Come Away With Me

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     Recently, while praying, Father's voice came to me and He asked me to share the following words with you.

     Come to me my beloved. Don’t waste time in worry and doubt. You know that your heart hears my voice calling you away. You can hear me calling and calling and whispering to you of my love. You know if you will set aside some time for me then your day will get better. Don’t put it off one more moment.

     If you only really understood how much I value the time you spend with me. The time with your heart and your mind focused on nothing but me. It’s in these times that all that I have placed within you is activated. There are seeds that I planted within you that get watered and get showered by my light when you stand in the secret place with your heart open to me.

     My eyes are always on you but sometimes your eyes wander and stare at your problems until they become larger than me. This by definition is doubt. Faith sees me as the answer to any question. 

     I know you have concerns and cares and I know that life can become wearisome. I know these things and the answer is always to come away with me and let us reason together. Let me show you the answer to your problems. I have all you need and there will never be a time when I am not ready to give you the answer to anything you need. We both have only one need. You need me and I need you.

     This is the very reason that you were created. I had all things and was self-sufficient but did not have you to share it with. Think on my love for just a moment. Do you think you would exist if I didn’t need you? As time goes by you will see how important each of my children are to my eternal plan. Our destinies are linked together by love. What good is a universe without children to share it with? What good is eternity if I had to spend it without you?

     I share these things with you because I want you to know my heart for you. You are not just another one of the things I created that dwells in the universe that I created. You are the reason I created the universe and all the ages to come. There is no end to my love and that is why there is no end to eternity.

     I want you to know how much I love you and how important you are to me. Would I have paid such a terrible price for you if you were not worth it? As you see how valuable you are to me your whole heart will change and you will see my needs and not your own. You will see that I need your time and your attention and your heart. We can only have a covenant of love if we are truly in love with each other.

     So bring me your problems and I’ll bring you mine. I know you have physical and spiritual needs and I have all the answers you need. I just need one thing. I need you to think about what I need. I want you to think about how much I love you and want every thought and moment to be shared with me.

     I will teach you how to accomplish all you need to do with your hands while your heart is set on me. You are my beloved and I want to be your beloved. I want you to think of me as often as I think of you. I am taking you to a place of intimacy with me that others won’t find because they won’t surrender that much of themselves to me. I want this with all my children but most don’t have time for Dad. Will you give your day to me? Will you give every second of your day to me? Can I really be your all in all? Will you make me your habitation as I have made you mine?

     I know your wants and desires and want to bring you all the things you have dreamed of and more. This will happen as you surrender to me all things that you are holding back. There is a realm of provision that few walk in although it has always been available to all who will become one with me. It’s the answer that all are looking for. 

     I had all things and was not complete without you. You were created in my image and even if you possessed all things you would not be happy without me. I am all you are looking for and more, even if you don’t realize it.

     So many of my children go from place to place and ministry to ministry looking for something their hearts are starving for and they never realize that they are hungry for the relationship that is missing in their lives. I am patient and wait daily while they search here and there and walk right past me. I am the one your heart is craving so why not give your heart what it wants?

     I love you and I gave all I had so that we could have this relationship of one: Me in you, you in me, heaven in earth and earth in heaven. Gathering all things into one has been my plan throughout the ages.

     My child do you know how deeply I love you and want you to hide yourself in me? I dwell in your heart by faith and you can dwell in me the same way. So put aside your problems and cares and focus on my love for you and your love for me. Let’s become one heart, one mind and one body, and all the things that trouble you will fall way as you are washed in the glory of my love.

     Stop thinking about what you can do for me and start thinking about who you are to me. When you find out who you are then what you do will take care of itself. Think about Jesus. When I spoke from heaven and told him that he was my beloved son and that I was pleased with him it changed everything. All the miracles, signs, wonders and acts of faith were done out of the revelation of that relationship.

