Pure Glory

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

Those people who are consistently true, honest, and somewhat challenging to you, embrace as friends. However, those people who are inconsistently true, pretentious (phony), and somewhat tolerating of you, embrace with love. Love your Haters.

Let’s define the term “Haters.” A hater is someone who is curious about your destiny but not interested in being supportive. Their support is always predicated based on what they can gain from the situation.  These are the people who are either inferior of, intimidated by, envious concerning, and destructively critical of YOU. Usually they seek to manipulate you or lovingly use you for your gift, but “never love you just for you.” Haters usually have difficulty celebrating your success. Haters are volatile, one moment they love you and want to foster relationship, when youʼre telling them what they desire to hear, next moment when you tell them the truth, they hate you and want to crucify you and accuse you of judgment. lol (laugh out loud). Haters usually as a rule, don’t do true covenant because they don’t understand true covenant. Haters are Friends who donʼt know it yet!

John 13:34-35
“Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each other.”

Matthew 5:43
“You’re familiar with the old written law, ‘Love your friend,’ and its unwritten companion,’Hate your enemy.’ I’m challenging that. I’m telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the energies of prayer, for then you are working out of your true selves, your God-created selves. This is what God does. He gives his best—the sun to warm and the rain to nourish—to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice and nasty. If all you do is love the lovable, do you expect a bonus? Anybody can do that. If you simply say hello to those who greet you, do you expect a medal? Any run-of-the-mill sinner does that.”

Luke 6:27
“To you who are ready for the truth, I say this: Love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the energies of prayer for that person. If someone slaps you in the face, stand there and take it. If someone grabs your shirt, gift wrap your best coat and make a present of it. If someone takes unfair advantage of you, use the occasion to practice the servant life.
No more tit-for-tat stuff. Live generously.”

Romans 13:8
“Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.”

2 Corinthians 12:15
“And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.”

If your love doesn’t carry you beyond yourself, it isn’t love or Godʼs love. “And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; Though the more abundantly I love you, the less I beloved,” (2 Corinthians 12:15) in the natural, one loves expecting love in return. Paul says, “I do not care whether you love me or not, I am willing to destitute myself completely, not merely for your sakes, but that I may draw you to God. The real test for the Bride is not in her preaching or singing the gospel, but washing the feet of others, and doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men, but matters for everything in the eyes of God. God delights in the Bride, when she spends herself  for God’s interest, in other people, not caring what the cost will entail; and doing it gladly. God will respond with more love. A lot of what we call love is really affection because it doesn’t go beyond ourselves. Love beyond yourself today, and love your Hater.

We must become broken bread and poured out wine, in the hands of Christ, for other lives. Though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

John 5:19
“Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.”

John 5:30
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

Have A “Love your Hater” kind of Day!