The Love Language

The love language is understood by all people, no matter their native tongue. Like the word hallelujah, love is the same in every language. Children recognize the love language; young and old alike respond to it in one way or another. People who have never heard the story of Jesus are affected by it. Of course, not everyone will accept that language. Some people are prejudiced against languages they do not understand. They hear the love language of Jesus, and they back off as though the speaker has a terrible disease.

Someone speaking in a foreign language can get your attention more quickly than a person speaking your own language. The love language is foreign to many people. When it is spoken, people give attention. Long before I ever heard of voice prints, the Lord taught me, through the gift of discerning, that what is in the heart comes out in the voice. Many times I don’t know what is wrong with people until they speak. If love is in the person, it comes out. Hatred, bitterness come out in the voice even though the person may try to cover it. It’s in the voice. That’s the reason the choir members pray in their assembly room before they come to the platform to sing for the people. I don’t want people singing to me if they are not prayed up. It is essential for the Holy Spirit to be able to speak, to project through us, for He brings great love. A voice filled with great love is a powerful instrument for God. The only way for your voice to be filled with love is for you to be filled with love.

It took Calvary to bring us the love language, a language man had lost. The love language, one of the most blessed things man had in the Garden of Eden, was the only language God ever wanted to give to man. And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech (Genesis 11:1). The whole world was one language, and the Lord came down to see what the people were doing. He found that man had butchered the love language. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city (Genesis 11:5-8). God took the one language away and gave foreign languages. When the people of Babel could not understand one another, they could not get along.

If you are not with the Lord, you speak a foreign language. Misunderstandings come when people try to fit the two languages together, the world’s language and the love language; the two are foreign to each other. People have problems in their homes when not everyone speaks the language of love. People cannot have understanding unless they have love.

The confusion of languages at the tower of Babel was the result of the disobedience of the people. The language you speak today came about because of disobedience. Had man and woman not failed God, disobeyed Him, our language would be different.

God wants only one language, the love language. If you don’t speak the love language all the time, you are in trouble with God, with the Holy Spirit. It took a Calvary to buy each one of us a bridle of divine love. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body (James 3:2). Controlled by the bridle of love, our words will not offend.

The Lord realized that outside Eden the only way the tongue would ever be controlled was by Divinity. After Jesus paid for the love bridle, the Lord sent the Holy Ghost to help us use it, to teach us the wisdom and knowledge of it. It is a necessity for each one of us to use love at all times.

If you were never around people who spoke love, think what you would give to hear the love language spoken to you. You speak love when you wear the love bridle. You cannot afford not to use the love bridle; it’s priceless. How sad that so many Christians seem to place so little value on it!

God’s love, not human love, is the most valuable thing on Earth. Human love can push forward and then back away. Human love can die. Divine love is steady, eternal; it will never die. For all eternity we will have divine love. Let love begin today as your first language.

The Lord gave His chosen people, the Jews, a special language: Hebrew. The Bride will have her special language: Love, God’s love, a language the world will not have. If you don’t know a language, how can you speak it? That’s the reason it is essential to know God’s love.

God’s love is precious, and yet He is wonderfully generous with it, ready to give it at every opportunity, always looking for a place to pour it. When we are in His presence, living with that love, we look for the same thing. The more love we give, the more we have to give. God’s love will never run out. There is no excuse for not serving plenty of love to everyone, for plenty is available from God. The greatness of the Bride of Christ all hinges on love, the blood love.

What good is talking about the blood if you can’t serve the greatness in it? You can’t serve the blood of Jesus without love, for that would be judgment, and we are not called on to give judgment, but to give love. When divine blood washed away your sins, divine love took over within you—how wonderful! Everyone filled with the love of God, saith the Lord, can use the blood of Jesus, the divine blood. When you have divine love, you can use divine blood, but if you don’t have divine love, you can’t use divine blood.

With divine blood and divine love comes divine faith. Some people are always searching for faith when they should be reaching out for more love so they can use the faith they have. Jesus said, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you (Matthew 17:20). Faith goes into action through love: faith which worketh by love (Galatians 5:6). You must use love. The Bible says: though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity [love], I am nothing (I Corinthians 13:2). When you have love, everything else of God is available to you.

