To Die For

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John Chapter Fifteen

5. “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.

Matthew Chapter Eighteen

1.  At that time the disciples came to Jesus and said, “Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” 2. And He called a child to Himself and set him before them, 

3. and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. 

4.  “Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.


     I woke up this morning with these scriptures running through my heart. As I listened to them over and over My Savior spoke to me and asked me to write down these words and share them with you. He said:

     My loved ones: I know the odds. I know they tell you it’s a long shot. I know they tell some of you there is no help or no hope. I am your shot. I am your hope. I am your healer. I am your deliverer and your resurrection. I am your life and you truth and your way.

     By yourself it seems hopeless. But you are not by yourself. You have never been alone and will never be alone. I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. I formed you there and have loved you from long before the world began. You were in me before creation.

     I tell you this to strengthen your understanding of my love. The problems you are facing today were not caused by me. I don’t want you to blame yourself either. I just want you to know that I am your answer. Lean into me and hide yourself in me. I am your hiding place. I am your strong rock and tower. You don’t have to face even the smallest difficulty alone.

     You grow weary trying to carry your burdens. That is why I told you to cast your cares upon me. Let me bear it all. I am unlimited in strength and your burdens and cares don’t burden me. Your biggest problems weigh you down but to me they are no more than a feather in the wind.

     I once carried the weight of sin of the whole world on my shoulders while being beaten and nailed to a cross and yet it still didn’t kill me. I had to lay my life down.

     I am your Almighty, Indestructible, and eternally existent God! I speak not only as myself but for your Father and Holy Spirit also. We are all eternally in love with you and anything that hurts you hurts us. I am touched with your infirmities and I care for you as a loving mother cares for her infant.

     You have time and effort and sweat and tears invested in your problem but I invested my life and my blood in your problem. I took your sins and bore your sickness and carried away all harm. I drew it from you at the cross and I left it in the grave. All I need you to do is to rest in the truth and to trust in me.

     Take your eyes off the problem and put them back on me. I will calm your storm or even part the sea if I need to. Whatever it takes but it will only come as you give it to me and let me bear it. No more trying to figure out how this works or how that works. Just rest and trust in my love for you.

     Your problems don’t disprove my love for you they do the opposite. They challenge my truth. I say “by my stripes you are healed” and that word is planted in your heart and along comes a devil named sickness to root that word out of your heart. That sickness doesn’t care if you live or die it only wants to challenge my truth.

     My truth says “I became poor that you could become rich” and along comes a devil called bills to challenge my truth. First it tells you that you don’t deserve it, then it tells you I didn’t really say that and then when that doesn’t work it tells you that you must do something like give more or do more. 

     I didn’t ask for you help when I saved you and I didn’t ask you for anything when my poverty made you rich. I did it all because you are mine and because I love you. All I need from you is for you to trust me to make these things as true in your world as they are in mine.

     When a child is born the parents don’t say to the child. I hope you brought medicine to keep you well and I hope you have money to give me or I won’t be able to bless you. You better give me back ten percent of your school lunch money or I'll have the school bully beat you up and take it all. No, not at all! The truth is that once that child is born everything you own just became theirs; that is until they have a child.

     My beloved it is my delight to give you the kingdom. I don’t need your help; I don’t need your fuss or worry. What I do need is your cooperation in the joy of my sharing with you. You’re expecting a picnic and I brought a feast!

     You must let go of the picnic mentality. I own all things and I gave them to you as your inheritance. When I overcame death, hell and the grave I inherited the earth and shared it with you. You are co-owner. Do you think I took it for myself? Never! I gladly took it to share with my beloved. I conquered all just so I could bring it home and share it with you.

     Please my loved ones, when you try to earn anything from me you cheapen my gift to you. If you think for one moment that you are blessed because of any work you do or any rule you keep or anything you give then you belittle my blood that was shed for you. It was not your giving that blessed you, it was mine. I gave first and I gave all, I loved first and I love all. The blessing of rain comes on the just and the unjust. Not according to works.

     Religion teaches you to believe you are stuck under the old Covenant. The new covenant was not paid for with the blood of bulls and goats but with my blood that I spilled. When you try to gain anything by the rules of the old covenant you are saying "the blood of a goat is good enough for me." Or you become like the sorcerer who didn’t realize the Spirit came because my blood was shed and assumed it to be so cheap he could buy Spirit with money.

