My Treasure: My Friend.

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John Chapter Fifteen

12. “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

13. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

14. You are my friends if you do what I command you.

15. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

16. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

17. These things I command you, so that you will love one another.



     As I was reading these words today Jesus spoke to me and asked me to write down his words and share them with you. He said:

     My friends. I chose you to be my friends. I did not come to make you serve me, but to serve you and make you my friends, so that you would love and serve each other as I loved and served you.

     It is enough that you be like me. If you believe in me then you will become like me and will see that serving is ruling. This is not the way the world thinks, but this is the way heaven operates. Think of it this way: Why did I create the earth? Do I not live in heaven? Do I not have all things I need here? I did this for you because I love you. The earth is a gift to my friends.

     I came and gave my life, my blood, and my tears to save you because I love you and I chose you to be my friends long before the world began. You are my family. You were adopted through me to my Father and we are family. But my loved ones, we are more than family.

     Each of you has family and you have friends. Sometimes you are closer to your friends than you are your own kin. I came so that we could be both. I came so you could by my brother, or my sister and my friend.

     This is what I want you to be to each other. We are one body. I am the head and you are each members of that body, but I want you to be more to each other. Do you remember I said that they would know you are my disciples by the love you have for each other? This is how I want my kingdom to grow. You are my friend and I want you to be friends with each other.

     This is the beauty of friendship: You can meet someone you never knew, someone from far away, and yet you can become closest friends. This is heaven’s idea. It’s the highest relationship there is. I hear you say; what about a marriage? Marriage is a close relationship, but each of you know people who are married to each other but are not friends. You also know others who are married and are also best friends. Which is better?

     What we have in heaven is better. Our idea of relationship is to be beyond relationship. Yes, you are my family, you are my father’s children, you are my bride but you are also my friend. It is beyond anything you know in your earthly realm but I want to reveal it to you.

     So my loved ones, be my friend. Be friends to each other. Lay down your lives for each other as I have for you. Care for each other and see each other for the treasures that you are.

     I told my disciples in the verses you just heard that I wanted them to bear much fruit. What is this fruit? I want them to not only be my friends but go get me more friends. This is the fruit.

     This is the message of the gospel. Go tell people I love them and I want them to be friends with me and not friends with the world. Tell them I have already forgiven them and chosen them to be my friends. Tell them I did all that was necessary for them to be adopted into my family and become friends with me.

     Let them see the love you have for each other until they are jealous of that love. They will see your friendship with each other and they will want what you have. This is the way to lead the world to salvation. It’s not complicated; it’s just people loving each other and willing to share that love with everyone they meet.

     Will you do this my beloved ones? Will you love each other and show the world what friendship with God looks like? No more jealousy of each other’s gifts or talents. No more hatred and anger. Just love pouring forth for each other from pure hearts that are filled with my love.

     Will you please do this my loved ones? Will you show the world the treasure of friendship? Show the world that you are my treasure and my friend.



     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


PS: To all who are my friends, including my family. You are a treasure to me. I want you to know how thankful I am that Father loved me so much the he gave his only begotten son, and he also gave me a wonderful treasure called “you.”

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Fellowship

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     First John One

1. What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life.

2. and the life was manifested, and we have seen and testify and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us,

3. what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed, our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.

4. These things we write, so that our joy may be made complete.

5. This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.

6. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth;

7. but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

8. If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

9. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

10. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.



     As I was meditating on these verses today Father’s voice came to me and he asked me to share his words with you. He said:

     My little ones, I long for your fellowship. I long for you to relax and be yourselves, and put away all the religious garbage and just fellowship with me.

     As you read above, the only requirement for fellowship is walking in the light. This light is the revelation that my son was manifested into the earth to take away all your sin so that you could have fellowship with us. We did this because of our great love for you. My Son, my Spirit and I all dwell in perfect light. There is no darkness in us at all. We are complete in that light, and you are complete in us.

     Walking in the light means walking in the revelation that my son came in the flesh, lived a sinless life and was holy all the days of his life. Walking in the light is also admitting that you are cleansed from your past sins by the blood of my son, and believing that you too can live a holy and sinless life by walking with us in this light.

