Andrew's Live Bible Study: The Love of God - Carrie Pickett - September 10, 2019

welcome to the live Bible study hosted by Andrew Wommack ministries in Karis Bible College tonight you'll learn truths from the word with believers around the globe submit any questions you have in the comments and share this broadcast tonight with your friends hello I'm Andrew Wommack and I've got Kerry Pickett here with me and we are here for our Tuesday night live Bible study if you don't know Kerry Kerry and her husband Mike are over all of our Bible colleges worldwide and also I think we have 16 Foreign Office's is that right awm offices and so they're in charge of that and they have been just a super blessing yes she came to us when she was just a little girl and spent 16 years in Russia and has been back here for four years and boy they are a blessing and she's our host she's one that gives you all the information but you know tonight I'm gonna do something different I was praying about what to share tonight and last week we had our first week of Kerry's Bible College and I ministered on Tuesday I think it was and then Wednesday I made television programs but when I came back on Thursday I had at least half a dozen people come up and this one lady in particular says man I've been a Christian for I don't even know how many years and she says I thought I knew that God loved me but I heard Mike and Kerry minister on the love of God and she said my life is completely changed and she was delivered and set free from things she didn't even know and I had about five or six other people come up and say the same thing so as I was praying tonight I said Kerry you need to teach I want to hear it and I'm gonna so I'm asking Kerry to do the Bible study so I am now your host so I'm the he's not nearly as cute but I was just gonna say you took the words right out of my mouth so let me give you some instructions we want you to participate and you can go to our website a WMI dotnet and do slash Bible study and you can actually sign up for a giveaway we have a giveaway every week this week it's one year with Jesus in the Gospels this is a devotion then I wrote 365 devotions in here taken from our living commentary from let's see back then I called it life for today commentary and this is really good so I've already autographed this and if you go to a WMI dotnet slash Bible study fill out the form you will be entered into a drawing and we will send you the notes from tonight's Bible study we will make notes I'm sure she Kerry has notes she's got copious notes and we will send you her notes which will be a blessing it will be automatic and also you'll be entered into this drawing and last week's winner do we have that here where's I've got to have help Francisco yeah you pronounce Allan furnace furnace and anyway you won the power of the gospel grace the power of the gospel and so we'll be sending that out to you so you can participate in that way but also we ask you to write in questions and if you go to a WM AIA dotnet slash Bible study you can put your questions right there or I don't even know so wherever forum that you have already been kicked out of my heart tell them how to perform that you're watching on right now whether it's Andrew Wommack ministries or Facebook live or anything like that just go down to the chat section and send in your questions I will answer all the easy ones Andrew answer all the hard ones is a great relationship you know this is beautiful that I have to have you correct well whatever it takes so let me announce that we are going to have an in god we trust' rally this coming Saturday and we've got dr. Lance wall now I'll be speaking with me also our state senator our state representative or both speaking we have over twenty different organizations that are doing things in Colorado the Liberals have taken over the House the Senate and the governorship and they have been ramming through a lot of really really bad things and I was just talking to our state representative two days ago on the phone and they have some legal things happening so they've got things going so this is a rally we've invited the news media and stuff to come it's going to be held here at our place but we are not only making a statement we've got these twenty-something organizations and people are getting involved in recall elections and all kinds of things and we're trying to turn people out to vote we're gonna turn this state back so we would encourage you to pray about that and if you're anywhere close we would love to have you come right now I think we have somewhere around fifteen hundred or so that I've heard 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them yeah what it is to experience the love of God and so this isn't really excited to share this and it's an honor so thank you and ER for letting me do this I you know one of the things I love about God's love is that it's never-ending and I think that's one of the things that can happen is we get this idea of the love of God as the Sunday School message you know John 3:16 you know we learn it we memorize it we get our gold star or a price you know for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life and we think that's a sunday-school message that ok so God's left I got saved now I need to go into more spiritual things not realizing that the love of God is the foundation for every spiritual truth every intimate part of your day hearing God's voice walking in faith our healing it all goes back to the foundation of God's love and this is why they're such an attack on on the message of God's love because God's love is connected to his nature in first John chapter 