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Second Samuel Chapter 22:

And David spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,

“The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,

my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge,

my shield, and the horn of my salvation,

my stronghold and my refuge,

my savior; you save me from violence.

I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised,

and I am saved from my enemies.

“For the waves of death encompassed me,

the torrents of destruction assailed me;

the cords of Sheol entangled me;

the snares of death confronted me.

“In my distress I called upon the LORD;

to my God I called.

From his temple, he heard my voice,

and my cry came to his ears.

“Then the earth reeled and rocked;

the foundations of the heavens trembled

and quaked, because he was angry.

Smoke went up from his nostrils,

and devouring fire from his mouth;

glowing coals flamed forth from him.

He bowed the heavens and came down;

thick darkness was under his feet.

He rode on a cherub and flew;

he was seen on the wings of the wind.

He made darkness around him his canopy,

thick clouds, a gathering of water.

Out of the brightness before him

coals of fire flamed forth.

The LORD thundered from heaven,

and the Most High uttered his voice.

And he sent out arrows and scattered them;

lightning, and routed them.

Then the channels of the sea were seen;

the foundations of the world were laid bare,

at the rebuke of the LORD,

at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

“He sent from on high, he took me;

he drew me out of many waters.

He rescued me from my strong enemy,

from those who hated me,

for they were too mighty for me.

They confronted me in the day of my calamity,

but the LORD was my support.

He brought me out into a broad place;

he rescued me, because he delighted in me.

“The LORD dealt with me according to my righteousness;

according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.

For I have kept the ways of the LORD

and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For all his rules were before me,

and from his statutes I did not turn aside.

I was blameless before him,

and I kept myself from guilt.

And the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness,

according to my cleanness in his sight.

“With the merciful you show yourself merciful;

with the blameless man, you show yourself blameless;

with the purified you deal purely,

and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.

You save a humble people,

but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

For you are my lamp, O LORD,

and my God lightens my darkness.

For by you I can run against a troop,

and by my God I can leap over a wall.

This God—his way is perfect;

the word of the LORD proves true;

he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

“For who is God, but the LORD?

And who is a rock, except our God?

This God is my strong refuge

and has made my way blameless.

He made my feet like the feet of a deer

and set me secure on the heights.

He trains my hands for war,

so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

You have given me the shield of your salvation,

and your gentleness made me great.

You gave a wide place for my steps under me,

and my feet did not slip;

I pursued my enemies and destroyed them,

and did not turn back until they were consumed.

I consumed them; I thrust them through, so that they did not rise;

they fell under my feet.

For you equipped me with strength for the battle;

you made those who rise against me sink under me.

You made my enemies turn their backs to me,

those who hated me, and I destroyed them.

They looked, but there was none to save;

they cried to the LORD, but he did not answer them.

I beat them fine as the dust of the earth;

I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.

“You delivered me from strife with my people;

you kept me as the head of the nations;

people whom I had not known served me.

Foreigners came cringing to me;

as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.

Foreigners lost heart

and came trembling out of their fortresses.

“The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock,

and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation,

the God who gave me vengeance

and brought down peoples under me,

who brought me out from my enemies;

you exalted me above those who rose against me;

you delivered me from men of violence.

“For this I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations,

and sing praises to your name.

Great salvation he brings to his king,

and shows steadfast love to his anointed,

to David and his offspring forever.”

As I read the words to this song that David wrote and sang to the Lord, Father spoke to me and asked me to share with you these words that he spoke to me. I hope you are as blessed by them as I am.

He said:
My children. I know in your world it looks like your enemies have you beaten. You are surrounded on every side by darkness and from your point of view it looks dark and hopeless. So, I am asking you to look at your problems not from your point of view on earth, but from your point of view as you are seated with my son in the heavenly realm, above all these things.

