Fundamentals of Love

Fundamentals
of
Love
Knowing how magnificently loved you are and how
fruitful life should be as a result
Dr. Kay Ijisesan

Unless otherwise stated, all scripture quotations are
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Prophecy
"I have raised you up to go tell my people that
there is a 'mechanism for doing' which does not
come by the preaching of the law but by the
revelation of grace and love. The ability to receive
from the standpoint of grace will make people to
produce after what they have received. Their
struggles with sin will cease as they embrace My
grace that have already dealt with sin through the
sacrifice of love of My Son, Jesus Christ."
- A prophecy by Dr. Kay Ijisesan while preaching at
KingsWord's headquarter church in Lagos, Nigeria,
on Sunday February 14, 2016.
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Contents
Introduction ________________________ 05
Chapter 1: Man is made to be loved ________ 10
Chapter 2: Love is to be received __________ 19
Chapter 3: The law barrier is broken _______ 28

Chapter 4: Grace supplies what love enables __ 37
Chapter 5: Love turns to fruitfulness ______ 47
Chapter 6: Love overcomes the flesh ______ 57

Chapter 7: God's definition is love ________ 70
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T
he message that turned into this book was
preached by me on the Valentine's Day of
2016 in our ministry's headquarter church
in Nigeria. Valentine's Day, February 14 of every
year, is the day the world sets aside to celebrate
love. While the origin and the culture of the love
the Valentine celebration suggests and supports is
we have the real authentic

love of God to manifest.
not wrapped around the truths of God's Word, I

believe the intents of such a day shouldn't be
completely thrown away by Christians more so
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we have the real authentic love of God to

manifest.
To the pure all things are pure, the Bible states
(Titus 1: 15). The idea of setting a day aside to
celebrate a term and essence vital to our existence,
though in a somewhat misguided manner,
shouldn't be totally condemned but rather be pro-
actively employed to teach and show the world the
fickleness of the natural love they profess (which
can change to hatred the next minute based on
action and reaction) and introduce them to the
supernatural unconditional love of God. Nothing
wrong with the celebration of love, just like
nothing is wrong with the celebration of
Christmas (you can go legalistic on that as well
claiming Jesus wasn't born on December 25) so
far as Jesus is put at the center.
I believe such a day as the Valentine's Day is one
the gospel should be communicated in words and
deeds to really justify its essence. More people
should perhaps get saved that day than any other
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day of the year, not by preaching damnation or

condemnation, but by redirecting people to the
divine, unconditional, giving love of God. They
should be shown God's love so that they can
come to know it, in order to experience it
firsthand. To really experience it in fullness as
such, you need to know it, and to know it, it must
be shown or revealed to you. It is the lack of this
revelation that causes people not to believe in the
love that God has for them.
Knowing the love of God (i.e. knowing how much
God loves one) is therefore the key to
experiencing same divine love. The love of God
that passes all understanding needs to be revealed
so that it can be manifested. Without revelation,
there will not be the appreciation of the love that
made God send His Son to come die for you and
me.
And we have known and believed the love that God
has for us...
1 John 4:16
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The writer of the epistle just quoted from, Apostle

John, knew about this love, so much he affirmed
that he was the disciple that Jesus loved in the
account of the Gospel he wrote. He literally
bragged about the truth that God loved him
because he had come to believe it. There is a
Without revelation, there will

not be the appreciation of the
love that made God send His
Son to come die for you and me.
believing that actually comes with knowing. And

there is a knowing that comes before experiencing.
The journey from knowing through believing to
truly and fully experiencing divine love which
God wants every child of his to travel in order to
realize a glorious destiny, unfolds in the following
pages through the seven fundamental truths you
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are about to learn, arranged from bottom up

from a sound revealing to a sheer climax all on
the subject of love. Transformation lies ahead
most definitely, through the love of God, and by
His grace!
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#1
Man is made to be loved!

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H ave you ever noticed that children born

into a family where love is real tend to
grow up with proper esteem of
themselves? In most cases, they beam with
confidence and relate with other people well. A
wife that receives the acknowledgement and
appreciation of her husband also will be different
from the one that receives assault and abuses from
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her own husband. The former will more easily

glow and be radiant from doses of affection and
assurance she is receiving while the latter will have
some work to do casting off feelings of sadness,
shame and regret. The difference is all in the
treatment of love (or the opposite of it) being
measured out.
The position is predictable when it comes to God
because He is upright. His righteousness would
not have Him do things outside of His nature,
which is love. When the topic is love and the
focus is God, expectations should be highly stable.
As the sun comes out in the morning and sets in
the evening without fail, the love of God for you
and I is constant. We are fortunate to be forever
loved by God who cannot change (who could not
When the topic is love and the

focus is God, expectations
should be highly stable.
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stop loving humanity even after it failed in Eden).

Devil and demons are the unfortunate ones (those
wicked beings are the doomed lot, really), they
have been eternally pegged at the receiving end of
God's wrath. Will they ever be forgiven? No! But
will a man who had lived wrong all his life receive
forgiveness from God even at the tail end of his
existence here on earth? Yes! So what should you
expect from the God of all flesh? Love, mercy and
grace. Always!
In the journey of realizing God's love for
fruitfulness on earth here (knowing and believing
the love of God in order to walk in its fullness),
the searchlight may first need to be turned on you.
God made man (you and I) to be loved. We are
meant to derive pleasure and satisfaction from
being loved. In the natural, when other men show
us love, we are happy. Other times when someone
shows us a form of hatred, we tend to be sad and
disappointed. Thank God because God is
constant. He is the Friend that will never hate us,
will never forsake us.
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I've found a friend, O such a friend!