     So today do you hear me say it with all my heart? Do you hear me say you are my beloved and I am well pleased with you? So come to me knowing how important you are to me and fall in love again. Let’s begin a new life as one. I love you my dear beloved children. Will you fall in love with me also?

     This was the end of the words he spoke to me at that moment. 

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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Finding Your Vision

     

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     Recently while praying I heard Father's voice and he spoke very plainly to me and gave me the following instructions:

     My son, write the things that I am speaking to you and deliver them to my beloved ones:

     I have not left anyone out and have a calling for each of you. The problem my people are having is that they are following each other and not me. One stands up and says follow me and they all follow for a while until they realize that the one they are following is going in circles and has no more vision than they do.

     The problem of my people is a lack of their own personal vision from me. As I showed you in the scriptures, I gave  each of my people their own visitation and vision from me. I want to speak to each of my children directly and have their eyes open so they can receive their vision and their instruction from me.

     Some have seen the vision and have begun writing down what I showed them in their hearts. Others are wandering and wondering if they will ever find their way. In their wandering they revert back to the old ways of just trying to build programs as usual and try to replace kingdom walking with busy work. They rebuild the same old programs that every other church does because they are not disciplined enough to wait upon me until my vision for them comes.

     I have a plan and a vision to build my church but it will be built by me and for me. I will give visions, dreams and encounters with all who will take time to worship and wait. 

     I see my children fall into so many traps because of tradition. They have been taught to be blind and to blindly follow others instead of coming to me for their mission. Please my son, tell my people of my great love and tell them to spend time with me and worship and wait.

     The way to know if you are still stuck in tradition is if the waiting is hard for you. If you can’t sit still and wait for my vision then you are trapped in the tradition of works. Impatience is a vision killer. The vision will come if you are willing to wait and worship and spend time in my presence. It is a discipline that I am teaching my children.

     My son, do you remember in Acts chapter 13 they fasted and prayed until my Spirit spoke and said to separate Saul and Barnabas for the work I sent them to? They didn’t just run to and fro doing all these programs. They waited for a clear word from me and then went. It should be the same today. As you minister to me and spend time with me then a vision or a word will come to you and with the word comes the faith and the power to complete the vision.

     The reason most ministries fail is because they are doing things I didn’t tell them to do in places I didn’t send them. If each of my loved ones will spend time with me and worship and wait upon me then I will give them their assignments. It’s really that simple. No more wondering and wasting time going here and there but going in a direction that I have sent and doing things I have ordained for you to do.

     Do you remember that I said in scripture that I ordained good works for you to walk in? Each of you has a part and an assignment. If you don’t have the vision of your calling then keep praying and expecting until it appears. Don’t do things for the sake of being busy. Stay alert to my Spirit and my leading. Don’t build a church just because everyone else has one. Don’t do what everyone else does. Do what I send you to do. Come to me and I will show you plainly what to do.

     I love each of you and have great plans for you lives. I want to give each of you great reward in the day of reward for your accomplishment. You will not be graded on anyone’s calling but your own. I told you it’s not wise to compare yourselves one to another.

     Each of your callings is different and each of you is a different part of the body. A hand will never be judged because he couldn’t see or an eye because he couldn’t hold a hammer and build. Come to me my beloved and let me reveal to you who you are and what part you are. Each of you is a special part of my body and Christ is the one and only head. So let the head to the thinking and the planning and just do what he gives you to do. This is the rest to enter in to.

     Remember my beloved to come to me for your assignment. A vision will be given you and if you aren’t sure of what you are supposed to be doing then you haven’t received your vision yet. Don’t be alarmed If you haven’t, just keep coming to me until you do.

     With some of you it has to do with my timing. I have appointed times and seasons for all I do and you can’t cause it to come faster but you can delay it by being busy with things I didn’t tell you to do.