     Remember Cain and Righteous Able? Cain said “let me give the Almighty a portion of my best work. Yet Righteous Able said “let me give the Almighty his most perfect work back to him as an offering of worship. I know he is my shepherd and loves little lambs so I will give him the best. 

     My beloved David called me his Shepherd and waited upon my deliverance instead of taking the kingdom by force. He became King the day he was anointed but waited upon me to put him on the throne.

     My loved ones: you are doing despite to the Spirit of Grace by trying to work your way out of your problems. The New Covenant is All Grace or it’s not the New Covenant! If there was no fault in the old it wouldn’t have had to be replaced. Give in to my loving grace. Can’t I just bless you just because I love you?

     Will you do it my beloved? Will you give in to my loving grace? Will you become humble as a child and say that you can do nothing without me? Will you accept my love as a child accepts a gift from a parent? Will you let me love you and care for you and bear your burdens because of my love or will you be stingy and keep them all to yourself?

     I counted the cost of you and your life before you were born. I knew every diaper you would mess up, every dish you would break and the cost of every wrong road traveled and business mistake you would ever make and I paid these before you were even born.

     I paid in advance for not only you but for the whole world. I was slain from the foundation of the world. The contract was made long before the world began. All this was done in delight because I knew one day we would be inseparable. One day all the ones I love would be with me forever and sin, or death or any powers seen or not seen could never steal you away from me.

     Little ones think on these things. Let my perfect love drive out all you fear. Fear brings torment. Torment brings trouble and sickness. Let my perfect love heal you and prosper you.

     The only way to do that is to accept it as my free gift. Don’t insult my love by trying to pay me back. The only reason you would want to pay me is because you don’t realize that you are the prize that I wanted. You are the treasure in a field. You are the pearl of a great price and you are the delight of me and all of heaven.

     Those of you with children will wake up and understand this first. What are they worth to you? Troubles, warts and all; what would you give for them? Would you give your life? Your blood? If you knew one day on a cross would give eternity with them at your side would you do it? Are you beginning to understand now?

     My dearest ones don’t insult me by bearing your own burdens. Give me your pains, your worries, your broken hearts, your wounded souls, your past due payments and your broken down cars. The only way to know if you have given them to me is to check and see if you are still worried about them. If you are worried then you haven’t trusted me yet.

     I greatly desire your burdens. Your burdens, your hurts, your disease your broken relationships, your broken homes, your late payments; I want them so bad I would die for them. Oh wait. I already did.



     This is the end of the words that 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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Struggling to Do Because You Don't Know Who

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     As I was praying today Father spoke to me and said:

My son, write down these words and publish them to the ones I love. That means each and every person who has ever been born and ever will be. Tell them these words:

     I am your Father and I have a plan. Do you think I would give you life from my life and breath of my breath and put my heart and my love within you and not have a plan to prosper you and a plan to bring you into my glory?

     Here is the problem. The plan is only in two places. It’s not in the wide world you are searching through. It’s not in some new message you never heard. It is written in heaven in your book and it’s written on the tables of your heart. You are welcome to see it written in both places if you desire. Remember that Paul said you were an epistle. You are a living book.

     When doubt comes you don’t have to listen for even a second. You can be my like my beloved Jesus and can say this: “It is written, I am a child and the beloved of my Father. He has plans to prosper me and to make me whole in every way and to keep me safe and sound. It is written in two places, in his book in heaven and in my heart and I will have nothing less than his best for me.”

     My loved ones, do you know that your success doesn’t depend on you? You can rest. Your success is based on the righteousness of my Christ. Remember that the scripture says to seek first the kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be added? It says to seek “his righteousness” not your own. It’s not in struggling and trying to obtain your own holiness and righteousness, it is embracing his holiness and righteousness and wrapping yourself in him that matters.

     No more struggling to become something you were never meant to be. So many try to be like this one and that one and never become who I planned for them to be. They were conformed to the image of what society or peer pressure wanted them to be, and haven’t bloomed into the beautiful flower they were intended to be. That’s why you find gifted musicians working in retail and talented business people working for others when they have the gifts and talents to own the business they are working at. People seem to try to separate talents and gifting into physical things when they are spiritual things. When you hear a gifted musician playing or see the work of a great artist or builder you will say “they have a gift.” Do you not know where that gift came from?

