outrageous love.
06 Dec 2010 16 Comments
in encouragement for the journey, life abundant.
on friday night, i went to hear jonathan david helser in high point. running late (of course), i listened to his music on the way. i have heard this a million times before but, on this night, i kept rewinding to hear this spoken message from graham cooke, which can be heard on the song ‘inheritance’ on jdh’s worship experience, called ‘the awakening’. i knew someone else also needed to hear it.
the lord says that there is nothing that you can do that would make him love you more. there is also nothing you can do that would make him love you less.
he loves you
because he loves you
because he loves you
because he loves you
because he loves you
because he loves you
because he loves you
because he loves you
because he loves you
because he loves you
because that is what he is like.
it is his nature to love. and you will always be the beloved. and his love is unchanging.
and he loves you 100%. he won’t love you any better when you become better. he loves you 100% right now. and even if you have no plans to become better he will still love you 100% because he loves you because that’s the way that he is. and even if you don’t want to change, he will love you 100%. even if you have no plans to walk with him, he will love you 100%. because that’s his nature. he loves all the way all the time.
his love is unchanging. what will change, says the lord, is your ability to receive my love. and this evening i want to cram some more of that ability inside you. so i challenge you, says the lord, open your heart to me. open your heart to me. and you will receive more of my love than you’ve ever experienced before. i dare you, says the lord. come on. open your heart to me. give me your heart. give me whatever your obstacle is. i’ll take it. i’ll remove it out of the way. because i love you as you are right now. i love you 100% as you are right this moment.
i love you as you are.
so be loved. you are the beloved. it is your job, says the lord, to be loved outrageously. it is why i chose you. that is why i set my love upon you, that you would live as one who is outrageously loved. that you would receive a radical love. so radical it’ll blow all your paradigms of what you think love is. and know, says the lord, i will love you outrageously all the days of your life. because i don’t know how to be any different. this is who i am. and this is who i will always be. this is the I Am that i promised you. i am he that loves you outrageously. and you may love me back with the love that i give you. you may love me back outrageously, with the outrageous love that i bestow upon you.
and know this, says the lord, you can only love me as much as you love yourself. so know that, my love comes this evening, to set you free from yourself. to set you free from how you see yourself. to set you free from the smallness of your own thinking about yourself. my love comes to set you free from rejection and from shame and from low self-esteem and from despair and from abuse. because when i look at you, says the lord, i see something that i love. i see someone that i can love outrageously. and i have so much to bestow upon you. so much to give you, so many places to take you in my heart. but you can’t go there unless you allow me to love you. and my love for you will break every barrier, bring every wall crashing down.
and know this, says the lord, my love damages fear. my love hates fear. my love will fight fear. it will fight fear in you. it will fight fear around you. and if you have fear this evening, says the lord, then you have a treat in store because my perfect love casts out fear. there is no fear where i am present. because my love casts out fear.
beloved, you are my beloved. you are MY beloved.
and in my love, i want you to feel good about yourself.
{as with any prophetic word from man, measure this with the word of God and just keep the parts that resonate within your own spirit.}
i receive nothing for sharing this with you other than the sheer delight in my heart that the lord may speak to someone through graham’s words. just some folks i believe in, in whose God i also adore. xo
Dec 06, 2010 @ 10:56:45
Hi MK,
Thanks for this message. It’s easy to forget HOW MUCH God loves us in the midst of busyness and confusion (e.g. my life right now. And feeling heartbroken over my kitty, who is dying right now.) Which is always the Enemy’s plan, isn’t it? To forget about HOW MUCH God loves me.
XO,
Steph
Dec 07, 2010 @ 08:31:53
i am so sorry about your cat, stephanie.
you are precious.
xo
Dec 06, 2010 @ 11:38:49
Thank you for sharing this.
In a season where festivities and holiday traditions are the rule of the day it is good to step back and remember how much He gave up so we could be loved to the fullest and deepest way. Oh that we would let it seep into our broken hearts and wounded souls. We are loved.
Dec 07, 2010 @ 08:31:25
*you* are loved, sweet sharon.
xo
Dec 06, 2010 @ 17:06:28
I’m working on beating this into my heart right now. It’s all in my brain and good and intellectualized, but my heart is battling my past in order to embrace this.
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.”
– d.
Dec 07, 2010 @ 08:30:53
the 18″ journey is so long, isn’t it?
your past is a part of who you are now. but you are free.
no regrets, dominic.
xo
Dec 13, 2010 @ 01:38:01
Ironically, this was the exact thing that HE chose to work in my heart over the last week.
Well, maybe not irony, but gratefully. And painfully. It’s been a rough-and-tumble ride, but there is glimmer at the end of the tunnel and hope and faith in HIM is increasing.
And that’s the goal, no?
Dec 09, 2010 @ 19:21:13
I’m so glad that you got to meet my friend Kim. She speaks highly of you, so now I think highly of you, whatever that’s worth. I’m thankful for you!