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Matthew 10: 29-31

Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

In today’s message I would like to share with you a story. Some of you have heard this before in a video I made a while back about how I wrote the song called Everlasting Love. I would like to share it with those of you who read the blog and listen to the podcast also.

Most of what I have learned about life and especially about the love of our Loving Savior I have learned through failure. I share the stories of my failure with you so that you don't make the mistakes I have, but if you do make a mistake don't give up. Jesus loves you and he will pick you up when you fall. He is not counting our failures against us. He is cheering us on as we learn to walk without falling.

This is a true story and it happened one day several years ago while I was working in a body shop. I got to work that day and everything that could go wrong had gone wrong. It began with our computers being down because of a power failure and also much of the shop lighting and equipment was not working. I had so many deadlines and so many customers to whom I had promised their cars would be ready that day. Just as we managed to get the computers up and running I discovered that some of the parts we ordered for the cars in the shop didn’t get shipped and now the schedule was even worse.

All this time the pressure was building and I was running to and fro trying to get organized and trying to get everyone back on track. I heard Jesus speaking to me asking me to come alone for just a moment into the break room and pray about this. I was angry and frustrated and told him I didn’t have time to pray, I had too much to do.

Things went from bad to worse. Customers starting arriving expecting their cars to be ready and they weren’t and it seemed that each of them was angry and upset and decided I was the one at fault so in their frustration they really let me have it.

In the midst of that the boss who had been on vacation arrived to all the chaos and decided it was his turn to scream at me. Once again Jesus spoke to me and asked me to please give him just two minutes and come pray and get peace flowing again. Once again I told him I was busy and I didn’t have time to talk to him right now.

Well as you can imagine the day drug on and things escalated and got worse by the minute. I ended up working late and further behind in my work than when I arrived that morning.

I headed home and as I got out of town on the highway I just boiled over. In a loud voice I proclaimed “Lord where were you today? Didn’t you see how awful my day was? You promised that you would never leave me and you said that you even see the sparrows when they fall, didn’t you see how awful my day was?” All of a sudden a sparrow hit the windshield of my truck and died.

My heart broke and I felt awful. Suddenly I understood that Jesus had been trying to help me all day but I wouldn’t give him the time. I cried out “Lord I am so sorry and I am sorry that little bird died.” I was so ashamed of my hard hardheartedness and began weeping. I pulled over to the side of the road and I got the little bird off of my truck and carried him across the road ditch to the edge of the woods.I dug a little hole with my hands and buried the bird and asked Father to receive this little innocent bird into heaven.

As I stood there weeping Jesus spoke to me again but not softly this time. He said to me in a strong voice “Go home and get your notebook and write down what I tell you because I never want you to forget it.” So I rushed home and went to my closet with my notebook expecting to get the awful correction that I deserved. I grabbed my pen and once again Jesus spoke to me and said “Listen and write.”

He began speaking very quickly and I was expecting a speech about how wrong I had been that day but instead he spoke the words to this song. It is still the fastest I have ever written a song. It just poured onto the page. So here are the words to the song “Everlasting Love” and I’ll play it for you at the end of this message.

I know sometimes that you are bound to wonder,

If my love will always be the same.

Can’t you hear my heart it beats like thunder?

Even at them mention of your name.

Everlasting Love, when forever comes and goes,

I’ll still love you so and I’ll still want you to know,

If the sun falls from the sky, If the rivers all run dry,

There’ll be no reason for you to cry,

You’ll be safe inside, my everlasting love.

So put your fears aside and let me hold you.

Let a million years go rolling by,

Then you will believe these words I’ve told you,

By then you’ll know my love will never die.

Everlasting Love, when forever comes and goes,

I’ll still love you so and I’ll still want you to know,

If the sun falls from the sky, If the rivers all run dry,

There’ll be no reason for you to cry,

You’ll be safe inside, my everlasting love.

I proved my love for you,

While hanging on that tree,

I love you eternally.

Everlasting Love, when forever comes and goes,

I’ll still love you so and I’ll still want you to know,

If the sun falls from the sky, If the rivers all run dry,

There’ll be no reason for you to cry,

You’ll be safe inside, my everlasting love.

As you can imagine I sat there and wept for a long time. I was expecting punishment and correction and what I got was unconditional love. The awful day was my fault. I could have taken time to pray and let his peace fill my heart. There is no telling how he would have fixed things that day if I had given him the chance.

