Lose Your Mind, Find Your Heart

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     As I was praying today Father spoke these words to me and asked me to write them down and share them with you.

He said:

     My children, you know me by heart. It's when your head tries to explain me that you get into doubt and trouble. You have been taught to be a learner and not a believer. You heart has a knowing device inside. You know me in that part of you. Your mind filters me by what the current situation is but your heart only knows me by love and trust.

     The problem my children face today is that they are in their minds and out of their hearts. You seek knowledge and wisdom but wisdom is not a mind thing, it's a heart thing. You haven't settled it in your heart that you are loved and that is the basis of our relationship. My love must be the rock that you build your life on. 

     You always look at situations and then try to see how they fit into my love for you. You think my love changes according to what you do. This is not the case.  Part of the problem is that you still judge yourselves by the law of Moses and not by the law of the Spirit of life. So you expect calamity and judgment because your mind thinks you deserve it. Your minds see weakness and failure while your true innermost heart sees the perfect work of the cross and the blood of my son. Your hearts are on the inside looking out and your minds always seem to be on the outside looking in.

     Many of you wonder how you could be so loved if you are in hardship? Think of your own friends and even some of you can look at your children. Are there those you love who are in trouble and you wish they weren't? You don't control their world so you can't help them. You love them but you can't force your will upon them. They have forgotten who they are and drift off into circumstances that are outside their true character. Only realizing the truth of who they really are will change them.

     My church is inside out. My living water flows from your innermost being. Not from your mind. Knowledge brought death into this world. It still does. Anyone who tries to find me with the mind and not the heart is looking in the wrong place. Everlasting salvation is knowing me and the One whom I sent. It's not in knowing facts and dates and scriptures. It's in childlike trust in the Father whose lap you sit in. The mind is not renewed from the outside, but it is renewed from being taught by your heart. Trust me, know me, fellowship with me in your hearts and let your hearts train your mind to trust also.

     There is a place of abiding in me that your whole life is locked away in me and not in the world. You must choose to abide in me. I wont force you to do so. You can keep abiding in fear and doubt and unbelief or you can rest in my love and abide in my protection. When you consider things in your mind and not your heart then you get out of abiding, and you wander back into the wilderness of doubt.

     It's time to come into the life of being in the secret place and knowing that I love you. I live in your heart, so where will you abide with me? You are perfect in me. You are complete in my Son. You didn't get there by rules and regulations and keeping the law. You didn't get there through knowledge. You got their when the faith I put in you woke you up to the truth. The truth is that my son baptized you into his death and I raised you into his life. This was my doing and not your own. Your mind tells you that you must do something or earn something to be accepted, but faith in my Son was all it took to please me.

     It's time to focus on light and get your minds off the darkness. Darkness is not removed by studying it. You can only destroy darkness with light. Studying the problem will not make you the answer. When my son walked the earth he kept his eyes on me and destroyed the works of darkness. Today my church sets their eyes on the darkness and is condemning and judging. This doesn't help. If you would all focus on me you would become the light that destroys darkness from people's lives again. Your job is not to look at the darkness but to look at me and shine until it's all gone.

     It's time to set your eyes on me and your hearts on my love. Don't filter what you see through religious eyes. Don't try to get there by knowledge. It's through love. Love is the door to all things of my Spirit. You were loved from the beginning and you are always loved. Abiding in my love builds trust in me and you can once again to live from your heart and not your head. 

     With the heart man believes unto righteousness. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. It's all about your heart because that is where you love from. Any work, whether you think it good are bad is a dead religious work if it wasn't born from a heart of love. I so loved the world that I gave my Son. I wouldn't have done it for any other reason.

    I told you that whatever you desire when you pray you will receive. Holy desire comes from the heart and not the mind. The power of prayer is not in the words you speak but in the desire that is within you. When Jesus stood before Lazarus' tomb he said” I thank you Father that you always hear me.” What did he say before that? He hadn't said anything. I heard the cry of his heart and that is the prayer I answered. He commanded Lazarus to come forth because he knew I already answered the desire of his heart. The words were just for the people to hear. Lazarus was coming out even if he had not said a word. Give it a try. Pray to me with your heart and not with words. You will see that  you get more prayers answered.

     You will find me when you seek me with your whole heart.
You will find answers when you seek me with your whole heart. Which is better, to know the answer or to know the one who is all the answers? I am your answer and I am in your heart. Living in you because I adore you. Not because I have to but because I want to. I chose you as my dwelling place because in my heart you are the one I desired.

     Will you look in your heart and fellowship with me there? Will you go out of your mind for me? Will you lose your mind so that you will find your heart again? Your mind has been programmed for unbelief. Your heart believes all things. Faith, hope and love abide in your heart long after your mind has given up. I long to share many things with you, but they are heart matters and not mind games. Please come to me and lets make melody together in your heart.