     It’s the same in the church. There are people with miracle gifts and healing gifts and speaking gifts and encouraging gifts and people are searching to find what they are when it was already deposited in them. Each has a particular place in the body and are placed there based on need and not reward. Even the gifts that some don’t see. I didn’t give you a liver as a reward. It was necessary for your life. I didn't give you eyes as a reward, they were necessary for your calling.

     So what am I saying my loved ones? Am I just rambling? Of course not. I want you to look inside you and see the book I wrote for your life. I want you to stop worrying that you don’t have a place because you wouldn’t be here if you didn’t have a place. You are all just as important as any other. This is why you shouldn’t compare yourselves by yourselves. Your mission is as important as anyone else’s but you don’t see it that way.

     Find your place in the book just as my Son Jesus did. He took the scroll and found the place it was written about who he was and declared “I am here!” “This day this scripture is fulfilled because I am He that it was written about.”

     The whole book of scriptures was written for you but it was all written about him. If he hadn’t seen himself in the book and in his heart he would have read the book and never completed his mission. Your mission is written in your own book and written in your heart. There are parts of your mission written in scripture but this is just the beginning. Jesus fulfilled all the law and all the prophets but you are living epistles still living out what was written on your book in heaven and on your book in your heart.

     Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from my mouth. Sometimes you don’t remember what was written in your book so I whisper it to you. I say “go this way or don’t go that way.” I sometimes use cue cards that flash before your eyes or use other people called the prophetic to remind you of who you are and where you are headed.

     The greatest problem in each of your lives is not knowing who you are and why you are here. Once you truly understand that you are my beloved children. You were always loved and will always be loved then you will settle into peace. 

     It doesn’t matter if you are an apostle or prophet or evangelist. That is what you do. What matters is who you are. You are my children; you are holy, righteous, justified, sanctified, glorified children of the Most High. You are without blame and without fault in my eyes. You are Kings and Priests and you rule on the earth but because you don’t know who you are your kingdom is in chaos because you are not on the throne that was given to you.

     So my loved ones: look inside and see who you are. Ask to see it written in heaven also. I will show it unto you. Inside you is a toolbox full of gifts and abilities that are particular to your calling. You are each equipped. None is left out. The same Spirit that raised my Son from the dead is living inside you. You are without limit and without lack. If only I could convince you of who you are and how gifted you are then you would live out the holiness and righteousness and become the royal child of God that you truly are.

     Please my beloved. Stop trying to learn what to do and spend that time instead learning who you are. Once you truly understand that you are Kings then you will live like a King. Remember the King who was prideful and he became like a beast of the field and ate with the cattle? Was he still the king? Yes but his mind was gone so he didn’t know who he was.

     You have been convinced that you are just lowly sinners saved by grace. The people who convinced you of this are not your friends. You have lived like cattle being herded from one pasture by another by false shepherds who take turns poking and prodding you and laughing about it. It’s time for that to end.

     My loved ones, you are who I said you are and don’t let anyone tell you any different. Do you think we would have spilled my Son’s blood for you if you were worthless? Wake up! Once you know who you are then you will do what you are called to do. Until then you will be struggling to do, because you don’t know who you are. You are my beloved children in whom I am well pleased. Now be who you are and fill my world full of the glory that is within you.

     Don’t forget, nothing can separate you from my love. Your struggles will end when you awaken to your true identity. You are the bride of the King. Do you think the King wants to live in the palace while his bride is in the wilderness of confusion? Awaken to your royal holiness and reign.

     This is the end of the words he spoke to me earlier today.
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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Back To The Future

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Ephesians Chapter One

3. All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ.

4.  Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.

5. 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.

6. So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son.

7. He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins.

8. He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding.

9. God has now revealed to us his mysterious plan regarding Christ, a plan to fulfill his own good pleasure.

10. And this is the plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ—everything in heaven and on earth.

11. Furthermore, because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for he chose us in advance, and he makes everything work out according to his plan.



