Michael Ott Ministries

While praying today I heard Father’s voice and he said: My son, please write down these words and share them with my beloved children. Here are his words.

My children, your hearts know that something is wrong with the belief system that most of my church is holding on to for dear life. Most of my children have been indoctrinated with so many lies that it’s hard to know the truth when you see it. You have to ask yourself if the things you have learned are really working and is what you see in your life the same as what you see in Jesus and in the power that the early church walked in. It’s time to stop pretending that things are working and come to me for the answers.

Some of you are coming to the end of religion and that is where I begin. I sent my son to buy your freedom not to capture you and put you into a different form of bondage. All the false requirements put upon you by religion have turned into confusion and my people scarcely know who they are.

If you will come to me I will reveal myself to you. But don’t come through any mindset or any religious thing. Just come to me as you are and know me as I am. Jesus told you that he is the way. So the way to come to me is not by trying to be someone else. It’s not by doing good works and trying to earn your way to the throne. It’s not by sacrificing all that you have to get my attention. Jesus is the way to me. Just look at the cross and see me in Christ forgiving your sins so that we could never be separated again.

Many tell you the cross was my judgment being poured out but the cross is the greatest act of love the world will ever see. This is what makes the cross so glorious. It is because I and my son are one. I was in Christ on the cross reconciling the world unto myself not counting their sins against them. We love you so much that we came and took away every reason you have to be separated from us and now you are free to come through the doorway called Christ and step into the heavenly realms of grace and see me face to face.

Don’t be surprised at what you find when you come to me. I am humble and lowly and even though my throne is over all, I am easily accessed and full of compassion for people. My throne is glorious as heaven is glorious but I sit on it as the one who loves you and serves you by answering your prayers. At my right hand is the one who died for you and rose again so you could never die again. He took away your sins and bore your pain all because of love.

I love people. Not just my people but I love each person on earth. Even the ones who know me and still hate me. You must separate what you have learned about me from others and sift it for truth. There are so many lies told about me and I have been painted as a mean and vengeful God who can’t wait to smite someone. But my beloved, you know better. You sense in your heart who I really am and I encourage you to come to me and know me as I am. I am the God who hides in your heart so that you can find me. Seek me with your heart, in your heart, and know who I am.

This is why I said to seek me with your whole heart and you would find me. This is why I said that it’s with the heart that man believes unto salvation. This is why I said as a man believes in his heart so is he. It’s all about the heart because the heart is where love dwells. That’s why I chose to live there. I am in heaven and heaven is in me. I am in heaven and I am in you and you are with me in heavenly places in Christ. We are not separate, we are one. Your heart is in heaven and heaven is in your heart.

There are so many more things to teach you about love my beloved but you first must be convinced that I am love all the time. I am never hate. I am always love. The only things I hate are the things that stop you from knowing how much I love you.

In the original sin the enemy convinced Adam and Eve that I withheld something from them. All I had was theirs. The only fruit forbidden was the fruit that would cause them to know evil. I don’t want you to know evil. I want you to be intimate with good and forsake evil because evil has nothing to do with my love for you. I want my children to be so conscious of my good that no evil enters their mind.

This is why Jesus said to be wise as serpents but harmless as doves. Doves do no evil. They are content with what they have been provided. They don’t kill and steal to gather more than they need. They understand that their supply comes from heaven so they don’t have to struggle to live on earth.

This is the reason that most of my children fight and struggle. They think they have to fight to get what I already gave them. I said you would see the kingdom when you become humble as a child. A child doesn’t worry about the mortgage or how much the grocery bill was this month. A child understands that the parent’s love for them will provide for them.

It’s time to return to the simplicity of the gospel. You do not become greater because of your wealth of knowledge about the scriptures. It’s not how many verses you know, it’s how many verses you can live. It’s knowing that my scriptures are proof of my love for you.

The Pharisees knew the scriptures and argued from them with the one who wrote them. Can you imagine arguing with the author of a book about the book? Many in my church do the same thing today. They think they can take my word and force me to do things I won’t do for them unless they know chapter and verse. The truth is I do these things for you because I love you. Scripture should not be used to get something from me, scripture is to rejoice over because you know my love will provide what you need. Scriptures are not a cry for help but a hymn of victory.

It’s not the standing on the scriptures that makes them come to pass. My word will not fail because I spoke it. If you believe it or don’t believe that doesn’t stop my word from being fulfilled. When I said “let there be light” it didn’t only appear to those who believed it. Even those who don’t believe I created the earth live on the earth I created.

It’s not what you believe that makes my promise come to pass. It’s who you believe in. There are many who believe my word will work for them but don’t believe I love them. I am not saying that quoting scripture is wrong but you are not quoting it to make something happen. You are agreeing with it that I love you and will provide what that scripture promises because you know I love you and gave you that scripture because I love you.

The devil knows my scripture better than almost any of my children and yet he doesn’t get it. He sees it as a legal document and not as a love letter. The promises I put in scripture are written as examples of my love for you. When you see them as part of my love letter written to you then you will stop using them to get something from me and you will sing them to me as a beautiful song of thanksgiving because you know that I gave you what you needed before you even could read the scriptures.

