Today I have a personal message for each and every one of you.

It is to tell you that the Father and Jesus Christ have said

'Tell them that I love Them'.

You have been told.

I hope that you appreciate and rejoice greatly in this.

I have not and do not expect you to understand God's love for you.



No more that the earthworm that is here in this bottle.

That gives some idea of the gulf between God and us.



John Chapter 3: 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,

even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son,

that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world;

but that the world through him might be saved.



Right now I pray that your mind will be enlightened to experience

the Love and Peace of God more clearly than you have ever done before.



This is what happened to Clifford Hill a minister in London.

He was prompted by God to go to Switzerland to a ski resort

where there was some competitive skiing going on.

He was a useless skier and he did not know why he had gone there.

He did not know what to expect.

He wondered whether he had missed what he had been called to see

or did he somehow get it all wrong.

They packed and started on their way home.

There was a snow covered mountain on one side, a 5 foot path with

a wooden guard rail to protect people from falling on to the

100 foot snowy slope which fell away to a precipice with

a drop of 500 feet. As the crowd rounded a bend there was a shriek

as a 3 year old lost her footing. She slipped under the wooden rail

and started down the 100 foot slope screaming with despair

in her tiny face. Stunned, everyone froze.

A man pushed everyone aside jumped over the rail and chased down

the slippery slope somehow keeping his balance.

He overtook the child, got in front of the child and held the child

10 feet before the precipice.

Carefully step by step he made his torturous way

to the narrow path way, and to safety.

The man who had saved her was her father.

When the pressure was on no one else moved a muscle to help.



Then Clifford Hill heard God tell him

this is what I brought you here to see.

You saw how that child was sliding towards certain destruction.

You saw how her eyes were looking up to her father,

and you heard how she cried out for help.

You saw how her father responded immediately,

not hesitating to assess the danger to himself,

but flung himself down the mountainside to rescue his child.

‘That is how I love my children.'

'Lord that is wonderful!' I replied. 'That is wonderful.'

I felt Him speak again but this time they were words of rebuke.

Why? said the Lord. 'Why do you say " That is wonderful"?

Do you think that I would do less than a human father ?

Did I not create him?

Did I not make the father capable of such love for his child?

Am I less than man, whom I made ?

Am I not God ?

There is no other. There is no other!

I created the ends of the earth and I created man in my own image.

Did not my beloved Son tell you

that the servant is not above his master?

'I made man capable of the saving love

you have witnessed this afternoon.

I put my love within him.

My love for all my children is as great as that father's love

for his child and a million times more! And a million times more than that!



Did not my beloved Son go to the limits of the Cross for you?

Why do you doubt my love?



Clifford Hill felt that he was being reminded

Mine is an unchanging love Higher than the heights above

Deeper than the depths beneath.



Tell my people that I love them.



Some people feel that love is easy peasy and a wishy washy emotion.

Some feel law keeping is the thing, not love.

Some feel their theology and procedures whatever they might be,

e.g. styles of worship etc., are the important thing.



God says tell them I care and that I love them.

And we should be the same caring, loving people.

His highest job for us today is to reflect his character.

I have to tell you that you have not given or

experienced love if you think it is easy peasy.

Love that lasts is a decision of the will not just an emotion.



It is easy to love someone when things are going well,

when they are fit and healthy and loving you, but it is an entirely

different matter in the time of crisis and when you are not being loved.



Romans 5:8 But God commended His love toward us,

in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.



It was whilst we were spitting at Him boasting about

our righteousness and His unfairness.

It was whilst we were bragging about our

intellectual understanding, of this or that doctrine that makes us

better or wiser than others that He loved us.

It was whilst we were destroying the God given

peace of others that He loved us.

It was whilst we were criticising the way that God was carrying

out his perfect will that He loved us.

It was whilst we failed to show love to our brothers and fellow men,

at that very time that God showed His perfect love for us.



I now pray that God in his mercy will forgive us our transgressions

and let us practice, and show the love that He has freely given us.



His grace means that we should be gracious.



I will not restrain my mouth from telling the wonderful things that God

has done for and through me so that His name can be greatly praised.



It is not what we do that causes God to love us and save us.



Rather it is in spite of what we are and what we have done,

that we are loved.



Galatians chapter 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified

by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ,

even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified

by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of

the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ

lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith

of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by

the law, then Christ is dead in vain.



It is not what we know.

It is not what we have figured out by study, logic and reason.

It is not what we feel.

It is not what we think, imagine, or read.

It is not what we do.

It is rather WHO we know.

When Christ was speaking love his accusers were speaking law keeping.



The law of love has to be our business 24 hours a day.

If you think it is easy come and speak to me about it.



