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Romans Chapter Four

18.Even when there was no reason for hope, Abraham kept hoping and believing that he would become the father of many nations. For God had said to him, “That’s how many descendants you will have!”

19. And Abraham’s faith did not weaken, even though, at about 100 years of age, he figured his body was as good as dead—and so was Sarah’s womb.

20. Abraham never wavered in believing God’s promise. In fact, his faith grew stronger, and in this he brought glory to God.

21. He was fully convinced that God is able to do whatever he promises.

While meditating on these verses today Father spoke to me and asked me to write down his words and share them with you.
He said,

My loved ones, it’s not about your problems; it’s about my promise. I chose you and saved you and set you apart just so I could love you as my own, and bless you just because of that love. I know many of you are facing struggles and problems that seem large, but they are no match for my love and my promise.

All people face problems just as Abraham did. He was a hundred years old and his wife was way past the ability to have children. Doesn’t that seem like a large problem to you? But here is the secret. Abraham believed that I had ability beyond natural means. He was convinced that I could do whatever I promised.

So why was he convinced? Some of it was the encounters he had with me in visions and dreams, but most of it was because he discovered that time and time again I delivered him from his problems. Even before Isaac was born he fought battles with enemies and fought the harsh conditions of wandering and living in tents in the wilderness, and not to mention the hardship of being a herdsman in those conditions.

Most of all he fought off humiliation from others. Can you imagine telling others you are the father of many nations? They ask you how many children you have and you have to tell them none yet, but they are on the way. Many people laughed at him and said “that old many is crazy. He is old and his wife his old, he can’t have children.”

You fight the same problems. You have dreams that seem to be too far out to even share with people. Some of you have shared your dreams only to have people laugh at you and tell you it’s never going to happen. They will give you a thousand reasons that it will never work but you only need one that it will. All you need is my promise.

Sometimes it is the people who are closest to you that laugh at your dreams. Even Sara laughed when I told them they would have a son. So, I laughed, and told them to name him Isaac, which means to laugh or to mock. It will be the same with you. I will get the last laugh when all the things I promised you for your life come to be, and others stand in amazement.

There is nothing that is in the least bit difficult for me. Don’t forget all of your circumstances exist inside the world that I created. If I created the heavens and the earth don’t you think I can handle anything that exists inside my own creation?

What I want my beloved ones is for you to take your eyes off your problems and put them on my promises. I promised I would never leave you or forsake you. I promised to be for you and to never be against you. I promised that I will sustain you in hard times. I promised that I would take you to a green pasture of my grace and let you eat your communion meal with me while your enemies are forced to watch your victory meal from a distance. I am your Father, your God and your Friend. I will not fail you nor will I forget you. I will lead you out of your troubles and into my glory. I have a plan for your life and it is a good plan. All I need you to do is trust me.

I will make faith simple for you. I told you that if you become humble as a small child you will see my kingdom in power. Here is how the faith of a small child works: When someone asks you why you believe your dream will come to pass you simply say; Because my Father promised and he doesn’t lie.

It really is that simple my loved ones. Take your eyes off your problems. Do like Abraham did. Don’t consider your body as good as dead. I can raise the dead. Death means nothing to me. You are my child and you have passed from death to life and death has no power over you.

Trust me my beloved ones. I am able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all you can ask or think or even imagine in your wildest dreams. Think about Abraham again. You are hearing these words because he believed in me. Because he dared to trust me against all odds faith entered the earth, and because of that faith my righteous son was able to enter the earth and save you.

It's not about your problems my beloved. It is about my promise. Keep these words in your heart and when your enemy tells you it’s hopeless, you tell him the God of all hope promised you, and it will be according to the promise. There is a cross to prove that I keep my word and an empty tomb to prove that it’s never too late.

I love you dear children, please love each other, and love those who are unlovable. For I love each and every one.

This was the end of the words He spoke to me this morning.
I hope you are encouraged by these words.
Until next time,
Grow Rich in His Grace,
I love you all,
michael

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Friday, January 27, 2017

Beyond The Voice

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While praying this morning Jesus spoke to me and asked me to write down these words and share them with you.

