1 John 4 Part 1

I'd like to start off today with a quick testimony. After I finished my writing on the simplicity of making an impact i headed straight to work where I deliver Pizza. The first house I delivered to a young girl came to the door and said Im sorry my mom would come to the door but she is Injured, i thought it was a bit strange she told me because often kids come to the door for their parents, but immediately the love of God came over me and said Pray for her. Im not by any means the perfect christian and began to head back to my car and said Lord I have to get back to work im on a scheduled time, because obviously God doesnt already know that lol, BUt he said you have her number call her. So i gathered myself and called and I said Hello this is Dalton calling from dominoes I just delivered pizza to you and this might seem strange to you i dont know if you are a christian or not but the Lord has instructed me to pray for you and I heard her telling the kids, " Its the pizza delivery guy, he wants to pray for us." Then she said to me yes we are christians. I said praise God, and the lord quickened me that it was her back and asked mam you have a physical injury, is it your back or??? and she said Its my back I threw it out at work and workmans comp isnt coming through so we are struggling. SO i prayed for her and commanded her back to be healed and prayed for prosperity as well and I began to pray for workmans Comp to come through but if she is healed she didnt need it so i prayed for prosperity. I later found out her friends were praying for her that someone would be sent her way. And praise God i was that man. Its incredible the impact we :can make if its done in love. Gods always there and always for us, so who can be against us (Romans 8:31). God can and will use anyone who will allow him where they are at, even a pizza delivery guy.



          Recently God has layed on my heart to reveal his Love. And through revealing his Love i have been revealed to it. But when I first started hearing about Gods Love and how we as christians are to portray his Love at all times, i thought to myself well Dalton you got a longgggggg way to go before you reach that kind of super christian ability. But as a called man of God i strived to do MY best to gain this Love and give it to others, and I got pretty good at it on the outside but MY best isnt Gods best Gods best isnt a Love we work for Gods best is giving something we had given to us, being blessed and blessing others. And recently I gave up my own efforts and allowed God to show me his Love was already in me all I had to do was allow it to flow out of me.
         The Love of God truly began to flow through me when i realized it wasnt my Love for God but his Love for me.
1 John 4:10
               ¹⁰Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1John 4:19
                ¹⁹We love him, because he first loved us.

You see i applied this to my life in any other aspect of the Gospel, were saved by grace through faith, and that not of your selves: it is a gift from God: ( Ephesians 2:8). God is a Giver and he has made everything ours through christ, we dont have to do anything except accept it. But from some reason I assumed it was my responsibilty to obtain this Godly Love on my own, because there is a a worldly Love it must be something done by my works, I just had to praise God a few hours a day and be extremely happy and the next time someone offended me I could turn the cheek cause Im friends with God you cant hurt me. Thats not Love thats boasting in your own efforts.
1 JOhn 4:7 says
                ⁷Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
   When i heard this verse I figured i hit two out of three, i Knew God and was Born of Him, but the love wasnt there. BUt then verse 8 goes on to say.
                ⁸He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

When i first heared this i thought who is this John guy telling me I dont know God. And i realized at first glance this verse might seem condemning, but nto me it was the verse that set me free.  I said God but I know you. And he said exactly. Verse 15-16 says.
¹⁵Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
 ¹⁶And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Praise the Lord I already Got it!!!!!!! Its this simple I confessed Jesus is the son of God, therefore he dwelleth in me, and I in God, and if God is Love and he dwells in me then the perfected Love of God dwells in me. Amen

Once i found this out i turned it loose. It was never me trying to obtain it, simply because God loved me I had Gods love not because I loved him. I discovered true love for the first time in Christ and have been only discovering more and more the LOve I already have. The christian life is finding out what you already got not trying to get it.

The Lord has instructed me that my next writing 1 JOhn 4 part 2 of many to come will be on verse 18
¹⁸There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
And then either that one or the next will be on  1 John 4 how we Quenchs Gods love through us. So im really excited.
Hey God bless you all, youve got Gods love in you now be blessed to be a blessing.

The Simplicity of Making an Impact

1 John 3:1 (King James Version)

1 John 3

 ¹Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

NOw this is incredible we are the sons or for you ladies Daughters of GOD. Its very easy to hear a statement like this and perceive it with a earthly mind and down play it. But this statement is better then you can even wrap your mind around. The kind of favor we have, a son is a heir a receiver of inheritance not based on his actions or works but simply because of his birthright. There is so much to be takin from this verse but i believe the Lord wants me to adress the topic of the simplicity of making an impact.
      I think that it is so awesome to see people on fire for the Lord. Its so cool to see what the Lord can do in a person, set free, prosper, healed, Loved,Peace, Happiness, Joy and so much more. But satan I believe one of his greatest weapons is taking something that is a miracle and manipulating it and twisting it as an attack to come against that person. One of the most common things I see is condemnation or guilt for being a simple christian and not making a big enough impact in the world. This is such an evil Lie. Im here to tell you today that if you are my brother or sister in christ God is pleased with you beyond your understanding, because its not based on you its based on  Jesus Christ, the best and most perfect example of a Christian. Satan uses a technique i like to call holding the carrot in front of the donkey. Because I can tell you Satan will never stop bringing condemnation no matter how many people you are reaching. In fact its my opinion the more you build your rerlationship with the Lord the harder satan brings condemnation of being less then what you should be. There has been times in my life where I was barely in the Word and condemned because I knew God had a calling on my life and I felt like I wasnt qualified, But God hasnt had anyone qualified working for him yet. And there has been times that i have spent hours in the word and still been condemned because i wasted  hour of free time at the gym. You cant do anything to make God Love you more or make him love you less. And let me tell you this YOU CANT FAIL GOD. Your his Son and your inheritance isnt based on performance so how can you fail him.
    1 John 3:9
⁹Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

Praise God I have a covenant with God almighty in which I am Born of God and cannot sin.