Even the woman at the well of Samaria,

Christ was concerned about her spiritual situation and she immediately

launched into her religious tradition:

Christ Said bring your husband,

She said:



John 4:20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain;

and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.



This bore no relationship to what she was told to do.



John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have

eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.



We rarely face up to situations. She certainly was not doing so.



It is what we have been given, and what we are now

as a result of what we have been given that matters.



Christ was brutally murdered out of His pure love for us



We can be so busy defending our belief in this or that doctrine

that we miss the absolutely critical point that Christ suffered,

died and was resurrected so that we can have life.

Christ wants a loving relationship with us,

to the point that He was pleased to die to achieve it.



When Christ said "It is finished" He had done the entire will

of His Father which included the rejection of the Father on our

account when He said My God, My God why have you forsaken me ?

He knew that He would be but it shows us that He actually was.

That is one reason why he said that.

If He had not said so how would we have known that this had taken place?

The Father turning his back on Him is referred to as the second death,

the lake of fire and brimstone.

He became sin for us so that we can have eternal life.

The Ultimate penalty and that whilst He was still alive.



Isaiah 53:5 But He was wounded for our transgressions,

He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our

peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.

{wounded: or, tormented} {stripes: Hebrew. bruise}



1 Peter 2:24 Who His own self bare our sins in His own body

on the tree, that we, being dead to sins,

should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.



It is very hard to suffer for something that you have not done.

Even the thief on the cross acknowledged this.

They had their just deserts. Christ did not.



Now that is love.

He had done absolutely nothing wrong and died in your place.

The Father giving up His only Son.

The only Son giving up His life for us.



God is love

1John 4:8 He that loves not knows not God; for God is love.



1John 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God has

to us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.



We are made out of flesh and blood and

we may have feelings of love for someone else.

Like a flashlight we may or may not be in love,

it can be on off, on off , by whim, hormones,

a bad day, tiredness etc., but with God this is not the case.

God's primary attribute is love that is what He is, unchanging love.

There is not a moment that God is not loving you.

Many people intellectually believe that God loves them

but they do not really know it at all.



It is one thing to believe that someone loves you and an entirely

different matter to know that someone loves you, think about that for a moment.

Do you be believe that your mate loves you or do you know?



Job was a unique individual on the whole of planet earth

God himself said so but even he had this problem.



Job 42:3 Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge?

therefore have I uttered that I understood not;

things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of you,

and declare you unto me.

5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear:

but now my eye sees you.

6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.



A Christian is one who has the Holy Spirit in dwelling in him.

This is a simple statement but the implications are so wonderful.

This means that we now have Eternal life now but not in its fullest extent.

It means that somehow we have the whole Godhead dwelling in us.

It is a mystery as everything else about God is.

All we have to do is to believe it.

If we had to understand it also, we would all fail miserably.

It does not contradict the above statement,

It is just that it is utterly impossible for the finite to understand the
infinite.



1 John 5:11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life,

and this life is in His Son.



1 John 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe

on the name of the Son of God; that you may know that

you have eternal life,

and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God.



That is love



We do not have to wonder or to guess but rather we know right

now that we have the greatest gift possible without any doubt at all.

The penalty paid by the suffering and death

of Christ and our future assured and guaranteed by

the resurrection of Jesus Christ.



Often people say things like:

“I cannot take anymore”.

“Why did God let this or that happen?”

“God should not have allowed me to do this or that”.



There is something that is overlooked when making these

comments which are many times made in great anger.



We tend to forget that somewhere along the line man has chosen

to be in the position in which he finds himself and it is certainly

not where God wants him to be.

He wants us to prosper and be in health abundantly all the time.



3 John 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper

and be in health, even as your soul prospers.



Additionally Christ knows exactly how you feel.

He knows your pain and anguish because He is living in you

by means of the Holy Spirit.

Therefore when you hurt He hurts, and it even goes much further.

Even when you don't hurt, but He can see that your words

or your deeds are going to hurt you, He is already hurting because

He already knows that you are heading for trouble.



God will never leave us and He never has.

We are more fortunate than Christ in this, He had been forsaken.



Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness;

and be content with such things as you have: for He has said,

I will never leave you, nor forsake thee.



For 40 whole years ancient Israel visibly saw the cloud and the pillar

of fire guiding them every single day.

Obedience was not the strong point of the Israelites neither is it ours.

They belly ached when the cloud stopped and they had to stop.

They belly ached when it moved and they had to move.

They would want to go in a different direction.

Of course they all knew better than God.

If they had listened they would have done the journey in a few days

they chose the long haul of 40 years.



The same Angel of the Lord is with us right now.



Deuteronomy 31:6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not,

nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, He it is that goes

with you; He will not fail you, nor forsake you.



That means in the good times and in the bad times.

You had better believe it.



Today there is so little love in the world,

we mercilessly and cruelly kill our unborn children.