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

     My dearest loved ones: It is time to go back to the future. It is time to know who you are and where you came from. You were chosen long before I made the world. I didn’t make you for the world; I made the world for you. It was always my gift to you as an inheritance. It has always been my plan to prosper you and make you a kingdom of glorious kings and priests and to walk with you in the earth as you enjoy dominion over it.

     Little ones, it’s time to understand who you are. You didn’t come into existence because your earthly father and mother were intimate. You were with me long before you came here. Some of you are having dreams and beginning to wake up to your true identity. You were not born by the will of the flesh but by the will of God.

     You are my plan and in me you live and move and have your being. Your bodies came into the physical world by the womb of your mother. I formed you in her womb and put your spirit into your body when you were conceived. I knit you together, spirit to flesh and connected you so well that it’s hard for you to remember you are spirits and not bodies.

     The reason I am telling you this is so you will awaken to who you truly are. Some so called scientists will tell you that you are just a nothing from nowhere descended from an ape. Those who have real intelligence will not fall for this. They see the design behind all things and they know the truth even if they are pressured by their peers to hide it.

     They tell you these things so you won’t know your true identity is in me. You were born of my Spirit and my life. The breath of life that is within you came from me. You are life of my life and heart of my heart and you are destined to rule the world because you are all royalty.

     The truth of who you are has been hidden by those who try to rule over you because they know their time is short. The sons and daughters of the Most High are awakening to their royalty and will soon be ready to inherit all that I have provided.

     As you awaken the call of your heart will arise and you will know your purpose and calling. It really is simple. Anything that doesn’t look like heaven has to be removed and anything that looks like heaven has to be strengthened and multiplied. Darkness will be driven out by light and not by evil. It’s not by might or by power but by my Spirit that this will be done. My Spirit is the Spirit of Truth. Truth will make all men free and this is beginning now.

     The reason for the awakening and the upheaval in the natural world is because of the light shining in the spiritual realm. Darkness is terrified of light and darkness goes completely crazy when invaded by light.

     Those who torment the world and cause nations to war with one another will be put to shame and will seek places to hide. They will hide in the rocks and the caves saying “hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne.” 

Do you remember that I promised to make my face shine upon you? It is you they are terrified of. They have built big caverns and enormous cities in dark places so when their time comes they can retreat and avoid the light of truth. What they don’t know is there is not any place to go where I am not. I am all places and no place in heaven or earth is void of my light and my presence.

     It is time to dispel fear taught by the previous generations. This world is not coming to an end. It is coming to a glorious rebirth. It is coming to an awakening that you are my children and you are my beloved.

     Soon my love for you will be in each of you for each other. Wars will cease. Killing will end. Men’s hearts will be changed from hard to tender and love will rule each day. You will no longer see the evil or the wicked ones. No one can resist my love. It is my will that all should be saved and come into the kingdom. Eventually those who hide from me will run to me.

     My children I tell you these things to give you hope. No more hiding waiting for some secret escape. No more fear. Perfect love casts out all fear and my perfect love is invading the earth. No more giving up on people because of their wickedness. Go back to praying for their hearts to change.

     I didn’t build this world for it to be destroyed. I built it as my children’s playground and that is what it will become. There will be a day when the wolf will lie beside the lamb without evil in his heart and the lamb will have no fear for there will be heaven on earth.

     The last enemy defeated will be physical death itself. There is a reason that people fight death as hard as possible and that is because even your physical body knows that death is just wrong. 

     Once men stop eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil then death will be put away. It was already defeated by my Son when He was raised. For those who can hear this; physical death is not certain; it is optional.

     I hear some say "yes but it’s appointed to man once to die" but you all died already. You were crucified with Christ and yet you live. If one died for all then all died. Is this not what my scripture says? 

     What if the only reason people live for seventy or eighty years is because that is all they plan for? You expect to get old and die so that is what you get. As a man believes in his heart so is he. Change your heart, change your belief, and change your life span on earth. Eat only from the tree of life and stop eating the fruit that kills.

     So my loved ones, it’s time to go back to the future. Who you are and will be is who you always were. You were my beloved children chosen long before the world began. It’s who you were, it’s who you are and it’s who you will always be. No more negativity. No more belittling yourselves or others.

