"And Has Not Love..."

Love is the Tip of the Iceberg that People are Able to See.

Simply put, people are able to see Love because it is what they are looking for and what they expect!

He that loves not knows not God; for God is love.
1 John 4:8

Love is not some free floating indiscernible transcendental. Love is a Person. Love has a Name. His Name is Jesus.

Jesus came to all men to be the manifest Love of the Father. If we want to know the ways in which the Father loves us we only need to observe the behavior of Jesus, and to listen to His words. That is the intentionality of the Heart of God.

We, as His witnesses and representatives in the realm of Earth, must embody this very same personality and Love.

Before moving forward into the Promises and Initiatives of 2010, beloveds, we must, must, must, repent from HATE and projected Hate which is very much a thing of witchcraft!

Hate is the principality which rules over a lesser cousin: Judgment.

Hate is insidious and wily.

A Case in Point:

I read a 'Pastor's' writing on Face Book about homosexuality. Guess what? He's against it. IT. Remember that little, insidious word "IT."

Certainly God is not in favor of "IT". He clearly says so.

In dealing with ISSUES and especially sin ISSUES, rather than dealing with human beings with names, addresses, hearts and minds, we fly down the slippery slope, away from loving them, and land in Hating IT.

This is the point at which the witchcraft occurs.

We assign all of the hating of the Issue or "IT" onto the people---the "Them."

The 'them' or the people created by God are vilified, dare I say demonized, and made the target of hatred. They are separated and segregated. Objectified.

The 'Pastor' who wrote the anti-homosexuality piece went on to say that in his lifetime (50 plus years) he has spoken with several homosexuals. Really?

Has he known any gay folks?

Wouldn't that be something!

This is a word about LOVE. His Name is Jesus. He is accepting. He loves entirely and without condition. He loves sinners to the omega point of dying for them! He loved me while I was yet in sin---and entirely black-hearted and unattractive. Kelly Deppen owes Him everything. I have never done a single thing to deserve His Love let alone His Life--yet--there you have it-- HE LOVES ME.

It is because I have this Testimony of His Love that Love is what I lead with.

It is the Tip of the Iceberg that people can see.

Love produces great swells of Favor in my life because every human heart is open to this Love that I am only able to share via His Grace.

That Favor draws people to want to know the Jesus that is beneath the surface of the water, to search me deeper because their expectation is that if I lead with Love, Love is my foundation as well.

In 2010 Make It a Non-Negotiable to Lead with Love!

Love will open hearts, minds and doors---if it is Priority One.

Jesus will open hearts, minds, and doors---if it is Priority One.

Lead with the law, lead with your self-conferred title, lead with your political affiliations, lead with the name of your denomination and you will continue to experience the closed-mindedness and closed hearts that we all too sadly have settled for and thought that we were righteous!

Perhaps the world has patently rejected us because they did not recognize us as LOVE!

FATHER FORGIVE US!

Beloveds, we have a Duty to Love.

"This living principle of all duty and obedience to Love is the more excellent way of which the apostle speaks, preferable to all gifts. Nay, without this the most glorious gifts are nothing, of no account to us, of no esteem in the sight of God."

"But vindicating religion at the cost of our lives will profit nothing if we feel not the power of it; and true Love is the very heart and spirit of religion. If we feel none of its sacred heat in our hearts, it will profit nothing, though we be burnt to ashes for the truth."

~ Matthew Henry
Commenting on 1 Corinthians 13

Prayer

Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit,

Forgive me my opinions and leanings,
my own ideas and prejudices in Jesus' Name.

Forgive me for putting forth politics and ideologies,
'shoulds' and 'shouldn't s.'

Forgive me for presenting your Law to the world
when I am only tasked with
Presenting Love
His Name is Jesus Christ.

Forgive me for the sin of presumption
when I have addressed behavior
ahead of expressing Love.

How will men know that we are indeed Christians?

Jesus! May this be the year we all are the standard bearers of Your Love.
May this be the year we truly repent of the ugly presumption and arrogance of usurping the Power, Rights and Privilege of
Holy Spirit
Fully God
and the Convictor of Hearts.

Beloved Jesus!
May 2010 be forever recorded as the
Year of the Love of the Church!

May it be recorded that in this time and in this place we
welcomed the outcast, the lost, the drug-addicted, the confused, the prostitute, the ones who do not look like us, the guy from the other political party
into our gatherings...

...for Worship.

For it is in that place of Worship we all encounter you, Our God Who is Love.

Amen.

Amen,

Love & Jesus,

Kelly Deppen
January 6, 2010
Earth-time & In Eternity

Serious About This?

Why not print this prayer,
Pray it in Spirit and Truth,
Sign it & Date It

as a Record of
Your Love for Him!