So my beloved will you believe with your heart. Will you believe in my love? Will you believe that I love you so much that I have withheld nothing from you? I have freely given you all things that pertain to life and godliness. Will you stop quoting my scriptures to me because you want something and start singing them to me because you have something? Will you search for me in your heart with your heart? Will you stop looking all over creation for me and look for the God who hides in your heart?

This was the end of the words He spoke to me a little while ago,
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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Friday, June 24, 2016

Presently in His Presence

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Psalm 16:11

Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

Psalm 31:20

Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

Psalm 140:13

Surely the righteous shall give thanks to your name; the upright shall dwell in your presence.

John 17: 5

5And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

As I was praying to day and sitting quietly at my computer listening for his voice he kept whispering to me the following phrase: He said “presently in my presence” He repeated this phrase three times. In the spirit I looked and saw a clock and the clock didn’t have numbers on it but had the words “right now.”

Then he spoke to me the following words:

He said.

My son, please write down these words and share them with my beloved ones. I love each of you so much and I need you to rest in my love. You ask for my presence and then you worry about the future or spend time regretting the past. I need you to focus on me right here, right now. Put away worry and regret and be with me in this moment.

This is a great secret to peace. Faith and miracles and blessing are created in my presence but it takes you putting your attention on me right now to live in this place of my presence.

Imagine if you went to visit your friend and spend the day with them. Then imagine if they spent the whole time ignoring you and telling you how much they are worried about tomorrow or sorry about yesterday. You want to fellowship with them and pour your love and affection on to them, but they won’t be still long enough for you to even have a conversation.

This is the way most of my children are. Sometimes I just want to hold you in my arms and pour my love upon you but you won’t have it. Just like Jesus when he wept over Jerusalem. We wanted so badly to just gather them into our arms and love them but they didn’t want that. They wanted the earthly kingdom and didn’t care about the heavenly one.

Please my beloved ones. If you could spend just an hour a day with me and let me love you. You have 24 and I’m only asking for one. Sometimes I want to hold you and others I want to show you things that are happening in my realm, but you only want to talk about your problems and not about my plan and my realm.

There are so many things I want to tell you and teach you but it’s hard to do when you are so busy. This is why Jesus came alone to pray each day. Even as busy as he was he understood that it’s fellowship with me in the quiet times that replenishes and refreshes you. This is what the scripture means that says times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord.

This is why it’s called my “presence.” You can’t be focused on my presence while worried about the future. I want you to practice being in the moment and in my presence. There are many who say they are practicing my presence but they are still in their state of worry and not allowing me to have the time I want.

In the early church they understood this concept. They called it ministering to me but it was really just focusing on me and letting my will and my intent be known.

There are many examples of this in scripture, such as the church at Antioch when they fasted and prayed and Peter when he was on the roof. It’s just a matter of taking time and setting aside all your thoughts and cares and resting in my peace.

Besides Jesus already told you not to worry about tomorrow so that should be out of your lives already and you should be living in total trust in me knowing that I love you dearly, and I bought all your troubles and cares when I purchased you with the blood of my beloved son.

So will you do this my loved ones? Will you set aside time to come to me in the secret place and let me show you the wonders of my love and the glory of my grace. I have so much to show you. Once you set aside worrying about your realm then I can show you what I have here. Things I have longed for generations to tell my children about.

You shouldn’t have to wait to get to heaven to learn what is here. If you were moving to another city you would study that city and know what landmarks were there and you would know what entertainment and food was there. Yet my children know very little about their eternal home because they are earthly minded and not heavenly minded.

I ask you my beloved because I love you and I want you to have these things and I enjoy your company. I treasure the few moments we have alone more than you have ever imagined. You are my delight and each of you is different but wonderful. There are so many things I love about you. You really are my children and the desire of my heart. You are my treasure and I love spending time in your presence as much as you do mine.

Please think on these things and come away with me as much as you can. Soon you will learn to live in both realms at once. You will be conscious of earth and heaven at the same time, but it takes time to learn these secrets and these gifts are free for the taking to whomever will come.

Come to me my beloved in the day called today, in the moment called now, in the place called here, in the realm called love.

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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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

What Happened to the Good News?

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John 14:27

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Second Corinthians 13:11
Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Second Thessalonians 3:16
Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all.

One thing I notice when talking to many believers today is the lack of peace in their hearts. Most are afraid of the future and are worried about the things taking place in the earth today. We are constantly fed destruction and hate on our minute by minute news cast and so many have become afraid.

The saddest part of all is the ones who have been terrified from the pulpit by those who call themselves prophets and seers who predict a new catastrophe every day. It’s some funny colored moon or asteroid or virus or world shattering event. Even though their predictions are always wrong people keep going back for a weekly dose of fear and gloom. The funny thing is that even though they predict the end of the world they ask for your money or want you to buy a book from them. Where are they going to spend this money if the world collapses?

What about these verses?

Ephesians 3:21
Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

Isaiah 45:17
But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

It’s time we as a church stopped this madness. We must see them for what they are. The world is laughing at us because it’s obvious to them and they can see the greed at work.