Christ loved me ere I knew Him
He drew me with the cords of love,
And thus he bound me to Him;
And round my heart still closely twine
Those ties which naught can sever,
For I am His, and Christ is mine,
Forever and forever.
James G. Small (1817 -1888)
God is our Maker and knew man can't really

function effectively and survive without love. So
in the making, He has made man a receptacle of
love in us. When a man becomes born again, Bible
lets us know the love of God is shed abroad in his
God made man (you and I) to be

loved. We are meant to derive
pleasure and satisfaction from
being loved.
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heart (Romans 5: 5). His spirit becomes a

container of God's love. When a man by
revelation knows and believes that love, his mind
is renewed and his soul is transformed to the
security and assurance in God's love towards him.
He will be able to say like Apostle Paul, If God
be for us, who can be against us?
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us,
who can be against us? He who did not spare His own
Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not
with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a
charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is
he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is
also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also
makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the
love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution,
or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is
written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are
accounted as sheep for the slaughter." Yet in all these
things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved
us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor
angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor
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things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created
thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:31-39
Nothing is as real as God's love, Paul was able
to communicate with the above scripture. And
nothing should be as intoxicating. In the world,
there are different liquors with different flavors
and alcohol levels, and each drunkard will have his
most preferred. In the spiritual sense, and in Paul's
estimation, nothing compares with the satisfaction
derived from the reality of God's love for Him,
already shed abroad in his heart. Paul kept
drinking of God's love, consistently in a state of
stupor by its revelation, so much that afflictions,
death, life, present and future matter less to him.
He never looked back in his course to fulfil
destiny from the day that love was shown to him
on his way to Damascus (Acts 9). He tasted love
and that was it, he was drunk on it the rest of his
life.
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Paul lived a maximized life largely because of this

reality which was the crux of his message in all its
epistles: we have been accepted in the beloved
(Ephesians 1: 6) not because of what we will do to
please him but what he has done to win us over.
It's on Him not on us; it's a done deal not a future
bargain. The human desire and need for genuine
love has therefore been divinely met in Christ. If
you only look for love elsewhere, you may be
disappointed, because the kind of love any human
can give you in himself is limited to the tolerance
of the human flesh, but when you turn and open
your heart to Christ and let him fill you with his
unconditional love, and keep drinking and getting
drunk on that fountain of divine love like Paul did,
you will be transformed into the image of the Son
of God, ruling and reigning in life. You can make
this your confession in this regard:
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CONFESSION
I am the beloved of God. In His love, I live, move and

have my being. God's love has found me and made me
a bride unto Christ. I am being refreshed always by
the Person of His love and being satisfied always by
the Spirit of His grace. I have got a lover in God. His
love has been shed abroad in my heart as I have given
my life to Christ. I am intoxicated by this love. Like
wine, it fills me up and gets me to act under its
influence as I yield to it. Love is now my way of life
reigning in my conscience and ruling my consciousness
because I was first loved by God who loves always.
Good! Practice the above confession regularly to

be conscious of God's grace available for you in
order to have the constant need for love in your
life met by the supply of love through His life.
That way you can never be love broke. Be true to
your nature as a recipient of God's love so that the
revelation of His love for you can really soak in. If
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He did not spare His only Son, but give Him for us, how
will He not with Him freely give us all things (Romans 8:
32). All you need is to be open and keep drinking
from the fountain of His love in your heart, so as
to see, know, and be convinced the more of this
amazing love that sent Jesus to the cross to die for
your sins.
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#2
Love is to be received!
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W hen a man and a woman freshly gets

engaged, there is something about
them, an aura of affection envelopes
them. They are full of each other in thoughts and
feelings. You dont need to remind them to call or
visit each other. You dont need to tell them to
mark the Valentines Day. They start their
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relationship with lighted fire of love and affection

hoping it continues to burn as they develop in it.
What is special about just getting engaged? Simply,
its all about two persons (for emphasis, a man and
a woman) that have freshly received each others
love. There is a glow and radiance that comes with
being loved, when that love is received. So much
to say about being loved by God as seen in the
previous chapter, but so much to say also here
about embracing and receiving the same love of
God.
The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying: "Yes, I
have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore
with lovingkindness I have drawn you.
Jeremiah 31:3
That sounds like someone that is in love with
you. And His love is everlasting. Blessed are you if
you are born again! Why? You are betrothed to
Jesus who loved you ever before you did Him. He
hung on the cross and paid the penalty for your
sins before you ever came to terms with your
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iniquities (Romans 5: 6-8). He forgave, delivered,

and bought you with His blood (Colossians 1: 13).
What a connection you now have: joined with the
Lord and one spirit with Him (1 Corinthians 6:
17), and an heir and joint heir with Him (Romans
8:17). More than conquerors are we (Romans
8:37).
Conquerors and overcomers now are we,

Thro the precious blood of Christ we've victory,
If the Lord be for us, we can never fail;
Nothing 'gainst his mighty pow'r can e'er prevail.
Conquerors are we, thro the blood, thro the blood;
God will give us victory, thro the blood, thro the blood,
Thro the Lamb for sinners slain,
Yet who lives and reigns again,
More than conquerors are we,
More than conquerors are we.
Mrs. C. H. Morris (1862-1929)

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While such love lavished out on you is a reality, it

will do little good in the vital sense if you do not
embrace it. What is the usefulness of a gift if not
received? Apostle John said, we have known and
believed in the love that God has for us (1 John
4: 16). Thats someone cultured in receiving the
love of God. One that is developed in unwrapping
the gift pack of Gods love begging for the taking.
How do you receive the love of God? Largely by
confession and affirmation! Apostle John was
already a full grown man at the time of Jesus'
ministry but he would lie on Jesus' bosom and
refer to himself as the disciple whom Jesus loved.
What audacity! Didn't Jesus love the other
disciples as much? He did. But John seemed to
have a better grasp of that love towards him than
others. He simply could not be bothered by what
others felt about his conviction. As far as he was
concerned, he was the most loved in the whole
bunch, and this revelation worked for him.
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In this the love of God was manifested toward us,