So next time you are having a bad day, take a few moments and pray and let his peace fill your heart and your mind. Remember he loves you so much that even the hairs of your head are numbered, and as he showed me in a vision once they are not just numbered but he designed your head and chose each hair for its specific place. That is how much you are loved.

He feed’s each individual bird and waters each individual flower and when they pass from here they return to his loving presence never to hunger or thirst again. You are much more precious to him than a bird or a flower.

I pray that you will learn from my mistake and not have the day I dad that awful day. I pray that you will always take time to pray no matter what your situation is. If you have time to breathe then you have time to pray. He sees and knows all and he loves you with an Everlasting Love.

I hope you are encouraged by these words and I hope you will listen with your heart to the song he sang to me because he loves you the same.

Until next time,
Grow Rich in His Grace,
I love you all,

michael

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Everlasting Love

Monday, August 29, 2016

Running Your Race With Patience

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Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

While reading my bible today I was drawn to the book of Hebrews as I am many times because there is so much still to be revealed in this book. As I was meditating on it and praying Father’s voice came to me and He said the following:

My son, write down these words and share them with my children. Oh my beloved ones. I know your hearts are weary and your paths have been long. I know many of you have waited for years for prophetic words that were spoken so long ago to come to pass. Don’t give up my beloved. I will cause all these things and more to come to pass.

I hear many of you say that you are old and it’s too late for the things to come that you have waited on all your years. It’s never too late, but if you come home before you accomplish all that I have promised you then your children or your closest loved one will inherit the word promised you so no promise goes unfulfilled.

My loved ones. I need you to have patience while waiting for all these things to happen. Don’t harden your hearts as they did in the wilderness and then not receive the promise because of a stubborn heart of unbelief.

This is why I told you in the letter to the Hebrews to not falter and give in to unbelief but to encourage each other each day. This is why it was said “Today if you hear my voice.” You must listen each and every day for the renewed promise so that you don’t grow weary. Many have grown weary instead of being patient and have died before all the promises made to them came to them.

I don’t want you to be like that. I want you to fully walk in all the things that were purchased for you at the cross by my beloved Son. There are so many things that pertain to you that have not been accomplished.

Think about Joshua and the spies that had faith. Even though they had faith and were ready to take their promised land they had to wait along with everyone else because of the unbelief of many. It is the same today. Some are ready to walk in the power of the age to come and some are dragging behind trying to live in days gone by and refusing to cross the river into the faith that will change everything.

I know it doesn’t seem fair but there is one body. You are all part of each other. Many of you have seen great things to come and want to run right into those places right now, but your fellow brothers and sisters are not ready to go there. It will take patience and unity to get the rest of the body in place and ready to rule the earth. You are one faith, one baptism and one body and instead of running ahead you must take time to strengthen those who are slow and help them come along.

Once you see the church as a body it will make sense. The eyes and ears and mind see the age to come but the feet are crippled, so the mind and eyes and ears must work on getting the feet well so that you can enter together. It is wonderful to reach ahead but very important to reach back and strengthen those who run slow because they are burdened.

I promise you my children there is a day of glory coming like you have never imagined and you will see it if you will run with patience and help those who are behind you to catch up.

Remember that Jesus wanted to teach more but he said the generation was dull of hearing and their hearts were hardened and their eyes were closed. Paul told the Corinthians that he wanted to speak many more things to them but they were babies in understanding. It’s the same today. Many of you see there is much more available but trying to get others to follow along is difficult but you must keep trying. The body only moves as fast as its slowest member.

So my beloved ones keep seeking me with an open heart and look ahead to the great victories to come and don’t let your hearts become hardened because things move too slowly. Be patient and run your race and be encouraged. Just like your brothers and sisters the prophets who saw things long before they would come to pass.

It’s the same with you. It’s not that I am slow, it’s just that some of you see really well and have seen what is coming from a long way back down the road. What you saw coming is right on time you have just been looking at it for a long time, so please my children, don’t become impatient. Rejoice and know that I always fulfill my promise to you. It will be well worth the wait so strengthen and encourage each other while it is called today. Hear my voice and don’t harden your heart but let your heart be filled with faith because of my voice.

I love you my dear children and I have a great future ahead for you and your children and their children and their children and so on as long as the earth remains.

Once you learn to take joy from my presence then you will have patience to wait on my promise. It is by faith and patience that you inherit the promises, but remember they are inherited and not earned. Think of it as a long journey with the one you love the most. Where you are going is very important but enjoying the journey is wonderful also. I love the journey we share together. Are you enjoying it 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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Sunday, August 28, 2016

Sweet Mercy

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1st Chronicles 16

34. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth forever.