Why would the world want what we preach? We tell them God loves them so much that he gave his only son to die for them, and oh by the way, he’s going to destroy you because you missed church last week. Or even worse, God is going to sneak all of us out of here and leave you behind to face the devil by yourself. So where is the dividing line for those who get to escape? If it’s on our own righteousness none of us would make it.

Think about this for a moment: Suppose you have three children at home. One of them went to church today and then stopped to feed the hungry and help the homeless. The other two skipped church and stayed home to play video games. You come home to find your house on fire so you run in and rescue only the good one and laugh at the other two as they die screaming in the fire. After all, they are only getting what they deserve. Really? Sadly that is what most believers believe about our Father. And we wonder why the world laughs at us and refuses to believe in the terrorist God that the church believes in.

Hebrews 9:27 says:
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

So when is the judgment? It’s after we die. So why are we blaming all the bad things happening in the world on the judgment of God? There are bad things happening today, just like last year, just like last century, just like when Jesus walked the earth.

Romans 6:23 says:
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

So the bad things happening are not God’s judgment but the result of sin. Sin is trying to destroy the world and God is offering eternal life through Christ.

We are not called to be in fear but in peace and faith. I am amazed by those who call themselves believers and still can’t see that God is good and he is our protector and savior. It’s time the church to repent and believe the Good News that God loves the world and is offering salvation to all who will come to him.

This double mindedness must stop. This is one of the reason we don’t receive the things we are promised.

James Chapter one says:

2. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

5. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. 8. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

If we think God is going to love us one moment and destroy us the next we are doubled minded and unstable. God is not the problem. It’s the wages of sin that is trying to destroy the world and not God’s judgment. God is good and he is always good and he will always be good. He has done all he can do to save each and every person in the world and he is not angry with the world.

I don’t say these things to condemn anyone but I am trying to wake up the church to the goodness of our God and his gospel. He has been lied about and misrepresented long enough. It’s time to believe the truth and stop the lies. We condemn people to prison for their whole lives, and even put some to death for lesser offenses than what our Father is accused of every week from some angry preacher who doesn’t really know what or whom he is talking about?

So why does God allow these fire breathing, destruction loving people to keep preaching the lies? It’s simple. He loves them and wants to save them and not see them destroyed. He loves the man in the pulpit and the man robbing the liquor store the same. Not judging either one of them while they are still wearing fallen flesh, but patiently waiting for the day when all this is done so he can only judge the heart and not the sin ravaged body.

This is how much we are loved. This is why we as a church must grow up and speak the truth in love and put these lies from among us. So how do we do this? We spread peace and love and represent our Father as he truly is. Tell the world that God is good and prove it by loving them until they come into the kingdom. Pour out his love and mercy without measure until they understand how much they are really loved. Another way is to stop the spread of fear. Stop buying the books, stop listening to the fear and turn on the peace.

I’d like to leave you with a few verses to think about:

Isaiah 41:13
For I, the LORD your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I am the one who helps you.”

Psalm 91:
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;

There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

What do we have to be afraid of? If we live, we walk with Christ living in us and if we die we go to heaven and live with him there. He promised to never leave or forsake us so when are we going to believe the true gospel?

Colossians 3:15
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

What happened to the good news? It’s still alive and well, we just need to dust it off and go proclaim to the world that “He is risen!”

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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Monday, June 20, 2016

Safe!

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Habakkuk Chapter 3

Though the fig tree should not blossom,

nor fruit be on the vines,

the produce of the olive fail

and the fields yield no food,

the flock be cut off from the fold

and there be no herd in the stalls,

yet I will rejoice in the LORD;

I will take joy in the God of my salvation.

GOD, the Lord, is my strength;

he makes my feet like the deer’s;

he makes me tread on my high places.

What a beautiful promise from our Father. I was awakened early this morning with these scriptures dancing in my heart. I love it when my day starts like this. It’s Father’s way of getting my day started right. As I went into my prayer time I opened my bible and started reading these verses, and then began to worship Father with these very words, and as I did He began to speak to me and asked me to share his words with anyone who will listen.

He said,

My beloved ones, I need you to take your eyes off the world and the problems of the world. You are safe in me and I am watching over you. My little children your supply does not come from the world. Yes it may come through the world, but not from the world.

Do you realize that if all the crops on earth failed and there was nothing left in the field that I will still feed you? Your supply is not from the world but is from me. Do you not realize that I have gardens in heaven? I have all you need. I have fruit here so large that one apple would feed a whole community on earth. Is that hard for you to believe? Please my little ones, dream a little, open your minds as a little child and let me show you my glorious provision for you. I am not limited by your growing season.

I tell you these things because I want you to start seeing everything that comes into your hands as coming from me. I am your provider. I will provide for you and protect you and it does not depend on who the president is or who is in what office. There is really only one official and he sits at my right hand as a King.

I want you to take your eyes off the distractions you call famine and war and disease and politics. I want your eyes looking into my eyes and seeing how precious you are to me. I have all you need.

Think about this a moment. When Jesus led the multitudes into the wilderness did he know they were going to run out of food? Of course he did. He led them out there for that purpose to show them that their provision didn’t come from their gardens or the markets, but it comes from heaven.

