Right Here, Right Now, Forever

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Psalm 46

1. God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.

2. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,

3. though its waters roar and foam
and the mountains quake with their surging.

4. There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy place where the Most High dwells.

5. God is within her, she will not fall;
God will help her at break of day.

6. Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall;
he lifts his voice, the earth melts.

7. The Lord Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.

8. Come and see what the Lord has done,
the desolation he has brought on the earth.

9. He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth.
He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
he burns the shields with fire.

10. He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”

11. The Lord Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.




     As I was praying today I heard Father's voice and he asked me to write down the following words and share them with you. He said:

     My children, I always was, because “I Am.” I will always be, because “I Am.” I am right now, because “I Am” I am present with you right here, right now and forever.

     Do you remember the past victories I gave you? It was because I was with you. I haven't left you. I will never leave you. Your Father and Mother and everyone you know may leave you and yet I am with you. You are never alone because “I Am.”

     Faith is in the present tense just as I am. When you think of past victories don't think that I was with you then and wish I was with you now. I will always bring you the victory. It is not possible to lose because anything you love even if it leaves you in this age it is saved for you in the next one.

     My beloved ones, this is most important that you don't see me as one who visits you. You must see me as the one who lives in you constantly. I am with you when you fight your battles. I am with you when you sleep. If you are moving mountains or brushing your teeth I am with you.

     Why? Because I love you. This was the point of all that Jesus did at the cross. He came to take away your guilt so you would fellowship with me in Spirit and Truth. You live with me in the spiritual world and I live with you in the natural world.

     I never left man. Man left me. I drove them out of the garden in my wrath against sin, not my wrath against man. I did this for their protection so they wouldn't eat of the tree of life and live forever in their guilt. I came calling Adam even after they fell. I knew where they were hiding. I didn't ask Adam where he was so that I would know. I asked him so he would realize he left our fellowship and hid himself. I didn't want him to hide from me. I didn't want our relationship to be broken because of sin.

     I have never left anyone and never will. Many think I turned my back on my own son on the cross because of what he cried out. He wasn't stating that I forsook him. He was quoting the Psalmist so that those around him would recognize that the Psalm you call Twenty-Two was being fulfilled before their eyes. I have never abandoned anyone at any time. So I will never leave you. If you remember Paul's letter to the Corinthians he explained that I was in Christ on that cross, reconciling the world to myself. I never forsook my son and I will never forsake you.

     The reason I tell you this is so you will not call upon a God who is far away in heaven. You will not call upon a God who is in the past or in the future. I want you to call upon me because I am with you right here, right now and will always be with you right where you are at all times.

     I know many of you are in pain and trouble and wondering where I am. I want you to know that I am with you and if you will give me those cares and troubles I'll take care of them for you and let you rest.

     I know many of you are frustrated because what you see in your lives is not what you see in your bible. You long for the miracles and wonders that the early church saw. The difference between them and you is that they built their lives on a relationship with my Son and people today build their lives on religion and rules and regulations.

     The early church knew my heart and they would heal the sick because I love them. They would say, “I can do this because Christ is in me”. The church today says “I must heal the sick or I will not be accepted.” In today's world people don't look for the fruit of my Spirit as my mark on people's lives. They think it's signs and wonders. So many times they fall victim to those who are false and not real. The proof of my discipleship is love and will always be love. People want my power to flow through them to prove that I am with them. In the beginning they knew I was with them and power flowed naturally because of my presence. 

     Religion teaches you today that if you worship long enough you can get my Spirit in a good mood and He will heal and do wonders. The truth is that I am always in a good mood but I work through love and relationship, not because I am bribed. Think of the man called Simon the sorcerer who tried to bribe the apostles for the power of my spirit. How did that work out for him? 

     I am not bribed yet the church today teaches that you must give me something for me to be who I am. You must be able to quote ten scriptures and that will force me to do what a loving Father naturally does for his children. You must confess that I am good or I won't be good. See how sill this all is? The scriptures say you believe with your heart and confess with your mouth. If your heart doesn't believe I am good then all the confessing in the world will never change a thing. You confess "because you believe," not so you will believe.

     I heal because I am the healer. I love because I am the lover. I raise the dead because I am eternal life. The early church's foundation was who I am. Today the church is built on what I do. When you awaken to the truth of the gospel and you know my character you will understand that miracles and wonders are not purchased by religious acts or acts of great faith. Great faith comes from great relationship, not from being religious. Great faith comes because you know me. It comes because we have bonded and you know my ways. It comes because you hear my spoken voice from inside you.

