Surrender to Love

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First John Chapter Four

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. We love Him because He first loved us.


    As I was praying for you all today I asked Father if he had anything he wanted me to write and share with you. He said “Yes I do my son, tell them I love them and tell them there is no reason to fear.”


    He began to speak again so I wrote down what he was speaking and here are his words. He said:


    My little children, why are you afraid? There is only one reason and it’s because you haven’t fully trusted in my love. As our beloved one whom you call John wrote in his epistle “there is no fear in love.” If you are afraid of anything above or below or behind or ahead or anything else then you have not truly learned who I am and how much you are loved.


    Do you remember that our beloved Paul told you that you are seated with Christ far above all principalities and powers and all things are under your feet? I know many of you have read this but so many don’t believe it. I hear you trying to cast down things and tear down things in the heavenly realm. So his words must not have truly settled into your understanding.


    There is nothing for you to do but take the love you are loved with and share it with others. You are not fighting some great spiritual entity but your only war is to convince your own mind that you are the beloved ones. So many are in so called “warfare” with a defeated enemy thinking that they are changing things. Instead of taking responsibility for the unbelief in their own hearts they would rather blame it on an external being called the Devil.

    Take just a moment and consider what the scriptures say:

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that *through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil.*

And it is also written:

And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. *Having disarmed principalities and powers,* He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.


    For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.


    So did Christ die? If he defeated the Devil through his death and disarmed all principalities and powers then whom are you afraid of? If he made peace with all things in heaven and earth by the sacrifice of himself then why you are still at war with the ones he destroyed or the ones he made peace with?


    Because my people have believed a lie and not believed in the finished work of my Son then they leave room for fear and torment. If all the legal requirements were fulfilled by him and all the handwritten rules that could make you guilty were nailed to his cross then why do you still fear judgment? If you still feel guilty then you haven't believed the gospel.


    My loved ones, it’s time to immerse yourselves in the truth. You are my beloved. I finished all that was needed for you to live in peace. You are seated with my Son in heavenly realms but you still see yourselves as guilty or as orphans. You are the beloved and when you surrender unto my perfect love for you then you will never fear again. Christ is in you, you are in Christ, and Christ is in me so how safe are you? Did not my son tell you that none could pluck you out of our hands?


    My sweet ones, you keep making excuses for fear but there are no excuses. All you need to do is surrender to my love. This is love, not that you loved me but that I loved you. I loved you in the beginning and I love you now and throughout eternity you are the beloved so please let my love drive out the fear and lets grow into your eternal bliss.


    Please hear me my beloved. It is most important. Living in fear of days to come or fear of political change or fear of some evil spirit taking over the world is not just affecting you but it is affecting my plan for the world. My Son prayed that it would be on earth as it is in heaven and heaven is powered by unquenchable love. No one in heaven is afraid. Love is the power that is going to change the world and it will flow through you. You must give yourselves over to love to be overflowing with love and change the world.


    I want you to understand how important you are to me and how important it is to know how much you are loved. As our beloved Paul told you the only way to be filled with all my fullness is to know the love of Christ that passes all knowledge. If you will surrender to love then the fear will leave. If you will surrender to love you will find out what day you are in and understand my plan is to turn earth into the image of heaven. You will have great hope for the future and put away all the worry and despair that many of my children are trapped in.


    Please take time to consider the price that was paid for you. Consider what my Son endured to bring you and the whole world back into perfect reconciliation with me. As you were told in the letter to the Corinthians, I was in Christ on that cross reconciling the whole world unto myself not counting men’s sins against them.


    So what is there to fear? Absolutely nothing! Surrender to my perfect love for you and fear will disappear. As you were told in the scriptures “he who fears is not perfected in my love.” So if you are afraid of anyone or anything then consider my love again until the fear is gone. My love never fails. Will you surrender to my love?



    This is the end of the words He spoke to me 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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Ephesians Chapter One

This letter is from Paul, chosen by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus.
I am writing to God’s holy people in Ephesus, who are faithful followers of Christ Jesus.
May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.

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.