Psalm 107

1. O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever.

Psalm 118:

1.. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth forever.

2. Let Israel now say, that his mercy endureth forever.

3. Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth forever.

4. Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endureth forever.

Psalm 136

1.O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever.

2.O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth forever.

3. O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth forever.

4. To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth forever.

5. To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth forever.

6. To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth forever.

7. To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth forever:

8. The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth forever:

9. The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth forever.

Sometimes life becomes a struggle even for those of us who are of usually full of faith. Some days although most won’t admit it, we wonder where God is in our situation and wonder if he has forgotten us. Jesus said that in this world we will have tribulation and he said that to believers. He also said to be of good cheer for he has overcome the world. That is the one thing I want to focus on today.

I believe one way that the so called faith movement has erred is because they want you to think you are controlling your destiny by the faith you have and by the things you confess. I am not against this but they left out part of the message. Paul said that we don’t live by our faith but by the faith of Jesus Christ who loved us and gave himself for us. It is his faith that is sustaining us so we have no room to boast of our own faith. After all doesn’t the scripture say that God has given to every man the measure of faith? Doesn’t the scripture say that by grace you are saved through faith and that faith didn’t come from you it was a gift of God?

Sometimes we get so caught up into the bondage of walking the faith walk that we forget that all that we have is because of God’s mercy and not because of our works of faith. Yes, it is wonderful to always speak positive and always be full of faith but it is extremely dangerous to forget about the mercy of our loving Father.

Peter had faith to get out of the boat and to walk on the water for a few steps but after having all that faith he still would have drowned if he hadn’t called out to Jesus to save him. David was a man after God’s own heart but the Psalms he wrote are full of him crying out to God for mercy.

So what is my point? It is simple, when you are full of faith rejoice and speak loudly and declare the words of faith from your heart. If you have an awful day and it seems like God is a billion miles away cry out to him for mercy. Within a few moments your heart will be full of faith again because faith comes by hearing the voice of God. Every time I have ever cried out to him he has answered me with love and restored me to faith and peace.

It’s time we have an honest conversation and not be so uptight about all the rules the faith teachers have given to us. It’s time we stop being hypocritical and acting like nothing is wrong when we are falling apart. We must be honest with ourselves if we are ever going to grow up into the fullness of Christ.

On one hand we have the faith teachers telling us to pretend we never have a bad day and boasting of their mighty exploits of faith and on the other hand we have the apostle Paul who said the following in 2nd Corinthians 11:

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. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying. At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to seize me, but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.

We all know that Paul the apostle was a great man of faith and the scriptures tell us of great miracles that were done through him but he was not afraid to admit that sometimes life is hard and we endure not by our faith but by the faith of our Lord who loves us and by his mercy.

It’s OK if you are having a hard time and it’s not because you have little faith or because you messed up. Sometimes life is hard because it’s life and for no other reason.

So if you are struggling with problems and troubles that doesn’t make you a failure or strange. It just means that you are a believer learning to live in a fallen world and learning to restore this world to our loving Father’s original plan of heaven on earth. One day we will get there and we will see earth look just like heaven but it will come by overcoming by the faith of Jesus Christ, by his blood and by his mercy.

So I encourage you to do as I do. When I have a hard day I don’t hesitate to call on Jesus. He never leaves us and he always loves us and his mercy does endure forever.

I hope you are encouraged by these words and I leave you today with a song I wrote. I hope you will pardon the sound quality as it was recorded in my closet and not in a professional studio.

Until next time,
Grow Rich in His Grace,
I love you all,
michael

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Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Shine On

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While praying today Father’s voice came to me and he asked me to share the following words with you.

He said:

My son, write down these words and share them with my lambs. I love my little lambs and I am so proud of you all. You are living among wolves and are still trusting in me for your protection. Even though many times so many things go against you and torment you yet you still trust in me.

I promise you that you will never be ashamed of trusting me. Even if you don’t see all the reward you think you should in this life don’t worry for all your good deeds and faith will be rewarded in the day of my Son. He will bring your great reward with him and you will be so glad that you shared his suffering in this life by standing against sin and against its effects such as sickness, disease and poverty.

You may not win every battle but I promise you the victory is eternally yours. Some of you at this time feel like you failed because you fought hard in your situation and you lost but that is not how I see it. Those of you with children will understand this. When your children try their best and play by the rules are you angry at them if they sometimes fail? No, of course not. As long as they gave it all they had and did their best you don’t belittle them when they lose.