Your enemy thinks he has you surrounded but what he doesn’t know is that I brought him to you for you to defeat him. You didn’t even have to go searching for him. He came to you to be destroyed by the power of my life within you. I am with you and in you and I am hiding inside you and ready to break forth on him and drive him out of your life. I am your strength and your shield. I am your bow and your fortress and I am all you need.

So many of you are crying today, but soon you will shout for joy as you see me defeat your foes before you just as I did for my beloved David. I will destroy his ability to challenge you until he is dust under your feet.

Oh my loved ones; Don’t be afraid. Strengthen your weak knees and lift up your hearts and your hands. I have delivered you already and you will see it as you let the song within your heart arise and come forth from your lips. Stop speaking defeat and start singing about victory. I have chosen you and given you victory over all your enemies. Even death is no match for you. Even in death you are promoted to your place of honor in heaven, so how can you lose?

Shout my children and sing this song that my David sang. Know that I am with you and I am for you. You are holy in my eyes and in my sight you are perfect. You are washed in the blood of my son and you are wearing his righteousness and his holiness. What do you have to be afraid of.

Arise my children and know that I have given you the plunder of all generations as your inheritance. The wealth of the wicked is saved for this day of my glory when the power of my Spirit arises in you. You will plunder the enemy and take back all that was taken from every generation of my people.

You will see a day when all the glory and power and might of my kingdom is among you and all the wealth of the world will mean nothing compared to the glory among you. Those who call themselves wealthy will cast aside their gold and silver just to get a sip of the river that flows within you. There will be a day of my glory like no other when all the kingdoms of this world will fall to my children. If it is my good pleasure to give you the kingdom of heaven, then what is it to me to give you earth also?

This world will see my glory arise on you. They are terrified already. Those who are in the secret council of darkness already know that their day of reckoning is at hand. There is a day of punishment for the wicked spirits that have plundered my creation.

Do you remember the evil spirits that Jesus cast out? What were they afraid of? Did they not ask him if he was going to torment them before the time? They know there is a time of torment for them and what is their torture? The same thing they saw in Jesus. The unlimited power of my Spirit living inside my children. Just as Jesus walked in unlimited power so shall my church do also. Torment for them is seeing all the people who were under their control set free to live and worship and abide in me. This is the torment they fear. This is the torment they shall have.

So my loved ones, lift up your heads. Stop planning for destruction and plan for victory. So many in my church have ten escape plans and not even one attack plan. Wake up. This is my world and I want it back and I am going to take it through you.

I told you in Ephesians that this has always been my plan. To gather all things in heaven and in earth together under the authority of my son. When you put all things under his feet then he will come reign with you.

Start with the enemy within you. Kick out unbelief and doubt and fear. Root out all bitterness and stir up brotherly love. Set aside every weight and sin that the enemy can use to condemn you and start running your race. Get your running shoes on, there is a race to be won. Run your race with confidence knowing that I have given you the strength to run it and the endurance to keep moving forward even if it seems the wind is against you.

I am counting on you my beloved. You are my plan. I told my son Jesus to sit at my right hand until I make his enemies his footstool. So, get going. We knew you could do this and that is why we chose you. We believe in you much more than you believe in yourselves. Get to it. Resist your enemy until he flees and then pursue him and pulverize him. Don’t leave him one rock on this earth to hide under. I am raising up my army and it will be glorious. You won’t fight with bows and arrows but with truth and a song.

Arise and sing for your song has come!

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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Monday, October 24, 2016

Slow Moving Dreams

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While enjoying Father’s presence today I was overlooking a mountain lake. I was praying and worshiping him for all his beautiful creation. As I prayed He spoke to me and said:

My son, please write down these words and share them with my loved ones.

My children, don’t worry and don’t be dismayed. I know for many of you, things haven’t worked out the way you thought they would. For some of you have had to set aside dreams and goals and just handle what is before you. Don’t be dismayed. I am just as much with you in hard times as I am in good times. I have not forgotten you and I have not failed you.

