Pure Glory

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

Instead of trying to make others perfect, focus on trying to love others perfectly, it’s akin to loving others as I have loved you.

Sincerely,

Love…

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

The more you realize God has approved you and given you authority, the less you will seek the approval and authority of others. People pleasers live to hear people say, “You are important.” However, God pleasers live to hear the Father say, “You are my beloved in whom I am well pleased.”

by Hazel Straub

Can you remember being a college student and taking many classes in your major area of study?  You spent time in the classroom hearing your professor lecture, you read books on your area of interest, did research and wrote papers, and even took the final exam.  Once you satisfied the college’s requirements, you received a diploma attesting that you had completed the requirements to become a graduate.  After a job search, you were hired for the job that you had long anticipated.  Although you had the job title, you still needed time to learn how to do your job duties. You no longer could dress like a student or think as you did formerly.  The work place was different from school. Studying about the subject did not give you the wisdom to know how to deal with the job challenges.  It made you think wistfully of your more carefree student days. This time of transition to the new professional life, required help from your supervisor and coworkers to learn how to become an employee that was confident in performing all the job duties. It took some time to master every facet of your new occupation.  You were earning a pay check in your chosen field but experienced much discomfort.

The church, similar to the recent college graduate, has transitioned into a new place of destiny that we anticipated occupying.  Now that we are here, we find it uncomfortable and unfamiliar. The comfort of the past is not there. We have arrived in new territory but we do not know how to conduct ourselves.  This is a place that we have never seen or known.  The old paradigms of the past no longer fit.  Our old ways, relationships and structures have changed.  What worked well in the past, no longer does.  We need to rely on the Holy Spirit (job supervisor) to show us how occupy this new place.  It is a time to stop, pause and listen. The old is gone and we need instruction for moving into our destiny.  We cannot trust in ourselves but only in the small, still voice of our teacher of all truth, comforter and friend-Holy Spirit.

Jesus is our Good Shepherd, who leads and guides us into abundant provision.  We know his voice and need to stay close by his side, as we walk into this new place and season.  Let him define you and your relationships.  He is there to give you comfort, when you go through this season of death to the old.  Even when your enemies are near, our Shepherd provides you with covenant provision.  During this new season his goodness and mercy will follow and pursue you all the days of your life as you follow his lead.

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

People use their own requirements and standards to decide who God has chosen or not.  Consequently, neglecting God’s system of choosing the foolish things to confound the wise. God chose the weak things to confound the strong. The base things of the world and the things which are despised hath God chosen; the things that are not to bring to naught the things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence.

You should choose to be chosen knowing that God chose you.  Then when man comes to ordain you, they are only coming into compliance with what heaven has already done.

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

Our insufficiency is due to our love deficiency. Our love account is in the negative, when we do not love each other like Christ loves us. Therefore, no matter what we say, what we believe, and what we do, we are bankrupt without LOVE…

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

Be released from  yesterday into the new day and new era of the fresh wineskin presence of the Lord! Father, show your people off for your glory and make them greater advertisement for your kingdom!

The truth is this, whether we’re guilty or forgiven, God’s love for us is the same. We’ve been given the ministry of reconciliation. Some of our conversations and speeches, many times reveal where our love levels are. Unfortunately, many major on the giftings but they forget that love is between first Corinthians chapters 12 and 14. Love is the foundation, the motivation, the glue that causes it all to mesh. The body of Christ suffers from schism diseases, due to the missing vitamin, the pure Love of God, in demonstration towards each other.

The world will identify us by our love for one another, as Jesus’ disciples. Therefore, we need the Father to raise our love levels.  True love and true covenant are not valued because we are more impressionable than relational.  Jesus said, in Matthew 7:22-23,  “…many will say to me. Lord! Lord!” We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in you name,  But I will reply, I never knew you.  Get away from me, you who break God’s laws.”  God’s law is love and against such there is no law. The word “knew”  in this passage, means to know intimately, therefore, we cannot be intimate without relationship.   The real becomes the target because of the commonality; for not succumbing to the status quo. Our love for each other should reflect our love for Jesus. We treat each other how we treat God. Our relationships with each other lacks depth and continuity due to a lack of trust.  This is why our worship is shallow. Therefore, our worship is how we treat each other, when we do not agree. Who gladly loves more, more and more while they are loved less, less and less?  Yet 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.”  (2 Corinthians 12:15)  We love better, when we love with the purpose of drawing others closer to God and loving beyond ourselves. We know the scriptures, head knowledge, but love is not exemplified. Love will keep us together. Our love job is to restore anyone who is overtaken in a fault, not bury them or beat them with it. “Less we be tempted or fall into the same thing.” God’s love is selfless, our love is selfish, this grieves the heart of God, how we treat each other, calling ourselves ambassadors of Christ.

Rather than love motivating us, we seek prestige, worldly acclaim, ambition, and self-promotion. Where is the love?  There are many people from different walks of  life that are non exemplary of true covenant. The heart of God bleeds at how we proclaim what is wrong with someone else, while at the same time we are personally desiring love and mercy.  We cannot deny that we all have struggles, however, love will keep us together.

If we speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, we are nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If we speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if we have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but we don’t love, we are nothing. If we give everything we own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but we don’t love, we have gotten nowhere. So, no matter what we say, what we believe, and what we do, we are bankrupt without love.  If we say we love God and hate our brothers we are liars.

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 nor keep record of the wrongs suffered,
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.

Love never dies. Prophesying 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.

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.

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!

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.  The best of the three is love.  Love, love will keep us together!

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times and bless you as he has promised! You don’t have to beg, just receive the blessings! “(Deuteronomy 1:11)

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

I believe the Lord is raising the standard of his holiness in the body of Christ.

“Holiness is for what God is calling and without no man shall see the Lord. Oh I will live right, holy in your sight. Pure and true just like You…” (A prophetic song of the Lord.)

Holiness is a matter or state of the heart towards Christ and his body. Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God. (Matthew 5:8)

Worship is more than the melodic singing of songs and skillful playing of music but also how we interact with each other and treat our relationships. However, God doesn’t want our offering if we have an alt against one another. He wants us leave our gift/offering at the altar and go be reconciled to our brother/sister. More than giving an offering, the Father desires us to become an offering poured out like a “drink offering.”

Holiness is a matter of the heart not the appearance. It’s the pure in heart that will see God not pure in the letter or scriptures but the heart. Holiness is the fire of the Holy Spirit exposing the heart to the permeating love of God. Formerly, there has been much emphasis outwardly, trying to dress to part. While neglecting the most essential part, “the heart.” as we meet the Holiness of God, we become overwhelmingly consumed with living a life filled with pleasing the Lord. The Holy Spirit empowers us to live holy, the word equips us to live holy, but God’s love transforms us to be  holy. God is filling our hearts, minds, and body with the fresh fires of his holiness.

Holiness is a matter or condition of the heart.
The inner power of the Holy Spirit outwardly revealing in our character.
A Process of becoming divine,
Dying to live, living to love, and loving to love exactly like God.

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

Start declaring and seeing yourself Victorious! Whatever you think about, you bring about…speak victory filled words not defeat”