     Be ready my beloved for the vision for your life will come and it will not tarry. There are great days ahead for each of you as you learn to look into my realm and do what you see me doing. I will guide you and will not leave you without direction. It is my good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

     So don’t be afraid and don’t forget how much I love you and have planned for you. And don’t forget to write the vision down as you get it. Plans will come in early and you will write them down and then you will be told when to implement the plans you are given. Sometimes plans are given a long time in advance to give you time to grow toward them. Some plans will come and will be implemented in moments. You will learn these things as you follow my Spirit. You will know the difference between a "now" word and a "soon" word.



     Don’t forget my beloved to love one another as I have loved you and to be patient and kind with each other and bear each other’s burdens. You are growing quickly my children and I marvel at how you have left all to come to me outside the camp. I am delighted to meet you here. I am with you forever and ever so we need to learn to communicate now. Listen to my Spirit and stay close to me. I love you all. Don't forget to spend time alone with me and I will give you the vision you need so that you can fulfill your destiny. 

     This was the end of the words he gave me at that moment.

     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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It's What Jesus Did

It’s What Jesus Did 

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Ephesians Chapter 2 

4. But God, who is rich in mercy, 

for his great love wherewith he loved us,

 5.Even when we were dead in sins, 

hath quickened us together with Christ, 

(by grace ye are saved;) 

6.And hath raised us up together, 

and made us sit together in heavenly places

 in Christ Jesus: 

7.That in the ages to come 

he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace

 in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 

8. For by grace are ye saved through faith;

 and that not of yourselves: 

it is the gift of God: 

9.Not of works, lest any man should boast. 

10. For we are his workmanship, 

created in Christ Jesus unto good works, 

which God hath before ordained 

that we should walk in them. 

     I am writing today to help those of you who are bound in religion to find the freedom that is in Jesus. So many people are being condemned by religion and the mean spirited preaching that comes out of many pulpits. I want you to know that I am praying for you and hoping you will read the truth in the scriptures I posted above.

     Herein lies the problem: With religion it's always about what we must do to please God. That's not the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The true gospel is about what Jesus already did for us. That's right, if you read the bible you know that as Jesus was hanging on that cross he said “It’s finished!" so why are we still trying to finish it?

     So let's start mining the truth from the scriptures we just read. First of all it starts with mercy. Who was the mercy towards? Not just us. The mercy was towards God's love for us. He loves us so much that He had mercy on his own love. His love is so great that He had to come up with a way to save us because He loved us too much to lose us.

     Second point: when did He love us? That's right you saw it didn't you? He loved us while we were dead in our sins and trespasses. Love overcomes sin and death and it always will. There is no death great enough to overcome God's love for us.

     Third: So what did He do about it? He quickened us which means He infused His everlasting life into us so that we could never be separated from Him again. Notice it didn't say He would save us but that He already saved us and made us to sit with Him in heavenly places in Christ. He joined us to Christ so we could be one with Him. He already placed us into Christ so that we could be secure.

     This is already done. When you are born again your spirit becomes a new creature. I think that's where the confusion comes from in those who are religious. They can’t separate the  eternal part of us from the temporary part of us. They don't realize that we are a three part being.

     Once we are born again our Spirit is one with Christ and is secure. It has already been perfected. Our soul, which is made up of our mind and our will and our thought processes, is being renewed day by day as we behold the truth that is in Christ. It doesn't get renewed by works of our own but by beholding the truth of what He already did for us. The more we see who we truly are in Christ the more the outer part of us becomes like the inner nature that we received when we were born of His Spirit.

     Our bodies are the third part of us and are not capable of going to heaven in their current state, that's why they must be changed. Sin does not dwell in our spirit but in our soul and body. So while our spirit is already alive in God our bodies are still in death. Our spirits are like the treasure hidden in earthly vessels that the bible talks about. Our spirit and God's spirit are already one but this new God/man Spirit is alive in our dead bodies. Just like a seed is planted in the ground. This was God's plan.

