This teaching that has been coming will change the whole Kingdom; and it began with the love, the ministry and unity that was ministered to us.
We had been deeply disturbed by the fact that every time we moved onto a new level, it seemed like all hell broke loose against everybody. So we went back to the teaching that every time you hit a new level, you’ll never have enough love for that level.
Whenever God thrusts you into something, it’s not to bring a test upon your brother or sister; it’s to test you, to see if you’ll get more love from God to meet the situation and the relationship.
Every new level in a relationship brings a testing to how much you love. That love must be assumed on a deeper and deeper level.
There’s nothing wrong with a lot of these marriages that have been shaken—they’ve been checked out and shown to be in the will of God.
Then why are they having so many problems? Well, as they walked on together, they came to a new level, and they didn’t have enough love for that level. They had enough love for the former level, but not enough love for the level that was opened up to them.
If you’re going to take a step in God, then you had better ask God for more love before you take it. That will minimize the battle.
You couple’s who think you have problems don’t really need any answers—you just need a flood of that love. It is a baptism of love—it’s one time when you want to say, “Lord, drown me in this!” The love will come forth, and you’ll be blessed in it. That’s all you need.
If anybody seems to have problems, I have also; but today if you’d ask me about my problems, I’d tell you that none of them really matter.
The Lord says, When a man’s ways are pleasing to the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. Proverbs 16:7.
That’s right! You just go right on loving God and having so much love that it spills over on your enemies. Before you’re through, you find that God has taken care of those problems and you’re walking along in the Lord.
If you had a little more love, it would just smooth everything over. What is it that can be so sweet that when the bitter things come you can take them? It’s the love—just a little love that you express to each other.
You’re going to open your heart to have more love. If you really love, you’ll be so concerned about your brother and sister that you won’t be independent; you won’t be rebellious, noncommittal, refusing to submit or to look for confirmation.
Instead, you’ll be delighted to be one. I think God can lead us into this. There’s a timing in God to lead us right to the people that He wants us to be with—and away from the people we should be led away from.
I can’t get away from this thing of more love. More love! That’s what the Lord keeps speaking: we must love each other more. Every time we take a step in God, we need to love each other more.
Just because you need more love doesn’t mean that you’re going downhill; it may mean that you’re going uphill, and what you have is not enough love for the new level you’ve hit. You’ve got to have more and more faith, more love!
“Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, they will pour into your lap. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.” Luke 6:38.
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed. II Corinthians 9:8.
Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. Ephesians 3:20–21.
This will be our way of life. If you’re not giving, you’re missing God, because God so loved the world that He gave (John 3:16).
One way or another we must find a way to give, to give of yourself, of your time, of a Word, of intercession, or maybe just little things that you do for each other.
You’re going to love one another. Open your hearts to each other, because in your giving, God will enable you to give something that is beyond even what you have yourself.
Nobody can figure out why we love and give the way that we do, but there’s a blessing in learning to be a giver. If you’re a giver, you’re a lover; if you’re a lover, you’re a giver, because love can’t be so selfish that it’s just grabbing to see what it can get to possess and dominate and control.
Love isn’t always that reasonable. You just start to do something, and you do it in the name of the Lord.
It doesn’t work to say, “I’m going to invest this and I’m going to get back so much.” In fact, rarely do you get back from the person that you give to. Have you ever noticed that? You always get back, though. “Give and it will be given to you” (Luke 6:38).
Some people are very generous in their giving, but they always expect something back, it’s part of their pattern, their belief system.
However, we have the principle. The Kingdom principle says, “You give—maybe you no get, but after a while you get. Okay?”
I love you so much, we’ve got so much ahead of us. We’re a great big Kingdom family. We stand together and hold one another up. We give each other love. We’re not going by appearances; we’re going by a relationship that God has created, a oneness He has brought forth. We are one together and we love one another.
Sometimes even a family gets into little quarrels, but only because they are so close together. The closeness is why we must have more love; it brings out the best and the worst in us. That’s the way we feel in the family of God. We may have difficulties, but we say, “We’re going to love in this family; we’re going to open our hearts to each other; we’re going to build each other up with faith.” Nobody has a right to introduce contention into the family.
If I were to change all the terminology in all our messagesand our day-to-day expressions, I would change one word: “Kingdom.” When you talk about “the Kingdom,” people don’t understand it. I would substitute the term, “the Father’s family,” for the word “Kingdom.”
The Kingdom of God is the Father’s family, and we love each other; we open our hearts to each other. We may go through hell and come back again, but we will still love each other. This is the Father’s table. This is where the Heavenly Father says, “You’re My family.” There is no other place to go—this is it.
The kingdom schools are just beginning to really get into what God wants, because we’re just beginning to learn how to love these little kids.
This is the Father’s family. Love each other. Reach out and bring one another in. Help one another. We’re going to be blessed of the Lord.