Knowing Love

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Ephesians Chapter Three NLT


14. When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.

Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Glory to him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen.



First John Chapter Four

18. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.



John Chapter Thirteen

34. A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”



    As I was praying today these verses came to my mind and I began thinking about them. When I did Father spoke to me and asked me to listen and write and publish his word for all to hear. Here are his words. He said:



    My beloved children, I speak these things often so you will understand. Love is the only way and the only plan. All things that I have ever done are because of love and it should be the same for you. Love should be your only focus and your only plan.


    The only way to succeed in my kingdom is to abandon all things except love. The reason the power of the kingdom is not being revealed in so many of my children at this time is because you were taught religion and not love.


    The only way to build your foundation on love is to surrender to my Spirit and let my Spirit strengthen your innermost being to receive my love. As it is written, this is love, not that you loved me but that I loved you and sent my Son to deliver you from your sin which is the fallen mind and restore you to you true self which is a god from God. You must take time in my presence to get rooted and grounded in my love for you if you truly want to know who I am and who you are.


    Remember my beautiful ones that reading about is not knowing. You get to know someone by fellowship with them. You can’t read a book about someone and really know who they are. You must spend time with them. When my Son called his disciples away to follow him it wasn’t so he could teach the scriptures but so they would experience his love on a personal level. As it is written, they will know you are disciples by the love you have for each other. Not by signs and wonders or miracles but by love. Remember, even Pharaoh’s magicians could do signs and wonders. Many people can perform many acts that will amaze you but it doesn’t mean they are a disciple.


    My children the only way to truly know my love is to fellowship with me constantly. Don’t just come a couple times a day in prayer and think you are going to experience how much you are loved. Imagine if someone you loved lives with you and you only speak to them when you want something. All day long you are with them at home and never speak to them or spend time with them in fellowship. Would you really get to know them? There are people where you work or where you gather that you see often but you don’t really know them.


    My dearest ones, I live inside you. I hear every thought, every sigh, every care and every breath you take. I want you to see me as your constant companion and speak to me all day every day about everything. I want you to have a never ending conversation with me. Speak to me about all things and then listen for my voice. I always answer. I want you to focus on the truth that you are loved beyond your ability to conceive it. This is why you must be strengthened with might to even understand how much you are loved.


    All problems in your life come from having a wrong foundation. If you are afraid it’s because you haven’t spent enough time in my presence to allow my love to drive the fear from your world. If you are sick it is because you haven’t spent enough time with me for my Spirit to reveal to you that all your sickness and disease was carried away by my Son. If you are struggling with financial problems it is because you haven’t spent enough time in my love to know that all that I have is already yours. Love never fails and once your whole life is built upon the foundation of love then you won’t fail either.


    So my holy, powerful children; Will you stop talking to yourself in your inner voice and talk to me? Let me be involved in your hardest tasks and your simplest chores. I love and care for every detail in your lives but I can only live in the rooms you open for me. I will help you with complex tasks or visit with you while you sweep the floor.


    There are wonderful days ahead when just as prophesied “all shall know me from the least to the greatest” and the earth is filled with the knowledge (experience) of the glory of God. All these things will come about as the great awakening of love fully comes. It only comes by the revealing of how much you are loved and who you are.


    Will you go back and rebuild your foundation on love and how much you are loved? The church of today built itself upon scriptures instead of the person the scriptures were written about. Even those who don’t believe in me know the scriptures but they have no relationship with me. Do you remember that my Son told the Pharisees that they searched the scriptures thinking they would find life in them? The true life, the one whom the law and prophets pointed to stood before them and they rejected him. Knowing the scriptures does not equal having a relationship with the risen and exalted Christ.


    The scriptures are wonderful as originally written and contain truth about me and my plan but they are not your foundation. You can learn about me through them but you can’t know me through them. The church flourished in my love for almost four hundred years before what you call “the bible” was available. Some churches go as far as to call the book “the word of God.” Our beloved John told you and it is written in the book that in the beginning the word was with God and the word was God and we beheld “HIM” not it. What you call the bible contains words that I spoke but that book isn’t God. I AM. Suppose your name is John and you write a letter to a friend and the friend holds up the letter and tells people this letter is John? Would that make any sense? You don’t have relationships with books. You have relationships with people. So as you learn who I am you can lovingly and humbly restore those who are trapped in religion knowing that you yourselves were once trapped also.


    So please my beloved ones, look inside where I dwell and come to know my love for you. Get to truly know the one who knows you best and loves you most. Come fellowship with me as your dearest companion and find out just how great my love for you is. When my love becomes the very beat of your heart then you can truly share me with others not because you read a book or heard someone preach but because you truly know me and know my love.    Abandon all else and spend the time it takes to rebuild your foundation upon me for I Am Love!



