GREG DALEY
Several weeks ago I was sitting in a Starbucks coffee shop, on one of the hottest days of the year, sipping on an ice cold Frappaccino, when I heard a song that took me back in time to 1967.
It was a song by Donovon, “Wear your love like Heaven”. I was drawn to the title with a witness from The Spirit to consider it. Later that afternoon, on my computer, I Googled the song and read the rest of the words:
Lord kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear your love like Heaven.
I don’t know if Donovon was a Christian because the word Allah was inserted in another verse later on, however, the revelation I received was clear. The Lord used the song to remind me to “Wear your love like Heaven”. The source of real love comes from God, whose throne is in Heaven. The Jews traditionally equated Heaven with God. In the New Testament, you have Kingdom of God and Kingdom of Heaven used interchangeably. How do you wear your love like Heaven?
The apostle John writes “We love Him because He first loved us.” (1 John 4:19) Actually, the word “Him” was added by the translators for better readability in the English. There is no actual word “Him” in the Greek text, so you could translate it this way: “We love because He first loved us”
So really, we do not know how to love anyone without the love of Heaven or being loved by Him.
Agape love, or the Love of Heaven, is a love that represents divine, unconditional, self-sacrificing, active, volitional, and thoughtful love. The Love of God reaches down from heaven to touch the lives of men. We love because He loved us. Intimacy with God is the key for fruitfulness and, like the verse in the song, “Kiss me once more” it enables us to receive His love so that we may wear our love like heaven.
Jesus said, in Luke 24:49, “I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high." NIV
To be clothed with Heaven is what happen to Gideon in Judges 6:34: But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon. In Hebrew, this literally says “The Spirit of the Lord clothed Himself with Gideon,” which means “He took possession of Gideon.” Since I John 4:8 says that God is love, you could say, Love took possession of Gideon. What did that Love accomplish? What did God do when He took possession of Gideon? First, He blew a trumpet and then He brought deliverance to those who were oppressed of the Midianites. The trumpets of God wereused to signal the advent of seasons. Now the trumpetisa signal ofthings that have come or are starting.
The trumpetis sounding. Our times of brokenness and uncertainty are yielding to a powerful surge of life and hope.So be encouraged.
Ecclesiastes 3 says, "What has been, still is and what shall be,hascome to pass". Prophetically it means that your future is fast becoming your present and your hope is becoming a reality. God gave Gideon a new Identity and part of that Identity was to see him clothed in God and to be a witness of God’s Love in action; to expand His Kingdom and to set the captives free.
The Father wants to possess us with Love and to use us to bring deliverance to those who are bound in sin and despair. This is the love of Heaven in action. We are to pray on earth as it is in Heaven. My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 1 John 3:18
When you were Born Again and filled with the Holy Spirit, you were dressed or clothed from Heaven.
You may not see it in the mirror but others will see it as you walk in love and demonstrate His love.
The world will try to set the standard and tell you what to wear and how to act, but the Father has designer clothes for us which are much more glorious. Put on the Lord Jesus Christ. Wear you Love like Heaven!
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Mon, August 16, 2010
by Greg Daley
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