Jun 24

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If we keep ourselves busy doing His thing,
we won’t have time to do our thing! We will
be so full of God’s love, there won’t be any
room for strife. That’s the key to having the
power of God manifest in our lives just as it
was manifest in Jesus’ life.

Smith Wigglesworth was an excellent example.
He went into ministry because he became
so involved in the work of God he just
didn’t have time to be a plumber anymore. He
was so full of the Spirit and so busy preaching
to folks one-on-one that he had to go into
full-time ministry.

Mr. Wigglesworth jumped onto a fellow’s
wagon one day and said, “I’m going to stay
here until you let me tell you about Jesus.” Just
to get rid of him, the fellow said, “Well, go
ahead and tell me. Then get off my wagon!”

So Mr. Wigglesworth started telling him
about how God loved him and wasn’t holding
his sins against him. After a while, tears
started flowing from the fellow’s eyes and he
said, “Pray for me, Mr. Wigglesworth. I want
to accept the Lord.” The man died two weeks
later. What would have happened to him if
someone had not been doing God’s work?

That was God’s love in action. Men, in
themselves, are not capable of that sincere
concern for total strangers. It takes God’s love
to reach out to others.

God’s love must be in your heart in abundance
for it to come out of your mouth the
way it came out of Smith Wigglesworth’s.
And the best way to be filled with the love of
God is to renew your mind to that love.

The way I renew my mind to the love of
God is to study and meditate 1 Corinthians
13:4-8, New King James Version. I read it in
the first person like this: “I suffer long and am
kind. I do not envy; I do not parade myself. I
am not puffed up. I do not behave rudely; I do
not seek my own way; I am not provoked.

I think no evil; I do not rejoice in iniquity, but I
rejoice in the truth. I bear all things, I believe
all things, hope all things and I endure all
things. I never fail.” This is a valid confession
because God is love, and I am born of God.
Therefore, I am born of love.

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