Made for love - March 6, 2014

Scripture: Song of Songs 1-2Your anointing oils have a wonderful fragrance;
your name is like anointing oil poured out.
We will be glad and rejoice for you.
We will praise your love more than wine.
How right it is for them to love you!
I am dark tan but beautiful, 
My mother’s sons were angry with me
and made me look after the vineyards.
But I haven’t cared for my own vineyard. - Song 1
Like an apple tree among the other trees in the forest 
is my darling among the other men.
I love to sit in his shadow;
his fruit is sweet to my taste.
4 He brings me to the banquet hall;
his banner over me is love.
5 Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples,
for I am sick with love.
6 [I wish] his left arm [were] under my head,
and his right arm around me.
My darling is mine, and I am his,
as he pastures his flock among the lilies.
17 Before the daytime breeze rises
and the shadows flee,
return, my love, like a stag or gazelle
on the hills of Beter. - Song 2


Message: 
Every man or woman was made for love because every creature was made by Love.

Observation/Promise:
Love is the reason why GOD has created human beings, Love is the reason why He created the entire universe. We were born to need love and to love, to have love and give love. But if we have to channel our need for love and our love to the right and important person. The very first person we ought to love and receive love is GOD because He is the perfect Being. If we love people before GOD, we will be disappointed, frustrated and heart broken. But when we love GOD first and receive His perfect love, we can love others without having to expect them to love us the same. We can give love freely without doubt because we are satisfied and secure in the love of GOD. 

Command/Application:
Love GOD first. Love GOD passionately, like a man and woman in love, GOD's love is even greater. HE is passionate about you. Be passionate about loving GOD but do not be in religion because GOD is not a religion, He is a person of Divine Being, He is 3 persons in One Being. When you need love, come to the LORD because His love is ever abundant like the waters of the sea, like the air that we breathe. His love is constantly waiting for us and it is deeper than the oceans, that we will plunge in and enjoy swimming in His great love. Sweeter than wine as Shlomo describes, His love will never run out. Enjoy His love, He is waiting for you to come to Him. Love Him first, His love never fails. 

Joyfully Expecting

6 Zechariah and Elizabeth were righteous in God’s eyes, careful to obey all of the Lord’s commandments and regulations. 7 They had no children because Elizabeth was unable to conceive, and they were both very old.
11 While Zechariah was in the sanctuary, an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing to the right of the incense altar. 12 Zechariah was shaken and overwhelmed with fear when he saw him. 13 But the angel said, “Don’t be afraid, Zechariah! God has heard your prayer. Your wife, Elizabeth, will give you a son, and you are to name him John. 14 You will have great joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth, 15 for he will be great in the eyes of the Lord. He must never touch wine or other alcoholic drinks. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even before his birth. 16 And he will turn many Israelites to the Lord their God. 17 He will be a man with the spirit and power of Elijah. He will prepare the people for the coming of the Lord. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and he will cause those who are rebellious to accept the wisdom of the godly.”

- Luke 1:6-17

Many devoted and faithful followers of GOD are going through what Zechariah and Elizabeth are going through. They are faithful servants of GOD, yet the one thing that any couple would want was to have a family they could not have because Elizabeth could not bear a child. They would have felt discouraged with their dilemma and they could have just lost faith in their GOD and rebelled against HIM. But patiently they waited on GOD, I bet they did not ask anymore to have a son since both of them were very old and that made it even more hard to conceive a child.

But one day, just like the many days Zechariah was in GOD's temple, faithfully doing what GOD had called Him to do. And suddenly! GOD shows up to Him by sending an Angel saying GOD has hear your prayer! Are you praying for a long time now for something that seems impossible and it feels like GOD may have already forgotten your prayers? Do not lose hope. For GOD has never forgotten you or the prayers of your heart. HE is just waiting for the right time to give it because HIS time is perfect causing HIM to be glorified when HE answers the impossible prayers of your heart. When HE answers, it will be a bang! Awesome and Amazing as HE is and that is how we should pray, joyfully expecting in faith.

Waiting

2 Then the Lord said to me,
“Write my answer plainly on tablets,
so that a runner can carry the correct message to others.
3 This vision is for a future time.
It describes the end, and it will be fulfilled.
If it seems slow in coming, wait patiently,
for it will surely take place.
It will not be delayed.
4 “Look at the proud!
They trust in themselves, and their lives are crooked.
But the righteous will live by their faithfulness to GOD

- Habakkuk 2:2-4

Are we living the best life we could possibly dream of? Is there not anything else in life to hope for? Of course there is! Somehow most of us are still waiting for something, a plan to take place, a goal to achieve, a dream to happen. While some of us are working towards the plans we have made for our lives, most of us are waiting for something that we have been asking GOD in prayer. Our hopes and dreams are yet to be fulfilled. 

What are the dreams of your heart? Better yet what are those that GOD has promised to you? GOD says to write them on paper, modern for tablet, or you can indeed write them on your computers, tablets or smartphone, to remind you of HIS words. Humans are frail and we easily forget the many things that we should remember, especially the promises of GOD in our lives. Reminding ourselves of GOD's word and promises for us enables us to stay focused on why we are where we are in the first place. It's very easy to get off track, easy to get discouraged and lose heart on doing the things we started to do because of the harships that come our way. It doesn't mean it's gonna be easy even when we know we are following GOD and we are blessed by GOD. If you are facing a tough road right now, hold on! GOD says His promises may seem slow in coming to pass, it may take a while BUT it will surely happen so wait and don't get out of track, stay there, stand in faith. Remember what you have received from GOD in the first place. HE will not be late, HE will come thru for you and everything will take place according to GOD's perfect time.

Don't hope in what people can offer, don't hope on riches, don't hope on anything else but on GOD alone. Everything in this world will fail you if you hold on to it. Only GOD and HIS word can truly exceed your expectations. Others may put their hope on their money or wealth, their talents, their knowledge, their capabilities, their friends, their system, their allies and whatever it is that they are boasting in their hearts will make their plans succeed. But now this, if you hope on anything else but GOD, it will fail. But if you hope in the LORD, then you are called righteous by GOD. Because this is how HIS faithful followers live, they live by faith, they live by hoping and trusting in the invisible GOD who will carry them through whatever situation they are struggling with and make impossible things become miraculously possible!