I fed multitudes in the wilderness with manna from heaven and you know this story so you have no basis for worry. There is absolutely no reason for you to worry. You may say look at this and look at that but if you look into my eyes and look at my past record of taking care of you and of all believers, then you have no basis for the worry in your heart. I have never failed you. I will never fail you.

Put away the doom and gloom once and for all. If you stay tuned into the world news or the world church you will only see the enemy’s plan. He plans on destroying the world with evil and war. He doesn’t get his way. I get my way. My way is salvation and not destruction. Really think on this for a moment. If I wanted the world destroyed do you think it would still be here? Am I not able to tear down and rebuild what I created in the first place?

You don’t even have to have faith to believe this. It’s simple logic. If I wanted the world destroyed then it wouldn’t be here. There will be a day when I have reaped the precious fruit of this earth until there is no fruit left. My fruit is people. I will save multitudes of millions and my glory will cover this earth. Here is a hint. Those of you who are farmers already know this:You don’t burn the field until the harvest is done.

When all these things are complete I will build a new heaven and earth that will never be touched with sin and evil. I do this because I want a place that has never been stained by blood or tears. In the new creation you will not be able to point to any place and say “remember the terrible thing that happened here?” there will never have been any blood shed or sad tears shed on any place. It’s that simple my loved ones. That is why I am creating a new heaven and new earth. All tears will be wiped away and only joy will remain.

So there is no basis for you to be worried about destruction and waste. Are there wars and troubles in the earth today? Yes but they are not my plan. Jesus told you there would be wars and rumors of wars but because he told you does that mean he caused them? Of course not. If you warn your neighbor that you saw a snake in his yard does that mean you put it there?

Wake up my loved ones. You are so safe in my arms. Jesus told you that no one could snatch you out of his hand and you are in his hand and he is in my hand so you are double safe.

So please my little children, put away the fear. If you fall I will catch you. If you wake up tomorrow and everything you own is gone then rejoice knowing that better things are on the way. The enemy can’t steal anything from you that I can’t replace with bigger and better. Besides, I am your loving father and I save everything you love and it will be returned to you as a reward in the day of restoration, so nothing is ever really lost. You can’t lose for winning.

So rest in me my loved ones and know that the condition of the world and your provision are not even related. Your inheritance is from above and not from below. I have bread you can’t buy at the store and milk that flows from heaven.

For those with ears to hear, Jesus is the true bread and if you eat of him daily then you will find that you don’t really need natural bread at all. You live by the words that proceed from my mouth and not by the natural things you consume. I will bring you to this level if you keep following me. You have heaven’s bread and living water. How could you starve?

I love you my dear children and I don’t want you to be afraid. I want you to rejoice and do the things children do. Play and be happy. Don’t forget my children, I dwell in you and you dwell in me and you are safe in me.

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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Friday, June 17, 2016

The Fullness Of Christ

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Ephesians 4 ESV

1. I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2. With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3. Eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 5. One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6. One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. 7. But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift.

8. Therefore it says:

“When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.”

9. (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, of the earth? 10. He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) 11. And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,
12. To equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,

13. Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood,

to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

14. so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 15. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16. From whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

As I was reading and meditating on these verses today I was thinking about the verses above that say we were given the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to perfect us for the work of the ministry until we all come into unity of the faith. I was wondering what that would look like and the wonderful voice of my Father came to me and I wrote down these words and he asked me to share them with you.

He said,

My wonderful children, there is a day coming when all my children shine like the sun at noon. When you are all complete in the revelation of who you are in me and who I am in you. This is the true message of those that I have sent to teach you. There are many today who call themselves apostles and prophets and teachers but you know they are false because they are tearing down the body and not building it up in love.

If the purpose of these ministers is to build you up into the image of my son then any one preaching any other message is a false prophet. This is why my beloved Paul said if any man preach any other gospel message let him be cursed. Only the true message of love and the message of the cross can build you up into the image of my firstborn.

There are many today that condemn you and belittle you and laugh at you all the way to their big bank in their big car and they keep you in bondage because you don’t know the truth about yourself.

If you are born again then you are not the low-life mangy dog that they make you feel like you are. You are holy and blameless and full of my glory within. The only thing you need is to be told who you are over and over until you believe in the finished work of the blood of my son.

As you learn who you truly are then the ways of the world will fall away from you and you will be conformed on the outside to who you already are on the inside. You will start putting off the old ways of anger and strife and greed and you will put on praise and kindness and gentleness and peace and patience and will be more and more like the One whom I exalted to my throne.

This is my plan for my church. I am not planning for my church to be beaten down and run off the earth in some terrible event you call the tribulation. I plan on my church learning who they are and being conformed to the image of my son and to rise up in the glory of my goodness and take over the world with my gospel.

You are the body of my son in the earth. His body was beaten and killed once and now he is alive for evermore. As he is in heaven so are you in the earth. You are the body on the earth and you will shine like he does sitting here at my right hand exalted above all that is named. As I have exalted him in the heavens I will exalt his body in the earth until the darkness of the world is driven out and my kingdom has put down all authority in the earth.

There will even be a day when my people are so sure of who they are that they will no longer allow death to have the final say. There will be a day when death will not be a certainty but a choice. A day when only those who choose to go home will come home. This will become normal in the day of glory that is coming when all shall know me from the least to the greatest and the day when the weakest among you is mightier than my beloved David.