4 verse 8 it talks about God is love so he's talking about it's his very nature it's his personality everything is driven out of that not just a quality but out of the personhood of love so every thought he thinks towards you is based on his love for you every everything he's ever done for you every promise he's ever given you every command that's ever been given you has all been given out of his love but there's such an attack on the love of God and the nature of God and that's why religion and so many people that have been Christians for years and years and maybe you're one of those you Amen you you you're trying to serve in church and you're trying to do and give and and and bless and you're trying to fulfill a call of God on your life or seek the call of God on your life and you constantly is frustrating because what happens is a lot of times a message of God's love gets it sounds like this brothers and sisters if you love God you're gonna give today like you've never given before if you love God we're gonna show up on Saturday night we're gonna evangelize we're gonna go down on the streets if you love God be here early if you love God you're gonna bless our little ones and you're gonna volunteer for children's ministry and so what happens is that if you love God you need to perform and you need to give and you need to serve and because we have this fallen mentality of just how humans treat each other like if I treat you good you're gonna treat me good if i razz him I'm pretty much gonna get wrath back it's it's just the rule right you know if you don't show up to work and you're constantly like you're gonna get demoted you show up to work you perform you do good you're gonna get promoted and so we put this humanistic style of give if if I give I love you if I love you win I love you because and so you know that and we can see that in marriage or we can see that I love you when you help me take out the trash and I love you because you buy me stuff and I love you if you know so there's all these cloth and if you break my trust well then boy you better earn it back you better show me you're worthy of my love my attention that money whatever it is and so we apply that same fallen understanding of love to the love of God now there are some scriptures that say that if you hearken diligently and observe to do all of these Commandments then I will bless you etcetera etcetera how do you deal with that well I think that's the things is if you love me you'll keep my Commandments and so there's this idea of then how we keep the commandments saying if we love him yes we're gonna do that but we go back to that we love him because he first loved us see what religion does this says okay you've got to do it all out of your own strength in your own power and gods just sitting up there saying man maybe you're good today maybe you're not good and then oh hey I'm really good today but then I sit next to Andrew I'm never I'm not gonna be good enough right right because we compare I saw you never get to teach on this program remember which side of the bread you're but it's butter you do this whole thing it's like you compare each you compare yourself to someone else and say well I'm never going to be as good as him or her and so we we base that God loves us based on our performance versus saying I can love him and I can hearken to his Commandments and if I love him I'm obedient because I got a revelation that he first loved me he says we love Him because He first loved us and so when if we get this revelation that we are loved by the father first and that we're accepted by him and in that he's embraced us and he's destroyed sin he's destroyed sickness he's destroyed all the barriers that kept us from having an intimate relationship with God if we can receive that then absolutely there's an overflow you want to keep the commandments you don't want to be in sin you want to get into the word and you're saying Lord use me and I want to give and I want to evangelize and I want to serve the kids why because now I have this resource this foundation that I'm left of God and I'm accepted by God and then out of that place of Who I am in the spirit because I'm loved by God then boy I'm able to do all kinds of stuff and constantly feel like I'm not worthy I fallen I failed I'm not good enough or I'm compared to somebody else and this is why when we look at the love of God it's when we receive his love for even that question how do I do it they're looking for I need to read three chapters I need to pray in tongues this much I need to give I need to serve and the thing about the love of God is this oh the love of God was shed abroad in your hearts and so the thing is when you received salvation when you receive Jesus Christ to come live in your hearts you just didn't receive salvation of the Cross you know okay your sins are our cleanse now you can go to heaven and all right now I'll get to work but when you receive Jesus you receive the person of love inside of you that's why the Bible talks about how we can love one another we will be known by our love because we have loved himself living inside of us so this is where we go back to talking about intimacy with God we start talking about intimacy with God and when you get into the word it's not to see how you what you need to do it's seen what God has done for you because of his love this this whole book it is a love story and so you know when I stood first I was in Russia and I was there and I'm asking God like what do I teach like what do you what is the message that the Russian people need and he told me he said it's not just the Russian people he said I want to give you a