Love and trust walk hand in hand. You can only love a person to the degree that you can trust that person. If trust is betrayed, love is injured and it has to be developed again. Love is like a full blown rose--but betrayed--love closes up like a bud and is not sure if it should open up again. Isn’t it true that the more I do for you, and the more I touch you and talk to you, the more you love Me? The love grows more in time.
The closer we get, the hotter love becomes. There is a Spiritual heat and there is a physical heat. That’s why you say an animal is in heat--her desire to mate and reproduce is intense at that moment. But approach her out of season and you get a cold shoulder and probably will have a fight on your hands. She isn’t prepared for love making and not the least bit interested in it. In the spiritual world, this is the season for love making.
The Body of Christ is going to experience My love like never before as I touch them and speak to them and do for them. This is My season of love--pouring out My love on you--and My Body is in a season to receive that love. She has been hurt, abused, disappointed and because of that, She is not sure whom She can trust. So I have to win Her trust back so I can win Her love back. She is leery of putting Her trust totally in Me.
It’s hard to trust someone you don’t know, isn’t it? But the longer you know that person and watch and experience who they are and how they are, the more your trust can grow--if they are trust-worthy. But if they say one thing and do another, or promise you something and never fulfill it, you learn quickly that this person is not trust-worthy. Are you always late? Then you cannot be trusted to be on time. Do you promise to be there and then not show up? Do you make promise after promise and never keep your word??? You confide in someone and then tell everyone--they will think twice before telling you anything again!
Prophets are not even sure who they can trust with the precious Word they have received. Prophets hold the Word of God in them and deposit it for others to embrace and receive and give birth to, the Word deposited in them. But if one takes that lightly, it causes the prophet to draw back and close up to protect the precious word within them. It causes them to be unsure where to deposit the Word.
So at first, they were like the open rose--so freely giving their beauty and sweet aroma--but when rejected, closes up like a bud again and no one can see the beauty inside and smell the sweet fragrance of love. Love accepted blossoms. Love rejected shrinks. From the Cross, I said, “It is finished.” All is complete, there is nothing more that needs to be done. The act of dying for mankind perfected My love for mankind.
Because your life is the dearest thing you have, you will fight for the right to live. But when you give up the right to live so that others can live, then your love becomes complete--you then love others more than you love yourself. When you give up the rights and passions of your flesh and let the Spirit have control, then your love has come to completion.
I sold out to My Father and My love became complete. Nothing mattered anymore to Me except fulfilling His plan to redeem mankind. Mankind became more important than Me, how I felt, how I hurt, what I experienced, what I had to go through--none of that mattered anymore--all that mattered to Me was doing the will of the One who sent Me.
From the Garden on, it didn’t matter how badly I hurt, how My heart broke, the beatings, rejection, humiliation, anguish of mind, mocking and finally death--it didn’t matter once I got past the Garden of Gethsemene experience--where I lay My will down and picked up My Father’s will. [See Luke 1:38 - Remember Mary’s attitude. Submit your plans and future to God’s will.] And when you get to that place--nothing anyone does to you will ever bother you again. All you have to do is die to self and live for Me. And when you get to that point, you’ll trust Me for everything, rely on Me for everything, and experience what it means to walk in love perfected.
That’s why perfect love casts fear out. How can you be afraid when you no longer live, but I live in you? My love was made complete when I learned I could freely trust My Father and His plan for My life. And so will your love be complete, when you do the same. Look at My reward for doing it His way and not My way--you were redeemed!
I was exalted...so I could in turn bring you up to where I am, so that where I am, you may be also...forever and ever and ever. All of us in one place, in one accord, surrounded by perfect love forever! And where there is love, there is peace and joy and patience and kindness and long-suffering, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. Love is a decision. It is treating everyone the same no matter how they treat you. The fruit of the Holy Spirit is birthed out of love and held in place by self control.
In Communion, the bread you eat represents and makes clear to you that I had to walk in the fruit of the Spirit and exercise love and self control. I had a decision to make and I made it for you. As you take the bread and break the bread, remember Me. My will was broken so that My Father’s will could come forth and you could have a Savior. Now, as you hold the cup, remember Me--every last drop of My blood was drained from My body, and as I was dying, remember this, I too, did for you.
Take the bread and take the cup--eat and drink it all and remember Me. There is no sin My blood can’t wash away--save blasphemy against the Holy Spirit--which none of you have done [and still desire to read this]--there is no disease My body didn’t take for you...anything that makes you ill, I fulfilled.
Die to your will, pick up My will, and go forth determined that nothing matters anymore except to fulfill the Father’s will to redeem mankind. I did it all for you--now go and do likewise for others.