     By letting God's light and love come from our spirit into our mind we are changed into the being of love that He is. The Lord revealed it to me this way. One day after working in the mud all day my truck was completely filthy. I said “that truck is awful.” The Lord spoke to me and said, “Will talking about how dirty it is clean it up? Then I realized that a dirty truck can't wash itself. It needs water from another source. It needs washing and cleaning.

     We are the same way. Our spirits are sealed deep inside of us so they stay clean. Our souls, minds and bodies are the outer part. They need washing continually. They need a source of pure water to wash and clean them from the dirt of the world. That source is the Word and the Spirit of God. We can’t become clean by condemning the dirt. We can only become clean by staying in the water.

     I feel compassion on the children of God who sit in churches that condemn them for having a dirty face and never give them soap and water to clean with. It's an endless cycle and one I hope you will help me break. It’s time to look at who we are inside in Christ and be changed into His image. 

     We can’t get people clean by telling them how dirty they are. We need to tell them how the blood of Jesus washed away their guilt and dirt and how that by reading His word and listening to His voice will clean up their lives. Jesus told his disciples in John chapter fifteen verse three that they were clean through the word that He spoke unto them. His voice prunes us and cleans us.

     Next point: Why did God do all these wonderful things for us? Verse seven of our text tells us why.

     That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
God wants to spend eternity just showing us how good and kind He is. Love is not what He does. It's who He is. His riches and kindness will be with us for all eternity but the problem is that people don't understand that they are already ours. His riches and kindness toward us started before we were ever born again. He isn't kind to us because we are His children. We are His children because He was and is kind to us. Your eternity already started. Don't wait until you get to  heaven to start knowing how good God is.

     What did we ever do to deserve this? Oh that's easy. We did absolutely nothing. What does verses eight through ten say?

8.For by grace are ye saved through faith; 

and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 

9.Not of works, lest any man should boast. 

10. For we are his workmanship, 

created in Christ Jesus unto good works, 

which God hath before ordained 

that we should walk in them. 

     It's all by faith. Faith in what He did and absolutely no faith in anything I could have done to earn it. It was God's free gift. Free means free, Free means free, free means free, free means free... Not of works. Do you see in verse ten how that we aren't doing the work but we are the work? He created us in Christ to bear fruit of salvation. This was ordained by Him before the world began. We don't work to get saved; we work because we are saved.

     So what do we do now, you may ask? Look unto all the works that He did. Accept them with thanksgiving and praise. Getting saved was not your plan it was His. Get over it. The bible says we are the righteousness of God in Christ. We already are. Get over that too. Righteous is not what you do, it's who you are in Him. It's a free gift also. We don't become righteous by doing works we become righteous by having faith in what He already did.

     Now this might get serious to some of you but I have to tell you this because I love you. If you are in a church that is constantly telling you how bad you are and how much God hates you when you sin then get out now! I don't care how long you have been there or how much you are invested. If you are not being built up into who you are in Christ then you are wasting your time.

     The purpose of the church is to train people to go into the world and preach the gospel but you can never grow into your calling if you are not getting the light of God and the water of the true word of God and the presence of the Holy Spirit that you need to grow. If all you are being fed is darkness then that's what you will become. There are many churches that will love you and help you to grow into what God wants you to be. He doesn't want you beat down and depressed and hopeless. That won't do one bit of good for His kingdom.  

     It's time that we let the love of God shine in our lives and stop all the condemnation. I want you to know that Jesus loves you with all His heart and He wants you to know His love and His eternal goodness. Don't sit under condemnation but find a place in His love and grow. You are His delight and the love of His life.

     If you are born again you have already been seated with Him in heavenly places. He thinks so much more of you than what you are hearing from those fire-breathing preachers who make you feel like a worm. I know, I've sat in those pews and understand how you feel. It's time for a new day; A day in His glory and His light.

     I will leave you with the words of the Apostle Paul in Galatians chapter five verse one.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty 

wherewith Christ hath made us free, 

and be not entangled again 

with the yoke of bondage. 

     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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