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Ephesians Chapter One
Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.
God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.
So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son.
He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins.
He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding.
As I was praying today I heard Father's voice. He asked me to write these words and share them with his adorable children. That would be you. So, here are his words.
My loved and lovely ones, do you know how long you have been loved? I didn't just decide to fall in love with you one day. I didn't just love you when you answered my call. I have loved you for eternity and will love you throughout eternity. You are not part of my plan. You are my plan.
I am love and love needs loved ones to express itself. I don't just have love and feel love. I am love. I am a never ending supply of love and there is no limit to how many loved ones I can love. It's not something I run out of. Those of you who have children understand this. You have your first child and you can't imagine loving someone so much. And then you have another and your love for one is not greater than your love for the next one. Your love is not divided, it is multiplied by the number of children that you have. It's the same with me. The more children I have the more I am multiplied.
You are my beloved children and you are a great blessing to me. You think your failures and your weaknesses make me smaller because you are mine? No way! I have complete confidence in my love for you. Love never fails and you will not fail. You may slip and trip and stumble but you will find my arms catching you when you do. Do you hear the scripture above? You are without fault in my eyes. Oh if only my children would see each other the way I see you. Perfect and holy.
My loved ones, this is the mission I am calling you to. I am calling you to speak the truth to each other in love so that you will all know how much you are in my image. Tell each other how holy and righteous you are in Christ. Tell each other how faultless you are in my eyes.
Put this image before each of your eyes and in each of you hearts. This is most important because as a man thinks in his heart so is he. Whatever image you paint of yourselves in your hearts will steer your lives to become like that image. If you see yourselves and weak and sick then your physical world will follow the image it was given to portray. If you see yourselves as holy and blameless and perfect then your physical world will follow that image. This is why I give you visions and dreams. Once you see something you can become what you see.
Think of it this way. I had an image in my heart and in my mind of how I wanted the heavens and earth to be. Then I created that image by speaking the truth. It's not the other way around. You must believe in your heart first before you speak the truth. Your heart knows the truth. It knows if you believe something or not. You can speak from a believing heart and create worlds. You can speak from a doubtful heart and create chaos.
So how do you convince your heart so that you can confess the truth? There is one truth that is absolute and that is Christ. He is the way the truth and the life. He is your measuring stick. If it's not true about him then it's not true. You can believe the truth and be strengthened or you can believe the lie and destruction sets in. My son came and demonstrated who I am. He was the exact likeness of me. We are one and he modeled that oneness so that you could know an invisible God by seeing my visible Son. Take all the things you believe and measure them by him. As you do this you will expose many lies that you have believed that bring destruction into your world. You destroy the lie by embracing the truth.
So here is the truth. I love you. I have always loved you and will always love you. I sent my Son to save you because I love you. When doubt creeps in and tells you that you are forsaken and not loved then just look at the cross. Would a God who went through so much pain to save you really leave you? There is never a moment when you are not loved and never a moment when you are alone.
You are my plan. You were always my plan. Adam's body was just dust. The life came from my breath so even Adam had my life in him. . You are not born of Adam. You are born of the last Adam. You are one Spirit with me. We are one. We are not divided. The life that is in you has always been in me so in a way, you have always been with me. I know this messes up some peoples' religion but this is truth.
Think of it this way. If you had children and they were kidnapped would they stop being your children? Would they not still be your children even though they were taken prisoner? What if while they were taken captive they were brainwashed and they forgot who they really were? Would that cause them to cease being your children? What if while they were brainwashed they did some really bad things. Would that stop them from being your children?
Do you remember the parable of the lost sheep? Whose sheep did my son say he was seeking to find? Did he say they were the enemies' sheep? They were our sheep and they were led astray. This is why we seek to save that which is our own. When my church stops believing it's us versus them and realizes that those who are considered against you are just lost and brainwashed and have their identity in the wrong place, then they will see them as lost family and go after them.