He said:

My loved ones. It’s time to know me in a way beyond your senses. Most of you are listening for a voice or looking for a vision, but I want you to know me by becoming one with me. This is the reason I came and saved you and delivered you and brought you into my kingdom. I came not searching for servants and workers, but came looking for a bride and even more…

There is a way to know me beyond a voice, beyond a vision or beyond any senses that you are familiar with. This is what being one with me is all about. You are chosen to know me as you are known. Just as I told you that I and my Father are one. I want you to know what that is like. I want you not only to hear my voice and see with my eyes, I want you to know me in Spirit and truth.

It’s time to stop focusing on the natural senses and start developing your spiritual senses. In the spirit realm, you exist inside me. In me you live and move and have your being. We are not two in this realm, we are one already. I want your minds to surrender to me also, so that you can know me fully and understand who you really are.

There is a much higher level of consciousness that religion has blinded you to. There are ways beyond seeing, hearing, tasting, touching and feeling. These are natural senses, but there are senses only known to the heart that you can learn to live by. For example: Rest a moment and sense my love for you. Not by hearing me saying it but by feeling it with your heart. Which is better, to hear the one you love the most tell you they love you from far away, or feeling them wrap their arms around you and hold you without saying a word? There are feelings and emotions and things that can’t be expressed by words.

I don’t just want you to love me and me to love you. I want you to become love. I want you to experience my love in a spiritual way so that you will not only know love but will become the living expression of my heart.

These things can never be experienced unless you are willing to step up into the realm where your spirit dwells. You can’t get here by natural means, or by keeping rules and regulations, or by trying to be something that you are not. You must surrender your mind to the fact that you are accepted in the beloved. You are washed in my blood and are already perfected in the realm where I dwell.

Think of it this way. Your body is like the garment you wear in the earth. If your shirt gets dirty because you work in the garden does that mean that you are full of dirt inside your spirit? Of course, it does not. You are clean because I made you clean. I told you to come boldly to my throne of grace. It’s not a throne of judgment.

By learning who you are in the spirit you will learn to separate yourselves from the things of the world. You can’t fight dirt by condemning dirt. Living in my holiness comes from living and being aware that you are a spirit and not a body. You are no longer in the first man Adam who was made of dirt. You are born of me, who is spirit, and you are spirit. Learn to live as a spirit and learn to live in my love so that we can be one.

John was in the spirit and a door was open in heaven. This door is always open. It has been open since I tore the veil in half that separated the natural world from the spirit world. You are seated with me in the heavenly realm. Your sprit lives in the heavenly realm and in your body at the same time. Think of it like a submarine. If you are in a submarine, are you in the ocean? Yes, you are. But you are a submarine too. You are in your body, but the spirit realm is all around you like the ocean.

So you may ask, how do I step into this realm of consciousness? I am the door. I am the way, the truth and the life and you entered already when you were born again. To be absent from the body is to be present with me. What happens when the body dies? The person is no longer conscious of their body but is conscious of me. Who told you that you have to die to be in heaven. You are here already, but need to have your heart opened to see. My kingdom is a kingdom of love, it must be seen with the eyes of the heart, and not the natural eyes.

As you become more awake to the truth that you are a spirit and you are not deformed you will experience being one with me. Your spirit has eyes and ears and senses. But even your sprit senses are not the limit. I want us to be one. I came to take your place so you could come live in mine. The biggest lie ever told was that you can’t enjoy heaven until you are dead. I lived and was conscious in both realms at the same time, and you can be also.

John experienced heaven, Paul was caught up into this realm, Stephen saw me standing at Father’s right hand. All through the scriptures people saw me and experienced me but you have settled for lie that you can’t know me until you die. You died already. You were crucified with me, but you live. You died a death with me on that cross and you were raised into a spirit life with me and you can not only see me, but you can become one with me. We can become one heart, one mind, one being. Me in you is the hope of glory. You in me, is the cry of your heart.

Paul understood this was a great mystery that I would leave heaven and become one with my bride on the earth. Are you willing to leave your religious mindset and become one with me in heaven?

Come beyond the voice my loved ones and become aware that you are already one with me. I love you more than words can say, more than pictures can reveal. I am your tender lover softly tapping on the door of your heart, trying to get you awake to experience my love for you. Will you awaken my love?

This was the end of the words He spoke to me this morning.
I hope you are encouraged by these words.
Until next time,
Grow Rich in His Grace,
I love you all,
michael

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Friday, January 20, 2017

Can These Dreams Live?

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Genesis Chapter Two

5. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground,

6. and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground

7. then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Ezekiel Chapter Thirty-Seven

1. The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones.

2. And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry. 3. And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord GOD, you know.”

4. Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

5. Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.

6.And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the LORD.”

7. So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a sound, and behold, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone.

8. And I looked, and behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them. But there was no breath in them.

9. Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.”

10. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.

Acts Chapter Two

1.When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.

2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.

When I woke up this morning these verses came to me. I know it seems like they may be scattered but as I was meditating on what these verses could mean I saw in a vision a valley like the one in Ezekiel, full of dry bones. But these were not dead bodies, but dead dreams. As I watched to see what would happen I heard Father’s voice and he asked me to write down his words and share them with you.

He said,

My loved ones, so many of you have let your dreams die. Many of you have grown weary because they didn’t come to pass in the time you expected, so you just cut them off from my breath and let them die. Did you see in the scriptures you just heard in Ezekiel, the bones were dead but I didn’t just raise them up, I told my prophet to speak over them and prophesy to them? This is how it works. You prophesy over them, and my Spirit comes and puts breath in them.

This is why your dreams die. You give up on them and you stop declaring my promise about them. You stop talking about them and you stop treating them as if they are a living thing, and you treat them like they are some inanimate object.

Dreams are a living thing. They are not a dead thing. I gave them to you as a promise. You must speak over them and talk about them and keep them alive in your heart. Just because it takes a long time doesn’t matter.

Do you remember when the angel spoke to Mary and told her about the conception of Jesus? Do you remember it says that she pondered these things in her heart? You should ponder all of my dreams and promises that I give you.

Here is what I want you to do my loved ones. I want you to see your dreams as if they were children. Nurture them, speak to them, talk to them. Become involved with them. Don’t just stick then on a shelf and forget about them. Fellowship with them.

So my loved ones, here is your assignment today: Make a list of all your dreams. Write them down and name them. Not just dream names. Name them as if they are people. Do what you must do for them to be real in your heart.

Once that is done I want you to be my prophets. Speak over your dreams and prophesy over them. Call forth my breath to come and bring them back to life. Watch what I will do. I will bring them to life and will cause them to come to pass. It doesn’t matter how long it’s been. I am not limited by time or space or any lack of resource. I am Almighty and will reveal myself to you as the one who restores. If I can raise a dead body, then do you think it is difficult for me to raise a dead dream?

I love you so much my children, and I gave you your dreams as a gift of my love. Imagine seeing yourselves standing before me with your hands open and I give you something. What did I give you? I gave you a dream. Now it’s up to you to keep it alive and water it with my promises and my love. Speak to it, nurture it, and be happy about it and be proud of it.

This is my promise to you, if you will do as I instruct you then I will send my breath and breathe new life into your dreams. I will raise up your dead dreams and bring them to pass. But just as they say on your television; But wait, there is more.

Many of you have loved ones, who are in heaven now, had dreams that never came to pass. You can lay hold of their dream also and I will bring it to pass for you. I will do this to honor your loved ones. I wanted their dreams to come to pass for them and there will be great delight in heaven when they find out you laid hold of their dream and brought it back to life. Do this to honor your loved ones.

Think of it this way. Abraham’s promise was that he would become the Father of many nations. But what if Isaac decided he didn’t want children? Do you see how he brought life to his father’s dream? You can do the same. Honor those whom you love that are now with me. Speak to their dreams also. Call forth my Spirit to breathe life into their dreams and watch what I do.

The breath I breathed into the dust brought forth a man named Adam. The breath I breathed at Pentecost brought forth a church. The breath I am about to breathe into the earth will produce heaven on earth. So be excited and be ready.

Ezekiel was not the breath or wind that blew, but he called it into the valley. The apostles were not the breath that blew into the room at Pentecost, but they called him to where they were praying. My Spirit is my breath and you can call him to come breathe on your dreams and on your life. He would love nothing more than to bring your dead hopes and dreams back to life. I am a life-giving Spirit and there is no death in me. Everything I touch comes to life. So, call me by speaking to your dreams. Your speaking is not the life, but your speaking calls forth the life into your dream.

I love you so very much my children and I long to see you and for you to see me; in your dreams.

This was the end of the words He spoke to me this morning.
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, January 15, 2017

Practicing Heaven

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As I was praying this morning my loving Savior spoke to me and asked me to write down these words and share them with you.

He said

My precious children. There is no end to my love for you or my patience with you. I proved that love for you when I hung on that cross for you. I did it because of that great love and so that you could be with me forever. Today I want to speak to you about practicing heaven. I told you in my word that you should pray to our Father that his will be done on earth as in heaven. This is what I want you to practice.

