The King Chooses a Bride

     Imagine there was a great king who fell in love with a woman working in the field. She never thought she would catch the king’s eye because in her eyes she was ragged and dirty and plain. Her clothes were tattered and her hand rough from working in the ground. She would never for one moment think that the king would even glance at her and if he did he would not approve of who she was.

     All the while the king watched her and in his eyes she was beautiful because of the light within her. She was not as those in the king’s court who thought themselves to be worthy of his love and admiration because they had adorned themselves with great jewels and the finest perfume. She was humble and honest and content with the small things she had.

     The king wanted her for a bride and decided he would send his servants to woo her for him. They were supposed to tell her she was lovely and very desirable to the king. They were supposed to give her the great gifts he gave them to bless her. Instead they used the gifts on themselves and tried to make themselves impressive in her eyes and cause her to serve them.

     The king told them to tell her that the palace was open to her and she could come in just as she is and he would be waiting for her. They lied to her and told her she was ugly and dirty and needed to change her ways if she wanted to impress the king. They even told her that if she would do many works for them and pay a percentage of her wages to them they would put in a good word for her.

     They gave her many programs to clean herself up and a list of things to do and don’t do so she would be desirable to the king. All this time the king was still watching her and loving her and waiting for her to come to him just as she is and let him lavish her with the great gifts of his love.

     The king was in a difficult situation because he loved the servants he sent to her but they were giving her the wrong message. He had no choice because of the great love he had for her. He sent his own Spirit in invisible form to woo her and tell her how much he loves her.

     At first she thought she was hearing voices because of the sweet words that were bypassing her ears and speaking directly to her heart. These words were so contradictory to the words that the king’s servants were speaking to her. These words told her she was beautiful just as she is and that she doesn't need rules and regulations given her by the king’s servants. All she has to do is surrender to the king’s love and fall in love with him.

     Finally it was too much. She couldn't resist the king’s love and she found that she didn't need the servants to speak to the king for her. She discovered that she could talk to him and he would respond to her with a tender voice filled with gracious words. He loves her so much that he hears her thoughts and wishes, and even her whispers are like shouts to him.

     She began to sneak away into quiet places and whisper to him and ask him who he is and asked him to reveal himself to her. She loved talking directly to him because his words were like honey unlike the words of his servants who had not obeyed the king’s instructions to share his love with her.

     She found that as she got into quiet places he caused  her eyes to open and she could behold the king in visions and dreams. Then one day while praying he appeared right in front of her. He told her of his great love for her face to face and told her that she was beautiful and precious in his eyes. He revealed to her who she was by letting her see herself through his eyes.

     Suddenly her life was changed. She was filled with joy and couldn't keep her feet still because they wouldn't stop dancing. She couldn't help but sing and her songs filled the earth until everyone knew that the king was in love with her and had chosen and blessed her. The king told her that there would be a wedding soon. He had to remain at the palace for just a short time longer and soon he would come for her.

     This excited the woman so much. Her wedding day was approaching so she started getting herself ready. She remembered what she saw when she looked at herself through his eyes. As she meditated on the image that she had seen through his eyes she became just like that image in the natural. No more was she plain or dirty but she was dressed in white and covered with glory and the fragrance from heaven.

     The whole earth admired her and because of her beauty multitudes of people called upon and worshiped the king and were sent invitations to the wedding. Some of the servants who had misled her repented to the king and were given permission to help her get ready for the wedding. They finally saw what the king saw in her and were sorry they had ever hurt her.

     So now my beloved do you see how you are loved? You are the perfect bride for my son. You have had his heart and attention from the start. Don’t let others tell you that you are unworthy and ugly. You are glorious in the eyes of the king and if you will see yourself through his eyes you will become glorious.

     There is a great wedding planned and we will spare no expense. The king will come for you on a great white horse. He will be clothed in glory and honor and there will be a procession of millions who will sing and play music and rejoice and there will be great joy throughout the entire kingdom. The king will take you as his bride forever and you will forget how it ever felt to be alone. You will be given a palace and gardens and a life fit for a queen. You will become glorious as you give your hearts to the king and his love will yours forever and ever.

     So rejoice and lift up your hearts and praises to your king. Shout out loud and proclaim your love for you king. He has proclaimed his love for you and will proclaim it forever and ever. Put aside all the awful things that have been spoken about you and listen to the voice of my Spirit telling you who you really are.

