Floodgate

Yesterday, I had a chance to fellowship with two precious Brothers from other congregation who have been enlightened by His grace. They are full of the revelation of His grace and because of this truth in them, their faith is prompting them to join us because of the grace message we preach in SIB Grace, a Church that Jesus loves.

As they are exercising their faith of Abraham in moving out from their mixture of law and grace environment, they face challenges in their emotional realm posted by the members of their congregation. They are being pull them back from moving forward. However, the joy from His grace overshadows their hindrance.

During our fellowship, one of the brothers embarked on expressing the overflowing love that he experienced under the power of His grace, i.e. when we love someone, the question of “Do I have to” or “Do I need to” just does not exist at all. Our entire approaches of “have to” or “need to” are spontaneous as the result of our revelation of His Grace as a Person. If grace is still a doctrine to us, we will still be doubtful over our decision on “Do I have to” or “Do I need to”.

His sharing immediately triggered me to a verse which Apostle John is saying, “We love, because He first loves us” in 1 John 4:19. In that flip of a second, the Holy Spirit arrested me with a revelation on how this verse works!

Our hearts are just like a floodgate; before we are touched by His grace, by our fallen nature we are always selfish and our floodgates are closed because we are connected to our limited resources. When His grace touches us, our hearts begin to open; and we started to love and bless each other. By His mercy, our floodgates are now channeled to the resources of the whole Heaven by a river called Grace. During our growth in His grace, because of our old mind set and our little faith, we tend to close this floodgate still thinking that the resources are from us. But the truth of the matter is “We love, because He first loves us.” He has first loved us!

At this point, the Holy Spirit encouraged me with His love that to love is His nature and that love is from Him. His grace has already opened our floodgates. As a floodgate, we just have to exercise our faith by letting the gate open fully for His blessings to flow; knowing full well that this river of Grace, is the channel between the storehouse in Heaven to our floodgates. We do not have to worry about how the blessings flow because this kind of worry is not the function of a floodgate. We just open our hearts and let His love flows through us. We love, because He first loves us!

But out of our flesh, selfishness and little faith in Him, we tend to focus on the flow instead of putting our faith on His resources and push away His grace by closing the gate; and we have made void His grace and we have failed to magnify His nature as the Awesome Loving God.

If He has already opened our hearts, He has made ready the necessary infrastructures to enable His resources in Heaven to flow through us. We are able to bless others, because He first blesses us and we are able to love, because he first loves us…

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So open up the floodgate of your heart and let His blessings flow!