Jesus gave a command that we should love other disciples as He loved us. The former command was to love ones neighbor as yourself. This new commandment is in a higher level. To love as Jesus loved us.
How does Jesus love us?
1. He loves us with all our weaknesses and failures.
2. He loves us even we we fail Him and disappoint Him.
3. He loves us even when we don't respond to His love.
4. He loves us even when we do something intentionally to hurt Him.
5. He loves us even when we are ignorant of so many things.
6. .......
You can continue the list. We see now to love others as we are loved by Him is a very high standard; but don't be discouraged. He promised to give us a Helper, the Holy Spirit to help us keep this commands which are impossible to fulfill in our own strength. Unless we receive the powerof God, it's impossible to keep this commands.
Are you trying to obey Jesus with seeking to be filled with the Holy Spirit? You will be disappointed if you do, you will never God's rest in your heart, not peace nor joy which no circumstance can take away from. Seek to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
You don't need anyone to lay His hands on you. Seek God alone. He will meet you in your secret place and you will experience the true power of God.
The evidence of being filled with the Holy Spirit is not speaking in tongues as we have often heard, the bible says in Acts 1:8 that when the Holy Spirit comes, you will receive power to be my witnesses....
Power to be a witness of Christ is the evidence of being filled with the Holy Spirit. To be a witness is different from witnessing. Witnessing is by your words, to be a witness is first of all by your own life and it overflowing through your mouth. Your life is changed primarily and people can only say that Jesus is living in this person.
There are many today who speak in tongues who still live just like any other person in their private lives; these are deceived by an experience.
Don't be deceived by an experience when there is no reality in your life. Seek power, don't be satisfied with an outward form of godliness without the inner power and inner reality.
Jesus lay His life for us His friends. John says that we also must lay down our lives for our brothers. 1John 3:16. To lay down our rights, our desires, for our brothers sake, it's our call.
Jesus said we are His friends if we do what He commands us.
Again and again we see in the last sermon Jesus preached to His disciples that He repeatedly talked about keeping His commandments.
In today's church what we hear preachers repeating is prosperity, healing and breakthrough. Jesus insisted in obedience to His commands. The devil took the church away from it's true calling to something else.
How much will that matter in eternity. We are taught to think just like the world.
Every person who is not born again is thinking about material prosperity, healing and breakthrough, and of course if that is what is preached, we will have many mega churches. The sad thing is many are deceived that they are serving God when they are only serving their own interests.
Jesus revealed His secrets He heard from His to His disciples. Even today, there are many secrets God have for His disciples, only a disciple can hear them.
A disciple is one who loves Jesus more than everyone and everything else. More than his own self.
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@Blessed Mshindi Mambo
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