I AM Perfect Love

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Luke Chapter Twelve

32: “So don’t be afraid, little flock. For it gives your Father great happiness to give you the Kingdom.

First John Chapter 4

7.  Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.

Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.

And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us. Furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. All who declare that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God. We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love.

God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the Day of Judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world.

Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. We love each other because he loved us first.

If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their fellow believers.

     As I was praying early this morning Father gave me these verses in my heart. As I meditated on them He spoke to me and asked me to write down these words and share them with you. He said:

     My little ones: Why are you so afraid? Have you considered the price that was paid for you? Do you not know your value to me? Do you not think I counted every cost for your life before you were ever introduced to the world? Do you not know all of your days were written in my book long before you arrived?

     You come from forever love, and are living in forever love and will always be in my forever love. You will never see a day when my love for you changes. It is constant. More constant than the earth or the heavens or any created thing. Do you not know that all things were created by me to share with you? The earth is your inheritance and nothing will ever be withheld from you.

     It is time for my church to unlearn the lies that religion has taught you. They teach you to be afraid of all things. I told you over and over in scripture to not be afraid. Those who teach you to fear are not your friends. They have not experienced the love of the one who was nailed to the cross for them. If you really understood our love for you then you would never have time to be afraid because you would never stop shouting with joy.

     My wisdom is far above the worldly way but for a moment let’s come down to your level and think in what you call “logical” terms. Consider this: If you were me would you create a world and promise it to your children and then destroy it? If your children lost their way and you sent your oldest Son to them and he took away their mistakes by sacrificing himself upon the altar of their anger and went into the grave to bring back those who had already died because of their mistakes and then turn around and give the world over to an enemy? 

     Would you allow your child to pour out his own blood and give his life only to tell him that it wan't enough and  then tell him that he must destroy the ones he gave his life to save?

     If you were me and you counted every cost and had unlimited resource at your disposal would you hold back your wealth from your children? If you owned all the gold and silver and the entire creation would you not share it with your children? If you sent them on a trip from heaven into the world to help put the world in order would you not have counted the cost of all the provision they would need while on the earth and would you not have a plan for getting them home?

     How many of you would send your children into a far away land and not have a plan to get them home and not have a plan to provide for them when they were there?

     Why am I saying all these things? It’s because you have chosen fear over provision. You have believed lies about me and have gone astray in your beliefs like the prodigal son. You have forgotten that your Father loves you and has all the things you need and desire waiting for you at home. All that is needed is for you to remember who you are and how much you are loved and all the things that you seek will be given to you. The Kingdom is a Kingdom of Family. You are my Family. Seek your place in my family and all will be provided for you.

     You are not orphans. You are not deserted. You have just chosen lies and fear over truth and peace. The truth is you were born a King and a Priest. That is what my Kingdom consists of. You were born into a royal family but religion told you lies about your identity and you thought lack and pain and death were normal. These things are not normal, they are your enemies.

     There are no hospitals in heaven. There is no lack in heaven. There is no pain in heaven. There is no regret in heaven. My Son prayed that earth would be like heaven and my will would be the same on earth as it is in the heavenly realm. He didn’t pray for destruction and hate and for me to turn the world over to some scary monster you call the anti Christ. Once again religion has lied to you because they misinterpreted scripture and the letter that was meant to comfort believers is used to scare them.

     It is time to stop the lies. It’s time to let my perfect love drive all fear out of your lives. Are you lacking? If you are it’s because my perfect love hasn’t taken over your finances yet. Are you hurting? It is because my perfect love hasn’t fully become your health plan yet. Are you afraid of the age you live in? If so you haven’t considered my plan was always for man to have dominion over the earth and to make earth just like heaven. I did this because I love you and I wanted you to be co-creators of the world that looks like heaven.

     My dearest ones: Will you take just a moment and consider this question? Does the cross prove my love for you? Does it not show you what expense I will go through to keep you safe? What more must I do to prove I love you? You trust me with your eternal life but don’t trust me with your electric bill? You trust me with eternal life but don’t think I will provide enough food for you? Those who starve only starve because they left my table or were led away from my table by religion.

     Please my beloved. Come to my table. Sit down and we will talk about how much you are loved and all fear of failure and lack and death will flee away from you. I am all you need. I have already given you all things that you need for life and Godliness. You are not lacking anything but the understanding of how much you are loved and who you are. Come to my table daily and feast on my love. Get so full of my love that it spills out on all whom you meet. Take the love I give you and love each other with it.

     Love comes from me for I am love. This is love, not that you loved me but that I loved you and sent my Son to free you from the sin that was killing you. I loved you so much that I couldn’t imagine living anywhere else but inside you. 

