Reckless Devotion: 365 Days Into the Heart of Radical Love by Heidi Baker & Rolland Baker

Author:Heidi Baker & Rolland Baker [Baker, Heidi & Baker, Rolland]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Christian Life, Devotional, Christianity, Pentecostal & Charismatic, Spiritual Growth
ISBN: 0800795849
Google: xxY4AwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00GHXRY1M
Barnesnoble: B00GHXRY1M
Publisher: Chosen Books
Published: 2014-07-28T22:00:00+00:00

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City-Reaching Love

People often ask how the Church can reach their city. Many books have been dedicated to discussing strategies for doing this. I only believe in one method.

It begins with a holy hunger among God’s people to be filled with Him, to be filled with His Spirit to overflowing. To be filled with His loving-kindness. To be filled with Him and yet want more and more and more of Him.

Where God’s people are filled to overflowing with His presence, it will spill out everywhere.

Acts of loving-kindness break out all over a city, and people are touched by the love of God. Acts of unwarranted generosity begin to happen everywhere, and people begin to take notice. Radical love is demonstrated practically, and people are amazed and humbled by it. In this way, we begin to reach a city.

As I have said many times, revival has a face and a name.

It is great to bring together the Body of Christ from right across a particular city and meet together to worship God in a big hall or stadium. That is wonderful, but it’s often not the solution to reaching a city.

Countless acts of repeated kindness and love can change the atmosphere of a city, and that takes patience, endurance and commitment.

“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. . . . Over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity” (Colossians 3:12–14).

Cities are reached when every single believer is so fully filled with Holy Spirit that He is manifested all over the city, all the time. Cities are reached when we are so full of Jesus’ joy that people everywhere are astounded by Him and attracted to Him. Keep on being filled.

“Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God” (Ephesians 5:1–2).

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