For quite sometime now, I have been discussing the keys to the supernatural with you. I intend to provide you with nine major keys to the supernatural and these happen to be the keys Jesus gave His disciples to enable them to access the supernatural realm. Thus far, we have examined seven of the nine keys, which are: prayer, fasting, words, faith, releasing your faith, giving and the blood. Today, I want us to examine the next key He gave His disciples and that is, love.



After telling His disciples the parable of the unforgiving servant, He made the following statement: “so My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses” (Matthew 18:35). Remember that after Jesus had said in Matthew 16:19 that “I will give you the keys” to the supernatural, He sought every occasion to give His disciples a key at a time and to show them how to operate each of the keys He gave them.



From our preliminary verse of scripture, we notice that one of the keys to accessing the supernatural realm is love. From the parable of the unforgiving servant, He taught that walking in forgiveness gives you access to the supernatural realm and not walking in forgiveness denies you access to the supernatural realm. As you’re aware, a person cannot walk in forgiveness unless they walk in love. Hence, love is the main key here. Without it no one can gain access to the realm of the supernatural. The point is: God is love and how can you expect to access His domain which is also an arena of love when you have no love in you but unforgiveness, contention and

In Ephesians 5:2, the Apostle Paul writes: “walk in love as Christ also loved us and given Himself for us.” Notice that the Apostle starts the verse by instructing us to walk in love. Also in John 13:34, Jesus said: “a new commandment I give to you, that you love one another as I have loved you…” Both Jesus and the Apostle Paul admonished us to walk in love. Now, what does it mean to walk in love?



Firstly, to walk in love means to walk in forgiveness. In Matthew 18:7, Jesus pointed out that “offences must come.” By this He is showing that offences are inevitable. However, when we are offended, He expects us to demonstrate the kind of love He showed us where He died for our sins and forgave us of our sins when we actually did not deserve to be pardoned. Jesus does not encourage us to be retaliatory and revengeful when others offend us. He expects us to forgive them, forget the offense and continue in love.



As children of the Most High God, we have a commandment (not a suggestion but a commandment) to walk in love like Christ did. The second meaning of walking in love is accepting people just the way they are and endeavoring to get along with them. There are times when God Himself will plant people who are grumpy, mean, rude, spiteful, pushy, bossy and snooty in our lives. Although the easiest tendency and inclination is to avoid them and not like such people, the Lord mandates us and obligates us to love them anyway. This is because you can’t claim to love God, who is love and whom you do not see when you do not love your fellow human being whom you see.



In Romans 13:8, God admonishes us to “owe no man any thing but to love one another” (KJV). In other words, you are obligated to not only love God but to love people just the way they are. God desires for His people to be full of love and as a God who is love, no one can access His kingdom if they are not full of love. God wants you to gain access to where His goodies are stored but you cannot benefit from the realm of the supernatural until you are full of love. What you have to realize is that if you fail to walk in love and to forgive those who offend you, you hinder the heavens from opening over you.

Copyright © 2010  Pastor Sadick Arthur
3/15/2009