    As I was reading these verses today Father spoke to me and asked me to listen and write and publish his words for all the earth to hear. He said:


    My beloved ones; my heartbeat, my very own selves, we are so much closer than you believe. You are not just my children but were born of me. I took of my Spirit and made you. I was trying to show you this in the story of Adam and Eve. I took of my very own being and made you for me. You were not born in failure and sin but were born in complete love and adoration. You exist because of love and for no other reason.


    It’s time you awaken to who you are. Once you realize how much you are loved then your lives will change forever. I keep calling you "my beloved ones" but most of you are not listening. You still see yourselves with faults and sin and think you don’t measure up to my standard. Please stop thinking this way.


    Suppose there was a beautiful woman who was the delight of her husband. He saw here as the most beautiful woman who ever lived. He couldn’t imagine ever loving anyone as much as he loves her. He longs to shower her with good gifts and love and adoration but she sees herself as ugly and plain and not deserving of his love so every time he tries to be intimate with her she runs into her hiding place of shame and regret and she misses out on the most glorious love that anyone could ever know.


    She wonders how could she be beautiful? On the television are perfect women with perfect hair, perfect shape and perfect skin. How could she measure up to that? And the preacher at her church calls her a dirty, rotten sinner and says she only escaped hell because she begged for mercy. Every week they replay all of her failures and oppressive guilt drives her away from the very one who is the cure for all that is hurting her.


    You see my beloved; this is what so called religion has done to my people. I am delighted in you and love you with all that I am. You were perfect in me and chosen to be holy and blameless in love before I even made the world. But every time I try to show you my love and my intimate side and shower you with blessing you keep running back to your religious dungeon of guilt and lock the door.


    Oh my beloved, will you please open the door to my love? Will you let me love you as you are? Will you for once see yourself in my eyes and through my love? Will you come out of your basement of shame and nail the door shut from the outside?


    I am the true love you are seeking for. I am the one who can love you so much that you will forget you ever failed at anything. I can fill you so full of my peace that you will never worry again. I can give you all the desires of your heart and more if you will only throw away the false belief you have about yourselves and see yourselves as you truly are.


    My beloved ones; self degradation is not humility. Those who understand my love are the most humble of all. They realize who they are and they know how much I love each and every person who is born on the earth. They don’t see others as sinners but see them as their own brothers and sisters who are lost in the wilderness of wrong thinking. They don’t reject them but shower them with love hoping to show them who they truly are and awaken them to the salvation that was already provided for them.


    My beloved ones; there is so much more for you to experience if you will awaken and stay awake to your true identity. You are not sinners saved by grace. By grace you are saved but you were saved because I love you. Do you remember the scriptures say that while you were yet sinners we loved you and gave ourselves for you?

    So what made you a sinner? Not knowing your true identity is the reason for all sin. If you knew you were gods from God you would have lived every day differently. For example: if you knew that all things were already yours then you would never have coveted anything that anyone else has. You could have your own so why would you want theirs?


    If you understood your true identity you would never have run from me but would have run to me on every occasion. If you knew you were secure in me for eternity then the day to day trivial things that bother you would no longer even get your attention.


    What I am trying to say to you my beloved in a way that you can hear is this: You are perfect in my sight. You are perfectly loved and I never have kept a record of your wrongs. I do have a record of all your successes. I see you as the most beautiful of all beings so you no longer have to hide from me. We are so close that you are not really a separate being but are one spirit with me. Christ is the head of the body and you are the heart. Each of you is loved beyond measure and throughout eternity I will shower you with gifts of my love and delight.


    So my loved ones, my so much loved ones, will you please awaken to who you are? No more running from me. Besides, I am inside you so where can you run? Love never fails and sooner or later my love will win the heart of all.

    Those who know who they are can live in peace and love and abide in glorious grace and abound in all good things. Those who don’t know who they are will continue to run to their closet of shame and leave me standing at the door with my bouquet of blessings that I long with all my heart to give them. Which will it be my beloved? Will you abandon yourselves to my love and live in my glory or will you continue to wrap yourselves in a lie and cover your head in shame?

    I am calling you my lovely ones, come out of guilt and shame and all the nonsense that false identity seems to be. Step into my glorious love and let me show you my eternal kindness. Let me prove that you are my beloved. You can know the perfect love that drives out all fear. You can know who you truly are and how much you are loved. Do you want to know?



    This is the end of the words He spoke to me 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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