     Walking in this light is also the revelation that you are free and if you make a mistake then my son’s blood is what cleanses you, and not your own works. This revelation is knowing that my son did all that needed doing to save you from your sins. You can only be sinless if you abide in him and in his light. There is nothing you can do of your own accord that will keep you in this light. This brings glory to my son because he accomplished everything you need to walk in holiness and righteousness.

     So here is the problem my children. Religion gives you a bunch of rules and formulas and tells you that you must do this or that, or keep this rule or that rule to obtain this fellowship. But the truth is all you must do is believe in my son, and his righteousness is imputed to you so that you can live with his power of holiness and not your own.

     My beloved children, I want you to be free from all that religion and just fellowship with me. Stop looking at rules and regulations and formulas and processes and just talk to me like you would your natural father.

     I am not angry and I don’t want you to feel condemnation. There are two reasons why I want you to walk in the light. First, I dwell in light and cannot dwell in darkness, so for you to dwell with me you have to come over to the light. I want you to be with me where I am and I want you to have constant fellowship with me. I don’t want you in faraway darkness. I want you in my heart and in my presence continually, just because I love you.

     The second reason I don’t want you to walk in darkness is because it will destroy you. My gift to you is eternal life. I give you eternal life as a free gift. But if you choose to walk in darkness, you pass up my free gift of life, and choose to work for an evil master called sin. This evil master will make you think sin is fun, and after you partake of it he will give you death as payment for it. I give you eternal life as a gift and he makes you his slave and pays you by killing you. What parent would want their child to work for someone like that?

     Oh my loved ones. Hear not just my words, but hear my heart also. I want your fellowship. This is what my Son’s life and death and resurrection was about. It was about bringing my prodigal sons and daughters back to me. It was about rescuing you from that evil taskmaster named sin, and bringing you home to my love.

     Jesus is the way the truth and the life. He is the way back home to me. He is the truth that demonstrates how much I love you and want you home with me. He is the life that you can step into and live in fellowship with me. It’s always about fellowship with me. I love you more than you can even imagine and I want your attention, and I want to shower you with my goodness.

     I told you through Paul in Ephesians Chapter Two that I raised you up with my son so that I could show you my kindness throughout all ages. I long to pour out wonderful things into your eternal life so that you can know how much you are loved.

     Will you believe my message my loved ones? Will you believe that I loved you so much I was in Christ on that cross reconciling you to myself? I was not angry with you and not wrathful towards you. I was in Christ on that cross pouring out my love for you so that our fellowship could be restored.

   Please my loved ones, put away all the religious lies you have been told. Know that you are loved and you are welcome to fellowship with your loving father. Walk in the light. Give me all the darkness that troubles you and let me destroy it with light. Let my son’s blood continually keep you clean so that you won’t be ashamed of yourself. I was never ashamed of you so don’t be ashamed if you make a mistake. Just admit it and stay in the light. Your enemy wants you to feel like you are naked so that you will hide from me. Don’t give in to his tactics. If you make a mistake, run to me and not from me.

     You are always welcome to stand in the light with me and my son. Don’t ever feel ashamed but feel grateful because my son took your shame away and made you able to stand freely in fellowship with me. Please no more religion, I am not a religion, I am your family. Treat me as family. Talk to me, sing with me laugh with me and lets just love each other like family. This is fellowship, and it is my gift to you.



     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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Strengthened

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Ephesians Chapter Three

14. For this cause, I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

15. Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

16. That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

17. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

18. May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

19. And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.

20. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

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


     Sometimes it’s easy to forget that we are not human beings, but we are spirits born of God who happen to be living in these earth capsules we call bodies. We get so caught up in the body and dealing with things of the body such as weakness and illness and the pressures and stresses of the world, that we forget who we really are.

     While praying about these things Father spoke to me and asked me to write down these words and share them with you.
 He said,

     My loved ones. I know it’s easy to lose focus and forget who you are. You are not mere mortals living and dying like those who are not born again. You were born again of incorruptible seed and you are spirit beings and not just earth-bound people. Many of you have become weak because you are connected to the wrong source.