     So my loved ones, will you please stop the madness. Stop treating me like I'm a million miles away and you have to cry and scream and beg me to get me to do what I have longed to do already. I want you to be blessed and I want you to see miracles more than you want it.

     Think of it this way. Would you be happy if some of your children got well and the rest remained sick? Would you be happy if one of your kids was wealthy and the other homeless?

     I want all my children blessed and well but it does not come through works or through religious acts. It comes through fellowship with me and by building a relationship with me. When you know me as I am then you will do what I do.

     Religion tells you Jesus led his apostles away from their homes to teach them what to do. This is not the case. He took them away to spend time with him to build a relationship with them. Just as we long for a relationship with each of you. We live right inside you and you don't know it. I spoke through my son and told Phillip that I was in Christ all the time and he didn't recognize me. So I am with you and yet you look for me somewhere else.

     If you will stop looking outside and look inside you will find me. You are my temple. You are my home. I dwell in you because I love you and I want to be one with you for eternity. You will always be in me and I will always be in you.

     You will find me when you seek me with your whole heart. You will find me in your heart when you seek me for love's sake and not for sake of the works or the blessings. How would you feel if people only wanted you for what you could do and not for who you are?

     Please my beloved. Once again. Stop the madness. Return to your first love, not your first religion. I am with you. I will stop the storms and I will cure all your ills if you will learn who I am. What I do comes in the package with who I am and not vice versa. Non- religious people were in awe of the love and wonders that flowed through my son, while the religious Pharisees were in the same place asking for a sign.

     I am love and love can only be seen by the heart. Think of it this way. When you love someone why do you want to be with them? Is it not your heart's desire? Why do you want to hold their hand? Does your hand get cold and just want to be warm, or is your hand obeying your heart's desire? Why do you want to kiss them? Does love live in your lips or in your heart? Did you fall in love with your spouse because they could move mountains, or because they could move your heart?

     An evil generation seeks for signs. A righteous generation seeks for a person. Stop seeking my hands my beloved and seek my heart. You will find me right here inside you waiting to reveal love like you have never known. You get the heart right and everything else will work properly. 

     I am with you and yet I miss you. I long for relationship with you. I am with you and yet you look for me everywhere except where I am. I am inside you but you look for me in others. Please awaken my beloved and know that I am with you, right here, right now, forever.



     This is the end of the words he spoke to me just 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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Where Are Your Roots?

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     As I was praying today Father spoke to me and asked me to write down these words and share them with you. He said.



     My loved ones, I know many of you are struggling and wondering why it is taking so long for the dreams to come to pass and for your prayers to be answered. You have been fighting and wrestling with impatience and with worry and strife. I am here to remind you of the first call you heard. That call was me speaking through my son saying “ come unto me you who are weary and are carrying heavy burdens and I will give you rest.”

     It's time to take a deep breath and rest in the finished work of my son. He accomplished all things for you and as you. He bore your problems, your sickness, your discomfort and all your worries on his cross. He became poor so that you could be rich. You don't need to struggle with all these things, you just need to surrender them to me.

     My lovely ones, I spoke to you about being at rest and told you that those who truly believe enter into that rest. No more fighting to make your way. No more struggling to grow into something that you already are. All you need to know is Christ in you and you in Christ. We are all one. You are in him and he is in me and I am in you. So why do you worry? Why not put aside all your cares and worship instead of worry.

     Resting in me is the highest form or worship. That is why I said if you believe you enter into rest. If you can't leave it with me and leave it alone that you are not at rest. If you truly trust me you will give me your cares and let them go.

     I am your promised land. I am your heaven just as you are mine. I dwell in you because you are my heaven. You are where I want to be. You are seated with me in heavenly place in Christ and we are seated in you in heavenly places in you.

     The kingdom is inside you. I know from a physical standpoint this seems hard to hear. There is a vastness within you that you are not aware of. Think of it this way: How many thoughts can you put in your mind and yet your mind is never full? Even your natural mind contains more information than you could ever imagine. So what about my mind in you? How much of me does it contain?

     In the spirit realm all things are possible. Do you remember that I once lived in a box called the ark of the covenant? What, I was in a box? Yes, I was and I am in you. All things exist in me and I exist in all things. There is no space where I am absent and I fill all things. So why do you worry? I am not a big God in heaven and a little God in you. All the fullness that makes me who I am is in Christ and he is in you. You have all the power and might and all the creative power that built and runs the universe inside you already.