I know this doctrine is new to so many of you because of the lies that have been preached out of the pulpit to keep the sheep hungry and afraid and the money machine overflowing, but this will change.

My people will be loyal to me and not their denomination and will come out of this wilderness called religion and will be free to reign in my Son. The glory of the gospel will once again flow from house to house and street to street and my light will drive darkness from the earth.

So be prepared my beloved to be transformed as you learn the truth about who you are and about how much you are loved. The holiness that is in you will become the holiness you live in and you will forget what it’s like to have an evil thought or desire, and you will be full of my glory and my joy continually.

These are my plans for you my loved ones. Plans to prosper you and bless you and make you rule upon the earth. Just remember, in the kingdom ruling is serving, so serve each other in love and give your lives for each other just as Jesus did for you. Be of great cheer my beloved ones, it is my great joy to give you the kingdom.

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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Friday, June 10, 2016

How Does The Revival Begin?

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Not long ago Father gave me these words and he has asked me to share them with you. I hope you are blessed by them.

He said:

My Children, You are a people of my heart. I have loved you and will always love you. You live in the tender part of my heart and I know your suffering and feel every pain. You are weary and need strength and you will find strength. You have struggled to find your revival and revival will come. You have done so many things out of the love in your hearts and I have seen these things and I am proud of you. Now it’s time to talk about revival and prosperity.

Revival as you call it is just the manifestation of my presence. You have sought for it in many ways and tried all you know to get it to break out. Now I show you a better and more excellent way. Just as Paul wrote in Corinthians the gifts are to be sought after but the main thing to seek is love. As you focus on love the gifts will flow: Revival will flow from each of you as you love one another and love me.

I am God of the simple. It doesn’t have to be hard. I am teaching my church to love again. Remember I said in scripture that people would know you are a disciple by the love you have for each other. It is this simple: As you focus on loving each other my presence will flow from this love. All the gifts of my Spirit will be common. I am love and where love is God is. I repeat. I am love and where love is I am.

The reason most revivals cease is because they are built on a shallow foundation of love. They are built on the love of seeing the working of my Spirit which is still love but it’s not the greatest love. He who walks in the greatest love walks on the surest foundation. There is no greater love than one who lays down his life for his friends. This is Jesus the righteous and true foundation.

Revival will not be earned. It is a gift of my grace just like your salvation. It is already inside you and waiting to be released. The kingdom of God is within you. It’s not in heaven that you pull it down or down below that you bring it up. There is enough revival power in each of you to shake your whole city. The problem is that you don’t know it. You must have faith in who I am within you.

Here is the secret. Don’t think about revival: think about loving your Father and loving those around you. This love will draw my power and presence from each of you and miracles will flow like the waters of the great river within you. There is truly a river that flows and it flows through each of you that believe. Let it flow.

On the heels of this revival will follow prosperity. Forget about all the doom and gloom you hear from the world and from those who don’t trust their Father. I know how to bless my people come fire, flood or famine. It is just like revival, it is a gift of my grace and if you will accept it as you did my free gift of salvation you shall have it. It’s just a matter of having faith in my grace and the gifts of my grace.

It is not by sowing and reaping. These are earthly principles. I said while the earth remains seed time and harvest will remain but there is a way that remains long after the earth is vanished and the new earth and heavens are in place. Jesus said consider the birds, they don’t sow or reap but your Father feeds them. This is the kingdom part. Trust not in your sowing and reaping, trust in your Father. I told you to have faith in me not in sowing and reaping. Think about the greatest garden of all. How many seeds did Adam sow? Wasn’t their fruit on the trees when he was created?

All things of true value come as my gift to you. Ask yourselves; how much did you pay for your salvation? How much did you pay for my Spirit living in you? How much did you pay for the eternity of bliss that awaits all who believe? Did not I even give you the measure of faith you used to believe for your own salvation? Why would revival come any other way?

Revival will come to my church when my people realize that the reviver lives within them. I am the Spirit that raised Christ from the dead, cannot I bring life back to my church? The day comes soon when you see my Spirit poured out not only on the church but on all flesh. All will know me from the least to the greatest. The great Revival or “adoption” as I call it, is not coming to the church; it’s coming to the whole world!

So rest my beloved. Let me flow through you and start this great harvest that you belittle by calling it a revival. It will come as you put your trust in me and set your love upon me and upon each other.

Here is a clue. Act like children around the table and your Father will come for supper. Start treating me like I’m already here and you will find that I am here. I am with you always.

I love you my beloved and I am excited about the days ahead. Be not afraid it is my good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Jesus is coming for a glorious church an overcoming church and a victorious church. You are the victors who I have invited to the feast!

This was the end of the words he spoke 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 Never Too Late

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John Chapter Eleven

1. Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2. It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. 3. So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick.” 4. But when Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness is not to end in death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it.”

5. Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6. So when He heard that he was sick, He then stayed two days longer in the place where He was. 7. Then after this He said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” 8. The disciples said to Him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?” 9. Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10“But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

11. This He said, and after that He said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I go, so that I may awaken him out of sleep.” 12. The disciples then said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” 13. Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that He was speaking of literal sleep. 14. So Jesus then said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, 15. And I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe; but let us go to him.” 16. Therefore Thomas, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”

17. So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days. 18. Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off; 19. And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother. 20. Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet Him, but Mary stayed at the house. 21. Martha then said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22. “Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”

23. Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” 24. Martha said to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” 25. Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me will live even if he dies, 26. And everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” 27. She said to Him, “Yes, Lord; I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, even He who comes into the world.”

28. When she had said this, she went away and called Mary her sister, saying secretly, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.” 29. And when she heard it, she got up quickly and was coming to Him.

30. Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met Him. 31. Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and consoling her, when they saw that Mary got up quickly and went out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

32. Therefore, when Mary came where Jesus was, she saw Him, and fell at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and was troubled, 34. And said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to Him, “Lord, come and see.” 35. Jesus wept. 36. So the Jews were saying, “See how He loved him!” 37. But some of them said, “Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind man, have kept this man also from dying?”

38. So Jesus, again being deeply moved within, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. 39. Jesus said, “Remove the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there will be a stench, for he has been dead four days.” 40. Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?” 41. So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His eyes, and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard Me.

42. “I knew that you always hear me; but because of the people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that you sent me.”

43. When He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth.” 44. The man who had died came forth, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”

As I was meditating on these verses Father’s voice came to me and He asked me to share the following words with you.

He said,

My little children, why do you worry? There is nothing in your life that you are facing that I am not big enough and powerful enough to handle. In the scriptures you just heard do you see how the impossible is easy for me? Can’t you see that even death is no match for my life and my power? Even death cannot exist in my presence. Death flees from me and will not stand in my presence.

I say these things to you so that your faith will rest in my love for you. As you just heard in these scriptures no one in this story had faith but my son Jesus. The rest had given up. Not only did his disciples not believe that Lazarus could be brought back but they believed they were all going there to die.

Did their lack of faith stop my plan? Never! Yes I want you to be full of faith but as you can see in these verses I am faithful even when you are without faith. But here is what I want you to have faith in. I want you to have faith in my love and in my plan for your life being perfect.

I want you to believe in my plan and my love. Did you notice that even though Lazarus was dead he still came forth when he was called? How could this be? It is because if you believe in me you will never be separated from me not even for a moment. Yes Lazarus’ body was in the tomb but his spirit was still with me and conscious of me. There is no separation from me by death for anyone who believes. No matter if your spirit is in your body or out of your body you are still close enough to me to hear my voice. So there is nothing to be afraid of.

Never fear and never give up. Martha, Mary and all the mourners and all the disciples had given up but my Son had the last word. He always does and he always will. You may not see any way out of the situation you are in but you are never without hope.

Never think for a moment that you are trapped in your circumstances. If even the grave can’t hold you then how could you be bound with no way out? My son Jesus said “I am the way the truth and the life.” If you belong to us then there is always a way.

So my beloved ones. I want you to rest in me and not see your problems as obstacles but see them as a opportunities for me to be glorified in your life.

If Lazarus had never been sick you wouldn’t have heard of him and Jesus would not have shown my glory by raising him from the dead. Your circumstance aren’t problems they are just a chance for me to be glorified in your life. If you see them this way then they will no longer burden you. You will not be thinking you are being punished or having problems for the sake of having problems.

This is why my son told you that yes you would have tribulations in this world but to be of good cheer for he overcame the world. If you know your troubles come just so that I can be glorified then you will not be looking at your problems but will be looking into the eyes of your answer. You will always be expecting my answer to solve your problem.

Finally my beloved ones. Know that I love you and there is no problem in your life that I haven’t already planned on fixing. Let your faith be in my love for you and know that to live is Christ and to die is gain. Either way you win so why worry?

If I brought you through yesterday don’t you believe I have a plan for tomorrow? I will take care of you because of my love for you. The first step in having great faith is understanding my great love for you. If I loved you so much that I gave my only son for you don’t you think I love you enough to take care of all your needs?

Rest in my love my dear children and love each other. Encourage each other and be ready for your miracle. It’s never too late.

This is the end of the words he spoke to me at this 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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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

The Royal Servant

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Philippians Chapter Two:

1. Is there any encouragement from belonging to Christ?

Any comfort from his love? Any fellowship together in the Spirit? Are your hearts tender and compassionate? 2. Then make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, loving one another, and working together with one mind and purpose.

3. Don‘t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. 4. Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.

5. You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.
6. Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. 7. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, 8. he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross.

9. Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names,
10. That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
1l. and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

12. Dear friends, you always followed my instructions when I was with you. And now that I am away, it is even more important. Work hard to show the results of your salvation, obeying God with deep reverence and fear. 13. For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.

14. Do everything without complaining and arguing, 15. So that no one can criticize you. Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people. 16. Hold firmly to the word of life; then, on the day of Christ’s return, I will be proud that I did not run the race in vain and that my work was not useless. 17. But I will rejoice even if I lose my life, pouring it out like a liquid offering to God, just like your faithful service is an offering to God. And I want all of you to share that joy. 18. Yes, you should rejoice, and I will share your joy.

