I understand how the Word is the seed of righteousness in me. I read it, and receive His revelation and I then see my lack, and how I need Him desperately to fill that lack. I do not have nosotros love, a love that comes from the Spanish word meaning (we or us.) It is a love that is continuously discribed in the Word of God. It is a constant calling by the Lord to lay down the love we have for ourselves, our pleasure, our gain and humbly exalt others the way our flesh desires to exalt itself. Christ even said, "No greater love has anyone than this; that he lay down his life for a friend."
The Lord has been speaking to me in the past two months about this nosotros love. It is a perfect love, and we will see it one day as the Spirit and the Bride say "Come".
If we do an analysis on ourselves, we will be fully aware that we do not have Nosotros love. We do not love our neighbor as ourself. We do not love the bride of Christ - who is making herself ready. Not the way we love ourselves, and not the way we are taught through the Word of God, and through the example of Christ Jesus as he walked in the flesh.
I said to the Lord "I need you to teach me this love, reveal it to my heart. I have found a depth of love that is unlike the love I have known before, and you have caused me to walk in this level of love - it is a love that is overwhelming when I first see or meet someone who walks in the presence of God. It's when the presence of God is upon me and I see with those eyes. While in corporate worship, I look with love upon those who are in the depths of intercession, seated before you and they do not see me as much as they see you. They are swept away into Your presence. I see them from earth and my heart is ravished for them. I want to bring them all together in one place and sit before You. I want to work with You to challenge and encourage and minister and wash them. This is my greatest desire because in this place is where I am overcome with Nosotros (us/we) love as Your love for Your Bride consumes me. In my love for You, I am overwhelmed with Your heart and begin to desire what You desire, and a love for each other and a unity of the Bride is strong on Your heart."
The Word of God speaks of the unity of the believers; loving our neighbor. In these texts we can see the depth of the calling upon the church to love with Christ's love. A nosotros love.
UNITY -
2 Ch 30:12 - the people to give them unity of mind.
Ps 133:1 - is when brothers live together in unity
John 17:23 - May they be brought to complete unity.
Rom 15:5 - a spirit of unity among yourselves.
Eph 4:3 - effort to keep the unity of the Spirit.
Eph 4:13 - up until we all reach unity in the faith
Col 3:14 - them all together in perfect unity.
LOVE NEIGHBOR -
Lev 19:18 - Love your neighbor as yourself
Matt 5:43 - You have heard love your neighbor and hate your enemy
Matt 19:19 - and “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Mark 12:31 - The second is this “Love your neighbor as yourself”
Luke 10:27 - Love your neighbor as yourself
Luke 10:29 - and who is my neighbor? Jesus replied
Rom 13:9 - Love your neighbor as yourself
Rom 13:10 - Love does no harm to Its neighbor
Jas 2:8 - Love your neighbor as yourself
I understand that there is a level of love, in which the ACTS CHURCH operated in that was unlike any love we have seen in large scale today. As a matter of fact, we have fallen so far from a serving love, to a selfish love that love is hard to decipher. We see a love today that is based off of convenience, selfishness, sex, gain, materialism, adventure, pleasure. But as we have watched, marriages die, children without respect of parents, churches at war within themselves and with other churches, schools at war within themselves and with other schools. Even denominations at war with other denominations, political parties at war.
Where is this love? Our model for this love is found in the Word and in examples in the Word. We look at these examples of love and as our reflections turn inwardly we see that we have neither comprehended nor attained this love that we are commanded to do. But the Bride of Christ is about to have the scales removed from her eyes so she may see that at the return of Christ there will be a world-wide Bride of Christ operating in unity. A unity so beautiful and selfless and purposeful that it will destroy the works of the enemy, it will conquer hearts, we will see new believers brought to maturity in days instead of decades - by the testimony of love and the revelation of the Spirit of God.
I have a feeling. I have a feeling that this is going to be bigger than just my journal. I have a feeling that this is much bigger than a training for me. I am on the edge of feeling overwhelmed. Like when you are on the day 1 of a 7 day fast and you think - how will I literally survive this? I know that I am not equipped in advanced to write a message, but I have an expectation in my relationship with the Spirit of God. This expectation is that I would be equipped as I need to be along the way. I have an expectation that I would write out of a love relationship with God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and They are more than enough. I expect to be writing under the full "open heaven" anointing of the Spirit of God, because this is love. And I will write, and write, and write until I am told to stop. My flesh is overwhelmed with the task, but I have a fire burning in me that was placed by the Spirit of God and it must be released.
I have been called to teach, train, and instruct the body of Christ (since the age of 16). I have been called to prepare the bride of Christ for her king, and I have been called to be with Christ where He is. I can not make a plan - for my entire life has been about making plans…but this one is not my own.
I must make a note, that when I refer to Nostotros love, this word came to me by the Spirit and is not a word specifically referred to in the Word of God. The Spirit of God used this word to explain to me the depths of love that I have not yet been able to comprehend. An "Us" love. Meaning the unifying love in the body of Christ that loves one another, loves the lost, and loves the Spirit, and loves the Son, and loves the Father. A "We" love that is not satisfied to love whole heartedly alone but is compelled to gather the entire body of Christ in a unifying love. When we know Christ, we learn to love as Christ. When we love as Christ, we know Christ even deeper.
Other Examples of this Nosotros love:
Daniel - who prayed for those to return to Jerusalem but didn’t himself
Esther and Mordaci - who interceded for the Jews
Moses - interceded for his people
Paul - gave for his churches, spending his life on them
John the Baptist - gave his life for the world to know the coming Christ
Disciples - Trained the country men about Jesus and were martyred
God the Father - For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son