Let us begin with your thoughts. When thoughts come to your mind ask yourself, would you have these same thoughts if you were not in your body but were standing in the presence of our glorious Father basking in his love? You are there already my loved ones. You are in me, and I am in you, and we are in our Father. You are our temple, so we dwell in you as you dwell in us. If you understood these things it would change your thinking.

I know you have a saying on earth, “What would Jesus do?” How about also asking yourselves what would I think? If you are going to live my life it begins with thinking as I think. I know many of you will respond with the scripture that says “your ways are not my ways and your thoughts are not my thoughts,” but that doesn’t apply to the born-again believer filled with my Spirit. You can have my thoughts and you can have my ways, and it is our greatest desire for you to do so.

For instance, if you are worried about money, would you be worried if you could see my Father in his glory sitting on his throne smiling at you and telling you that he will provide all you need and has done so already?

Those of you who worry about your children would you worry if you could see your children in our hands and see the future we have for them. Would you fear for them or would you rejoice because we are saving you and your whole house? I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It wasn’t just Abraham I wanted but his whole family line. It isn’t just you that I want, but it’s your children and grandchildren and great grandchildren. I want all of them and I will have them. If you believe in me then I will save your whole house.

Those of you who are worried about your health think about where you really are. Can you really stay sick when you are in my presence? When the healer lives inside you is there any chance you can’t be healed? Only if you don’t realize who I am within you and don’t let me work through your mind and heal you.

Your mind is the door between my world and the physical world. Your thoughts are the wall that keeps me out of your life. The scriptures tell you that “as a man thinks in his heart so is he.” This is absolute truth. I saved you and love and I want you well and blessed, but I will not force you. You must choose as an act of your will to let me have your thoughts and let me live through them.

My beloved, it’s not hard. You just need to learn how to practice heaven. That is what I did when I walked on the earth. I brought my character from heaven and modeled it for you. You are just as much in heavenly places as I am. Once that truth sets in you will begin to model heaven also.

My beloved Paul told you that he didn’t come with excellent speech but with the demonstration of my Spirit and power. What he meant was that he came and demonstrated what a man filled with the thoughts and desires of heaven looks like. You can do the same.

Here is a major problem. Your enemy has told you that you are not complete and you are still trying to attain to a place that you can never have. He tells you that you are a failure and a dirty rotten sinner and there is no way you can walk in holiness and power. These are lies that you believe in your mind and they keep you from awakening to who you really are. You are complete in me. I have already blessed you with all blessings in the spiritual realm. You are lacking nothing.

You have all you need but it’s in one compartment of your being called your spirit. However, your spirit is subject to your natural mind and can only flow as you give him permission. As long as you do your thinking with your natural mind and not your heavenly mind you will face these problems. To be heavenly minded is life and peace. This doesn’t mean you won’t have problems. It means you are well equipped to solve them. You have all you need but you must practice letting heaven rule through you.

Now that we spoke about your mind about yourself we should speak about your thoughts concerning others. You must learn to see others as I see them. You must love them but warn them. When I was on the earth I modeled this for you. The scriptures tell you in Hebrews chapter Seven that I am your high priest. I am undefiled by sin and separate from sinners. However; sinners loved me when I walked the earth. They knew I loved them but they also knew that I wouldn’t partake of their sin with them.

I became sin on the cross to take away the sins of the world. I didn’t do this to allow the world to keep living in sin. Even if they won’t admit it, sinners don’t want someone who will let them sin, but want someone who can deliver them from it. Have you ever seen someone addicted to something who didn’t want to be free from it?

This is where my church is missing it today. Yes, there is abundant grace but that grace is not so the world can live like they want and still go to heaven. Is that all that my blood means to you? My blood was to cleanse you from all sin and put you into righteousness and holiness. I came to free the world from sin, not to free the world to sin.

I am not counting your sins against you but there is one who is. His name is Death. He keeps score, I don’t. He pays in wages and his wages are harsh. This is why I gave you the law of the spirit of life in me. It sets you free from this vicious cycle of sin and death. You don’t have to sin and you don’t have to die. But you say, everyone dies. Enoch didn’t. Elijah didn’t. So, it’s not everyone. Yes, it is appointed for man to die once but if I died for all then all died. Remember the words of my beloved Paul when he said “should we continue in sin because we are not under law but under grace? God forbid.”