I love all my children. I sent my son to save that which was lost. You were not just lost but captured. You had to be bought back. The enemy had you so bound that we had to do a hostage swap. My son for all of you. Your enemy thought he won. He thought he had Jesus right where he wanted him. He didn't realize my plan all along was to save you along with him. He had no idea that my son is absolute truth and truth can't be bound by a lie. Your enemy tried the usual route. He tried to buy Jesus off with fortune and fame and power. After all it had worked with so many before including Adam. Once he realized he couldn't buy Jesus, he decided to kill him and take what belonged to him.
But there is one thing your enemy knows nothing about and that is the power of my love. I was not willing to leave my Son in hell. I was not willing that he would perish. Your enemy does not know love and he would sell anyone out for any reason. He had no idea of the love bond between Jesus and me.
He had no idea that my son would love you all so much that he would take your sin's, your sickness and your poverty upon himself just so he could destroy it. Your enemy didn't understand the power of unquenchable love. I was not willing to leave Jesus in death and I would not leave you there either. You were with him on his cross and his resurrection is yours. This is why before the cross men who died went to Abraham's bosom and after the cross my beloved Paul would say “to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.” All things became new by what Jesus did. His blood cleansed earth and heaven. All things are new again.
So what am I saying to you my beloved? I am saying that you were loved from the beginning. Why would I create an earth? Did I need one? I made it so that you could dwell there and we could walk together. My plan was always for us to be together for eternity. I created eternity so there would be no limits to how many blessings I could give you. Millions of eons from now I will still be revealing to you just how much you are loved.
My loved ones: This is truth. You are my plan. You are not accidental. I didn't just go wandering through the universe looking for people to save. The lamb was slain before the foundation of the world. I always knew what it would cost me to have a family and I paid it up front so that you would be safe. I want you to be so secure in my love that you learn to love others just as I love you. It's hard to give away what you don't have. Once you have full belief in my love for you then you can pour that same love into others until all can see just how much they mean to me.
If you are having problems loving others then meditate on my love for you. Take another look at what my son Jesus paid to get you and place your own value there. Those of you with children understand that when a child is born they are helpless. They depend on you for everything. They can't work or create or make anything of physical value. But you would sell your whole world to protect them. Their value to you is not based on what they can create. There value to you is in love.
Understand my dear children, I love you more than you can understand at this moment. But that's okay. Love has to be experienced. It can't be explained anyway. There are three things that remain, faith, hope and love and the greatest is love. In other words: There are three building blocks of the universe, faith, hope and love. The greatest is love.
If you consider just for a moment how much I love you then your faith and your hope will return. There are times in your life when you have believed you didn't have these three, but I did. I always have faith in you. I always have hope for you and I am endlessly in love with you. I adored you when you were in my heart in the beginning. I adore you now while you live on the earth in the physical realm. I love you for eternity when we dwell together face to face. You my loved one, are eternally adorable to me.
This is the end of the words He spoke to me at this moment.
I hope you are encouraged by these words,
Until next time,
Grow Rich in His Grace,
I love you all,
michael
Think of it this way. I had an image in my heart and in my mind of how I wanted the heavens and earth to be. Then I created that image by speaking the truth. It's not the other way around. You must believe in your heart first before you speak the truth. Your heart knows the truth. It knows if you believe something or not. You can speak from a believing heart and create worlds. You can speak from a doubtful heart and create chaos.
So how do you convince your heart so that you can confess the truth? There is one truth that is absolute and that is Christ. He is the way the truth and the life. He is your measuring stick. If it's not true about him then it's not true. You can believe the truth and be strengthened or you can believe the lie and destruction sets in. My son came and demonstrated who I am. He was the exact likeness of me. We are one and he modeled that oneness so that you could know an invisible God by seeing my visible Son. Take all the things you believe and measure them by him. As you do this you will expose many lies that you have believed that bring destruction into your world. You destroy the lie by embracing the truth.
So here is the truth. I love you. I have always loved you and will always love you. I sent my Son to save you because I love you. When doubt creeps in and tells you that you are forsaken and not loved then just look at the cross. Would a God who went through so much pain to save you really leave you? There is never a moment when you are not loved and never a moment when you are alone.