Have you ever wondered if you were really saved? Check and see if you have God’s eternal love. If you have God’s eternal love, you have God’s eternal grace, and if you have God’s eternal grace you have God’s eternal salvation. If you have God’s eternal salvation, you have Heaven.

When you don’t speak love all the time, another language will mix in. The human tongue takes over. To keep full of love and sanctified, use the love language. Be careful not to use words that are contaminated. Be careful what you say.

We can cage wild animals so they won’t escape; do the same with your tongue. With the cage—your mouth—closed, no harmful words can escape. You can close your mouth on any word; however, once words are out, you can’t get them back. You may want some of them back, but it’s too late. They fly without wings.

The love language comes in simple words: I love you. You are loved. You are special. Jesus used simple words, words to hold to. When the battle is hard, you want the purest language of love. Turn to the Bible, read the words of Jesus, dine on them. His voice of love speaks out to you through the Holy Word of God.

Words have meaning. A man decides to propose to a woman. He practices: Honey, will you marry me?…Let’s get married!…Do you want to marry me?… He wants his proposal to sound just right, and that’s how careful we ought to be with the love language. We should always want to sound just right for Jesus.

Notice how courteous people can be to each other in their courting days. Unfortunately, that consideration doesn’t always last. There can be a difference in language before and after marriage. Love covers much, but one thing you should never do is criticize the ones you love. The Lord criticizes the enemies of righteousness, of the Gospel, of holiness, of the Cross. He doesn’t say words that pull down and discourage His people. He helps and edifies us. He reaches down and takes a dirty hand and pulls it up.

When you please Jesus, He wants to be around you. Then not only does He love you; He likes you. Some people won’t let the Lord like them very much. He loves them, but doesn’t really like them, for He can’t endorse their ways.

The love language is wonderful. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another (John 13:35). Love will tell the world that you have been washed in the blood; you’re a new creation, and you love one another. A church filled with fussing gives out the message that they lack love. The world’s thinking has taken over, and people are not drawn to the altar to yield to God. A crowd of social-minded people send out a social message that lacks salvation, prayer, fasting and Bible study.

Love is the badge, the banner of a true church. The gift of love is so important that God also made it one of the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit. We have the fruit of love to serve.

Through the Spirit of the living God, the Bride has learned the greatest language of all times: love. This language has helped many people to find Heaven. It has reached out and found boys and girls in sin and brought them into the arms of Jesus. Alcoholics, drug addicts have been delivered because they accepted the love language. People considered to be beyond help have been delivered by love. Love can help when nothing else can. Use love.

Love wants response. God loves us, and He wants us to respond to that love. It is wonderful to live in love, and if love is suddenly snatched away, you miss it like you miss nothing else. I had three great women in my life, my mother, my mother-in-law and my wife. One by one I lost them all in the space of seven years. It was hard to say good-by to Mama, to put her precious body in the ground. But when I had to bury my wife, Angel, I buried almost all of myself. I realized the greatest possession in the world is love. I would cry out to the Lord: Oh, please love me! Oh, Jesus, love me! I had so much love, and Lord, I can’t live without love. Without love I didn’t have the will to even move, to wake up. I had never before been robbed of love. I was like someone who always had lots of money, and then lost it all. I was dying for love. If I could have held Angel’s hand just one more time, talked to her once again…To hear her say again, I’m glad you’re home. I missed you, would have been heaven. Maybe I had only been to the office, but it was wonderful to come home to love like that.

I knew I had to have divine love to take me through, and so I would cry and cry for it. The Lord answered; He filled me with His love, and He would speak, saying, “I am the Lord that walketh with thee.” His love made me stand up straight. His love gave me life, but it was like eating: Once wasn’t enough; I had to have more and more of it.