Do you remember when I told you that there is a new covenant and in this new covenant there are laws that I am writing in your heart and on your mind? Why would I write them in your heart? It is because they are laws of love. Not laws of punishment. It’s not a “thou shalt not” law. It is a promise. When I said “if you love me you will keep my commandments” that is what I meant. The way to keep them is not through keeping of statutes and trying to keep up with all the traditions. The way to stay holy is to once again “practice heaven.” In heaven love rules. Everyone loves everyone and would never consider sinning against another, because their love for me and each other is too strong.

Let’s look at it this way. Those of you who are married do you want your spouse to be true to you because they have to, or because they are so much in love with you that the thought of being with someone else would never enter their mind? This is the love law. Once you know how much you are loved you will fall in love with me, and you will be filled with the fullness of that love, and your hearts and minds will change. You won’t need to look into a book of laws when my ways are written into your hearts.

I tell you this because my church has been preaching the wrong message. Some are preaching that I hate sinners and can’t wait to destroy them because they don’t keep the law of Moses. Others are telling them that I love them so much they can live anyway they want to and all will be well. Those who tell them either of these things don’t truly love them.

Think of it this way. If they legalize all drugs today and anyone can have any drug they want, do you want your children addicted to them because they are legal? If they legalize murder today do you want to kill you neighbors? Of course not, because you love them. If they legalize prostitution do you want your sons and daughters to become prostitutes? Of course not. Sin destroys lives because the only thing sin wants is you dead.

I love sinners and I want them saved and free from the things that are destroying their lives and their homes. If you saw your child playing with a rattlesnake would you say “that’s okay, he is old enough to decide what to do on his on? My loved ones we must be truthful with the world. Yes, I am in love with them but their enemy is destroying them when freedom is available. “When I said “Be ye holy as I am holy” it wasn’t because I hate you, it is quite the opposite. I love you and living in holiness is living in heaven. I want you living in heavenly ways not earthly ways.

I am not asking you to do anything in your own power. I gave you Holy Spirit to empower you. Why do you think his name is “Holy” Spirit? Could it because he brings the holiness of heaven and pours it through you so that you have the power to live in perfection? How do you think I kept myself pure and holy when I walked the earth? I did this through the power of the Spirit.

Let’s look at this for a moment. When I was baptized and Holy Spirit came upon me it wasn’t for signs, wonders and miracles. The first thing he did was lead me into the wilderness where I faced every temptation that a man could face. Once I told sin to “get behind me” then I came back empowered to do the miracles I did.

Holy Spirit takes my righteousness and holiness and imputes it into you. You don’t have to do anything in your own power. I will walk in you and live in you and I will be your God and you will be my people. All I need is for you to do is wake up to the fact that if you are born again you are a righteous, holy being filled with heaven and that heaven is waiting to be modeled to the world.

My beloved, please see who you are. You don’t have to be bogged down in the sins of the world. They want you to be empowered to help them not join in with them. The best way to save a drowning person is by pulling them to shore, not by drowning with them.

Those of you with ears to hear, there is about to be a separation of those who are willing to let go of the world to gain me. I will separate the light from the dark and there will be no twilight. There will be noon day sun and there will be midnight darkness. You will decide if you will walk in the light by practicing heaven or hide in the darkness.

Please choose the light and drag as many out of the darkness into the light as you can. If you love them, warn them. Don’t tell them I am about to pour out wrath on them. I am not. I told you he that believes in me will not perish, but he that believes not is damned already. I didn’t damn him, his own choices did. Salvation is a choice, love is a choice, holiness is a choice. I will send my angels “messengers” and gather out of “MY KINGDOM” all offensive things and then the righteous will shine like the noon day sun.

Those who choose the light and to practice heaven will become great lights on the earth and you will shine and will walk in my power and might and there will be no end to the increase of my kingdom. You will learn to practice heaven and as you learn you will turn earth upside down until heaven and earth are mirror images of each other. When you have completed these things and made my enemies my footstool then I will come and reign with you. When you make my pathways straight I will walk them with you.

I do love you so much my beloved ones. So much that I long for you to dwell in the holiness of heaven so you can enjoy the blessings of heaven. Don’t forget my loved ones. Love each other and encourage each other. The world is trying to discourage you and tell you that you can’t overcome this world. The truth is you already overcame when you were born again.

