You Are The Light

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Ephesians Chapter One

19: I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honor at God’s right hand in the heavenly realms. Now he is far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else, not only in this world but also in the world to come. God has put all things under the authority of Christ and has made him head over all things for the benefit of the church. And the church is his body; it is made full and complete by Christ, who fills all things everywhere with himself.


Matthew Chapter Five

14: “You are the light of the world like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden. 15: No one lights a lamp and then puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house.

     As I was reading scripture today these two passages were given to me. As I was reading them Father spoke to me and asked me to write down these words and share them with you. He said:

     My little ones: Why do you fear? Why must you always see yourselves as small, helpless victims when you are mighty and powerful and full of my light and glory? The same power I used to raise my Son from the dead is available and working for you. If you will begin to work with my power and not against it you will have great success.

     So how are you working against it? It’s because you don’t really believe my power is working for you. All things work together for your good if you love me. So many of you work against me by believing the lies you have been told. You are lied to about who you are. You are told you are victims of the world and the darkness. You are told you can’t make a difference. These things are not true.

     Imagine if the power went out and you were in a dark room and someone said “I have a really bright flashlight.” Imagine telling them to put it away because that light is no match for the darkness and the darkness is bound to swallow up that light and destroy it.

     See how silly this sounds, but you are light. You are a city on a hill; you are the light of the world. My Son is the light that lights every man that comes into the world so no one is in complete darkness unless they choose to cover the light.

     You listen to people lie to you and tell you that it’s no use and the world will just get darker and darker and there is nothing you can do about it. It’s time to reject this lie with the truth. What truth? What did my prophet Isaiah tell you in what you call chapter nine? When speaking about my Son he said “to the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end.” 

     My son is over all things. One by one all things that resist him will fall and not be able to stand against him.
So how will these things happen you ask? It’s happening because my children are waking up. You are beginning to rise and shine with the glory that is already within and upon you. More and more of my children are rejecting the lies of the fear mongers who love to scare people all the way to the book store to pay big money for books full of big lies.

     Stop buying the lies. I told you not to fear over and over. Anyone who tells you there is anything to fear is lying. Those who fear are not perfected in my love, for my love casts out fear and anyone who is peddling fear is not walking in love.

     My truth never fails. I never fail. My Son’s kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom. There shall be no end to it. It will continue to advance until the earth is full of my glory. One by one the enemies of the kingdom will bow their knees in worship to the King. One by one evil things will disappear from the earth. Love will arise and love never fails.

     My loved ones, you have to start by knowing the person you see in the mirror. You are not helpless. You are not hopeless. You are holy, righteous children of the Living God who adores you and is giving you the entire earth for an inheritance. Will you be willing to drive the giants out of the land or will you keep wandering the wilderness of unbelief. Will you see the giants as bread for you or will you see yourself as a grasshopper in the sight of them?

     Once you are fully awake you will become unstoppable. No death or sickness or pestilence will be able to stop you. I sowed my Son into the earth as a seed. What crop do you think will come up? The same Spirit that raised my Son from the dead dwells in you. You are unlimited on the inside. The only thing stopping this great power from coming forth is your mind.

     This is why the enemy always attacks your mind. When a word is planted in your heart where does the enemy try to destroy it? Does your enemy not come against your mind with doubts and unbelief? There is no doubt in your spirit but in your mind you are not yet convinced that you are all powerful Sons and Daughters of the All Powerful Creator.

     Even my Son fought the same enemy. I spoke from heaven and declared “this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased,” and yet in the wilderness that doubt came to challenge him. You must drive this same enemy called doubt out of the conversation. It is written that you are my offspring. You were born of my Spirit. You are life of my life. So don’t let doubt tell you any different. Once you destroy doubt and unbelief from your minds then you will be like my Son Jesus. You will never face an obstacle too large. The graveyard won’t be able to stop you.

     Will you do this my beloved? Will you listen to me, your loving Father, telling you who you are? Will you work with my mighty power and not against it? Will you allow your minds to be open to truth and closed to lies? Will you fight off doubt and unbelief by using my truth to destroy it? 

     You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. So what is this truth? As He is so are you in this world. He that is joined to the Lord is “one Spirit.” The same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead is living inside you. You are holy, blameless, and lovingly accepted into my family. You were chosen before the foundation of the world. You were sanctified, justified and glorified. Let these words find root in your belief system and your world will change.

