Lack is a Lie: Love is The Truth

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First John Chapter Four

16. We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love.
God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.

17. And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world.

18. Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love.

19. We love each other because he loved us first.




Genesis Chapter Three

8. When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the LORD God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the LORD God among the trees.

9. Then the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?”

10. He replied, “I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked.”

11. “Who told you that you were naked?” the LORD God asked. “Have you eaten from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat?”




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

He said:



     My little children. Don't you know that it's fear that separates you from me and from my best blessings for your life. If you will check any area of your life where you are struggling you will find that you have not completely surrendered that part of your life to my love.


    I made man and put them in a beautiful garden. There was no lack and lack was not even considered until fear came in. I didn't leave Adam, Adam was afraid and left me and I went in search of him. He thought he was naked so he became afraid. The thought of not having something brought fear and he hid from me.


     It is the same in each of your lives. If you suffer lack in any area it is because you have not considered my perfect love for you in that area. You must open up that area in your hearts and minds and let my perfect love change you from fear to faith.


     For example: If you are lacking money it is because you are afraid that you might not have enough and that is the cause of generational poverty. You have been taught to see lack and not abundance. 

     Yes there are people who are lacking, but lack is in the mind and heart. It is not actually the truth. For instance. How much food is thrown away each year? How much is wasted? Is there not more than enough to feed everyone? But people still go hungry. Lack is not the problem. Distribution is the problem. My earth grows more than enough to feed everyone. There is not a lack of food. 

     So why do people go hungry? There is no submission to my perfect love. If my whole church was living in my perfect love they would not allow anyone to go hungry. They would find a way to distribute what was needed to where it was needed.


     It's the same with money. The evil one teaches you that the more you make the more safe you are financially. This is a lie. You can be safe with a billion dollars or safe with one dollar because your safety is not in money but in me. Wealthy people go broke and poor people get rich all the time. There is no safety in money. This is where fear is so tricky. It teaches you to trust in riches and not in me. I am your supplier and your supply. How could you lack?

     

     Do your remember that my son sent his disciples out with money and then he sent them out with no money? They prospered either way. He was teaching them that I am the supply and not what you have in your pocket.


     My children, don't believe the lies. By believing that you could be lacking you enter into lack. Just as Adam believed he needed something else to make him wise and it caused him to enter into lack. You are complete in my son. You are not lacking but because you believe you lack you live in lack. You could surrender to my love and know that you are not lacking anything. I have given you all things that pertain to life and Godliness. You don't believe because faith works by love and you have been taught to trust your methods and not to trust my love for you.


     The so called “faith message” that crept into my church taught you rules and regulations. They teach you that if you do this you can have that and if you don't do that you will be lacking. But notice it always comes back to making sure that your money comes to them. The absolute truth is that I feed the birds and I clothe the flowers and I feed and clothe you because I love you. Until you are totally convinced of my love you will live in lack. Until your faith rests in my love it will never be real faith. I loved the world and sent my son to save you because of that love. I didn't save you because I needed your praise or your labor or your money. My only need is you because I love you too much to spend eternity without you.


     Love must be the basis of all that you believe and do. Until you know of my perfect love you will be tormented by fear. Look at how many in the church are tormented by the fear of tribulation and the last days. Most of what they have been taught about these things is a lie. But fear sells and churches use fear to keep their sheep. They built fences of fear to keep the sheep locked up.


     Think of what David said: Did he say, I give money and keep all the rules so I shall not want? No, he said that I was his shepherd so he would not lack. You must learn to trust me as Father and shepherd. The religious church has not shown you that I am Father and shepherd. They teach you that I am score keeper and judge.


    Those of you with children think of it this way. Do you look for reasons to punish your children or reasons to reward them? Look at your refrigerator door. Do you have a list of all the things they did wrong there? Or do you have drawings that you can barely tell what they are hanging there? You call it art because you love your child and you are proud of them because of who they are and not because of their artistic abilities.


     You must learn that I am a loving Father and have faith in my love for you. Once you know me for who I really am then you would never even consider that you could ever be lacking in any area. In any area where there is fear it is only because my love hasn't filled that area. Once it does that part of your life will change.


     Your enemy tells you lies. He shouts to you and tells you that you wont have enough. He tells you that I only loved you enough to save you but not enough to heal and prosper you. He tells you that I provided for you yesterday but today is different. He tells you that if the economy goes bad that you will suffer and do without. He tells you that these are end times and you know that it's the time of wrath and not the time for love. All these things are lies. If I don't take care of you then it makes me a bad parent. Do you really believe that I am a bad parent?


    I send the blessing rain on the just and the unjust. I told you to pray for your enemies and do good to those who hate and persecute you. Do you think I would not do the same? It is my goodness that leads men to repentance. It's time the church show the world just how much they are loved and then they will repent and come home to me. It's time to stop spreading fear and spread the love. But this can only be if you surrender to my perfect love for you. Freely receive and freely give but you can't give what you don't have. Once you understand my perfect love for you then you can share it with others.