message that the body of Christ needs he says that you need to grow in and he said you he said Kerry I have two things that I kept taking me back to these two things every time I was like Laura what do you want to do in me this year Oh Lord well you know what you know examine my heart Oh Lord he said I want to teach you how to know my love and he said and I want you to love the word those are the two things the Lord always took me back to because the more I saw and the more I let God love me and here's the thing from so many of you have different stories and this is where the enemy again you know the attack against the nature of God and who God really is that he's loved towards you he's compassionate towards you he's made movement towards you for God so loved the world he gave he made movement towards you with his love right where the enemy says you have to make movement towards God you've got to do all these things for if you do these then it's love and then God's blessing and the more you give and the more so all of this dynamic of God main movement towards you so when we receive that man it transforms our lives not just in salvation but then on a daily daily process oh I know you that you were born again when you were a little girl you've loved God your whole life you never did just go out and do drugs and all the stuff that other people did know most people would think you've loved God your whole life and yet you're saying when you went to Russia as a missionary God's telling you you need to yeah I would even say that I grew up in a really great church and I heard about God's love for me and I don't know when it was but I did that I got a revelation that I was loved of God and I can't tell you that always exactly the scripture and it was exactly this song and I got goosebumps here and I got goosebumps there it was I heard teaching that God loved me and I chose to believe it and I think that's the thing that when people say well how how do I get it no you just have to take it to the Lord I thank you and I believe that you love me I believe it without the emotions without the goosebumps without the three slow songs you don't have to have an emotional experience to get a revelation because the word is constantly declaring the love of God and as I started going through even though I got this revelation that I was loved of God it was just something I got and I got had a couple scriptures but as I started getting into the Word of God that's when it revolutionized because the Word of God talks about that we would know the width the depth the height and the breadth of God's love in Ephesians chapter 3 verses 14 through 20 it talks about that we'd be rooted and established in the love of God and so I started finding that this understanding of God's love started to expand in my heart because what I did is I had a red pen and as I was going through I started marking all of these spots where I saw God's love you know it's not in this Bible I just got a new Bible but in my old Bible I've got red hearts almost on every single page because it is a picture this story this book is about the demonstrated love of God towards you and then when you and I look at it we can either see it through a lens of I'm good enough look at all I have to do or we can see it through the lens of look what he did for me look at how much he loves me and so I'm going to believe what this word said EDI the lady came to me in school and she said could you counsel me could you mentor me in the love of God and I said no I said I want you and I and in our notes that I'm gonna send you I'm gonna give you a whole bunch of pages a whole bunch of pages of verses about God's love and I said to find three verses and that's all I want you to meditate on the next this missus next whole month I said meditate on these three verses and so within two days she saw me she's I think she's a read read through all 24 pages of notes on scriptures about God's left she read through all of them she picked three verses and I said now you got to declare that that's how God sees you and she said I can already tell a difference of how I'm feeling about myself how I believe because the word declares God's love it just declares God's heart to you and then you come to a place where I believe what the word says whether I have emotions or not and then what this does is the love of God and this is what I love about the love of God it produces an attitude of faith because then when the enemy throws anything your way and we do have an enemy he comes to steal kill and destroy but guy says but I came to give you life and give it to you with abundance John 10:10 he said I came to give you this so yes an enemy may come but you get to respond not with your good works not with your hey I've read I prayed I've served so the enemy has to back off no you get to respond with the love of God saying you know what he's my father he loves me so this bill guess what it's not my bill it's his bill so god I just thank you for providing and what happens is it destroys fear is this perfect love casts out fear in 1st John chapter 4 I encourage you read read 1st John chapter 4 get a red pen and start marking that baby up because there's so many scriptures about God's love there and it talks about God's love towards you it says perfect love casts out fear well I can't love God perfectly but God loves me perfectly and what I do is then what that love does is it starts destroy fear you know God loves me so when I was on the mission field this happened so many times you know I didn't have money I I didn't I remember one time I had no food in the fridge well I had headaches I had eggs and salt