HAVING LOVE - CONFESSING LOVE Part I.

Everyone is able to choose to love or not to love. Love is a decision and a commitment not just a feeling. After making the decision to walk in love, a confession of love should follow. A confession of love is as important in a relationship as the confession: “Jesus is Lord!” is for salvation.

            Jesus gave us the second part of great commandment: Love your neighbor as yourself and He teaches us how to accomplish it. The entire spiritual life is based on the principle of sowing and reaping. Man is a sewer, the Word is the seed and the heart is the ground. When someone is seeding love, he has to say it, pronounce it and confess it. A confession of love is an awesome thing.

            If a young man doesn’t say he loves the girl, she doesn’t really know how he feels. But love is not only a feeling. Some believe that a girl can see the man loves her even though he does not say it. If the feeling of love is gone, one gets an impression that he does not love her any more. But love is not merely a feeling. You have to say or confess love. It is not enough to look at her with love in your eyes. You have to tell her. Love doesn’t come by seeing. God knows that we love Him, but He would like to hear us say it to Him: I love You, Lord.

            Confess love. You cannot assume that love will be seen.

            The people of the world have been speaking of love for a long time. The world sings of love. They are doing as much as they know. Often we Christians are behind them. Many times they do a better job than believers do.

         Speak aloud that they love the world as Jesus did. Seed it again and again. Speak love so that you will hear it. This is how to seed love to your spirit. Seeding and watering it with words multiply love. This will cause your ministry to be effective. By confessing words of love, the hatred inside of you (if you have any) will be consumed by love. First, seed it to yourself, and then say it to them. Confess love to others.        

            We don’t just speak about love but we confess love. The more we confess love, the more we will act on it and then more we will love. The more we speak the more we will love, the more it will become real to us. Love starts with us.

            People think God will judge them. Everyone tries to avoid judgment. It is normal and natural. Satan tries to convince the world that God will punish them for their sins and this is the reason why people are afraid of God. We have given the world the wrong message. God forgave the sin of the world. He will not judge nor punish those who accept Him.

            Evangelism often failed because we spoke to world about judgment instead of love. If we judge the world we cannot minister to them. God wants us to love the world. He wants us to love the people not the system. He wants us to let people know that He loves them. The world acts in sin and is actually spiritually dead.

            God cannot show His love since He is a Spirit and the world is flesh. God cannot show His love directly; therefore, He uses us to channel His love. We Christians are both spirit and flesh; we are able to communicate with men and say to them what God wants us to tell them.

            We speak to the world that God loves them and He forgives them. Before we can tell the world that God loves them, we have to first love them. Say: “I love you, my brother, in the Lord. My love is growing toward you”. If your marriage needs healing or when love seems to get cold, start to confess love aloud. Your relationship will change. Try it. It really works. God loves the world through us.

            If we have the desire to love and act on that desire by speaking aloud the result, we will attain the goal. We start to seed it. We thank God aloud: Lord, thank You for the love You gave us.  Thank You that You gave and showed me Your love. Thank you that loves is growing in me. How good the love inside of me is! It is so good to love others. I love the entire world. I love my brothers.

            That’s how we confess love and how we pray. Results will follow. Love is part of God’s Word. Faith comes by hearing the Word. Love comes by the Word. If I tell my brother I love him the first witnesses are my own ears. It is important to do it. I may be weak at the start, but if I continue the result will come and I will be strong. I cannot believe it if I do not hear. Love develops the same way as faith develops - by hearing.       

            I once read an article about love. The author suggested praying for love as follows: “Lord, help us to love more.” He said that this way we would realize we need more love. We should ask for a change. But it is not necessary to acknowledge we need more love. It is important to start to speak love and to love others.

            God cannot give us something He had already given to us. If we are born again, we have the fruit of the spirit. One of the fruits of the spirit is love. Because love is not visible, it needs to be heard in our speech and seen in actions. For instance, if someone is born in the flesh, he already has muscles. If he does not exercise it is no use asking God for more muscles. Man must use what he already has. The same is true with love. We have love. We must develop it. What we already have, we do not have to pray for.

PRACTICAL LOVE

No. 1996, 1997, 9209-1

ISBN 1-56983-022-3

© 1996, 2009 Vladimir Uhri