While meditating on these verses Father's voice came to me and he asked me to write down these words and share them with you.
He said:
My beloved ones. You are my offspring. You are born of my Spirit and my will. You are destined to rule and reign with me for eternity. I am all sufficient God of the heavens and earth and I rule as a humble servant. I could rule and reign with absolute power and force every creature to serve me in terror but that is not who I am.

So many of my children are quick to point out that they are royalty and that is true, but your position and power is not given to you to be served but to become servants. Jesus is my son and he is exalted above all and sits in my throne where he serves you by making intercession for you.

Think of this for just a moment. If the King of Kings uses his position in the heavenly realm to serve you then what should you be using your authority and power for?

This is what I need you to know my beloved. So many in the world church are seeking my power and my authority to rule but they are not seeking it for the right reason. My power is given for serving others in love and for no other reason. It’s not about how many devils you cast out, it’s about how many people you helped get free.

I love you my beloved children and I want you to know who I am so that you will know who you are. I am the God who reigns and there is no other. I want you to see the life that my son lived upon the earth through the revelation of the Royal Servant. Did my son destroy the works of the devil? Yes he did but why did he do that? Seriously consider this. He did it to bring freedom to the captives of the world. Could we have destroyed the works of the devil from heaven? Yes. With one world I could destroy all my enemies and there would never be a thought of them again. But that is not who I am.

Jesus came and lived a life of service upon the earth and that was his purpose. He came to give his life for your ransom and to destroy sin and evil but he also came to show you my character so you would know who I am and become like me.

What he showed you is that a life lived for only yourself is a life that is wasted. He poured out his life and his blood and now I am pouring out my Spirit in the earth.

Shall we talk about that for a moment? What is Holy Spirit doing in the earth? Is he ruling over you like a dictator? No He is not. Do you remember what Jesus said in John sixteen? He said the comforter was coming to reprove the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment.

Of sin because they don’t believe? Why would he do that? He did that so they would repent and believe because I love them.

Of righteousness because when Jesus came to me his blood was already shed, and faith in him and his sacrifice is all that is needed to be righteous.

Of judgment because the prince of the world was judged. Not the people of the world. The prince of the world.

All this Jesus did because of love and to serve the ones I love. We rule in love by serving in love.

Also think about Romans chapter eight. You don’t know how to pray as you ought, so Holy Spirit is interceding for you with groaning and such deep prayer that your bodies aren’t even capable of uttering the things He is praying for you.

Holy Spirit is one with us. He is just as much God as I or Jesus but He also came to serve and not to be served. Have you ever heard Holy Spirit speak of himself? He says nothing of himself and he only glorifies Jesus. He also came to show you our nature and our character so that you can become like us.

You are already made in our likeness and our image and this message is to reveal to you who you already are. As you awaken to the fact that you are just like us then you will shake off all the lies the world told you about yourselves and then you will learn to rule the world by serving each other in love.

As you learn who you truly are then your life will be lived in service of your king. You will serve Jesus by serving each other and by living as we live. This is true worship. This is why I seek you to worship me in Spirit and truth. This is the truth of who I am and serving others in love is the nature of my Spirit.

So my beloved ones, will you look at who I am? Will you look at who Christ is? Will you consider what Holy Spirit is doing in the earth and learn who you are? Will you do as Christ did? Will you use your royalty to become a servant? Will you become the Royal servant?

Please consider these things my beloved and serve one another with the same love I serve you with. Be at peace with each other my children. No more bickering over differences but celebration of faith in me.

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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Sunday, June 5, 2016

The Shepherd's Voice

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I get many emails from people asking me about hearing God's voice and about how I get his messages to share with others. It it is not because I have some special gift. Jesus said "my sheep hear my voice." If you are born again then you hear him. Today I will share some tips about how I hear his voice and I hope they help you to hear him better. We will begin in John Chapter Ten.

1. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3. To him the porter openeth; and

*the sheep hear his voice:

and he calleth his own sheep by name,

and leadeth them out.*

4. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them,

*and the sheep follow him:

for they know his voice.

5. And a stranger will they not follow,

but will flee from him:

for they know not the voice of strangers. *

11. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. 12. But he that is a hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. 13. The hireling fleeth, because he is a hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

14. *I am the good shepherd,

and know my sheep,

and am known of mine. *

15. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and

*they shall hear my voice;*

and there shall be one fold,

and one shepherd.

27. *My sheep hear my voice,

and I know them,

and they follow me:*

28.And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. 30. I and my Father are one.

I get many questions about hearing God’s voice and I struggled with the same problem for years before I finally learned how to hear. I would like to share a few things with you that will help you to hear him better.

The first thing is to really read these scriptures over and over until they become part of your heart. Don’t just read them but listen to them with your heart, and as you do imagine that you are standing there when these words were spoken.

This is the way to read all scripture. Don’t just read them with your mind but also read them with your heart and imagination which are joined together. We have been taught that our imagination is evil but it was given to us by our Father to see the invisible.

In the scripture the imagination and heart are in the same place. For instance, Jesus said "if you look on a woman to lust after her you have already committed adultery in your heart." Where does one lust from? Is it not in the imagination?

