Love Just Like Breathing

God expresses His love just like breathing because He doesn't want us to miss it.

I've witnessed this time and time again as I meet and talk to people. During the first three months of 2013 - my teaching trips, God the Father showed me His fiery love that pursues the broken and hurting people - loving on them radically. Countless times, I had to ask God how that looks like and realised it can be seen in many different expressions.

One time, I was given free hands to cut the hair of this lovely woman. She was ecstatic after the hairdo. The next day, she came looking for me, accusing me of lies that I could never think of - that I humiliated her by making her hair really short - which was not my heart at all. I was ready to defend myself but I was reminded of what God told me earlier that morning - "Mary, this is another day to learn to love." I prayed silently in my mind asking Him what to do. He said, "Mary, just look into her heart and soul, allow my love to flow in and through you." All I did as I peered into her soul was to say sorry and that when I came to do her hair, I wanted to love on her. Then words like, "if you find it on the bottom of your heart even a tiny bit to listen to what I have to say, and to allow me to bless what God is doing in your life..." Then I saw that little girl in her jumped out of her skin saying "yes", then went back in and all I could see were the eyes of pride. I was not intimidated. I gazed into her eyes with God's love pulsating in and through me, I could feel a fiery sensation under my spine and flame around my heart, as I spoke words of truth over her. Then her aura started to soften, a hesitant smile on her lips and said to me, "I forgive you. I'm sorry I said some awful words." She didn't allow me to hug her but I knew God's fiery love was pursuing her and melting away the pride in those eyes. 


After that encounter, a friend whisked me away up into my room and as soon as I got there, such heaviness and the offensive words I just heard were being melted by that same fiery love of the Father. He came and enveloped me with His assuring love. 

Could it be that another expression of that love is seen when you go to a country for the first time, and while you're there, you experience God's love for such a nation. Before I went to Switzerland for the first time, I woke up that morning thinking of my flight then I began to weep for that country. I asked God for understanding what was I crying out for. And God gave me a glimpse in the spirit of how God feels about the land and the people. It's a small nation but a land filled with riches and inheritance - the transformation that happened in history, now evident to all. Switzerland cannot be where it is now without the men and women who have poured out their lives for transformation and freedom. However, there are many who are hungry and thirsty of God's Presence to be poured out once again in the nation. When I visited this work of art in Lucerne - a lion carved in the stone, I understood a little why I was compelled to go there... that it was more than meeting with my boyfriend and his family.

I've written this sometime before Easter but didn't have the time to publish it. My apologies for hearing from for the last few months. More stories to come soon! Cheers!