You must know that I will work all things together for good for each of you. I have a plan for eternity and I have a plan for tomorrow and I have a plan for today and even for this moment. I can change all things into good things. I can bring dreams you have given up on right back into being in just a moment.

So what do you do when it seems your dream is dead? Imagine Abraham, for years he told everyone he was the Father of many nations. Then through his own natural ability he fathered Ishmael. Then for years he believed he was on track until I told him to send Ishmael away.

Imagine Jacob. He had a dream of a life with Rachel. He worked for seven years and then found out he would have to wait another seven years for the one he loved.

Imagine Joshua and Caleb. They were certain they would enter the promised land quickly. They spied out the land and were so excited, and they could have entered immediately, but had to wait for years to go into their promise.

So what did all these do while their dreams tarried? They continued in faith knowing that what I promised I was able to deliver. They understood that time was not greater than the promise but the promise is greater than time. What I promise you I will deliver. If I gave you a dream and you trust me and don’t give up, you will see it come to pass.

Here lies the problem. I have gifted many of you with long range sight. You must learn to adapt to what you have seen. Think about this: Some of the things you are experiencing today you dreamed about years ago. The present reality is the dream of the past. Always allow me time to bring things to pass in my time. Trust me to make it happen and don’t give up just because you don’t see it right away.

Just imagine if Abraham had walked away. What if he had said? “No! I am not going to trust God anymore, I am going to stick with Ishmael and do the best I can?”

What if Jacob had said? “Well, Leah is pretty, I’ll just settle for what I have and keep working for her father. It’s not that bad, just because he is cheating me out of my wife and my wages it’s still a job.”

What if Joshua and Caleb had said "We will never get these people into faith so that we can cross over."

My children, I am not cruel. I would not give you a dream and take it away. I told you in scripture that my gifts and my callings are without repentance. I would never show you something and take it away. The only one who can cancel it is you. If you are willing to wait and never give up, then what you were promised will come to pass. Didn’t I tell you that it’s through faith and patience that you inherit the promises? The faith part you have covered, it’s the patience part that needs strengthening.

So my beloved ones. Don’t give up on your dreams. Do you not think I could have created the earth in an instant and yet I took six days? I wanted to take my time and enjoy the process. Just as I am doing with you and your dreams. You are developing patience while you wait for your promises to come to pass. This patience is necessary for your next journey when you rule and reign with me. Consider this: Would you give the power of the age to come to an impatient child?

I did the same with my Son. All the promises about him were true when he was twelve the same as when he was thirty. He learned patience and waited until my Spirit came upon him and then stepped into his promises to be savior of the world. Do you think it was worth the wait? Not to mention, all the promises of him sitting at my right hand defeating death, hell and the grave had to wait until after the horrors of the cross. He patiently endured all these things and you can also. I will strengthen you and protect you and will give you all that I ever promised if you will just trust me.

So lift up your heads and put your hope in me and know that I will do what I promised because I love you and I cannot lie. I will bring all the dreams I gave you to pass at just the right moment. If the universe is on a schedule and my son died for the ungodly at just the right moment in history, then don’t you think there is a heavenly time for your dreams to come to pass?

Rest in me my loved ones and trust me. I am all you need. You dream your dream and you keep it alive in your heart as it is in mine. Don’t you quit on me. I will never quit on you and my son didn’t quit on the way to the cross for you. You can make it! All of heaven is cheering for you, and you will succeed.

Don’t forget my loved ones: Enjoy the journey and love each other along the way. I have created you in my image and my likeness so be patient with each other and be patient with me and give me time to bring to pass all I promised. I promise you that you won’t be disappointed. Abraham loved his Isaac, Jacob loved him some Rachel, and Joshua and Caleb love the promised land.

This is the end of the words he spoke to me a little while ago. Please be encouraged by these words and don’t give up on your dreams.

