Received in prayer: As I was praying & meditating about how great God's love is- how deep, how high, how long, how wide! and how my love for others ought to be the same, this is what I received.
The Love that God wants me to show is not MY love, even at it's best....it's not the love that I have or ever can manifest on my own, it's not the love that I feel in my affections or that I can show...it's not the love that is typical of my nature or personality. The Love that God wants me to have is love that is not from or of me. It is a new kind, a new brand of love that only comes from Him, and is of heavenly treasure.
He wants me to take on the armor of his love- it is mighty. A mighty weapon of war. It is a shield for me-protection!
It is a great advocate. An unfailing defense. It is victory over defeat and strength to march through difficult situations.
The love He will endow me with surmounts all opposition and defeats every foe. It runs like an Elk and it's strong as an Ox; swift as a lion.
Like a pelican it fishes. Like a fish it runs deep. As water, it trickles and flows over every rock and around every confrontation, delving into every hidden crevice and stream, lower as it goes, and lower still. Happily seeking the lowest position - joining with the ancients who've gone on before, this journey.
The Love He shall supply me is vast like the universe and ceaseless, timeless and enduring.
The brand of love He will show me is not perceived by natural eyes and is not comprehended by human affection. It transcends eternity and explodes from the realm of human interests.
It is love beyond comprehension. It shines of itself. It feeds of itself. It endures of itself. It multiplies & exudes & overflows & is boundless, endless, and eternal.
This Love He shall give me is not humanly possible nor plausible. It is not something I can feel or do on my own.
My greatest efforts to love; the greatest love available in my natural heart, is nothing to compare.
My best & highest attempts to show or feel love are just a symbol, an invitation to the Lord that I am open to receive that greater gift of which I have yet to be given.
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After writing down as I was receiving, I began to look up what the Lord meant by "as a pelican fishes", since I barely know what a pelican is!
Here's what I found: "The brown pelican is the only one that plunges from the air into the water to catch its food". Immediately I was quickened that God sent his Son from heaven, plunging down from glory, to earth to catch fishes of men. As a pelican fishes....willing to plunge down from glory in order to reach us.
What love! What wonderful love!
Debbie Hoffman Benfield
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