which he needs all four eggs so praise God so I had eggs and salt and I was just like okay Lord and but I had already come to a revelation three years before that in the Arctic Circle going on the bus how am I going to do this what am I going to do I have no money I have to pay rent I have to pay translators I don't have I'm gonna need to buy food it knows us all this stuff and I just kept giving it to the Lord Lord it's yours but what about me what about you know I just this back and forth trip and God just showed me he said I love you and I called you and if you acted in obedience then it's my bill that's awesome it's my bill and by the time praise God by the time I ended at home I ended on faith I didn't end in doubt because back and forth the whole way I ended on faith when I went in my dad called me and we talked for like 45 minutes oh yeah by the way your mom put $1500 a check came in about about three four days ago we just forgot to tell you got it already provided and he's just listened he said listen if you act in obedience he said if you just love me and just obey me and follow me he said all the relationships all the open doors all the favor all the bills that they're mine and I just got a revelation like it belongs to him so I don't need to be worried about that and then when when my sister got in a horrible like died three times on a flight for life car accident brain damage all that kind of stuff man the first thing that enemies tell me is you need to go home you need to leave Russia and you need to go home and you need to support your family and I'm just sitting there and the Lord just spoke to me he said I love them more I love her more than you do a man man that set me free when I just I was just like the love of God became my faith that you know what I don't know how to respond to this situation oh my gosh these people I got persecuted and all that kind of stuff but you know it's just like I mean I'm loved up God who cares what they think because the love of God ruins you for a fence mmm the love of God ruins fear and I always say if you have fear going on in any part of your life whether that's about your health whether that's about your kids whether that's about your finances and you're just constantly and fear will mask itself is worried well I'm not I'm not fearful I'm just I'm just really thinking about it a lot I'm trying to plan it out and organized and trying to think what do I do and how do I do it a lot of times that's fear you guys and so I always say if you're getting just overwhelmed by worry and you're overwhelmed by all these things I always say that in that area you don't have a revelation of how much God loves you so I don't when I'm worried about finances I can run to Scriptures about finances and and those are blessings and those have promises for me and those are mine but the first thing I always do and the first thing I always counsel people on when they're struggling with anything is God loves you in this area because he loves you he's going to take care of you he's a father who will love you and take care of you and that's why it talks about this childlike faith because we get to a place where hey daddy loves me and you know what I don't know what's gonna happen but I know it's only good to see what happens is the love of God produces trust trust produces obedience so I don't know what's gonna happen but God told me to do it and I'm gonna be obedient even if I don't know what the end result is but I can do that and you can do that because hey you know God loves you so I may not know all the next steps but if God's telling me to do this give this go here say this it's because he loves me Jeremiah 29:11 for he only has good thoughts planned towards us that's to give us a future and thoughts to give us a hope and so the love of God does it produces this attitude and what does it produces and when I say attitude of faith I mean against the enemy where you're just like hey listen enemy I rebuke you I am loved of God who are you to put sickness against me I'm loved of God the love of God lives inside of me there's no room for sickness and so what it does is just your approach to attacks and your approach to lies becomes completely different and then what I love too is the love of God and I've seen this for myself when when you and I we get a revelation of God's love it changes the way we pray for people because instead of being like okay I man I pray today man I thought today man I I answer questions I I mean I was buted aughh was great today even though he threw up and you know on the floor hallelujah he did so it's just I was I responded with love and then and and grace and so yes if you asked me for prayer right now absolutely yeah yeah God's gonna move but don't call me yesterday when the dog pooped on the floor because he'd also did that yesterday don't call me this is the dog you fought the love of God has been challenged in this last season so that that whole thing of just like don't call me yesterday because I struggled and I got frustrated with something in the staff I got you know I didn't read I overslept I stubbed my toe whatever so if you called me yesterday know my prayers won't work see so what we do is we think that God uses us based on our spiritual performance well I've loved God this much today so therefore miracles and powers will follow the thing about the love of God is when you and I get a revelation of how much God loves us it's not about us when somebody comes to you and they're needing prayer they're going through a situation you can say man God loves you of course God wants to heal your body you are loved of God of course God wants to answer