Revelation Of Love

by GOD TV September 30, 2022

written by GOD TV

You know, when I first came to the Lord, I’d been raised with faith and explored a lot of different faiths. But when I first came to know the Lord, I actually came to know a holy, separated, perfect God, a Savior, a provider. Every aspect of His nature, except one that was most critical: the love of the Father. And see God doesn’t just have an expression of love; He is love.

And I remember the moment I encountered that. It was honestly when I had my first daughter. In that moment, I remember people thinking, oh, he’s so emotional about his daughter. And I was, but I was actually having a revelation of who the Father was and how much love He had for me. I didn’t know that God loved. I knew what He could do and provide, that He was perfect and holy and powerful and separated, and He was my way into eternity. I missed out on the biggest truth is, He is love. And understanding the love, the true love of the Father.

See, love can be perverted by thinking acceptance is love. Acceptance is something that we do to affirm someone’s actions. Love doesn’t get dictated by actions. Love penetrates to the truth of identity and who you are, and God loves without need of action. He loves perfectly and pure. So I want you right now to do something with me. I just want you to close your eyes. I want you to let yourself become aware of the Father. Not God the Savior, the provider, not the holy separated God, but the Father. And I want you to hear these words, as I say them, and I want you to hear them from the Father, “I love you. You’re loved. Nothing you can do will separate you from My love.” And I want you to just take a moment and tell yourself, “I’m loved.” Just repeat those words. “God, I’m loved. You love me. My Father in heaven loves me.”

I want you to do this over the next week. I’m going to challenge you. Look in the mirror every day. And I want you to say two things: “God, you love me unconditionally.” And then this one, which is just as important: “I love myself unconditionally,” because love itself is unconditional. I just want to bless you in that. Be filled with God’s love, be filled with the truth of who you are, and know that nothing you can do can ever separate you from His love. God bless you.

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September 30, 2022 0 comments

How To Like Yourself

by GOD TV August 29, 2022

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One of the biggest issues that I have faced over my life, and I know that a lot of us do too, and sometimes we can look in the mirror and go, “God, I don’t like this. God, I don’t like this.” And for me, it’s this nose. I think my nose is too big. So when I look in the mirror I go, “God, I don’t like my nose.” And it was my birthday a couple of days ago, and I was talking to a friend of mine and she looked at me and she said, “You know what? I have really been liking and appreciating myself lately,” and it stopped me in my tracks.

I think, “What?” I’ve never heard anybody actually say the opposite to what most of us say, which is we don’t like something about ourselves. And she’s saying, “I’ve really been liking and appreciating myself lately.” And she’d be doing it from this point of view of looking at herself from God’s point of view, through His eyes. So on my birthday, I said, “Lord, I’d like a gift please.” And He said, “What is it?” And I said to Him, “Lord, will you show me how to like myself?” And He said, “Lisa, Come, I want to show you what I’ve written in Psalm 139.”

So I’m going to read from verse 13-15, “For you did form my inward parts. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I will confess and praise you, for you are fearful and wonderful. And for the awe filled wonder of my birth, wonderful are your works. And that my inner self knows quite well.” This is just a beautiful place where God tells us, “You know what? I knit you together in your mother’s womb. I gave you the color of hair you have, and the shape of your face, and how tall you would be, and what your body shape would be.” And God shows us how beautifully He created us on purpose and for a purpose, right? When we can take a step back and look at ourselves through God’s eyes and see how much He loves the way your face looks, how much He loves the way you laugh, your personality, the way you think, the way you interact with circumstances.

We can look at ourselves in the mirror and go, “You know what? I like myself, because God likes me, because He specifically made me this way.” It totally changes our perspective from just judging ourselves from the outside, and from the way we do things, according to how we think that it’ll work out in our lives, to taking deep breath and going, “You know what Lord? You made me perfectly the way you wanted me to be, so I’m going to like me, just like you like me.”

Thank you, Lord that you knit every one of us together in our mother’s womb. You know exactly what we look like, how tall we are, where we get to walk, what our personalities are like, how we love, what we find funny, what we find sad, and it is all perfectly in your will for our lives. Thank you, Lord, that next time we look in the mirror, I pray that you help us to see ourselves the way you do. And we get to look at ourselves and go, “I like me, because God likes me, too.” In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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August 29, 2022 0 comments

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Convinced of His Love

by GOD TV June 5, 2022

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Hey, if you knew you were loved, how would you show up? If you were loved, no matter what, how would you show up in life? How would you think? How would you dress? How would you go about your life? In the Word of God, Romans 8:38 says, “I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels, nor demons, neither our fears for today, nor our worries about tomorrow. Not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky, above or in the earth below. Indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ our Lord.”