that God has sent His only begotten Son into the
world, that we might live through Him.
1 John 4:9
History has it that John the Apostle lived till full
old age and was the last of the apostles to die
despite the fact that he suffered along the way all
kinds of torture and persecution that could have
ordinarily killed him. At a time he was said to have
been thrown into boiling oil, but he didn't get
fried! He came out of the whole experience alive
and ready to continue to love and live for God
whom he was being tortured to deny. Much later,
he was banished to the isle of Patmos and left to
die, and the next thing was that he was receiving
visions and revelations of heaven and the Lord
Jesus Christ documented as the Book of
Revelation in the Bible. What a man! What a story
of the influence the love of God can have on a
person that will abandon himself to it.
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The reality is, the love you don't embrace will not
show on you. Again, check out loving couples in
the natural. The radiance of love they reflect is
because they are receiving each other's affection.
They get less edgy or cranky about each other.
They can easily forgive and let go. They are glad
and happy living together because they are simply
in love with each other. Translate that into the
spiritual dimension, and you can begin to
understand why John would live such a care-free
life unto God. He was simply in love. When you
continually embrace the love of God the way he
did, you also will not be fried by circumstances.
It is always a new life and a new world receiving
the love of God. This confession can usher you
right in:
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CONFESSION
I have been adopted into God's family of love, where I

partake of the riches of His grace. I seek intimacy
with God my Father, because of the love He has
bestowed on me. My arms are wide open to receive
His love always. I receive and keep receiving, and
never tired of receiving the benefits of His love on my
path on a daily basis. I press into the depth of God's
love, which passes all understanding, and I am
being filled with His fullness. I will not frustrate the
grace of God. I wholeheartedly embrace with joy the
full assurance of my salvation made possible by the
love of God. I am wrapped up in the love of the
Father and circumstances of this world do not move
me. The more I embrace the reality of His love in
me, the less I am affected by issues of life. God's love I
am receiving is all that matters to me.
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Oh my world! Love that will not have you

bothered! Hell may be breaking loose around you
but you hardly see it because heaven is bubbling
the love you don't embrace will

not show on you.
inside of you in love transmitting as joy, peace,

patience, temperance and other fruits of the spirit
(Galatians 5: 22). People may be grumbling about
hard times but you can't stop singing of your good
tie with Him. They may be complaining about
scarcity in the world but you are rejoicing over His
abundance. Why? Of His fullness you are
receiving, grace for grace (John 1:16). As you
receive God's love, you are being filled with same
gracious love, transforming you as a result.
You can daily receive the love of God because He
daily loads us with benefits (Psalm 68: 19). Like
John, be a child and let God be your Father,
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where His love is concerned. Throw your hands in

the air and receive of His grace by affirming His
love for you and watch Him carry you in His
everlasting arms in seasons and moments of
challenges of life. His love is fresh, and up for
grabs, always.
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#3
The law barrier is broken!

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S ome men have a wrong perspective about

their woman's need for love. They equate
love to money. Just because a man is
providing and taking care of his family doesn't
mean his woman's need for love and affection is
being met. A man that has not sown seeds of
affection to his wife and has been charging all day
in the house, and suddenly starts smiling to her
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when it is 10pm in order to have sex that night is

not being considerate and wise. That is not how
intimacy works!
Such an attitude has a parallel with what the law

works in us. The law under the Old Testament put
a barrier between man and him receiving freely
from God. As upright as the law is, it comes
across as a taskmaster that is not friendly with
man's being. Why? The law tells you to love God
and love people without necessarily making you
the kind of person that does so naturally. So man
had struggles to do the dictates of the law because
of the promptings of sin in his flesh.
I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one
who wills to do good. For I delight in the law of God
according to the inward man. But I see another law
in my members, warring against the law of my mind,
and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which
is in my members. O wretched man that I am!
Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Romans 7:21-24
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That was Apostle Paul contending with his flesh

to do right by the law. It didn't quite work,
because righteousness wasn't designed to work
that way. The law was given to show man the
righteous standards of God, but in showing, also
revealed man's gross inadequacy to meet the
standards, yet it kept demanding, as Paul realized,
that such standards be met. As a result, men find it
difficult to realize the abundance of grace and love
towards him by God. No intimacy with God as it
ought!
It is like a woman just married to a man, and here
she gets a long list from her husband on how to be a
wife. The list is as long as her numerous actions a
whole season and she is always struggling to meet
up (and failing because she is not perfect) and
always battling in her mind and consciousness
whether she is really living up to the standard of
being a wife, forgetting completely that she is
already one, list or no list. The law, though good
in itself, has a reputation of standing in the way of
the good relationship we ought to have with God
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because it puts pressure on the human flesh to

perform righteousness. But the flesh is already
weakened by sin.
...Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Romans 7:21-24
There has to be a switch. Paul found that switch in
the revelation of redemption he got by the Spirit
of God, which he shared in all his epistles. In
redemption, the damage sin did to man is totally
undone so that man can be able to fulfil the law
without the law posing an obstacle to his
relationship with God. For anyone redeemed
(born again), righteousness stops being a duty to
perform but a way of life to walk in. The demand
of the law on man to fulfil love and righteousness
has been overridden by the supply of love and
righteousness to man empowering him to fulfil the
law. What a story, a wonderful turnaround by
Love.
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Redemption! oh, wonderful story

Glad message for you and for me;
That Jesus has purchased our pardon,
And paid all the debt on the tree.
Believe it, O sinner, believe it;
Receive the glad messagetis true;
Trust now in the crucified Savior,
Salvation He offers to you.
S. M. Sayford
The demand of the law on man to

fulfil love and righteousness has
been overridden by the supply of
love and righteousness to man
empowering him to fulfil the law.
What a story, a wonderful
turnaround by Love.
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No more long list of to-dos for the married wife

again. She could relate with her husband intimately
without fear, condemnation and guilt. In the New
Testament, the barrier of the law has been set
aside so that man can receive freely from his
Maker who loves him unconditionally. The law,
summarized as loving God and loving one's
neighbor (Matthew 22: 34-40), can now be
fulfilled by hearts that will continually
acknowledge and receive the free gift of God's
love rather than be held back in fear for not
meeting up with the standards of the law due to
the inadequacies of the flesh. The sin revealing
and fear inducing ordinances of the law that had
spelled doom for man was nailed to the cross of
Christ. And man's redemption from Satan got
sealed.
Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements
that was against us, which was contrary to us. And
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He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to

the cross.
Colossians 2:14
This is not something that is going to happen. It is
something that had happened 2, 000 years ago
when Christ died on the cross, which Apostle Paul
wrote about in his epistles, and which only needs
to be acknowledged and received today. This is
part of the revelation Paul caught on to that made
him overcome his flesh in order to fulfil his
destiny. You will need to catch revelation along
the same line of living above sin and fulfilling
the law through the righteous nature of God in
you. A simple confession can get you on the way,
such as this:
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CONFESSION
The barrier of the law has been removed so I receive