this prayer for financers or this attack that you're going you are loved by God and so your faith is in God's love towards them your faith is in the finished work of the Cross because that was the demonstrated love of God towards them right and so your faith is there so you start praying and and believing and you have faith because it's not about you it's about God's love that's the foundation and what you're praying I'll tell you what you're saying is basically Galatians 5:6 faith works by love exactly and if you understand how much God loves you it just changes everything you can't help but believe that God you are so good and it just faith rises so a person who is struggling in faith is a person who's struggling to understand God to look yeah and that's why when people say you know teach me I really need more faith like what teach me about faith or teach me some scriptures about they I'm really having a hard time trusting God I'm just so worried I don't know the next step I really want the answers teach me how to trust God I don't go to trust scriptures no no I go back to the love of God because if you get that revelation and again it's already been given to you love already lives inside of you but you go to this word and say father I believe what it says that you have except did me into the beloved that she's now called me into relationship with you that you have made me righteous in the father that the fullness of the Godhead bodily now lives within me you go to this word and say all right father I just thank you that this this is how you see me because when you accept God's love the way you believe God sees you changes because now you know I'm loved of God of course I'm his favorite absolutely well I'm like you I got born again when I was a kid and I've always loved God and known that God loved me but I didn't know the depths of it I'm still learning nobody's got it all figured out but it's like Jesus said in mark seven thirteen traditions and doctrines of men make the word of none effect so religion actually hinders us because of the things you're saying it teaches that God loves us based on our performance and if you have that paradigm that wrong thinking well then you read in the Bible and all you see is judgment and Punishment once you see it through the lens of the gospel in the New Testament you see man look what Jesus redeemed me from I deserve to be turned into ashes the way that Sodom and Gomorrah was and yet because of Jesus I'm not so you have to get the right doctrine if your doctrine is wrong it hinders you understanding the love of God yeah because and so many of you again like I started to say this before so many of you have different stories and and I know just and Andrew knows this in working with people and loving on people and being in ministry some of you have dealt with a really really difficult situations there was abuse and there was violence and there was abandonment and there was you know got left and you got forsaken and you got cheated on in your concept of love and it's been so abused and and and you never saw a good example of it or rarely saw a good example of it that you have put up a lot of barriers in your heart and you've kind of put God like okay God I've accepted you and there's some things that yes I'll let you touch but I'm only gonna let you come so close and touch certain things because I've been hurt too bad and I just I want to challenge you is is God says I will leave you or forsake you he said I'll sing over you at dancing you and I will quiet you with my love it's one of the scriptures and Zephaniah that might give you the thing about God's love is he says I'm here for you but God's not gonna force you to receive his love so that's that's that's the thing about intimacy with God he he made movement towards you for God so loved that he gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him see not everybody believes the love of God or they'll believe a certain amount like his love is good enough to save me from hell but his love is not strong enough to heal my heart or it's not strong enough to heal some wounds of the past and so we kind of put up some barriers my challenge for you tonight is when you look at the Word of God it you can't look at it that it's someday somehow God's gonna love you like that once you get things in order you got to realize that this is word has been fulfilled through Jesus Christ and he's saying now this is how I already love you right now and if you'll believe it and start to stand on that confess it even if there's not all the emotions that go with it and there's sometimes boy a praise and worship song will just I mean I'll just weep because I just feel the tangible presence of God's love man I get into a mode of thankfulness and gratefulness and I'm just like God you've been so faithful you love me so much but there's other times that it's like I'm stressed and I'm tired and I and I just made a mistake and I'm just like but you know what that's not the real me God's love lives in me did you know God loves you just the same amen there's nothing you can do to make God love you more or anything to make him love you less you could keep going but we're gonna have to take I know I know so I just encourage you one of the things I will say is if you go to Andrew Wommack ministries I mean it's Karis Bible College org and RoMac ministries you can see our distance education and we have a course it's a course that Mike and I were actually teaching this week and you can actually get that course you can sign up to take that course it's called life foundations and we just talked about why understanding God's love for you not