Hugs and Prayers

While in worship and prayer I heard the voice of my Father and he said the following:

     My son; share these words with my beloved. Tell them to relax and don’t try so hard to do what is natural to them. I told you that it’s not by might or power but by my Spirit. It’s the time you spend in fellowship with my Spirit that will change things. It’s about our time together.

     I don’t want prayer to be hard and wearisome. I want it to be a fellowship between friends. Yes you are my children but you are also my friends. It’s when you come to me as a friend that you will find the answers you need. Do you remember Jesus told the disciples that a servant doesn't know what the master is doing but it is revealed to his friends? He told the disciples they had graduated from being servants to being friends.

   I told you in the book of Hebrews that he that believes has entered into my rest. That’s why prayer is a secret place we share. We can rest together and visit as friends. We can share each other’s thoughts and plans and can come to an agreement on what shall be done. We can share heart to heart.

   Many of my people come to me in prayer like an employee coming to a boss for a raise. They expect to have to fight and tell their side of the story and present a case for why they need what they need and how much they deserve it. Friends don’t communicate like that. If any one of you asked your best friend to borrow something you wouldn't give ten reasons why you needed to borrow it. A good friend would even ask if you needed help using what you asked to borrow.

     We are friends and I know what you need before you need it. I know when you are coming to ask and what you are going to say before you say it. I know all things and I don’t want you to think you have to convince me to answer your prayer. I put you where you are so that you would ask just so I could say yes. I always wanted to say yes and I just needed you to ask me.

     Why did I make it this way? It’s not because I’m on an ego trip and want you to feel small in my presence. It’s just the opposite. I created this system called prayer just so you would come visit me in the secret place. I want to spend personal time with each of my children. I want you all to know me and I want to share many things with you in this secret place.

     If you look through the eyes of love it will make perfect sense. When a child is born why aren't they capable of tending to themselves? Why did I create it so that children are born this way? I could have made it so that people are born into this life fully capable of taking care of themselves.

     I made it this way to create a bond between the generations. It teaches the parent to love and care for the child and it teaches the child that they have a loving parent that they can come to when they need something or don’t understand something. My nature is revealed as a loving parent. Those of you with children understand that it’s not a burden to provide for your children: It’s the joy of your life. To give them gifts brings you much more joy than it does the children to receive.

     It’s really a simple concept. I love you so much that I want you to come to me so I can give you what I already want you to have. I have really already given it to you because I told you in scripture that I have given you all things that pertain to life and godliness. So when you come in prayer and ask for anything according to my will it will be done. It’s already yours, I just want you to come close to me and open your hand so that I can give it to you as a gift of my love.

     Just like a good parent I won’t give you anything that will hurt you or destroy you. Sometimes you see far off and ask for things that are scheduled to be delivered in your future and want these things now. These things will be given you if you are mature enough to handle them. It’s a great thing for a Father to give his son a truck when he’s eighteen years old but that is not a good gift if he’s ten. Even though it’s the same gift to the same person the maturity makes the difference.

     When you come in prayer to receive what I already have given to you a fellowship takes place and I get to spend time with each of you one on one. It’s really that simple. I want you to pray because I love you and I enjoy our fellowship.

     I want to become your source for all things because I love you and I don’t want the world giving gifts to my children. You are my children and I want to be your Father and give you all things. I know what you need before you need it and I want you to have it because I love you.

     I want you to bring me your problems because I love you. I want you to bring me your bad habits not in guilt but as an act of worship because you are secure in my love. This security makes you free to run to me and not from me. I want everything from hangnails to heart attacks because you are mine and I want the honor of caring for you. I really am thrilled that you are mine.

     Can’t you see my beloved how much I am in love with you? You know you are the reason I created heaven and earth don’t you? Do you know that I created eternity so that we would have unlimited time together?

     It’s all about my love for you and as you begin to understand this love I have for you then you will learn to love each other the same way. Soon you will be the answers to the prayers of others just as I am to your prayers. Love is contagious and eternal. Spread it everywhere you go.

     Come to me and let me love you and care for you and let me teach you my ways. As you come to pray in the secret place windows will open and you will see into the eternal realm. You will learn how heaven works and then you will know what my will on earth is. When you see how great heaven is then your prayer becomes simple. It will sound like this. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

     It’s simple my beloved. This is prayer: You sitting in my lap in the secret place looking into the realm of heaven and asking me to give others what you see there. Do you remember in scripture it says whatever you ask in prayer it will be given you? This is how it works. You come to pray and sit in my secret place and it will be revealed to you what to ask for. You will ask and it will be given you.

     Where most people miss it is they don’t spend enough time in my presence to let me give them the desire I want in their heart. It’s this desire that I want to answer. I told you that whatsoever you desire when you pray, believe that you receive and you will have it.

