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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
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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