Love…you can’t live without it. Love is the greatest of refuges, preparing you for the storms of life. Cry out to the Lord for love. I still look to Him for my love. He is the love of my heart, my dearest love. Without love, people just exist, they don’t really live. The love of Jesus is life. Jesus said, I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly (John 10:10). The souls of those born again are bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God (I Samuel 25:29). The bundle of life is a bundle of love, a bundle so large that there is no scarcity of the love it holds.

Jesus was a mighty bundle of love, the greatest bundle of love ever sent from Heaven. God sent down all His love in that love bundle to make a Calvary. Never before had God used all His love. Until the Lord tells you how much love He used, you will never know what He suffered when His Son died for you and me; He will have to tell you Himself, give you supernatural understanding to comprehend it all. God had love to overflow all the oceans, cover the earth and fill the universe—and He used it all when He made Calvary and couldn’t save His own Son. He willed it that way. Because He had no more love to give, God had to turn His back to keep from raining down judgment.

Love keeps, preserves, gives strength. Had God kept back some love and not given it all, He perhaps could have looked at that terrible sight on Calvary. But He gave it all so that every man, woman, boy and girl who turned to the Lord could be saved.

Instead of misunderstanding, the language of love gives people understanding; they become as one in God’s great love. Confusion is killed in the congregation of the Lord’s people who gather in love. The love words fit together. Without love, words are like jumbled pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. It takes love to put them into place to make a perfect picture.

The Bride must have a perfect picture of God’s promises, perfect understanding, and without love she cannot have that understanding. His promises are promises of love. Without love, you cannot claim the fulfillment of His promises. If you accept a promise of God with anything less than love, it won’t be fulfilled. Faith works only through the love of God. Love gives understanding between you and the Lord.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD (Isaiah 1:18). Come, the Lord is saying, let us reason together in love. The Lord never invites a child of God to reason without love. If you don’t see love on His table, He hasn’t invited you to come. Love is the first thing you see when the Lord invites you to dine with Him or reason with Him. Love is the main course.

When a person really receives salvation, the Lord fills his heart with love. A real salvation, a born-new experience like Nicodemus asked Jesus about, is full of love. Self must empty up of everything else to be filled with God.

When in my teens I went down to the altar and received salvation, I opened my eyes in the love of Jesus. Love covers much. Mother with her love covered a lot that was lacking in our home. Sometimes the furniture wasn’t too good, and she would cover it. When my knees poked out through my trousers, she would put a patch of love over them. Love covers. We must have love. Love helps us survive; love covers loneliness, self-pity. If you have God’s love, there is no need to feel sorry for yourself; you have the most valuable thing in the world.

In time of storm, love keeps us above water. Love shows the way. Love directs our paths. The love-light on your path will never go out as long as you wear the love bridle. If you destroy God’s love in your heart, His light will grow dimmer and dimmer until you no longer can find your way. Then you will be doing and saying things you shouldn’t, going to the wrong places.

Come and dine at the love table. No matter how much love you have, surely you want more. The love language beautified, purified again and again will flow as you reach out for Him. Go into His love, and let it flow from your innermost being like rivers. Do you want more love? Ask the Lord to give you more love and to help you use it. The name is Jesus and He loves you. God’s love is abundant life, divine love.

Yea, saith the Spirit of the Lord: I am here. I am here to dine with you. I have spread you a table, and now I want you to feast on my greatness. I want you to reach—and you can’t reach without my reach of love. Take my love, and you can reach all my blessings. Take my love, and you can reach all my greatness. Take my love, and you can reach to my throne of grace at any time. Take my love, and no power can defeat you; no power can destroy you as long as you live in my love, saith the Lord.

The More Excellent Way

The love language is different from any other language, and yet the love language is the same all over the world. It’s a language of universal understanding to those who speak it. In the love language, the human spirit blending with the Holy Spirit makes one great personality for God. Be sure you do have the love language. If, however, you don’t speak the love language, you will not understand God’s people. When they speak the love language, you can have your feelings hurt, you can be offended at the love language.

First Corinthians 12:31, But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet show I unto you a more excellent way. Earnestly covet the gifts, but understand that there is an even more excellent way than all the gifts. That more excellent way is the love way, the Jesus love way.

