Kindness and Love

Experience the transforming power of God's kindness and love as He calls His children back to His heart. Through Scripture, personal testimonies, and the Great Commission, this episode will inspire you to become the living Gospel, carrying Christ's love, hope, and salvation to every nation. 

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Hello and thanks for tuning in. I hope you are enjoying this beautiful day. And it is a beautiful day here in New Mexico. And I'm excited to share. I haven't shared in a long time, but I have this word and it's burning in my spirit, and I feel that it will encourage you, uplift you. And I just pray that it touch your heart today. So let's go ahead and get started in prayer. Father, we just come before you. We thank you that you are full of kindness and love, mercy and grace, that you have poured out your spirit upon all flesh. I thank you, God, for your salvation of your son, the gift of resurrection life, that you have resurrected us from the grave and into new life. And we just thank you for that gift. That your kindness and love has poured out upon us, that we would pour out kindness and love to those we have contact with. And we just give you all praise and glory. We pray that the words of this study be anointed by your Holy Spirit, that they would go forward, that they would produce a fruit in our lives. God, that whatever is spoken in this time would be a seed that produces in our hearts. God, anoint our ears to hear, anoint our hearts to receive, and anoint my words, Father, to speak your truth. Nothing more, nothing less. In Yeshua's name, in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Again, thank you for tuning in. And I'm excited to share this word. This one is titled Kindness and Love. We know of the kindness and love of God which He poured out through His Son. He gave His only Son for us, that we would have direct communication, direct access, direct contact with Him in His throne room. What an awesome gift that that is. God has given us forgiveness of our sins, of our trespasses, the things that separated us from God before have now been redeemed through the blood of Jesus, through his sacrifice, through his gift of life. And when we receive that gift of life, we can come into his throne room of grace in our time of need. We can come in by the blood of the Lamb, knowing that He will hear our cries, that He hears us, that He is our salvation, pouring out kindness and love every single day, open arms, the open arms of the Father, welcoming His children in. And so I just have been witnessing this on a regular basis. I'm just ministering in the streets from New Mexico to Texas, recently returning from the World Cup with Jesus Saves and Time to Revive in collaboration with Upper Room, several churches. I believe there were 180 some churches and ministries uniting. We came and represented and brought our ministry and just came together with these beautiful people that are evangelizing and spreading the gospel and just coming to lift people up, to share the good news, to love on them and do outreach. We did evangelism training and then went out in buses and we were dispersed between the Fan Fest and the Stadium of the World Cup. So many nations coming for this massive game of soccer or football, as it's called in the rest of the world. And they're just coming from all these places. Many of them have taken their life savings or have they been saving for years for this event. We took it as an opportunity to go out and just share the love of God and just meet people and outreach, and it was tremendous. It was such a powerful time to see all the people coming together, the body of Christ, coming together in unity to just minister and share the love of God. And we've seen people healed, delivered, set free, receiving Jesus fresh and new. And it's just exciting. It was a very powerful time. I've also been witnessing that gospel going forward in the streets of Albuquerque and partnering in the international district where there is a lot of addiction to fentanyl, homeless people, and so many people struggling right now, and just going out and giving food and clothing and sharing the gospel. And one thing that I've seen across all the board, across the nations, is just this hunger, especially the ones that are on the streets that are so broken. This hunger for the gospel, hunger to pray, hunger for Jesus. You just see their brokenness and their heart. They've been through hell, they've been through so much tragedy and so much loss, and they're just hungry for the gospel. And it's been a very powerful experience encountering the love of Jesus and the love of God for them. And I took recently in April the 365-day challenge, which is to spread the gospel of Jesus to at least one person a day, and it's dramatically changed my life. Even on days when I'm tired or don't feel like it or I'm grumpy or I've had a rough day. Just taking the gospel and literally watching God save people literally saves me too as I just share the good news because the good news is for you, it's for me, it's for now, it's for every single day. And no matter what you're going through, no matter what you're struggling with, no matter what's against you, there's a God that is here to save. And he saves us not only through his son Jesus, but just having that access to his presence, to his throne room of grace, to his love, and the good news of his life. Like he has given us life, he loves us, he is calling us always to his arms. It's just been a powerful, powerful last several months. Just seeing God move, encountering his love. And as you share the gospel, how he just pours out his love. It's so much bigger than you or me, the love that he has for each of his creation, for each of his people. And it just wrecks me every single time. That is what we're talking about. We're talking about the kindness and love of God. And I want to look at some scriptures, some passages that demonstrate this transformation, this love, not only that the disciples were transformed by, but then they were even taken into the Gentile nations, into the rest