Be at great peace my beloved. I will never leave you and my greatest joy is to dwell in you.

This is the end of the words he spoke to me this morning.

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, January 11, 2017

The Trying of Your Faith

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Hebrews Chapter Six

13. For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself, 14. saying, “Surely I will bless you and multiply you.” 15. And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.

Hebrews Chapter Ten

36.For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Hebrews Chapter Twelve

1. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

2. Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3.For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

Colossians Chapter One

9. And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10. so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

11. being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy;

12. giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

13.He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,

14. in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

James Chapter One

2.My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

4. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

Almost every believer I know is going through some type of trial right now. It seems like we all are being tested and pushed to our limits daily. The reason it seems that way is because it is that way. As I was praying about these things this morning Father spoke to me and asked me to share these words with you.

He said,

My loved ones, count it all joy! Yes, count it all joy! Do not shrink back and hide from problems. Face them head on with confidence knowing that your God is with you in all your troubles, and I am bringing you safely through them. However, don’t expect an easy road. The race is not won by sitting on the sideline waiting on the others to stop running. It is won by running and running, and when you fall down you get up and continue running.

Did you ever hear a champion speaking of how easy it is to win a championship? Do you ever hear them say, “I don’t know why we practiced so much and worked so hard, it was easy and we should have just taken it easy and we still would have won?” Who ever heard of such a thing?

You are kings and priests. You are being trained to rule and reign with the one who overcame it all and sat at my right hand. I promised him that I would make his enemies his footstool. Oh, by the way, I am going to do that in you and through you.

Here is the problem. In the church today many people hear false messages. First, they hear preachers tell them to just come to Jesus and all their problems will be over. Let’s look at that in truth. Did Jesus have an easier life before or after he stepped into his ministry? No one was screaming “Crucify Him!” when he was a carpenter. Did the apostles have an easier life or harder life before they were called? I didn’t call you to easy street, I called you into the war of the ages.

The second falsehood is more deceptive. People are taught the truth that they are called into battle but are not told that all the weapons they ever used before are useless, and natural weapons are not to be used in this fight.

My weapons are totally different than the ones the world uses.
Here are some examples:

Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Pray for those who persecute you.

Do good to those who abuse you.

Love your enemies and if they are hungry feed them and if they are thirsty give them to drink.

Overcome evil with good.

When you have done all you can do to stand, then just stand there. It doesn’t matter how long, just stand there.

Bless those who curse you.

Be good to all.

Don’t seek your own way but seek what is best for others.

Here are some that are even stranger to the world.

Be angry but sin not.

Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath.

If your brother sins against you over and over and asks forgiveness, then forgive him.

If someone slaps the right side of your face give him the other side also; and do it in love.

Win your race by entering into the rest given to you by the one who already won.

These things seem so strange to the natural mind but in the spirit realm they are perfect.

So where am I going with all this my loved ones? I am telling you the reason that many are running out of patience is because they are using the wrong weapons to fight with. They have on the shoes of anxiety and not the shoes of peace. Yes, you are in a battle but you are not fighting with earthly weapons, but with spiritual weapons. Also, you don’t have to use earthly patience and endurance. You have been given heavenly endurance and patience.

This is why in the scripture you just heard you were told to “look unto Jesus.” You don’t get patience by looking at your problem. You don’t get patience by just trying to stick it out on your own. You get patience from looking at the one who already won this race. You will win also if you don’t give up. Do you remember that I told you that Moses endured the desert, and the wrath of Pharaoh by seeing “him” who is invisible? He was looking to me, not at the problems.

My beloved, the trying of your faith is not a punishment from me. It is a loving Father teaching his children how to be champions. You will overcome every obstacle in your path and you will see that patient endurance is the secret of a happy life.

When you look at Jesus you will be given confidence that you can win your race also. You will no longer fret and worry and say “Oh my, what are we going to do?” Instead you will look at your problem and then look back at Jesus and laugh and say “we've got this. We can do it.” Right in the midst of your troubles you can enter into his finished work and patiently wait for your victory.

I do love you so much my children. I love you so much that I chose you and adopted you and put you into my son. It’s the safest place you could ever be. Your troubles and trials will pass and you will stand before me one day so happy that you overcame.

Don’t be discouraged my loved ones. Don’t let your enemy tell you that your troubles are punishment from me because you failed. That is not true. Your troubles are the climber’s mountain, the jumper’s hurdles, they are the lifters weights, they are the runner’s mile. Each obstacle you overcome makes you stronger.