     I love you dear children. Please love each other and encourage each other. Discouragement comes from the dark realm. It shouldn't be in my people. Remind each other of the perfect work of salvation that my Son completed for and in you. Speak the truth in love. Tell each other just how holy and righteous you are because of what my Son did. Learn to live in this truth. This is the truth I put in your hearts. Go ahead. Lose your mind. Find your heart. You will love it.




     This is the end of the words He spoke to me a few 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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I Am Here

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     While praying today Jesus spoke to me and asked me to write down these words and share them with you. 

He said:

     My children, so many of you seek wisdom and knowledge and you are still eating of the wrong tree. What you should seek is relationship with me. In me dwells all the wisdom and all the knowledge you will ever need. How long will you walk in this endless circle of learning and never knowing? Your thirst for knowledge for knowledge's sake is blinding you to the truth. This truth is Christ in you the hope of glory. It is me in you that you need to be learning by fellowship.


     There are millions of books that you can read and thousands upon thousands of sermons, and these are not bad things but they are not me. I created the scriptures and have protected them so you could study, but I don't want you to study about me. I want you to study with me. The truth is that my words are in the book but I became flesh and still wear the flesh I wore, although it has changed by the glory of the resurrection. I wrote a book, but I am a person. Some of you love the book more than me.


     Think of it this way. Suppose you heard about someone and you started reading about them. You fall in love with them because of what you read but then one day they move in with you. But you just ignore them and keep reading and reading when they are with you. Instead of fellowship with the one who moved in, you keep seeking them as if they never moved in. 

     See how strange this is? Do you remember that I told the Pharisees that they searched the scriptures trying to find eternal life but life is only found in me because the book is written about me? It's the same today. I live inside you but you have more fellowship with the book and with sermons and teachings than you do with the living, breathing, eternal one who lives in you. You go from meeting to meeting and conference to conference to try to find the one who already lives inside you.


     My loved ones, will you please believe the truth? I am in you and with you and yet you act as if you are speaking to someone a million miles away. I am right here. It's me in your heart? Wouldn't it be more fun when you read your bible if you read it and ask me what I think about that? Wouldn't it be fun if you came to the revelation that I am always with you? What if you get to the point that you can always see me at your right hand? What will this do for your faith? What will this do to your fear and doubt?


     This is the truth of Pentecost. The God who dwells in heaven now dwells in people. You are the habitation of Holy Spirit. You are my dwelling place but you don't see me. You see your problems. You see your bills. You see the chaos that is in the world but you refuse to see me.

     Please my beloved. See me. You have ears to hear and eyes to see. It's your unbelief that I am truly with you that is blinding you to the truth. Just because you don't see me doesn't mean I'm not here. Did you ever have someone sneak up on you and you didn't know they were there? Were they there? Yes they were but you didn't see. Your blindness to them didn't change the truth. 

     I am always with you. You can believe it or not. If you do believe it you can see me in every situation in your life working with you and through you to change all things. If you don't see me then you tend to try to fix things yourself and don't see where I am trying to help you. This leads to more unbelief and more problems.


     I want you to see me. I want you to know that I am with you. Many of you will quote the scripture that says it's more blessed to believe without seeing. Well too late. You already believe so you are past that now. So why don't you see me? It's because you let the darkness of this world blind you.


     Do you remember what I said through my beloved John in the letter you call First John?

If anyone claims, “I am living in the light,” but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is still living in darkness. Anyone who loves another brother or sister is living in the light and does not cause others to stumble. But anyone who hates another brother or sister is still living and walking in darkness. Such a person does not know the way to go, having been blinded by the darkness.


     There is so much of the world in my church. People walking in unforgiveness of others and not walking in love. So much jealousy and fighting for prestige among those who should be washing the feet of those they are trying to be lord over. My children have set their eyes on the world and their eyes have become filled with what they are staring at. Now they can no longer see me because they are blinded by the world.


     As long is your focus is the world or the things of the world then you are not seeing me. I am in your heart and can be plainly seen if you will look with the eyes of your heart. As Paul my apostle said in the letter to the Corinthians.:

“For God who said Let there be light in the darkness,” has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.


     My Father's glory shines in my face and my face is in you. You can see me in you when you look for me with your heart. When you look into my face then my face shines upon you and you transmit that same glory for all to see. This is why the righteous will shine like the noonday sun. You will learn to see me as I am, and my face will light your face, and my Father's glory will be seen by all.


     The secret is to look at me more than you gaze upon anything else. Don't look at the world and try to find truth. Look into my eyes and see the truth that makes you free. As long as I am a faraway God you will get faraway results. When I become the God who dwells in you then you will walk in my power and my might.