     Now here is the problem. Christ entered into rest when his work was done. If you want to dwell in me you dwell in my rest. I have already given you all things that pertain to life and Godliness so you already possess all things. They are inside your spirit and will flow out of you as you worship.

     The flow of my Spirit does not come through struggle and might. I told you not by might and not by power but by my Spirit. You don't have to produce things, you just have to rest in me and let all these things flow into your life by my Spirit.

    Does this mean you become lazy and do nothing? Of course not. When you love what you do it is no longer work but pleasure. Many of you have hobbies that are much more physically demanding than your jobs, yet you don't consider it work, but fun.

     Working is hard. Bearing fruit is natural. You never hear a tree straining and struggling trying to get fruit to appear on the branches. The tree just rests with it's roots down deep so it can get a good drink and it soaks up all it needs for fruit to appear.

     Do you remember that the scripture says in Jeremiah that if you trust in the Lord you will be like a tree planted by the water, and would bear much fruit? This is how simple life is supposed to be. This is why when Jesus prayed for the blind man he said he saw men as trees that were walking. It wasn't that he didn't get healed right the first time. It's just his spiritual eyes opened before his natural eyes did. He may have been blind but he had ears to hear and he had heard that truth.

     This what men are supposed to be. You should soak up my truth and my love and bear fruit so that as you walk through this world people can eat of your fruit and taste me. The seed that produces the tree is in the fruit, so as they eat of the fruit they ingest the seed that becomes the tree in them and then they bear fruit also.

     You don't have to struggle and strain to get through life. You just need to rest in me and as instructed through my beloved Paul. You should sink your roots down deep into my love until you are rooted and grounded in my love for you and bear much fruit. Once your roots are in the right place you will understand the mysteries of my kingdom and be able to see all things.

     So many have their roots in religion or false doctrine and not in my love. So they don't bear love fruit, instead they bear false fruit. It looks like fruit and sometimes smells like fruit but it is sour and not sweetened by my love. Others have one root in love and one in the world, so you never know from one season to the next what will be on their tree.

     So my loved ones. What I want you to do is to give me all your cares are worries and stop struggling. Enter into my rest and sink your roots down deep into my love and take a good drink. Keep drinking until you are full of my love and everything in your lives will change. Because you have put your roots in my love when the wind blows it will not break you. You will just sway with the breeze in a dance of worship. When other trees around you suffer from drought and their leaves wither and their fruit fails, you will still be green and fruitful.

     Please my loved ones, give me all your problems and trust me with them. Enter into my rest and trust me with your children and your health and your money. I will never leave you. I love living in you. I would never think of dwelling any other place. I am your heaven and you are my heaven. So let's dwell in love and dwell in rest. No more fear. No more worry. Just keep soaking your roots in my love and bearing sweet fruit.

     I love you my children. Please love each other with the love I have for you and take just a moment and ask yourselves the following two questions:

Am I at rest?

Where are my roots?




     This is 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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Look Into My Eyes

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Colossians Chapter Two.

6. And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him.

7. Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.
8. Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ. 

9. For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. 

10. So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

10. So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.


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

     My children, why do you run to and fro looking for more when I am right here inside you? You listen to others telling you that if only you will learn this or that you will be complete. You are already complete on the inside. The only thing lacking is your understanding of how perfect you are.

     You are one spirit with my son and with me and with Holy Spirit so why do you think you need something more to make you whole? It's time to stop chasing the latest teaching and embrace the truth that is already inside you.

     You are not lacking in anything except in the revelation of who you are in me and who I am in you. You didn't gain me by all the things you learned. You gained me when you invited me to live in you, and when you accepted the message I told you about my son and his perfect, finished work of salvation.

     Do you really think you can add anything to him? When he told you it is finished then it is finished. You can't add to it, all you can do is accept it and grow up into the truth of Christ in you the hope of glory.

     You don't need to do some twelve step program or fight against some evil old nature that I already killed. You need to wake up and realize that your old man is already dead. The only reason he is bothering you is because you keep listening to those who tell you he is alive. You old nature is not the problem. You have been baptized into my son and I have circumcised that old nature from you. Those who would deceive you make you think that it's still alive and you must fight it. This is your enemy telling you these things. 