You are my plan. You were always my plan. Adam's body was just dust. The life came from my breath so even Adam had my life in him. . You are not born of Adam. You are born of the last Adam. You are one Spirit with me. We are one. We are not divided. The life that is in you has always been in me so in a way, you have always been with me. I know this messes up some peoples' religion but this is truth.
Think of it this way. If you had children and they were kidnapped would they stop being your children? Would they not still be your children even though they were taken prisoner? What if while they were taken captive they were brainwashed and they forgot who they really were? Would that cause them to cease being your children? What if while they were brainwashed they did some really bad things. Would that stop them from being your children?
Do you remember the parable of the lost sheep? Whose sheep did my son say he was seeking to find? Did he say they were the enemies' sheep? They were our sheep and they were led astray. This is why we seek to save that which is our own. When my church stops believing it's us versus them and realizes that those who are considered against you are just lost and brainwashed and have their identity in the wrong place, then they will see them as lost family and go after them.
I love all my children. I sent my son to save that which was lost. You were not just lost but captured. You had to be bought back. The enemy had you so bound that we had to do a hostage swap. My son for all of you. Your enemy thought he won. He thought he had Jesus right where he wanted him. He didn't realize my plan all along was to save you along with him. He had no idea that my son is absolute truth and truth can't be bound by a lie. Your enemy tried the usual route. He tried to buy Jesus off with fortune and fame and power. After all it had worked with so many before including Adam. Once he realized he couldn't buy Jesus, he decided to kill him and take what belonged to him.
But there is one thing your enemy knows nothing about and that is the power of my love. I was not willing to leave my Son in hell. I was not willing that he would perish. Your enemy does not know love and he would sell anyone out for any reason. He had no idea of the love bond between Jesus and me.
He had no idea that my son would love you all so much that he would take your sin's, your sickness and your poverty upon himself just so he could destroy it. Your enemy didn't understand the power of unquenchable love. I was not willing to leave Jesus in death and I would not leave you there either. You were with him on his cross and his resurrection is yours. This is why before the cross men who died went to Abraham's bosom and after the cross my beloved Paul would say “to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.” All things became new by what Jesus did. His blood cleansed earth and heaven. All things are new again.
So what am I saying to you my beloved? I am saying that you were loved from the beginning. Why would I create an earth? Did I need one? I made it so that you could dwell there and we could walk together. My plan was always for us to be together for eternity. I created eternity so there would be no limits to how many blessings I could give you. Millions of eons from now I will still be revealing to you just how much you are loved.
My loved ones: This is truth. You are my plan. You are not accidental. I didn't just go wandering through the universe looking for people to save. The lamb was slain before the foundation of the world. I always knew what it would cost me to have a family and I paid it up front so that you would be safe. I want you to be so secure in my love that you learn to love others just as I love you. It's hard to give away what you don't have. Once you have full belief in my love for you then you can pour that same love into others until all can see just how much they mean to me.
If you are having problems loving others then meditate on my love for you. Take another look at what my son Jesus paid to get you and place your own value there. Those of you with children understand that when a child is born they are helpless. They depend on you for everything. They can't work or create or make anything of physical value. But you would sell your whole world to protect them. Their value to you is not based on what they can create. There value to you is in love.
Understand my dear children, I love you more than you can understand at this moment. But that's okay. Love has to be experienced. It can't be explained anyway. There are three things that remain, faith, hope and love and the greatest is love. In other words: There are three building blocks of the universe, faith, hope and love. The greatest is love.
If you consider just for a moment how much I love you then your faith and your hope will return. There are times in your life when you have believed you didn't have these three, but I did. I always have faith in you. I always have hope for you and I am endlessly in love with you. I adored you when you were in my heart in the beginning. I adore you now while you live on the earth in the physical realm. I love you for eternity when we dwell together face to face. You my loved one, are eternally adorable to me.
This is the end of the words He spoke to me at this moment.
I hope you are encouraged by these words,
Until next time,
Grow Rich in His Grace,
I love you all,
michael
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