     This is another problem in the church. It is my Father's Kingdom, His Glory and His power. Many only seek us for that power and not for the sake of love. The only time they are intimate with us is when they are making requests. You have a term you use for those people. You call them gold diggers. They want my power and my might and my glory but strangely they don't want my holiness, my patience and my long-suffering. 

     I never used my Father's power for my own will. Yet this is common today as many want my power just to validate their ministries. This is why there is no power in what you call church. The real miracles and signs and wonders are in the earth being delivered from heaven by those who seek to be nameless and faceless. The ones who don't walk around with cameras to capture Father's glory for their own uses.


     This will change soon as my children learn to see me. When you all learn to see my face and to see into the realm called heaven you will no longer be gazing at YouTube. You will be amazed at who and what you see when your eyes are truly opened.


     So my loved ones. Look into my face and learn to see me. Look for me in your heart. I am in your heart. This is the New Covenant. I will walk in you and live in you and be your God and you will be my people. I will write my laws in your hearts and on your minds. Not on tables of stone but on beating hearts and loving minds. I took away your sins. They are remembered no more. So walk in my light and my love by seeking my face and not my hand.


     When I become everything to you then you will not be lacking anything. I want to be your all in all. I want you to love me as I love you. I want you to seek me because you love me. Why seek things that wear out and things that never satisfy? I am the drink you want. I am the food you desire. I am the wealth you seek. I am the joy you long for. When I become your health then you will no longer need healing. When I become your life then death can never touch you.


     I am the true love of your life. I have loved you from before the foundation of creation. I have adored you for ages eternal. You are my delight and my desire. I live right here inside you and yet you gaze into the sky looking for me as if I were that far away. I want you to love me for love's sake. Just as I love you. I don't want or need your money. I don't want or need your service. All I want is you and all of you. I want your heart. We can only be truly one if you give it to me.


     Please my beloved. I am love, I am life. I am hope. I am joy. I am might. I am eternal and I am not far away. I am here. Look inside your heart and see me.




     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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Are You in Faith?

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Hebrews. Chapter Eleven



32. And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets.

33. who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

34. quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight..

35. Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life.

36. Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

37. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated

38. of whom the world was not worthy, wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

39. And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised,

40. since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.




     I know many of you, just like me found this to be a challenging year. We had great victories but suffered great losses. We faced trials and hardship and although we fought and prayed with all our might we still lost loved ones who went home to heaven. We know they are not lost, but only have moved away to their reward, but we still feel like we fought hard and lost. Many of us have struggled in many ways but we are not forsaken. We were told that in this world we would have tribulation but to be of good cheer. So what happened? Did our faith fail?


     We as a church have fallen victim to a wrong idea of what faith is and what it isn't. We are told to ask for something and if we get it our faith worked and if we don't get it then our faith failed. This is left over garbage from the “name it claim it” nonsense that infected the church years ago. Yes there is truth in confession but I can confess a thousand times a day that I am going to be a trillionaire, but if that is not Father's will for me it will not come to pass.

     Confession is not taking a promise that belongs to someone else and making it my own. For example. God promised Abraham he would become the Father of many nations. He didn't promise me that. I can't take his promise and make it my own. There are promises made to all of us and those we can claim, but the more you believe it the less you have to confess it. I don't go around all day confessing that my name is Michael. I know that is who I am. I don't have to keep trying to convince myself that is who I am by confessing it.

     Our faith is not in situations and victory. Our Faith is in God. If you read all of Hebrews Chapter Eleven you will see great victory but also torture and torment, but if you notice it says that all of the ones in this chapter died in faith but didn't receive the promise that we have. The promise is the Spirit of God living within us. It's Christ in you the hope of glory.


     Battles will come and go. We will win some. We will lose some but even in losing we have the victory if our faith remains in him and not in the outcome. The trying of your faith isn't in if you win the battle or lose the battle. The trying of your faith is whether or not we get the outcome we hope for do we still have faith in God and his Christ? 

     If I pray for someone to be healed and they don't get healed does that mean that Jesus is no longer the healer? How silly? If you pray and the answer is yes then you win. If you pray and Father say's no you still win. The only way he would say no is if there is something better or a really great reason to say no. All the promises of God are yes and amen in Christ. He is the mediator of the New Covenant and all it's promises.

     He will never hold back anything he promised, but sometimes we don't understand the eternal plan. When Jesus spoke about being crucified Peter got all disturbed and had to be rebuked. Would we not think the same thing if we were in his shoes? He couldn't see past the temporary and see the eternal. He couldn't imagine any scenario where Jesus being crucified and taken away from them was a good thing.