your love for God and yes you and I can love God that's a byproduct yeah but getting a revelation of God's love for you that it's it's already been given towards you and now we just get to believe it and how does that look and so you can take that course and start to talk about some life foundations and I have a huge blessing to you all right Diane from PA on chat said when things are going good in my life I feel like God's love is caring for me but when things get tough I wonder where he where he went where is it promises how do I stop this you've talked about this but she wrote this at the beginning of your teaching and Diane I'll just I'll just thank you because I think a lot of us are in that situation and what we got to get to a place is that life does not dictate to us how we think God feels about us or sees us God's love is consistent he said I will never leave you I'll never forsake you he talks about he only has a good plan for us and so again when things are going well yeah of course God loves us of course the economy is good of course you know we have all these perspectives that you know and very optimistic when everything is going wrong but it's when the enemy comes to steal kill and destroy what what we need to have and that's where we goes back to the Word of God I know what his word says so no matter how I see no matter what I see no matter what I feel God's Word and his promises are real so I'm gonna stand on that and you don't just sit there and like well I don't feel it no you stand up and you start confessing it and you tell your situations and you tell your emotions emotions you are loved by God situations you are loved by God so I speak to these things and you speak with authority over them because then you're able to use those promises say this promise is mine not just because it's a promise out of the Word of God it's it's a promise that was birthed out of the love of God for me and that's the power there's confusion in our society today people think love is an emotion and it affects your emotions but it's not an emotion when Jesus hung on the cross he wasn't having goosebumps go up and down his spine in feeling just this compassion he was feeling pain he was being rejected and yet he did what was right yeah so in a way that question shows the problem yeah is that they're wanting to feel the love of God and praise God if you feel it but if you don't it doesn't change anything it doesn't change the fact that God so loved the world that He gave here's Ruthie on chat and she said this she's a regular Ruth he's always with us and she says how do you receive a revelation of his love for you and stop comparing him to people for example sometimes it seems like how can he love me when it seems people have rejected me how do you get the head knowledge into your heart yeah that's really good and and I'll just tell you this that you start with putting on you start with putting the word of God inside of you and I know a lot of people though they'll you know they pray one prayer and they read one verse and say well I didn't get a revelation so I guess that's it it talks about when you seek the Lord with all your heart you shall find him and I just want I just want to say this for myself and I'll give this as a testimony getting a revelation of God's love and going through the Word of God or something I became diligent at not that I worked to get God's love I had to eliminate some of the other voices that were telling me who God was who I was whether that was television watching a whole bunch of clean romantic comedies all of you know as a single girl oh no you know what I had to still a lot of different voices and say you know what Lord I'm pursuing you it's something you've already given me but I also need to get into the place where I am meditating on it and that was a huge thing for me as I started to meditate on these verses about God's love and and that became and there was just moments where it's just like I can't tell you when or how there's no formula it's just let God love you just say Lord I just think I pray in the spirit before I read the word lord I just thank you you said you loved me so I just thank you for that revelation I thank you it's already in me it's in my spirit so lord I just thank you you you Holy Spirit will lead me and guide me into all truth and understanding so I wasn't waiting like is it gonna happen I confessed it was gonna happen I'm gonna get a revelation of God's love but I know that my revelation of God's left today at 40 is radically different than I was at 21 and I know it will be radically different at 45 and at 60 and at 70 why because I get to keep making that a foundation it's not just a one-time revelation sometimes people want this one-time revelation they want to be lazy get a one-time revelation and just carry them but intimacy with God and it's just like a husband and wife you don't be like I married you hallelujah a and then you go live your own life years ago we were passionate and that's good enough that's good enough I said I love you then and and that's okay so I can just change I can ignore you and I can have all these other suitors in my life and other voices in my life and somehow still have a really strong marriage that's not gonna work and so it's it's just that aspect of getting into the presence of God and and just saying Lord I know you love me so just show me how to receive it you know I've had some really dramatic experiences with the Lord so much so that after they wear off when I was in Vietnam I wasn't feeling anything and I actually spent 13 months asking God to kill me not because of Vietnam but because I thought well I