     You are glorious my people and that glory will be revealed to the earth soon. Rest in my love for you and relax and enjoy the gifts bestowed upon you. There will be many gifts coming from your king and all he asks in return is your love. Will you give your heart to him today?

I hope you are encouraged by these words.

Until next time,

Grow Rich in His Grace,

I love you all,

michael

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Face to Face

     While preparing for a meeting last week I was hiding in my mobile prayer closet worshiping and listening and Father's voice came to me and said the following:

     My son; write these things to deliver to my beloved, to the joy of my life to my amazing children who have left all to come to me outside the camp. Those who are tired of religion and church as usual. Those who are looking for me and not looking for another program. This is the day of visitation and great exploration of the heavenly realm.

     When a child is young the parents run to their room every time they cry or call or sometimes just to check on them. Also when the child is in trouble or afraid they run to their parents for comfort and healing. As a child gets older they tend to pull away from the parents and hide in their own surroundings. The parent is still longing for fellowship with the child but instead of coming to the child’s room, they call the child into their world. As the child is growing it’s time to put away the toys and the baby bed and time to learn to live in the parent’s realm.

     This is what has happened to many of you. Do you wonder where my presence went in your meetings and why the glory you once felt when you worshiped is not there anymore? Remember the presence so strong you could barely stand? Remember the joy and the excitement? Where did these things go?

     I have not forsaken you and I’m not angry with you. It’s time for you to learn to come to my room. You each know in your hearts you want more than just church as usual. Aren't you all really bored with that game? Just another program, just another meeting where the same things you have been over for years and years gets reprogrammed and repackaged and yawn…..

     Aren't you ready for some excitement? Aren't you ready for some adventure with your Father? Do you want to see what heaven is like? Do you want to go on vacation with your Father into realms you have never seen?

     I am calling you my beloved into a face to face relationship with me. Don’t worry and  don't tune me out now. There will be scriptures backing this up when I’m done.

     I know that the pursuit of knowledge has many of you trapped in just one book of my existence. Yes it is a wonderful book and it is my love letter to you but it’s not all the words of love I have to say to you.

     What if you were in love with someone and you sent them your first love letter and every time you wanted to be close to them and communicate with them they tuned you out and read your letter instead? Suppose you wanted to take them to dinner but they just wanted to talk about your letter? Suppose you wanted them to come to your house and visit but all they would do is stay at home and read your letter?

     Even though my scriptures outline the basis of our relationship they aren't all of our relationship. Those of you who are married have a marriage license and have written vows to each other but those written words aren't all your relationship. Your lives are more than words on a page.

     My word to you is holy as it is to me but it’s time to not just read about me; it’s time to look up from the page and see me face to face. I am delighted that you esteem my letter so great but I want to have a heart to heart, hand in hand face to face relationship with you. Yes the scriptures are holy. They are our marriage contract but I want more.

     I want to take each of you by the hand and lead you into the realm of my presence where I can fulfill your joy and the longing of your heart. The book is wonderful but wouldn't you prefer to hug the author? 

     I want you to see the scriptures as the gateway into my presence. They are my introduction to you of who I am. I had hoped that people would understand the purpose of the book. My plan was that they would read the book and want to meet the one wrote it. Then as they began to fellowship with me they would fall in love with me and want to see me for who I am.

     Instead many have made the book their God and forgotten the God of the book. They love to put it on display and to show their knowledge of me by how much of the book they can quote. They have missed the point of it all together. Many gather to fight over the book and never think of asking me what it means.

     Jesus told the Pharisees that they searched the scriptures seeking eternal life and yet didn't recognize the only one who could give them eternal life when they saw him face to face. All the scriptures pointed to his coming but all they could see was the legal points of the contract and not see the love flowing from the one who wrote it.

     It’s time to come to me beyond they veil. When Jesus was crucified the veil that kept all people out of my presence was torn from top to bottom. I tore it. All that was necessary for you to come in and out of heaven was finished. The way to the holiest place of all was now open to all.