This is why it is very important to sanctify our imagination and to guard it and not let evil abide there. This is the new heart that Jesus said he was giving us. In the new covenant he writes his laws on our hearts and in our minds. He gives us a holy imagination that only sees purity and not evil. Our imagination is the “eyes of our heart.” Once it becomes single as Jesus said then our whole bodies are full of light. Reading his words and using your imagination to see them will sanctify your imagination and his word will cleanse it and make it whole.

I know it seems strange that the way to hear is to see but that is how it works. God is light so when he speaks, he speaks in pictures and light and your imagination converts it into information that your mind can use. Think about John in the Revelation. He was given visions and the visions were explained to him. Christ speaks this way to us often. We are shown things in our dreams and in our imaginations and thoughts and then explains to us what he has shown us.

Habakkuk Chapter Two says:

I will stand on my watch,

and set me on the tower,

and will watch to see what he will say to me,

and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

He was looking to see what God would say. Yet he was going to answer with words.

One of the reasons that I failed to hear his voice for so many years is because I was listening for the voice I heard on the Ten Commandments movie I saw when I was a child. I expected a big booming voice and didn’t realize that Father speaks in a still small voice so that he doesn’t frighten us. This voice is usually pictures or vision and sanctified thoughts. In the scriptures we read above Jesus taught us that he is a shepherd. What happens if the shepherd starts shouting? The sheep will scatter.

So one of the first things to know is that if you are his sheep you do hear his voice. He didn’t say maybe. He said my sheep hear my voice and he can’t lie. You hear but you don’t realize that you are hearing or there are so many other voices drowning him out.

This takes us back to Habakkuk. He stood to watch. The same way Jesus said to “watch and pray.” Why would he tell us to watch unless he was going to show us something? Every time we pray he shows us the answer, but usually we just pray and don’t watch. We must focus and stand on our watch. When we pray would should do as Jesus said and go into our secret place so that he can show us the answer in secret.

So you are not just listening for words. You are looking for visions, or pictures or words and sometimes he skips all of those and reveals to us the answer without any of the above. Have you ever been praying about a problem and all of a sudden you just “know’ what to do? That was his voice.

Now that you know how to see, hear, know, feel and taste his voice then it’s time to block out all the other stuff and shut up all the other voices that try to drown him out. That takes us back to the scriptures we studied. Jesus and the Father are just alike. Jesus said if you have seen me you have seen the Father. So they both have the heart of a shepherd.

So what kind of words and pictures would a shepherd speak to his lambs? We just read how he loved us so much that he laid down his life for his sheep so do you think he would be saying mean things to us or nice things? He said we are so safe in his hands that no one can snatch us out of his hand and then said Father was his backup and no one could take us out of their hands.

This is very key in learning to hear. You have to settle it once and for all in your heart. He loves you and in his eyes you are already perfected and you are holy and blameless as it says in Ephesians. So what would he say to a lamb that he is so much in love with that he laid his life down for and now he sees as holy and blameless? Would he criticize or encourage?

This you must learn. He will never belittle you in any way. He doesn’t speak to you concerning your faults. He only speaks about your righteousness.

I’ll give you an example: A few months ago a person was trying to start an argument with me and pushing me to my limit. Just before I began to lose my temper Father’s voice came to me and said “you are so patient and kind and loving” you are made in my image and in my likeness. You are forgiving and you know that you don’t wrestle against people but against spiritual wickedness.” Immediately I realized that there was no use to be angry. It wasn’t going to help anything. But did Father condemn me when I was about to lose it? No, he encouraged me to be who I really am. There really is no condemnation in Christ.

So when listening for his voice the first thing to do is to silence any voice that accuses, condemns, belittles or does anything that is contrary to who you are in Christ. It sounds like a hard thing to do but it just takes practice.

Imagine if you had five radios on in your house on different stations and your favorite song came on one of them. You would turn off the ones except for the one that you wanted to hear. It’s the same way with his voice. Once you turn off the wrong stations then the perfect one is loud and clear.

I’m not saying that he will never correct you but when he does it is in so much love that you will be blessed by the correction and not feel guilty about it.

Usually when I am doing something contrary to my new nature he speaks to me the same words. He says “Who are you my beloved?” That doesn’t condemn me for slipping instead it encourages me to get back on track.

Do you remember in the garden of Eden, he knew that Adam and Eve had sinned but the most important thing wasn’t “what have you done?” it was, “where are you so we can fix it.”

Think of your own children. If one of them did something bad and ran away, your first thought is not find them and punish them. Your first thought is get them to safety and then we will deal with the problem.

So to hear his voice we must be like sheep. We must know that we are helpless without our Shepherd. He is our everything and he loves us more than we can ever comprehend. We must know that our Shepherd is so kind that we shall not want. He will make us lie down in green pastures. He only has our best interest in mind.

So we are listening for the voice of a loving Shepherd, not an angry God. So many people today say they hear God's voice and say he is yelling and screaming and angry. They are not hearing the voice of the shepherd.

Your Father wants you to hear him more than you want to hear him. He longs to have long intimate conversations with you. You are his sheep and you hear him. You just need to know how you know. Please be blessed and encouraged and know that I am praying for each of you. If I can do anything to help you hear him better please contact me.

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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