This is not a one inning game. You play till you win. So if you fail you get back up and dust yourself off and get back to it. Never quit because it is never over. Only when the score is totaled at the end of time will you know that you have won. I promised you victory and that is what you have. To live is Christ and to die is Gain so even if you fail you still win. You can’t lose for winning. In all these things you are more than conquerors.

My children I am delighted by you. Your enemy has tried his best to make you quit and yet you are still there tormenting him. He threw all the dirt he could at you trying to cover you up and yet your light is still shining. After all the bumps and bruises, aches and pains and suffering you still lift your hands to me and call me Lord. Do you know how much joy that brings me? I am overjoyed by you because of your faith. There is rejoicing in heaven and great delight because your light still shines and your rejoicing continues.

So my beloved ones. Keep shining with all you have and be at peace. I am with you and I am watching over you. Nothing is ever lost. If you lose loved ones on the earth, then they are here with me cheering you on because you still run. If you only understood that I will never blow the whistle and end the game until you are in the lead.

Don’t be discouraged my loved ones. Lift up your head. Troubles are temporary, blessings are eternal. In the blink of an eye all that you have ever endured will vanish and be replaced with the ecstasy of eternal victory. You will never lose for I am your victory.

You live by my faith. It is my faith that sustains you. Yes, I have great faith in you. Why do you think I chose you before the foundation of the world? I did because I knew I could trust you. I knew that you could come into a fallen world and shine light into it and bring others to your light. I knew that my enemy would be completely frustrated because you will not quit. I tell you again that I am delighted in you my children.

So put aside any message that tells you that I am or have ever been angry with you. I am forever patient with you and I will always be. I understand that you are wearing flesh and I understand that many of you have been taught that I am angry and can’t wait to blast you for any mistake, but you are learning the truth. You are beginning to see that I am always love and I am always in love with you.

Please my beloved, take a moment to let these words soak into your hearts. Know that I am with you and I am proud of you. I trusted you so much that I wrote your name down in my book of victors before you were born. How about that?

Oh my beloved if only you could feel my heart for you and know how much you are loved. Be encouraged my children and don’t worry. I am always with you and I am always for you. You may struggle and fail at what you are trying to accomplish but you will learn. You will learn to walk in the power of my spirit until all my enemies including death are under your feet.

Just don’t quit. No matter how it looks it is not over until I say so. Jesus didn’t quit even when his body was bloodied and nailed to a cross. Even when his Spirit descended into hell he still didn’t quit. Death was no match for him and it is no match for you either. I didn’t put you here to quit. I put you here to conquer.

So lift up your head and stir up the battle cry within your heart. Arise and shine for you light is come and my glory is upon you. I already wrote your victory song so sing it with all your heart and know that I am so delighted with you. Soak your spirits in the oil of my Spirit, trim your wick and shine on. You are the light of the world and I am so happy that I made you that light.

This is 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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Saturday, August 20, 2016

Unity

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Ephesians Chapter Four, verses 11 through 16,

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 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, 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. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 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 meditating on these scriptures today some things were revealed to me about them. I am very encouraged to know that no matter how scattered the church seems to be today there is a process in place that will bring us together to be one. This process is called speaking the truth in love.

So what is the truth? Jesus is the way the truth and the life. He is the truth we speak to each other to cause the body to become one and grow up into the head which is Christ. The truth is that Christ is the finished work and that is what we should be speaking to each other.

As I was thinking about these things Father’s voice came to me and asked me to share with you the words he shared with me. I hope you are blessed by his words. He said:

My children. I know when you look at the world you see chaos and you see trouble and you see danger on every side. But this is just the projection your enemy wants you to see. Don’t believe all these lies. I sent my son into the world to show you my plan for the world. You must believe in who he is. It is my plan to save and deliver and heal and bless and to take over the world with love and kindness.

It’s only as you put away the idea of a mean vengeful God who wants to destroy things that you will begin to understand my plan. My plan is to save all who will come and to love them until they come to me. This is my one and only plan: Overcome evil with good!

First my church has to grow up. You must learn to see each other as I see you. Not looking at faults but looking at the truth of the new creation. Old things are passed away and all things are new. No longer do you know anyone after the flesh but you must look at the spirit inside them to know them.

This is what it means to speak the truth in love. When you see a brother or sister overtaken in a fault you restore them by telling them that they are my righteousness in Christ. They are holy and precious in my sight and encourage them to see themselves in my eyes and they will not identify with the old nature but will rise up into the new one.