     Lack is a lie and love is the truth. Live in the truth. Let my perfect love cast out all fear of lack and any possibility of torment. Know my love and then you live in what I spoke through my beloved Paul to the Ephesian church. You can know my love that surpasses all knowledge and be filled with my fullness. You can be full of all that I am full of only by knowing my love for you. You can't know it by works or by rules and regulations. It can only be known by a heart totally immersed in the love that I have for you. If I did not withhold my only beloved son but gave him freely because of my love for you, do you really think that I would hold anything back from you?


     My loved ones. Just surrender to my love and my love will remove fear and when fear is gone all lack and unbelief will go with it. I love you so much and I would never withhold anything from you. So meditate on my love for you day and night. 

     The cross is the proof of that love. Your circumstances don't prove anything. Just because you are in a dark room doesn't mean you are blind. Just because you are in deep water it doesn't mean you will sink. Just because you lost your house key doesn't mean you are homeless. Present circumstances may be inconvenient but they are not truth. Don't believe the lies of the enemy. If you seem to lack anything it is only because you have forgotten how much you are loved.


    Take a long look at the cross and how much that is eternal proof of a Father's love for his children. Greater love has no man than to lay down his life for his friends. You are loved with the greatest love and the more you consider my love the more you will experience my blessings. Little ones, lack is a lie. Love is the truth.



     This was the end of the words He spoke to me just 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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Three Women

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     Recently while camping and praying Father spoke to me and asked me to write down these words and share them with you.

He said:

     I am looking for a people who will give their whole lives to me. I am looking for a bride for my son, not a date for the weekend. A date goes out and has a nice time at a movie or dinner and then goes about her weekly life. Her heart is not committed and she can change her mind at any time. A date keeps her options open in case something she likes better comes along. She is thinking of clothes and shoes and the latest fashion and making all the right social events. She has no time to think of the things the bride thinks of, like a home to raise a family in, and groceries, cookware and baby beds.


     A true bride loves her husband and tends to him. She makes herself ready for him so that he knows her heart belongs to him. She listens to his words and speaks soft encouraging words to him. A bride is the delight of her husband. All that he does is to show her that she is loved and he cares for her and comforts her and encourages her. He shares his most intimate thoughts with her. He dreams with her of the life they will build together. They become one heart, one mind, one soul and one flesh. These are things you can't do for a date.


     I know this sounds insulting to the modern bride who wants to rule her husband and not rule with him. I am not just speaking about women here. Men don't want to be led by my son either. You are a new creation and there is not male or female. You are all one in spirit and one body of whom my son is supposed to be the head. He is the husband and the church is his beloved, but is he her beloved?


     This is the reason why our enemy attacked the home while you were guarding the church. Home is the best expression of what heaven is, and marriage is the example of my son and his church. In today's church the bride wants to rule it all. She wants the husband to give her what she wants and doesn't care if he gets what he wants. Just because he gave his life and poured out his blood and saved her from hell? What does he think he deserves? She wants the nice house the nice car but how dare he ask that she tell others of his goodness and witness of him and bring forth children in the spirit. He should hire someone to do that and not expect his wife to bear his spiritual children. Oh the nerve of that guy?


     This is how we got into this mess. Hired preachers trying to explain the goodness of a husband that only the wife who is loved can communicate with others. The hireling doesn't know how kind he is and the sweet words he speaks to the bride when they are intimate. He knows nothing of the husbands loving embrace and the strength of his arms around his bride. 

     The hireling doesn't care for the children he helps bring forth for they are just another job he got paid to do. The true bride sees them as babies who look like their father. Babies born out of the love and intimacy with the kindest person who ever lived. The hireling gets them born and he is off to another town to do another job. 

     The bride watches over the children and helps them to grow up into their father's image. She helps disciple them to be in the image of heaven. She delights in his children because her husband delights in her and her delight is in his delight.


     You are the beloved. Even if my son is not your beloved, it doesn't change the fact that he loves you all. Just because you refuse to be my son's bride doesn't mean that he doesn't want you to be. He cares for you deeply and wants to be one with you. So which of these three women will you be? Will you be the date, the modern bride or the true bride? Are you the one for my son or should we keep looking?




     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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Not Your Day To Drown

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Isaiah Chapter Twenty Six

Verses Three and Four


You keep him in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on you,
because he trusts in you.
Trust in the LORD forever,
for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.


     As I was reading these verses today Father spoke to me and asked me to write down his words and share them with you.
He said:


     My loved ones. Why do you worry? Why do you fret? Is it not because your minds are set everywhere but on me? I know you hear me tell you to focus very often but that is because it is easy to be distracted. You have so many voices and so many events and programs pulling your attention from me.

     You must learn to tune out the enemy and tune me in. You must change channels. Turn off the fear channel and tune in the peace channel.


     I know so many of you are facing struggles and it's hard to keep your minds from wandering there, but you must learn to do this. If you want to be a disciple then the first thing you must discipline is your mind. You must not let it wander into danger.


