Love must endure to the end

In our prayers last night, the Lord said, if you Love Him, you will not quit but cling on to Him until the very end. Many are angry and offended at Him because they have not yet received their promises or breakthroughs as promised by Him. But He said they are not necessarily delayed but time is required to cleanse you. Either let His Fire finish the work or you can run because the heat is too intense. If one runs, it just delays the process.

Time is also used to test you. We will all be tested throughout our lives. Brethren, I beseech you to draw close to HIM now while many of you are in your comfort for dark and difficult days are rapidly approaching us. He has told us that He must allow it to become darker so His Light will shine brigher. Many of His people today are lukewarm and they can only see gray right now.

He said that True Love endures to the very end. You must cling onto Him for dear life. Love does not leave. Love does not quit. Love does not throw in the towel. Love will sacrifice and die if necessary. Love will finish. Love does not forsake.

2 Chronicles 15:2(AMP) And he went out to meet Asa and said to him, Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with Him. If you seek Him [inquiring for and of Him, craving Him as your soul's first necessity], He will be found by you; but if you [become indifferent and] forsake Him, He will forsake you.

Many can say they love the Lord and even to one another. But your love must be proved through life as you go through your trials and tribulations. We suffer to learn obedience. We can either go through our wildernesses praising or complaining to Him. We can either make it to the promise land or die in our wildernesses.

Hebrews 5:8 (AMP) Although He was a Son, He learned [active, special] obedience through what He suffered

Mark 4:37-38 (AMP)And a furious storm of wind [[a]of hurricane proportions] arose, and the waves kept beating into the boat, so that it was already becoming filled.38But He [Himself] was in the stern [of the boat], asleep on the [leather] cushion; and they awoke Him and said to Him, Master, do You not care that we are perishing?

If we are immature baby Christians, we will generally cry out to the Lord like the disciples did on the boat out of fear. "Do you not care that we are perishing?" I am sure many of us have shouted that to the Lord, "Do you not care!!"

But the Lord replied in verse 40,  "He said to them, Why are you so timid and fearful? How is it that you have no faith (no [s]firmly relying trust)?"

Faith is not something that just appears out of thin air. Faith is not just an emotion or a thought. If faith can start like the size of a musturd seed which can move a mountain, then faith must be planted and grown. Faith is something we learn through our experiences and it grows and builds confidence as we learn God comes through in the mist of our storms.

If we have not experienced or learned how God comes through for us, it is difficult to trust what we have not experienced. The disciples had already knew such a storm was dangerous and reacted in negative faith which resulted in fear. They had experienced many storms. How many times had they experienced the Lord calming the storm and seas? If they had experienced the Lord calming the seas before, they would be more confident knowing they can trust in the Lord as the storm got stronger. 

How are we to learn to trust the Lord if we are not put in situations to lean on Him experiencing and watching Him come through? Many times, His people do not stick around long enough for their prayers to be answered. Our cultures are a breeding ground countermeasuring the fruit of the Holy Spirit. We must learn patience and long suffering. We must learn eternal patience and eternal long suffering. We must understand His time and how He works in our lives not the other way around. 

We can be like a spiritual child throwing a tantrum as a child does in a store wanting a toy or we can learn patience asking in obedience. When we do not get the things we want or in the time we desire, the basic question is are we going to get mad and quit on God or will we continue to humble ourselves and wait until He says we are ready? True Love waits and continues. It is not about our time but His time. Do NOT lose your JOY for that is your strength in the Lord. If He says soon to you, you must understand the word "soon" in the context of eternal or infinte soon and not in our finite time of soon.

Persevere and endure in all things. Yes, He is returning for you but you must hold on to the end!!
Matthew 10:22 (AMP) And you will be hated by all for My name's sake, but he who perseveres and endures to the end will be saved [[a]from spiritual disease and death in the world to come].

Hebrews 3:8-13 (AMP) Do not harden your hearts, as [happened] in the rebellion [of Israel] and their provocation and [a]embitterment [of Me] in the day of testing in the wilderness,9Where your fathers tried [My patience] and tested [My forbearance] and [b]found I stood their test, and they saw My works for forty years.10And so I was provoked (displeased and sorely grieved) with that generation, and said, They always err and are led astray in their hearts, and they have not perceived or recognized My ways and become progressively better and more experimentally and intimately acquainted with them.11 Accordingly, I swore in My wrath and indignation, They shall not enter into My rest.12 [Therefore beware] brethren, take care, lest there be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which refuses to cleave to, trust in, and rely on Him], leading you to turn away and desert or stand aloof from the living God.13 But instead warn (admonish, urge, and encourage) one another every day, as long as it is called Today, that none of you may be hardened [into settled rebellion] by the deceitfulness of sin [by the fraudulence, the stratagem, the trickery which the delusive glamor of his sin may play on him].


Fire of God
Steve Yong Kim
December 7, 2011