The truth is that Jesus took away the sins of the world so I am not counting sin against anyone but my door is open for all to come and be reconciled to me. The early church understood this gospel. They knew that everything I did through my son was done because of love and not because of wrath.

I so loved the world I sent my son and He loved you so much that he took your sin, sickness and disease away from you by taking it upon himself. Not to satisfy the wrath of an angry God but to satisfy the love of a kindhearted Father.

It is not that I was angry with you so I had to torture someone. I am not the torturer, your enemy is. The whole world fell into sin and the price that my son paid was to sin and not to me.

Do you remember that the devil took Jesus up to a high mountain and tried to exchange all the kingdoms of the earth for his worship? So how powerful was this enemy that he could manhandle my son and take him upon a high mountain?

At that time the devil was in charge of all the kingdoms of the world. All of mankind had become a slave to the dark kingdom and they needed rescuing. The ransom I paid for you was not paid to myself.

Your enemy thought he was getting my son as an eternal prisoner in exchange for your freedom. Little did he know that it is not possible that my righteous son could be held. Not only did he not become the eternal prisoner in hell but he took over the place while he was there. He spoiled the principalities and evil slave master demons. He destroyed darkness by his eternal light. Hell was no match for the glory of my son. He led those who were captive from ages past and brought them out with him when my glorious Spirit raised him from the dead. He destroyed him who had the power of death and restored mankind to your rightful place.

Once the true gospel is understood then the power of the gospel will be restored. Jesus came and restored the power to the church and even greater power. This is why he said “these and greater things will you do when I have gone back to Father.” Adam was ruler over the physical world but in the new creation you have the power to judge angels and are seated with my son in heavenly realms. You have more authority than you ever know but that authority only works in love.

As the church learns the truth about my love for you and you begin to love each other great power will be released again and the kingdoms of this world will not be able to stand before you. Jesus said “all authority in heaven and earth is given unto me.” The enemy you call the devil doesn’t have control over the kingdoms of the world as he did. Rulership was given back to the church when Jesus told the apostles to go into the world and preach the gospel, heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the leper, freely you have received so freely give.” This they did until the false teaching about an angry God crept back in and destroyed the faith of many, but truth is being restored and soon my church will grow up into the head which is Christ.

Soon each of my children will walk in the fullness of the power of my son and nothing will be impossible; But the body only grows when you speak the truth in love. When the pure message of my love is restored then the power of my holiness will overtake the world. There will be a day when my children walk in such holiness that sin is barley a distant memory.

As the church grows up in love you will also grow up into holiness. Beware of any message that teaches you it’s okay to walk in darkness. That is not who you are. Christ is holy and the more you become on the outside who you are on the inside the more like heaven you will be until you are no longer like the earth person you once knew.

My son came to save you from sin not to give you freedom to sin. Yes, my grace is alive and well and I am not counting your sins against you but how do you respond to that grace? Is it okay to injure your spouse just because he or she will forgive you? Doesn’t the blood of my son mean anything to you?

This is why Jesus said if you love me you will keep my commandments. Only love gives you the power to walk in holiness. The more you find out about my love for you the more you fall in love with me and the more you want to be like me and put aside anything that offends me. Jesus was so much in love with me he wouldn’t do anything that he couldn’t see me doing. It’s that simple, no matter what the question, love is the answer.

So please my children. Don’t buy into the lies the enemy wants you to believe about the world. He only has the power that has been loaned to him by men. That is why he works through them and the reason his demons must be inside someone. They need your power to be effective in the earth. Don’t give them the power of your mind by believing their lies.

My kingdom will overcome all the kingdoms of this earth. My church will grow up to equal its head which is Christ. Believe in me and my truth. Believe in each other because you are one body. Soon there will no longer be division but the body will grow into one. There are glorious days ahead as my church returns to its first love and falls deeply in love with the one who is in love with you.

Unity is coming my beloved. Get rid of the things that separate you from each other. Become one in Christ and one with each other and one with me and my Spirit. We are one spirit and soon we will be one mind, one accord and one body and it will be glorious,

I love you my children. Meditate on my love until you know me, for I am Love.

This was the end of the words he spoke to me a few moments 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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Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Deep Roots

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Ephesians Chapter 3.

14. For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

I have faced many challenges lately and at times barely had the strength to continue. You know how it can be. Problems and ailments and troubles all around can wear you down until you just want to quit.