     If your child falls in the mud and is covered in dirt is he still your child? If my child fell into the dirt of the world and is covered in it is he still my child? 

     It’s time to see the ones you call lost as not lost but just still sleeping. They don’t understand they were crucified with my Son and raised with him. No one told them the good news yet. The church was supposed to tell them but they couldn’t see past the mud on the outside.

     I reconciled all people unto myself by the blood of my Son. I was in Christ on that cross not counting men’s sins against them. When He cried “Father forgive them for they don’t know what they are doing,” I replied “Yes my Son, I already have forgiven them.”

     So my loved ones go and wake them up. Tell them they are forgiven and tell them their Father waits for them to come home by awakening to who they are. Tell them they were chosen long before the world began. Remind them of who they are and where they came from.

     I am the beginning and the end. You were all chosen in the beginning. Your life came from me and returned to me when you were baptized into my Son at the cross. Now you are in me and I am in you. You are just as chosen now as you were in the beginning. So wake up and remember who you are. You are chosen, blessed, sanctified, justified and glorified. This is who you were and who you are and who you will always be if you will come back to the future.



     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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Seeing Clearly

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Matthew 5:29

      And if thy right eye offends thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Matthew 6:22-23

     “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Matthew 10:16

     “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.


     I awakened today with Father speaking these verses into my heart. I pondered for quite a while how they all fit together. It seemed they were so different. As I was pondering He spoke to me and asked me to write down these words and share them with you.

He said,

     My little ones, It’s time for a change of view. It’s time to see as I see and know as I know. I made of all nations and tongues and people a family of one. I did this in my Son. He was lifted up and he drew all mankind unto himself. As I told you in scripture that if one died for all then all died. So what does this have to do with sight?

     I told you to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This is because you are all one and whatever you do to another you have done unto yourself. Whatever judgment you judge another with comes back upon you. Whatever punishment you give to others will be given to you, not from me but from sowing and reaping. You are one body. If you curse your hand it will not help your foot.

     The knowledge of good and evil is deceptive. That knowledge teaches you to separate things into two groups; one good and one group evil. This leads to death. You were told not to know any man after the flesh any longer and you were also told that you are not wresting against flesh and blood but most can’t separate people from their actions. When my Son was hanging on the cross he was able to pray for those who nailed him there because he could separate who they were from what they did.

     So what am I saying? It’s simple. Until your eyes are full of light you won’t see clearly. Until you see all through the lens of the cross and the resurrection you won’t see clearly. Jesus took away the sins of the world yet you still judge others as sinners and not as those who are asleep and have no knowledge of who they really are.

     It’s time to see as I see and judge as I judge. Many want to have it both ways. They want to say that Jesus died for their sins so they shouldn’t be punished, yet they want to punish their neighbor for the sins they commit just as if my Son didn’t die for them also.

     My Son was the lamb that took away the sins of the entire world. The only thing people are truly guilty of today is ignorance. If they only knew that their sins were washed away at the cross. If they only knew they were reconciled unto me by the death and resurrection of my Son. If they only knew they were righteous and holy and blameless in my eyes then they would stop the behavior that you call sin and would live in their true identity.

     So how will they know if most of my church is hurling condemnation and begging for their destruction? What if my church awakened and learned the true good news and spread it throughout the earth?

     It is time my beloved ones to take the same grace and restoration you were given and share it with the nations. If all you can see is sin and guilt then pluck out your eye that is offended. My kingdom is righteousness, peace and joy and not guilt, condemnation and destruction. Do you not realize that when you condemn your brother you condemn yourself?

     I am gathering out of my kingdom all things that offend and all denominations and religions that preach anything but love and grace will be removed. With true grace comes true holiness. Once you have encountered my true love you will walk in holiness because you love holiness and not because it’s something you have to do to avoid punishment.

     Think of it this way: Do you want your spouse to be true because they have to or because they are so much in love with you that the thought of being with someone else is unthinkable? Do you want your children to walk in love because of their true character or because they are afraid you will beat them?

