Manifested part 5
What you magnify in your life is what will manifest in your life. What you feed is what will grow. What you allow is what will continue. So, to me, what you ought to do is magnify God (LOVE) in your life. Feed the love in your life (remembering, of course, that love feeds on love). Allow love in your life. Let God love the hell out of you, and then love Him back by loving the hell out of the people you come into contact with. Receive it and release it. Praise God--not so that He will do something, but because He has already done everything! Praise isn't, "Do this for me." Praise is, "Thank you for what you've done for me!" An attitude of gratitude. Not looking at what you don't have, but focusing on what you do have. Not trying to be someone you're not, but embracing who you are! That's how we enjoy this gift we've been given; we give it away. We share it. That's how it manifests in our life; WE manifest it. We let what's inside come out. And we do that by knowing and believing that it's in there. We let what has already been manifested BE manifested. We respond to the Way of Grace with the Walk of faith. And the thing about walking by faith (and not by sight) is that you have to walk. Charity is love in action. It's not just someone needing help and you saying, "Hey, good luck. God bless." It's you actually, you know, helping them. Seeing a need and meeting it. And watch this: when you see a need and meet it... God's love is (through you) being manifested in someone else's life! You can be an answer to prayer. You can be a miracle. And, look, I'm not saying that to pump you all up and make you prideful. And I'm not saying it to freak you out and scare you. I'm simply saying, everybody needs love. Love is to a human what gas is to a car. Without it, we can't do anything. Or go anywhere. Rest is not inactivity. It is Holy Spirit directed activity. And the Holy Spirit only ever has (or ever will) direct us to love. What else could or would the God who IS love expect or want from us? Which, of course, is why He first loved us. He gave us what He wanted us to have so that we could experience it by giving it away. We are, as I heard one preacher put it, the spout where the glory comes out. The God who is love has filled us up with Himself. His Spirit. His heart. His life. His love. And now, because of that, we can live. By loving. By magnifying the love that He has given us. The love that He is. The love that we are. It's not about getting something you haven't got (by being someone you're not). It's about experiencing and enjoying the gift you've been given by giving it away. Paying it forward. Living out of your abundance. You can't make something out of nothing. But you can give what has been given to you. You can let what's inside come out. You can fill yourself to overflowing with what you've already been filled with. You can receive and release God's love. Give it back to Him by giving it to the people that you come into contact with. See a need and meet it. Love people. Give them what you've got. That's how you enjoy what you've got--by sharing it. By giving it away!