Lift Up Your Heads

    While praying today I heard the lovely voice of my Father and he told me to write down the following words and share them with all his children. I hope you are as blessed by them as I am. Here are the words he gave me:

 My beloved ones, the ones to whom I have given an eternity of blessings. It’s time for you to know who you are and how special you are. I know you have troubles in this world but you are in me and I have overcome the world in Christ.

     Don’t be afraid of the times you are in. You were born for this time to express my glory in the earth. Keep your eyes on things above and don’t be distracted by the distractor. All the fear and gloom you see in the news is a distraction to keep you from your calling. There is always a storm to keep you from getting to the other side but there are miracles and wonders on the other side and I am with you in the storm. I will get you safely across.

     This is not a day to shrink back into fear. It is a day to stand and declare my truth and my love and to walk in love and holiness and drive the enemy out of your way. It is a day of glory like no other when my children awake and shine with the glory that is in you.

     I am coming to be revealed in my saints. My glory will arise upon you as you set your eyes upon me and take them off the storm. It is not by might or great power but by my Spirit who lives within you. As you set your hearts and your minds upon me then great peace will come upon you and that peace will become so contagious that everyone will want what you have.

     The day is coming as my glory arises in you that the nations will run to the light within you and evangelism will be easy. You will awaken to find yourselves without limits and will laugh and wonder why you never discovered the great glory that resides in you.

     This is who you are my children. You are vessels of glory awaiting to be poured out into the earth. The barrier between your spirit and mind will be broken and my glory will flow through you in everything you do. It’s time to look to the glory within you and see who I am in you. It’s Christ in you, the glorious hope.

     You don’t have to look into heaven. Heaven is inside you. Your spirit lives in the heavenly realm as your body lives in the physical world. As your gaze into the glory within you then the wall between Spirit and earth will be broken. My glory will flood your minds and hearts and you will become on earth as you are in heaven. My kingdom is within you. You are not looking at a faraway heaven. I want heaven to come through you not to you. You are the gates of my glory.

Lift up your heads, O gates!

And be lifted up, O ancient doors,

that the King of glory may come in.

Who is this King of glory?

The LORD, strong and mighty,

the LORD, mighty in battle!

Lift up your heads, O gates!

And lift them up, O ancient doors

that the King of glory may come in.

Who is this King of glory?

The LORD of hosts

he is the King of glory! 

     You are my gates, you are my doors. You are the windows of heaven. No more shall you doubt and be in disbelief. You have been built as my habitation and I reside in my power, in you. 

     I will arise in you and you will all know that I am God. I will pour my salvation through you and my Spirit through you. You will be my beloved and I will be yours. I will be your God and you will be my beloved children. 

     All the earth will wonder at the glory of my presence that flows through you. That glory is in you already but you must open the gate for me to come through. The only thing stopping me is the veil of unbelief that keeps you from seeing that I am in you. Tear down this veil and let me come through you. 

     I am longing to reach out to the lost through your voice and to the sick with your hands. I want you to know how it feels to be one with me. I want you to feel what Jesus felt when there was no limit to my power within him. You were created in his image and likeness so wake up to who you are and let me live in your mind and body as I live in your spirit.

     I love you my dear children and I am so full of joy because you are mine. You are the treasure I saw in the field and I purchased the field with blood. You are so worth what I paid for you. Look into my heart and you will see yourself in me. Hidden away in my heart where you are safe for eternity. Never, ever, ever be afraid again for I am mighty within 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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Stop The Fear

Isaiah Chapter 9

For to us a child is born,

to us a son is given;

*and the government shall be upon his shoulder,*

and his name shall be called

Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,

Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

*Of the increase of his government 

and of peace

there will be no end,*

on the throne of David and over his kingdom,

to establish it and to uphold it

with justice and with righteousness

from this time forth and forevermore.

The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

     Over the last few days I have been receiving many emails from people who have been scared out of their faith by preachers who preach fear and doom and gloom. Many are worried about blood moons and asteroids and famine and governmental collapse.  

     Why do so many preachers preach this fear message. Isn't the gospel the good news of peace? It all comes down to money and a lack of the understanding of the love of God and of his great mercy. 

     Fear sells. Every time someone comes out with a book of fear people buy it by the millions. I'm also convinced that the people who preach such things believe that our God is an angry God who can't wait to pour out judgment on the earth. They always want God to judge and destroy everyone's wayward children but their own.

     Maybe they forgot that the one who is judging is the one who suffered the most horrible death ever imagined while bearing our sin, sickness and disease all because of his great love for us. Does it make any sense to love someone so much and then destroy them?

    Did you read the verses above from Isaiah? Does that match up with anything that the fear-mongers are preaching? It says of the increase of his government and of Peace there shall be no end!

OK, you can shout now. Isn't that a wonderful statement. That means from the time Jesus was resurrected, through the present and into the future his government and his peace will keep growing until the whole world is consumed by his kingdom and the whole world is at peace. 

     Yes I know that their are bad things and bad times in the earth. There always have been and will be until his kingdom completely takes over the world in love and peace. These are not God's judgments, these are the results of fallen state of man. Yes there are more catastrophes and earthquakes and disasters reported now than ever but maybe that's because we have better news reporting and tracking instruments than we ever had. It's also because we only get the bad news on our TV and internet. Good news is seldom reported and bad news is rebroadcast over and over and over.