     Can’t you see and feel it my beloved? Can’t you see the love that was bestowed upon you by my Son? What kind of love does it take to leave a beautiful heaven and come to earth and be beaten beyond human recognition and then draw all guilt and failure and sin and degradation unto yourself so that your loved one would never have to endure it? Then after that have your soul go into hell to redeem those who had already been imprisoned? Then take the keys to death and hell so that the ones you love could never be locked away there again? Oh how much you are loved my children. If you can feel this for yourself then can you also feel it for the one you are condemning?

     In the kingdom of love great power and authority is only given to those who are harmless. Remember the apostles? They were beaten and scorned and yet did not retaliate or condemn. Remember my beloved Stephen as he was being stoned he died begging me not to hold his death against his murderers?

     The reason the apostles fled when persecuted was not for their own sake. They didn’t demand their rights and demand that those who persecuted them be punished. The most they were allowed to do was shake the dust off their feet as they walked away. And this was only after they had healed all the sick in the community and shared the gospel with them.

     If my Son justified all men by his death then who is to condemn? Vengeance is mine and I will repay. How do I want to repay? The way I did with Saul. Take those who persecute my loved ones and reveal my love to them and then send them to the world to spread the gospel they once destroyed. So why are my people calling down destroying fire when they should be on their knees begging for my loving grace for those who offend them? Which is better, to take those who are doing wicked acts and destroy them or to save them and send them out preaching?

     It is high time for my church to take the love they are loved with and share it with others. There is one true gospel. I so loved the world that I gave my only begotten Son so that whosoever believes in him will not perish but step out of the death cycle of the world and step into the eternal life they didn’t know they were already living.

     I sent my Son to save you from who you thought you were and deliver you into the knowledge of who you really are. Your minds were darkened and you thought you were my enemies when all the time you were my runaway children.

     You thought I was mean and angry and wanted to punish you yet all the time I waited with a robe and a ring and some happy shoes for your feet. I had a meal and music waiting on you the whole time. Some of you remembered who I really was and you came home and others I had to send my righteous Son who was with the ninety nine to the wilderness to find you and bring you home. He found you and brought you home. He healed your wounds and carried you all the way on his shoulders. He returned with singing and joy because the lost sheep were found.

     So my beloved; never look at others as sinners or forgotten or forsaken. They may be doing awful acts but it’s only because they don’t know who they are and what they are doing. Each time you feel you need to judge them how about pray instead? But if you have to judge then let the one who never sinned cast the first insult.

     Please my beloved, the way into the kingdom is through innocence. Unless you become as a little child in your judgment then you won’t experience what my kingdom has to offer you. In prayer be a mighty warrior but in judgment be a lamb. In the spirit be a mighty eagle but towards all men be a dove. Heaven exalts those who humble themselves.

     Think of this. Let it sink into your heart: 

For all shall know me from the least to the greatest.

Every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord and that will bring glory to my love. 

The child you condemn today will sit in my lap tomorrow. 

     Treat all mankind as if each of them were your only child. Seeing the love I have for each and everyone will fill your body with my light and my glory will fill your body until you are changed into my image and my likeness. Learn to love as you are loved. 

     And this was the end of the words He spoke to me earlier.
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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A Pure Heart

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Matthew Chapter Five

8: Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.


     I woke up this morning with this verse dancing in my spirit and my mind. I began to meditate on it for about an hour and then I heard the most beautiful sound in the world. I heard my Father’s voice. He spoke to me and asked me to write down these words and share them with you.

     He said my beloved ones; do you not remember that my Son said to not allow your hearts to be troubled? It is the troubled and worried heart that cannot see that I am with you and for you and I am working all things out for your eternal destiny. Out of your heart flow the issues of life so if you heart is troubled and worried you will produce things that bring more trouble and more worry.

     It is so important that you guard your heart. But you say “how do we do this?” Well it’s very simple. Think only on things that are lovely and pure. Set your mind on heavenly things. Yes I know that your eyes constantly see trouble in the earth. You must learn to let it pass by and not partake of the worries of the world.

     Jesus was full of compassion. He had emotions and feelings and tendencies as you do. When he saw trouble he immediately went from seeing the problem to focusing on the answer. You should look at the problem for only as long as it takes to tell it about the answer.

