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As I was praying today Jesus spoke to
me and asked me to write down these words and share them with you. He
said:
My loved ones, you are so busy running
here and there. Trying to learn this and that. Thinking that
knowledge is the way to come to me. You run from one teaching to the
next, and around and around in circles you go gaining lots of
knowledge but never coming to the knowledge of the truth. The truth
is that I am not looking for employees or slaves. I am looking for family.
I need you to stop seeking knowledge
and seek relationship with me instead. Yes it is good to study your
scriptures but why are you studying? Are you studying to make
yourself look more important or spiritual? Are you studying to have
things to share with others? These things are good but are not the
important thing.
If you will read your bible not to
learn facts but to learn of me and my character then you are on the
right track. All of you know the bible thumpers who can quote
scriptures and verses and give you all the Greek and Hebrew
translations but they don't have my fruit in their lives. When people
saw my disciples they knew they had been with me. It's not the things
they said it was my nature being formed in them that was visible.
If you gain all the knowledge in the
world and do not take time to know me then you have wasted your time.
In that day there will be those who did great acts of faith in my
name but they don't know me. They know how to use the power in my scriptures and in my name but they have no relationship with me.
It's all about the show and about the glory they receive just as the
Pharisees did. It's all the “look at me” gospel.
Those who take time to seek me and know
me will not be this way. Even though I sit on my Father's throne in
glory, I do so to serve you. I am your servant king because I love
you. I am your high priest forever and ever. I rule but I rule so
that I can serve those whom I love.
Those who know me know these things and they become
like me. They become humble like me and live in grace towards others.
They seek to save those that are lost not for glory's sake but for
the sake of my love. They know my heart is toward the people and the
only reason they seek to save them is because they love me and want
me to have my way. Those who love me love those whom I love.
What I am saying my loved ones is put
aside your searching and seeking for facts and figures. Learn of me.
Spend time with me and get to know how much you are loved and what
joy it is when you take one moment out of your day to talk to me.
A
lot of people know about me but few really know me. I long to know
you and for you to know me and to become one with me. We are one
Spirit but I long for you to share my thoughts in your mind. I long
for you to know me so well that you finish my sentences and know what
I am going to do just because you know my ways.
My loved ones, religion is a tricky
thing. It will tell you that there is this formula and that formula.
It will give you rules and regulations and that is not how a
relationship works. Religion can never replace relationship.
Think of
it as a marriage. Is it the wedding license that makes you one? Do
you grow together and become one because you read all the laws of
your state that pertain to marriage? Do you become one because you
live in the same house? All of you know those who live in one house
but they don't act as if they are married.
So what makes a relationship work? It
is spending time with someone and getting to know them. It's walking with them through hard times and good times and
loving them with all your heart. It is in doing things together just
for the sake of being together.
It is in letting your passion for
them rule over your intelligence. Logically it makes no sense to spend
hundreds of dollars of flowers that are already dying, but love will
do that. I plant millions of them for you every spring for you to
enjoy just because I love you. Where is the logic in an expensive
dinner when you could just eat a sandwich at home? Love is not always
logical unless your logic comes from the heart and not the mind.
This is my point my loved ones. I did
all that I have done for you because I love you. It doesn't have to
make sense to your head if it makes sense to your heart. I want you
to seek me for the same reason; because you love me.
I don't want you to go to others to
learn of me. Yes, you can learn from their experiences but those
things should only encourage you to experience me yourself.
I want you to know how much I love you.
I want you to know how much I long for you to know that love. I want
you to do all that you do for the sake of love and not for religion.
I don't want you to love me because you have to. I want you to love
me because you want to.
This is why I gave you free will. Do you want
your spouse to stay with you because they signed a license or do you
want them to stay with you because a fiery love burns in their heart
for you and they can't imagine the hell that life would be without
you?
So my loved ones, come to me and know
you are loved. Put aside all your strategies and formulas. Put aside
all your rules of religion and only be ruled by love. I sit on a
throne with my Father and with His Spirit. We rule over all things
except one. We also are ruled by love. That love sent me to a cross
for you. Nothing else put me there. Not wrath, not hatred, not
judgment. Love in it's purest form forced me to go there. Why?
Because there is a fiery love inside my heart for you that couldn't imagine the hell that eternity would be without you.
I love you my children, Please love each other also.
This is the end of the words He spoke to me at that moment.
I hope you are encouraged by these words.
Until next time,
Grow Rich in His Grace,
I love you all,
michael
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