Jesus told us in His Sermon on the Mount to be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect (Matthew 5:48). Jesus meant for us to be perfect by having the Father’s perfect love working in us and with us, and for us to have on the love bridle. We can’t be perfect in all our human ways to match God’s ways, but we can be perfect in His love, perfect in our goals, perfect in our motives, perfect in our intentions through the love of God, through His love in perfection.

Jesus’ love has mighty power, all the power in the blood. Divine, saving love comes through the blood of Jesus. When the blood washes away your sins, what takes over immediately? The love of God. Immediately you are filled to the brim with God’s love.

With the love of God, the Sermon on the Mount sounds wonderful. If you don’t have the love of God in your heart, these teachings of Jesus seem too hard to live up to. The Sermon on the Mount matches the love of God; it will fit anyone who is perfected in the Father’s love that He sent to us. If you have love in perfection, if you are perfect in the love of God, then the Sermon on the Mount is there to strengthen you daily. You accept His love, treasure it. Every time you read the Sermon on the Mount, you find something new about it. It’s deeper than any well drilled by man, deeper than all the oceans. You will never drain the Sermon of love. Draw from the love found in the Sermon on the Mount.

The great power of God’s love helps you to think right, believe right. Love doesn’t believe anything in conflict with God’s Word. Confusion comes when people believe God’s Word one day and man’s opinions the next, when they try to incorporate what God says with the opinions of man. Confusion will not keep the love of God in your heart and mind in its purity.

The love of God always points the way to that which will give you His strength, overcoming power and help. The closest thing to God’s love one can find is in a mother who loves God with all her heart and is living totally for Him. She went into the valley of death to give her child life after carrying that child for months inside her body, and she is willing to make all kinds of sacrifices for her child. She is tender to that child. Again and again I saw that tenderness in my mother. What love she had to give! Although she had a large family to care for, she never told me she didn’t have time for my questions. I could depend on her. I knew she was connected with Heaven and that’s where she got her answers. Maybe she would be kneading biscuit dough while listening to everything I was saying. I got a lot of answers over the dough pan. Sometimes I caused tears of sympathy, sometimes a rebuke, but her response was always given in such love. Love can do wonderful things.

All too often people push aside the love of God and reach for their own human love. Then when the storm rages, they don’t have enough love to shelter them: They haven’t made a habit of using God’s love. God’s love will cover you in times of adversity if you learn how to use it. Regardless of what is going on in your life, God’s blanket of love is true security, full assurance of your safety. However, if you don’t speak the love language, you don’t have enough love of God, and you come up lacking.

Many people without the love bridle say things they have no business saying. Sooner or later they will face a payday. But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned (Matthew 12:36,37). By your careless words the devil can rob you of your closeness to God. If the devil can influence you to say words you shouldn’t, he is using you, feeding you snake talk. His talk is cunning, fascinating to those who don’t have enough love of God to give them God-vision.

God’s love has wonderful eyesight, marvelous hearing. God sees a soul in the pits of sin; He hears the tiniest cry for help. A sinner doesn’t have to scream for help when he wants salvation; God hears a whisper. God not only hears the sinners’ pleas for help, His ears are always open to the cry of the righteous. His love connects each child of God with Heaven. Using God’s love, you find it is easy to reach the Throne. You are responsible for your conduct, and as long as you keep His love flowing through you, He is responsible for you. What goes out of your mouth with His love, He is responsible for.

You have a love-cable. If His love is in your words, the love-cable will carry it. But think how God feels when He wants to talk to you, and suddenly you cut the cable with words that lack love. God will listen to all your cares, all your prayers, all your desires as long as they come to Him with the voice of love. The Lord cannot turn away from a voice of His love. Love is a part of God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love (I John 4:8).