     Yes God is going to shatter kingdoms and pull down strongholds of corruption and restore the earth to the same measure of completeness that is in heaven. This is why Jesus told us to pray "thy will be done on earth as in heaven." So let me ask you, are there famines in heaven? Are there earthquakes that destroy or diseases running rampant killing the inhabitants of heaven? So why do we think God rules heaven one way and earth another?

    It says of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end. His government will bring peace to the world. Yes I hear many of you quoting that Jesus said he didn't come to bring peace but a sword. But who did he say would be your enemy? He didn't say our Father is our enemy. He said it would be those of our own house. Father is not angry with the world. He is slow to anger and slow to wrath. 

     Jesus said he was the exact likeness of our Father in heaven. So I have a few questions for you.

Did Jesus destroy anyone?

Did he send famine or did he feed the multitudes?

Did he cause a storm or stop a storm?

Did he make people sick or did he heal all who came to him?

When the disciples wanted to call down the fire of judgment on a city did he say "go ahead" or did he tell them they were of the wrong spirit?

Did he judge the people or did he take our judgment upon himself?

     Now lets look at the character of Jesus. Surely he lives by the laws he gave us to live by doesn't he?

Matthew Chapter Five

38. “You have heard that it was said, 

‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ 

39. But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. 

But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, 

turn to him the other also. 

40. And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, 

let him have your cloak as well. 

41. And if anyone forces you to go one mile, 

go with him two miles. 

42.  Give to the one who begs from you, 

and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.

43.“You have heard that it was said, 

‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 

44.But I say to you, Love your enemies

 and pray for those who persecute you,

45. so that you may be sons of your Father 

who is in heaven. 

For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, 

and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 

46. For if you love those who love you, 

what reward do you have? 

Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 

47. and if you greet only your brothers, 

what more are you doing than others? 

Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 

You therefore must be perfect, 

as your heavenly Father is perfect.

     Jesus instructed us in the ways of our Father in heaven. All these things he told us to do are the ways of our Father and of Jesus. Do you see any wrathful judgment in these scriptures?

     This is the way our God treats his enemies. He wins them over by his great love and not by his wrath. It's his goodness that wins our hearts and turns us from evil. 

     Think about a man named Saul. He was out destroying the church and people were praying. So did God destroy him? No he saved him, changed his name to Paul and sent him out to preach the good news that he tried to destroy. This is the vengeance of a loving God who wants his enemies to be his disciples.

     Now lets look at Hebrews Chapter Nine

27. And just as it is appointed for man to die once, 

and **after that comes judgment, **

28. so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, *not to deal with sin 

but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.*

     There is a day when all men's works will be judged but it's not while they are walking in flesh. It's after we die. Until that day our Father's mercy and grace are calling to everyone that is lost and doing evil to repent and be saved. Jesus came to save the world, not destroy it. He even told us that the meek would inherit the earth. So do you think for an inheritance our God would give us a burned up, torn up world filled with nuclear radiation and debris cause by his judgment?

    So put all this fear out of your hearts and minds. This is his kingdom that he is building and it is an everlasting kingdom that will rule the heaven and the earth. This kingdom will increase and increase and there will be no end until the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our God and his Christ. He promised we would rule and reign with him on the earth and that rule is in love and peace it is not with destruction and hate. 

     Let's begin loving each other and loving our enemies and praying for our enemies.  Let's love them and pray for them until they are saved and joined to us. 

     Let's not spread fear but love and joy. It's the gospel of peace not the gospel of war. He is the prince of peace. Let's preach the gospel of peace and not the message of fear. 

     Once and for all let's not be afraid of the fire-breathing, doomsday predictors and lets walk in faith. Think about it. Do you remember Y2K? Do you remember 12-12-12?  Did any of those people who predicted all those terrible things say they were sorry or return any of the money they made on the books and movies?

     Every year it's more fear to sell more books. If they really think it's falling apart then why aren't they giving the books away? What good is money if the world economy collapses? Didn't Jesus say to take no thought of tomorrow. Doesn't he know all we need and doesn't he provide for us? Didn't he say that if we would just seek his kingdom then all these things would be provided? 

     Now lets be full of joy and let the peace of God rule our hearts as it says in Colossians Chapter 3.

12. Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

13. bearing with one another and, 

if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; 

as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 

14. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 

*15. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts,* to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 

16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 

  17. And whatever you do, in word or deed, 

do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, 

giving thanks to God the Father through him.

     Until next time,

Grow Rich in His Grace,

I love you all,

michael

For more information please visit the following websites:

Holy Reign Ministries

or

Michael Ott Ministries

Becoming Love Part Four: Family, Not Religion

     While praying a few days ago our loving Father spoke to me and said the following:

     My son, write down the following words and give them to my faithful ones. The ones who know in their hearts that something is missing from the gospel you have heard compared to the good news that is in my son. There is so much more that I want to give my children and so much more freedom from the bondage of this world, but there are yet so many filters over your hearts because of the leaven that was mixed in with the good news of my grace towards you.

