Anthony Wade Ministries

Before I gave my life to The Lord Jesus Christ, I encountered a person who used to frequent a bar called, Lo’s Club, in my hometown. This person’s nickname was Shorty. He would on numerous occasions get intoxicated. What was so unique about Shorty was that he would get drunk and start preaching. A period of time went by during which I had received The Lord Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. I was in my hometown on a weekend and I saw Shorty on a street corner. He was drunk! I was in my motor vehicle at the time I saw Shorty, and yes he was preaching. This time it was obvious that Shorty had urinated on himself. I call it “pissy drunk.”

When I saw him, “Holy Spirit” said something to me I have never forgotten. He said, “Don’t you judge that man!” He “The Holy Spirit,” explained to me if I had been through what that man has been through, I might be the same way. This reminds me of what Jesus said about judging.

Matthew 7:1-5 (NASB)

{1} “Do not judge lest you be judged. {2} “For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. {3} “And why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? {4} “Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye? {5}”You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

It is a given that many times we don’t have a clue what others have gone, or are going through. It is vitally important that we don’t judge things from an outward appearance. All to often, life has kicked people around so much and so hard they end up in a survival mode. The activity they choose is with a survival mental attitude. They are doing their best to make it. If we walked a mile in their shoes, we would do the same or something similar. The old expression is don’t judge a book by it’s cover. — AWM

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John was very caustic with Barb. They have been married for fifteen years, and Barb can only remember a few short years when his words were not unkind. She had contemplated divorce but couldn’t justify it because of what she experienced as a child. Barb’s father and mother divorced when she was a pre-teen. It wasn’t a very good exit. Her parents fought over possessions as well as custody of the children. To be curt, it was very evil. She didn’t want her three children to encounter what she had encountered. She figured that it was worth keeping the family together, yet she lived a life of being verbally abused. Verbal abuse, in my opinion is more hazardous than physical. Why do I take that position? Because with physical abuse, apart from being slain, the bruises have an opportunity to heal. With verbal abuse, there is a continual reminder of what the abuser thinks, and how they view you. Both physical and verbal abuse are horrendous. With verbal abuse there is a battery of blows delivered with the tongue. Physical abuse is inflicted by a fist, open hand, or an object, other than the tongue.

Barb was a God fearing woman who matured to the position that John was not going to get away with abusing her any longer. She began praying for him in a positive way. She learned to bind the spirit of anger that was tormenting John. She not only bound the spirit of anger, but she loosed the spirit of love between the two of them. (Matthew 16:19 Amplified Bible).

Barb took the upper hand in their marital status. She was very watchful not to do anything that would ignite John’s anger. She became very prolific in living 2 Peter 3:1-6. She knew there was more to John, than his outbursts of anger. John was also raised in a God-fearing home. When he was able to leave his parents home, he departed from the faith. Barb prayed that her husband would rededicate his life to The Lord Jesus Christ. However, she was made aware of 1 Corinthians 7:14-15, which let her know that John was free to leave her if he wanted. She had an inward intuition that he would become a 2 Peter 3:7 man. She had in truth become a Proverbs 31 woman. She turned their household around with the weapon of her words. Her words were not complaints about how terrible her husband was, but she began to speak the desired results according to Romans 4:17. That verse encourages us to speak those things which be not as though they were. Barb not only prayed this way, but she made positive affirmations concerning their union.

That is what the Scriptures mean when they say that God made Abraham the father of many nations. God will accept all people in every nation who trust Him as Abraham did. This promise is from God himself, who makes the dead live again and speaks of future events with as much certainty as though they were already past. (Romans 4:17 TLB). Barb spoke the desired results based on the Word of God. She had the desired results before she got them. The desired results were hers in the spirit realm, before she experienced them in the physical. In other words, be there, before you get there. -AWM

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“Shape your life by the way you think. Shape your thinking by the way you love. Shape your love by your willingness to open your heart. Open your heart by your sheer desire to experience more love.”
- The Voice of Love

We won’t be able to love our neighbor properly without first of all loving ourselves with the same love that God loved us with.

Romans 5:5… the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

The Love that has been poured out in your heart came from God. He poured it into you. We can safely say that He poured out the fundamental Nature of Himself into us (2 Peter 1:4). You and I are to take that same fundamental Nature which is His Love and use it on ourselves. You are to be the first recipient of the Love of God that is in you. Take His Love that has been poured into you and use His Love on yourself. This will giveyou the platform to love your neighbor as well as your enemies. Without first of all loving yourself, you have nothing to give to anyone else.

Make sure you are in love with you, and you will always be in love with everyone else. Remember, I am talking about the God quality of Love, not something that is selfish and or self- centered. The best way to take inventory of how much you really love yourself is found in your expression, manner of speech, attitudes and actions toward others. Having the God quality of love for yourself will guarantee that you have the right love for your neighbor. People who hurt others often do so out of their own frustrations, not out of the perception of the person that they hurt.

John C. Maxwell once said that, “hurting people hurt people.” The Holy Spirit gave me another quote that will bring a slightly different angle to the Maxwell quote.

“Loving people…, love people; especially themselves.” — Anthony N. Wade

Jesus clearly communicated that the arena of love for our neighbor is found in our love for ourselves. The first commandment is to love the Lord your God, heart, soul, mind and strength (Mark 12:30). The second is just as powerful and as important as the first.