You can’t separate God from His love. You didn’t get that love for your soul until you yielded to the blood. When you yielded to the blood, you received the blood-love from Heaven. God’s love is important, for His love in your voice conquers. The devil recognizes defeat when blood-love is used, love that comes from the blood of Jesus. All the powers of hell cannot conquer a person who uses the blood-love. However, if you let that love become contaminated, the devil can move in. If your spirit is contaminated, the love of God won’t work.

God’s love not only thinks and acts right; it prays right. Faith works through love. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love (Galatians 5:6). Many people hurt their faith by not praying right. On Monday they contend for something: God, you just must do this! It just has to be! But on Tuesday, they wake up glad the Lord didn’t answer that prayer. When you pray, you must get the mind of the Holy Spirit. He will help you know what to ask for.

Some people think they must have a certain home, and they pray for it earnestly; but then they find one they like better and are glad the Lord didn’t answer their prayer for the first home. Perhaps they see a car they love and think that surely the Lord agrees. They buy it and it breaks down again and again. They blame God. He had nothing to do with it; in fact, He wasn’t even asked if the car would be all right. They just said, God, help me get this car. The Lord said Wait, but they moved faster.

A woman once asked me, “Why did you ever let me marry that man?” I said, “God would have had to kill you to keep you from marrying him.” She married him on her own.

We don’t always know what we need. We don’t understand about many things, but God understands all. He made us; He knows all about us. He knows what hinders. If necessary, He will send ten thousand angels to rescue us. But we need to ask for the right thing. Too often God has to wait for us to settle down and trust Him.

Sometimes our praying is so dogmatic that God cannot help us at all. It shouldn’t be like that. Learn to pray according to the will of God, and you won’t be disappointed.

There is no fault in the Lord. Some people, however, blame God when things don’t go their way. Never blame Him. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning (James 1:17).

Fasting is a teaching of the Lord, Bible fasting. There is a right way to fast. Fasting is not dieting. A person dieting is seeking to lose weight; a person fasting is seeking to gain weight spiritually. Bible fasting is seeking the face of God for a solution or answer to some problem. If you are fasting the Bible way, you live on the Word of God. Jesus said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4). In fasting, you must take time with God. Get your mind off food and on God. O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him (Psalm 34:8). Enjoy the Lord during your fast. Fast right, pray right and talk right.

Do you talk doubt, fear, sickness and disease? You can tell everyone you meet what is wrong with you, but that won’t heal you. Tell God, the preacher or the doctor, tell the people who can do something about it; they’re in the business. Most people couldn’t care less about your aches and pains, especially when that’s all you seem to talk about. Why go into detail about your pains to people who can do nothing about them? Talk to the Lord about them, put them under the blood. The blood cures everything. Tell yourself what the Word of God says: With his stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5). Claim the promises in the Word of God and close your case.

Many people could be healed if they would stop complaining. Talking about your aches and pains is a plea for sympathy. Jesus is not our sympathizer; He is our substitute. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses (Matthew 8:17). He took our place. Himself took our sicknesses and diseases.

People who spend a great deal of time talking about what they once did in sin, seem to glory more in sin than in their deliverance. In giving your testimony of deliverance from sin you can tell enough to let people know what the Lord saved you from, but to dwell on your exploits in sin is not good. You shut yourself into a cell, make your own prison and throw away the key. Then you wonder what’s wrong. You are not talking about the things God has done for you.

Don’t talk weakness; don’t dwell on what the devil is doing. Talk about the Lord, how He is blessing and lifting up. Praise the Lord, rejoice in Him. Be glad that He is with you. The Psalmist praised the Lord over and over. He was full of praise. Dwell on the goodness of the Lord, on His delivering power, on how wonderful it is to have good health. Talk about the healing power of the Lord.

I love to talk about the time Jesus came to me and made me whole when I was so close to death. I feel His presence all over again when I tell it.

God’s love is always right, and because it is, you need never hesitate to use it. Love rejoices in the truth. As long as you embrace the truth and rejoice in it, you will please the Lord.

God’s love is beyond human understanding. You can say you know why Jesus died for you, but you don’t really know. You don’t know all the reasons or how He felt in dying for you or how God the Father felt to see His Son die. Only through the Holy Spirit can you be taught the fullness of God’s love and understand much about it.