     Prayer is coming into the secret place and resting. Prayer is not the asking: It’s the resting. You come to pray and I give you a desire and you ask for that and it will be granted. As you sit in my presence and meditate on my great love for you then you will be given something to ask for. It will be something I want released in the earth but we are partners and I need you to ask so I can answer. Yes I could just pour it into the earth but that’s not my plan. We are working together and I want you to do your part and let me do mine. I want you to come and sit in my presence and let me give you a desire to ask. I will hear your request and gladly bring it to pass.

     So please my beloved, come to me in the secret place and let me hold you and hug you and bless you and tell you of my great love for you. Let me show you the riches of heaven and let me put a desire in your heart that I can answer.

     I need your help with these things. I created a system that only works when we work together. Will you work with me? My yoke is easy, my burden is light. You won’t break a sweat in the secret place. You will however learn to abide in this secret place in my shadow and in my protection and in the center of my will. Will you start today my beloved? Will you come into my secret place and let me hug you while you pray?

     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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The Door is Open

    During my prayer time today Father spoke to me these words to share with each of you. Your Father loves you more than you know and I hope you will take his words to heart and hear all that He is speaking to us.

     This is what He spoke:


     My beloved, my sweet ones: you are pure in my sight because you are washed in the blood of my son and you are washed by my word and I have bathed you in my light.

     Stop looking at the part of you that is dead and start feeding the part of you that is alive. You are a spirit my beloved and not a body. It’s time to wake up to what spirits do. You should keep the focus on the realm of the spirit and not the earthly realm.

     Put aside all the cares of this world and come to me in spirit and truth. I want you to worship me face to face as I hold you in my arms and show you who you are. Don’t be afraid to step into the unknown. I am everywhere so you can’t go where I’m not.

     Yes it’s a far place from where you came from where you are caught up in the affairs of this life and bogged down by earthly problems. I need you to come above all these things into the realm prepared for you and look at your problems from my throne and not from your place on earth.

     You are always welcome in my presence and I will show you many glorious things as you abandon your life and take up mine. There is more glory beyond your cross. You must know that you are crucified to the world and the world to you. There is nothing in that world that will help you. In the world you have tribulation but in my presence there is fullness of joy. In my arms there is safety and strength.

     So abandon the earthly way of doing things. Come into my secret place where there is safety in my shadow. It’s only those who abide in the secret place that are in my protective glory. Learn to abide in my presence and let my glory surround you.

     You don’t have to live as though you are defeated; learn to live above. You have not come to Mount Sinai, where there is judgment and guilt; you have come to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of God; a city that is happy to have you as a citizen. Your true citizenship is here and not in any nation of the world. Come above and learn to live from this place.

     I have set you with my son in the heavenly realms for a reason. You are to reign over the problems of the world, but you will reign from here while you are there. You can only change the things there with the power that comes from here. You can find all you need in my presence to change any situation on the earth, but there is nothing on earth that can damage heaven.

     I want all of my people to learn to live in the realm above and not to stay entangled in the earth below. You are with me in heavenly places in your spirit so learn that you are a spirit and learn what spirits do. You have an example of this if you look at my beloved son, the first born of many brethren. He walked the earth but lived from heaven. You can learn to do the same and you will greatly affect those around you.

     Where did the fish and loaves he multiplied come from? Where did the miracles he did come from? All these things he pulled from the realm of heaven and brought them to the earth. There is creative power in this realm to create things there.

     It’s so easy to fall back into bad habits and look to the world for your needs but it’s time to look to me for everything you need. Look to me as your supplier and your all.

     That is what I meant by seeking first the kingdom. The kingdom is your source for all things. Never look to others for what you need. Look to me and if I want to use others to bring it to you I will. If I want to rain it down from here I will. If I want you to speak it and create it by my Spirit I will tell you so and you will do it.

     I want to be your all, just as you are my all. Why do you think I paid such a high price to redeem you? Do you not know how much you are loved? Do you not know that heaven and earth were created for you? I don’t need a house or a place to live in. I am self-sufficient. All these things were created for you to enjoy with me. They are a gift of my eternal love for you.

     So turn your eyes toward me as your source and supply. Don’t try to figure out how I’m going to do it. Just trust me. I will bring you everything I want you to have as you learn to trust me and surrender to me. Always look to me and not to the problem. What difference does the problem make? Am I not sufficient to handle anything you could ever need? Could there ever be a problem that would cause me to worry?

     Trust me my beloved. It is my good pleasure to give you all things freely. Don’t worry and don’t wonder, just keep your eyes on me and let me be your Father. Keep your heart in tune with me and when you need something don’t look to the world. Look into heaven and see my vast storehouses of everything you could ever need.

