Once your mind-set has begun changing to walk with GOD, you are meant to convert revelation to action. Faith without works is dead. Is there such a thing as Love without works?
Divine revelation and intervention are meant to translate to action.
Jesus spoke in John chapter 15:
1 “I am a true sprouting Vine, and the Farmer who tends the Vine is My Father.
2 He cares for the branches connected to Me by lifting and propping up the fruitless branches and pruning every fruitful branch to yield a greater harvest.
3 The Words I have spoken over you have already cleansed you.
4 So you must remain in life-union with Me, for I remain in life-union with you. For as a branch severed from the vine will not bear fruit, so your life will be fruitless unless you live your life intimately joined to Mine.
5 “I am the sprouting Vine and you’re My branches. As you live in union with Me as your Source, fruitfulness will stream from within you—but when you live separated from me you are powerless.
6 If a person is separated from Me, he is discarded; such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire to be burned.
7 But if you live in life-union with Me and if My Words live powerfully within you—then you can ask whatever you desire and it will be done.
8 When your lives bear abundant fruit, you demonstrate that you are My mature disciples who glorify My Father!
9 “I love each of you with the same Love that the Father Loves Me. You must continually let My Love nourish your hearts.
10 If you keep My commands, you will live in My love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands, for I continually live nourished and empowered by His Love.
11 My purpose for telling you these things is so that the joy that I experience will fill your hearts with overflowing gladness!
It is vital that we understand and walk according to what Jesus just spoke. Keep His commands then we will live in His Love and experience full joy no matter what the situation and events around us. When is the last time your heart was filled with overflowing gladness?
12 “So this is my command: Love each other deeply, as much as I have Loved you. 13 For the greatest Love of all is a Love that sacrifices all. And this great Love is demonstrated when a person sacrifices his life for his friends.
This is what life is all about. My neighbor who is a doctor told us a story last night. A man died while in the hospital and then returned to life. He immediately shared the following: He went before Jesus and was full of overflowing joy to be there. Jesus told him that he had to return because he did not understand and walk in Love yet. He pleaded with Jesus not to have him return but Jesus said “You must learn Love and we will be watching you closely.” From time to time, he sees a “spirit” person who says nothing but simply observes. The doctor has heard multiple, similar stories firsthand. It’s all about Love!
14 “You show that you are my intimate friends when you obey all that I command you.
15 I have never called you ‘servants,’ because a Master doesn’t confide in His servants, and servants don’t always understand what the Master is doing. But I call you My most intimate friends, for I reveal to you everything that I’ve heard from My Father. “
16 You didn’t choose Me, but I’ve chosen and commissioned you to go into the world to bear fruit. And your fruit will last, because whatever you ask of My Father, for my sake, HE will give it to you!
17 So this is My parting command: Love one another deeply!”
Jesus tells us what it means to be an intimate friend so let us change our mind-set and priorities so that we will be known in Heaven as His intimate friends.