Do just like my beloved son. Set your eyes on the prize and don’t give up. There is an eternity of reward for the one who finishes the race. I am your biggest fan. I chose you and I have every intention of showing you just what a champion you are. Don’t give up my loved ones. We can do this, you in me and me in you.

This was the end of the words he spoke to me this morning. 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, January 3, 2017

The Power Returns

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Acts Chapter Thirteen

1. Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a lifelong friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

2. While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

3. Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.

4. So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

5. When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews.

Acts Chapter Sixteen

6.And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

7. And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.

8. So, passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas. 9. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”

10. And when Paul had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

I woke up this morning as I usually do at 3:16 and these verses were dancing in my heart. Usually I know this is Father’s way of wanting to teach me something or to give me something to share. I pondered and meditated on these verses until Father’s voice came to me and he asked me to write down these words and share them with you.

He said,
My beloved ones, I love you and I am so happy that you are spreading the good news of the message of my beloved son. I also hear the cries of your hearts longing for the power that was in the message the early church preached. You wonder why signs and wonders and miracles are few and far between. I want to give you your answer and it’s more simple than you think.

This message about the church at Antioch was given to you as an example. Do you notice it said there were several prophets and teachers and they worshiped and fasted and were seeking me for direction? This is what is missing in the church of today. You meet and worship and have your messages and rush out to get to lunch or dinner and there is no time for corporate prayer and fasting and seeking me. If you will change these things you will see great improvement in your results.

Did you notice that Saul and Barnabas were sent out but not the others? Why weren’t they all sent out? It is simple my loved ones. My son is in charge of the church. I put all things pertaining to the church under his control. He is building the church through you.

We sent Holy Spirit to you to be your guide. Do you remember the scripture Jesus spoke to you in John chapter fourteen? He said he would pray to me and I would send you another helper like him who would be with you forever. He said this helper is Holy Spirit. He is another helper just like my beloved son. Was Jesus a helper to the disciples? Yes, he was but who was in charge? My son was in charge.

Here lies the problem. In your day, a helper is not in charge. A helper is someone whom you give orders to and they do what you want. This is not the case with Holy Spirit. He follows the same example as Jesus did. The helper you received is the one who gives you the power to carry out the mission you receive from him. So many people today go off on their own and expect Holy Spirit to empower them when they are not doing what He told them to do. They don’t know what to do because they haven’t spent time fasting and praying and seeking me.

When you do this you will get an answer and will be given instructions of where to go and what to do. Just as at Antioch some of you will be told to go and some will be told to stay and help others.

Do you remember the man whom Jesus said had the most faith he had seen in Israel? He was the centurion and he said that he was a man with authority and under authority. He tells one to go and he goes and another to do something else and he does it. This is the kingdom. Jesus decides who goes, where they go, and who stays. It is his plan you are supposed to be working and not your own.

Did you notice in the scripture you just heard in Acts sixteen who it was that stopped Paul and Barnabas from going into Bithynia? It was the Spirit of my son. He works everything according to his own plan. He has a plan for spreading the gospel, and kingdom power comes when you get instructions from heaven. Even Jesus followed this protocol when he said “I only do what I see my Father doing.”

My beloved ones, take some time to gather together and fast and pray and worship me. Holy Spirit will speak to you when your hearts are ready to hear and you will receive your instructions. Then the power that you seek to help save the world will work for you. Amazing things happen when a fellowship gathers in corporate prayer, praying in one mind and one accord.

Think of it like an army. As long as you do what your commander tells you to do then you will receive the supplies and ammunition you need. If you go rogue and get away from the battle plan you will be powerless. I will never leave you, but you will not accomplish my plan.

Come to me my loved ones. Spend time fasting and praying together. When your heart says that it is more important to hear my instruction than it is to eat then you will get your answer. Saving the world was my idea. Believe me I have lots of plans to hand out, but very few have their hands out waiting for these plans. I long to give you everything you want and need to preach this glorious gospel, but it will only work if you do it according to heaven’s plan.

I love you my children and I’ll be patiently waiting to hear your worship and prayers as you come together to seek me and my will. If you seek you will find me. You must seek me with your whole heart and not just half of it. I am so longing to see the power of the gospel return to the church, for this brings glory to my son.

Don’t forget my loved ones. Love each other and forgive each other, and be excited and ready, for days of glory are coming soon.

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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