     I don't always understand Father's reasoning but I am learning to trust him. I have prayed for loved ones who were dying and seen miraculous healing. I have prayed for loved ones who were dying and watched them die. I am not the healer. Jesus is the healer. When I pray I do so with all my heart and all my might, but if I don't get the answer I was expecting I have to trust him and keep believing in him. And I can't let condemnation make me feel like a failure.

     In Act's Chapter Twelve Herod cut off James' head with a sword. He arrested Peter and would have killed him but prayers were prayed and Peter was rescued. Was no one praying for James? Of course they were. 

     Why did Jesus raise Lazarus from the dead but not his own cousin John the Baptist? Did he love one more than the other? Of course not. Could Jesus not have put his head back on his body and restored him? We know for certain that he could. Was John's blood necessary for the eternal purpose of God? Maybe so. Maybe some would not grasp hold of Jesus until John was completely out of the way? We don't know. We can only trust.

     I say these things that you might find encouragement. Just because what you wanted did not come to pass doesn't mean you are a failure. So many of you are discouraged and ready to give up because you prayed and didn't get what you prayed for. I have been there. I understand disappointment, I really do, but just because you pray and the answer doesn't come doesn't mean you didn't have enough faith. It doesn't mean you are a failure.

     Two apostles' mother wanted her sons to sit on either side of Jesus in his throne, but he said these things were his Father's business and he couldn't grant it. There are things we don't understand and we just have to accept the old saying “Father knows best.” Paul wanted to go to Asia to preach but Holy Spirit said “no.” There are plans and seasons that God ordained and we have to trust in his wisdom.

     

     As I was writing down these words Father's voice came to me and he asked me to share these words with you. Here are his words:


     My beloved ones, rest in me. Trust in my plan. Faith isn't about getting your way. It's about trusting me to make what is best for you come to pass. 

     Faith is like a little child who doesn't know how Daddy provides, but trusts him to do so. Little children don't try to work up enough faith for their parents to take care of them. They just trust and love and play. They don't go around quoting Dad chapter five where Dad promised them a new bike. They make their requests by asking but if they don't get everything they ask for they don't assume it was because they didn't have enough faith.

     I have an eternal plan. You didn't choose me. I chose you, I ordained you. I delighted in you before you were born. Because you are my children you are born for eternity. You have eternal purpose inside your destiny. If you will trust me and let me choose what is best for you.

     Don't be discouraged if you don't always get your way. That is the way a spoiled child acts. I promise you that I have eternal rewards for you and I have many gifts of my love waiting to lavish upon you. But please my beloved, know that you are in training. Hardships are necessary. Diamonds are not formed in marshmallows. Steel isn't forged in bathwater. Even Jesus became the perfect high priest because of the hardships he endured. We will rule and reign together and you are being trained for that purpose.
Please see yourselves as in training. Hardships are not punishment for lack of faith. They are just resistance to build your strength and trust. 

     Your time on earth is not about earth. The world you know will be changed for eternity. This is why I told you to set your minds on things above and not below. Don't look at your hardships as punishment. Look at them as challenges. Each situation can teach you something about my character and teach you how to trust me more.

     So many of you have learned through false teaching that you can take my word and drive your ship anyway you want it to go. You have free will and you can do that but it's not best for you. There is power in the scriptures that you can harness to have your own way, but these things will not be done in my name or my son's name. 

     These are the ones who will stand before him one day claiming they did all these wonderful works in his name and he will have to tell them that they didn't know him and he didn't know them. They didn't seek a relationship of trust with him. They only wanted his power to build their names in the earth. Always seek relationship and not power.

     Do you remember the greatest example of faith that my Son found on the earth? It was the Centurion who understood that the kingdom works because of the king. The king says go and one goes and he says come and one comes. They don't all go, they don't all come, each one does as he is told. Yes you are my children, my sons and daughters. Yes you have authority because of who you are. The true sons of God will always do my will, even at their own peril. They don't seek their own will but mine.

     So my loved ones. Will you trust me? If you ask me for something and I say yes and give it to your right away will you rejoice? If you ask me for something and I tell you that you can't have that yet will you rejoice? If you ask me for something as my Son did when he asked was there anyway that the cup could pass from him, and you are told no, will you rejoice?

     Oh my little ones, how I love you so. I told you to labor to enter into rest. Not to labor to prove you have faith. He that has true faith in me will rest in me. You will understand that faith is a gift I gave you. You will put that faith in me and trust me. My sweet ones, don't be discouraged if you don't get your way all the time. Keep trusting and keep singing. Know that I wrote your lives in my book long before you were born.

