The Love Way

(Excerpts from a teaching by Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille, circa 1969)

In Romans, chapter 12, verses 5 to 6, it says that every man when he comes into the family of God has the measure of faith given to him. This measure of faith is spiritual faith. Now in order to manifest this in the believing world, in the senses realm in the believing world, he must renew his mind. He has it spiritually, but it comes into concretion into manifestation, when he believes with his mind what he has spiritually. He has to cultivate faith, spiritual faith, to make it manifest into the senses realm and develop it. Likewise, the same thing is true regarding this new kind of love which is given unto us when we are born into the family of God. That measure of love is given unto you, and it comes with the new birth. This is the love nature. This love nature spiritually must be developed as you develop your faith life and manifest it forth by believing into the senses world.

As you give love freedom to grow and act, it naturally will gain in ascendancy in your whole life, in your whole being. This love of God which is in the renewed mind in manifestation must be fed by the Word of God and then it will express itself in action as we operate it. Remember according to Matthew 4:4 Jesus declared, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” You see, the real man of whom I am speaking is your spirit. If you’re born again of God’s spirit that is the real man. Your spiritual hunger and your spirit needs are just as great as your mental or your physical needs. Your spirit must have the privilege of meditating in the Word. You must learn to feed upon this Word of God as Jeremiah did when he said he ate it, he ate the Word (Jeremiah 15:16). You feed and exercise this new love that has come into you by practicing love. The exercise makes it strong, just as exercise makes your body strong.

Colossians 3:16 says, “Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly. . . “, gaining the ascendancy over all of your faculties. This agapaō love, this love life, makes you gentle, makes you Jesus Christ-like, it makes you strong and vigorous like the Master. It makes you absolutely fearless in your walk with the Lord.

You know, some people have imprisoned love, and I recently heard of a father that locked up his boy in a room and kept him a prisoner until that child was nearly dead. How many have done that same thing to love? Instead of letting love have its perfect sway and control we have limited it.

The greatest thing in the world today is the manifestation of the love of God in the renewed mind. To the end that we are born again of God ‘s spirit and have renewed our mind on what we have in Christ Jesus, and we manifest forth this love of God, we really become new men and women in concretion in the senses realm.