     There is so much more truth to be uncovered and yet to be revealed in you if you would all turn to me and not to the world church for your answers. Do you not hear my voice in your hearts? Do you not hear me calling you apart from the traditions of men that are being taught as the doctrines of heaven?

     There is nothing wrong with fellowship and enjoying the worship of other believers and assembling with them. But here is the problem. My children run to and fro and back and forth trying to find the latest move and newest things. Isn’t it time to start a revival and not look for one? You have everything you need within you to see all the things you want to see come to pass and don’t have to ride someone else’s anointing to get what you need.

     Think of this. What if your spouse told you that they love you but they can only be intimate with you if you play the right music and set the right mood? What if they told you that your voice and your attention was not enough to stir their emotions for you and you needed to add lights and loud sound and music and dancing? How would you feel? 

     What if they told you that they love you but they only want to be intimate with you in a congregation? There is nothing wrong with corporate worship except that so much of it has become a performance and not a free flowing worship from the heart. Yes I love to hear you sing together but I love the worship that goes on privately in the secret place more. It’s the song in your heart that I dance to.

     It’s time to realize that I live inside you. Of all the dwelling places in the universe I chose you as my home. There are other created beings in the universe but I chose you to live in. It’s time to take a stand and decide to love me where you are and to worship me where you are. 

     Set your minds to worship me no matter what. Whether it’s in a beautiful building or in a dumpster worship me and love me for who I am and not for what I can do. Worship is the dance we dance together. It’s not that I need your worship to change me but worship is to the spirit what intimacy is to the physical world. We are one spirit and worship brings your soul and your body into the realm of my spirit so you can be healed. I want all of you. Spirit, soul and body. You are precious to me and I want all of you.

     We are a family and you must see us as family. I am not a distant deity that you must reach through some religious act. Jesus came so that you could know me as Father, not as a disconnected supplier.

     The modern world church has turned me into a vending machine that works when you put in the right scriptures as you would if you put in the right coins. You can plug in one scripture and get a new car or plug in another scripture and get a new home. You can use my words against me and demand me to give you promises that I made to others. 

     They teach you that you can use me for what you want and if you add worship you can get what you want even faster. You can worship me and make me give in and give you something I really didn’t want to give you? I gave my only son, do you think I am withholding any good thing from you? Worship is not for getting what you want. It’s for sharing love. There is a name for those who sell intimacy to get what they want and it’s not a nice name. I have given you all things that pertain to life and godliness. I have withheld nothing.

     I poured out the blood of my son and all my blessings because of my great love for you. I wanted you and I chose you and I saved you and I blessed you and all I ask in return is your love. I hoped that you would see how I love and learn to love each other the same way. It’s time to learn who I really am and return to the gospel of love and peace and a life of thanksgiving. I tell you these things not to shame you but to awaken you to my great love for you.

     There is a much higher way of living that those who cling to the world will never know. I want better for you than what the world church can supply. I want to live in you and be your God and you be my people. I want you to return to your first love. The one you had for me when you gave me your heart not asking for anything but my love.

     Oh my beloved how my heart longs for your affection because my love for you is so great and can never be satisfied while we are two beings. We must become one in mind and heart as we are in spirit. I love you so much that I want to live in your thoughts and want us to think together and sing together and love together. I want you to love each other with my love.

     These things can only become reality if you choose to love me and to come to me outside the camp. I am not telling you not to fellowship with other believers but what I am saying is go there to give and not to receive. You have so many gifts to share and so much glory to be poured out of you, and yet you think you are lacking and are looking to others to give you their oil.

     So many go to church to get their weekly fix of my presence because they don’t know how to fellowship with my presence at all times in their own heart. They are looking for me outside instead of inside. I live inside you and your spirits are full of me but your soul doesn’t realize it and engage with me in private worship and fellowship. Some even believe that they can’t learn of me just by the Spirit, they think they need someone else to teach them about me.

     Those of you with children, do you want your children to go to a stranger to learn about you or do you want them to come to you with their questions? What if they went to a pastor and said “can you tell me about my mom and dad? “ Can you teach me how to be one family with them? If you think you need anyone else to help you become one with me you have misunderstood my gospel.

      I have no grandchildren. Those who are pastors and apostles and prophets and teachers should only teach you to hear my voice and teach you to come to me. They are put in place to serve you and to point you to me.They are only able to teach you what they have learned for themselves. They teach you my language and once you learn to speak and understand then you don’t need them to interpret for you anymore. 

     Think of it as school. You can ask your older brothers and sisters for help but you must go to class for yourself. I have many things to teach you privately because each of you is different and each of you have a different calling. Each of you are precious to me and each of you are special.

     I am one. One Father, One Son, One Spirit and One church. You can only become one with each other as you become one with me. The church will come together in unity as each of you becomes one with me individually. The best way to bring unity to the church is to start with you and me. Let’s become fully one and then as all of you become one with me you will be one with each other.

     Will you do that for me my beloved? Will you come to me and love me for who I am and not for what I have? Will you look at what I paid for you and know that you are my treasure and let go of wanting the world’s goods and let me give you heavenly things?

