The Depth of God’s Love
Our word of the year is FOCUS
It is Defined as:
A center of activity, attraction, or attention
Directed attention
A state or condition permitting clear perception or understanding
However, the most resounding definition to me is this one:
A point of convergence
(the act of converging and especially moving toward union or uniformity)
Converge is defined as: tending to move toward one point or to approach each other.
I perceive the Kingdom call of convergence of His church.
I perceive the Kingdom call of healing relationships, both with God and humanity.
I do not know how, but I do know He is able to do exceedingly and abundantly more.
And I do know He is faithful and true to bring to pass all that He promises.
He hears our every prayer and He sees each and every one of our tears. Not only sees them, but saves them. The word says He collects each one.
David attests in Psalm 56:8-11 says,
”You have taken account of my miseries; Put my tears in Your bottle. Are they not in Your book? Then my enemies will turn back on the day when I call; This I know, that God is for me. In God, whose word I praise, In the Lord, whose word I praise, In God I have put my trust, I shall not be afraid. What can mankind do to me?“
God is intimate.
He is personal and cares so deeply for each and every one of us.
Church, I know that I know that I know, if we come through this year learning only one thing, it will be how madly, deeply, abundantly our Father God loves us.
In Genesis 16, this passage of scripture, Sarai is speaking to Abram concerning the covenant God has made with him and suggests since she’s barren that he should lie with her servant Hagar.
We know this story well, and how after this happens, Sarai becomes enraged, acting all crazy, and blames Abram.
And this is where we are, starting at verse 8;
”He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s slave woman, from where have you come, and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.” So the angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit to her authority.” The angel of the Lord also said to her, “I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count.”
Then down in verse 13, she calls on the name of the Lord and says,
“You are a God who sees me.”
What a beautiful response and comfort to her in knowing that God saw her. He saw the turmoil, pain, shame she must of felt….
“You are a God who sees.”
I hold such a special place in my heart for Hagar… I must relate to her on some deep level, because this isn’t the first time she has been my subject of study. The Holy Spirit keeps bringing her back up.
She was an Egyptian and According to the Midrash (which is part of the Jewish expanded studies of the Bible), Hagar was the daughter of King Pharaoh of Egypt. When she saw the miracle which God performed for the sake of Sarah, in Genesis 12, to save her from the hands of the Egyptian king during Abraham's visit there, she said: "It is better to be a slave in Sarah's house than a princess in my own."
Her name "Hagar,". comes from "Ha-Agar," meaning this is the reward.
What I do know is she had a heart for God and knew in that very moment, He saw her. WOW…
Yet told her to go back and continue to be Sarai’s servant.
He didn’t deliver her from it, but never abandoned her in it.
Sometimes it’s bigger than you.
Sometimes it’s bigger than just your pain you will endure for a little while.
His purpose is bigger.
He tells her go back…right here, go back and do the work.
From Hagar, God was building nations.
I was to tell you right now, He sees you too.
Church, hear me…. The very moment Jesus cried, “It is finished,” the veil covering the arc of God was torn, revealing the Holy Spirit.
Jesus bled, suffered and died on that cross to provide a bridge over the great divide caused from sin between man and Father God, our creator.
Finally, what the enemy had stolen, what man gave away in the garden at the beginning of humanity was completely, irrevocably restored through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Hallelujah!!
All for just one.
I need you to know that if you, YES, just you….were the only living, breathing person remaining on the face of this earth, He still would have came and died just for you alone. That’s the depth of His love.
He is for you and never against you.
James 1:17 says,
”Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.“
No variation… the same God that saw Hagar, is the same God that sees you today.
Romans 8:31-32 says,
”What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?“
And on down, the word says in verse 38-39,
”For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.“
Church…
There is power in the name of Jesus!
There is authority in the name of Jesus!
There is knowledge in the name of Jesus!
There is salvation in the name of Jesus!
There is peace in the name of Jesus!
There is abundance in the name of Jesus!
There is a beautiful life for you in the name of Jesus!
Here is love of our Father God in the name of Jesus.
Hallelujah!