     Agree with my mighty power working in your behalf. No more doubt about who you are and why you are here. You are here to rule and reign, not to hide. Let the light within you shine brightly until all the darkness you come into contact with is destroyed. Drive darkness from the earth with the light that is within you. No longer focus on the darkness without but focus on the brilliant light within you. You are the light of the world. Be the light!



     This is the end of the words He spoke to me earlier today.
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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Religion is Burning

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     While praying today Father spoke to me and asked me to write down these words and share them with you. He said:

     My little ones, religion is burning. I have set it on fire with the truth of my love and most of what you have been taught is about to go up in flames. It’s time for my people to awaken to my love and put all the dead religious mindset of failure behind you.

     My Son came to give you life and life abundantly. Not to give you rules, regulations and thousands of traditions that burden your very soul. It is for freedom’s sake that you are made free.

     In most of the church today you are told to live by the book called the bible. The bible is a collection of Holy Scriptures but these are only the introduction to what you should know. Holy Spirit came to give you a person and a voice to live by and to fellowship with. You are the epistles that are being written day by day and it’s time you learn to be the book and not just read a book.

     Do you remember in the Book you call Acts, there were at Antioch many of what you would call the leaders of the early church. They fasted and prayed and Holy Spirit told them to separate Barnabas and Paul and send them out. This was not written in a book for them to do so. It became part of what you call your bible after it was spoken, but it was a living breathing word of instruction spoken to them by my Spirit as to what to do, who to do it and when to do it. This is what is returning to my people.

     I love my Scriptures but they were written centuries ago and you need a word spoken to you each day. The word was spoken by my Spirit and the people obeyed and this was recorded in the book you call the bible. I am still speaking and I want you to hear and follow my voice. This is why it is written that if today you will hear my voice. I long for fellowship with each of my children each and every day.

     The reason the book of Acts has no official ending is because you are still writing it. You are adding to it each day as you hear my voice and follow my lead. So I am asking you to open your hearts and prepare to hear things you never heard of before.

     It was always my plan to make earth resemble heaven. The fire that comes upon the world is restoration fire to make it new again. This fire is already burning and I am feeding it kindling called religion and tradition. Dead churches will be removed. Any organization that is unwilling to change will be removed. You must learn to embrace change or be left wondering what happened.

     I hear many say, “well why would God change things?” I do it because it’s part of my plan for the earth to be in complete control of my glorious Sons and daughters. With me there is no separation between you. There is no male, or female, or black, white, yellow or brown. You are all spirit of my Spirit and the whole of creation is waiting for you to wake up and take control of it and put things in order. Heaven is mine but care of the earth was given to the sons of men.

     My little ones, The days of going to church once a week and trusting a man whom you really don’t know to feed you a meal that is a mixture of glory and slop is over. My Son is the head of the church. He is your high priest. I gave apostles, and prophets and pastors and evangelists as servants and not as kings to rule over you. They are to assist you in hearing my voice so that you can live by my Spirit and not by some tradition.

     You must recognize the days that you are in and realize that scripture was written throughout history and it pertained to the day they lived in at the moment. There was a day when sacrificing an animal for your sin was acceptable but those days are gone. My son put an end of that when he sacrificed himself. I no longer recognize any other sacrifice and I never will. Those who tell you that one day there will be a new temple and the old ways of temple worship and sacrifice will be reinstated are just wrong. I wouldn’t have my Son pour out his blood and then go back to something he abolished. That would be a slap in his face. Living by any tradition in the old is not acceptable in the new. Christ is a person, not a religion.

     It’s time for my church to know that I am taking this world and putting it under control of my Son. He is the head of the church and soon all things will be under his feet. You are his feet. No more waiting on some secret escape plan or turning your back on your brothers and sisters. You are your brother’s keeper and it’s not okay for you to sit idly by and let them be destroyed by religion.

     My Son is King, the Antichrist is not king. Something you call the beast is not king. My Son is King! I am not taking the world he bought with his blood and handing it over to an enemy to destroy. Put this out of your minds once and for all. 

     The earth is mine and the fullness thereof. I gave management over it to the church with my Son as the head over all things, but I own the earth, the seas, the sky, all the people and all the creatures. I am saving it for your inheritance. When all things are put in order the first born among many brethren will present all things back to me when he has gathered all things together in himself as we told you in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. All things will be put in order beginning with my church.

     No more dead religious ceremonies. My churches will come alive with power and glory and will become a place of salvation and refuge once again. People will be so full of joy that they can’t wait for a day of the week and they will gather together in homes and business and under shade trees and in tents and whatever they can find just to declare to each other the great things that are being done.