     Do you think I would pay so much for you and not have a plan for your future? Will you let go of trying to use programs and formulas and treat me like a loving Father? Will you learn to let go of your cares and trust me and worship me today and stop worrying about tomorrow? I love you my children and I will provide all you need for your family, your life and your ministry. My job is to be your provider. Your job is to lose yourself in my love and to love each other as I love you.

     As you do these things then all the dreams and visions I gave you will come to pass. It’s not about works. As you learn this process of abiding in me then my life will flow into all you do and you will bear fruit because you are connected to me. I am yours my beloved and you are mine. I am all you need. If you have me you have everything. You don’t have to ask for it, it’s already yours.

     My beloved be tender towards each other and don’t look at each other’s faults. You do the loving, and let the one who hung on a bloody cross because of his great love for you do the judging. My son is a gentle judge who understands what it’s like to live in human flesh. He will be gracious and kind and is not judging sin but progress. Sin was judged already. Christ died and you were crucified with him. Your sins were judged at the cross and now we are measuring the growth of your love.

     This is why we sent you the Holy Spirit as your Teacher. He came to teach you how to become one with me. Tests are not for the purpose of failure but to reveal progress. All of you have endured testing recently and some are still in the process. Submit to the process and it is over much sooner. I am proving to each of you that I am with you at all times even when you don’t feel me.

     Good Teachers want all their students to pass and to learn so that they can succeed. It’s not about what you have done. It is about who you are becoming. I am conforming you into the image of my son who gave up his kingly rights to become a servant of all. He gave up ruling the earth as a king and now he gets to rule the universe in love. 

     Abide in my love and be filled with my hope and my glory. Become love as I am love. Be one with me and let my love be your heart’s desire because you are my heart’s desire. I love you my children.

     Until next time,

Grow Rich in His Grace,

I love you all,

michael

For more information please visit the following websites:

Holy Reign Ministries

or

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Becoming Love Part Three: When You Feel Unlovable

     We all have days when everything that can go wrong does go wrong. We tend to wonder where God is in all of this and how can things go so bad if he loves us so much. If he loves us so much that he gave his only Son to save us then how can things get so mixed up? I have had a string of days like this recently and I know that many of you have also. While seeking Father for answers I heard his soft, gentle, loving voice whisper in my heart. He gave me the following words and asked me to share them with all of you. 

     My child, my beloved child, don’t you know how much you are loved? Don’t you know that in your bad days and your good days my love never changes? It’s the one constant in the universe. When all else goes wrong you can count on this one thing: You are loved.

     Never let circumstances make you feel unloved. They are not related. The reason Jesus said "in this world you will have tribulation", wasn’t to judge you or condemn you. It was to show you that through all these things we are with you. That is why the next thing he said was "be of good cheer for I have overcome the world." He was trying to tell you that no matter what comes your way our love for you is constant and unchanging. My love for you will never change no matter what you go through or how many times you get frustrated and want to quit and walk away. Besides, if you walk away I'll just go with you and love you where you are.

     Think about the ones you love. Do they have bad days because your love for them somehow fails and their world falls apart? Does that make any sense at all? Of course it doesn’t. Circumstances don’t change love. Love changes circumstances. In all these things if you will just stop when you are having a hard day and meditate on my love for you then things will change. This is why Jesus said to be of good cheer. It’s the good cheer and filling your heart with thoughts of my love for you that strengthens you.

     It’s through the understanding that whether you are exalted or crucified you are loved the same. My children, you must learn to build your lives upon the fact that you are loved and not base my love for you on what you are going through. Most of my children think I am with them when they are walking in good times and I’m angry when things go wrong. This is a lie. I love you and I am with you the same all the time.

     My love for you never changes and I will never change my mind about you. I chose you before the foundation of the universe and I will never change my mind. When I chose you I knew all your happy times and sad times. I knew every word of praise you would ever say, and every angry word you would ever mutter when you lost your temper, and I chose you anyway. Your little faults are no match for my eternal love. Your temporary problems are no match for the grace that is available to you.

     I have been to the end of eternity and you are still with me there, and I still love you. Rest in me my beloved one. I can never leave you for you are in me just as I am in you.When you believed in me I put you in a safe place. I put you in me so that I could never lose you. I am in you, you are in Christ and Christ is in me.

     I am one God. I am the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Yes we are three but we are one. We are wrapped together with love so tightly that you can’t separate us. And now you are in us also. If any man be joined to the Lord he is one spirit. 

     We made you so much a part of us that you wonder sometimes was that me thinking or my Father? Yes it was all of us. The more you walk with me in this great love our thoughts become one. Many will quote you and say “my thoughts are not your thoughts and my ways are not your ways” that was true before you were born again. Things are different now, you have the mind of Christ.

     Think about this for a moment. I waited years and years and years for a man to walk the earth that I could have open fellowship with, and speak to him face to face. I had this relationship with Jesus. When Jesus came out of the water after being baptized I couldn’t contain my joy any longer. I had to express my great love and excitement. I proclaimed loudly,"This is my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!" I say this about each of my children every day.

     As it is written in Ephesians; I have blessed you with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ. He goes all over heaven telling everyone how blessed he is to have you and proclaims to heaven what a blessing you are. He speaks blessings over you and pronounces his love for you. All of heaven rejoices over each of you because they know the great joy I have because you are mine.