I know many who call themselves preachers and teachers don’t want you to know that they have the same problems that you do. They want you to think they are super spiritual giants who have everything figured out. But that is not reality. We all face problems and trials and tribulations, that goes with living on earth and no one is immured from trouble.

So as I got weaker and weaker and my body tried to shut down and I wondered what the answer was. I tried all the things we always do. I tried more rest, more exercise, more scripture reading, and more fighting the enemy. Then in his mercy Father revealed to me that I was suffering from a weak spirit.

As the scriptures above tell us that we can be strengthened with might in our inner spirit, so then we can also be weakened. Our spirits can get weak and the life force that keeps us going dwindles until we fade to black. I believe this is why so many of us get ill and some die early.

I did all the natural, physical and religious things that I knew how to do but none of them worked. I thank my Father God that he came to me with these words and I’ll share them with you in hopes that you will be strengthened also. Here are his words.

My son, you are doing so many things and are so busy that you haven’t taken time to soak your spirit in the living water of my Spirit. You are doing good things but you are beginning to run out of the strength within and you are running on your will power and your physical ability. I never meant for you to live this way. It’s Christ in you, the hope of glory.

All I ever asked you to do is host my Spirit. You are only strengthened by the time you take to soak yourself in me. I long to fill you with my presence and my glory I long for you to sink your roots down deep in my love for you. I am the branch and you are the vine. Take time to spend resting in my Spirit and letting me love you. Set aside all you have to do for a while each day and just meditate on how much I love you and how much I long to work through you so that you won’t grow weary.

This is what I meant in the letter to the Hebrews about entering into my rest. You can learn to live within your spirit and my power will work through you and you will see many great wonders. These don’t come from human effort. They don’t come by more study and more working. They come from my presence flowing through you to accomplish all the things I want to do through you.

By spending time with me in my presence you rest from your labors. You enter into your Sabbath with me. I finished the works already and spaced them out in time. Just as I don’t have to reset the sun every day because it is a finished work so it is with all the things I put into the earth to be signs and wonders. These things will show up in their time if you rest in me and let me flow through you.

Think of it as planting a tree. You don’t have to plant a tree but once and it bears fruit as long as it gets water. It’s the same with my children. You will bear more fruit by sending your roots down into my love and taking time to drink me in. You will not have to struggle and strive to see the kingdom overtake the world.

Do you remember that Jesus told you that you would be like a tree planted by the water and would bear great fruit? This is how I plan to take over the world. In the beginning Adam was the Gardner of the natural world. The second Adam was the gardener of the spirit realm and you are the trees he planted.

As each of you begins to soak yourselves in my love then the fruit coming from your lives will be sweet and all that come by will want what you have. No more running all over trying to be productive. Just let others eat of the righteous fruit in your lives and they will ingest the seed and become trees themselves. This is how the kingdom will grow. Not in laborious toil but in joyful sharing of fruit.

So set aside time and rest in my love and my presence. Soak in my Spirit like the wick of a lamp until your fire burns bright again. Strengthen yourself in me until your spirit is filled with heaven. As you do then your body will be saturated with my presence and you will continually be restored.

Share this with my loved ones and tell them to stop the struggling. Rest in me in my finished works and stop doing things out of necessity and remember you are doing things because you love me and love people. It’s not that the task has to be done, it’s that the love is so great it has to be shared. Tell my loved ones how much they are loved and tell them to strengthen themselves in me and be strong in the power of my might and let that might grow within them until they are strong again. Don’t forget my son, tell them I love them.

This is 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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Thursday, August 4, 2016

Guarding Your Heart

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While praying today Father spoke these words to me and asked me to write them down and share them with you.
He said:

My children, don’t listen to the lies that make you afraid. You are my delight and you are my called and chosen. The world is jealous of you and they seek to make you afraid. Their biggest weapon against you is fear. They want you to be afraid of the latest terrible disease or calamity that is coming upon the world. They want you to hide and not take over ownership of the world I have given you.

You don’t need to be afraid my beloved. You are in my hands. I am in you and with you and I am all you need. I told you through my beloved Paul that I meet your needs according to my riches in glory. Not according to your need, not according to your ability or your income. Not according to your strength or might or power but according to my lavish riches in the glory of my son.

Anytime someone tries to tell you to be afraid and wants you to run and hide just tune them out. You are already hidden in Christ. Tell them just like Paul told them. You were crucified with Christ and yet you live and now you live by the faith of my son and not by your own faith. It is his faith that is keeping you alive and his plan that is providing for you and that doesn’t depend on the elements of this world.