     You don't wrestle against flesh and blood, not even your own. You wrestle against principalities and powers and wickedness in high places. Especially high places like pulpits and terror programs you call Christian television. You know the ones. The ones who constantly tell you there is something to be afraid of when I told you not to fear. You know the ones, the ones who tell you that you only need this latest teaching series that they are selling you to make you complete?

     Isn't it odd  that no matter how many they sell you there is always one more to sell you. WAKE UP! You are complete in my son and you only need to realize that you are not lacking in any thing. This is the same deception that the serpent sold Eve. He told her she was lacking in knowledge and if she learned something new she could be like me. She was already made in my image and likeness. She wasn't lacking. Adding a negative does not give you more positive. Knowing evil does not make you holier.

     It's the same message today. You need this or that and you will be more like God. What a lie. I baptized you into my son and joined you to me in spirit so how could you need anything else? You are one with me so tell me just what will you add to us to make us greater?

     Demons trouble you by disguising themselves as your old nature and try to make you feel guilty because you have done wrong. They make you forget you are a holy being. They bombard you with nasty thoughts and make you think that you thought those things. You have the mind of Christ. Those things don't come from his mind. See how deceptive this is? They put thoughts in your mind and then accuse you of having evil thoughts.

     If you want to walk in holiness then embrace the truth and stop fighting the lie. The truth is you are justified, sanctified, and glorified. You are complete in me. You are washed and pure as snow. 

     My son took away the sins of the world. I was right there in him reconciling the whole world to myself. The whole world died in Christ and the whole world can be born again if they choose to leave their old life on that cross and embrace his new life in them.

     Life and death is truly in the power of the tongue. You can confess Christ and be born again from that death or can refuse to confess him and stay dead for eternity. If one died for all then all died. 

     I did this to take away my children's debt in hopes they would realize they are free and come to me. I cleared the books of all charges against all men so that they could come to me without guilt and embrace the death of my son in their place and be born again. Man would not come to me because he was ashamed so I took away that shame so he could come to me in innocence and be saved.

     If you are in Christ then you have left your old life on that cross and now you are a new creation. Old things are passed away and all things are new. Your old nature is not still with you. It is dead and all you have to do is reckon yourselves to be dead to that old sin nature and take it off like a dirty shirt. 

     You don't have to wrestle and beg and plead for sin to go away, you just need to embrace your new life and realize that you have been cleansed. You are not a dirty rotten sinner saved by grace. You once were a sinner but that person died. Now you are my sons and daughters dressed in my royal attire. You are seated with my son right beside me on my throne.

     My lovely ones, the only thing you are lacking is the understanding of who you are and what really happened on that cross. You really did die and you really are alive again in spirit and are a new creation. You are not your old self and you are not guilty. You are forgiven, holy, righteous children who only need to awaken to who you are.

     So please my beloved ones, don't listen to the lies and condemnation of those who only want to make you feel like a worm so they can sell you worm food. Listen to the truth. There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ. You are in Christ and in me and in my Spirit. Do you really think you could be in us if you were unholy? Would we live in you if you were a dead, rotten, stinking corpse?

     You are one spirit with us so you can't say anything bad about yourselves without it applying to us also. As he is so are you in this world. Please wake up my children. Don't doze off. Set your mind on things above. Don't be entangled in the yoke of bondage from those who would tell you that you are lacking. 

     Open up the door inside. That door is Christ. He is the only way, the only truth and the only life and there is no other way. So why do you want to come any other way?  If you want to see heaven then look inside. I am right here on the throne of your heart. I am not far way.

     Think about your children. Do they have your last name? Are they your children because of what they do or because they were born to you? Did they have to learn how to be your children or were they born that way? They are your children because they were born to you. Now your job is to teach them who they are and what it means to be in your family?

     You were born again into my family. You are my offspring. You are my beloved children whom I love very much. Settle it in your hearts once and for all. You are mine and I love you. Now let me teach you who you are. Don't listen to anyone on the outside of our family. They don't know who we are.

     Can't you see how valuable you are to me? Don't you see what I paid for you. You are my treasure and you are just like my first born. When I look at you it's like looking into a mirror. I see me in you. I see my light and my life and my hope in you. I see my Christ in you. 

     When you look into my eyes you will see yourselves as I see you and then you will know who you are. So if my eyes are your mirror why would you want to look at anything else to see who you are?

     Please my loved ones. Look into my eyes.


     This is 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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