John 13:34  "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another."
I'm convinced that there is no way we will be able to live the Sermon on The Mount if our hearts are not completely motivated by Love.
When Jesus commanded us to love one another He did not leave us without a model. He said "Love one another as I have loved you"
Jesus says in Matthew 5:43 "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,
Most people like to love those that love them and ignore those who do not love them... But He said in Matthew 5:46 "If you love those who love you, what reward will you get?"
And love is not an external thing it is internal, it is from the inside out. Sometimes we can look kind, patient, and loving on the outside because the Bible says that love is patient love is kind. But inside that is not a reality ... God has strong emotions towards us, deep burning passion for us He loves with strong affection. And He said " love one another as I have loved you"
Maybe you are saying it is impossible for me to love my enemies and do good to those who hurt me in that way. I agree it is impossible for us to love our enemies in our own strength. We need to truly experience His love and emotions towards us in a deep way to be able to love. I pray that the Love of God will explode in your heart and mine in a supernatural way as you are reading this blog. I pray that we will respond to His call to love from the inside out. He died for those who hated Him, who lied about Him, falsely accused Him....He loved in such a way that He sacrificed His only life... His love took Him to the Cross. I believe true love is going to take us to the Cross.
John 15:13 " Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command.....17 This is my command: Love one another."
We were made for love to flow in and flow out. This is the way that our hearts stay alive! He wired us to love one another in that way in completely selflessness. If we are not living that reality we will never be happy...
When love motivates us nothing can stop us. The great reality of the Sermon on the Mount is to be found alive in love, to be free from fear, and completely abandoned in love...

Below are some quotes on Love By Mother Theresa:

"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world."

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

“We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.”

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."

Matthew 11:28-30
"Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle (meek) and lowly (humble) in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

I love these verses. . . I was meditating on them today as I talked with my sister. I love Jesus ways . . . Here He is saying, "if you are weary, and your heart is burdened, take My yoke upon you because I am gentle and lowly and you will find rest for your souls."

It strikes me that if you embrace humility and gentleness, it will take all strife from your hearts. Here is a key to rest . . . His yoke is the yoke of meekness. We can get so worried about what people think of us and try so hard to make sure we find acceptance that we fail to get under the yoke of meekness. This yoke looks like this: When all is said and done, all that really matters is that I'm right and pleasing in God's eyes. If we want greatness in His eyes, it takes putting on His yoke of meekness and being a servant of all in this life as He was.

Lord I pray that I will live my life not for myself but before your eyes... Your kingdom come and Your will be done in my life . . .
I pray that we will embrace this and that we will truly give ourselves to servanthood by serving all and specially those who cannot give us anything in return!

Amen!

Hello everyone :),

This will be my online journal. I'm having a lot of things stirring in my heart and I think this is a good way to get my thoughts out :)I want to start this blog with a word that God gave me a couple of months ago....
After God showed me this visions. I felt led to really study the Sermon on the Mount and mediate on every verse.
The more I read Matthew 5-7 the more I realize how much we as a body of Christ desperately need to return
to the foundation of Christianity... Jesus we need you!!! make us more like You. Please Jesus make me more like You...

kelry



Two Different Visions of Running the Race

Recently, God spoke powerfully to me in two visions involving two groups of people. In the first vision, I saw a company of people running a race. Their faces shined like the sun. As I gazed upon them, I had a strong sense of God's presence. It was so powerful. The Lord then let me feel the hearts of these people. Their hearts were full of peace and joy. Then, the scene suddenly changed to the second vision.

In the second vision, I saw another company of people who were also running a race. This group of people were a little different from the first one. They were always looking around them as they ran. They looked to their left and to their right, as well as behind them. They ran swiftly and most of them were smiling. Then the Lord let me see their hearts. I did not feel their emotions at first, but then I felt an intense pain in them. As I looked, I could see their hearts were bleeding.

I asked God, "Who are these people?" Immediately, 1 Corinthians 9:24-25 was impressed upon my heart: "Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown."

Then God spoke to me, "The first company of people you saw was running the race for the 'imperishable crown.' They accept and experience My unconditional love daily. They love Me with all of their heart, mind, soul and strength. They understand that they are sons and daughters and not orphans. They live a lifestyle of loving selflessly, seeking meekness, thirsting and hungering for righteousness, and are poor in spirit. They have an understanding of their eternal inheritance. They relate to Me with the same intimacy with which My Son Jesus relates to Me.

The second group you saw was running the race for the 'perishable crown'--the crown that man can give them. While they smile on the outside, they really hurt on the inside. They compete with each other and live striving for man's acceptance. They are not orphans, but they have an orphan mentality. Not believing that they have the promised inheritance, they fight for all they can get in this life. Men crown them often, but every crown that man crowns them with only decays. There is no eternal significance. I love them with everlasting love. I long to spend time with them. I want to heal their hearts, but they are running so hard for the perishable reward that they do not make time to spend time with Me and receive My love, kindness, and acceptance towards them."

He continued to speak to me, saying, "I'm raising up a company of people in the nations of the earth that will not run the race for the perishable crown, but for the imperishable crown--the one that will last forever. I'm the One who gives the crown that does not fade."

Right after this, I felt led to look up the rewards that were given to those who "overcome" in the seven Churches in Revelation, chapters two and three. These rewards are imperishable. They can never decay. Below is a list of these seven Churches, along with the rewards due to those in these Churches who overcome:

Ephesus--the tree of life.
Smyrna--the crown of life.
Pergamum--hidden manna, and a stone with a new name.
Thyatira--rule over nations, and receive morning star.
Sardis--faithful, honored, and clothed in white.
Philadelphia--a place in God's presence, a new name, and the new Jerusalem.
Laodicea--share Christ's throne.

All the rewards are imperishable and will never decay!

Paul says this in 1 Corinthians 9:26, "Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty."

Uncertain runners run without a vision of the reward. They cannot envision the finish line. On the other hand, those who run with certainty, hold a picture of eternity in their hearts. Can you imagine what it would be like if the entire Body of Christ ran their race with certainty? If our minds and hearts were set on the reward that is imperishable, we would live with steadfast focus in this life, rejecting the lust of the flesh and the spirit of this age.

What would it be like if the whole Body of Christ were to live in obedience, faithful to the voice of God, embracing the lifestyle of the Sermon on the Mount, loving selflessly, praying without ceasing, giving freely, seeking meekness, fasting, blessing those who persecute us, turning the other cheek, humbling ourselves--this is a passionate dream of God's heart!

Lord, I pray that You draw us out of the temporal into a revelation of what is eternal. I pray that the eternity You have written on our hearts will shout to our consciousness. Help us, God, to live our lives in obedience and faithfulness to You all the days of our lives. Lord, I pray that we will experience Your love in the highest measure, that we will know Your burning passion towards us. Thank You Jesus for Your love for us.

Kelry Green