     Think of it this way. The early church was the seed; the church that is coming is the full grown tree. The early church was the foundation. What is coming is the roof and the balconies and the fine furnishing. Those who love the light will flock to the fellowships and those that love darkness will hide until there is no place left on earth that my light hasn’t reached.

     All will know me from the least to the greatest. Every knee will bow and confess that Jesus my son is Lord and Christ and this will be done in glory and not in cowardly surrender. I love those who think they are my enemies. I can’t wait to tell them they are really my children but they didn’t know it. 

     My little ones: could anyone really be my enemy? Can anyone take me off my throne or take my Son off of his? Were not all things created by me and for me, even dominions and thrones and principalities and governments? All things will be made new and all things will be for me and by me.

     The cry of your heart will be answered. I see and hear you go to Sunday service hungry and come away starving. I see you longing to see the power and the glory the early church and you will be filled. My Son told you “blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be filled.” You will not be forsaken, you will see my glory if you are willing to change.

     I have tried to set these things in place before but my people were immature. They thought my glory came for their personal blessing and not because it was time to establish heaven on earth. They didn’t try to build bigger people but built instead bigger houses and bigger television ministries and bought bigger cars and bigger jets. Those days are over. My people are no longer snoring and are beginning to wake up. This new generation will understand that power and prosperity is for the advancement of my kingdom on earth and not for the advancement of their own agendas and business models.

     Are you willing to change my beloved? Are you willing to fall in love with a person who is in love with you and let go of that dead corpse of a husband you call religion? History has repeated itself. The Pharisees and religious people did not want to marry the bridegroom. They already gave themselves to the law. Now the modern church has married tradition and is resisting the groom again.

     Will you abandon all that you have held on to and meet my Son at your cross? You remember the cross? It was the place my Son drew you into himself and killed everything in you that could separate you from us? It was the place you gave yourself to him.

     Now that you have remembered that place would you consider that you didn’t just die with him there? You were with him at the empty tomb also. His resurrection was your resurrection. You are free to live abundantly because of his glorious gift. All these things can be if you will let go of tradition and religion and meet with him outside the camp called Christianity.

     This camp called Christianity was hijacked. In my Son’s name they have judged people and killed people and hated people and separated each other by doctrine and belief and even by economic condition. They call themselves names like “First Church” and have entrapped the souls of my children. Come out from among her my children, I have already lit the match that is lighting the kindling.

     My beloved I tell you these things because I want you to be excited. Some will cry when they see their tradition fall. But not you: Come have a real relationship with a living breathing God who loves you more than you could ever dream. I don’t want you trapped in religion. I want you free in my heart to roam around inside and see all that I have prepared for you.

     I have glorious days ahead for the earth and there is a generation that will wake up and see it. Will you be the one or will you sleep through the fire? There were three children in the scriptures that went through the fire but the only thing burned was their restraints and those who restrained them. I love you too much to leave you in bondage. My fire will burn until all that is not holy is gone.

     Be ready my children for those who are not listening to my voice will not know what is happening. Be ready to help them and to encourage them and to rescue them if you need to. My Son told you that he would build his church and his church he will build. He is building it in the image of heaven and not of the earthly image.

     Be ready for all heaven is about to break loose on earth. Do not be afraid when those who love darkness try to make things look worse. They will try to scare you and make you think the world is coming to an end. The only thing ending is the rule of darkness on the earth. It has only been in power because my church went to sleep. No longer will my church sleep, for I am sounding the alarm. Wake up and rejoice for religion is burning.



     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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The Power of Rest

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Matthew Chapter Eleven

28. Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.

29. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

30. For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.”



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

     My little ones, I know you are weary. I know you are tired and worn out. But why is this so? It’s because you are trying to live in your own strength and not according to my grace. Religion has heaped a lot of rules and regulations on you that I never gave you. It was the same in the Old Covenant. Just a few commandments turned into a burdensome prison of rules that caused people to collapse under the weight of it.

     It is not that way in the New Testament. I told you that in the New Covenant, I would write my laws on your heart and in your mind and I would live inside you and be your God and you would rest in me and be my people.

     The so called “faith message” has taught you to do this and you will get that and to “not do this” and you won’t get that. It’s not about what you do or what you did; it’s about what I did. I conquered your enemies, I took your sin, your sickness and disease and your poverty and I took it all away. I didn’t do it because you kept all the rules but I did it because I love you and I wanted you to be free.