God's love freely. My relationship with God, purely
based on the sacrifice of Christ, overrides ordinances
written against my favor. Like a wife freely receiving
the love of her husband, and a child embracing the
care of his father, I receive God's love without any
inhibition of condemnation and fear. The love of God
I receive fills me with promptings of the Spirit,
creating expressions of life and not of death. Through
the abundant measure of God's love towards me, the
law has been done away with, all I have is the freedom
to receive and act in love.
The law is good but sin in man turns the law into
a taskmaster that keeps tormenting mankind with
fear, condemnation and guilt. The law demands
from a damaged man (broken by sin) to do what it
will only take a whole renewed man in Christ to
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do. But you are no longer damaged if you are born

again. No longer a sinner though you will you
have your flesh to deal with! You are whole in
Christ (Colossians 2: 10) through His
righteousness. You are a new creation (2
Corinthians 5: 17), and has therefore escaped the
barrier of the law of sin and death. .
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#4
Grace supplies what love

enables!
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E very parent must learn how to engage

their children in conversation particularly
on sensitive topics which they need to
know about. When your child turns a teenager for
instance, you are going to need to talk to him or
her about sex, because if you don't, somebody else
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will. Let him or her know there is nothing bad in

having an intimate friend of the opposite sex but
there is time for everything. Let your child knows
your spouse is your own boy or girlfriend. Let him
or her talk about issues freely so that you can
know what to address. It is okay to set some rules,
but do not let the rules become a hindrance to
your parent-child relationship. Be gracious enough
to keep showing your child the right way so that
he or she will not, in intimidation and fear of rules
(which are not necessarily wrong), now end up in
the wrong.
Rules are okay the same way the law is okay (1
Timothy 1: 80). It is the essence of rules or the law
that need to be put in the right perspective. God
gave man the law to show man that he had a
problem. He simply didn't have what it would take
to fulfil the whole law. It would have to take God
to be able to fulfil the law to love with all of
one's heart, might and soul. And in due time God
came on the scene in the person of His son to
pave the way for man to be able to fulfil the law
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by the ultimate sacrifice of his Son. To Him be the

glory.
To God be the glory, great things he has done;
so loved he the world that he gave us his Son,
who yielded his life an atonement for sin,
and opened the lifegate that we may go in.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord; let the earth hear his
voice!
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord; let the people rejoice!
O come to the Father through Jesus the Son,
and give him the glory; great things he has done.
Fanny J. Crosby (1820-1915)
In the New Covenant, the law stops being the

yardstick for righteousness and justification as
Christ became the end of the law to them that
It would have to take God to be

able to fulfil the law to love with
all of one's heart, might and soul.
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believe (Romans 10: 4). Not that the law has

become non-existent. It is only de-emphasised so
that grace may be emphasised and amplified.
Why? So that man can realize God's love and as a
result live the love life, which is all the law was
demanding. If the righteousness and love of God
has to be real to man, it has to be by grace, the
divine ability and provision of God that qualifies
man for righteousness and enables him do the
requirements of the law.
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and
that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of
works, lest anyone should boast.
Ephesians 2:8-9
Grace stepped in to deal with the spiritual
bankruptcy of sinful man, which was exposed by
the law. In one clean sweep, by Jesus' love
sacrifice on the cross, grace moved mankind from
minus to plus to surplus in spiritual standing and
reckoning. The shed blood of Jesus Christ drew
man that were far away from God because of sin
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bringing him close enough to God to share his

nature (Ephesians 2: 13). God didn't ask man to
shape up before being drawn near like the law
would demand. Rather He drew man by His grace
and as a result reshaped man to qualify for his
presence, and all the blessings of it.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual
blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.
Ephesians 1:3
Amazing! God's grace starts you and I out loaded
with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places.
He recreated us with a built-in capacity to love
both God and men, a potential that becomes more
and more evident as we receive and embrace the
love He has for us, which made Him go the extra
mile in redeeming us. In His will and wisdom, He
decided to do away with the whip of the law
keeping us away from Him out of fear and
condemnation, and set up the provision of grace
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so that we can run into his arms in love. What a

gracious Father!
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed
on us, that we should be called children of God!
Therefore the world does not know us, because it did
not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God;
and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but
we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like
Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
1 John 3:1-2
We will never be able to completely unravel this
love of the Father. The mind cannot fully grasp it.
God is no longer dealing with us by a mere set of
rules, like one usually does with his servants. He
has brought us to a position of intimate
relationship with him as sons, with the rules now
written in our hearts who have received his love.
As sons, you and I have the confidence to relate
with God, and boldness to deal with the devil, His
enemy (Proverbs 28: 1). We have every reason
and the strength in Christ to love God and men,
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fulfilling the law, by the backing of His love for us
by Jesus' love sacrifice on the

cross, grace moved mankind from
minus to plus to surplus in spiritual
standing and reckoning.
and the freedom of His grace towards us.
For what the law could not do in that it was weak

through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son
in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He
condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous
requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do
not walk according to the flesh but according to the
Spirit.
Romans 8:3-5
The law came demanding from mankind already
battered by sin, which made it impossible to fulfil
the law, but grace came supplying all the way,
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from salvation to deliverance, to healing,

preservation and wholeness. From faith to love to
wisdom and righteousness. From the application
of His (Jesus') blood, to the use of His name, and
to the giving of the Spirit. From being elected as
chosen to being adopted as sons. No human
effort went into man's redemption. It was
absolutely on the account of grace, all because
God loved.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should
not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not
send His Son into the world to condemn the world,
but that the world through Him might be saved.
John 3:16-17
This is the era of whosoever, anyone that will