     You are safe in me. Don't let others convince you that you need to move a mountain to prove you have faith. You already moved the mountain that they are still circling. You moved that big old Mount Sinai with all of it's laws and fear and condemnation. You moved it out of your way so you could come to the heavenly city, surrounded by angels and those who are gone ahead of you into glory. You have entered into trust and rest and into Christ. You are safe in us and your safety is not your own doing. 

     The good fight of faith is to remain in rest and not to be discouraged. It is to know that no matter what happens you are in the middle of my love and my heart. He that believes that my son is the Christ has overcome the world. You may have failed at all you attempted to do but if you still believe that my son is your salvation then you are still in Faith. 

     Be at peace my children and share this peace with others. Encourage each other daily and love each other as your own soul.




     This is the end of the words He spoke to me a few 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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Let Me Drive

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As I was praying today I heard Father's voice and he asked me to write down these words and share them with you.
He said:



     My little children. Those whom I love more than you can understand at this time. I know many of you are disappointed and some have even given up. You look at hardship and trouble and you think that you have failed or done something terribly wrong. This is not the case. Jesus warned you that in the world you would have tribulation but also told you to be of good cheer because he had overcome the world. So how does this bring you cheer? It is because he is your representative. He overcame for you and as you. His victory is your victory. You must trust in him.


     The reason that so many of you get disappointed is because your hope is in things and events and not in a person. Just as you have faith in me your hope should also be in me. It shouldn't be in events that may or may not come to pass. It shouldn't be in bigger houses, better jobs and more money. All these things are gifts that I give you, but you shouldn't spend your life hoping for things. You should spend your lives in fellowship with a person. Yes, hope is a person. My son is the blessed hope. He is the hope and the desire of the nations. Put your hope in him and not in worldly events and things that pass away.


     I want you to have eternal hope. I want you to know that there is a place to rest your hope that never fails. If you put your hope in me and not in events and things then you will never be disappointed. For example. Some of you hoped that you will find great prosperity this year. When it didn't come you are now disappointed and ready to give up. You put all of your effort and all the faith you could muster into an event, and now you are upset because you think your faith has failed.


     Here is where many go wrong. All of the so called faith messages you have been taught are not accurate. Remember, the kingdom is a family, not a business and not a religion. These teachings tell you to pick out what you want and ask for it and go through all these rules and regulations and quote the correct scriptures and you will get what you asked for. The truth is I have already given you all things that pertain to life and godliness so what is there left to ask me for? You would do better to invest your prayer time in praying for others and not for things.


     The kingdom is a family and we run by family rules. You have an inheritance and all things are yours already. Just as in an earthly family the one who receives the inheritance doesn't get tho choose what he inherits. There is a will and there is an administrator who oversees the wishes of the one who gives the inheritance. I have freely given you all things along with my son Jesus. You lack nothing.


     So the key to having these things is to trust me. Have you ever considered that what I want for you may be better than what you want for yourself? Maybe you have been as they say “believing” for a new house. Maybe you picked it out already. Maybe you are investing all your effort and strength into making this come to pass. Maybe I don't want you to have that house because I have something better. Maybe my eternal purpose for you leads you to a different place. So you spend your time and effort in this struggle they call “believing” for a new house and the house you want gets sold and you feel like a total failure because you missed it. This is not the way a family operates.


     There is a much better way to live. It's called the kingdom. It's called being like a child. Having childlike trust knowing you have a father that loves you and wants what is best for you. Trust me to bring all the things I've already given to you along in their right time and order. This way you can just put your trust in me and your hope in me. Instead of hoping for things and events you can rest your hope in me knowing that I have your very best interest in mind. You can relax and spend all that time you once spent in trying to have faith and you can have real faith that leads to rest. Instead of quoting a hundred scriptures over and over to try to get something, maybe you could spend that time in thanksgiving knowing that I will get you what you need when you need it.


     My little loved ones, would you deny me the pleasure of giving you the gifts that I picked for you? Must you choose for yourself and deny your father the great pleasure of expressing my love for you in the ways and gifts that I choose? I have so many wonderful things to bring into your lives at the right moment and so many of you have your hearts set on something else and miss out on my best.


     I don't say these things to condemn you. There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ. I say these things to free you from a system of religion that has crept into my kingdom. You do not have to struggle and strain and jump through the hoops of the so called "faith system" to get what you want. I have already taken care of and fully funded your future. It is your choice. You can struggle and strain and try to steer your own life in the way you think it should go, or you can rest in me and enjoy the ride. So many of you didn't like the script I wrote for your lives, so you tore it up and are writing your own.


     There is a place of true faith to live in me in total trust so that you won't be disappointed. You can learn to rest in my love and know that no matter what events come or don't come you are safe in me and your future is secure. Instead of trying to calculate each and every move of your life you can just abandon yourselves to the joy of fellowship and let me take care of the details. You can laugh and be full of joy and hope because you know the details are in my hands. When you have hard times or struggles you know that all these things will turn out in your favor.


