THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11
Scripture: Matthew 10:38,39

Matthew 10:38,39, “And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.” Layered love takes each of us to the place where we realize that the application of God’s Judicial Hand takes an ever-larger bite out of our own flesh until it consumes those who refuse to change. The ultimate preparation for walking with Jesus in this dimension is the choice to lose our life to His will so that we can find it in the eternal purposes of God. But that always requires letting go of what we would like to do, in order to take hold of God’s assignment. There can be no application of a judicial hammer until we have walked this principle all the way to the garden of Gethsemane just as Jesus faced it.