Learning to Love is the Key to Understanding God by Doug Addison
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By Doug Addison
Sometimes we don't understand God's timing or what He is doing, but learning to love is key to understanding God and His ways. I believe that 2021 is a time when completeness—love's perfection—is coming with greater understanding. Our present knowledge and our prophecies are but partial, but when love's perfection arrives, the partial will fade away. 1 Corinthians 13:9–10 TPT I want to help you get ready to move beyond "partial knowledge and prophecy" into seeing, hearing and understanding the Lord more clearly than ever before!
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Sometimes we don't understand God's timing or what He is doing, but learning to love is key to understanding God and His ways. I believe that 2021 is a time when completeness—love's perfection—is coming with greater understanding.
Our present knowledge and our prophecies are but partial, but when love's perfection arrives, the partial will fade away. 1 Corinthians 13:9–10 TPT
I want to help you get ready to move beyond "partial knowledge and prophecy" into seeing, hearing and understanding the Lord more clearly than ever before!
It Comes Down to Love
And if I were to have the gift of prophecy with a profound understanding of God's hidden secrets … but have never learned to love, then I am nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:2 TPT
Learning to love is something we really need to focus on. The late prophet, Bob Jones, often taught that when we get to Heaven the Lord judges us on our ability to love. So, it's not all about our spiritual gifts or all the great things we've done in life. Instead, we need a major restoration of our character and how we treat others right now.
I talk all the time about the "3 loves" that Jesus talks about in Matthew 22—love God, love yourself and love others. In fact, Jesus talks about love so often that we can't afford to overlook its importance.
Blessed to See, Hear and Understand
" … the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them ... But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear." Matthew 13:11, 16 NIV
After Jesus said this to the disciples, He went on to give the meaning of the parable of the seeds and the sower. It was all about the "soil condition" of a person's heart and how it's connected to the ability to understand what God is saying.
Jesus was revealing a calloused heart condition that blocks the ability to hear God's voice and that people have closed their own eyes to Him.
"Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them." Matthew 13:15 NIV.
Do you have an undiagnosed "heart condition" that the Lord wants to heal?
I encourage you to go back and study Matthew 13 for yourself. The knowledge of the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven will open up to you like never before as your heart begins to heal and your ability to love grows like seeds in good soil!
Prayer
Lord, we pray that You would show us whatever we need to do to come into agreement with love and to come into alignment with Heaven. To get our eyes and our ears opened so we can have a heart that understands, in Jesus' Name.
Doug Addison
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Shout for joy to God, all the earth! Sing the glory of his name; make his praise glorious. Say to God, "How awesome are your deeds!" Psalm 66:1–3 NIV As we take time to sing, worship the Lord, sing in the Spirit and shout for joy, we will be drawn closer to the Lord. There is a special anointing and power of the Lord in worshiping, praising and joy. This will continue to increase as we press in and don't give up. It will also help us if we recount the good things the Lord has done for us. It is important to stay encouraged and to encourage others. Stay in a place of prayer, reading the Bible and worshiping the Lord. The joy of the Lord is your strength!
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The Lord is my light and my salvation - whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life - of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm 27:1 NIV The Lord is bringing His guidance and breaking off fear. This is a time in which the Lord is renewing our strength and bringing protection and encouragement to us. There is new authority and angels from the Lord are continuing to increase. The Lord is contending for us and battling right now. Rest assured, the Lord has our best interest at heart, no matter how things might look or feel. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
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But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. I will sing the Lord's praise, for he has been good to me. Psalm 13:5-6 NIV Prayer: We thank You, Lord, for Your unfailing love! We praise You and sing to You for Your goodness. For surely, You have been good to us! As we continue to worship the Lord with joy and singing, and focus on the good things He has done, He will open up greater understanding.