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

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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Paul Had Secrets

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Philippians 4:

1.Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved. 2. I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord. 3. Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

4. Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. 5. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand;

6. do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

8. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. 9. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me: practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

10.I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity. 11. Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. 12. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. 13. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

In life we all face days of wonder and days of lack. Days of feasting and days of famine. These things are common to almost everyone. We all struggle when we have hard times and wonder if we are forsaken or if God is displeased with us. This is not the case. Our God will never forsake us and in good times and bad and in feast or famine He is always with us.

I woke up this morning to the voice of my Father speaking to me one phrase. He said: “Paul had secrets.” I wondered on this for a moment, and as always when Father speaks to me I know he is trying to teach me something. All that I do in this blog and podcast is take the things he shares with me and share them with you so I know that he was speaking to things pertaining to my life and yours. So I got out of bed and he shared these things with me and I wrote them down to share with you.

So many of us who grew up with the so called “faith message” were taught to never admit we are struggling and never to confess anything negative. This sounds good on the surface but when you compare it to the truth in scripture it doesn’t hold water. Jesus was hungry and thirsty. All the apostles struggled with hunger and famine and danger and even death. Even in the chapter we just read the great Apostle Paul admitted he had days of plenty and days of hunger so what was his secret to keeping his faith through all these things?

There are several of them and they are listed in this chapter of Philippians.

We begin with verse two where it says “I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord.”
The first thing is to settle as many disagreements you have. Notice it didn’t say to agree about everything but to agree in the Lord. We must put aside silly disagreements and agree in the things that are common to our faith. This keeps us in the will of God and in his provision.

The second thing is in verse four where it says “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Notice it didn’t say rejoice when things are good and not to rejoice when they are bad. It said to rejoice always.

I looked up the word that we call rejoice and it means to delight in God’s grace. Even when things are bad we should delight in his grace because we know that hard times are temporary but heaven is forever.

Thirdly: Verse five says “Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand. Which means to be considerate to everyone. Jesus is always present and we should be kind to everyone. Each of us suffers hardship and we should encourage each other and lift each other up.

When we are in days of abundance we should not look down on those who are struggling because we understand what they are going through. Just because someone is struggling doesn’t mean they are in sin or not in faith. If that were the case everyone in scripture including our Lord would be disqualified. Jesus our Lord was and is the King of Glory but he laid aside his riches and died naked on a cross with nothing. Peter had no money to give the lame man. Paul was in peril and in hunger often. Timothy was sick. Hardship is common to everyone.

Fourthly: Verses six and seven say “do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

When we are in hard times we should never let anxiety set in. We have already read about rejoicing and knowing that the Lord is always with us and He will never leave us. There is one important point in these verses that I would like to point out. Father gave them to me by revelation one day. He had me read these verses over and over out loud and finally it hit me. It says “With thanksgiving let your request be made known to God.”

Do you remember that Jesus told us that our Father already knows what we need before we ask him? So we make our requests not by begging but with thanksgiving. We know he knows what we need so if we will just give him thanks, then whatever we need will show up in our lives.

When we have a need we go to him in prayer and thank him for his goodness and thank him that the only reason we have a need in our lives is so that he can be our provider. We give thanks to him for meeting our needs until they arrive.

Not some big long process of believing and standing and quoting scriptures until we twist God’s arm and force him to give us something. That is not faith. Think about it. What do we call people who use repetitive words and try to control someone with them? Do we not call that witchcraft?

Our Father is not that way. He knows what we need and he is delighted to give it to us. He doesn’t have to be convinced or bribed or coerced into giving us our needs. He loves us and cares for us because of that love.

The only reason we have good times and bad times is so we can learn to trust him in both and so that we can learn to be patient. We are in “training for reigning” and we have to go through hard times and be trained to rule with him. So once we see our lives as “boot camp” for our next mission then we will look at it differently. Didn’t Paul teach us this when he boasted about the hardships he had endured?