The love language is powerful. It has a great impact on people. The healing powers of the love language have mended many broken hearts, disheartened spirits and shattered lives. The love of God has given peaceful sleep to troubled minds, taken away nightmares.

The language of God’s love is a smile that heals. It’s wonderful for the Lord to smile upon you. When you use His love, it’s really God using His love through you. When you smile, He smiles through you. You are just His transmitter sending forth His love. He made man in His likeness, His image, and when His love shines through your eyes, it’s shining through His eyes. The person hurting can see eyes, but he can’t see God’s eyes. He can see a face, but not the face of God. If God can use your face with His love, then the person is looking on love in perfection. That love carries everything of God in it. Your face is carrying everything of God that the person needs. That is why it is so important to God that we be His witnesses.

Jesus said, But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth (Acts 1:8). Through the power of the Holy Ghost, the Lord makes us witnesses. He makes us witnesses through His everlasting love, grace, patience, compassion, deliverance, wisdom and knowledge. It’s wonderful how God can use His obedient children.

God values hands of love. You cannot have the blood of Jesus on your hands to deliver people from devil possession if you are not perfected in His love. The Bride with her holy hands will give holy service, divine service, divine help because she will offer everyone the divine Christ. You can’t offer and serve that which you do not have. If you don’t have Jesus, you can’t possibly serve Jesus to people. If you don’t have the whole Christ, you won’t serve the whole Christ.

How many people have you failed in your lifetime by not having the whole Jesus? People in distress must be served at the moment of the need. You won’t have time to prepare at that moment; you must prepare beforehand. The Bride will stay ready, saith the Lord. The Bride will be ready, and that’s the reason she will take His Gospel to the ends of the earth. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come (Matthew 24:14). A wide-awake Bride, ready at all times to do the Master’s will, can only be wide-awake in Jesus Christ and filled with His love. If you don’t have on the love bridle, you are not full of His love, not wide-awake, not ready for the Rapture.

How terrible to have a tongue that would keep you out of the Rapture! What blessings have you ever received when you said offensive and hurtful words? What benefits do you receive for not pleasing the Lord all the time? Enoch pleased God all the time, and God took him to Heaven alive. Elijah pleased the Lord and he was transported to Heaven in a whirlwind of God’s great love. The winds of the Holy Spirit will catch us away when Jesus comes again. The love of the Holy Spirit will play a great part in our being changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.

God’s love yields to all the Word of God. If you have that love in you, you have no trouble yielding to the Word. When you are stubborn with the Word, you are lacking in God’s love. Self-centered people are too full of self to be full of God’s love. How wonderful it is, however, to be overflowing with God’s eternal love, grace and power!

In all you do, glorify Jesus. Whatever doesn’t bring glory to the Lord will take you off course, put you in the danger zone where at any time you could be destroyed. To be on course with the Lord means He takes full responsibility for you. When you carry Jesus’ love, you carry Him. When you hide His love in your heart, you’re hiding Jesus in your heart. Until you hide His love in your heart, you are not going to hide Him in there. You must have His love, His love.

The Lord directs you forward with love-signals, or stops you with love-stops. He talks to you through His love if you obey His voice, and He expects you to listen just as you expect your children to listen when you talk to them through love. Some people have turned away His love voice until they can’t hear it at all. They fight conviction, fight God off. This is no time to turn away from God in even little ways; the Lord is coming to the end of His mercy, the end of His love for those who won’t respond to Him.

God has a voice for the disobedient, a voice that rebukes, a voice of judgment and no love. That’s the terrible part of blaspheming the Holy Ghost. All the love goes from God’s voice, and He never calls to that one again with love. It’s hard to imagine God dealing with you without love, but that is the situation many have brought on themselves because they have rejected and rejected God, spit in His eye, turned from Him. They have grieved the Holy Spirit until the Lord no longer knocks on their door.

The Lord told Paul to leave some people alone, to let them be. John writes in I John 5:16, There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. It is a fearsome thing for God to say not to pray for a person any longer. When God lets me know not to pray for a person, I don’t contend with God; my burden lifts.