of the world, because historically, of course, they weren't called to all the nations. They were called to the lost people of Israel. But then we see these transformations taking place as they are filled with the Holy Spirit and they're expanding their borders and being called out into greater arenas and into the nations. We see that after Jesus has died and resurrected, that he gives his disciples the commission to go out into the world, into the nations, to preach the gospel, to be endued on high by the Holy Spirit and to go out. And we see these disciples that were fearful, that maybe had not been the best form of who they were becoming, become these courageous, Holy Spirit-filled apostles being sent out. And I believe that is such a word for us because we can be in the process of becoming what God has ordained for us, and we can still spread his gospel and continue to go out. And Acts chapter 11, we read about Peter, and this is right after Jesus has died, and he's been filled with the Holy Spirit, and he's in this city of Joppa, and he's praying, and he's in a trance, and he has this vision. I'm gonna go ahead and read this. It says, I was in the city of Joppa praying, and of course, this is Peter, and in a trance, and I saw a vision, an object ascending like a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners, and it came to me when I observed it intently and considered, I saw four footed animals of earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air, but I said, No, not so, Lord, for nothing common or unclean has at any time entered my mouth. But the voice answered me again from heaven. Well God has cleansed, you must not call common. Now this was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven. At that very moment three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent to me from Caesarea. Then the Spirit told me to go with them, doubting nothing. Moreover, these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered the man's house, and he told us he had seen an angel standing in his house, who had said to him, Send men to Joppa and call for Simon, surname Peter, who will tell you the words by which you and all your household will be saved. And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them as upon us at the beginning. So right here we see this vision that Peter has. Well, he's in this trance and he's praying, and he has this vision, and God is showing him something new. He's changing his outlook, he's demonstrating all these things that Jews were not allowed to eat, these unclean animals. God is saying, don't call what I've made clean unclean. And I don't think this is about the diet as much as this is about Peter's call to associate with the Gentiles to go out into the nations, which is a call for us as well. Coming out of our little circles and churches and the clean places of our lives and going out, getting your hands dirty, going out and being willing to associate with those that are unclean, quote unquote. One thing I've experienced doing the street ministry and in the international district, these people are going through addictions. So many have lost so much in their health and their bodies and their families, their homes, everything. But I just see the love of God, and in their eyes, there's such a humility and such a tenderness and such a brokenness, and there's such a kindness there, and I just see the love of the father, the kindness of a father that he has for his children, that he loves each and every single one of them. And one thing that I found is that most of them were raised in church or raised with the gospel, and they're struggling. There's been a war for their soul, a war for their destiny, a war for their life, and they're crying out, and they receive Jesus fresh anew. We just speak deliverance over their lives. We've been getting them into houses and programs and rehabilitation detox, working with different programs in this city. So there is success stories. There's also some that are still out there and we see them regularly and go and just pray for them. So it's been a really beautiful thing. But I think that's this transformation that Peter has is then he's called and he sees that the Holy Spirit is being poured out on the Gentiles just like it was for him. So that therefore is showing that the salvation and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit wasn't just for God's chosen people, the Israelite people, that this was for the Gentiles. And of course, because of their rejection, the Bible says that the Gentiles were engrafted in, meaning it was a part of the plan. It was a part of the plan all along that God would save all his people, not just the select group, but offer salvation to all of his children. And think about it. If you're a parent, you might have a child, and you know, one might be out there prodigal, and one might be one that stayed home and has always been obedient and always been next to you and following instruction, and yet your heart just weeps and cries out and bleeds for the one that is out there. And there's this type of intercession that comes with a mother and a father that grieves for their child that's out there, and that is the beautiful story of the prodigal and his love and his rejoicing when they come home with open arms, right? And that's this beautiful thing. So we see where Peter at once was fearful, he was even fearful to say that he knew Jesus. And then we see him filled with the Holy Spirit. We see him forgiven when Jesus reinstated him, calling him to the ministry. Feed my sheep, Peter, feed my sheep, feed my sheep. He denied him three times, but then he also was giving him the opportunity to follow him and to obey him and to redeem. Feed my sheep, feed my sheep. And here he is being called out to the Gentile nations. And then we also see that with Paul. Paul was a persecutor, of course, of Christians. He killed them. Stephen was stoned right in front of him. And we see that Paul was just on a mission to destroy those that he thought were blasphemers and that were proclaiming this Jesus. Then he has an encounter on the way to Damascus