Look At The Light: Restore Your Soul

Psalm 23

The LORD is my shepherd;

I shall not want.

He makes me lie down in green pastures;

He leads me beside quiet waters.

He restores my soul;



Second Kings Chapter Six


8. Now the king of Aram was warring against Israel; and he counseled with his servants saying, “In such and such a place shall be my camp.” The man of God sent word to the king of Israel saying, “Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Arameans are coming down there.” The king of Israel sent to the place about which the man of God had told him; thus he warned him, so that he guarded himself there, more than once or twice.

Now the heart of the king of Aram was enraged over this thing; and he called his servants and said to them, “Will you tell me which of us is for the king of Israel?” One of his servants said, “No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.” So he said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send and take him.” And it was told him, saying, “Behold, he is in Dothan.” He sent horses and chariots and a great army there, and they came by night and surrounded the city.

Now when the attendant of the man of God had risen early and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was circling the city. And his servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?” So he answered, “Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” Then Elisha prayed and said, “O LORD, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” And the LORD opened the servant’s eyes and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.



Colossians Chapter Three


1. Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.





     As I was in worship this morning Father did what he often does for me. He used scriptures like a paint brush and began painting a picture for me. I began to study these verses and wonder why he stopped in the middle of the Psalm and why he picked up in the middle of another and then another.

     As I was thinking on these things he spoke to me and asked me to get ready to write and to listen and write what he was going to say to me. Here are his words. He said:

     My son, write down these words I speak and share them with my beloved ones. First things first! Tell them: Do not fear! Again I say, do not fear! Put your trust in me and don’t consider what the world is selling you.

     My little ones, you are living with broken souls and emotional distress. The reason for this is that your natural eyes are overwhelmed by negative events and emotions. Even though most of it isn’t real it still appears real to you because you see it everywhere.

     On the inside of you where the Spirit joins the body there is something like a sorting room. Most of you know it as your soul. In this place information is gathered from the physical realm and is supposed to be measured against what you see in the spiritual realm and sorted.

     My Holy Spirit leads and guides you into all truth so you shouldn’t accept anything as truth until you have spoken to Holy Spirit about it. I only let you see the problem so you can fix it, not so you can be overcome by it. When you see something wrong it’s not so you can dwell on it and become affected by it but so you can pray about it and change it.

     Because of religion and because you have listened to those who would judge you and not love you, the part of you that sees in the spirit is either completely turned off or mostly turned off. This leaves no balance in your soul and your soul becomes wounded and in some cases broken. You always see yourself alone against the world and don’t see the heaven within and the heavenly host with you to assist you.

     When you only look at the world with the broken mind you constantly see sorrow and gloom and pain. This leads to despair and depression. However there is great news! The best way to drive out this darkness is to focus on the light. Your eyes can be opened just like the servant of Elisha. But there is even better news! You don’t have to have a prophet pray for your eyes to be opened. They are already open! 

     You are blessed because you have ears to hear and eyes to see. If you didn’t you wouldn’t be hearing or reading these words right now. My Son is the light of the world so you have light to see by but you have been taught to see darkness instead. You are lacking nothing and have all you need. All you need is practice.

     So how do you overcome this problem? You overcome evil with good. By looking into the heavenly realm and seeing the good you can overcome this darkness that is destroying your soul and consuming your peace.

     There is a simple way to refocus your spirit eyes and overcome this problem. Just ask yourself a few questions. Be honest with yourself. 

Do you watch the news more than you fellowship with me? 

Do you worry more than you worship? 

Do you consider what you see with your natural eyes more real than what you see with your spiritual eyes?

     It’s that simple. You have the power to overcome all things. It’s your choice. If your eye is single then your body will be full of light. Instead of dwelling on negative events when you see them just ask me what I think of these events. Just remember that all you see with your natural eyes is temporary and what you see with your spiritual eyes is eternal.

     Most of the time you only see the image the fear mongers want you to see. They will pass up ten delightful stories to spend hours telling you of one bad thing that happened. It’s always been this way. Even in the stories your children read it always begins with “Once upon a time.” What? Can good things only happen once? You are trained from a child to see good as rare and evil as common.

