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This is the revelation that is shaping my life today – I can live in the love of God and yet operate as an enemy of love. The good news is God loves his enemies.

James 4:4 NIV
[4] You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – being loved flows to being love, and the evidence of your faith most naturally is present from your faith. No evidence means no faith, it’s not that evidence gets you anywhere it proves where you have been.

James 2:8,14-17 TPT
[8] Your calling is to fulfil the royal law of love as given to us in this Scripture: “You must love and value your neighbour as you love and value yourself!” 14] My dear brothers and sisters, what good is it if someone claims to have faith but demonstrates no good works to prove it? How could this kind of faith save anyone? [15] For example, if a brother or sister in the faith is poorly clothed and hungry [16] and you leave them saying, “Good-bye. I hope you stay warm and have plenty to eat,” but you don’t provide them with a coat or even a cup of soup, what good is your faith? [17] So then faith that doesn’t involve action is phony.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – we like law, it is clear and empowering, and it gives me security. But Jesus dismisses the law in favour of love.

Luke 14:3 TPT
[3] Jesus asked the experts of the law and the Pharisees who were present, “Is it permitted within the law to heal a man on the Sabbath day? Is it right or wrong?”

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – my personal revelation of love is the corrective discipline of God.

Hebrews 12:7,10 TPT
[7] Fully embrace God’s correction as part of your training, for he is doing what any loving father does for his children. For who has ever heard of a child who never had to be corrected? [10] Our parents corrected us for the short time of our childhood as it seemed good to them. But God corrects us throughout our lives for our own good, giving us an invitation to share his holiness.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – self can take over my life and kill real living.

Hebrews 13:1-3 TPT
[1] No matter what, make room in your heart to love every believer. [2] And show hospitality to strangers, for they may be angels from God showing up as your guests. [3] Identify with those who are in prison as though you were there suffering with them, and those who are mistreated as if you could feel their pain.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – it’s personal. Love makes it personal.

Luke 13:23 TPT
[23] A bystander asked him, “Lord, will only a few have eternal life?”

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – I am home free, no more sacrifices required of me, only the faithfulness to come and be loved.

Hebrews 10:1 TPT
[1] The old system of living under the law presented us with only a faint shadow, a crude outline of the reality of the wonderful blessings to come. …9] And then he said, “God, I will be the one to go and do your will.” So by being the sacrifice that removes sin, he abolishes animal sacrifices and replaces that entire system with the new covenant…..14] And by his one perfect sacrifice he made us perfectly holy and complete for all time!….18] So if our sins have been forgiven and forgotten, why would we ever need to offer another sacrifice for sin?…..20) For he has dedicated a new, life-giving way for us to approach God. For just as the veil was torn in two, Jesus’ body was torn open to give us free and fresh access to him!…..22] We come closer to God and approach him with an open heart, fully convinced by faith that nothing will keep us at a distance from him. For our hearts have been sprinkled with blood to remove impurity and we have been freed from an accusing conscience and now we are clean, unstained, and presentable to God inside and out!

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – important issues should never be prioritised over the importance of love. We become frauds of the Kingdom when we are more concerned with issues and behaviour than we are with the sacrificial expression of love.

Luke 11:42 TPT
[42] “You Pharisees are hopeless frauds! For you are obsessed with peripheral issues, like paying meticulous tithes on the smallest herbs that grow in your gardens. These matters you should do. Yet when you unjustly cheat others, you ignore the most important duty of all: to walk in the love of God. Readjust your values and place first things first.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – the way to live intimately loved by God is completely, forever open to all.

Hebrews 7:19,25,27 TPT
[19] For the law has never made anyone perfect, but in its place is a far better hope which gives us confidence to experience intimacy with God! [25] So he is able to save fully from now throughout eternity, everyone who comes to God through him, because he lives to pray continually for them. [27] ….he finished the sacrificial system, once and for all when he offered himself.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – if you miss that you are already invited you keep trying to make yourself invitable, and you will never get to the feasting.

Hebrews 3:1,19 TPT
[1] And so, dear brothers and sisters, you are now made holy, and each of you is invited to the feast of your heavenly calling. So fasten your thoughts fully onto Jesus, whom we embrace as our Apostle and King-Priest. ………19] It is clear that they could not enter into their inheritance because they wrapped their hearts in unbelief.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – there is only one version, vision, of God that is true and trustworthy, and it’s the Christlike God.

Hebrews 1:3 NIV
[3] The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being.

Here is the revelation shaping my life today – you have to decide what is more important rightness or love? You can’t serve both, one must be your master, and the other be your servant.

Luke 6:6-11 NIV
[6] On another Sabbath he went into the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was shrivelled. [7] The Pharisees and the teachers of the law were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath. [8] But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said to the man with the shrivelled hand, “Get up and stand in front of everyone.” So he got up and stood there. [9] Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?” [10] He looked around at them all, and then said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He did so, and his hand was completely restored. [11] But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law were furious and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – I am made right so I can have life – right!

Titus 3:4-7 NIV
[4] But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, [5] he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, [6] whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, [7] so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – evidence can transform thinking but the heart.
Mark 15:31-32 TPT
Even the ruling priests and the religious scholars joined in the mockery and kept laughing among themselves, saying, “He saved others, but he can’t even save himself! Israel’s king, is he? [32] Let the ‘Messiah,’ the ‘king of Israel,’ pull out the nails and come down from the cross right now. We’ll believe it when we see it!”