     We are in an eternal embrace but you don’t see it. I am in you and you are in me and we are One Spirit. Our spirits have merged but your minds have refused to merge with my mind. Let’s not be two anymore. Let’s be ONE. I am One, I AM Father, Son, Spirit and Children but I AM One. I AM LOVE. Come be love with me and let love drive out any fear you have ever had. Learn to live in righteousness, peace and joy and leave fear in the dump where it belongs.

     Yes you will stand before me one day and all your works will be tried. What was not done in love will be destroyed by the fire of love. What was done in love will be rewarded with love for love is the greatest reward. I will declare on that day how much you are adored and have always been adored.

     Please learn who I AM. I am not punishment. I am not anger. I am not hate. I am not bitterness. I am not failure. I am not lack. I am not a grumpy old man who can’t wait to punish you. I am an eternally young Father who loves playing and teaching his children and giving them good gifts.

     I AM LOVE and I don’t just love you I dwell in love with you and you dwell in my love with me. You are surrounded by and wrapped in my love and when you let that fact settle into your hearts and minds then fear and lack and failure and sickness and depression will have no place in your lives. Come let me love you and drive away all your fear for I AM perfect Love. 

     This was 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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Who I Am, Who You Are

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John Chapter One

19. This was John’s testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Temple assistants from Jerusalem to ask John, “Who are you?” He came right out and said, “I am not the Messiah.”

“Well then, who are you?” they asked. “Are you Elijah?”

“No,” he replied.

“Are you the Prophet we are expecting?”

“No.”

“Then who are you? We need an answer for those who sent us. What do you have to say about yourself?”

John replied in the words of the prophet Isaiah:

“I am a voice shouting in the wilderness,

‘Clear the way for the LORD’s coming!’”

Then the Pharisees who had been sent asked him, “If you aren’t the Messiah or Elijah or the Prophet, what right do you have to baptize?”

John told them, “I baptize with water, but right here in the crowd is someone you do not recognize. Though his ministry follows mine, I’m not even worthy to be his slave and untie the straps of his sandal.”

This encounter took place in Bethany, an area east of the Jordan River, where John was baptizing.

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! He is the one I was talking about when I said, ‘A man is coming after me who is far greater than I am, for he existed long before me.’ I did not recognize him as the Messiah, but I have been baptizing with water so that he might be revealed to Israel.”

Then John testified, “I saw the Holy Spirit descending like a dove from heaven and resting upon him. I didn’t know he was the one, but when God sent me to baptize with water, he told me, ‘The one on whom you see the Spirit descend and rest is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’ I saw this happen to Jesus, so I testify that he is the Chosen One of God.”

Matthew Chapter Eleven

1. When Jesus had finished giving these instructions to his twelve disciples, he went out to teach and preach in towns throughout the region.

John the Baptist, who was in prison, heard about all the things the Messiah, was doing. So he sent his disciples to ask Jesus, “Are you the Messiah we’ve been expecting, or should we keep looking for someone else?”

Jesus told them, “Go back to John and tell him what you have heard and seen; the blind see, the lame walk, those with leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, and the Good News is being preached to the poor.” And he added, “God blesses those who do not fall away because of me.”

As John’s disciples were leaving, Jesus began talking about him to the crowds. “What kind of man did you go into the wilderness to see? Was he a weak reed, swayed by every breath of wind? Or were you expecting to see a man dressed in expensive clothes? No, people with expensive clothes live in palaces. Were you looking for a prophet? Yes, and he is more than a prophet. John is the man, to whom the Scriptures refer when they say,

‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, and he will prepare your way before you.’

“I tell you the truth, of all who have ever lived, none is greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least person in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he is! And from the time John the Baptist began preaching until now, the Kingdom of Heaven has been forcefully advancing, and violent people are attacking it. For before John came, all the prophets and the Law of Moses looked forward to this present time. And if you are willing to accept what I say, he is Elijah, the one the prophets said would come. Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand!


     As I was reading these verses today I noticed similarities to these events and what we sometimes face. John the Baptist who was called and chosen of God at one time knew who he was and knew who Jesus was and yet because of circumstances of being locked in prison he began to doubt if he was really chosen and if Jesus was truly the Messiah.

     Jesus told John’s disciples to go back and verify to John that he "Jesus" was the Messiah and even though John had his doubts Jesus never condemned him. Did you notice that it says that while John’s disciples were leaving Jesus began to speak great things about John even calling him the greatest prophet ever? He said these things while they were leaving so I’m sure they heard every word. Don’t you imagine that John’s disciples returned to John and told him all these wonderful things Jesus said about him? Our savior is so kind.

     As I was meditating on these things Jesus spoke to me and asked me to write down these words and share them with you. He said:

     My beloved ones, I know many of you have doubts. You are locked in situations that seem like prisons and wonder if you are really chosen and if I really love you and if I am who you believed me to be.

     I know and understand all these things. I want to tell you that I am who I said I am and you are who I said you are. Just because you have problems and troubles doesn’t mean that I have forsaken you or that I don’t care. I make all things work together for your good. I don’t cause your problems but I am with you in the midst of them bringing you through them and out the other side.