     My beloved ones: Listen to me. All things work together for your good. I have already blessed you and you can never be cursed. I have given you the power to choose. You can experience hell right in the middle of heaven or experience heaven in the middle of hellacious chaos. It is your choice.

     Do you remember that my beloved David said even if he made his bed in hell I would be with him? Don’t forget that your bodies are in the world but the real you dwells in heavenly places with me. You are eternally safe.

     Yes I am your Shepherd. I will lead you to the still waters but those waters are within you. I will lead you to the green pastures but those are within you. I will restore your soul if you will just lift up your heart to me. Not up to the sky but up to me who dwells in the heaven inside you.

     Fill your heart with thanksgiving and soon you will understand that all you feared was just a shadow. It’s simple, the light is within you so the shadow has to be on the outside. Inside is light. Outside is shadow. The only difference is where you choose to set your mind.

     Come to me you who are afraid. Let my perfect love for you drive away all fear until you are fully convinced that you are secure in me; until your soul is completely restored and filled with heaven again. No more gawking at the darkness when you could be basking in the glorious light.

     I love you my dear children. Rest in my love until you understand that you are above and not below. Look at the light and restore your soul.



     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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Second Corinthians Chapter Five

16. From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Ephesians Chapter One

3. All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ.

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.

Colossians Chapter Three

1. If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.



First John Chapter Three

1. See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 

 Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.



     As I was praying for each of you today I asked Father if he had anything he wanted to say to you. He told me to be ready to write, so I listened and wrote down the words he wanted to share with you. Here are his words:


     My beloved ones; it is time for you all to be awakened to who you really are. You are spirit of my Spirit. You are my beloved and you are not just part of my creation but the reason for all that was created.

     Almost all of the problems you face whether physical or mental or financial are all rooted in your false identity. When you truly understand who you are then all these problems will fall away and you know that you are heavenly beings living upon the earth.

     It has always been my will for earth to be just like heaven. If it were not so I would have just kept you all in heaven when you were here before I made the world. You were chosen before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before me in my love.

     Heaven is mine but the earth was given unto you. My original plan for you to subdue the earth and rule over it is still in effect. Just because Adam sinned does not mean that my plan changed.

     Think of it this way. If you set out to mow your lawn and the mower breaks, it doesn’t mean you let the lawn go wild. You will repair what is broken or replace it and stick with the original plan. Especially if you knew beforehand that the mower was going to break and you already planned its repair in the budget.

     I have not abandoned my plan. My plan has always been to bring my children unto glory. Do you remember the prayer that my Son told you to pray? Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as in heaven. For thine is the kingdom and power and glory forever. The kingdom comes with power and glory and that is why the earth will be filled with my glory. The kingdom is within you so the glory will come from within you also.

     The problem is the same as the beginning. When Adam fell he stopped operating in the heavenly mind and he suddenly became more aware of his lack of clothing than he was in the abundance of my garden.

     My Son came and took all that away. He came to restore you to your right mind and identity but religion has once again told you that you were lacking and naked and that you should be ashamed of yourselves.

     I am not ashamed of you. My Son is not ashamed to call you his brothers and sisters. Even before he went to the cross he said the ones who did my will were his mother and brother and sister.

     My beloved, you must let the earthly mind die and live in the heavenly mind. This is why my Son had power to change anything. He knew who he was. He understood that he was the son of man and yet the Son of God also. He understood that he and I were one and just because he had on a body didn’t mean he was not clothed with my Spirit.

     You were told by my beloved Paul to let the same mind that was in Christ also be in you. When you awaken to this mind then your whole world will change. When you learn to think with your heavenly mind then the thoughts of your heart will change and as a man thinks in his heart so is he. Once you realize you are my beloved children you will live as if you are my beloved children.

     This is the awakening when you realize you are not lowly earth creatures and just poor sinners saved by my grace. You are saved by my grace but what you are saved from is the idea that you are a poor sinner saved by my grace. The Prodigal son was not called the Prodigal sinner. He was always a son even when eating with the hogs.

     You are and have always been my child. You are not a body. You are a spirit that is living an eternal life. Right now that life is living inside a body. If you take the body away you will dwell in a new one but you will not cease to be because you are eternal spirits.

