SCRIPTURE: He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 1 John 4:8.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: You cannot dwell in God’s Presence and not be overwhelmed by love.

It has been established that nearness to God equals fullness of love. You cannot dwell in God’s Presence and not be overwhelmed by love.

One way to remain in love and radiate love is to dwell in God’s Presence. This is because God is love. When you dwell with God in prayer and in the Word, His love nature gets practically and literally transmitted to you.

In my own life, many times, after prayers, I come out from the Presence of the Lord smiling with my arms wide open. I open my arms to my wife and children for embrace.

And my wife would always tell me, “Go back there! Go back to where you are coming from. Go and remain there”.

The truth is, it is a lie when you say you know God and you do not have love. It is a lie!

I do not care what your title is. You may be a pastor, deacon, bishop or head of a department; if you do not know love, you do not know God.

Many times, I cannot understand how a man would lift his hand to slap his wife. It is a proof of lack of love. And if you want to fight, it is better to go to the motor park because there are many people there looking for a fight.

Some men even shout and scream at their wives to the point that their wives begin to vibrate. If God should scream at you like that, will you survive it? The character of hate and anger that many people display is proof that they are far from God. Even if you have anger challenges and you decide to go close to God, the Presence of God would take that anger away.

There was a time the man of God, Smith Wigglesworth of Blessed Memory, would always boil with rage, when he hadn’t known God, especially against his wife. But when he came to the knowledge of God, God took that anger away and replaced it with a tender and loving heart.

Beloved, always remember that nearness to God equals fullness of love. To contact the Love of God, you will need to find your way to the Presence of God, which is the Presence of Love.

REMEMBER THIS: You cannot dwell in God’s Presence and not be overwhelmed with love.

ASSIGNMENTS:

1. Make up your mind to spend time with God. Always give yourself to heartfelt worship.
2. Let the Word of God dwell richly in you.

PRAYER: Lord, I ask for the grace to dwell in Your Presence. Give me the strength to tarry with You until I absorb Your Nature, Lord, in Jesus’ Name.

FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: THE PLAGUE OF LOVELESSNESS (PART ONE).

QUOTE: My prayer is that you too will live a life of total love, forgiveness and absence of bitterness in Jesus name. Culled from the book, “AM I BITTER?” by Dr Mrs Becky Paul-Enenche.

DAILY READING: Job 13-15.

AMAZING FACT: A dog’s nose print is unique, much like a person’s fingerprint.

PROPHETIC WORD (DECLARATION): Be delivered from every plague of lovelessness today, in Jesus’ NAME.