Love.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13


The most prominent concept I have learned on this journey is love. Love is absolutely amazing! God is love (1 John 4:8) and God is perfect!

When God called me to quit my job He also told me to leave most of the ministry work I was involved in. The hardest one to leave was the Mix at Church in the Son (the youth group for middle- high school students). I started attending the Mix right after my huge encounter with God and since then I have grown up and been cultivated within that ministry and was a youth leader from January '11 to December '11. I have such a deep love for the kids and also the amazing leadership team and pastors. It was heartbreaking to leave but God is ALWAYS good! Always! His goodness does not depend on my feelings, Hallelujah!

I would always tell my girls in the Mix: Any of your doing should flow from your intimacy with Jesus; your ministry should be an overflow of your alone time with God in His presence and come from His love. I imagined January as this blissful month of just worship and alone time with God. Instead I came to the realization that I was running on fumes. It was hard to just be with God. It was awkward. My friends Tristan and Jackie helped me see that I had this false mindset of thinking that I had to work for God in order for Him to want to spend time with me. That is such a lie! Jesus died on the cross for relationship; He tore the veil for intimacy, reconciliation with you. True ministry will always flow from the place of intimacy. It won't get you to the place of intimacy. His love on the cross was enough. You don't have to add to the finished work on the cross. Thank you God for showing me this! Hallelujah!

Jesus died on the cross for all of humanity. He died for you and He died for me. He overcame death and was given all authority in Heaven and on earth; and He gave that authority to us. There is not one person who Jesus did not die for. No matter what you have done or what has been done to you: Jesus died for you, because of His immense Love for you!

God is revealing His heart... He loves. He loves the prostitute, He wants her to know that she is worth so much more. He loves the rapper on BET, He wants him to know that God is His true father and He has eternal riches for him that will never fade away. He loves the man on Wallstreet. He loves the children in the slums. He loves the millions of children who are in sex-slavery. He loves President Obama, He has an amazing plan for him and I pray that he walks in it and knows the true love of Christ! What would happen if instead of criticizing them and telling them what they are doing wrong.... What if we loved them? What if we spoke life over them? Jesus died for them! I never came to Christ because of people telling me what to do; the only thing that brought me to repentance was experiencing the true love of my Heavenly Father. The kindness of God leads you to repentance (Romans 2:4).

The deeper I get in the heart of God, the more I want to show His love to the broken, abused, forgotten. I want to look into the eyes of the child left on the street and say "You are loved." I want to spread the good news! The love of God, displayed on the cross.

In His Love,

Reida