     Then something even greater happened. When I sent Holy Spirit to live inside you he brought with him my presence to live in you and to always be with you. Now things were reversed. The priest once stood outside the veil and could only come in once a year. Now the high priest moves into your temple and lives with you constantly. Jesus said “I stand at the door and knock and if you open I and my Father will move in and live inside you.” Jesus also said “I am the door to the sheep and you can come in and out and find pasture.”

     So here is what I am saying to you my beloved: The door into the heavenly realm is inside you. You can come to visit the realm of heaven and heaven is open to you if you will only believe and learn how to enter.

     Do you remember the scripture that says that you enter my gates with thanksgiving and my courts with praise? If you enter my gates and my courts where will you be? Are not my gates and courts in the heavenly realm?

     This is the key to entering into my presence. As you worship in your heart start looking for Jesus in your heart. He is the door and no one gets in any other way. There is no other way to me but by him. As you begin to see Jesus in your own heart he will appear unto you and bring you to me.

     All these things take time and practice and I know all these things are new unto you but you can do it. I want to see you more than you want to see me. What Father doesn't want to visit his children face to face and nose to nose? Don’t you know I want to hold you so close that I can kiss you on the face and hug you as a mother hugs her baby?

     Religion has made me seem far, far away. I am closer than your skin and you can’t see me because the veil of religion is blinding you. The god of the earthly realm has blinded your eyes and told you that you can’t see me. Yet Jesus said that he only did what he saw me doing and said these and greater things you could do because he returned to my presence to mediate for you.

     It’s time my children learned the truth and learned that the reason for all Jesus did was so that we could have face to face fellowship for eternity and you don’t have to wait to get to heaven when you die to have it. Did I not say that every eye would see me? Did not Jesus appear to over five hundred after the resurrection? Did not Stephen see Jesus standing at my side and me when he was being martyred? Did not John see me on the island? Did not Paul say that he came into the heavenly realm and saw things he couldn't even speak of?

     What happens when your body dies? Why can you see me when you die but can’t see me when you are alive? What is keeping you from seeing me? Your spirit is just as alive when inside your body as it is when your body falls away. Doesn't that show you that your spirit can always see me but your physical mind is blinded to the realm of my glory?

     It’s time the veil was removed from the eyes of my children and you learn to see me. Did I not say through Paul that when that which is perfect is come you will no longer see through a darkened glass but will see face to face? When what comes? What was Paul speaking of in this chapter? Was it not in the chapter you call the love chapter? When perfect love comes and casts out all fear of being in my presence then you will be able to see me.

     So focus on my love for you and know that if I love you that much then surely I want to see you face to face. I have waited throughout the ages to bring a people on earth into the love they have in heaven. Didn't I say that I wanted my will on earth to be as it is in heaven? Can people in heaven see me?

     I want you to consider the age that you are in. It is time for the revealing of sons and daughters. What will that look like? It will look like the first born among many brethren. It will look like Jesus all over again except multiplied by the millions of believers on the earth. You can’t look back to the early church and model yourself after them. This is a new beginning. This is the power of the age to come. This is the merging of heaven and earth and the gathering of all things together in heaven and earth. This will not look like anything you have ever seen.

     When I took Moses into the mountain I told him to make everything after the pattern in the heavenly realm. It’s the same for you. You will become who you need to be by looking at the person you are seated with me in the heavenly realm inside my firstborn. As you see who you are there you will become that person on the earth. Your power and dominion does not come from your earthly man but from your heavenly. You already exist in both realms.

     If this is hard to hear then take time and meditate on it. Those who embrace it will learn to come in and out and find pasture. Those who don’t will keep living and eating in the wilderness of life. I want all my sheep to eat in my pasture. I’ll have to leave the ninety nine who come in and go back out to find the one who doesn't find the gate. I love my little lambs and am not willing that they should perish. I want all my children to enjoy my presence.

     Please think on these things my beloved and know that you are the desire of my heart and I long to fellowship with each of you face to face and hand in hand. I want you to know how it feels to bury your head into my chest as I caress your head and kiss you and tell you how much I love you.

     I want my prodigal sons and daughters to come home. Come as you are. You don’t have to clean yourself up. I have a new robe waiting for you and a ring for your finger and a party with music and dancing. Come dance with me my children. 

     Remember that Jesus is the door to my house and he lives inside your heart. You opened your door when I knocked. I will open mine when you knock. Didn't my son tell you to knock and it will be opened unto you? 