where he sees and encounters Jesus who says, Why are you persecuting me, Paul? He has this moment of blindness and three days of blindness, and then this, you know, seeing comes to him where he has this awakening and this encounter, and he knows that it's not about him being this perfect person by man's laws, but it's about Jesus and his salvation and his kindness and his love. And then he he's rejected by his own people, and so he's called out to the Gentile nations. And we see in Romans 1:1 through 15 it says Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God, which he promised before through his prophets in the holy scriptures concerning his son Jesus Christ, our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead. Through him we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for his name, among whom you also are called of Jesus Christ. Want to stop there because he's basically saying he's a bondservant of Jesus Christ. He has chosen willingly to follow Jesus, not out of compulsion, not because he has to, not out of law and restriction, but the freedom that has come through the salvation of Jesus and the love and kindness of God, which has called him to say, Yes, I'll go wherever you lead me. I will follow you wherever you call me. And that's such a beautiful gift that we have. The word for bondservant in Greek is called doulos, and it's translated as bondservant, servant, or even slave, but it refers to someone who belongs completely to another. What we've seen with Paul is he's all in. He is a bondservant. I will follow you wherever you lead. Jesus is his master. They belong completely to him. Those who become a bondservant, they gladly obey his will, and their lives are not their own. And that is the beauty of the transformation of the gospel of Jesus. I've met so many people that have been through addiction, through prison, and when God has transformed them and saved them, they give their entire life to him and to spreading the gospel and to doing his work. It's so beautiful to see that transformation. Now, Paul is saying that he received grace and apostleship for the obedience to the faith among all nations for his name. And we too, being bondservants of Christ, surrendered, separated to the gospel through Jesus. Hallelujah! Are called to the nations, called by obedience to the faith to spread the gospel to the nations. Amen. And that is a calling for the body of Christ right now. It's a calling of coming out of the religion, the laws of man, and associating with those who are in need of the kindness and love of Jesus. And that's everybody. Everybody. Amen. I always pray before I go out. Of course, he will highlight people when you go out, and you can be led by his spirit. And it always just blows my mind when you have that divine appointment with somebody who is just crying out, and it's always prophetic. It's always such a beautiful experience. Even just yesterday, I was led to pray for this woman in the parking lot at Smith's. And turns out she's homeless. She was in a car. Turns out she's homeless, and she reinvited Jesus into her heart. You know, the day before that, I went to this gas station that I like to go and give out food and give out Bibles and just bless the people, give out clothes, and that's an open door for you to share the gospel. And I met this lady, she's struggling for her children, and I'm able to pray for her and just encourage her by the words that I'm encouraged with daily and just lift her up. You know, there's just so many divine appointments, and you end up just bringing the gospel and it's blessing you as well. Because if you've gone through things in your own life and God has saved you from it, then you're able to share the same comfort that He gave you with those that are in need. Amen, amen, amen. So Paul was not only called to the nations, but he went to Rome and he was a Roman citizen. And as you continue on in that same chapter one, it says, To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints, grace to you and peace from God our Father, the Lord Jesus Christ. First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all that your faith is spoken of throughout the world. For God is my witness whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers, making requests of it. By some means, now at last I might find a way in the will of God to come to you, for I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established, that is, that I may be encouraged together with you by mutual faith, both of you and me. Now I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that I often plan to come to see you, but was hindered until now, that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among the other Gentiles. I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and the unwise. So as much as in me I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also. Though we see with Peter he's called to the Gentiles, and God is showing him, you know, do not call what I have made clean unclean. So he's getting the green light. Go associate, watch the Holy Spirit be poured out on all flesh. And then we see here that Paul is saying, We're called to the nations. He was called as a bond servant of Christ to the nations and even to Rome. And that's interesting because when I went to Dallas, I like to visit Dallas, but I haven't been able to visit as much as I like to in this last year. So it has been about six months since I had been there. I was there for the end of year conference at the upper room. That was in January during New Year's. But this time, six months later, I was there in June. And it's interesting because I prayed. I prayed with this man that kept circling around and then he was selling drinks and Gatorade, and he approached our team and we offered to pray for him. So I prayed for him. His name was Rome, and it means one who is destined to pilgrimage to Rome. And I just felt like the Holy Spirit was highlighting his name to me, especially. And then we just kept running into him the whole time we were at the stadium. He would circle by us in his bike, no matter how far we walked, there he would