We prefer to judge rather than to love.

We prosecute devastating wars that kill both friend and foe, while speaking
peace.

In our pompous arrogance we dress up in our legal garments pronouncing death

against the poor and the helpless in complex legal jargon.



Terri Schiavo who has been starved for over 10 days, (29th Feb 2005)

denied food and water although she is fully aware of what is going on,

as her husband and the authorities delilberately try to kill her.

This is tragic.

The scale escalates greatly in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere where thousands

of people just like you and me are being killed.

Mere babies are raped and you.children are abused and sacrificed.

The list is endless.

In general Love does not exist as man prodded by the god of this world,

evil spiritual principalities and powers of this world

as they pull the strings of the puppets to destroy humanity.



We deny the sick and dying the respect and comfort they should automatically
receive.



Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.

2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye
mete,

it shall be measured to you again.



Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth,

that shall he also reap.



We pay more attention to protect trees and animals than children who

are made in the image of God.

Often women and men are forced to prostitute themselves

in the most degraded manner in order to survive.

Slave labour involving not only adults

but children takes place in many parts of the world.

Some start as young as four years old.

They work in dirty, unsafe and dangerous places,

for literally a few pence.

Some cities have people living on the street or on rubbish tips.

In some places Street children live in the sewers

are literally shot and killed as vermin.

These are people like you and me.



It is the urgent and express will of God to replace

these wicked kingdoms of this world with His own kingdom of real love.



We need to earnestly pray ‘Thy kingdom come’ and not get carried

away by the comfort and luxury which we enjoy,

and this often on the suffering of the poor in some far distant land.



We can all say

Thank you for loving and setting me free

that is what the love of God does.



God will meet you, whoever you are, where ever you are.

He will come down into the gutter and personally take you out of it,

and personally look after you and restore you with resurrection life today.



After all He was the ‘Good Samaritan.



Nicky Cruz another minister, was not always a minister.

He was a leader of a violent gang in Brooklyn.

These gangs were horrific, beating up people and killing them if they felt.

It was all part of the normal drug & prostitution filled life.



His background was not good.

Parents that dealt in the occult, and witchcraft you name it.

His dad actually became a bit of a celebrity

because of his success in this field.



From his youth his mother said that 'he was Son of Satan.

With a mark of Lucifer on your life'.



He was banished to the streets of Brooklyn New York from Puerto Rico.

In Brooklyn even the police had to stick together to survive.

Nicky was a survivor.

Initiation into the gang meant having them throw switch blade knives

at you as you were transfixed to a wall.

If you got hit so what.

If you chickened out they clipped

your wings by stabbing you under the arms.



Alternatively you quietly allowed the whole gang to beat you up.



Enter Dave Wilkerson slim preacher from Pennsylvania

who preached with a big bible.

He felt that he had been called to go to Brooklyn.



There he met up with Nicky Cruz.

Nicky loved dealing death Wilkerson offered life.

Nicky loved hurting Wilkerson offered healing

Nicky was consumed by war, chaos and destruction.

He wanted and was served meekly by the strong,

feared by the weak, worshipped by the snivelling.

At one meeting Wikerson was told, if you can get through to

Nicky you can get through to anyone.



The skinny preacher walked up to Nicky looked him straight

in the eyes and said ' Nicky Jesus Loves you'

That was his basic message every time he saw him nothing else.

This infuriated Nicky beyond belief.

He threatened Wilkerson, spat at him,

knocked him down and cursed him.

Leave the area in 24 hours or you are dead.

Wilkerson said you could cut me into a thousand pieces

and each piece would cry out 'Nicky Jesus loves you'

Wilkerson just prayed and carried on.

The message was the same Nicky Jesus loves you and so do I.

The war went on over many days.

But for the first time Nicky feared.

He knew that the preacher was more powerful than he was.

His beloved gang was being torn apart as lives were changed.



It is a fact that when someone is truly filled with the Love of God,

The enemy and all his forces become scared and terrified.

You will see these people squirm and fidget they just want to get away from you.



Wilkerson gave his shoes to a guy called Jo Jo, who had none.

Nicky watched Wilkerson do it, and he knew that there was

something else in this strange man that defied his understanding.

Wilkerson practised love

And humility

And self sacrifice.

He said ' I had never seen anything like it in action.

Now, it scared me. I sensed its mighty power.

Although I did not know anything about the Holy Spirit,

I knew Wilkerson had enormous forces working for him'.



I am here today to tell you Jesus loves you and so do I

and what are you going to do about it ?



I am quite happy if you have no love for me at all.

You see that gives me all the more reason to love you.



Why can I act and say what I say?



Well, what I am really saying is that Jesus

loves you everything will be ok,

but patience must do its perfect work.