can't have this emotion was a one-time thing yeah and I couldn't get it back and I didn't know how to live without it and I had to just start taking what the word says and not go by emotion and stuff and it really there is a lot of confusion on what love is I think it's all a feeling yeah so here's cowboy Tom he was with us on our truth and Liberty broadcast last night he's with us a lot and it says could you please explain the difference between love and feelings and your personal will related to those things that's basically what we've been yeah it's basically what we've been talking about and the thing is we have made emotions such a dictating confirming voice of things and that's why the enemy will will try to make your feelings and emotions like the the endpoint the exclamation or the period like well I guess it's God because I feel excited well guess what there's gonna be things that God asks you to do you're not really excited about there's gonna be things sin and can be very exciting but just because this exciting doesn't mean it's God and so we have to get to a place where we're and again this goes back to your teaching on spirit soul and body and that's why right after in life foundations that we teach the love of God we teach versus own body as a life foundation because when you understand who you are in the spirit it radically changes the way you understand God's love because now I'm not trying to get God's love just out of my flesh and emotion and goosebumps I'm not just trying to feel it in the moment but it's a bigger revelation of this is Who I am in the spirit I am loved of God I've been accepted into the beloved I've been made cleansed I've been righteous I've been I've been given all of the gifts of the Spirit I have been so you start to get on this revelation of who you are in the spirit and then you look at every situation in every emotion through that lens of the word of who you are in the spirit it'll radically change how you receive the love of God here's a really good question from Eric on facebook says why does it feel like some people get the more important in quotation mark purpose and calling while others just don't seem to does God love those people more that's why he chooses them over others mmm that's a good question you know when I was growing up I wanted to do great great great things for God and you know I I had look I mean I read all kinds of missionary books and around you know ministers and things like that and the enemy Stratos tried to tell me as a young kid you can't be anything because of who you are basically I was a farm girl I was home-schooled I lived in a town of a hundred people or 350 might as well been 100 but you know just that I was highly rejected and persecuted for being a believer and so how could God use you I mean it's the people who and all this stuff you know and then all the points after that you're not those people and again going back to the love of God that was the biggest thing that I learned as a kid is that God loved me and then again as a homeschooler mom gave me my math book my algebra book I didn't do it I instead what happened is I didn't understand a lot of things so it I ended up spending ten twelve hours in the word work writing lessons and studying the Word of God as junior high and high school and as your math okay I asked my husband he's brilliant at math you're running all of our offices worldwide praise God I care take care of the relational side he's gates here at the financial budget so so so you know just this dynamic that I because I spent time in the Word of God it became not about who I was or where I came from about what the word declared and so what you what you do is when you realize that you have the Spirit of God in you you have to change what you think is more important because God doesn't see oh well the preachers are more important than the the children's workers and and people that are called to Africa are more important than somebody you know working at the local gas station he called us to be salt and light he didn't say you have to have a position or title to be used of God he said I've called you to be salt I've called you to be live I've called you the disciple so disciple eeen and and ministering to people becomes the call now how that looks and how many people you reach and what title you have that's what the world has put a value on but that's not what God puts a value on so you have to stop evaluating what as big calls and little calls and just say I know who my God is I know who my God is within me and am I in the right season right now if you're connected to the vine in John chapter 15 if you're connected to the vine you abide in him and he abides in you you will bear much fruit what your fruit looks like is gonna look different from my fruit but when we both stand before God he's going to judge the fruit that he called us to live to because we were connected to him now because we were connected to a title not because we're connected to an organization yeah I would say Ericka that this question that you asked shows that you are looking at what a person does as establishing their Worth and importance and again that's missing the point I'm not saying this in a critical way but it's just missing the point that your identity you think that you know because I've got a worldwide ministry and we've built a hundred and twenty million dollars worth the facilities that somehow or another God loves me more my identity isn't in these things I was out walking today and thinking father you know it is awesome that you love me and I was just basking in his love for me not and the things doing so when you are looking