     Soak yourself in my love and let me drive all fear from you. Never consider for a moment that I am angry with you. I dealt with your sin and faults at the cross when you were crucified with my son. You were punished in him and with him for your sins and now you are alive unto me in spirit and the part of you that committed those terrible things was nailed to that cross. You were judged and crucified with my son and now you live with me living in you.

     That is why when you are tempted you can look to that cross and say “no thanks. I am dead to that.” It’s also the reason you can look into heaven and say “this is my home, this is where I live, and this is where all my needs are met. All my needs are met by the glorious riches of this realm where Jesus paid all that was needed to make me welcome here.”

     That is why you can come boldly to the throne of grace when you have a need. You must have great confidence in the blood of your savior. Being bold shows me that you have faith in the sacrifice that I provided. I didn’t say come arrogantly to the throne, I said come boldly. There is a great difference. Those that try to live by the letter become puffed up and arrogant like the Pharisees. Those that live by the Spirit become humble and loving and kind and are full of my glory.

     If a friend gave you a ticket to a ball game you wouldn't stand at the gate and wonder if you were welcome would you? Would you say” I wonder if he paid full price for this ticket?” No you would think of him and give thanks for such a friend and go in boldly to enjoy what your friend had paid for.

     If you won a cruise would you pack sandwiches and a tent and not enjoy the amenities that were given as a gift? Would you just camp on the deck and say we aren't worthy to partake of the bounty that came with the gift.

     Why do you neglect such a great salvation when such a price was paid for you? Why not enjoy all that was given for you? That’s why I gave salvation to you. It’s so we could rejoice together in the abundant grace of my love. All these gifts exist in the heavenly realm and are for you to freely enjoy with me.

     Too many of my children have not come into the heavenly realm because they have more faith in their guilt than they have in the blood of my perfect lamb. It’s time to wake them up and tell them how much they are loved and how much I want to see them in his secret chamber so that I can pour out gifts and blessings on them.

     So come boldly into my presence my beloved and tell others to come also. The way is paid and the door is open. Have faith in the blood and trust in my Spirit to bring you into my presence. Don’t be afraid, I told you that if you come to me I will never cast you out. You are not only welcome in my home you are missed and we are waiting on you to wake up and fellowship with us in Spirit and truth.

     Don’t forget I purchased you as an act of my love and I adore you and honor you and will always be in love with you. You will always be welcome in my home and in my arms for you are my children, born of my Spirit, and created to receive my love. Will you let go of the world and let me love you?

     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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www.michaelottministries.org

The Shaking

Hebrews 12:26

At that time his voice shook the earth, 

but now he has promised, 

“Yet once more I will shake not only the earth 

but also the heavens.” 

This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—

in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.

     I know that lately many of us have been through times of shaking and turmoil. In these times we struggle for answers and I don't know about you but I sometimes cry out to Father and ask him why my world seems to be falling apart. Sometimes it seems like I escape the spin cycle only to find myself in the wringer. Oops, just dated myself didn't I? Those of you who are young won't get that reference but it's okay. We will move on.

     It's time we as a church and a body quit denying that we have problems and face them. The faith message that many of us grew up with won't allow us to admit that we ever have a bad day because it's a negative confession: But I remember a man in scripture who admitted he sometimes had a bad day. Paul the Apostle spoke about a few of his bad days in Second Corinthians Chapter 11 and this is what he said:

But whatever anyone else dares to boast of—

I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast of that. 

are they Hebrews? So am I. 

Are they Israelites? So am I. 

Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I. 

Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—

I am talking like a madman—with 

far greater labors, 

far more imprisonments, 

with countless beatings, 

and often near death. 

Five times I received at the hands of the Jews

the forty lashes less one. 

Three times I was beaten with rods. 

Once I was stoned. 

Three times I was shipwrecked; 

a night and a day I was adrift at sea; 

on frequent journeys, 

in danger from rivers, 

danger from robbers, 

danger from my own people, 

danger from Gentiles, 

danger in the city, 

danger in the wilderness, 

danger at sea, 

danger from false brothers; 

in toil and hardship, 

through many a sleepless night, 

in hunger and thirst, 

often without food, 

in cold and exposure. 

And, apart from other things, 

there is the daily pressure on me 

of my anxiety for all the churches. 

Who is weak, and I am not weak? 

Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?

If I must boast, 

I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

     Paul could make the claim that he was just as much in covenant with God than anyone and yet he would rather talk about the things he suffered and not boast of all the things he accomplished.

     It's time we as a church stop acting like we don't have problems and learn to love God and each other regardless of the troubles we face. We have a lot of maturing to do in this area. Especially me.

     So if you are facing difficulties today that doesn't make you faithless: it makes you a candidate to receive the great grace of our Lord Jesus unto salvation. Sometimes it's just our Father shaking the things out of our lives that are not of him and strengthening the things that are unshakable.

     While I was meditating on these things and praying Father's voice came to me and He spoke these words to me:


     My son, speak these words to my beloved ones.