believe in and receive the love and grace of God.
If it was okay for the law to demand in the past
dispensation of the Old Testament, now in the
dispensation of the New Testament, it is much
more okay for grace to supply to you. Be the
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whosoever that will believe in His love and you
We will never be able to completely

unravel this love of the Father. The
mind cannot fully grasp it.
will see His grace manifest in your life. Receiving

and sharing the love of God that you have is the
way to partake and maximize God's abundant
grace. Let this be your goal, and your confession:
CONFESSION
I am a believer, believing the love God has for me and

the grace He has to give. As I factor in the love of
God, the grace of God is being supplied in my favor,
and I radiate God's goodness everywhere. Grace
through the love of God has brought me into light,
qualifying me to partake of the divine nature, having
escaped the corruption in the world. Through the love
of God I have come to believe and receive, I have
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become the Lord's chosen, not by performance but by
election, not by works but by grace.
No more intimidation and condemnation. Grace

has overridden such. We have not received the
spirit of bondage again to fear, but we have
received the spirit of adoption by which we cry
Abba Father (Romans 8: 15), by the abundant
provision of the grace of God lavished on us.
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#5
Love turns to fruitfulness!

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H ow do you deal with a struggling spouse

or child, knowing the right thing to do
but keep getting overwhelmed by wrong
attitudes and behaviors? Cast him or her away?
No. That may not achieve any good result. Wait
for a change in attitude before extending the
required love gestures to such a family member?
No, once again. There may be need to plant seeds
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of love towards the person for fruits of good

conduct to follow. Being loving and gracious to
others despite their faults would most likely result
in a change of perspective, leading to a change in
conduct, leading to fruitfulness and productivity.
That was what God did for you and me. At the
point of salvation He changed our hearts through
the provision of His grace in Christ Jesus. And
grace starts us out loaded when we had not made
any contribution into God's kingdom (Ephesians
1:3), as we came into Christ fully equipped with
His love and righteousness. We are complete in
Him (Colossians 2: 10) even though we may yet be
struggling, trying to find our feet in kingdom
practice. We are given a God-status that we don't
have credentials for (like someone in primary
school being given a PhD certificate) knowing
fully well it is that status that will now provoke us
to produce accordingly the way and at the level
God wants.
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If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you

will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for
you. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear
much fruit; so you will be My disciples. "As the
Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My
love.
John 15:7-9
Grace is the strong connector between God's love
towards man, and man's show of love back to
God as well as to other men, leading to
fruitfulness. How? God so loved that He
showered grace on man and man became graced
to love back without the intimidation of the law.
Abraham in the Old Testament was an experiment
of what grace could mean or do to a man. He
was a moon worshipper but God called him and
backed him all the same. He came to believe God
and responded back in love to God in his
decisions and actions and we refer him today as
the father of faith. He became so fruitful by
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responding to God's love through the grace of

God he experienced.
Was Abraham always upright in himself? Were all
his actions right? No! For instance, he gave his
wife out in order to survive (Genesis 12: 10-20)
Who does that? Yet God still loved him and let
him grow in grace. Another time, he doubted
Grace is the strong connector

between God's love towards man,
and man's show of love back to
God as well as to other men,
leading to fruitfulness.
God, agreeing with his wife to sleep with her maid

(Genesis 16), yet God didn't abandon him. He was
still looking out for his good, still committed to
fulfil His promises to him. And because God dealt
so graciously with Abraham (Genesis 22), he grew
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to a point that he was ready to offer his son, and

to the point where a king offered him goods and
he rejected it (Genesis 14: 17-24), knowing that
material blessings could not be compared to the
grace and blessing of God. He grew in grace by
responding to the love measured towards him by
God.
If God could be so gracious to Abraham in the
Old Testament, how much more you and I under
the New Covenant who have been given the Spirit
of grace through the shed blood of Jesus on the
cross. The Holy Spirit is the embodiment of God's
grace and love to us. As New Testament believers,
He is our ever abiding helper and comforter. And
what a helper we have in Him, always there to
communicate to us the law of God in our heart,
which we couldn't keep by ourselves, and
supplying the grace and strength to abide by it.
And even when we fail, He is there is to correct us
and nudge us towards the righteous cause. The
beauty of the New Testament is that God has
replaced the tablets of the law by Himself, in the
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person of the Holy Spirit. The law of God didn't

change, really. What changed is the conveyor. In
the New Testament, the Holy Spirit has graciously
replaced tablets of stone (as the conveyor of
God's law and love to man, yielding life instead of
death) for the latter kills but the former gives life.
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of
anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is
from God, 6 who also made us sufficient as ministers
of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the
Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
2 Corinthians 3:5-6
The gentle Holy Spirit is meant to work
fruitfulness in you and me by the freedom of
grace. Realizing God's love and walking in it ought
to make us productive and fruitful in life, and the
Holy Spirit is in us to supply the grace. As the
revelation and actions of love increase, so the
grace to be fruitful increases. And as the grace
increases, the knowledge of God's love, which
passes human understanding (Ephesians 3:19),
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also increases. In things pertaining to the kingdom

and righteousness of God, love and grace by the
Holy Spirit work fruitfulness and productivity in
man.
O precious grace of Gods dear Lamb,

The grace that makes me what I am!
Thro all my life my cry shall be,
See what His grace has done for me.
Free grace, free grace shall be my song,
Till all the saints the sound prolong;
No works of mine can eer atone,
For I am saved by grace alone.
Robert Lowry (1826 1899)
God's love will never make you to be timid,

because there is no fear in love (1 John 4:18). You
will have the boldness to cast out demons in the
name of Jesus. You will lay hands on the sick, and
expect them to recover (Mark 16: 17-18). You will
be love moved and grace filled by the Holy
Spirit to address wickedness and
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unrighteousness around you, and you will not be

disappointed. You will have results because love
never fails (1 Corinthians 13: 8).
Welcome to the realm of miracles with ease. The
Realizing God's love and walking in

it ought to make us productive and
fruitful in life, and the Holy Spirit is
in us to supply the grace.
realm of acting on God's Word and doing the