at I'm not doing anything important how could God love me you don't understand the love of God not critical Ivy I'm just saying that you need to get into the word and find out that God's love is completely independent of what you deserve or what you've done amen God loves you because he is loved not because you are lovely yeah and once you get that revelation it changes everything and God's definition of success and fruitfulness is different than what you and I consider and we say hey man I've got lots of bank account and I've got lots of people following me on Facebook and on this and that but it says we can have all these things but have not love you're nothing you're nothing in the end he said apart from me you can do nothing and and I've taught this before I think here on Tuesday night Bible study there's a difference between results and fruit radical I can produce all kinds of results I can do all kinds of things I can hammer out a to-do list all day long but that doesn't mean I was fruitful and so you may see other people and go oh wow and and they'll stand before God one day and it's either gonna be results or it's gonna be fruit and it was it in obedience to him and so I just would say Erica and any other person just evaluate your life and say Lord am I in obedience to you am I where I'm supposed to be doing what I'm supposed to be doing and if that's you know I just feel like there's some moms watching this if you're a mom at home and you're like I never even get out I just I just I feel like there's a call of God in my life but I'm just not doing it let me tell you right now the children that you are ministering to right now in your home they are the arrows and the legacy you take in to the next generation they will just don't underestimate how God sees what you're doing it's like that little widow or the widow that cast in two mites yeah and these people gave large amounts of money and God said this woman gave more than theirs yeah God sees things differently than people do he's looking at your heart and you know you could have huge results and yet if your heart isn't really in love with the Lord and you're more goal oriented than you are relationship or unit you're going to be surprised some of the people who've got huge ministries that are on the picture of all the magazines are gonna be at the back of the line yeah when some of these little people that have never gotten attention just they love God I think of Dottie Heyman right now you can go to our website and look up Dottie Haman's destiny story and this woman went to Africa I think 13 or 14 years ago had $500 and she has never been home and she has adopted I think the 10 or 14 kids feeds something like 200 widows I'm not even sure that details matter of fact dotty watches this often her and her kids and dotty is just doing things that I tell you Paul Milligan my CEO and I were over at her place and Paul said you know when we get to heaven I'm gonna be at the back of the line Dottie is gonna be way up there ahead of me that woman you probably don't know her but God is using her in a powerful way yeah so God loves us independent of our performance and and you just you can might tie God's love to your performance or to anything else the moment you do you weaken it yeah God so loved the world not because we deserved it not because he pitied us but he just loves us guys it's love we're out of time we're out of time thank you I believe a lot of people would be blessed I'm sorry we didn't get to all of the questions but on every Tuesday Barry Bennett in the afternoon comes on and answers most of the questions that we weren't able to get to so how do they do that if they get on and click something yeah so if you're on Facebook I would encourage you if you're on Facebook and you haven't go to Andrew Wommack ministries to Facebook our Facebook page hit like and that means that then on your Facebook feed notifications things are going to come up as well as our Tuesday live stream question-and-answer time so it's about four 20 minutes and that's a really great place to go like when we go live on Tuesday you'll automatically be notified and you listen and your question might be answered and let me just mention again that we have a lot of people over just over in another room that are there to answer your questions and I'm sorry we didn't get to them all but I guarantee we've got materials on this and we've got some of the best people they can pray with you and help you and they would love to help you and answer these questions so go to seven one nine six three five 11 11 and people will be glad to take your questions answer your questions help you any way that we can ask ask i unders got a lot of material also on God's love and just ask you know what does Andrew have on God's love please ask for that because it's about hearing it so sometimes again we have such things with our past we just don't think that we're lovely or lovable and God boy God saw you as someone was pursuing that's why his compassion main movement towards you you know what gives your life values not your accomplishments it's the fact that God Almighty now you do enough to die for you that put a value on you that's greater than anything else and that's where you need to find God's love is in the fact that he loved you not what you have done for him amen a value so anyway we we got to quit but we love you and God loves you glad that you joined us join us again next Tuesday for our Tuesday night live Bible study amen join us next Tuesday for our live Bible study to receive notes and to win giveaways visit our website you 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