Love never fails—absolutely never—fails. Why? Because God never fails. When you put love on, you put God on. And when you put God on, you put His life, His zoe, His power, His anointing on.
You can't help but increase when you put love on. Many Christians aren't increasing in their spiritual lives, because they won't put love on. They're anointed in one area, but they're missing out in another area. They mistakenly think their anointing for one area will carry over into other areas. But, child of God, your anointing in one area won't make you successful in other areas.
However, there is something you can do that will guarantee you any anointing to accomplish anything you need to accomplish, and that is putting on love. The love of God is the power that turns on joy. It's the power that turns on peace. It's the power that turns on longsuffering. It's the power that turns on faith. It is anointed. When I put love on, I put God on. When I put God on, I put on His Anointed One and His Anointing.
When you put love on, you put God on; and you can't fail, because God is love and He can't fail. Anointing is no problem when you operate in love.
Getting your bills paid is no problem when you're operating in love. Getting healed is no problem when you operate in love. Troubling your trouble is no problem when you operate in love. When you get God on you, you get the anointing on you, and you then have the ability to do whatever you need to do to get the victory.
Loving God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind and getting to know your Heavenly Father intimately by personal experience will make you more than a conqueror. When you realize how deeply God loves you and how close He always is to you, you'll never fear trouble again. After all, what trouble could separate you from the love of God?
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
ROMANS 8:35-39
In the next chapter, we're going to learn how cultivating a loving relationship with our heavenly Father will help us overcome trouble in our relationships with other people. If we're to be more than conquerors, walk free from fear and trouble our trouble every time it shows up, we must know how to love God. It's only as we truly learn to know and love God that we can learn to love ourselves and then to love our neighbors as ourselves.
Right now, make a decision to put on the fruit of love. Say the following prayer aloud:
Heavenly Father, right now, in the name of Jesus, I make a decision to develop a relationship with You, a relationship in which I will have knowledge of You grounded in personal experience. Father, I decide now to clothe my life in love. I decide now to love You, then to love myself, so that I can love others. Father, give me a revelation, a working revelation, of Your love, so as I begin to walk in love, I, too, will see victory in every area of my life. In Jesus' name. Amen.
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OVEsaid in the last chapter that if we are to be able to trouble our trouble with the force of love, we must get our priorities right in our love life. Jesus told us that the proper order of love is to love our heavenly Father first before we try to love anyone else. And we have to learn to love ourselves before we can love our neighbors. Therefore, it’s vital that we learn to love the Father. We must cultivate and develop a loving relationship with God before our other love relationships will work properly.
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Probably the greatest and the most painful kind of trouble any of us experience is trouble in relationships. And one of the reasons we have trouble in our relationships with our families and friends is that we try to carry on these relationships without having a love relationship with God. We try to operate in the system of love, which God designed, but we dump God out of the system.
The system won’t work properly without a relationship with God, because God is the battery for the system. God is the One who makes the system work.
If I’m going to love you correctly, then I’d better understand the love towards the Father.
If I’m going to love myself correctly, then I’d better understand the love towards the Father.
If you husbands want to love your wives correctly, then you'd better understand the love towards the Father.
If you wives are to love your husbands correctly, then you'd better understand the love towards the Father.
If you try to carry on this love relationship, which God created—if you try to carry on this love system, which God represents—without Him, it won't work. The system will not work without the power source that runs it. And that power source is God.