bidding of the Spirit through the love and the
grace of Christ. A realm where no one can lay a
charge against you, because you are God's elect. A
realm where no one can condemn you because
you are already loved by God (Romans 8: 33-34).
As a believer, every accusation against you had
been buried with Jesus when He died and your
everlasting justification got secured when He was
raised back to life (Romans 4: 25). You are the
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righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, through His

love and grace. Come into this light and go in this
grace, and you will be a terror to the kingdom of
darkness! This simple confession will surely help:
CONFESSION
Through the love of God for me and His grace
towards me, I have come into an open field of
fruitfulness leading to destiny fulfilment in Christ.
God by his love deals graciously with me so much that
my love actions are productive for the kingdom. My
weaknesses and shortcomings find their solution in
the precious blood of Jesus while my strength, trust
and hope to do valiantly is in my factoring in the
wisdom and grace of Christ. I can never fail in life
because love never fails. The love of God that I
have received and I am abiding in shields me from
failure in all my endeavors.
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By God you have been chosen to show forth His

marvellous light. To God therefore, you are meant
to be a yielded vessel fit for the Master's use (2
Timothy 2: 20-21) a royal diadem in the hands
of God. You ought not to be termed desolate or
your land forsaken. You ought to be termed
fruitful and productive (Isaiah 62: 3-4). Only allow
the grace of God to transform you unto such
fruitfulness.
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#6
Love overcomes the flesh!

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E motions of love shouldn't be denied. No

one should advise another person to get
married to someone he or she has not
grown affection for. Where there is love, there
ought to be display of affection. Loving emotions
must be involved showing how special one is to
his or her chosen partner, and how they care
about each other. (Someone you know is not
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married yet because he or she is waiting to meet a

person that will evoke the feelings of romance and
marital love in him or her.) Apart from marital
love, there is also brotherly love that exists
between siblings. There is also parental love, the
affection that parents have for their children.
There are different shades of natural love and
emotions that can be displayed based on
connection and relationship.
These different shades of love have their root in
God. They are all in their originality a function of
the grace of God. You can find references about
them in the Bible pointing to God as source. For
instance, husbands are asked to love their wives as
Christ loves the church (Ephesians 5: 25),
typifying romantic love. It is stated in the Book
that God has given us the spirit of His Son so that
we can cry Abba Father (Galatians 4: 6), pointing
to parental love. It is also revealed that Jesus the
Sanctifier is not ashamed to call us brothers
(Hebrews 2 11), referring to brotherly love. The
greater love of God is also described as a man
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laying his life for his friends (John 15: 13),

referring to love that exists between friends and
comrades. Different kinds of love coming from
one Source, God! You should be glad that He
loves so much.
I am so glad that our Father in heav'n

tells of his love in the book he has giv'n:
wonderful things in the Bible I see--
this is the dearest, that Jesus loves me.
I am so glad that Jesus loves me,
Jesus loves me, Jesus loves me;
I am so glad that Jesus loves me,
Jesus loves even me.
Emily S. Oakey
The different kinds of love communicated

showing different emotional expressions have
their root in God's attributive love nature, called
agape in the Greek. Agape is unconditional
because it is love in its fullness manifesting grace
and bringing fruitfulness. It is the love that sent
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Jesus to the cross to die a shameful death for us

while we were His haters (Romans 5: 6-8). Mere
romantic love can't do that. Mere brotherly love or
friendly love will fall short in this regard. It will
apply the law for punishment rather than provide
grace for fruitfulness.
"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your
neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love
your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He
causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and
sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
Matthew 5:43-45
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Agape is unconditional because it is

love in its fullness manifesting
grace and bringing fruitfulness. It is
the love that sent Jesus to the cross
to die a shameful death for us
while we were His haters.
Jesus was introducing his disciples to the Agape

love of God that fulfils the law. The law always
hands a punishment for any offence while grace
through love provides a platform of mercy that
can transform the offender. The perspective of the
law is offend and be punished. The perspective
of grace is come out of the offence and be
fruitful. Again, nothing is wrong with the law of
God, only that when it is brought to the level of
humanity conditioned by sin and death, its
demands tend to breed ungracious feelings and
emotions. A man will have to be born again and
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receive the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus to be

delivered from the rule of sin and death. Then he
can love unconditionally the way God loves, as he
walks in the Spirit.
I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not

fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts
against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh;
and these are contrary to one another, so that you
do not do the things that you wish. But if you are
led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Galatians 5:16-18
On getting born again, the Agape love, which is
love in its pureness and fullness, is shed abroad in
the believer's heart (Romans 5: 5). The born-again
person becomes partaker of the divine nature
the nature of pure unconditional love of God. It is
this nature of love that ought to sustain all the
emotional expressions of love known to man.
Romantic love should no longer be selfish
(seeking one's own only and not preferring one's
partner) because it is being under-girded by the
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nature. A husband or wife should hardly get to a

point of desperation, planning to quit the
relationship because he or she cannot take it
again. There is grace available in God's
unconditional love, which can allow him or her to
endure and be more patient in order to see
fruitfulness in the marriage. Parents can seek
wisdom through the platform of grace in God's
undiluted love in them to deal with a child that
may be wayward or unruly. Divorcing such a
spouse or castigating such a child may just be a
decision of the flesh, and the flesh doesn't yield
fruitfulness.
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits
nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit,
and they are life.
John 6:63-64
The flesh here refers to the ungracious feelings
and emotions (also thoughts and acts) arising from
the effects of sin and death. According to the
above scripture, it does not yield good results.
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Instead, what profits is being gracious by the

Spirit; loving others with the love of God thereby
leaving them with little choice but to respond in
loving back. Jesus did this for Peter, who became
the main leader of the church after He left the
earth. Peter was not so stable in his commitment.
He faltered many times. He denied Jesus at the
most crucial period (Luke 22: 54-62) and went
back into the fishing business he had left for
ministry leading some other disciples away. Did
Jesus abandon him? Did He cast him away? No!
Rather, He showed him love till he was restored.
Jesus prayed for Peter's recovery (Luke 22: 31-32).
He went after him after His resurrection, did more
miracles for him and his fishing team, and even
cooked for them. Then He pointed him back to
ministry (John 21).
So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to
Simon Peter, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me
more than these?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord;
You know that I love You." He said to him, "Feed
My lambs." He said to him again a second time,
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"Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?" He said to

Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love You."
He said to him, "Tend My sheep." He said to him
the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love
Me?" Peter was grieved because He said to him the
third time, "Do you love Me?" And he said to Him,
"Lord, You know all things; You know that I love
You." Jesus said to him, "Feed My sheep.
John 21:15-17
Peter eventually yielded to the love gestures of

Jesus and he encountered grace to be a great
apostle and leader of the early church. He
reciprocated Jesus' undying and unconditional love
for him and God's grace became his for a fruitful
ministry. A good summary of Peter's story of
destiny fulfilment is Love touched me and grace
torched me, and the rest is history. Fruitfulness
comes when a man is transformed by God's grace
as he yields to God's love!
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what profits is being gracious by

the Spirit; loving others with the
love of God thereby leaving them
with little choice but to respond in
loving back.
The difference between those that fulfil destiny

and those that don't in this world is simply
whether or not they yield to the love of God. Here
is your big part in fruitfulness: Respond to God's
love like Peter in order to activate God's grace for
the realization of destiny. Receiving and acting
correspondingly to God's unconditional love
bestowed on you is the way to latch on to God's
unqualified grace made available by the same love
for your fruitfulness. People are refusing the love
of God regarding salvation and are going to hell,
not because the love of God towards them have
not made the grace to be saved available in
Christ Jesus, but they simply ignore Christ and His
agape love. And people are experiencing hell on
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earth in different situations and circumstances for

the similar reason of not embracing the love of
God, and the grace to fix their issue, though
available in Christ, keep eluding them.
Christianity is about receiving God's love. It is

believing in the love of God to the point of acting
Fruitfulness comes when a man is

transformed by God's grace as he
yields to God's love.
on it (1 John 4: 16). Your emotions in their

expression will not always want you to act on the
Agape love, because they can be influenced by the
flesh, which is conditioned by sin and death, and
thus condemned by the law, breeding more
expressions of negative emotions leading to sin
and death. To stay kept from such vicious circle of
the flesh, you must subject your emotions to
God's love through the Word and by His Spirit.
For the sake of fruitfulness, do not let your
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emotions rule you. Don't let them go haywire in

anger, bitterness, envy, lust and the likes. Rather,
let God's nature of love undergird your emotions
so that they can cause you to be productive for
God's kingdom. This simple confession of God's
Word can keep you in check regarding the flesh,
and in tune regarding loving others:
CONFESSION
I have received the love of God unto the freedom of

grace by the Spirit. I am no longer subject to the law
of sin and death so I do not the biddings of the flesh. I
respond and yield to the love of God in me and
by it overcome the temptations of the flesh so that my
fruitfulness may show. I safely abide in the love
territory, where the flesh cannot rule and sin and
death cannot dominate. I am patient, kind, not easily
provoked, not envious or vain glorious, all because of
the grace of God made available in His love I receive.
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The real purpose of the law, which is loving God

and loving men, can only be fulfilled by grace
(Romans 8: 3-4). Through grace, you become the
beloved of God so that you can readily act in
God's love (in receiving and sharing) unto
fruitfulness. Temptations of sin may want to set
in through your feelings and emotions, but that is
when you stand fast in the liberty of grace to
produce love actions that will not get you
entangled again in the yoke of bondage (Galatians
5: 1). At such a moment of temptation, let the
Word and the Spirit of God communicate to you
afresh that whom the Lord has set free is free
indeed (John 8:36).
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#7
Gods definition is love!

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S ome wives are going through traumatic

experiences today because their husbands
are not giving them attention. Some old
parents are almost losing their mind because they
feel their children dont appreciate them. Others
feel abandoned and rejected, thinking nobody
cares, but where lies their seeking of love? If it is
hooked on other men, they have only set
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themselves up for disappointment. Why? Men can

yield to the flesh expressing feelings and emotions
and engaging in actions that are not in line with
the law of God. There is only one being that is
constant and perfect in love unconditional: God!
God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and

God in him.
1 John 4:16
The three-word phrase God is love could well be the
summary of all the Bible ever aims to
communicate: To get men to realize the extent
and nature of love available for them in God.
Love, which is the fulfilment of the law, which is
the gateway for grace, and pathway for
fruitfulness, is summed up as God. Again, the
word love here is from the Greek word agape,
which is the unconditional nature of love
(attributed to God) that can't be moved by
ungracious and ungodly emotions. That is what
God loved humanity with. That is what He
showered (and still showers) on us. If any man is
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feeling unloved, abandoned and rejected, it is only

because he has not realized this love of God. If
anyone is feeling nobody cares about him, he has
simply not prioritized his relationship with God. If
you are a child of God, no need really for any
further convincing about the reality that God
loves you, because the Bible expressly tells so.
Jesus loves me, this I know,
for the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to him belong;
they are weak, but he is strong.
Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me! The Bible tells me so.
Anna Bartlett Warner (1824 - 1915)
The Bible defines God as love in totality, and God

loves us with His love being our father, friend,
husband, and brother in Jesus. Love is first of all
from His standpoint. He first loved us before we
could ever love Him (1 John 4: 19). Love is what
He directs our way before we ever catch it. Under
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the law in the Old Testament, men felt they would

have to first love God before they could be loved
by Him. But grace in the New Testament clearly
gives the right perspective, which is that God is
already pleased with you as His child. God is love
even to the world (John 3: 16), not to talk of his
children, and He can't deny himself. Love is who
He is and what He does. It is first of all from His
end, not man's. Someone says I have been far
away from God, but I tell you God is near you
If any man is feeling unloved,

abandoned and rejected, it is only
because he has not realized this
love of God. If anyone is feeling
nobody cares about him, he has
simply not prioritized his
relationship with God.
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and nearer than you think, you only need to turn