     I love you the same as I love Christ and that will never, ever change. Do you think that he also had good days and bad days? One day they are throwing branches in the street and saying “Hosanna in the highest” and another day they were screaming “Crucify Him”. It’s a good thing that he knew he was loved or he might have not finished his mission.

     Think about all these things my beloved. On good days and bad days think about my love for you. When all else fails this is constant. I so loved the world that I gave my only begotten son. I never stopped loving the world. I love each and every person on the planet. Those who respond to that love get to enjoy it. How I wish they would all respond today.

     Love is the plan and love has the plan. I always have a plan and here it is: Build your life on the fact that I love you and there is a bloody cross to prove it. Let my love be the source of your joy and my joy be your strength. Bad days will come and go but my love came to stay. Rest in me. Rest in my love. Become one with me in mind as you are in spirit. Become Love with me.

     I hope you are encouraged by these words.

Until next time.

Grow Rich in His Grace,

I love you all,

michael

For more information please visit the following websites:

Holy Reign Ministries

Michael Ott Ministries

Becoming Love Part Two: Love is the Secret Place

      

     Thank you for taking time to read these words.

 Please take the time to read part one of this series about becoming 

love. Let's journey together for an adventure into the 

scriptures. Shall we begin by reading the words of someone who 

had an experience in God's love? Lets begin in First John chapter 4.

     

7. Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

     Love is of God and everyone that loves is born of God. The true test of knowing whether or not we are born again and we truly know God is whether or not we love each other. It’s not by great acts of faith or miracles or signs and wonders. Although these are signs of God among us, if they are really of God they are born out of the love we have for each other and not for any other purpose.

8. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

     This is pretty simple, if you are not in love you are not in God.

9. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

     This is the manifestation of our Father’s love. The proof that he loves you is not if all your circumstances are perfect and your life is wonderful. The proof that you are loved by our Father is the truth that Jesus was sent into the world as an act of Father’s love for us. 

There was a bloody cross and there is an empty tomb to prove how

much you are loved.

10. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

     We didn't start love. Father loved us so much that he sent his only Son into the world to save us. Let this sink into your heart. The God who owns heaven and earth loves you so much that he gave all that he had to win your love. His love for us in beyond imagination. He loves us and as we meditate on that love and really consider what he paid to get us then we become filled with that same love towards others. It means we will show his love to others even if it costs us our lives. That is what he was saying in verse eleven. We should love each other with the same love that he has for us.

12. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

     It is impossible to see God without looking through the eyes of love. We can clearly see him through the acts of love towards each other. Jesus says it was the Father in him that does the work. The same can be said about us and every act of love is a picture of our loving heavenly Father and his love for us.

13. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

     We know we dwell in him because he has given us his Spirit. That same Spirit of Love that is God, and lives in God, lives in us also, as we partake of his love and love each other. The Holy Spirit was given to us to teach us how much we are loved and how to love each other. Jesus told us that the Holy Spirit would come and lead us into all truth. That truth is that Father loved the world so much he gave his only Son that whosoever believes in him would not perish but have everlasting life. Holy Spirit came to reveal the truth of Father’s love for us so that we would love each other the same way we are loved.

14. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

     We know that Father sent Jesus to save the whole world. It should be obvious to us that he loves and wants to save everyone and we should see those who are lost with the same loving eyes he looks at them with. If it’s his heart to save the world then that should be the cry of our heart also. If we love others as he does then we won’t cry out for judgement but for mercy for all the people of the world. Love wants salvation and not destruction. Let’s pray for the salvation of the world and not for its destruction.

15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

      Whoever confesses that Jesus is the son of God becomes God’s home and God becomes his home. Since we are speaking in the context of love this is not just an acknowledgement that Jesus is God’s son. This is a confession from a loving heart that Jesus is God’s son. This is coming to an understanding that everything the Father said about him is true. He is the savior of the world and there is no other. 

     There is one way, one truth and one life and no one comes to the Father any other way. Which means that Jesus is the only way to be adopted into the family of God. No one comes to know God as Father except by him. Others may know him as God but only Jesus can bring you to a relationship with him as Father.

16. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

     We have known and believed. This is a two part process. We have known and believed means that we have not only believed that God loves us but we have experienced that love first hand. The more we put our whole lives into this dwelling place called love the more we become God’s home and he becomes ours. We can learn to live in love and in God and are secure in him. This is the secret place spoken of in Psalm 91. While we are here let’s look at that promise of love.

Psalm 91

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High

shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress:

my God; in him will I trust.

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler,

and from the noisome pestilence.

He shall cover thee with his feathers,

and under his wings shalt thou trust:

his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night;

nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness;

nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

A thousand shall fall at thy side,

and ten thousand at thy right hand;

but it shall not come nigh thee.

Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold

and see the reward of the wicked.

Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge,

even the most High, thy habitation;

There shall no evil befall thee,

neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

For he shall give his angels charge over thee,

to keep thee in all thy ways.

They shall bear thee up in their hands,

lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder:

the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

Because he hath set his love upon me,

therefore will I deliver him:

I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

He shall call upon me, and I will answer him:

I will be with him in trouble;

I will deliver him, and honour him.