So it says it right here in the Word of God, that you are accepted and loved no matter what. So how are you going to show up today? What decisions are you going to make today? How are you going to pray today? How are your conversations going to be with your friends? I want to pray for you. God, I just pray that the person watching this video right now feels the immense love that you have for them, and that they can go about their day feeling loved and showered and full of joy, so their life can show that in every way. Amen.

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June 5, 2022 0 comments

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You Are The Apple Of God’s Eye

by GOD TV April 2, 2022

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In Psalm 17:8 we get a glimpse into God’s heart for us. Let me read it for you. It says, “Keep me as the apple of your eye, hide me under the shadow of your wings.” So I said to the Lord, one day, “Lord, what does it mean to be the apple of your eye?” And He showed me a picture of Him with His nose on my nose, and He was holding my face in His hands, and He was that close. I said, look, that’s just the most beautiful picture. So imagine right where you are, just close your eyes for a moment and imagine God holding your face in His hands, adoring you so much that He wants to be that close to you. He loves to be in your space like that. I said, “Lord, okay. There’s no issues with personal space. I love that you’re so close to me.”

So know that wherever you are today, God is not judging you. He’s not shouting at you. He’s not telling you that you’ve done something wrong. God is your loving heavenly Father, and He’s holding your face in His hands, because He loves you. He sees you, He champions you, He knows all the gold that is in you, and He wants to walk with you to bring that out today.

So you are loved and beloved. Lord, thank you that today, you’ll show whoever’s watching this video, how precious they are to you, how much you love them, how much you see in them, how much you want to bring out all the uniqueness that is in them, and that you absolutely delight to do so. Thank you so much, Lord, in Jesus’ Name.

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April 2, 2022 0 comments

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From The Last Supper, To The Garden. From The Cross To A Heavenly Throne

by Justin Daniel April 18, 2019

written by Justin Daniel

From The Cross To A Heavenly Throne

“I am in My Father, and He is in Me. If you have seen Me, you have seen our Father.”

With these words, a prayer, and a blessing, Jesus left dinner with His disciples to finish His journey to the Cross where He overlooked the plains of time with His words echoing inside them: “In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and He is in Me, and I in you.”

What mysteries were involved in those words! How could they have known until it was all made plain?

Leaving His table for the garden, He cried out to His Father with an untold agony for the strength to accomplish what followed. By an act of will He surrendered and in the next hours was seen bearing blows that were meant to be ours.

Forgiving our sins, for we know not what we do. Making a declaration of love, as we were engraved upon His palms as he hung on the Cross: “My arms and heart are always open to you!” Taking an irrevocable stand, as His feet were pierced: “I am with you always; I will never leave you or forsake you!”

Victory at the Cross

Absorbing death’s unfounded accusations against humanity’s original identity: Himself. proclaiming on humanity’s behalf, as life swallowed up death forever, there at the end of all things: “Death is finished! You have redeemed my life, O faithful God!”

Abolishing sin as He died, pulling it straight out of us and declaring, “You are my righteousness.”

Healing the fractured hearts of our earth’s nations. Pouring out into this world’s earthen vessels His very own heart. With plans to bring the liberty of His children to the cosmos.

From those heights where He was crucified, a rich note resonates across the plains underneath from depths of untold eons of love. A three-fold wave of rich red love, from His side and hands and feet, the blood of His brow, bruises, and bleeding body rushed down to sweep death’s ugly armies away, forever banished by Life!

Yet on the immediate horizon we see men and women seemingly still tattooed by death, rushing as if from the maw of hell itself to bring an end to the life and liberty of what God intends to be a glad world. What is the issue? Be it unto you according to your faith. Have we placed our faith in death as the Savior instead of the one who said, “If you believe in Me, you will never die, and if you die you will yet live? Do you believe this?”

This “army tattooed by death” is really sons and daughters who have forgotten who they are – The Image of the Divine – and have been deceived or never told of the love of our Father, the Word who is our Brother, and the Spirit of Love who is with us always.

These have yet to remember their Father and encounter the Heavenly Man. Who upon knowing this great and happy God –who so loves the world that He gave himself for it – would not be changed, and swept up by love into a happy ecstasy?

Divine Love is a Heavenly force that changes hearts. Strong and gentle. Fierce and quiet. Bruised Reed, he will not break you! Faintly Burning Wick, He will not quench you!

And to one who chooses the good portion and only necessary thing –to be with Him – He will not ever take this away. It is what he made you for.

