Anthony Wade Ministries

During a time of meditative prayer Holy Spirit said something to me in relation to the mutual respect that we should have towards one another. You could call it another dimension of the Love of God — He said to me that:

“MUTUAL RESPECT WILL NEVER VIOLATE THE GOD THAT IS ON THE INSIDE OF YOU.”

One of the greatest tests of anyone’s character will be how they deal with their enemies.

Regardless of what you and I encounter in the arena of enemies, the finest way to conquer them is to please the Lord.

It really doesn’t matter what our enemy endeavors to do to us; the final inspection is what we do in Him.

Proverbs 16:7 (NKJV)

{7} When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

It will be extremely hard for our enemies to remain our opposition if we would please the Lord. In fact they become well wishers. They are at peace with us by virtue of what we do. If what we are doing is pleasing to the Lord we will be overwhelmed at how God is our rear-guard. God has your back; if you will do what isnecessary out front (Isaiah 52:7-12 ~ NKJV).

The ball is in our court, and we hold the reigns to the results. What a powerful position we possess. If we would do what we should; He will more than exceed what He said He would.

1. There are people who love you dearly, but just don’t know how to show it.

2. Just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want to be loved,doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have.

3. You cannot make someone love you; all you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to the other individual.

by Anthony N. Wade

The Highest Degree of Love is The God Kind of Love. One of the Greek words for the English word for Love is Agape. Agape will have many levels of which we will discuss.

1. A Forgiving Love:

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said “Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.”

Learning how to forgive is the smartest thing you can do. Recent research shows that holding on to anger increases your chances of a heart attack as well as cancer, high blood pressure; high cholesterol and other illnesses. Forgiveness boosts your self esteem and lowers your blood pressure and heart rate. Forgiveness also helps you sleep better at night and boosts a positive change in your attitude. Forgiveness is a decision you make to give up your anger and feelings of revenge (Romans 12:17-21).

2. An Endless Love:

Enduring forever; eternal, having no end in space. It forms a closed loop or circle.
Much like a wedding ring has no beginning and no end. The God Kind of Love has no end. There is not one thing you can do to change God’s Love for you; it is eternal.

3. A Selfless Love:

Concerned for others; not for one’s own advantage, pleasure or comfort. The highest degree of love enables us to run the way of God’s Commandments. The highest degree of love will always be based on principle—not emotion. It grows out of respect for the admirable qualities of others. The highest type of love will always recognize something of value in the person that is being loved -AWM

Real Bible humility is not a belittling of oneself, but an exalting or praising of others; especially God the Father and The Lord Jesus Christ. A humble person focuses more on others than themselves. Biblical humility is an acknowledgment that by ourselves we are inadequate without dignity and worthless. However, in Christ we have infinite worth and self-esteem.

If you really knew who you were, you wouldn’t take the opportunity to bring down another. Bringing down others only proves that you are not very confident in what God has created in you. Someone once said that “You have to be little, to belittle and he who throws dirt loses ground.”

My friend, we need to look for the opportunities to esteem others better than ourselves. To esteem someone else, means to have a high regard and respect of someone else. It is to value, prize, appreciate and admire someone other than yourself.

The book of Philippians really brings this to light:

Philippians 2:1-4 NKJV

{1} Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship (communion) of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy,

{2} fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

{3} Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.

{4} Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

What an awesome command. The Golden verse that I want to center this message on is vs:3. How are we to esteem others? Better than ourselves. Now, Holy Spirit would not direct us to do something that we don’t have the ability to do. We have the power to esteem others better than ourselves. It is imperative that we drop a self-centered view of things and embrace a Christ-centered view. That is what Jesus did in His sacrifice for mankind. He had a high estimation of us, before He went to the Cross, and rose triumphant over death, hell and the grave.

Esteeming others better than ourselves, actually speaks more about us, than the other person. If we are doing this verse it is a display of the attitude that we have toward ourselves. Our attitude towards our self, will find its expression in esteeming others better. Esteeming others better than ourselves is a clue that you love you (Mark 12:30-31).

Esteeming others better, is the only way of knowing we have a healthy fellowship with God the Father and The Lord Jesus Christ. If we can’t esteem others better, then chances are we really don’t have a high estimation of ourselves nor do we have a vibrant fellowship with God the Father.

Another way of esteeming others is also preferring one another.

Romans 12:9-10 The Message

{9-10} Love from the center of who you are; don’t fake it. Run for dear life from evil; practice playing second fiddle.

Most of us have heard the old saying that practice makes perfect. Well, there is no such thing as a perfect person; but there are many people in the Body of Christ, who are mature. One of the qualities that prepared them for maturation was the attitude and the practice of playing second fiddle. All too often, we are only looking out for numero uno. If that kind of mindset dominates our life we will be disappointed. Deep inside we will be looking for, and desiring more but it simply won’t come. Why? Because we have the cart before the horse so to speak. Esteeming others better, preferring one another, or playing second fiddle is a sure way to achieve what we are looking for in life.

In preferring our brother/sister before us, we are positioning our self for promotion. Most of us want to be promoted and acknowledged for who we are as a person, yet the promotion cannot come our way until we have consistently practiced playing second fiddle. Another way of playing second fiddle is ridding yourself of any reputation.

This is exactly what The Lord Jesus Christ did for us. It is His example that we are to follow. Christ esteemed us, so that we could have an awesome opinion of one another. Following His example is positioning ourselves for promotion.

Philippians 2:5-11 NKJV

{5} Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

{6} who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God,

{7} but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.

{8} And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled himself and becameobedient to the point of death, even death of the cross.

{9} Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the Name which is above every name,

{10} that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in Heaven,
and of those on earth, and those under the earth,

{11} and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the Glory
of God the Father.

What an awesome privilege and responsibility we have. Esteem others better and you will never ever regret it. In fact, we are at our best when we are giving to others. For God so loved, that He Gave. He gave us His Best, so we could have the rest. Let’s Esteem Others Better. -Peace