Love Has A Name

Love has a name and His name is Jesus.
Have you ever stopped and pondered all that Jesus in the form of Love (God—God is Love.) Himself did for you and me and accomplished for our freedom?

Love came. Love showed us the Father. Love healed. Love had compassion on people who called on Him. Love agonized in the Garden of Gethsemane for you and me and sweat great drops of blood as He resisted the temptation to allow His mind to dominate Him. In that Garden He defeated satan’s control of man’s mind forever. Love took the stripes of the Roman scourge for you and me for our healing and health. Love went to the cross and voluntarily laid Himself on it so that He could suffer as our substitute for sin and sickness and disease. Love went to hell and took our place and defeated satan and all his cohorts forever. And most importantly, Love rose from the dead and is seated at the right hand of the Father. And that is the place where you and I are seated. Love redeemed us and set us free. Somebody shout! If that isn’t enough to make you shout, your wood is wet. And there isn’t any way of igniting it.

Let’s take a closer look, and not take for granted, what Jesus as Love Himself has done for us.

Love came and Love showed us the Father.
The Father sent His word and healed us and set us free from destructions, the pit that satan had laid to ensnare us. For this purpose was the Son of God manifested—that He might loosen, undo, dissolve, destroy the works of the devil. Before the foundation of the world, Jesus was foreordained to come and set us free. The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. Jesus, Love Himself, has made provision for everything. He said: Have I been so long with you and you have not seen the Father? He said that everything the Father told Him to do, He did and He said.

Love had compassion on people who called on Him. Jesus healed the sick. He raised the dead. He made provision for people’s needs wherever He went. The people thronged to Him because they sensed His concern and His compassion for them. They knew He was helping people who believed in Him.

Love agonized in the Garden of Gethsemane. Adam failed in the Garden of Eden. Jesus succeeded in the Garden of Gethsemane. And He in essence set into motion the getting back of a position in the Garden of Eden, the place of The Blessing of the Father and the opportunity for Life Himself once again to be a part of people’s lives.

Love took stripes and went to the cross for our release from sin, sickness and disease and poverty and stress and care and anxiety and worry. He became sin that we might become righteous. He took on sickness and disease and pain that we could go free of those earthly challenges to our bodies. He became poor that we through His poverty might have abundance. He did it all for us. What a Savior! What a Lord! Don’t you love Him today with all your heart? He loves you with all His heart. He is so watchful over you and me to protect us and to take care of us.

Love went to hell and defeated satan and all his principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness and wicked spirits in heavenly places. Jesus took care of all of that for you and me. We don’t have to fight the devil anymore. Jesus defeated him forever. What we have to do is to enforce that defeat. We are an army of occupation. The battle has already been won. What we are doing is enforcing the peace. Our fight is the good fight of faith. Our fight is to stay in faith—to believe God and His Word as true in our lives forever, regardless of what we may encounter or face in this world.

Love rose from the dead and is seated at the right hand of the Father, far above all principality and power in victory. That is where we are seated right now, far above all principality and power because it says in Ephesians that we are seated with Him. Love has redeemed us from satan and all of his works. Therefore, we are free and have the opportunity to walk in that freedom daily. Let’s purpose to do just that.