With long life will I satisfy him,

and shew him my salvation.


     Love is the secret place he was speaking about. There is a depth of God’s love that will keep us from all harm and evil. We must choose to make this place our home. We must choose to abide in this place of love to be safe.

     We can clearly hear two voices in this psalm singing to each other. The voice of the Psalmist and the voice of the Lord. In the first part we hear the Psalmist speaking of Father’s protection as he speaks and says “I will say of the Lord, He is my fortress…”  In all these verses he is speaking out loud to his own soul about the protection of the Lord. He is speaking these things to encourage himself. We know also he was speaking prophetically of Jesus but as he finishes speaking to his soul the Lord speaks through him. The Lord answers back and says:

Because he hath set his love upon me,

Therefore will I deliver him:

I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

He shall call upon me, and I will answer him:

I will be with him in trouble;

I will deliver him, and honour him.

With long life will I satisfy him,

and shew him my salvation.

     By knowing Father’s great love and abiding in that love we are moving into the secret place of God. All this protection was given because the psalmist set his love upon the Lord. How did he do that? He began proclaiming all the good things that God is and how much he is loved. He was thinking about how that the Lord is his protection and began to sing out praises to God for his protection. Isn't it just like our Father to protect us with a love song and not a sword?

     We can learn to abide in this great place of safety if we will believe in the true message of his love.

     Now back to our study of the words of John.

17. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
     

     What an amazing promise! We don’t have to fear judgment day. We are protected by his love and our sins are forgiven. Anyone who is in Christ is a new creation and your old man was crucified with Christ and you have already been judged. Our sins are washed away and we will have boldness in the day of judgement not because of our own righteousness but because of his blood.

     As he is so are we in this world. We are loved by our Father just as much as he loves Jesus. Because of what Jesus did for us we are just as righteous as he is. Dwelling in the love of God makes our love mature or perfect and we understand it was his plan all along to save us and not our own. He is our salvation.

18. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

     This is how we know if we are perfected in love. If we have any fear we still need to grow into his love. Perfect love casts out fear. His perfect love will drive all fear from us so that we can rest in his love. Once we fully understand how much he loves us we have nothing more to fear. Our sins are washed away by his blood and there is nothing but love flowing from our Father. He loves us and sees us just as he sees Jesus because we are in him.

19. We love him, because he first loved us.
     

     The very love we love him with came from him. He loves us first and as we receive that love we can love him also and can love each other because we are loved.

     We were lost and while we were still sinners he loved us and gave himself for us. His love for us was so great that he could not let sin stand between us. He is holy and without sin and we were sinners. Sin was stopping us from having a loving relationship with him. He became one of us and even became sin on the cross so that sin could no longer separate us from himself.

     He destroyed sin by his love for us. The more we give in to that love the more sin loses its grip in our lives because we keep his commandments from a heart of love and not out of obligation. 

     Think about this. Would you rather have your spouse be true to you because they have an obligation to or because they love you? Would you rather have your children obey you because they have to or because they love you and want to do good because of that love? The why really does matter. Jesus is love and he came to show us how to love each other. 

20. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

     This is the proof that God’s love dwells in us. Once we accept God’s love and find that he loves us without limits and we taste of his love and forgiveness then it naturally reproduces love in our lives towards others. If we hate our brothers and sisters it is because we haven’t received God’s love and haven't completely given ourselves to him and his love. Once we fall in love with him we fall in love with all those who are loved by him. If we love him we love all those he loves. Even if they seem to be unlovable.

21. And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.
     

     Isn't it amazing that God poured out his love for us by pouring out the blood of his only begotten son? He took our sins, sicknesses and torments and saved us from everlasting destruction. A holy God became sin to take away our sins and suffered the punishment of the sins of the whole world and all he asks in return is that we love each other?

     I ask, no I beg of you my brothers and sisters in Christ. Let’s put away our differences and love each other. Let’s judge each other with the same love and mercy we received from our Lord and let’s put away the divisions between us.

     How about we abide in that secret place of love and love each other as we are loved? Why don’t we meditate on his great love for us and begin to love each other and be kind to each other? Yes there are differences in what we believe but not in who we believe in.

     Let all of us who are born again put aside the small doctrinal differences and love each other unconditionally. Why don’t we all stop criticizing each other and practice loving each other as we are loved? Even better, why don’t we stop trying to love and become love?

     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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Becoming Love Part One

     While praying and writing today Father's voice came to me and said:

     My son, speak to my loved ones and tell them that it’s time to walk in a new hope and new faith and it’s time to not just love but it’s time to become love. I am love and it is the substance I am made of. Yes love is a substance just as faith is a substance and hope is a substance. I told you in scripture that faith it the substance of the things you are hoping for. In other words when you are hoping for something then I take a substance called faith and build it for you.

     It’s the same with love. Love is my substance. It is the purest substance that ever was or will be. The outward acts of love and kindness you see are just that substance flowing from me and becoming other things. The act of kindness that is shown to someone is that substance called love creating a pathway and an action to express itself. All the good things you have seen or will ever see are just expressions of me for I am love.

