God said: "The visitors to this site must first understand that I love them."
While praying and listenig to God about what He wants the home page to say He answered me quickly and clearly, as if He was right there just waiting for my question.
God answered: ”First things first. The visitors to this site must first understand that I love them. That I REALLY love them. And that IF they do not get that revelation of my love for them deep into their hearts FIRST then all the rest of this site is going to be useless to them.
It is my love for them and their love returned back to me that generates the pure kind of praise that I need.
It is pure love-based praise that gets My ear, gets My attention, gets My results for their lives. Otherwise it is just religion and a waste of their time.”
- says the Lord (Jan. 18, 2006)
O.K., now that makes sense, doesn’t it? How could we expect to approach our Heavenly Father, His Son, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the mind boggling, 3-in-1, awesome Holiness, with any thing but LOVE-based praise? If we were to praise Him out of obedience to the Word of God ONLY then that may simply be legalism. The Word works wonders for us if we first KNOW Him, LOVE Him, and put HIm FIRST in our lives.
We can not fool God. Are we that naive to think we can “act” our way into His presence? I realize that we can praise Him when we don’t feel like it – I am not talking about that. It is when we don’t have a clue to His love, or can simply quote some scriptures, that we are just using empty words to manipulate God to meet our needs. If it is not a real personal relationship, then it is just religion. And that is simply ineffective.
Do you know Him personally? If not, then get alone and quiet with God and ask Him if He loves you and also ask Him just what’s the big deal? I dare you.
Please kill the head knowledge and shut your mind up for awhile. It thinks it knows everything. Get silent. Be still. And get to know the great I AM. He will show up and He will show off – He loves to do that for us.
Even if you know Him personally then do it every day anyway. It’s why He made us – to praise Him and communicate with Him.
He longs to show you how much He really loves you. You are worthy of His love. Do not listen to the lies of the devil. YOU ARE WORTHY of His love. He made you perfect in His eyes. He sent His only son, Jesus, to shed His BLOOD to buy you back and wash away your sin. Yes, it sounds weird – the blood thing. But I dare you to ask Him about it and then be still and listen to His answer.
CONCLUSION:
Jesus really, really, REALLY loves you. Receive that fact FIRST and then all things will begin to make more sense to you in the spiritual realm. Then when you praise Him it will be sincere and not empty.
Now go for it.
And please email us about what happened.
Thanks and much Grace2u, – Bill Latocki, your PraiseToys servant.