Do you remember that manna fell from heaven and millions of people didn’t have to resort to eating desert creatures but were fed from the tables of heaven? Do you remember that water flowed from the rock and that rock was and is my Son?

My beloved, heaven is in you. My kingdom is in you. I live on the throne of your heart. I am not far away and cold towards your prayers. I am inside you saying yes and amen to all that I promised you. Many of you are looking into a faraway world because those who taught you told you that I am beyond the vastness of an expanding universe and it may take years to get your prayers to me. These things are so silly.

You must awaken to the truth that I am inside you and not far away. I love living inside you. I know your thoughts, your needs, and your wishes. I know things about you that you don’t even know about yourselves. I am caring and I love you so much that I live inside you so that I want have to miss you. Will you please awaken to my love for you and know who you are.

You are not a lost wandering soul just waiting to be rescued. You are my beloved children for whom I created eternity so that you could enjoy my love forever and not be limited to just one lifetime.

Please my loved ones. I know you are being bombarded by bad news on every side but tune that out and listen to the station in your heart. It is broadcasting from the studios of Holy Spirit in a trillion love watts telling you that all is well and I am still on my throne. I will never leave you or forsake you and I need you to let me heal your hearts so that all that I am can flow from you.

Remember that I told you to guard your heart because all the issues of life flow from it? This is what the bad news people try to do to you. They try to make your heart afraid and sick. Your heart is the portal to heaven. All things from heaven don’t flow to you but they flow through you.

Do you remember that I said I am able to do exceedingly abundantly above all you can ask or think according to the power that works within you? This power resides in your heart and is released into your physical world from your heart. It comes out in expressions of joy and thanksgiving and love. When you release love you release power to change your world. When your heart is sick you release sadness into your world.

In the spirit realm this resembles a river flowing from you. Just as in the physical world a river of fresh water brings life to the land it touches so does your spirit. The issues of life flow from your heart and your world becomes a garden around you. If sadness, fear and death flow from within you then things around you begin to decay. Those who would try to rule this world know this works so they try to poison your heart river with fear and anxiety. This is why you must guard your heart.

I told you that as a man thinks in his heart so is he. Whatever you spend the most time thinking about in your heart of hearts is what you become on the outside. If you think on fear and scary world events then fear will fill your world and you will have no peace. But if you let my peace rule your heart then all of heaven will flow through you and touch the world.

So my beloved which will it be? Will you continue to let your heart be programmed by the evening news or will you be programmed by the love words of the one who gave his life for you? Will you allow me access to your whole heart or will you keep that part open to the world who only wants you to be afraid so they can sell you something you don’t need?

The future of the world is not what you have been taught. You have a wedding to prepare for and a King who is coming to rule with you. Does this sound like and event to fear or an event to be excited about?

Please my loved ones, put aside the fear and trust me. I love you so much that I redeemed you from the sin master who owned you and I washed you in the blood of my son and gave you full family rights and the same inheritance as Jesus.

I have considered your life from ages past and I have calculated everything you would ever need and have already provided it for you so that you can rest in me. All that you ever need will come to you when you need it so stop worrying and be thankful. It is my good pleasure to give you my whole kingdom. So rejoice in me and be glad for all that I have is yours.

This was the end of the words he spoke to me a few moments 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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Monday, August 1, 2016

Surrender

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While praying this morning and asking questions about some things Holy Spirit spoke these words to me and asked me to share them with you.

My children; stop struggling and surrender to me. You have tried so hard to get the faith message to work and sometimes you get a breakthrough and sometimes you get nothing. It’s time to learn a better way. It’s time to give yourself to me and surrender to the works that I built into your walk.

I have specific plans for each of my children. Each one is given manifestations of these works that were finished before the world was created. All that is necessary is surrender to me.

Think of Peter and John and the crippled man at the gate. Didn’t all the apostles go through that gate? Didn’t even Jesus go through that gate when he went into the temple? The manifestation of that man’s healing was given to Peter and John. This miracle was ordained for them. Peter and John were going up to the temple to pray that day. They weren’t going there to teach or preach or do miracles. Amazing things happen when you pray.

Think of it as a game of strategy between me and my enemy. He makes his plans but I have already seen them from ages past and I have a person in place to counter every move he makes. He gets so frustrated because I know his every move.