     I love you my beloved. Love one another as I have loved you and be tender to each other as my heart is tender to you. Build each other up and honor each other as you do me. Walk in love no matter what it costs you to do so. Open the door within you and step through it right into my heart.

Scriptures References:

Please pay close attention to the words that are underlined and italicized.

     Exodus Chapter 24: 9. 

Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: 10. And they saw the God of Israel: and [there was] under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in [his] clearness. 11. And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink. 

     Exodus 33:7 

And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, [that] every one which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which [was] without the camp. 8. And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, [that] all the people rose up, and stood every man [at] his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle. 9. And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood [at] the door of the tabernacle, and [the LORD] talked with Moses. 10.And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand [at] the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshiped, every man [in] his tent door. 11.And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.

     Genesis 32: 30 

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

     Deuteronomy 5: 1

And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them. 2. The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3. The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. 4. The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire, 5(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) 

     (Not onto the mount but Into the mountain. It was the meeting place of heaven and earth. Moses went up into the heavenly realm at the top of the mountain.

     Psalms 17:15 

As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

     Ezekiel 39:29

 neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

     Psalms 143:7 

Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

     Others who saw God in scripture:

 Adam and Eve

Cain and Able: 

     Genesis 4: 3 

And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the LORD. Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the LORD respected Abel and his offering.

Enoch: 

     Genesis 5:22 

After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters. And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him

Noah: 

     Genesis 6:9 

This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. 

Abraham: 

     Genesis 12:7 

Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

Sarah: 

     Genesis 21:1 

And the LORD visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had spoken.

Hagar: 

     Genesis 16: 13 

Then she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, You-Are-the-God-Who-Sees; for she said, Have I also here seen Him who sees me?

Isaac: 

     Genesis 26:24 

And the LORD appeared to him [Isaac] the same night and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father; fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your descendants for my servant Abraham’s sake.”

Jacob:

 

     Genesis 35:1 

Then God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there; and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.

Aaron: 

     Numbers 20:6 

Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tent of meeting, and fell on their faces. And the glory of the LORD appeared to them.

Balaam:

      Numbers:24 

The utterance of him who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, who falls down, with eyes wide open. . . . The utterance of him who hears the words of God, and has the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, who falls down, with eyes wide open.

Gideon: 

     Judges 6:12 

And the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, “The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor.”

Samuel: 

     1st Samuel 3:21 

And the LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew in the presence of the LORD. 

And the LORD appeared again at Shiloh, for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of the LORD.

David: 

     Acts 2:25 

For David says concerning Him: ‘I foresaw the LORD always before my face, For He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken. Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad; Moreover my flesh also will rest in hope.

Solomon: 

     1st Kings 11:9 

And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.

Isaiah:

     Isaiah: 6:1 

In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

     These are just a few of the people in the Old Testament that saw God. There were many more encounters with The Angel of the LORD and with the Word of The LORD.

     In the New Testament all who saw Jesus saw God. Jesus said I and the Father are one, if you have seen me then you have seen the Father.

     1st Corinthians 15: 3.

 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4.And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: 5.And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: 6.After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.

     John 17: 13 

And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14. I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 19. And for their sake I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
20. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21.That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23. I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. 24. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

     Jesus prayed that Father would not take us out of the world but that we could be with him where he is. He prayed that we could behold his glory and be one with him and with our Father. We are already in heavenly places with him but are not conscious of that world because of our blindness. We need to awake unto the reality that we are welcome in his presence and learn to govern from that realm while we abide in this one.

     Revelation: Chapter 1:4
John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; 5. And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, 6. And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 7. Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

     8. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

     9. I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. 10. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, 11. Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia;

     John was in the Spirit. This is how we see God. We must look into the realm of the spirit. We must worship and give praise to him who saved us. We must look into our hearts where Jesus dwells and when we see him he will open the door to us so that we can see into the heavenly realm. 

     He wants us to come before is presence so that he can reveal himself to us and so he can love us. It's time to fall in love with the one who loves us so that we can truly love each other. It's time to take the religious blinders off of our eyes and see the one who sees us. It's time to fall in love with our creator and see him face to face.

Until next time,

I hope you are encouraged by these words.

Grow rich in His Grace,

I love you all,

michael

For more information please contact us at:

michaelottministries.org