     I know these things may be hard for you to understand but if you will think on these things then the very love itself will create a thought to explain it to you. This is how meditation works. As you give your time and thought to my love then my love flows into your thoughts and reveals truth to you.

    As you think on these things you will become more like me because I will fill you with the same substance that I am made of. When I made you in my image I made you with the same substance I am made of.  Your spirit is made of this material and now I long to fill your souls and minds with the same substance. This is a spiritual substance that is far above any realm or physical dimension. It is my plan to fill all of creation with this substance until all dimensions including the physical universe are full of the truth of my love.

     So how do you become love? It is really simple. Thanksgiving is one key that opens a door to this. When you begin to meditate on how much you are loved and think about all the things that love has provided for you such as salvation, everlasting life, healing, deliverance, blessings of friends and family, clothes, houses and all other gifts then you open the door to your spirit to all that I am and all that love is. This is why thanksgiving and worship are so important. These things are not for me. They are the valves that open the flow of my love and blessing into your natural world.

     The opposite is also true. When you meditate on negative things you open doors of your spirit to darkness and destruction. This is why the world is full of images and things that draw your focus onto them so they can open the door of your subconscious and control you from the dark side. This is where the war between light and dark is being fought. You will make room for whatever you focus your attention on and those things you meditate on will flow into your life.

     Think about this. Wars and destruction are in people’s hearts and thoughts before they are acted upon in the natural world. Some people’s souls are completely polluted and acts of anger seem to occur naturally. This is why I told you in scripture to keep your eye full of light and your whole body would be full of light. My love for you is the light that I want you to focus on.

     Focusing on my love causes you to be full of my love and that love will naturally flow out to others. Do you remember what I told you in scripture? “This is love, not that we loved God but that God loved us.” Focusing on my love fills you with that same substance and it will flow into you until you are overflowing and then seek ways to flow out of you to others. Love is extremely contagious.

     Jesus said “I am the vine and you are the branches.” This is how love flows. Love is to the Spirit realm like blood is to the natural realm. There are two types of blood in the spirit realm. There is love and there is darkness. 

     When Jesus died on the cross he poured out his natural blood and also poured out more love than the earth had ever seen. When he presented his blood on the altar of heaven which blood was it? His natural blood was spilled on the earth? So what was the blood he brought into heaven? 

     Through his act of love all of history was changed in the physical world and the spiritual world. He put away sin once and for all. He reconciled all things back unto me but it takes faith in his act of love for that substance to cause you to be reborn into his image. Receiving him and his sacrifice opens your spirit and soul to the love that causes all things to become new. All receive forgiveness but not all receive his blood and become born of the spiritual blood.

     As you take time to think on these things more will be revealed to you and you will see how the physical body represents the spiritual body. The spiritual is so far advanced above the physical but the physical body represents what happens in the heavenly realm.

     Jesus, the lamb was slain before the foundation of the world but the physical representation of that spiritual act didn't appear until thousands of years later. All things in the earth are like a movie portraying what happened in the war in heaven. This will be revealed in its time but the most important thing to focus on is love. Remember that focusing on how much you are loved opens your spiritual veins to receive a transfusion of my love that will change you from the inside out.

     I am conforming you into the image of Christ and love is the substance I am making you out of. In the heavenly realm parts can be broken down into much smaller bits than you can see on earth. On earth you can look at atoms and protons and electrons and neutrons, but in the heavenly realm these bits of matter can be broken down into much smaller substances and at the center of it all is the substance called love. If you disassembled me down to three particles they would be faith, hope and love. The greatest of these is love for without love faith and hope are useless.

     So my beloved will you open your heart and your minds and let me fill you with light and love and make you into the image of that love? Will you meditate day and night on my great love for you and let me write my love laws on your heart and in your mind? Will you let my love cleanse you and heal you and make you into the mirror image of me? Will you become love with me?

     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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One

     Thanks again to all of you who read these words and for your kind comments you send me on email. I love you each and every one and I am so thankful that we share this journey of faith together. 

     As I was praying to day I asked Father what correction was needed in my life and did he have any words to share with my loved ones. He gave me the following words and I hope you are blessed by them also.

     My children, look deep into my presence. Feel my great love for you and my hunger for your attention. Look with your heart and not your eyes. Take a moment and open your heart to me. It takes time to focus on me and to take your mind off the world. Find a quiet place and let everything else wait. I want quality time with you as well as quantity.

     I have many things to teach you but these things take time and so many of my children don’t really spend time with me. Yes they throw up a prayer or sing a song but they don’t set aside time to worship me with their time. Worship is more than a song or a quoted verse it is spending time connecting your heart to mine.

     The church has taught so many people that you can just squeeze me in to whatever you are doing but that is not quality time. Try that with your spouse and your marriage goes bad quickly. Yes you can spend time with your spouse while doing the dishes or doing paperwork or watching TV, but is that the same as one on one time just conversing? Isn't it better when you put everything else aside and spend time together alone? 

     Did you learn to read and write and get your education by just thinking about school or did you have to spend time with your teacher in class? Did you learn how to do your job just by thinking about it while doing something else or did you have to spend time working at your profession?