     So my loved ones? What will it be? Will you continue to put your hope in events and things or will you learn to rest in me and live by my faith. I have faith in myself and my ability to conform you into the image of Jesus. I gave you a measure of faith to believe in me and my son. You don't have to believe you can fly. You just have to believe you are in the one who can. You don't have to believe that you can heal the sick or raise the dead. You just have to believe the one who can lives in you.


     When you put all of your faith in my son and his ability you enter into rest and you hide your life inside of him. Rest in me. Trust in me. Hope in me. I have a glorious journey for you that is full of delight and glory. I can only take you there if you let me drive




     This is the end of the words he spoke to me a little while ago.
I hope you are encouraged by these words.
Until next time,
Grow Rich in His Grace,
I love you all,
michael

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Ephesians Chapter One


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 praying today I heard Father's voice. He asked me to write these words and share them with his adorable children. That would be you. So, here are his words.


     My loved and lovely ones, do you know how long you have been loved? I didn't just decide to fall in love with you one day. I didn't just love you when you answered my call. I have loved you for eternity and will love you throughout eternity. You are not part of my plan. You are my plan.

     I am love and love needs loved ones to express itself. I don't just have love and feel love. I am love. I am a never ending supply of love and there is no limit to how many loved ones I can love. It's not something I run out of. Those of you who have children understand this. You have your first child and you can't imagine loving someone so much. And then you have another and your love for one is not greater than your love for the next one. Your love is not divided, it is multiplied by the number of children that you have. It's the same with me. The more children I have the more I am multiplied.

    You are my beloved children and you are a great blessing to me. You think your failures and your weaknesses make me smaller because you are mine? No way! I have complete confidence in my love for you. Love never fails and you will not fail. You may slip and trip and stumble but you will find my arms catching you when you do. Do you hear the scripture above? You are without fault in my eyes. Oh if only my children would see each other the way I see you. Perfect and holy.

     My loved ones, this is the mission I am calling you to. I am calling you to speak the truth to each other in love so that you will all know how much you are in my image. Tell each other how holy and righteous you are in Christ. Tell each other how faultless you are in my eyes. 

     Put this image before each of your eyes and in each of you hearts. This is most important because as a man thinks in his heart so is he. Whatever image you paint of yourselves in your hearts will steer your lives to become like that image. If you see yourselves and weak and sick then your physical world will follow the image it was given to portray. If you see yourselves as holy and blameless and perfect then your physical world will follow that image. This is why I give you visions and dreams. Once you see something you can become what you see.

     Think of it this way. I had an image in my heart and in my mind of how I wanted the heavens and earth to be. Then I created that image by speaking the truth. It's not the other way around. You must believe in your heart first before you speak the truth. Your heart knows the truth. It knows if you believe something or not. You can speak from a believing heart and create worlds. You can speak from a doubtful heart and create chaos.

     So how do you convince your heart so that you can confess the truth? There is one truth that is absolute and that is Christ. He is the way the truth and the life. He is your measuring stick. If it's not true about him then it's not true. You can believe the truth and be strengthened or you can believe the lie and destruction sets in. My son came and demonstrated who I am. He was the exact likeness of me. We are one and he modeled that oneness so that you could know an invisible God by seeing my visible Son. Take all the things you believe and measure them by him. As you do this you will expose many lies that you have believed that bring destruction into your world. You destroy the lie by embracing the truth.

     So here is the truth. I love you. I have always loved you and will always love you. I sent my Son to save you because I love you. When doubt creeps in and tells you that you are forsaken and not loved then just look at the cross. Would a God who went through so much pain to save you really leave you? There is never a moment when you are not loved and never a moment when you are alone.

     You are my plan. You were always my plan. Adam's body was just dust. The life came from my breath so even Adam had my life in him. . You are not born of Adam. You are born of the last Adam. You are one Spirit with me. We are one. We are not divided. The life that is in you has always been in me so in a way, you have always been with me. I know this messes up some peoples' religion but this is truth.

     Think of it this way. If you had children and they were kidnapped would they stop being your children? Would they not still be your children even though they were taken prisoner? What if while they were taken captive they were brainwashed and they forgot who they really were? Would that cause them to cease being your children? What if while they were brainwashed they did some really bad things. Would that stop them from being your children?

     Do you remember the parable of the lost sheep? Whose sheep did my son say he was seeking to find? Did he say they were the enemies' sheep? They were our sheep and they were led astray. This is why we seek to save that which is our own. When my church stops believing it's us versus them and realizes that those who are considered against you are just lost and brainwashed and have their identity in the wrong place, then they will see them as lost family and go after them.