     Jesus lived in the higher mind and his body was controlled by the higher mind. He was indestructible. Because his body was infused with spirit it could not be killed. He had to lay his life down because it was not possible for it to be taken from him.

     The Apostles lived in this state of spirit infused bodies also. That is why Paul could be beaten to death and yet get up and go back to preaching. The higher mind is not subject to the physical laws of the natural world. This is why my Son could walk on water and disappear and reappear and walk through walls. As soon as you come up to the higher mind then your bodies will be whole and so will everything else in your world.

     This is why people struggle with healing. A sick body is not a cause but an effect. Just as fever is not a cause but an effect of a virus or infection. Once you cure the mind then the body will be quickly made whole. 

     Remember that these things are not caused because you are being judged or punished. These things result from thinking and living in the fallen mind. The wages of sin is death but sin is not a cause but also an effect of forgetting who you are and living like who you are not. Once you really, really know who you are then you will awaken unto your righteousness and will never sin again.

     This is why religion has failed you. They treat the symptoms as if they were the cause. It’s like telling a child to stop having fever without treating the cause of the fever. Once you remove the cause then the fever will cease.

     My loved ones: Come up higher. Stop believing what you see with your natural eyes and what you hear with your natural ears. Start living from the Spirit and you will see heaven is always with you. You will not see a world of broken people who are full of hate and anger but you will see a world full of the children of God who are asleep to their real identity.

     So my loved ones; think with the higher mind, live from the Spirit and not from the natural. You can do this by always asking me to show you the real truth in every event. Remember that we are one so when you look upon another, ask me what I think of them and what I would do to help them.

     Do what you see me doing as Jesus did. Don’t use formulas and pray the prayers you have heard other’s pray countless times. I will give you the answer and tell you what to do if you will always ask. I will pray through you and with you because I know the exact need according to my perfect will. My will is for all to know me from the least to the greatest. My will is for you to be as healthy and blessed on earth as you are in heaven.

     Remember that you were told that you are my children and when Christ appears you will appear with him in glory. This does not mean you have to wait until one day when Christ returns. It means that when you see every man in Christ and Christ in every man then you will understand that you are already my glorious children. When Christ becomes more real to you than what you see with your eyes then you will appear with him in glory.

     You were already sanctified, justified and glorified. You have always been and will always be my beloved children. When you are awake then awaken your brothers and sisters also.

     Know no one after the flesh. Start by doing this; when you see another do not greet them by their earthly name. Greet them with “Hello, child of Almighty God clothed in the glory and splendor of your Father!” This is the truth of who you all are. Each of you is my glorious child born of my Spirit and because of my love. You are born because there is a place in my heart that only you could fill. You are uniquely my beloved! Live as my beloved!



     This is the end of the words he spoke to me to share with you.
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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Psalms Chapter Nine

9. The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed,
a stronghold in times of trouble.
And those who know your name put their trust in you,
for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.



Psalms Chapter Forty Six

10. “Be still, and know that I am God!
I will be honored by every nation.
I will be honored throughout the world.”
The LORD of Heaven’s Armies is here among us;
The God of Israel is our fortress.



John Chapter Fourteen

18. “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. In that day you will know that I am in my Father and you in me, and I in you.


Colossians Chapter Three

1. If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.


Matthew Chapter Six

25. “That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life; whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food and your body more than clothing?

Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are? Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?

“And why worry about your clothing? Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing, yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are and if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith?

“So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.

“So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.


Psalm Chapter Twenty Eight

The Lord is my strength and shield. I trust him with all my heart. He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy. I burst out in songs of thanksgiving.



     It was three o’clock in the morning. I woke up with the song I learned in Sunday school blasting away in my spirit. You know the old song “I’ve got joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart? My toes were tapping and the musician side of me wanted to grab a guitar and rock out.

     I opened my eyes and said “Good Morning Father.” He said “good morning son, I need you to get up and write a love letter to my beloved ones. I want to take away the fear they are facing and replace it with joy and peace."  I grabbed a cup of coffee on the way to my computer and sat down to take dictation. He began to speak and I began to write and He said:


     Oh my beloved! My beloved, my beloved my beloved! Why are you fearful? 