     As I told you through Paul, you can be strengthened with all might by my Spirit in your inner being. This comes by staying focused on my spirit and fellowship with my Spirit. It is my Holy Spirit that is the river of living water inside you. If you don’t continually drink from this river you will become dry and weak.

     I gave you my son as the bread of heaven. You get your nourishment from him by fellowship and communion with him, and you get your refreshing drink from my spirit. Just as in the natural realm if you don’t eat or drink you become weary and weak. It’s the same in my spirit. Many crave food and drink in the natural and they eat and drink and never get full because they don’t realize that it’s me that they are hungry and thirsty for.

     I know many of you believe that once you accept my son and are born again you never have to eat or drink again. If that were the case, why did my son tell you to ask for daily bread? He said that he had living water that would cause you to never thirst again. What he meant that he would put the source of that living river inside you. You can have water with you and die of thirst if you never drink it.

     Jesus told you that if you didn’t eat his flesh and drink his blood you would not have life. I told you through Paul that many are weak and die because they don’t commune with me in the spirit. They believe communion is just a natural act and has no spiritual meaning. They don’t see communion as a holy, spiritual event and they treat it as just a natural tradition This is how they take it unworthily.

     They don’t see the worth of communion with my son. Many don’t partake of it spiritually and only think it pertains to their physical bodies. They don’t realize that that are breaking bread with the King of Glory. Could you imagine if you did an earthly king this way? Imagine you were invited to break bread with your president. Would you not be full of joy that you were invited to his table, and would you treat it as a casual dinner?

     Do you remember when Jesus was at the well and the disciples went to get food and Jesus told them he had meat to eat that they didn’t know about? He said to do my will was his food. What was my will? Not the works he did, those were just him sharing his food, but as he told you before, I am looking for those who will worship in spirit and in truth. Constant communion and fellowship with me is the highest form of worship. This is done in the realm of the spirit and not in the natural realm.

     You must see your lives as spiritual lives and not natural lives. You must learn to commune with us as one spirit, and as you do you will become very strong. You will be strengthened with might in your spirit by my spirit. This is easy. It’s just staying connected that charges you up.

     Think of it this way. You know how it feels to see a loved one you haven’t seen in a long time? That feeling of refreshing you get as you talk about old times and remember the good times? It’s like that in the spirit realm. Your spirit is recharged each time you take time to connect with me on that level.

     Now for the great news. Once you let me strengthen you with might in your inner man it creates a place that my son can dwell fully in you. When he does you come to know his love for you that passes all knowledge. It can’t be known with your mind. It’s a heart thing.

     As you come to know this love then you understand the height, the depth, the width, the length, and the endless supply of that love. When you comprehend this love, you sink your roots down deep into it and no one will ever pull you up and replant you. Your roots will be down into the water of the Spirit and you will become that tree planted by the water that we spoke of in scripture.

     When you become this tree not only will you always have the strength of my love and the refreshment of my spirit but you will begin to bear much fruit. Righteousness, peace and joy and goodness and all good things will flow from your lives and others will come to you to taste the fruit that I produced through you.

     My loved ones, these things will only happen as you stay connected to me and focused on me. Jesus said that he only did what he saw me doing. He walked on the earth, and lived a life on the earth, and saved the world, but he never took the eyes of his heart off of me.

     Please my beloved ones. Fellowship with my Spirit and be strengthened. Eat the daily bread. That bread is the revelation of my son. Ask for more revelation of him each day and chew on that revelation until you are full. Drink deep from the water of my Spirit, and grow my precious trees, grow!



     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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Back To The Heart

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Jeremiah Chapter 29

11. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

12.Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.

13. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

     As I was meditating on these verses today Father’s voice came to me and he asked me to write down these words and share them with you.

     He said:

     My loved ones. It is time to get back to the heart of all things. So many of you wander from place to place and from preacher to preacher, trying to find a way to get back to where you already are.

     Your enemy has deceived you and made you feel like you are lacking something and you need more knowledge to be like me. This is the original lie and the original sin. When you were born again you were made in my image and my likeness. You couldn’t be any more like me than you already are in the spirit. We are one spirit and not two.

    Here is the problem, you are searching with your head for what you already have in your heart. I saved the world because I love you. I sent my son because I love you. 