     You may feel like you are locked away and forgotten but you are not forgotten. You are my beloved and you are my hope and my dream. I am an ever present help in times of trouble. I am your savior, your deliverer, your healer, your everlasting life, your hope, your strong tower and your God who dwells with you.

     Now that who I am is settled in your hearts let me tell you who you are:

     You are my delight. You are the plan I had before the world began. You are the ones who I value so much that I became sin to destroy sin from your lives. I took your sickness, your disease, your death and your guilt all because I love you more than words can ever describe. I took every charge that you could ever be charged with and nailed it to my cross with a note that said “Paid in Full.”

     You are sanctified, justified, glorified and beloved of all of heaven. You are the light of the world and the city on a hill. You are the glory of my creation. You are my crowning achievement. You are made in my likeness and being conformed into my image. You are the glorious ones who will fill the earth with my glory.

     My loved ones, don’t let circumstances tell you who you are but rather tell your circumstances who you are. Don’t be defined by your problems but be defined by who I say you are. If you want to know who you are then look at who I am.

     We are family. If you see me you see your Father. When Father sees you he sees his beloved children. Remember I prayed that we would all be made one? We are not two but we are one. You are Spirit born of Spirit. You are the inheritors of all the earth. You are not born from below but born from above.

     You must begin to see your problems as opportunities. With each thing you overcome you grow stronger and stronger until you possess the whole world. The world is your inheritance and you must learn to see yourselves as I see you. You must realize that you are not victims of being born into a broken world but you are conquerors sent from above to put things in order.

     Each challenge you have is a challenge to your identity. As you awaken to who you are these challenges will become much easier. When you are fully awake you will see yourselves as you truly are and doubt will never trouble you again.

     So my loved ones, will you believe the report of the world or the report of the Lord from heaven? Will you see yourselves as mere mortals subject to the troubles of the world or will you see yourselves as an invading army from heaven sent to turn the earth into the image of heaven?

     This was our plan from the beginning. The earth was formless and void and you are sent to put all things into order as they are in heaven. So embrace who you are. See yourselves as I see you. No more thinking of yourselves as just human. You are born from above and you are royalty. 

     You are growing up into your dominion and power and glory will soon devour the darkness of the world because it will flow from within you. Just remember you are here to save and not destroy or condemn. By it's own nature light destroys darkness so just embrace  being the light and you will drive all darkness from the earth.  The creation is waiting for you to grow up and take charge of healing all that is broken in creation.

    So my loved ones: Arise and shine. The glory you seek is already within you. Once you know your true identity you will walk in complete authority. Just because you have problems doesn’t mean you weren’t chosen. It’s quite the opposite. You wouldn’t be challenged if you were not a threat to take over. Don’t let the doubts of the past change your future. Forget the failures of the past and move forward.

     Each day is a new day and you are blessed with all the blessings in heavenly places. Just as I spoke kindly of John I spoke greatly about you all over heaven. As you see yourselves in these heavenly places as above and not from below then you will learn to use and distribute these blessings until the whole world is awakened unto who they are. Never forget: The lost sheep and the found sheep are all my sheep. 

     Your sins are forgiven so go and reconcile the world unto me. Tell them I took away their sins and their guilt and it’s time to come home to me. Tell them they are my beloved and I want friendship with them. I finished all that was needed to put all things into order. I love the least and the greatest. It is my will that none should perish but that all would awaken to everlasting life. Never see anyone as being too lost to save. 

     I love you with everlasting, joyful love and I just you to know Who I Am and Who You Are.



     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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My Little Lamb Song

     Here is a song I am working on that will be released later this year. It's called my little lamb. I hope you enjoy it. Here are the words and if you click on the link below you can hear it. 

Link to My Little Lamb


My Little Lamb, can you hear
The way my heart beats fast as you draw near?
My little lamb, can you see, 
The way my heart overflows when you worship me?

Worship is the dance we dance,
Love it is the song.
Angels fall down on their knees 
as heaven sings along.
I'll take you in my arms and show you who I am,
when you worship me, my little lamb.

My little lamb, you are free,
for I was sacrificed for you at Calvary,
and your fleece is white as snow.
I washed you in my blood and now you know. 


Worship is the dance we dance, 
Love it is the song.
Angels fall down on their knees
as heaven sings along.
I'll take you in my arms and show you who I am,
when you worship me, my little lamb.

Come to me the water's clear and free,
Oh come to me, the grass is soft and green,
and you will find your place,
within my grace, 
as you worship me.

Worship is the dance we dance,
Love it is the song.
Angels fall down on their knees
as heaven sings along.
I'll take you in my arms and show you who I am.
When you worship me, my little lamb.

copyright 2019 Michael Ott Music




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