Finally, the last point I’d like to share begins in verse eight where it says:
“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me; practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

And this brings us to the main secret of all these things. Beginning in verse eleven:

11. Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. 12. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. 13. I can do all things through him who strengthens me

In good times and bad we should always keep our minds set on the goodness of God. God’s goodness does not rise when we are blessed and fall when we lack. He is good all the time. We must learn to set our minds upon him at all times and keep his goodness before our eyes. We must practice all these things especially in hard times. The result, as he said is that the God of peace will be with us. Our strength to face good days and bad days is not in ourselves but in Christ alone. He is our strength and we can do all things through him.

These are the secrets of Paul but not only for him. He shared them with us and now they are our secrets also. Now Paul has secrets and we have secrets also.

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, October 12, 2016

Garments

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Today I am in Montana experiencing the wonders of my Father and having fun seeing something we never see in Texas in October; Six inches of snow. While sitting in my van praying and watching the snow I prayed this prayer. I said:

Father, I love you. Thank you for this trip and the fellowship. Please help me help your people. I love them and I want them to be blessed. Please flow through me and help me to help them. Show me how to help you to deliver the oppressed and set them free.

Immediately after praying he spoke to me and he gave me these words to share with you all. Thanks for listening to them and please be blessed by them.

He said: My son, speak to my beloved ones and tell them it’s time to give me your whole hearts. No more holding back. Not one foot in the world and one foot in the kingdom. It’s time to be completely in Christ; spirit, soul and body.

I am jealous for you with the jealousy of love. I paid all I had to get you and I want all of you. I paid for all of you. My son suffered in spirit, soul and body so that you could be whole in spirit, soul and body. I want all of you. Will you give yourselves to me?

Will you let go of the problems that plague you and let me have them since I did pay for them? You trust me with your eternity but will you trust me with tomorrow? My children you can trust me with forever and you can trust me with this moment. Don’t worry about tomorrow. I am there and you are fine.

Give yourselves to me and let me take your burdens and give me your habits and problems. You are not your habit. You are holy and righteous in my eyes and your habits are just like a dirty shirt that you put on over your righteous white robe. I put that robe on you when you were washed in the blood of my son, but you have decided to pick up dirty laundry called habits and worries and doubt and unbelief and you are wearing it outside your holy garment. Take it off and give it to me.

These habits are not inside your spirit. Your spirit is sealed with my spirit. The part of you that is born of me does not can cannot sin. Your new man is completely holy but the enemy has convinced your mind that you are not holy, and talked you into wearing things that don’t look good on you. Take them off and give them to me for burning. I dressed you in heavenly white and I don’t want you wearing things that hurt you. I don’t ask you to give me these things because I am ashamed of you but because I love you.

Imagine you have a little child and you dressed them in brand new clothes and sent them to school. Now imagine on the way to school they find a filthy jacket and put it on and wear it over their clothes. The filthy jacket looks good to them because that is what the other kids are wearing, but they don’t know that in the fabric of that jacket are ants and spiders and bugs of all sorts that will harm them. So you run to them and take the jacket from them because you don’t want them bitten by the creatures in the jacket.

This is what bad habits are. Take them off and cast them aside or give them to me for burning. These habits are not you and they are not me. They are a distraction that is trying to keep you from seeing just how holy you are and how beautiful you are to me. I want you to know you are loved and beautiful but these habits haunt you. They want you to think that you are still your old sinful you that died on the cross with my son.

These habits want to be your covering to keep the world from seeing that you are wrapped in my light and my love. They want to disguise you and keep your light from shining. This is why I said through my beloved Paul to put off the old man and put on Christ.

Imagine your bad habits and worries and cares as a filthy garment and just take it off. Take it off and let the real you shine through. Let the glory of my love shine through you and let all of heaven and earth see that I chose you and wrapped you in my righteous robe and I gave my ring and I crowned you with loving kindness for all to see how much you are loved and honored by me.

And yet there is more. You are my covering. You are my clothing. I am the invisible God and I want to be seen everywhere wearing you because I love you and I am honored to live inside you.