     I love all my children. I sent my son to save that which was lost. You were not just lost but captured. You had to be bought back. The enemy had you so bound that we had to do a hostage swap. My son for all of you. Your enemy thought he won. He thought he had Jesus right where he wanted him. He didn't realize my plan all along was to save you along with him. He had no idea that my son is absolute truth and truth can't be bound by a lie. Your enemy tried the usual route. He tried to buy Jesus off with fortune and fame and power. After all it had worked with so many before including Adam. Once he realized he couldn't buy Jesus, he decided to kill him and take what belonged to him.

     But there is one thing your enemy knows nothing about and that is the power of my love. I was not willing to leave my Son in hell. I was not willing that he would perish. Your enemy does not know love and he would sell anyone out for any reason. He had no idea of the love bond between Jesus and me.

     He had no idea that my son would love you all so much that he would take your sin's, your sickness and your poverty upon himself just so he could destroy it. Your enemy didn't understand the power of unquenchable love. I was not willing to leave Jesus in death and I would not leave you there either. You were with him on his cross and his resurrection is yours. This is why before the cross men who died went to Abraham's bosom and after the cross my beloved Paul would say “to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.” All things became new by what Jesus did. His blood cleansed earth and heaven. All things are new again.

     So what am I saying to you my beloved? I am saying that you were loved from the beginning. Why would I create an earth? Did I need one? I made it so that you could dwell there and we could walk together. My plan was always for us to be together for eternity. I created eternity so there would be no limits to how many blessings I could give you. Millions of eons from now I will still be revealing to you just how much you are loved.

     My loved ones: This is truth. You are my plan. You are not accidental. I didn't just go wandering through the universe looking for people to save. The lamb was slain before the foundation of the world. I always knew what it would cost me to have a family and I paid it up front so that you would be safe. I want you to be so secure in my love that you learn to love others just as I love you. It's hard to give away what you don't have. Once you have full belief in my love for you then you can pour that same love into others until all can see just how much they mean to me.

     If you are having problems loving others then meditate on my love for you. Take another look at what my son Jesus paid to get you and place your own value there. Those of you with children understand that when a child is born they are helpless. They depend on you for everything. They can't work or create or make anything of physical value. But you would sell your whole world to protect them. Their value to you is not based on what they can create. There value to you is in love.

     Understand my dear children, I love you more than you can understand at this moment. But that's okay. Love has to be experienced. It can't be explained anyway. There are three things that remain, faith, hope and love and the greatest is love. In other words: There are three building blocks of the universe, faith, hope and love. The greatest is love.

     If you consider just for a moment how much I love you then your faith and your hope will return. There are times in your life when you have believed you didn't have these three, but I did. I always have faith in you. I always have hope for you and I am endlessly in love with you. I adored you when you were in my heart in the beginning. I adore you now while you live on the earth in the physical realm. I love you for eternity when we dwell together face to face. You my loved one, are eternally adorable to me.


     This is the end of the words He spoke to me at this 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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Philippians Chapter Three


12. I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me.

13. No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead,

14. I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.




     As I was praying today these scriptures came to my heart. I began meditating on them and Father's voice came to me. He asked me to write down these words and share them with you.

He said:

     My children, please put your eyes on the prize. I know some of you stumbled out of the gate and fell but your race is not over. It's not how you start that matters, its how you finish. Don't be looking back and wondering why you tripped or why you made this mistake or that mistake. You must set your eyes on the finish line and run with all your might.


     For so many of you your past mistakes have become like a deep scratch in a record. Your life is the album and it's full of beautiful music but all you hear is the scratch. Your lives are a beautiful blue sky with one cloud but all you do is stare at the cloud. You score 99 on a test and all you think about is the one you missed. 

     You can't succeed this way. You must look ahead and not behind. You must know that I am still with you. Who do you think helped you up when you stumbled? I am not counting your mistakes, I am cheering you on to finish and win the prize. I am eagerly looking forward to the day when I give you the crown of life for finishing so well.


     Stop looking back and look ahead. So many of  you spend your days wondering “what if” I had done this or that. How can you know that the outcome would be better or worse? If you had done things completely different the outcome may be the same or worse. Only eternity will tell if you made the right choices. So don't beat yourself up over what you presume are mistakes.


     I'm not saying that you shouldn't try. You should always make each choice with eternity in mind. But you are running a marathon and not a sprint. Here is a hint: Each of you has challenges and hurdles to overcome that are part of your training for your eternal destiny. Each of you will have different offices to hold forever. 

     No two races are the same. You are accountable for your race so don't worry about how others run theirs. Each of you is being trained for an eternal purpose and my training is specific to your call. So don't worry if others seem to skate through life with no difficulty while you are running through troubles daily. Rejoice that you are my champion and I am training you. 

