Exporting Love by Pastor Brent Lokker

Four of us from the Blazing Fire family just got back from two weeks in Uganda where we had the joy and privilege of meeting beautiful people and releasing what has been entrusted to us by God. Tomorrow night (Saturday, August 31st), Pastors Brent, Lonnie & Angela and Fred Long will be sharing with and releasing to you what we experienced and received and we will encounter the Holy Spirit together!



(A Ugandan family that Blazing Fire supported two years ago with a coffee farm to give them hope for their future)

Most of the Ugandan people are very poor financially, yet their tropical land is loaded with the juiciest, sweetest pineapples and the biggest, richest avocadoes I've ever tasted! As God brings Kingdom transformation to the infrastrucure of Uganda, they already have the goods to export to the world!

That got me thinking about how you and I have been loaded up with the riches of God's heavenly Kingdom. And the more He transforms our inner lives to flow effortlessly according to our original identity as His sons and daughters who carry His glory, the more we will export His goodness everywhere we go.

The greatest mark of maturity in the Christian life is love. Love is the greatest quality of God that we carry. Love crosses all cultural barriers. Love changes things. Love wins. And love is our biggest, sweetest and richest export to the world!

This Saturday, in addition to sharing with you what happened as we exported love to Uganda, we will also be sending off Joe & Eva Medina who will be exporting to Redding, CA the love they've absorbed from the Blazing Fire family over nearly a decade. The following week, September 7th, we will be sending off Pastors Lonnie & Angela Ellis to export the love of Christ to Sacramento and the world! Please do what you can to be there these next two Saturdays to express the love, honor and deep appreciation to these beautiful friends who will always remain part of our family, but who are following the Lord's leading into the next chapter of their journey with Him.

Finally, I want to remind each one of you that you carry the riches of heaven right inside of you! You carry the greatest change agent ever created that is God's answer to all that you will encounter...LOVE! Freely give what you've freely received. Freely export what has been freely imported by God into you!

Ephesians 5:1-2 (The Message Bible)

"Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn’t love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that."

2 Corinthians 5:14 - "For Christ's love compels us..."

Let the love of Christ compel you to export His love and goodness everywhere you go!

With Great Love for Each One of You!
Brent