     When Jesus saw the blind or the lame or the hurting he didn’t spend three hours trying to determine where the problem originated. He didn’t try to psychoanalyze the person to see if their mom or dad had been mean to them when they were children. He didn’t have them go through a twelve step program to get better. You only do those things if you see the problem as big and the answer as small.

     Think about the one who was possessed with devils and he often broke chains and no man could bind him. Jesus didn’t ask him how he got that way. He didn’t spend hours trying to break generational curses. He simply cast out the devils and then with what would seem amazing to your day, he didn’t even send him to counseling. He sent him back to his village to tell the wonderful news about what happened. He went from demoniac to evangelist in one encounter.

     I am not saying teaching and learning is bad but the modern church places education above experience. The apostles never had letters behind their names. It was the experiences they had with my son that qualified them. It is the same today. The church teaches you about someone and doesn’t teach you how to know the One whom you seek. One encounter with my Son is worth a lifetime of study.

     So how does this come back to this verse about your heart? It is simple. You hearts are in cycle of looking at the wrong things. You look at problems that need solving and then you look at your teaching. There is nothing in your learning that can solve the problem. So you go back and forth and your hearts become calloused because you don’t see the results that you read about in the book so you try to find earthly ways to fix the problem.

     The church is not powerless for lack of teaching. The church is powerless due to the lack of encounters. When people saw the apostles they didn’t say “these men have been taught by Jesus.” They said, “These men have been with Jesus.” They had heart to heart encounters and became like him.

     It’s time to have encounters with the one who lives inside you. The pure in heart will see me because I live in your heart. When your heart is clouded over by worries and cares and broken dreams then you can’t see me inside your heart smiling at you and telling you all is well.

     Many will say “but the bible says that no man can see God and live.” That’s right. You will never be able to see your life the same when you have seen me. All things that you considered to be the major parts of your life will pale in comparison to the glorious new life that is in you when you set your eyes upon me. Your old life and way of reasoning will die when you see my smile.

     Little children, I don’t want you worried. I want you resting in fellowship with me as I dance in your hearts for joy just because my dream was to live inside you and now I do. My son accomplished all that was needed so we could walk together as one and be together in love.

     I never left you or forsook you. I have always been with you. My Son came to prove to you that I never left. The moment you call being born again was the revelation that I was in you all the time and you didn’t know it. Think about it clearly. When you asked me into your heart I was already there. I have never been far away. Let this sink in and it will purify your worried hearts and you will see me again.

     I want you to see me clearly. I want you to know that we are one. You are my children and you are my beloved and I want you to touch, taste, feel, see, hear and experience me in a way that the book will never teach you. I want you to set aside you worries and cares and trust me in a way like you never knew was possible.

     As your hearts become pure and free from worry and guilt and condemnation then you will see me clearly all the time. You will see me in the midst of the problems. Instead of seeing only the problem you will realize the problem came to you because it was drawn to the answer. The thirsty one comes to you because you have water. The hungry come to you because you have food. The broken come to you because you have healing. Inside you is the answer to all things because I Am your answer.

     So please my beloved, don’t allow negativity to dwell in your hearts. When you see someone in trouble have compassion on them but don’t enter into grief. Why would you grieve when you have the answer? When you get bad news quickly reset your mind to the answer and not the problem. Focusing on the problem will increase the problem. Focusing on the answer will solve the problem.

     Forget what is behind. So what if you messed up yesterday, what does that have to do with today? How will you know if you will win the race today if you sit on the sideline? Could you imagine an athlete saying he wasn’t going to take the shot or run the race anymore because he missed the last one?

     You will learn to be one hundred percent by practicing. You will get better at prayer if you pray from rest and not from worry. If you realize you already have the answer and you know you are not praying for an answer but agreeing with me that the answer is already inside you. It just needs to be released.

     Think of it this way. You are children of the royal household. Would such a child come into the house and say “do we have anything to eat?” Or would they say “What do we have to eat?” It is not “do I have clothes” it is “which ones do I wear.” It is not “that sick person needs healing” it is “I have healing inside, does someone need it?” It is not “Oh Father, please meet my needs.” It is “Oh thank you Father, I know you already provided and answer, how do I release it?”

     You were told to seek the kingdom. You were also told that the kingdom is within you. If you are seeking outside you are looking in the wrong place. It is in your heart and if you seek me inside you then you will discover that I counted the cost for your life and I deposited all you could ever need right inside you.

