My Love Is Sufficient For You

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2)

Thank you Father; we thank you for this day Father; we ask your blessing on this program today. Give us ears to hear what the Holy Spirit is saying.

Today’s program is called, My Love Is Sufficient For You. Let’s turn to 2 Cor 12:8, Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong. Not too long ago I was struggling with some afflictions, and the Lord Jesus spoke to me and said, “My grace is sufficient for you.” Then He touched me, and lifted the affliction off of me. What a joy! I felt so much better, all that night!, and I realized His grace is truly sufficient for me. The Apostle Paul wrote, in Heb 4:14, let’s turn there,   Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. When you are in need, you can come boldly to Jesus and the Father and ask for grace and they will respond, if you come boldly, in faith, in humility; faith in what? Faith in Jesus sacrifice for you upon the Cross, through which He brought you into fellowship with Him, through your repentance and faith toward Him. What is that? It’s His love. 

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, upon that Cross for our sins, that whoever lives and believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. The other evening, as I was meditating on the relationships I have, and the Lord spoke to me again, “My love is sufficient for you.” Then He touched my heart. I was weeping and thanking Him for His love, not only for the Cross, but also for how He has loved me all my life. I realized, at that moment, that if everyone turned away from me, Jesus would still be with me; His love would sustain me. Thank you Father; thank you Jesus. 

Sometimes you may feel that nobody loves you; I’m here to tell you that Jesus loves you.  

He gave His very life for you, and if you will come to Him, in humility, with all your heart, you can know Him. He said, Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. 

Let’s turn to Eph 2:4, Lord I thank you; I praise you; thank you Lord, But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. God gave His Son because He loved us: His great love with which He loved us. The grace of God is His love toward us in Christ Jesus. His love is sufficient for you. Jesus loved us when we were dead in trespasses and sins, and He gave His life for us, that we might be forgiven and live in fellowship with Him and His Father forever. 

Isa 53, Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; and when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and we hid, as it were our faces from Him; He was despised and we did not esteem Him. He was rejected of men, that we might be accepted of God in Him. In Him, you are not rejected; the Father loves you!, and He has accepted you because you believe in His Son and His sacrifice for you. Eph 1:6, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. When we reject Him, we condemn ourselves. He does not change. His love is true and everlasting. If we will repent and turn to Him and obey Him, we will abide in His love. 

John 15:9, Jesus said, As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. He said, If you love Me, keep My commandments. We love Him, and continue in His Word, because He first loved us and gave Himself for us. Let’s go to John 17; Jesus was praying to the Father, shortly before He was arrested. Verse 20,  I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me. And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them. In verse 23, Jesus said,... that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me. If you are in Jesus, according to His Word, the Father loves you as He loves Him. Do you believe that? That’s hard to believe, isn’t it? But it’s the truth, because Jesus said so. That’s how much the Father loves us. His love is true and faithful. If you will trust Jesus, no matter what you are going through, He will uphold you; His love will sustain you. He will be interceding for you before the Father at His right hand. He will bring you through into victory, but you must trust Him and believe Him and follow Him, even unto death. Let's turn to 1 Cor 15: 54, So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory. O death where is your sting? O Hades where is your victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 

1 John 4:7, Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.   In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. We love Him because He first loved us. If someone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also. 

Understand this: the only reason that Jesus endured and willingly went through all He went through in His suffering for you and me, is because He loves us, and the Father, and the Father loves us. Receive His love this day. His love is sufficient for you.

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth. Amen (2 Cor 13:14)