It’s Christ in you the hope of glory. I want to wear you like a garment. You are my garment and my temple and I want the whole world to know that I live in you because I love you and chose you. I am honored that you put me on, and I am honored to put you on and we are one.

So my beloved ones, will you put aside all worldly garments like fear, worry, anxiety, distrust, anger, depression and sin and will you put me on and wear me as I wear you?

Will you please take off these worldly garments so that heaven and earth can see how wonderful you are? You are surely my beloved and I have adored you long before you became conscious of yourself. I have known you and loved you from eternity past and I can be trusted with your past, present and future. Rest in me my dear children and know that I am all you need.

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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Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Be Ye Separate

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2nd Corinthians 6 NLT

14. Don’t team up with those who are unbelievers. How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness? 15.What harmony can there be between Christ and the devil? How can a believer be a partner with an unbeliever? 16.And what union can there be between God’s temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God said:

“I will live in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

17. Therefore, come out from among unbelievers, and separate yourselves from them, says the LORD.

Don’t touch their filthy things, and I will welcome you. 18. And I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty.”

Chapter 7

1. Because we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that can defile our body or spirit. And let us work toward complete holiness because we fear God.

As I was studying these verses today and meditating on them I was reminded of a vision I had a year or so ago. In the vision I saw Father pick up the world, stretch it out like a blanket and shake it. As he shook it I saw people falling out of the blanket. As they fell it was strange because once they were shaken out of it they seemed very happy and blessed.

I was perplexed by the vision and I prayed about and Father told me that he had to shake the world so that the church would fall out of it. Today as I meditated on these verses and the vision he spoke to me again and gave me these words to share with you.

He said:

My children, you are in this world but not of this world. You are not earthly, you are heavenly. Why do you want to be so tangled up in the worldly affairs when your kingdom is above this world? The reason I compared the world to a blanket is because my children take comfort in the things of the world more than they do me. They are just as invested in the things of the world as those who are lost. These things shouldn’t be.

The things of the world are earthly and not heavenly so to stay in the affairs of the world is a step down for you. You were seated with my son in the heavenly realm and while you are in the world you shouldn’t be like the world.

It is for this reason that I said to seek first my kingdom and all the things the world wants will come to you. You will have better things than they have but you don’t have to get them the way that they do. You don’t have to become bogged down in the mud of fighting for and grasping for and forcing your way into prosperity like the world does. I have much better for you than that.

My kingdom is higher than any kingdom in this world and when you awaken to where you really are and who you really are you will realize that you will not take this world and make it my kingdom by doing things the way the world does. There is a higher wisdom and a higher way of doing things.

My children are so bogged down in the politics and systems of this world that your hopes rise and fall according to things like markets and politics and elections. Yes, you should be a good citizen and pay your taxes and vote. You should pray for all in authority but you shouldn’t be thinking that your help comes from this world. Your help comes from me.

The kingdoms of this world will be overcome by my kingdom but it won’t be through political might or by worldly ways. As I told you it’s not by might, not by power but by my spirit. As you begin to put all your trust in me and seek my kingdom then dominion will be given to you and all things will come under my Rulership. That is the key. You are not taking the kingdom for yourself. You take it for me and it is my good pleasure to give it back to you.

This is where the church has become just like the world. They try to take the kingdom for themselves and then share it with me but that is not how it works. You rule by serving in love not by ruling over each other. You don’t look to prosper yourselves but to prosper the kingdom and as you look out for my things and the welfare of others then I look out for you and I share my abundance. Jesus multiplied the fishes and loaves for the people. He hadn’t eaten either but it was not his hunger that he was concerned about.