be coming around the other direction, making his rounds, selling his drinks. And that happened maybe four or five times. So it was very significant. And I think that both of these passages are speaking of even different seasons. Like we see with Peter, he was called to the Gentiles, and so that was like his initial like going out and experiencing what it was to watch the Holy Spirit be poured out on people that he never associated with before. And then he's seeing God expand and he's going through this transformation. And then we see with Paul that he's speaking of the grace of the apostleship to the nations and to Rome. And so we see this other season, right, of expansion and taking the gospel to the nations. And I think that's powerful because we go through these different seasons in our lives of going out. Amen. And I wanted to talk a little bit quickly about. About Jonah. Jonah was sent to Nineveh. He was actually sent to his enemies to bring the message of the gospel. And of course, he didn't want to do that, so he ran in the other direction. And then after going through being in the belly of the whale, a type of death and resurrection comes out, and he's spit out on the shores of Nineveh, and he comes out with a fresh story of the salvation because he has just been saved by God Himself through repenting for going the opposite direction and then coming out saved and redeemed, and he's got fresh salvation on his lips. And he's considered the most successful prophet in the Bible because everybody repented and turned to God. And of course, he wasn't that happy about it because the Ninevehes were the sole enemies of Israel. And they had done absolutely awful things. There had been wars, there had been murders and death and awful things through the hand of the Ninevehes. And of course, he's not wanting to go spread the gospel over there. He's not wanting to share it. And yet that's who he's called to. It's to go and to share the gospel, call them to repent, call them to turn back to the heart of the Father. This is a beautiful story of redemption. And it also demonstrates to us that no matter what you've done for God or how he's used you, that you're never too far from needing his gospel in your life and his salvation in your life. And when you're saved by his gospel, that you have a testimony, you have a word, and it's even so powerful enough to share with your enemies and those who have hurt you, those who have come against you and your family. The message of the gospel is forgiveness, the message of the gospel is salvation. The message of the gospel of the kindness and love of God leads us into kindness and love. And of course, Jonah, he didn't like that they all repented. He was hoping that God was still going to destroy them. But they had repented. And actually, Jonah went to the east side of a city to watch God destroy it, and he didn't. But God, out of his mercy, had caused a plant to grow over Jonah and protect him from the heat. And then this protective plant was removed, and he was more upset over that than the souls themselves. And so God was giving him this correction. Like, how much more do you think I care about my own children? You're crying about your provision, you're crying out about this plant and the loss of that. How much more do you think I care for 150,000 people that don't know their right from their left? And I think that's a holy conviction right there because sometimes we'll get so caught up in how things are supposed to go or how we want them to turn out, but also just this plan, this provision, we might get sadder over the loss of something material and less about the soul of a person. And had that experience some months ago when I first came to Albuquerque, and I was led to go pray over the city from this vantage point. And it was like God was showing me his heart for his people in Albuquerque. He was demonstrating that love. And as I've walked these streets and as I've ministered the last three months in these streets, I've encountered that love that God has. And I know I've said it several times in this, but it also just shows me we care for those that we love, our children, our animals, our pets. You know, how much more does God care for what he created, the creator of the heavens and the universe? And when we get the heart of the Father for His children, there's a weeping, there's a longing for a return. There's a heart that's broken for those that are getting hurt day in and day out. That is the heart of the Father. I just thank him for reminding us of his heart for his people. So God calls his people back to himself and he promises restoration and he assures them that he is the one who will fight for them. And ultimately, we don't have to be overcome by the world and by the fear of the enemy's threats, because that is the good news of salvation. In Zechariah 9, 9 through 14 it says, My daughters I and let your heart and soul rejoice. Rejoice, my daughter Jerusalem, and shout your cheerful praises. Look, your king comes to you, he is righteous and fully qualified to save you, yet he comes to you so humbly, riding on a donkey, sitting meekly on a colt, a young fowl of a donkey. Ah, the Lord will banish war, chariots and horses from Israel and Jerusalem, I will break the bows used in war. Your king will proclaim peace and well-being to the nations. His dominion will stretch from sea to sea, from the river to the ends of the earth. As for you, Zion, because of my covenant with you sealed with blood, I have set your captives free from the waterless pit of their prison. Come running back home to your fortress, you hope-filled prisoners. This very day, I vow I will restore to you double blessings for your trouble. My people will be my weapons, for I have bent Judah as my bow and made Ephraim my arrow. I will awaken and stir up your son, Zion, against the sons of Greece. I will use you like a warrior's sword. Then Yahweh will appear above them and his arrow will flash like lightning. The Lord Yahweh will sound the shofar and advance in the great storm of his power. And I believe this scripture is about the reunification of God's people