Advertisements and messages in our world try to convince us that love is complicated and has us question whether true love exists. I don’t think that its all intentional but I do think it is because there are demonic forces in this world trying to keep us from knowing the true meaning of Love. And for us to know love, we need to understand that God is Love. 

Jesus said that our focus should not be on worldly goods, what we will eat or what we will wear. These are distractions. Anything that is necessary, God provides. If we first focus on God and His righteousness, we will find His love and see how graceful He has been in our lives.  Being worried about what you will eat, drink or wear will only bring about fear of not having. But our Heavenly Father knows what we need and says to seek Him first and what you need will be added to you. 

This is not a prosperity message. It is wisdom from God through words spoken by Jesus while He was on Earth (Matthew 6: 31-34) and the fourth chapter of the epistle of 1John (believed to be written by His disciple and apostle John). These scriptures give us more in-depth wisdom as to why we should seek God. 

Why is this important? Fear involves torment, hate and lying which results in the darkness we hear about everyday in the news or through gossip. We were warned of the spirit of the Antichrist and it has existed in this world since the day that John wrote about it in the first of his epistles. He warns us to test the spirits because there will be many false prophets in our world.

If we realize that we are greater than the worldly spirits by living in love as God has asked us to do many times (first through His laws and later through an easier new commandment which He spoke through Jesus - and that is for us to love one another), we will realize that God abides in us and wants desperately for us to allow Him to speak through us. 

We can testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world if we allow the love of God to be perfected in us by loving one another as He loves us and abides within us.

Love really isn’t complicated. God knew that when Adam gave up dominion on Earth by disobeying the only commandment given to him, mankind would need a Savior to relinquish the original dominion granted to mankind. He sent Jesus and even before the birth of Christ, the Antichrist has been trying to convince us that we do not have authority on Earth. But Jesus came to save the world and give us the knowledge to begin to take back authority. He did this through the Love of God Who sent Him.

• Get to know God and you will know love. 
• Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you. Abide in the Word. 
• Test spirits of people, especially those who give themselves titles of apostle, prophet, evangelist, etc and see if their spirit is of truth or one of error. Do they preach Christ? 
• Do they preach that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh and is of God? 
• Know that if you confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh and is the propitiation for our sins because God loved us that much, you will know that you overcome the spirits of the world. 
• The  Spirit of God that is in you is greater than any spirit that is in the world and we live through the Spirit of God.

Love one another and see the love of God perfected in you that in the day of judgment, you can walk in boldness. Know that perfect love casts out fear. 1John 4:21 says “And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.”