     Please my beloved ones, take time to prioritize each of your lives and put aside some of the things that are not necessary to your destiny. I know you are busy but your lives are being wasted on things and not on my plan. I know each of you have things that must be done, but things are out of order and I love you too much to see your lives wasted. I want you to finish your course and get your rewards because of my great love for you. I want each of you to win your race. 

     The gifting the church is looking for comes from intimacy with me and that doesn't happen while your million mile an hour life is buzzing by and you try to fit me in between phone calls. I am a jealous God and I want my time with my children. I treasure every second of time that you set aside to visit with me. 

     Please take time to shut some things down and come to me in the secret place for instruction. This is for your benefit because there are things that I am doing in the earth that are particular to your time that haven’t been released before. There are revelations that are necessary for your calling but these things don’t just happen. These things are an effect of my presence and my glory flowing through each of you to accomplish my purpose and your destiny. 

     Everyone wants the power the early church had but no one wants to do what they did. They met daily and spent time praying daily and broke bread from house to house daily and were consumed with me. As they would fellowship with me and each other I added to the church. They didn’t have board meetings and building campaigns and fund raisers to help bring in the lost. People were amazed at my presence with them and were drawn to them. They even sold all they had so that there would be enough for everyone to take the time necessary to spend with me, but as the years went by they got distracted by the world again and lost the intimacy with me and lost all the glory that was flowing from them. 

     I am the vine and you are the branches and I want you to bear much fruit because I love you. You are my planting. You are my garden and I want you to flourish. Remember my beloved if you will seek me first then all the things you are working yourselves to death for will come to you without working eighty hours a week. 

     If you will get your day in order then your life will become organized as well. Am I the first thought on your mind in the morning or is the coffee pot your God? Am I the last thought on your mind at night or is tomorrow’s agenda in charge of your sleep?  I want to be your provider and your caregiver and everything that you need, but I must be your first priority for these things to work for you.

      Think about how things are in heaven right now. Are the angels sweating? Do you think if you saw one here you would see him rubbing his feet and talking about the bad day he had? Would he be holding his back and wishing he didn't have to work so hard? Weren't you instructed to pray that my will on earth would be the same as my will in heaven?

     I am not saying you can take your ease and be lazy on the earth but I am saying my yoke is easy and my burden is light so if you are having a hard time pulling your load or carrying your pack it is not because of me. I do not add burdens, I remove burdens.

     I want your life to be even better than before the fall of mankind. The garden was planted and Adam was ruling the whole world and still had time to walk with me in the cool of the day. Imagine being so efficient that you had time to take care of the garden, care for every animal on earth and still have every afternoon off. This is what I want for you my loved ones. I want you to have great success in the things I give you to do and I want you to be free from the way the world does things. 

     Think of your own children for a moment. Do you want them to have to work as hard as you do for a living? Do you want them to spend their whole lives working for things that don’t satisfy and have no eternal reward? Don’t you want them to prosper and have time for vacations and time to enjoy their families? I want even better for you my beloved and you can have these things if you seek me first and put some other things aside.

     Don’t be discouraged my loved ones. I tell you these things because I love you and have great things in store for you. There is a world to conquer by faith, not by hard works. This is the victory that overcomes the world even your faith. Where do you get faith? Do you earn it or is it a free gift from me? For by grace you are saved by faith and that not of yourselves it is my free gift to you. 

     Now those of you with children think about this. Do you send your children away empty handed when they come to visit or are you always trying to give them something before they go? Where do you think that originated? I will always give you something when you spend time with me. I have already given you all things that pertain to life and godliness but when you spend time with me I give you the keys to unlock all these spiritual things so they can be manifested in the earth. All the things you need will do you no good if they are kept locked up in the spiritual realm and you never learn to release them into the earthly realm. After you leave the earth you want need anything to help you live Godly. That is not a problem here. Everyone here is full of life and Godliness.

     So please my beloved. Spend time with me so I can unlock these things for you. Everyone wants the same virtue that Jesus had but remember that Jesus was one with me. All of his thoughts were mine. All of his time was mine and he still took time to spend with me in private worship and prayer. 

     Everyone wants the virtue to flow like it did for Peter so that people are healed in a shadow length around him but think about what Peter said. He said he wasn’t leaving my words to wait tables. My voice was more important to him than even the chores of running the church. They came to church to pray not to preach and the lame man was healed while they were going to pray. Peter would get so lost in my presence in his prayer time that he would be filled with my glory. The sick would be on the side of the road as he went home and they would be healed as he walked by but he was walking home, lost in the cloud of my presence.

     Think about what Jesus prayed before he was taken and crucified. He prayed that each of you would become one with us. You are all perfected by the perfect love of becoming one with us. 

     It is really what you are seeking my beloved and don’t know it. This is eternal life: To know the one true God and Jesus Christ whom I sent. To know me means to become intimately acquainted with me. We are perfected in one.

     There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism. One hope of your calling. He that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit. Do you see how much you are loved my beloved? Christ in you the hope of glory. My greatest hope is for us to become one. I love you too much to be apart. I don’t want it to be me and you, I want it to be one.

    I made you my temple because I love living inside you and I am thrilled that you would invite me in and become one with me and with Jesus and with Holy Spirit. Behold I stand at the door and knock. Will you open to me?

     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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