     I know you are in the fire. I know you are in times of trouble and heartache and that your world seems to be shaking. Many of you have been shaken beyond where you thought you could be shaken and are still following me with all your hearts. I have allowed this shaking not as punishment but for strengthening.

     During this shaking many of your false beliefs and those things that were built on sand have crumbled and left you with the bedrock of truth. This truth is: Christ in you the hope of glory.

     All of creation is waiting for the character of my son Jesus to be formed in you. This character is in you because I dwell in you. It is through fire that the unwanted things in your life are burned away and the things that are eternal remain. My strength is made perfect in weakness and I am strong when the part of you that resists me becomes weak.

     Here is the good news. You are going to be strengthened with all might and power by my Spirit. Because you went through the fire and still remain faithful you have been given a crown. This is not a crown to boast about but it is a new authority. Because you have been so faithful with the little I am giving you more.

     Some of you have been fighting unseen enemies and those enemies are about to surrender to your new authority. You don’t have to go in search of this enemy you just need to know that it will be driven out from before you.

     Remember authority is not given to rule over each other or even strangers. It’s given to rule over darkness and over evil. It’s given to establish a fortress of my light and my love in the darkness of the world.

     Any authority or resource given you is given for the purpose of loving others. So rejoice and know it’s my good pleasure to give you the kingdom. It is my kingdom and power and glory and I will bestow the blessing of this kingdom with those who will choose to walk in love.

     Also, many of you have said during this time of testing and shaking that your prayers were useless and that is not so. I hear every whisper and the echoes of your thoughts resound in the heavenly realm. You may be whispering but your whispers are shouts in the realm of heaven. Anyone can shout but those who whisper their prayers are the ones in faith.

     I have not forsaken you. I have allowed you to be shaken to strengthen that which remains. When the shaking is over you will be stronger than ever. You know now that you can trust me in the fire. I knew I could trust you and now you know that you can trust me.

     You may ask why these things must be, and it’s because you are called with a higher calling than you realize. The treasures that are coming your way will require you to be patient and full of my character so that you will not mishandle the outpouring of my Spirit.

     In this fire I have found that I could trust you with earthly things and now I give you heavenly things. The days of great glory will sweep the earth and I need sons and daughters who have submitted themselves to my fire and allowed me to take all selfishness and greediness out of them. You are those people. All of you had many chances to quit and turn back but you stood your ground and I marvel at your faith.

     So here is your assignment. Stand fast in this liberty and don’t go back the way of religion. Build all you build upon the Rock which is Christ. If you will build something then build it upon the foundation of Christ and it will remain.

     Don’t just build another program. Build a place of worship and a place of presence. People have heard enough sermons and words. What they need is an encounter with me. Wherever you meet make it holy and let my Spirit dictate the order and the times and all things will work for you.

     Where my Spirit is there is liberty so if you create space and time for my Spirit then all who come will be set free of their bondage to darkness. One moment in my presence will do more than a year of teaching.

     I am so happy with you my children and I am excited about the things I have planned for you. Long ago before you were on this earth I ordained great things for you to see and walk in.

     I have saved the best for last. Before the regeneration of this world there will be amazing sights in the earth. There will be cities born in a day and nations being born again in a moment. There will be limitless power available to the humble and grace will be poured out on grace to accomplish my will in the earth.

     Signs will appear in heaven and earth and you will be seen as fire and the light within you will shine like the noonday sun. You will be transformed and transfigured like Jesus was and people will marvel at the great miracles that will be done by your hands.

     Just as I said in the scriptures those that are born of my Spirit will be like the wind. No one will know where you came from or where you are going. Many of you will be unrecognizable because of the change. You will be the sign and the wonder as your youth is restored and your health springs forth and you run out to proclaim the good news as calves from the stall.

     It will be a day of great joy and even the tribulation in this world will not affect you but you will affect it. You will be the city set on a hill and the candles put on a stand. You are my lamps and I will trim your wicks and you will not run out of oil.

     This will be the most glorious of days ever seen on the earth. You will look back at these days of shaking and rejoice for you will know that it was in this moment of weakness that I made you strong.

     So rejoice my children and be glad for your day is coming. Those who resisted you won’t resist you much longer. They will give in to the Spirit of Wisdom that I put upon you and will be no match for the heavenly power that flows from you. Be happy and know that just as this shaking came upon you so will my refreshing presence come upon you and restore you.

     I have sustained you and held you and covered you and kept you from being destroyed and I am your reward. I have kept your tears in my hands so that I may give you reward for each one. You will be rewarded in that day for every evil that was brought against you in this age. Your suffering will turn to joy and there will be no more sorrow.

     

     I hope you are encouraged by these words.

Until next time,

Grow Rich in His Grace,

I love you all,

michael

For more information please contact us at:

www.michaelottministries.org