    These are the words He gave me to share with you today.
I hope you are encouraged by these words,
Until next time,
Grow Rich in His Grace,
I love you all,
Michael

ps: Thank you very much to Frank, Dan, Carolyn and Esteban! I love you dearly!

Make Me Your Love Song

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Matthew Chapter Six


Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.



Colossians Chapter One

15. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.



    Before we begin today I would like to thank you for those who have emailed and asked about me. I haven’t been posting as much recently but it’s not because something is wrong but just because I’ve been very busy working on some projects.


    As many of you know I also write songs and music and lately I’ve been blessed with some new tools to work with but I had to take some time to learn to use them. I have been blessed to write hundreds of songs but only a handful of them are recorded because of the time it takes to do so. I don’t have a band so I have to play all the music myself and record it myself and it’s very time consuming but it also is very joyful. So I picked out a few dozen of them to get started on and at the rate I’m going I should have them all recorded by the spring of the year 2265. I am very optimistic. So thank you for bearing with me and I’ll share the music as it gets done.


    So that brings us to the message today. It’s called “Make Me Your Love Song.” This was an experience I had several years ago. I started making bird feeders and bird houses and had some free time one morning to do so. I opened my eyes and heard the birds singing but didn’t really take time to listen because I was in a hurry to get to work. It was a beautiful morning so I set up a table and took my saws out of the shed and started cutting up parts to assemble. My saw is very loud and when I turned it on a bird landed in the tree above me and started chirping very loudly at me. This bird wouldn’t stop so I turned off the saw and Holy Spirit opened my ears to hear the bird saying “Would you please turn off that noise we are trying to worship?”

    I knew that God had spoken through a donkey as written in scripture and had sent ravens to feed a hungry prophet but I was not expected to be reprimanded by a bird.


    So I turned off the saw and pulled up a chair and when I did the tree I was under filled up with dozens and dozens of birds. They all started singing and then it hit me. Once again my ears were opened and I heard them as they worshipped with such beautiful sounds. Suddenly the scripture came to me that says let everything with breath praise the Lord.


    I sat there for awhile and was overcome by the sounds I heard and the way their songs all came together as one. I sat there and started worshipping with them for a couple of hours. I got so lost in the joy of worship and in Holy Spirit that I forgot all about the work I was supposed to do. 

    As they finished singing and started flying away I began to speak to Father. I said that was a beautiful encounter. What is it about the birds? He then spoke to me the scripture about how all things were made by and through his Son. 

He gave me the following words. He said:


    My beloved Son created all things in the seen realm and the unseen realm. I was admiring the creation and my Son said to me “Father I made these creatures that sing for you and I made these beautiful flowers for you as a gift of my great love for you.” I was overcome with joy and on that day I began caring for the birds and the flowers. As it is written; not a sparrow falls that I don’t know. That is because when they fall in the physical realm they return to my hands in this realm. Everything that has life comes to me when it leaves the earth. Nothing is lost. I love the creation and soon the creation will be blessed because my true Sons will arise and care for the garden you were given. 

    My beloved one, remember to take time to listen and take time to look at the beauty we put into the world to enjoy and just remember that every time you feed birds I am with you!


    Once again I was overcome with a sense of awe and the desire to worship so I did for a few moments.


    As I usually do when I have such an encounter it quickly turns into a song. I do this as a marker so that when doubt creeps in and tries to tell me that it was just my imagination I have something to remind me that it was real or I wouldn’t have taken time to write a song about it. I encourage you to do the same when you have such an encounter. If you are an artist then draw or paint something. If you are builder then build something or whatever your talent is use it to build a memorial so that you won’t forget that your loving Father took time to share a wonderful moment with you. Or at the very least keep a journal of encounters so that you won’t forget.

    
    So I started making the bird feeders and as I did I composed this song in my heart as I was working. I hope you enjoy it.

Here are the lyrics:

Make Me Your Love Song

Verse One

I woke up this morning,

to the song of the birds.

Such beautiful music

you put in their hearts,

too lovely for words.

I got lost in their worship

all morning long.

If only I could be worship so sweet

Make me your love song.

chorus

Make me your love song

and sing me each day.

Let my life sing the story

of how your precious blood

washed my sins away.

Let heaven play the music

and let the earth sing along.

Let me be harmony

to your melody

Make me your love song.

Verse two

My life is a paper,

blank empty space.

Lord look in your heart

and pick out some notes

And put them in place.

Write me sweet verses,

And a chorus so strong.

Let your melody

Play sweetly through me

Make me your love song.

Repeat chorus

As always, I hope you are encouraged by these words.

Until next time,

Grow Rich in His Grace,

I love you all,

Michael

Here is a link to the song.

Make Me Your Love Song