The earth is mine and the fullness thereof. I will take it according to my plan but it will be taken my way. Don’t get overly involved in the monetary or political systems of this world because these things are passing away and my kingdom is rising. I told you to pray that my will be done on earth as it is in heaven. We don’t hold elections in heaven and no one rushes to the bank to cash their check on Friday. No one is concerned about how much money they have or debt they owe. The currency here is love and the one who gives the most love is the richest of all. He that is least in his own eyes is the greatest in mine.

So my beloved ones. Change your hearts and your minds. Start weaning yourselves from this world and its sinful pleasures. Not because you have to but because you want to. I have much better for you than anything the world can offer you. I have treasures that all the money in earth would not buy. I have glory that is coming that you will have to see to even begin to believe. The days of my glory will come when my people humble themselves and separate themselves from the world.

This is why I said to come out from among them. Yes, you have to dwell in the physical realm where they do but you don’t have to live as they do or act as they do. Come outside this system and live in my kingdom. Don’t forget that you are a heavenly being and not earthly. Don’t wallow in the mud of this world. Reach out to those who are wallowing in it and rescue them. Tell them how much they are loved. Love the sinner and hate the sin that traps them. Be gentle and consider yourself unless you fall into the mud they are stuck in. If you want to save the ones who are drowning, then learn to walk on the water they are drowning in. You can love them and rescue them without partaking of the sin that is killing them.

Don’t forget. You are holy and righteous and washed in the blood of my son. You are not trying to get clean but you are wearing a righteous robe that you are keeping clean. I am living in you and walking in you. I am your God and you are my people. Dwell in me, not in the world system.

See yourselves as the king and priest that you are. Rule as a king and reach out to those in trouble as a priest and offer them the great salvation that you have partaken of. Tell them I have reconciled them to myself and it’s time for them to get out of the pigpen and come home. I am waiting with the same robe that I gave you when you came home. Free people help others get free. You can’t help them if you are stuck in the same mud that they are.

Rise above the trap of this world and live free. I went to the greatest expense to make you free. Don’t squander your freedom on cheap living. Live free in the heavenly realm and taste of the pleasures of righteousness. Once you have tasted heaven there will not be one thing on earth that you will ever crave again.

I love you my dear children. Separate yourselves unto that love and dwell in my love and safety and don’t worry about the things that are fading away but look unto me. I am your help. I am your shelter. I am your God and you are my beloved.

This was 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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Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Open The Door

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While in worship this morning Jesus spoke to me and asked me to share these words with you.

My dearest children. Don’t be discouraged. You have only now begun to know me as I am. I am opening your eyes because you have turned away from traditions and lies of religion and you have set out to find me for yourselves. You are coming to me outside the camp where we can be free to spend time together in true fellowship not entangled with the programs and religious traditions that steal our time.

I live in your spirit but I also want to live in your mind and body. I want to be one with you in every part of your life. I don’t want there to be one part of you without me in you, and I don’t want there to be one part of me without you in me. You are my beloved and I want to dwell fully in your life in might and power.

This will only happen if you will open the door. You opened the door to your spirit and asked me to come in but there are many doors in your lives that are still locked. I am a prisoner in your heart but I am not free to dwell in your mind, in your thoughts, in your dreams and in your secrets.

I know everything about you and I know what is locked away inside you and if you will open those doors then I will fill every room until your lives are full of my light. I know you have been injured by those who call themselves my ministers. They have taught you that I want to punish you and destroy you because of evil but this is not who I am. I came that you may have life and life more abundantly. I want you blessed in everything that pertains to your life but the doors are locked and you have the key.

I am not looking to punish you. I am looking to heal you. I want your darkness because it makes you vulnerable to your enemy. I want your pain because it steals your joy and interrupts our fellowship. I want your cares because the time you spend worrying could be spent listening to me tell you how much you are loved. I want your debts because I am your provider and I love being your provider. It gives me great joy to care for you. I want your children because I love saving generations of families. Did I not even call myself the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? I love blessing you and all your generations to come because that is how much I love you.

