EVERLASTING LOVE....

EVERLASTING LOVE… "Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with loving-kindness I have drawn you”. Jeremiah 31:3 (NKJV). No one can fully grasp the core of God’s promise of Everlasting Love if same is in a shallow relationship with Him. In fact, several Bible verses are easily recited by all ages of people without getting an understanding of their impact on life and eternity. Right from kindergarten, many get accustomed especially to certain Psalms of the Bible. As if it is not shallow enough to merely recite these verses religiously, many still do for purposes other than to nourish the spirit, soul and body. “Every part of Scripture is God-breathed and useful one way or another — showing us truth, exposing our rebellion, correcting our mistakes, training us to live God's way. Through the Word we are put together and shaped up for the tasks God has for us”. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 (THE MESSAGE). The Bible is a sacred book of instructions for living. God speaks to His own through this and other means. God’s Word fits into every situation; we are exposed to the ultimate hope we have of heaven, the joy of Christian fellowship here on earth and the indispensability of the Holy Spirit of God who especially in this dispensation guides us into all truths about God, the world and all eventualities. Every child of God must be conscious of the truth that he carries God inside of himself- “Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's”. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NKJV) In the Old Testament days, the physical temple was the holy place where the people met with God to worship; Jerusalem was the city of God- the Great King. It stood high up in the mountains in a beautiful spot- “Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth”… Psalms 48:2a (NASB). For Zion was the place where Israel felt the Living and True God was especially present. Yahweh, Jehovah was beyond all other ‘great kings’ and Jerusalem was the city of Him who was most worthy of praise. In our time, God is present whenever and wherever people meet to hallow His name - there I AM in the midst of them. There is no one place on earth that is special beyond all others for knowing God’s presence and worshiping Him, true worship is rooted in the knowledge of The Truth (Jesus) and in Spirit; your connection with God’s Spirit living within you- “God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." John 4:24 (NIV). The Holy Spirit lives in you if you are in Christ, the fellowship of the people that God dwells within them is called Church- it is now God’s city on earth! We belong to a universal fellowship of all who believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God who is the Anointed Messiah. This honor also lays on us the obligation to live holy lives for we are the Church being adorned to inherit the heavenly Jerusalem of God! Friend, come let us look closely at this- Everything about God is Everlasting. Starting with His utterances, they carry creative powers even in series beyond when they were spoken. Not a jot of His Word will go unfulfilled. Another aspect is that life exist forever- beyond these passing routines and rat-chasings that we all do, we all have everlasting continuation of our existence especially after ‘death’. Everlasting bliss with God in His city awaits those that have lived their physical lives obeying God, while everlasting pains will be the lot of those that disregard His laws. Whether human logics can make sense of God’s reassurance of His Everlasting Love, mostly, you have been confronted with the reality that your time in that desert helped your fellowship with God; Pharaoh’s fighting host, physical hunger and various stokes of pain all lashed at you. Those times that you interpreted the ‘solitude’ in your soul to mean that the ‘golden calf’ was an option! You sinned! But God in His Everlasting Mercy came to your rescue. Even though you yearned for ‘Egypt’s cucumbers and pomegranates’ that the devil generously gave you in exchange for the substance of your destiny, God courted you despite your whoring, He has been loving ever since He formed you in His own image and breathe life into you! He did not just recently start loving you! Everlasting Love, Everlasting Peace, Everlasting Joy, Everlasting Favor, Everlasting Everlasting are ALL in the place of rest with God. Everlasting Fellowship- aloneness with God “Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her. There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will sing as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt”. Hosea 2:14-15 (NIV). The aftermath of this is that God will thoroughly transform the situations of the beloved whose head had rested on His Everlasting Heart and with Loving-kindness, He will draw their lives out of prostration and they will yet be found among the throngs that truly cheer. The captives of great Babylon wept as they were forcefully exiled, but they will yet weep for joy- “Those who sow tears shall reap joy”. Psalms 126:5 (TLB) “Those who mourn …. shall be comforted”. Matthew 5:4 (TLB). This year 2013, God’s Everlasting Love will gently lead His beloved, God will bend down like a Great Shepherd to feed His sheep and calm their pains- complete fullness and satisfaction, perfect comfort that only comes from God- “For the Lord has redeemed Israel from those too strong for them. They will come home and sing songs of joy on the heights of Jerusalem. They will be radiant because of the Lord's good gifts— the abundant crops of grain, new wine, and olive oil, and the healthy flocks and herds. Their life will be like a watered garden, and all their sorrows will be gone”. Jeremiah 31:11-12 (New Living Translation). “For the Lord loves justice and fairness; he will never abandon his people. They will be kept safe forever; but all who love wickedness shall perish”. Psalms 37:28 (TLB) “Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work”. 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 (NKJV) HAPPY YEAR 2013 OF HIS EVERLASTING LOVE! ayanfeLAMPROS NOTE: NIV (New International Version) NLT (New Living Translation) TLB (The Living Bible) ESV (English Standard Version) AMP (Amplified Bible version) NIV (New International Version) NLT (New Living Translation) TLB (The Living Bible) NASB (New American Standard Bible) NKJU (New King James Version) KJV (King James Version) Phone Contacts: 0802 828 6163, 0803 5100 530.