Check Your Heart

I’m sharing this with you because I believe someone may benefit from the conversation.

In my prayer time this morning I had a heart to heart with Jesus. It was about some things that I was feeling and that have been bothering me lately. I got very real with him. You know what? He got very real right back at me, and this is what He said.

“When you’re not doing what you’re called to do, out of a heart of love, you get out of sorts. Besides you don’t walk by feelings, you walk by faith! Faith pleases me. It shows me you trust me and believe me. It shows the devil he doesn’t have a hold on you. Prayer puts you in a position of surrender and is not selfish. It takes your focus off yourself and puts it on me. After all that’s what it’s supposed to do.

You worship out of a heart of love and gratitude, not obligation or duty. And not because I demand it. I didn’t do what I did to manipulate praise. I had no selfish motivation. I did what I did because, one, I love my Father and two, I love you. Mankind.

My motivation was inspired because of love. Not because I am King. Not because I am Lord and Creator. Not because I have All Power. When you are the very essence of Love, the only thing you can, do, is love. And because of my love for you, and you accept that love, you will do the same. Not selfishly or enviously or greedily or in pride. It comes from a place of peace. A place of hope. Love, is, that place. It’s a place where you’d give everything for the one you love.

Those stripes I took, the rejection, persecution, mocking’s, the beating and verbal abuse. The crown of thorns pushed into my head, each nail, one by one, hammered into my hands and feet, the nakedness, the suffocation, a torturous death, the abandonment I felt by my father and the world, the betrayal of friends, the tears, the gasps for air as my lungs filled and collapsed. My spirit leaving my body as I hung upon a pole. My blood and water pouring from my side.

All of that was done from a place of deep, eternal love for all. I did it willingly because, I love you!

Check your heart, your own motivation. Why are you, doing what you’re doing? If it’s not totally because of love, my love, then you need to repent. Forgive yourself and others, regardless of what they do. Ask yourself, “Who do I love?”

Only an unselfish heart of holy love, will be accepted in my kingdom.

Love, unconditionally. No strings attached. No jealously. No flesh. No hate. No judgment or prejudice, love without wanting anything in return. Then you will begin to know who I am and how to love in Spirit and in Truth.

If you read my words, honestly and with an open heart, you’ll see this is what I’ve been saying from the beginning. Everything I’ve done, created, said, lived and died for, was from a heart of Love. All of it!

Check your heart!”

~Love, Papa God

~Marla Shaw O’Neill February 10, 2022

1 Corinthians 13

English Standard Version

The Way of Love

13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. ² And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,^[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant ⁵ or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or ^{resentful; [b] 6} it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸ Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. ¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. ¹² For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

¹³ So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Footnotes

1. 1 Corinthians 13:3 Some manuscripts deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast

2. 1 Corinthians 13:5 Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing

A doctor on why “blood and water” gushed from Jesus’ heart (aleteia.org)