What Manner of Love
Scripture: 1 John 3:1Devotional Series: Eternal Life
Teaching: Eternal Life pt. 1 (WED 2021-08-18) by Pastor Star R Scott
Hallelujah! Amen. Thank the Lord for opening those doors and excited about where it’s going to go. The Lord knows; amen? There’s a possibility of going into numerous nations in Africa, and we’re believing the Lord to open up a great opportunity in India. So, if the Lord leads, and we hook up with Mohan there in India, then of course, there’s no way that we could even meet the need there. But we’re just praying. We have an open invitation to go minister with Mohan and the ministries there in India, so we’re being prayerful. Be prayerful with us, looking for doors of utterance. As we shared with you some great opportunities with Mohan. His church, I believe at this time, they’re somewhere in the 70,000 to 100,000 members just in the local, the mother church; and many, many, many other churches that they have. So, just in meeting those pastors’ needs would be a great opportunity. And, of course, he has access to ministries around the world. So, we’re just being prayerful. We have an open invitation to go to Bangalore. It’s the new high-tech city in India. And a ministry there, I think I’ve shared that testimony, but the Lord touched the young man’s life in the meetings that we were in there years ago in India and transformed his ministry, and subsequently there in the city of Bangalore there he’s pastoring a church of 30,000 to 40,000 people in Bangalore. And last we heard just really, really looking forward to us coming. So be prayerful; we want to be in the Spirit. I want to prayerfully—I just really want to be open to the Lord. My natural man, I so despise travel. I don’t want my natural preferences; I have not in the past and don’t want to start now, to interfere with doors that God’s opening. So be prayerful with us, and we believe that God will order our steps.
Just having come back from California, and being with my brother out there as my mother was passing was a great opportunity to minister to him and provide care in his life at that time. I was not really even planning on going that way. I was completely at peace. I had no needs of any type of closure as far as that goes. I was in a place of having just prayed and believing God, and to me this was an answer to prayer. This was not something that to me was a time of grieving; it was a time of celebrating that God answered our prayer. And my mother went home and took her last breath in absolute peace with no type of physical agitations or anything else and went home to be with Jesus, praise God! And not a whole lot of years ago she was on her way to a devil’s hell, and God’s merciful; amen? And I like to remember her, not as she was at that time, but being baptized in my swimming pool. And I like to remember her as I shared with her a year or so ago and it finally registered in her soul the great truth of justification, and watched her sigh the greatest sigh of relief you could ever see, and the pain come off of her face when she realized she was guiltless before God, hallelujah! God’s good; amen?
So, we did go out, as I said, for my brother. She was not cognizant when I got there. We showed up at about 1:30 in the morning, our plane; by the time we were able to get there 1:30 in the morning or so Pacific time, and was able just to take her hand. They say that the last thing that goes is your hearing. And I took her by the hand and just began to celebrate with her and share with her, “Mom, just any moment you’re going to see the face of Jesus,” hallelujah! Think about it. What manner of love!