     Another thing that people do is begin to compare themselves to other people. If I compare myself to Andrew wommack I am a Nobody but if Andrew compares himself to Jesus he is a Nobody you can never reach a place that your good enough or your works bless God. Our confidence isnt in ourselves but in GOd.
1 JOhn 3: 20-21
²⁰For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
 ²¹Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

You dont have to be a preacher to 50,000 people, you simply have to be a light unto the world, with your life be a blessing at all times. Theres people Andrew Wommack and Joseph prince will never reach but you will. IF your a stay at home mom be a light at the store and especially be a light to your children.
1 JOhn 3:18 says
¹⁸My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
You know what i believe this is saying is talk is cheap the world can seee right through you, words of Love are empty with out a heart a Love of God through you to back it up. You know once you know the Love of God its almost impossible to not be a light its to good not to Glow with Joy happiness peace. Youll see changes in your life, your relationships, finances, health, and much more and so will the world they will see your fruit which you bear. It doesnt matter if your a preacher or student or employee or homless It doesnt matter to God he will use you right where you are, you know a simple loving smile is starting to become shocking to the world, a simple phone call your in my prayers, a simple paying for someones lunch can bless someone more then you would ever know. And just because the person doesnt break down cry and tell you you changed their lives doesnt mean that you didnt plant a seed and make an impact.  God abides in us, by the spirit which he hath given us ( 1 John 3:24), so where you go so does the Holy spirit. Lets make an impact and lets start with something as simple as LOVE.

Loving God

Ephesians 3:17-19 (King James Version)
 17That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
 18May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
 19And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
      
       As the Body of Christ we must be grounded in the Love of our Lord and to discover the Love of God is an adventure that will last forever. The Love of God passeth our knowledge. I believe no one will ever know the fullness of God's love until we enter into his Kingdom.Through this verse is revealed the importance of being grounded and rooted in the love of God, to know the Love of Christ is to be filled with the fullness of God. It's very easy to seek the bi-products of God's Love to us, such as healing and prosperity and all the wonderful gifts God so loves and enjoys giving to us, that we miss out on the best relationship we could ever have. I always encourage anyone I talk to to just get to know the lord, psalms 34:8 says  taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man that trusteth in him (KJV). God doesn't need us to defend his Love, lead someone simply to the love of God, let them taste it themselves. I can tell someone how great Momma's potato salad is, but until they taste and see for their self they will never know what heavenly potato salad they are missing. Jude 1:21 (NIV) says, keep yourself in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life. But how am I able to tell someone how great Momma's potato salad is if I've never eaten it myself? Momma has cooked it, it is made, everyone tells me how good it is, it sounds good, smells good, looks good, but I personally have no idea how good it is until I grab a spoon out of the drawer dip it into that potato salad and shove a big heaping spoonful of heaven in my mouth. Now that I've tasted it I'm calling all my friends telling them, "Come over to my house Momma made her potato salad, it's incredible, come get some of it for yourself". You see it's important that we know the love of God for ourselves. We can hear about it all day, but until we've discovered it for ourselves we truly don't know. The only way we can spread the gospel is through the love of God. It's the only thing the world cannot attempt to counterfeit, Godly love. Plenty of people believe in something 100% and will try to persuade you to believe like them but it is never done in complete Godly love, because it can't be, the only group of people that have been blessed with the ability to show agape love is the Christians. We're the only ones with that ability and we only love Him because he first loved us, amen. (1 John 4:19 KJV). A major thing separating us from the world is God's love through us, and when we preach the gospel this must be our heart rather than, "I'm right, you're wrong, you're going to Hell, and I'm not". Thats not how Jesus did it and Jesus is the sole expression of God (Hebrews 1:3). For God so LOVED the world that he gave his only begotten son (john 3:16). Nothing can separate us from the love of God.
Romans 8:35-39 (King James Version)
 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
 36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
 37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
 38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
 39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Nothing can separate us from the love of Jesus Christ, amen. Nothing the world can say or do, or nothing we can say or do, because God's love is in Christ Jesus, not in our works, but in Christ and his finished work (verse 39). In verse 35 this word love literally means, "The attitude of God towards his son", love not drawn out by any excellency in it's object. Praise God! his love isn't based on anything i have done or can do, it's love not drawn out by my excellency, but by Christs excellency, amen. I get the same love God gives Jesus for nothing at all. God's Love has made us more then conquerors, I don't know about you but being more than a conqueror sounds pretty good. I didn't even have to fight but I get to enjoy all the spoils and riches. In verse 37 this love means, "Love in its perfect participle form". Now that's awesome, God is the only one with perfect love, and it's ours to have, and we can't be separated from it. Man being blessed with the love of God just makes you want to pour it out to the world, amen. God's Love is endless and eternal, and Incredible to discover. I encourage you today to taste and see that the LORD IS GOOD.