Mary, He will never take Himself, His presence, or friendship away from you!

Love’s Power sweeps away sorrow, taking it on Himself, that we might be a people of joy, breaking like dawn upon the darkness, banishing it from within as He shines in our hearts with His marvelous light!

Here at the Cross, the apex of all time and its union with all things eternal, He brought to His people and all that has ever been created life, liberty, and happiness – our redemption and restoration to a realized union with Him. Valiantly, His victory cry spoken for all sounds throughout the ages:

“It is finished; you have redeemed my life, O faithful God!”

Who among mankind knew at Golgotha what Love had done?

His Eternal Processional

“I heard Him say, ‘Behold, I am making all things new.’ ”

In Christ, our Father reconciled a world – alienated from Him only in their own minds – to Himself. We have a revelation in Jesus: we have been projecting our own thoughts onto God all along, creating a being in our own image instead of surrendering to the Love that has always been there for us, and in whose image we have always been!

Three days after the tomb was shut, His body buried, the Secret was let out: The Lord has been with us all along; we have always been one with Him!

We are permanently and vitally united with Jesus, one Spirit with the Lord, and part of His Eternal Processional: proceeding from the Father, in the Son, with the Holy Spirit proceeding from us in our love, revealing the Son, embraced by our Father, encompassed in the love of Triune Divinity, forever. The old has gone. The new is come.

All are in Christ. He died on the Cross for all, and therefore all have died and all have become a new creation. All are in Love. The righteousness of God, resplendent light, shines forth from your heart, in the face of Jesus Christ – your face. You are blessed, beloved one. Dance in this Papa’s Love.

April 18, 2019 0 comments

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The Heart Motivation to Prophesy

by Jared Laskey May 21, 2018

written by Jared Laskey

The Heart Motivation

There are a number of questions we should ask ourselves before we minister or approach people, whether we are counseling them, encouraging or even prophesying over them. They include:

Do you value and love Jesus? Is your love for Him growing every day? Do you cherish His wonderful Holy Spirit? Are you loving God’s children? Do you love those who do not know Him? Are you genuinely caring for the person you are ministering to? These questions are pivotal, ensuring we have the right motivations for ministry.

Old Testament prophets and leaders were the few chosen spokesmen on God’s behalf. When the Spirit of God was limited to a select few. But now, under the New Covenant, all of us in Christ have the wonderful Holy Spirit and we are all part of the royal priesthood.

The Apostle Peter discusses this, saying, “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may declare the goodness of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light,” (1 Peter 2:9). In our present day and age, our ministry pattern and type is to be motivated by love, grace and mercy. Before we prophesy or minister, we must remain grounded in Scripture, declaring His goodness to all the world.

1. Our motivation needs to be love—love for God and love for others. Jesus summed up the law and the prophets when He was asked which Old Covenant command is the greatest. In Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus said “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

These verses do not state we are to love ourselves, but in saying “love your neighbor as yourself” it implies loving your neighbor as you know God loves you. When I was in India on a mission trip, I remember receiving a revelation of God’s love for the children ministered to each week at an AIDS hospital. I saw His love for them and learned to love them as He loves them. The love and mercy of God on these precious people was life-changing for me as they were responding to the gospel. And that is God’s love in action!

2. Our attitude is to reveal His love. 1 John 4:9-11 says, “In this way the love of God was revealed to us, that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. And in this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we must also love one another.”

Ministry is not about the one ministering; it is about the one who enables and empowers the minister by His Spirit. Revealing His love is an amazing privilege. The signs and wonders that take place are all to point to His love. For a season in my previous youth ministry we saw God manifest gold dust and diamonds. This overflowed to our larger church meetings for all ages. When asked what these things meant, the answer was that He was revealing His love. And we are to do the same, first and foremost, by sharing the Gospel message.

3. Our character must apply His virtue and love in our lives. 2 Peter 1:5-7 says, “For this reason make every effort to add virtue to your faith; and to your virtue, knowledge; to your knowledge, self-control; and to your self-control, patient endurance; to your patient endurance, godliness; to your godliness, brotherly kindness; and to your brotherly kindness, love.” We need to continually grow in Him and it should be evident to others that we are making these efforts. This is to lead us to maturity, growing in His likeness and image. This is in fulfilling Jesus’ prayer in John 17 for us to be one as He is one with the Father.

God’s love is the key to all ministry.

This article was written by Jared Laskey of Fireborn Ministries. Jarred leads Destiny Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia and lives to see Jesus awaken this generation to the power of the Holy Spirit. He is also the co-author of Veronica’s Hero.

May 21, 2018 0 comments