The only time it will not be, is if you choose to hinder the blessing.

And you can and some do.

It is a matter of choice.



I do get a huge thrill when I get the feed back

how the love of God has blessed these people.

I am telling you these things to encourage you.

Jesus Christ is alive and well.

He was raised from the dead and giving life.

We are called to give His love, if we give His love

we also give life, deliverance and freedom.



Most people are bogged down with money

and acquiring things or power.

The fact is the more they have the less satisfied they are.

They have one house they need another.

They are not satisfied with their wife,

therefore they have women on the side.

They lead wealthy but miserable, frustrated lives.

The more you get the less fulfilled you are.



The reason is very simple.

The hole which was designed in the life of an individual

can only be filled be Christ.

Anything else will not meet the need, because it cannot.



There are so many people needing all the love that we can give.

To explain this is to bring love into their lives and to point them

into getting their priorities right,

having a personal relationship with Christ.



If you do not love your family and your acquaintances,

you have sown a negative seed that will inevitably bear bitter fruit.



Regardless of how well we feel, life does not go on forever.



God loves you and has commanded us to love one another.

It is not a sweet sounding suggestion.

It is a command.



Romans 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another:

for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.



Romans 13:10 Love works no ill to his neighbour:

therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.



Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this;

You shall love your neighbour as yourself.



James 2:8 If you fulfil the royal law according to the scripture,

You shall love your neighbour as yourself, you do well:



The love of God - for you, can you begin to grasp it?

The answer is no.



I know that God loves me and sends his angels to watch over me.

What He does for me, He will do for you.



Acts 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said,

Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:



God loves you and has his angels watching over you.



Recently I have had people hanging on to the past and

refusing to give it up.



If you focus on the past, the past becomes the future.



Satan wants you to spend time agonising over the past

which you cannot change whilst he is destroying your future

and before you know it,

your life is at an end and you do not know where your life has gone.



Recently I had a desperate late night call by someone who was focusing

on how they were going to deal with the future.

Everything around was most bleak.



I said to them don't worry about the future.

In your depression you only think of the worst possible scenarios.

The mind is very fertile and what you imagine

gets worse and worse and probably will never happen anyway.

Do not go around creating self fulfilling prophecies.

Again referring to Job, that which I feared has come upon me.

Job did not have just any only old trial.

You can't live in the past either because you are blaming yourself

for failure when in reality you may not be as responsible as you think.



You cannot look at other people around you and think that

everything is going well for them.



It just is not true.

Families are being smashed left right and centre.

In my experience often the root cause is money.

We fail dismally to realise how short and precarious life is.

We live presuming life.



We are never content regardless of how much we possess.

I said it was like buying some apples and you saw some

in your neighbour's house and they looked really good and

you think they look a lot better than mine.

You eat yours and they are tasteless and watery

and now you know that your neighbours are better than yours

except you do not realise that your neighbours are made out of wax.



How do the things that really matter in your life stack up ?

Are they reality or are they just wax.



Trust in God and live one day at a time

God loves you more than the rest of His creation,

but you have to do what you are told, love God and love one another.

How do we love God?

We obey Him?

John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.



Put yourself in the other persons place.



Matthew 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow:

for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.



That is really all that God wants us to do.

Trust him and depend on him.

Because His love for us is perfect and it will never ever fail.



Does that mean there won't be any pain?

Of course not.

As I said in the beginning it is when things are not going well

that you really know if someone loves you or not.



It is when there is a clash of desires and needs,

that we need to hold the other in high esteem.



We are really in a strange world.

Some time ago I met one of the ladies I know as

she regularly knocked on my door selling her religion.

We had a brief chat and she mentioned divorce.

She said that their church was finding that many people were

getting divorced because one partner found that the other one

was just too nice.

Apparently they wanted more excitement and argument.



God does not have to learn whether we love him or not.

I categorically do not subscribe to the idea that we teach

God anything, that is foolishness.

God is everywhere at the same time.

He is also all knowing.



If there is anyone who does not know, it is us.

Any lessons that are to be learnt, are learnt by us.

Because God loves us that does not mean that everything

happens instantly.



God used the illustration of surfers to explain this to one minister

He showed him several surfers waiting on the big wave.

Some got up on their boards too early and were promptly

knocked off, some were too late and missed the wave altogether.

But one guy got it just right and

he surfed right through the huge wave tunnel.

God told him my timing is like that, perfect.



We look at time as an enemy, God looks at it as a useful tool

which he uses with his love for us.



Christ died and rose from the dead, the perfect sacrifice

All out of his great love for us.

This give us the chance of a new beginning



Christ gave His life for you maybe it is time that

you consider giving your life to Him and stop wasting your it.



Christ always tells it as it is and after all Christ said:

'Tell my people that I love them'.



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