     For so many it's still the same thing. It's the fear of death that holds your thoughts captive. My son destroyed death. You are already passed from death to life. Your death was on the cross with my son. You are just camped in the hotel you call your body. Your real life is hidden with me in my son. You are not in danger. If you live you live for me. If you “die” as you call it you do not really die. You are in my presence immediately. You are really there now but the blinds in your hotel don't let you see out of the window into my world. It's time to open up the blinds and look into the eternal world that you already live in.


     I hear so many of my children say they don't hear from me or they don't have dreams and visions but it's because you are looking in the wrong place. You can look in your refrigerator all you want but unless your are really messed up your hammer is probably not in there. You can look at the news and into the programming of the world but you won't find my truth there. You must come to me for truth and then go change your world.


     I am the kingdom. The kingdom is inside of you because I am in you. I dwell in righteousness, peace and joy so if you are looking into darkness and gloom and depression you are not looking at me. You must learn to abide in my secret place at all times. My secret place never moves but your mind moves from safety to danger. You follow where your thoughts go. Whatever you think of most often will drive you into the direction of your thoughts. This is why the enemy tries to hijack your mind and your thoughts. You can learn to keep your mind on me and be at perfect peace.


     Consider when my Son and his disciples were in the boat and the sea grew angry. The disciples were focused on the wind and waves and drowning, yet Jesus was asleep in the storm. He had perfect peace. If you can walk on water you won't fear drowning. If you can walk on water then you can sleep on water also and will never sink. Jesus only did what he saw me doing. He knew he was going to the other side of the lake. He knew he had a command from me to do so. He knew he was not going to drown in a storm. He knew his mission was not finished.


     It's the same with you. You know your mission is not done. You know it's not your day to drown. You may be in storms and problems that are like howling winds, but you know you are going to the other side of these problems. You can get there in two ways. You can trust and rest knowing that I am taking you to the other side, or you can call upon the one who is at rest. He will use his peace to still your storm. He is the prince of peace and his peace is stronger than your storm. We would prefer that you would enter into our peace and watch your storm dry up.


     My loved ones. It's not your day to drown. You can learn to be at peace. What if the wind in your storm is not there to destroy you but to air up your sails so you can move forward in your journey? So please take your eyes off the storm and put them on me. Look at my greatness, not your weakness. I am all you need. You can set your mind on me and live in peace or you can look at the world and live in terror. There is nothing you should be afraid of. The most the world could do is send you home. What a horror to have to move out of your house on earth and into your mansion in heaven?What are you afraid of?


     Yet so many of my children think I am causing the storms when I have proved so many times that I am not. You listen to false prophets who tell you that I am judging you for the sins of your nation. They tell you I am destroying cities because of my wrath. Have you considered this? I told you in scripture that I was in Christ reconciling the world to myself not counting men's sins against them. I told you that my son was my lamb that took away the sins of the world. Do you not know that the only way I could hold your sin against you is to look my son in his face and tell him “sorry son, your blood was not enough.”


     Once again my enemy has deceived you. The wages of sin is death but my gift is eternal life. Who is death? When you do wrong you have an enemy who pays you for it. It's not me. How many of you who are parents got up today and decided that since your child told a lie that you will punish them by destroying them and all of their friends with them because they are all guilty? What kind of monster do you think I am? Jesus came that you may have life and that more abundantly. Not judgment and condemnation and punishment. These false prophets who speak the doom and gloom that you feast on are stealing your peace. Turn them off and look into my face and see if you are still afraid of the future.


     Bad days come and go but in every day there is a reason to rejoice. I am with you and never leave you. When my presence becomes real to you then you can live in heaven while going through hell. You can overcome the present trouble by looking into the joy that waits for you. You can build your life on the rock. Jesus is your rock. He came because he loves you. We love you and we are your future. So don't concern yourself with the evil in the world. It will soon cease to be. Look at me and forsake looking into the darkness.


     Consider what I said through my beloved David in Psalm Thirty Seven:


Fret not yourself because of evildoers;
be not envious of wrongdoers!
For they will soon fade like the grass
and wither like the green herb.

Trust in the LORD, and do good;
dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
Delight yourself in the LORD,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Commit your way to the LORD;
trust in him, and he will act.
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,
and your justice as the noonday.

Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;
fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way,
over the man who carries out evil devices!

Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath!
Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.
For the evildoers shall be cut off,
but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land.

In just a little while, the wicked will be no more;
though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there.
But the meek shall inherit the land
and delight themselves in abundant peace.



     My loved ones, don't keep looking at the world and expecting to find peace. You look at me and let me deal with evil. Keep your eyes filled with my light and my love and my goodness. Don't worry about things to come. Trust me. Never doubt that I have your best interest in my heart and I hold you in my hand. I will never, ever, ever let you go. Set your minds and hearts to live in me and my peace. I am with you. I am with you in your boat, in your storm. I am here to give you peace. It is not your day to drown.


     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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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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