By not having a full understanding of the Love of God, we have allowed the enemy an opportunity to have a hold on our lives that was never intended. This love that we have from the Father has already "been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit." It's not a matter of God loving us, but it is more a matter of our understanding this unconditional love.
We read in 1 John 4:18 (Amplified) that "there is no fear in love (dread does not exist) but full grown (complete, perfect) love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! for fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and (so) he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love (is not yet grown into love's complete perfection)."
In 1 John 2:13 (Amplified) we read "I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know (recognize, be aware of, and understand) Him who (has existed) from the beginning."
When you think of people who walk in the anointing of God, you think that they just got lucky and somehow these gifts were placed on them. In some cases that's true, but not in every case. We find in 1Corinthians 12:31 (Amplified), "But earnestly desire and zealously cultivate the greatest and best gifts and graces (the higher gifts and choicest graces). And yet I will show you a still more excellent way (one that is better by far and the highest of them all-love)."
When Paul wrote this about us desiring the gifts of the Spirit, it's obvious that God wants us to have these gifts. When you have a gift, it's not for you, but for someone else. When I go to do my Christmas shopping, I'm not looking for gifts for myself, but for someone else. When these gifts are dispensed by the Holy Spirit, he said the best way to obtain these gifts is through love. As you receive the gift of healing, it's the love of God taking this gift (through you) to someone who is sick. You are love's messenger by delivering the love of God to someone else. That's why he said that love was a better way to get these gifts than just desiring them.
When you understand the full measure of God's love, you become a conduit for Him to flow through you, to the one that needs the gift. Jesus said, "that it was not Him, but the Father in Him that was doing the works." Jesus just allowed the love of God to guide Him in His walk. He said that "when you seen Me. then you've seen the Father."
We sometimes confuse our new covenant with the old covenant and don't know who this God of Love really is. We get mixed messages from ministers and preconceived ideas about God that we've heard over the years. When you see Jesus, you have actually watched love Himself walk and talk. Jesus didn't have love, He Is Love. Everything He did, He did out of love. Miracles aren't God's method of operation, it's the love of God putting things back into the order that He had always intended them to be. He never intended people to be sick, so He had to supernaturally intervene and set things right.
When you or I understand this love (and stop being afraid God won't answer or doesn't want them well, or is getting some kind of perverse joy or glory from sick people), then we'll begin to walk in His power. Love is His power.
Mark 16:17-18 (Amplified) says that miraculous signs and wonders were to follow the ones who believed in His name. We as believers have been following the signs instead of the signs following us. The "fathers" that we spoke of in 1John 2:17 (Amplified) are the ones who are not afraid of God (because they understand the instruments of this love). Like a scalpel in the hands of a surgeon, the scalpel is only a n instrument for an instrument for a great surgeon. All the glory of a masterful operation goes to the surgeon and not the scalpel.
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