I gave you my Spirit because I love you. 

I bless you because you are mine and I love you. 

I will make your dreams come true because I love you. 

I will save your children because I love you. 

I have taken away your sin and disease because I love you. 

I created heaven and eternity for you because I love you. 

I made all of creation to give you something to reign over 

because I love you. 

I defeated your enemies because I love you. I do all things because I love you.

     So why do you go down the religious trail and try to use a formula to get me to do something? Why do you still think you can earn anything from me? If I didn’t hold back my son but offered him us to save you, then why do you think I am the one holding back any good thing from you.

     Your so-called teachers sell you the latest package of things you can do, to get me to do something for you, that I already did for you before you were born. 

    Let me ask a question of those who have children. Did they have to prove themselves to earn your love or did you love them from the moment you found out they were in the womb?
When they were born did you set them aside and say “I will not provide for them unless they believe in me and never make a mistake? Do they have to pray every day and stand in faith so that you will feed them and clothe them or do you do so just because you love them? Did they have to prove they were lovable before you decided to do all you could to give them a good future? Or did you have great love in your heart and great plans for them before they could even really know who they are?

     When someone sees your child and tells you that your child looks like you, do you tell that person it is because the child is studying you and learning to become like you? Do you tell them it’s because your child prays to you every day and asks you to make them look like you?

     Doesn’t this sound silly? They look like you because they are your children. Do you spend hours each day telling your child all the things they are not, or do you spend time telling them you love them and bonding with them so they will know they are loved and know who they are?

     This is the biggest problem in my church. Religion has stolen your identity from you. I said that you are my children, created in my image, created for good works, seated with my son in the heavenly realm. Justified, sanctified, glorified, and religion tells you that you are a dirty rotten sinner barely saved by a grace that just barely powerful enough to overcome your rottenness and save you.

     Those religious people who say those things say it in ignorance. They don’t realize that when they say those things they are insulting my son, his blood, and his cross. They are saying his blood wasn’t really enough to change people and there is more work needed to accomplish their salvation.

     It’s time to repent and believe the gospel. The reason I want you to believe the gospel is because it’s the truth. Religion did the same thing when it hijacked the so-called faith message. The message isn’t “believe” and you will become. The message is not “believe” and you will receive. It’s believe you already have these things because it came with your inheritance you received when my beloved firstborn shared it with you.  The message is “believe” it, because it’s the truth already. You are my child and you already possess all that you need.

     When I told you that when you stand praying to believe that you will receive. The message is that I have already given you all things that pertain to life and godliness and you lack nothing. A prayer of faith is not in asking, but in giving thanks because you know I have already given you the answer before you could even think about asking. This is truth. Faith isn’t a process, it is a person.

     It’s time to take my church back to the truth. I love you and I gave all I had to get you. I will never withhold any good thing from you. I do all I do because of love and because my heart is filled with love for you. What I need in return is for you to accept that love and be filled with that love until it overflows into the world around you. 

     All these things that you seek are already yours, but you will only be able to enjoy them when you realize you didn't earn them, and you accept them freely as a gift of my love for you.

     So stop trying to be who you already are. Awake unto righteousness and sin not. You don’t have to struggle to stop sinning. Just wake up to the fact that you are a righteous, holy being made in my image. Once you know who you are then you will do what righteous, holy beings do. You will live in righteousness and holiness because it’s not what you do, it’s who you are.

     You don’t have to struggle to become like me. You are just like me already. The only difference between you and Jesus is that he knew he was my son, and you are still doubting the fact that you are my child. By grace you were saved though faith and that not of yourselves it was my free gift. You were adopted by me because I love you. The only thing you had to do with it was when you agreed to be adopted.

     Get back to the heart of the truth. It’s all about love. Stop buying the latest offer that religion has to sell you and build a relationship with me. It’s not about a formula for success. It’s about how to awaken to who you already are. You are my beloved child in whom I am well pleased. No more doubting. No more disbelief. Just faith that the blood of my son was the only payment ever needed to redeem you back from your religious kidnappers.

     I love you my children, I always have and I always will. Please love each other also.

     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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