and through the blood of Jesus, their salvation. He is coming to redeem them, to set them free, to fight for them. He's even bringing together Judah and Ephraim, who were divided historically. And he's showing he's gonna make Judah as a bow and Ephraim as an arrow. So this is showing this unity that has come as there is salvation through Jesus. Your king will proclaim peace and well-being. This is the gospel. So we're seeing that Ephraim and Judah are even coming together, and he's gonna awaken and stir up your sons against Greece. Greece was an oppressor of Israel. So he's just showing that there is going to be redemption and healing also within the body of Christ, where there has been divisions, that there is unity through the salvation of Jesus, and that he came lowly, he came humble on a donkey, but he is come to redeem, he is come to fight for us, he is come to give victory and to set us free. That is good news. So I believe that this is a beautiful story of promise that comes all the way from the old prophet Zechariah and is so applicable for now for the gospel of salvation of Jesus and the healing and the redemption that comes. And even those that have been divided are coming together in unity to work together for the kingdom. Hallelujah. And Psalm 61, 4, it says, I will abide in your tabernacle forever. I will trust in the shelter of your wings. And that's the beauty of just coming into the presence of God that we can abide in him and trust in the shelter of his wings. Psalm 62, 5 through 6 says, My soul waits silently for God alone, for my expectation is from him. He is my rock and my salvation, he is my defense. I shall not be moved. Amen. He is our salvation, he is our help in times of trouble, he is our fortress, he is our tabernacle. Psalm 63, 6 through 10 says, When I remember you on my bed, I meditate on you in the night watches because you have been my help. Therefore, in the shadow of your wings I will rejoice. My soul follows close behind you. Your right hand upholds me. For those who seek my life to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth. They shall fall by the sword. They shall be a portion for the jackals. Jackals are like out in Israel and they'll just go off kind of like coyotes and packs, they're kind of pack predators. They shall fall by the sword, they shall be a portion. That means food for the jackals. This is God. Like he's saying, meditate on him in the night watches. Remember him. He has been our help. In the shadow of his wings, we rejoice that those who seek my life, they'll be dealt with. God will deal with those things that have come to destroy you. And we just trust and keep our faith and continue to embrace his life, his kindness, his love. Share that love, pour it out, and trust him with the rest. Amen. Psalm 63, 10, it says, They will be consumed by their own evil and become nothing more than dust under our feet. And we know that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but principalities, rulers of darkness and high places that have come to kill, still, and destroy. But through Jesus Christ, we have life and life abundantly, and we have one who has given us victory over the enemy. So we do not have to fear, we don't have to take vengeance into our own hands, we don't have to handle it. Our job is to, in the watches, pray, come into his presence, seek him. Notice that Peter, he was in prayer, he was in a trance, he was in a vision, and in those moments, you get the word for your season in his presence. You get direction, you get the wisdom of what he is calling you to. And so I just want to encourage you and the body of Christ to get strategy, get in the presence of the Lord, feel his kindness and love for you, trust him, let go of the concerns of the enemy. Trust him. He's bringing together the body of Christ in this hour that there would be mighty salvation spread and the gospel spread to the nations and spread throughout the earth because he's coming soon. Amen. And so it's beautiful that we can partner together in this last time harvest and see the moving in the salvation of Jesus touching the earth, not only touching us and our lives, but being poured out to others. And just seeing so many healed, delivered, set free coming into the salvation of God. That is the kindness and love of God and being poured out. And we are vessels all to the nations to pour his love out and kindness to others, his gospel, his good news. Amen. Amen. I hope you've been encouraged today. Father, we just thank you for your goodness, for your love that calls us out to the Gentiles, calls us out to those maybe that we would not even associate with, that calls us out of our own comfort places to go out and to spread the gospel. And that your love for your people and your children is immeasurable. Just like the prodigal son that came home, you are welcoming your children with open arms in this time and in this season with a fresh robe and a ring and party, that you were so rejoicing that your son, who was once dead, is now alive. How much more is there rejoicing when one sinner repents and turns to God? It is your children that you're seeing coming home. Thank you for the grace that you have given to us to be apostles to the nations and to those wherever you lead us, wherever you call us. Thank you for that, God, and thank you that you even call us to the most craziest, wicked places, even to our own enemies to bring the good news of the gospel. Because you care, you love, your kindness and love is for all your children. God, I just thank you for the heart of the Father that demonstrates such loving kindness that has been poured out upon us, your children, to forgive and that we also extend that kindness and love, that there would be a great and mighty end time harvest upon this earth. In Jesus' mighty name, I pray you equip all the listeners here with an anointing to spread the gospel of Jesus in these times while we have time and there's still light that we can share your gospel. In Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Thank you for tuning in. I pray that you have a beautiful and blessed day. God bless you.