to experience Him. You your emotions, actions,
omissions and shortcomings are not the
definition of love. God His righteousness, grace
and mercy is. Good to know that for your sake,
God has shut the door on self-justification under
the law and opened up righteousness through
Christ Jesus which makes embracing His love
easier and manifesting His grace more possible.
Never let your past or present determine the
measure of the love of God you will embrace. Let
the eternal sacrifice of His Son Jesus Christ do.
Let His love for you overwhelm the shortcomings
you may have in you loving Him back. Whenever
you think you have not measured up enough to
deserve His love, realize it is not your measure
that matters, it is His measure towards you
abundantly gracious!
It doesnt matter where you are now in life, on the
mountain or in the valley, on a straight path or a
crooked road, whether you are riding a wave or
facing a storm, God loves you as you are and
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wants to unleash His grace that will give you a

testimony through His love conveyed by His
Spirit. You may be walking through the valley of
the shadow of death, you should not fear for God
is with you (Psalm 23:4). The consciousness of
God's love for you should keep you. Just realizing
how much He loves you will keep you afloat the
storms of life. Abiding in God's love will keep
you from abiding in sin and death.
We know that we have passed from death to life,
because we love the brethren. He who does not love
his brother abides in death. Whoever hates his
brother is a murderer, and you know that no
murderer has eternal life abiding in him. By this we
know love, because He laid down His life for us.
And we also ought to lay down our lives for the
brethren.
1 John 3:14-16
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This is your calling: abiding in the love of God.

That is, abiding in the revelation of the love that
God has for you, being filled with it literally.
When you abide that much, you will able to walk
in love more easily, displaying love commitments
Whenever you think you have not

measured up enough to deserve His
love, realize it is not your measure
that matters, it is His measure
towards you abundantly gracious!
back to God and manifesting His grace to people

for your productivity. Here is the secret to
fruitfulness: get consumed by God's love for you
so much that you walk in love towards men
without pressure and hypocrisy. Let God's love
wraps you up so much that you respond to it
readily. Then you are a miracle going somewhere
to happen, your fruitfulness happening as you
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respond to God's love, and your responding

coming easier as you are being filled with His love.
Have this confession then for some filling:
CONFESSION
God is love, my Lover and I His beloved. Being

Love, God gives and gives and will not stop giving to
me His son. I am assured of the presence of His
Spirit every minute because He will never leave me nor
forsake me, even in moments of trial. I make the full
intent of grace to bear on any situation I face as I
equate the Agape love to God, knowing nothing can
withstand my love walk because nothing can
withstand God. I am secured in love always because
love is God and God is love.
God is the only true definition of love: outside

God you cannot really define love. How much you
experience in terms of manifestation of God is a
function of what you know about His love for
you. The emphasis in this book has not been on
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the love we have or display towards God or other

men, but rather on the love He has for us, which
is basic and fundamental if one is ever going to
be fruitful enough to fulfil destiny. So before you
begin to jump into the flesh to produce a fake
love, get established by the Spirit in the original
love of God and then reign in life. Love outside of
God is a shadow of itself! One can do all the acts
of love and not really have love. True love is God-
centered, always!
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but
have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging
cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and
understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I
have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have
not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods
to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be
burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
What a climax! What a journey we have had in the
love of God in this volume. A journey that has
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made clear that God loves us unconditionally and

everything in our lives revolves around His love
for us. And when we come to embrace the
definition of that love of His, the same love comes
to define us in return as love made and love
ruled beings as we stay love abiding in Christ.
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About The Author

Dr. Kay Ijisesan is the founder and president of
KingsWord Ministries International with churches
and missions in North America, Africa, Europe
and Asia. He received a mandate from God to
raise a Supernatural army in the nations in August
1990. Since then, he has being involved in planting
local churches in several nations with multiples of
thousands of members all over the world.
He provides oversight over all the churches and
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Pensacola, Florida. He has authored twenty eight
books on several topics such as Faith, Grace, Holy
Spirit, Excellence, Purpose, Redemption, Blessing
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Dr. Kay and his wife, Mayowa are blessed with
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Fundamentals

Dr. Kay Ijisesan

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Chapter 2: Love is to be received __________ 19

Chapter 3: The law barrier is broken _______ 28

Chapter 6: Love overcomes the flesh ______ 57

we have the real authentic

not wrapped around the truths of God's Word, I

we have the real authentic love of God to

day of the year, not by preaching damnation or

The writer of the epistle just quoted from, Apostle

Without revelation, there will

believing that actually comes with knowing. And

are about to learn, arranged from bottom up

Man is made to be loved!

H ave you ever noticed that children born

her own husband. The former will more easily

When the topic is love and the

stop loving humanity even after it failed in Eden).

I've found a friend, O such a friend!

God is our Maker and knew man can't really

God made man (you and I) to be

heart (Romans 5: 5). His spirit becomes a

Paul lived a maximized life largely because of this

I am the beloved of God. In His love, I live, move and

Good! Practice the above confession regularly to

W hen a man and a woman freshly gets

relationship with lighted fire of love and affection

iniquities (Romans 5: 6-8). He forgave, delivered,

Conquerors and overcomers now are we,

Mrs. C. H. Morris (1862-1929)

While such love lavished out on you is a reality, it

In this the love of God was manifested toward us,

I have been adopted into God's family of love, where I

Oh my world! Love that will not have you

the love you don't embrace will

inside of you in love transmitting as joy, peace,

where His love is concerned. Throw your hands in

The law barrier is broken!

S ome men have a wrong perspective about

when it is 10pm in order to have sex that night is

Such an attitude has a parallel with what the law

That was Apostle Paul contending with his flesh

because it puts pressure on the human flesh to

...Who will deliver me from this body of death?

Redemption! oh, wonderful story

The demand of the law on man to

No more long list of to-dos for the married wife

He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to

The barrier of the law has been removed so I receive

do. But you are no longer damaged if you are born

Grace supplies what love

E very parent must learn how to engage

will. Let him or her know there is nothing bad in

by the ultimate sacrifice of his Son. To Him be the

In the New Covenant, the law stops being the

It would have to take God to be

believe (Romans 10: 4). Not that the law has

bringing him close enough to God to share his

so that we can run into his arms in love. What a

fulfilling the law, by the backing of His love for us

by Jesus' love sacrifice on the

and the freedom of His grace towards us.

For what the law could not do in that it was weak