     So many have so many rules and trust in so many strange things. So many say, “I believe in prayer and prayer works.” How silly is that. If your house is on fire do you believe in your telephone or do you believe the people on the other end of the call will help you? 

     This strange doctrine teaches you to trust your methods and not to trust the one who loves you. They tell you if you do all the things right and get all your confessions in order then the God on the other end will be forced to do what you say. They tell you your blessings and your provision comes from the things you do and not from a Loving Father who cares for you.

     What they teach is not a relationship. Those of you who are married try that with your spouse. Try telling them they have to be intimate with you and give you what you want because you have marriage papers or because you did something and now they owe you.

     My beloved one, throw out all those rules and regulations and just listen to what I write on your heart. Nothing on the outside can empower you anyway. The reason the old commandments couldn’t be kept is because they were external. A man is changed from the inside out and not the outside in.

     Most of all you have been taught about me is wrong. It’s based on legalism and not on love. You must build your foundation on love or you will never see how the kingdom works. Faith that is not based on my love is powerless.

     Remember I told my disciples that if they had the faith of mustard seed they could say unto “this mountain” be removed and cast into the sea and it would obey you?” Which mountain was I referring to? I was referring to the temple mount with all its rules and regulations. If you just had a tiny, mustard seed faith in my love then you would cast all your religious bondage into the sea. You would know that all that legalism doesn’t get you access to your Father. I am the way, the truth and the life and I am the one who did all that was to be done to get you in right standing with your Father and all of heaven.

     This contract was made before the world began. It was done long before you arrived. You were chosen in me before the world began. You were forgiven even before you sinned. You were adopted before you were orphans. All these things only existed in your thinking. You have always been mine and will always be mine. All I need you to do is rest in me and become as complete on the outside as you are on the inside.

     Please my loved ones let your worry and strife go. You are not fighting for victory. You are fighting your minds from stealing the victory you were given. On earth they tell you to fight for all you want but in the kingdom you are told to come unto me and rest your way into all that you already have.

     This is why I said unless you become as humble as a little child you can’t see the kingdom. It is because a child doesn’t work for their food. They don’t struggle to overcome their problems. If something seems hard they run right to mama or daddy and say “help me.”

     This is how the kingdom works. You are beloved children. All of heaven adores you. The only thing lacking is your understanding of who you are and what you are possessing. You have been given all things that pertain to life and godliness. It’s all in your possession already. 

     The blockage is not the devil or your circumstances. The blockage is in your religious and mental training that teaches you that you must do to have. The opposite is true. You do because you have. Freely you have received so freely you give.

     If you start in need you will finish in need. If you start with abundance that has no end then you will finish even more abundantly. Until your mind is renewed to the fact that you are completely loved, completely healed, completely blessed then you will struggle.

     Your beginning was not in Adam. You didn’t begin in a garden. You began in me. You were chosen in me before the foundation of the world. You were not born of the will of the flesh but of my Father’s will. You were not born a sinner. You were taught you were a sinner. Your sins were taken away long before you were born. Religion hid your identity from you. Making you think you were my enemy and that I was angry at you. You have always been my beloved.

     So please my beloved, think this through again. Start with yourself in me and see that you have always been in me. Come to me and find rest for your souls. You don’t have to come far. I am inside you. The door you seek is internal. Fellowship with me in your heart until you see the entrance into my rest. When problems arise, worship first and you won’t worry later.

     Remember that you can’t ask me for anything that I didn’t already give you. All that you need is inside you. As you worship the answer will come from within and manifest itself without. A good man brings forth good treasure from within his own heart. You are not waiting on me for anything. The toolbox and toy box is within you. Draw out what you need and use it.

     Do you remember when Peter and John saw the lame man? Peter said, “I don’t have any silver or gold to give you but inside me is what you need.” He knew what he was needing to give the man was not external. It was inside. As long as you are waiting for anything external then you don’t see the kingdom. The Kingdom is inside you because I am your King and I am inside you. You are my temple. You are my holy place and you are my dwelling place because to me you are the most lovely place I could ever live.

     No more worrying and weariness. Come to me and rest. Come to me in the secret place of your heart. Trust me and let me carry away your cares and let me smile away all your tears. I am delighted to be your savior and your friend. I am not ashamed to call you my family. I am delighted to do so. This was our plan all along. Come to me and unleash the power of rest.

     My loved ones love each other and be kind to each other. You are all one body each and every one. Awaken to the God who lives in you and be free.



     And these were the words He spoke to me earlier today.
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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