The problem is that sometimes my players aren’t where they are supposed to be. Sometimes one player wants to make all the plays and not let the rest of the team participate. Each one of you has a part in the body and each of you is a member of the team. Each of you has been preassigned works and wonders that are built into your walk if you just keep walking with me.

Jesus told you that they that are born of the Spirit are like the wind. They go from here to there and there seems to be no reason for where they come from or where they go. This is because they are born of me. I am still hovering over all the earth just like in the beginning. Those who are born of me are riding my presence to and fro and my gifts are flowing through each of you as you go.

You don’t have to struggle to produce faith and miracles. All you have to do is fellowship with me. Staying focused on me takes you into places you would never go without me.

I know all the plans for each person in the earth so I can put you where you are supposed to be. Just like I did with Phillip. They only spoke of this once but this was common for the early church to be caught away and moved from place to place. It will become more common not through works, but through fellowship with me.

If you want to see miracles and glory poured out into the natural world it’s not through working or having more faith. It’s through having more fellowship. The apostles did miracles and wonders while Jesus was near and when he left they had to wait on me to arrive to do them again. He told them not to leave Jerusalem until I arrived to go with them. Miracles flow out of my presence. I live inside you but you are not always attentive to me.

Think about it as a relationship between husband and wife. If you go places together and you spend time together intimately then the relationship flourishes and even produces fruit called love and happiness and even children. If you only see each other occasionally and you don’t take time to treasure each other’s company you may still be married but you are not bearing the fruit of marriage. There will not be joy and will not be peace.

I am always in love with you and always attentive to you and wait patiently for you to focus your attention and time on me. Just as in the natural you let things into your being by sight, touch, taste, smell and hearing so it is in the spiritual realm. If you see me, hear me, taste me, smell me and touch me then you allow my presences into your physical life.

Do you remember these sayings from scripture? Taste and see that the Lord is good. Today if you will hear my voice? Isn’t one of the names of Jesus the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valley? Do not these terms reference his fragrance? Doesn’t the letter to the Hebrews tell you that your high priest is “touched” with the feeling of your infirmities?

You can touch me and feel me, you can smell me, you can taste me, and you can hear me and see me with your heart. I am so accessible to you and the only thing missing is your attention towards me. I will never leave you but you often go hours without even knowing I’m with you.

Do you remember that Peter said he wouldn’t leave my voice to wait tables? Miracles were flowing out of him on his way home every day when they would lay the sick in the streets just to be close to him so that they would be healed.

It was his intimacy with me that filled his life with power. You are my lamp but you will only burn as bright as the amount of my oil you are willing to be saturated with. I will say this again. You are my lamp but you will only burn as bright as the amount of my oil you are willing to be saturated with. I am always with you and when you are always with me then all the works ordained from before the world will show up in your life as fruit and not as labor.

The kingdom is a family. I rule with family. I created earth and put a family in the garden. I told Abraham that through him all the families of the earth would be empowered. When we wanted to save the world Jesus came to be born to a virgin to become family. Jesus is not ashamed to call you his brothers and sisters because that was our plan. You are our family. Jesus is not coming back to build an army but to take a bride and build a family. It is fellowship that we want.

Please my beloved children, set aside your agenda and your plans for taking over the world with force and focus on fellowship. As you become intimate with me then all the gifts will show up and it won’t be work, it will be celebration. Miracles will be birthed from my love and you will walk in total victory. The earth will be filled with my glory flowing from inside you.

Which is easier; to overcome the world, or to marry the one who already did? This is why you are more than conquerors because you are married to the one who conquered it all just because he loves you and wants to give you the earth as a wedding gift.

We are so much in love with you and we have committed all we have to the relationship we have with you. Will you do the same? Will you just surrender to our love and be one with us?

Stop the struggling and start the singing. Jericho fell with a shout of praise and so will all the walls in your life. The redeemed shall return with singing, not with weapons, and everlasting joy will be upon your heads. You conquer by rejoicing and you win with worship.

Please my beloved, meet me in your heart and let’s sing songs to each other. Let us adore each other and bring forth the fruit of love. As you learn these secrets then you will know what true peace, prosperity and health is.

I love you my dear ones so please turn your hearts back to me. Stop looking at your broken car and leaky sink and start looking at your delightful husband who can fix anything. If you are married to the king who owns the universe then why is it that you are worried and afraid?

Enter into my rest and know that I am always with you. Love each other and worship together. The church will become one church as it becomes one bride with the groom. Return to your first love and love with all your heart. Your King loves you with all of his.

This was the end of the words Holy Spirit 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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