The Father's Heart of love for his church, the bride that he is preparing for the Lord Jesus, winds like a thread of gold through his Word. Because God is Love, everything that he is doing in the earth today flows from that love.
Even in the Old Testament we see the Father's heart of love for his people. He has always been jealous for his creation. In Deuteronomy 7 we read that the covenant that he established with them was a covenant of love. Just a pity they did not see it; could have spared themselves from all the drama they caused.
In Jeremiah 31:3 we find these beautiful words, "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness."
Romans 5:5 we find these words, "And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us."
Let us not miss out because we do not pursue His love. Paul prayed this beatiful prayer for the church in Ephesus.
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge — that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Even in the Old Testament we see the Father's heart of love for his people. He has always been jealous for his creation. In Deuteronomy 7 we read that the covenant that he established with them was a covenant of love. Just a pity they did not see it; could have spared themselves from all the drama they caused.
In Jeremiah 31:3 we find these beautiful words, "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness."
Romans 5:5 we find these words, "And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us."
Let us not miss out because we do not pursue His love. Paul prayed this beatiful prayer for the church in Ephesus.
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge — that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Take this prayer and make it your own. Meditate upon it until it becomes a part of your inner most being. Love transports us into the realm of the Father's heart. His love will move us to accomplish all that he wills.
Paul uses four dimensions to describe the love of Christ; wide, long, high and deep. We live in the first three dimensions, and it is only as we move closer to the Father's heart of love that we begin to understand the unfathomless depth of that love. The closer we draw to him the deeper we go into his rest, that place of perfect peace and love. The heavenly blessedness in which God dwells by his Spirit.
May you be encouraged in your heart to know that your heavenly Father wants to bless you with the full understanding and experience of his love.
The desire of the Father's heart for the church is that we take this love to a hurting and lost world. As we live the message of his love we will begin to discover the church that the father has in his heart.
With much love,
Jack Viljoen.
The Church in the Father's Heart.
Paul uses four dimensions to describe the love of Christ; wide, long, high and deep. We live in the first three dimensions, and it is only as we move closer to the Father's heart of love that we begin to understand the unfathomless depth of that love. The closer we draw to him the deeper we go into his rest, that place of perfect peace and love. The heavenly blessedness in which God dwells by his Spirit.
May you be encouraged in your heart to know that your heavenly Father wants to bless you with the full understanding and experience of his love.
The desire of the Father's heart for the church is that we take this love to a hurting and lost world. As we live the message of his love we will begin to discover the church that the father has in his heart.
With much love,
Jack Viljoen.
The Church in the Father's Heart.
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Thanks for writing this.
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