Abiding, Receiving, Beholding, Taking Hold, and Dwelling In His Love!!!!

Hello Precious and Dearly Loved Saint and Child of Our Abba Father!

Solar energy and the Christian have much in common.   In Solar Energy, there is a system of equipment to collect and absorb the sun’s energy.  The bigger and more refined the equipment, the greater amounts of the sun’s energy can be absorbed and stored.  The more the sun’s energy is absorbed, the more powerful its uses become on the earth!  The sun is always releasing its energy, but once it is absorbed and stored, it becomes very useful and is a very effective source of power.  If the energy is not absorbed and collected, it cannot be used for the various different ways to benefit us. 

  Christianity, first and foremost is a realm of receiving.  God has initiated this great salvation for us.  He is the One who is always releasing His Loving power to us without ever stopping!  He is the Fountain of Life; He is the fountain of Love that is always pouring into our heart through the Holy Spirit no matter what we do in the flesh!  Our behavior does not or ever will, change God.  God is Love!  Jesus bore all wrath, condemnation, sin, sickness, disease, everything we inherited from the “fall” on the Cross!             “There is now NO condemnation for in Christ Jesus.” Romans 8:1.   

    So our response to His great, continuous, nonstop, unfailing, unconditional Love, is to receive, absorb, and abide in it!                         “God is Love, and the one who abides in Love abides in God, and God abides in Him.   By this (abiding in His Love), Love (His Love) is perfected within us…” 1 John 4:16-17.       Our response to His great outpouring of Love is simply to believe, receive, abide, live, dwell… in this outpouring!  The more we abide in His Love, the more His Love is perfected within us!       

   “There is no fear in Love; but perfect Love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment (infliction, torment, anxiety, condemnation…), and the one who fears is not perfected in Love.  We Love, because He first Loved us (and His Love is removing the condemnation out of our heart, and is perfecting His Love within us)! 1 John 4:18-19.         WE simply abide with all of our heart and His Love perfects us and drives out the fear, condemnation, torment, infliction… that may be within us!  We just turn our heart to this outpouring of Love and receive it into the depths of our heart!      

  “And Hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His Love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given to us.” Romans 5:5.        As we abide in His Love, and we get more and more, and deeper and deeper, revelation by the Holy Spirit, and the disappointment in our heart is driven away!    So many people live with hurt, disappointment, fear, anxiety, torment… in their heart, but as we abide and receive His Love into our heart, it is washed away and driven out by His Love!  His Love overtakes, overcomes, and overwhelms our heart so there is no room for hurt, disappointment, condemnation…. 

   But if we keep drinking from the river of hurt, condemnation, disappointment, this stuff fills our heart and we are unable to receive the Father’s Love into the depths of our heart because we keep it out by clinging to the hurt from the past!   So we just open our heart and absorb His Love that is always pouring into our heart, and His Love becomes powerful and useful inside of us, similar to solar energy that is absorbed and collected and His perfect Love drives out the hurt and pain in our heart!

  Critical in this whole process, is that this outpouring is happening in the Spirit and not necessarily in our feelings.   People often think that because they cannot feel this Love that it is not actively being poured in.   As we depend on the Holy Spirit, He will make this Love more and real and experiential, but at first, we may not feel it because it is happening in a different realm than our feelings, it is happening in the Spirit!  The Spirit realm is a different than the earthly realm of feelings.  Something may be very powerful in the Spirit realm and we can be completely unaware because we are looking to feel it with our feelings.  Our feelings have been so tainted by the “fall” that we cannot feel as we would if they were not damaged by the “fall”.  

   The more we absorb, receive, abide, behold, and take hold of His Love that is always being poured into our heart, the more Love is being perfected within us and then the more we will be able to feel it as well!!!!             SHALOM!!!!!!!!

Jerry Brown      6-24-2013