Now I am giving you a key to get into my doors. The key is simple. Believe the gospel. You were crucified with me and the part of you that you keep fighting died a long time ago. You are fighting a ghost in the programming. It’s like a computer that had its hardware taken away but the program is still running constantly trying to connect to something that is no longer there. The program keeps telling you that you are a sinner and that you are unholy and unrighteous but that part of you died and was deleted and now it’s time to move on from it.

Once and for all will you please step across the river into the promised land and stop trying to live on both sides of the river? There is no provision in the wilderness any more. All the promises are in me and if you keep going back you will never know what I am like. You were crucified with me and now you can live inside me and with me and you can’t go back. Your mind keeps telling you that you are still living in the wilderness but it is not so. It’s just a bad dream. This is why I said to awake unto righteousness and sin no more.

You are righteous and holy because I am righteous and holy and we are one. Your sins were left on that cross so stop going back and trying to take them down. They don’t belong to you anymore. I took them from you.

I want you to believe in my finished work and learn to live in me. You are holy and acceptable and I love and adore you. I loved you when you were a sinner and I do now that you are a saint. You are my family. My blood. My spirit. My plan. You are not the dead person you left on the cross, you are a new creation and the only way to explore your new promised land that is in me, is if you once and for all reckon your old self to be dead and reckon your new self to be alive with me.

This is the glorious gospel. That is why it was called being born from above or born again. I took all that was wrong with you and killed it when you were baptized into my death. When I was raised up you were raised into newness of life. You are a new spirit born of me. Yes, you have the same body for now but even that will change when it is time.

So my loved ones, you have to see yourself as a new spirit living in an old body. You must see your spirit as the real you and your body as the machine you are driving. You are not your body any more than you are your clothes or you are your car. You are a life force born from heaven and you are new and living and alive forever. So stop pretending you are still a sinner and wake up to who you really are. You are a righteous heir of God Almighty and you are full of might and power and all that is needed is for your mind to be renewed to who you are.

Don’t let your mind keep searching for the old hardware. It’s been deleted and destroyed. You have a new operating system called the Spirit of Life in Christ. This program set you free from the law of sin and death. That law kept you in sin so that it could punish you with death. It kept telling you how awful you were so that you would accept the punishment it delivered.

The new law of the spirit keeps you in holiness so that it can bless you with life. Until you understand this there will be confusion and you will not know who you are. You are no longer subject to the law of sin and death. Your allegiance is to me and the law of my spirit of life. Submit yourself to the law of sin and you will die. Submit to my righteous holy law of life and you will live.

The reason so many of my children are sick is because they keep eating of the tree of death and are not feasting on the vine of life. They don’t let me tell them how holy they are and they keep letting Moses tell them that they are sinners. I told you through Paul that the strength of sin is the law of Moses. My law of life is complete and it can do what that Moses’ law couldn’t. That law could convict you of sin but couldn’t cure you. My law has cured you when it put sin on trial and set you free. You can live free from sin and live in holiness and righteousness. I came to set you free from sin and death and I did so because I love you. I dwell in holiness so I set you free from sin so that you can live in me.

So my beloved, will you open every door and let me in? I am open to you but you can only come in by faith in my finished work. You can enter into all of me by believing that you are who I made you to be. You must believe that I took away your sin and guilt and now heaven is open to you. You can’t see your promised land until you turn your back on the wilderness. You can’t live in my life until you see your old self dead with me on the cross behind you, and the new you alive to me in the heaven before you.

My beloved, can’t you feel my heart? Don’t you know how much long to be in every thought you have, in every moment you live, in every beat of your heart. I did all that I did because of my great love for you. I am calling you, asking you to wake up and see who you are to me and how important you are to me because of my love for you. Wake up from your nightmare of sin consciousness and live in the blissful truth of righteous holiness. I am knocking at your heart. Will you open every door?

This is the end of the words He spoke to me just a few moments ago.
I hope you are blessed with his words.
Until next time,
Grow Rich in His Grace,
I love you all,
michael

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