     Look ahead to the finish line. There is a crown of glory and many eternal rewards waiting for you. I placed your rewards in heaven so that you could have them forever. If I gave them to you now you could only enjoy it while on the earth. 

     Don't be a spectator in your race. Don't stop and listen to the crowd cheer for someone else. Hear me cheering you on and hear the great cloud of witnesses who want you to win. Never expect to get your encouragement from the world. They have stopped running their race and are critiquing those who are running. They don't realize that they need to get back on track and run for themselves.


     My beloved ones, I tell you these things so that you will know that hardships build faith. I will never leave you and my son has overcome the world and you are in him. He and I and my Spirit are in you, encouraging you to run like the wind. Don't stop and don't be discouraged. 

     A new leg of your race begins each morning when you open your eyes. You may have gotten sore feet and bruises from yesterday's events but today is different. You must dig deep into your heart and say to yourself as David did when he said about me, “by you I can run against a troop and with your help I can leap over a wall.”


     I am your strength, I am your might. I will help you and be with you in trouble. When you feel you can't run one more day, I will strengthen you and give you hope and energy and you will run like a deer.


     No one can stop your race but you. You can decide not to run. You can decide the eternal prize is not worth contending for. You can choose as many have, to sit and be spectators in their own race. To watch others run as you sit and long for the days when you once ran so well. You could do that; But we both know that you are not that person. You may have stumbled or may have fallen. You may have grown weary and quit, but you can't quit forever. You can't because my Spirit is in you speaking to you now to give it one more shot. Get back in the race and run again. Let me wash your feet and put on clean shoes and get back in the race.


     Remember, the goal is not to win more toys or make more money. Christ is the goal. To grow up into the head is your challenge. To be as your master is the goal and the prize. 

     You are my champion and I chose you to run for me and I gave you a race because I believe in you. I empowered you with my love and my Spirit so that you would never be without power. I am cheering for you. I am so excited about your race that I got out of my seat and I am running along the track beside you and will be overjoyed when you win your race. So don't give up. The finish line is waiting. No more believing anything else but you are my champion. No more looking back. Get your eyes on the prize.




     This was the end of the words he spoke to me this morning.
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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You Wouldn't Cry

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Second Corinthians Chapter Five

For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands. 

We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing. 

For we will put on heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies.

While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it’s not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life. 

God himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee he has given us his Holy Spirit.

So we are always confident, even though we know that as long as we live in these bodies we are not at home with the Lord. 

For we live by believing and not by seeing. 

Yes, we are fully confident, and we would rather be away from these earthly bodies, for then we will be at home with the Lord.

     Lately some people who are very dear to my heart have moved to heaven. I know they are in the greatest joy ever, but sometimes my heart still mourns for them and I miss them terribly. I know many of you also have experienced this in recent days and months. Sometimes when I am hurting and missing loved ones Holy Spirit takes me back to a song that He gave me years ago.

     It was a hard time. Our mother had passed away and I made it through the funeral and through a couple days after. It seemed that the event hadn't hit me yet. My emotions were suspended while I tried to show strength and tried to be there for my loved ones. I made it fine until Sunday came. 

     Every Sunday evening I would call Mama just to visit and to tell her I love her. As usual on that Sunday, without thinking, I picked up my phone and dialed her number. As it rang and rang and rang it finally hit me. Mama was not going to answer. She was gone to be with Jesus.

     Suddenly the emotion hit me and I ran to my prayer closet and fell on my knees crying. I cried out to God, I just missed her so much. I sat there crying for several moments and then sweet, loving Holy Spirit does what he does so well. He comforted me.

     I don't even know how to explain how he does what he does, but suddenly I heard Mama singing. This was not unusual while she was on earth. Seems like she was always singing. I remember following her around as a child. She would go from chore to chore singing “His Eye is on the Sparrow” I can still hear it until this day. But this night it was a different song. She started with the Chorus and then sang the verses. I know many of you may not believe me and that's okay. Whether you believe me or not, I hope that you will get your own songs from heaven sung by your loved one that has departed.

     I sat there and my tears of sorrow were replaced with tears of joy and amazement. I quickly grabbed a pen and wrote down the word to this song called "You Wouldn't Cry." I hope the words to this song comfort all of you who are missing your loved ones.

     Once again, thanks to all of you for your prayers and your encouragement to me. You are a great blessing to me.
I really do love you each and every one.

      I recorded the song and there is a link to it below where you can listen. Thanks for tolerating my homemade recordings.

Until next time,
Grow Rich in His Grace,
I love you all,
michael. 

     Here is the link to the song:

     You Wouldn't Cry


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