Pure Glory

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase. Move in faith don’t let anything or anyone stop you. (Job 8:7)

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

You’re thinking too small. Shift from thinking about you, yourself, and mine to they, them, and the nations. Shift from only your dream for your ministry, to God’s dream for your region and state. Shift from the local mentality to a governmental mentality. Shift from the old way of doing things to the NEW!

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

It doesn’t require much character to point out someone else’s flaws. But it is great character, when one can admit that one has flaws. The things we accuse others of are usually the things we are guilty of doing to the Lord. Worship is realizing one’s imperfections, not everyone else’s.

From the book Raise My Love Level…Selah

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

There are many facets to the love of God according to 1 Corinthians 13 (The Message):
“1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 2 If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.

3-7 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.

8-10 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.

11 When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.

12 We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!

13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.”

But there’s one thing that love will not do and that is to intentionally, hurt the one hurting you. Love always heals and perfects; it never hurts and destroys.

Father, raise my love level.

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

When the love is pure, you don’t need a reason. It doesn’t matter what the other person does, you love them the same (flaws and all), just like Christ loves you the same, (flaws and all). Father, raise my love level!

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

Father RAISE our love levels, that we will go beyond the convenient, the mundane, and mediocre, and go after the pure presence of God, wholeheartedly.

Raise our love levels that when we love, we would love regardless, whether we receive a monetary offering, AKA-paid recognition or not.
Raise our love levels so that we will lower ourselves to help someone else without expecting worldly acclaim.
Raise our love levels so that our sole desire is not building our own personal kingdom but establishing the Kingdom of God!

Raise our love levels so high that the “what about Me syndrome” becomes so low and extinct.
Raise our love levels so that we will become dissatisfied with being sermonized and become only gratified with being circumcised with the present truth.

Raise our love levels that “we” will turn over our tables, our agendas, our plans, our programs, our titles, our concepts of what we call worship, in our churches and really bow our wills down to the King, who made us kings and say this will be a house of worship for all nations, not all programs.

Raise our love levels that worship will not be the preliminary, before a sermon, but the exemplary requirement before being ordained; we must be a “true worshiper” in the purest sense. Who wants to be ordained by someone, who only watches me worship or worships now and then?

Raise our love levels that even when we don’t agree, we will not try to ruin our brothers or sisters reputation.
Raise our love levels that we will rise, as the redeemed and pray for our President Barack Obama, (like we really believe God), instead of destructively criticizing him thus bringing curses on ourselves.

Raise our love levels that we are consistent with our covenant relationships and inconsistent with our old wineskins and old “mindskins.”
Raise our love levels so that we will show the world, not our gifts, but our love one for another.
Raise our love levels so that our churches will be distribution centers of God’s Glory and not institution centers for man’s glory.

Raise our love levels that we will refrain from the rhetoric and commercial lingo of religion, in the kingdom, until we get the heart of the King.
Raise our love levels that we will retire from merely dictating the worship, to coming to worship with no agendas or preconceived ideas.

Raise our love levels that we will no longer be tickled and deceived by settling for high performance and programmed services and gather, as the prophets, priests and kings, desiring a pure flow from heaven.
Raise our love levels that we as leaders will realize that God didn’t give it all to us (only) but allow our mature sons and daughters to minister to us sometimes; to keep us from being lifted up in spiritual pride.

Raise our love levels Lord, that we as leaders would not only receive financial support. as we minister to our sons and daughters but that we are positioned to also give financial support to our sons and daughters; thus they will not have to struggle like we did.

Raise our love levels that we as leaders would fall on our knees today and repent for what we’ve made Judah, a whorehouse where the anointing is diluted and prostituted by “what we want to give, and what we want to hear,” instead of what “God wants to hear and receive.”

Forgive us for selling or spiritually prostituting, the anointing on our gifts (minstrels, psalmist, prophets, helps), for a good performance, trying to be an American idol or church’s idol, the top ten, crowd pleaser, time constraint, our song selection, appeasing the flesh, Cain’s offering instead of Abel’s offering.
May we turn into David, when we rise from our knees and serve the shewbread to all who are hungry, so that everyone’s needs are met above.

“Father, Raise our Love Levels”

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

In the Kingdom of God, the body of Christ doesn’t do things to get EVEN. We do things EVEN when we don’t feel like it, because of the LOVE of GOD.

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

When you ask God for his heart, he will allow you to feel the way he feels. Oh, how it grieves HIM, at how we treat each other, when we should be filled with his Love for ourselves and others.

Lord raise my LOVE LEVEL. Purify my heart. Let the words of my MOUTH and the meditations of my HEART be acceptable in YOUR SIGHT.