Did you forget that you are the reason the world was created? 

Did you forget that you are my treasure and my love? 

Did you forget that I rejoice over you with singing? 

Did you forget that my Son came from heaven full of grace and truth to show you how much you are loved?

 Did you forget that you are fearfully and wonderfully made? 

Did you forget that you are the apple of my eye? 

     Oh my sweet beloved ones will you please turn off the news of the storm going on in the world and let me bring you peace instead? I know many of you are afraid but you don’t have to be. You can set your minds on things above and take it off things below. You can have perfect peace because you set your eyes and mind upon me. 

     Do you remember that I told you that the one who dwells in the secret place abides in my shadow? You must make up your mind that you dwell in me and not in the world. Your bodies are in the world but your spirit abides in me and I abide in you. You must remember that you are a spirit and not a body, and spirits are eternal. You are safe and no one can take you away from me. Neither death nor life nor any other thing can take you from me. You are eternally safe my beloved.

     Each time today that you have the opportunity to fear don’t do it. Instead set your mind and heart upon me and rejoice. There is no answer on that news channel. The answer is in me. There is no answer in worry but answers live in joyous faith.

     Instead of living in fear I need all my children to unite in faith. Just imagine what would happen if all those who know me would release their love and faith into the world right now. Instead of releasing and repeating fear what would happen if you all stood together and rejoiced in the God who is your deliverance? 

     This war you are fighting will not be won with anger and cursing and rebuking. You were told to overcome evil with good. Let worship be your weapon. Release the worship in your heart into the world and things will change.

     Oh my beloved children, I give you peace. There is no peace in the news or in the world. My peace is eternal and is a ruling power. Why would my Son be called The Prince Of Peace? It is because He rules over peace. He gives peace to you to release into the world.

     Do you remember when the disciples were in a boat and the storm was raging? Did Jesus get up and rage against the storm? No, he didn’t. He told the wind and waves “Shhhh!” and said “Peace, be still!” It wasn’t a ten hour prayer meeting of blasting this and rebuking that. It was just the Prince of Peace releasing the peace within him upon the storm. I promise you that the peace inside you is stronger than the storm is outside.

     To release peace you have to know that it is inside you. Add joy to your peace and release it in a song. All that you need is inside you because I am inside you. I will always be in you and you will always be safe with me.

     So my loved ones; know that you are safe in me and release the power of my peace that abides in you upon the world. I gave you authority over every storm. The only reason you have trouble exercising that authority is because you don’t exercise it in love and peace and joy.

     Find your shelter in me. Hide yourselves in me. Know that you are in me and I am in you and you are safe. Once you know you are safe then you can release the love within you to the world to drive away the fear.

     Right now is a great time to show the world love and peace. Not fear and worry. Be not afraid my loved ones it was my great pleasure to give you the kingdom. The King and the kingdom abide within you.  

     When you overcome this storm with peace then peace will break out into the world. All heaven is about to be unleashed upon the earth to heal and deliver and restore. It will be so because my children will realize that heaven is within them and will learn to bring what is within them unto the outside realm.

     So remember to hand out all the love and mercy you can and season it all with my peace. Give those whom you call unbelievers a hand of love and not a fist. Give them love and mercy and not anger and wrath. Tell your friends and neighbors to be in loving peace and not in fear. Perfect love drives out all fear and you are perfectly loved so why are you afraid?

     I am with you always. You will never, ever, ever be alone or without a deliverer. I am in you and my grace is upon you. Don’t forget my loved ones; arm yourselves with a song and not with weapons. Remember the words of the prophet when he prophesied of my Son.

To the increase of His Government and of Peace there shall be no end!

     Let go of fear and increase your peace!
Love each other my little ones and give no place to fear. Bask in my love until fear is nowhere to be found.



     This is the end of the words He spoke to me early this morning.
I hope you are encouraged by these words.
Until Next time,
Grow Rich in His Grace,
I love you all,
Be safe and well and at peace!
michael 

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michael's podcast

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