One day as I had just finished taping some radio broadcasts, the Spirit of the Lord came upon me in a sudden manifestation. During that time the Lord revealed to me what was wrong with the world.
These were the words He said to me that day: “People make Me complicated. All I want them to do is let Me love them.”
We don’t let the Lord love us much. We’re too busy. I get guilty of this myself. If you let the Lord love you, then His love can go from you out to others. You can have more understanding and more patience about things when you let the Lord love you.
Many people might think, “Well, the Lord loves me anyway.”
That’s not what He is talking about.
We Need to Give Him a Proper Time & Place
If you would bow down to Him and worship Him in your prayer closet, then His power would come on you and melt your heart. He would begin to love you, and you would begin to love Him back.
All Jesus wants you to do is let Him love you. He wants to take you in His arms and love you. He wants to manifest Himself to you. He wants His pure love to flow down through your body and into your mind, just as if you had taken a bath.
If you don’t spend any time before Him, it’s hard for Him to get you still long enough to love you. He loves all of us in a general love, but that’s not good enough. He wants to boldly show you how much He loves you.
His love will melt you down until you can have compassion on drunks and thieves and prostitutes. With His love in you, you can see people in a different light. You can see what sin and the devil have done to them.
If you will let God love you, you won’t always just go to Him with the big mountain in your life.
If you have been praying for things and not getting any answers, start letting Jesus love you. Start worshipping Him and loving Him, telling Him how you feel about Him:
Jesus, You’re the Lord of my life. I thank You that You died on the cross for me. I worship You, Jesus, and praise You because my name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. I worship You, Jesus. I praise Your wonderful name. I hold Your name above all names that are on this earth.
It’s a good thing to be involved with a church and with God’s work; but the greatest thing you will ever do is shut yourself off from the world and spend time with Jesus – just you and Him.
Jesus wants you – just you and Him. Jesus wants you – just you alone. Spend time worshipping Him, and you will learn more about His beauty than you have ever known.
Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers
Norvel Hayes is a successful businessman, internationally renowned Bible teacher, and founder of several Christian ministries in the United States and abroad.
Brother Hayes founded New Life Bible College, located in Cleveland, Tennessee, in 1977. New Life Bible Church grew out of the Bible schools\' chapel services. Among its many other outreachs, the church ministers God\'s Word, and hot meals daily to the poor through the New Life Soup Kitchen.
Brother Hayes is also the founder and president of New Life Maternity Home, a ministry dedicated to the spiritual, physical, and financial needs of young girls during pregnancy; Campus Challenge, an evangelistic outreach on college campuses across America; Street Reach, a ministry dedicated to runaway teens located in Daytona Beach, Florida; and Children\'s Home, an orphanage home and education center located in India.
Known internationally for his dynamic exposition of the Word of God, Brother Hayes spends most of his time teaching and ministering God\'s deliverance and healing power in churches, college classrooms, conventions, and seminars around the world.