Mark 12:31

{31} “and the second, like it, is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.

Love for you will consist of forgiving yourself. Until a person is truly walking in forgiveness towards himself it will be impossible for him to really forgive others. It will also be increasingly impossible for him to get his prayers answered (Mark 11:23 -26).

Every one of us has done things that we were not pleased with. The key to overcoming blunders is to be as generous and loving to yourself as God would be to you. If God is generous enough to forgive you, it is necessary for you, to forgive yourself. When God forgives, He also forgets.

“God Never Consults Your Past To Determine Your Future.” — Dr. Mike Murdock

If you will plant the seeds of forgiving as God does, you will reap the harvest of forgetting as He does. If God chose to forgive and forget any and everything you used to be; then you must in turn have the same point of view, about you. It is vital for you to be at peace with you, especially if God is at peace with you. He has a favorable disposition towards you. Do you have a favorable regard for you? (Isaiah 43:25, Hebrews 8:12, 10:17).

Psalm 103:12

{12} As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

Micah 7:18 -19

{18} Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in mercy.

{19} He will again have compassion on us, and will subdue (conquer) our iniquities. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

If all of our sins are in the depths of the sea, they are forgiven and forgotten. They are not remembered (Hebrews 8:12; Hebrews 10:17). Don’t go fishing for them, they are not there. They are forgiven and forgotten. If God has forgotten, and forgiven them—when are you? Don’t waste your time on something that no longer exists.

There is something about you that no one else has. It could be the color of your eyes, or the complexion of your skin. It could be the melanin in your skin, or the lack thereof. It could be the shape of your nose, or the size of your feet. Perhaps you view things a smidgen different that your peers. You are unique.

“The most damaging thing that you can do to yourself, is to live your life according to someone else’s view of you.” –Anthony N. Wade

Dr. Ed Cole said, “Many of men fail because they wear the pattern of life someone else has for them.”

“Wearing someone else’s view of you is a weak analysis of how God made you.”
–Anthony N. Wade

Psalm 139: 13 -18

{13} For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb.

{14} I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are your works, and that my soul knows very well.

{15} My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

{16} Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.

{17} How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

{18} If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; When I awake, I am still with You.

There is a balance when it comes to these truths. There are men and women in the Body of Christ that are God’s delegated authority. His appointed authority in our lives we are to respect, and hold them in high esteem. Anything less than that is mutiny.

Doing your own thing, having your own agenda, without any regard to God’s delegated authority, is rebellion. The man or women that say’s I am free and I answer to no man is ignorant of God’s “Divine Arrangement.” This kind of person is in a very dangerous position and is wide open to the devil and his diabolical deeds.

David understood God’s delegated authority in Saul. It was because he recognized Saul as a representative of God, that the Lord God acknowledged him as a man after His own heart. David knew the danger in laying a hand on, let alone speaking against God’s authority (I Samuel 26:9-12, 2 Samuel 1). -AWM

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Love for our neighbor consists of pleasing our neighbor for his or her good. It is necessary that we throw away that which always pleases us. We must remember that it is for our neighbors good and edification – not to do harm to them.

Romans 15: 1-3

{1} We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples (attitudes) of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

{2} Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification.

{3} For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on me.” (See Psalm 69:9)

In Luke 10:25-37, we find the story of the Good Samaritan. The lawyer in this story wanted to know what to do to inherit eternal life. Jesus’ response to him was pertaining to what the law required. The lawyer’s response was accurate and Jesus commended him. Jesus then exhorted him to go do it and he would live. The lawyer endeavoring to justify himself asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?” Jesus then gives us the account of the Good Samaritan. At the end of this parable Jesus asked a very remarkable question.

Luke 10:36 – 37

{36} “So which of these three do you think was neighbor to him that fell among the thieves?”

{37} And he (the lawyer) said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”

As we study this passage we find that a priest and a Levite saw the man that was in need. Neither one of them wanted to get involved. They passed by on the other side, which means they saw the gentleman who really needed help, but they chose to close up their heart (1 John 3:16-18, Philippians 2:1-2, Colossians 3:12-15).

They decided to look the other way, leaving the man in the condition he was in. For all they knew the man could have died where they saw him.

The Samaritan had a different determination; it was the spirit of compassion. Compassion will motivate you to love your neighbor not only in word, but also in deed. It didn’t matter how much it cost the Samaritan. When something or someone is the object of your love it will never matter what it cost. The only motivation of the Samaritan was the well being of his neighbor. The only motivation we should have in serving our neighbor is for his or her well being.

John 15:12 -13

{12} “This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

{13} Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.

Jesus told us to love as He loved. There will be no conditions to that kind of love. Many times God’s people want to put strings on their love. You know the attitude of, “I’m not going to such and such because, so and so didn’t do it the way I wanted them too.” Jesus never had that attitude.

His Love for us was and is an unconditional love, and He commanded us to love the way that He loved. For you and I to walk in this level of maturity means that we are not going to have it our way all the time. We are commissioned to lay down our lives. Laying down our life not only refers to dying physically, but also in giving cheerfully of our time and effort. Perhaps there is someone in need of our friendship etc. We should be willing to give with the same attitude that we would have if we were doing it for ourselves.

The most powerful demonstration of loving your neighbor is when you love without expecting anything back from the person who is the object of your love. To love without working impolitely to your neighbor means that you have made a deliberate decision to never do anything destructive or detrimental to them. -AWM

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