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This is the Love I want to have

Ivan Pattison, Australia

 

I sat in church some months ago, and asked the Father, to give me the love I need, and since then there have been changes in me, and the Power of the Holy Spirit has been working in me much more than before I asked for the Father to give me the Love I need.

The Sunday the 11th of September, I was standing and singing and praising my Lord and Saviour, when I started to pray these words; Jesus I absorb you into every part of my being, - I only want you to be absorbed into my mind, soul, and spirit. You are all that I want - absorb my life Jesus, that only You exist in me. I want to "absorb Your Love", I want to "absorb your passion", and I want to absorb You Jesus.

These words kept going over and over in my mind and spirit, as I worshiped, and the more they went over in my spirit the heat of the Holy Spirit came upon me, and the heat intensified, until I had to sit down.

This is what I want in my life, the love, the passion of Jesus, more and more, and the way I will receive this, is to continue to come closer to God the Father.

1 John 4:20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

Here are some verses that we can judge ourselves to see whether we really love God, and are really can call ourselves Christians as we say we are.

1 John 2:5, 1 John 2:15, 1 John 3:1, 1 John 3:11, 1 John 3:14, 1 John 3:16, 17, 18, 1 John 3:23, 1 John 4:7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1 John 4:16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 1 John 5:2, 3.

These are the verses of a true Christian, who is in Love with God the Father, and they are good to measure ourselves with, in seeing how close we come to being the Christian we say we are. Are we a true follower of God the Father.

Over the many years of writing, I have put on my Postal News Letters; "Ivan has Love that’s hard to quench, that is the love of Jesus". What we call ourselves, is what we become, so I am trusting God to bring me into His perfect love.

I did not write that to puff myself up but I wrote it because the Holy Spirit gave me the words to write.

Many of my writings have been on love, and why?

Some years ago the Holy Spirit asked me to write on love, and so I changed from my ordinary Christian writings to writing on love, and I did that immediately, and I think the first item I wrote on love was; "The Garden of my Heart".

I was traveling to church one Sunday morning, when the Holy Spirit gave me what to write about the "Garden of my Heart"

How can any one of us say we have accepted Jesus when we do not have His Love for our fellow man, what ever the reason.

I hope as I go on as a Christian, I will acquire

more and more of the Love of Jesus, and be more tolerant towards my fellow man.

I want more than anything, the Love that Jesus wants me to have, the love that fails not, the love that is long suffering. I want that love that Paul writes about in; 1 Corinthians chapter 13. The Love that is kind; the Love that envieth not; the Love that vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.

The Love that does not behave itself unseemly, the Love that seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, and the Love that does not think evil.

The Love that rejoiceth not in iniquity, but the Love that rejoiceth in the truth.

Can you and I say to each other "I Love you", well I can say it to you!
I want this Love that says "I Care", I Feel for you, not the love of the flesh, but the love of the spirit.

Oh my Lord help me, to die to me,
No more selfish ways in me,
But to fully follow after Thee,
My love is nothing compared to yours,
So only dying to self with You in mind,
And all of my earthly cares left behind.

My friends are more important than I am,
They need your love as much as me,
Let my life be no more mine to be,
But yours to use in what ever way You see,
Let me walk the narrow way ,
And share your love all the way.

I live to give my life to you,
I die so You shall shine through me,
Take my selfishness and my ways,
Remould me for Your Glory,
On the alter here I lay,
Sacrificed for You to do with me as you will!!
Written 4th July 2003 by Ivan Pattison

Shalom and Love,

Ivan

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