The Bride will be directed by the Spirit of the living God. Much time has been wasted on worthless prayers. Praying for God to help a person on whom He has turned His back is a wasted prayer. Prayers can be wasted on a few when others who would benefit from your prayers are in need. Pray for those who have no one to pray for them. Pray for the lost. You can pray and pray, but if the person rejects and rejects, the time comes when the Lord says it’s enough. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man (Genesis 6:3). If you hold God at arm’s length, He may not be there to help when you need Him.

Dying without fear is no sign that people are ready to meet the Lord. Those hearts can say No to God until the people are without feeling even when dying. They have rejected the Lord so many times that no Spirit remains to draw them to the Lord. They don’t feel the need for anyone to pray for them. The love of God has great intelligence, wisdom and knowledge, and if we stay full of the love of God we will know much about His ways.

The Bride without spot, wrinkle, blemish or any such thing will hear the Groom say, Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee (Song of Solomon 4:7). In this hour as Jesus looks upon His Bride and is able to cry: You are without spot! the Lord will do His greatest work, saith the Lord. He will rain down His greatest power to help people by the multitudes come into the Kingdom. In greater ways than we thought, the hand of God will be moving. Always just before judgment the Lord has served His greatness in love.

In Noah’s day of 120 years of preaching and loving and trying to help people, not one soul outside his family responded. Still God was so merciful that even after all the animals were in the ark, God left the door open seven days and nights for anyone outside who would be saved. Seven days of mercy, and no one went through that door.

To you who are unsaved, that door to salvation is open, but you may be in your seventh day. Some of you are very near that moment when the Lord will close the door, saith the Lord, and leave you outside to be destroyed. There you stand in the pathway of God’s judgments, in the pathway of God’s damnation. Read the Word of God for yourself: it’s all there. God will do what He says. He did what He said He would in Noah’s day. He said He would bring destruction to Sodom and Gomorrah, and He brought it. God is letting us know He will bring destruction in our day. The devil wants you to think He won’t bring destruction, but He will.

The Holy Spirit is calling to the lost today: Yea, saith the Spirit of the Lord: In love I have called. I have called you again and again, but I do not promise to continue to call you. I have told you that you’re lost. I have told you that you’re undone. I have told you that you cannot live in my heaven, but you don’t think I have talked to you. And I’ve talked to you in so many different ways, and I’ve invited you to come to me again and again, but you have shunned all of my invitations. My last one will come and then I won’t invite ever again. I won’t want you. But I call today. I call in my great love—and there’s no love like my love. I call with all the powers that are in my love, all the greatness that’s in my love. I call to you. Come to me, and I will deliver you. Come to me, and I will set you free. Come to me; give yourself to me and live for me, and one day you can live in my heaven, saith the Lord.

If you need to say the sinners’ prayer, let me pray with you now: Oh, God, I need your help! I am nothing without you. Please, God, I don’t want to die lost. I don’t want to go to hell. I know there is a burning hell; you said so, Lord, and I believe you. I have come to you, dear Lord; I want you in my life. I want you in my heart. Please, God, forgive me! Forgive me for all my sins. Make me new in you, dear Jesus. I do have love in my heart for you. I do thank you for dying for me so I can live for all eternity. I believe in your blood, dear Jesus, and I believe that your blood washes away all my sins. Come into my heart, Jesus!

If you meant that prayer, He has come. Lift your heart and let the Lord fill your cup to the brim and overflow you with His great love. Ask Him first of all to give you love for a lost world, love that will reach to the ends of the earth to draw men, women, boys and girls into the arms of the Savior. Reach out and take His love. His love makes the difference in life, the difference of deliverance, overcoming power, and peace. Yield to His love. His love means healing for soul, mind and body. Through His blood-love you can be healed of all manner of sickness and disease. Through that blood-love you can receive a miracle of strength for your body. Claim your promise through the love of God. Take healing for yourself or a loved one now in the name of Jesus.