     All that you need is in your heart. This is why you keep your hearts pure so that you can see me. When you see me you will not worry, you will rejoice. Please little ones. Throw away all worry and strife, forgive anyone who offends you and let it all go. Forget about yesterday and walk with me today.

     Blessed are the pure in heart for you will see me and as you gaze into my eyes you will understand you are my beloved and you don’t have to struggle and worry anymore. You will see yourselves as I see you and you will see me as I really am. I am the one who adores you and created eternity just so I could prove it.

     Love each other my dear children. Keep no accounts of wrong and don’t let the fog from yesterday stop you from flying today. Look inside you pure heart and see and encounter the one who is the answer to every question and the solution to every problem. I am right here, in your pure heart.



     This is the end of the words He spoke to me earlier.
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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Choose Trust: Choose Me

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Proverbs Chapter Three

5. Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding.

6. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.

7. Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the LORD and turn away from evil.

8. Then you will have healing for your body and strength for your bones.



     As I was reading these verses early this morning Father spoke to me and asked me to write down these words and share them with you.

     He said:

My beloved children, why do you worry? When will you learn to trust? Why are you anxious about things that you should have put into my hands long ago?

     It is time to turn your heart towards me at all times and trust me. I will bring you through the problems you are facing but I need you to trust me. Don’t trust in what the negative report says. Don’t trust a doctor who is practicing when you have a God who is perfect and doesn’t need practice.

     I am all you need. I don’t have all that you need; I am all that you need. You have me and you don’t lack. You only lack understanding of the one who lives within you. This is why I said I would meet all your need by my riches in glory by my Son Christ your Lord. He was your only need. You didn’t have needs, you had a need and that need was met. My Son and I are one. You have all and you don’t understand just how much of me you have.

     I know you find it difficult not to worry when your body is screaming “I hurt!” and your mind is screaming “we don’t have enough,” but you must not listen to what you see, hear or feel in the natural realm. You live from above and not from below. You live from within and not from without.

     I am in no way limited to the natural realm. Your healing doesn’t come from the outside it comes from the inside. Your provision isn’t born in anything or anyone outside. It comes from within you where I dwell. I am your supply, I am your healer, I am your provider, I am all the “Am’s” you could ever need!

     There is a great heaven inside you that you haven’t explored yet. You set your eyes upon the things in the natural world and in the physical realm when all the time within you is the kingdom. Your are in the kingdom yet you spend all your time at the gate peeping through the peepholes called your eyes and you never look inward to explore all that is inside.

     In me you live and move and have your being. All things exist inside of me and I fill all things and places. All of heaven and earth is inside me and I am inside you. I know it’s hard for one who has been taught to always look outside but there is all that you need already within you and you don’t even know it.

     My beloved one, heaven is inside you. I dwell within your heart because your heart is like heaven to me. Heaven’s doorway is within you and all you have to do to fellowship with me is to look within. We can fellowship and dance and sing together and this fellowship can go on at all times because it’s inside you. You are my secret place and I am yours.

     I tell you these things because I want you to have peace. My peace I give to you not as the world gives. The world can only give from the outside. I can give to you from inside. You can have peace within no matter what you see on the outside. I long for you to choose peace and to dwell in safety. You must choose to abide in the secret place. You do this each time you choose trust instead of worry and when you are filled with laughter and not anxiety. Worry is evil, turn away from it and be well and whole.

     Just imagine if your own children treated you like you treat me. What if they were always asking you “are you sure we are going to have enough food?” “Are you sure you are going to be able to clothe me and provide me a bed to sleep in?”

     Oh my sweet beloved children, when will you learn to trust and not worry? When will you finally see that I had a plan for your life and you can trust the plan and succeed or you can wiggle around in your own plan and struggle? 

     I am all that you need. I met your needs before you were born when you were chosen in my Son before the foundation of the world. You were loved and provided for long before you came to earth. I gave you myself so that you could never lack. 

     I am your hope, I am your faith, I am your healer, I am your prosperity, I am your peace. I am your life; I am your all, if only you will choose to let me be all that and more. You will never face a situation in life that I have not considered and you will never face a question for which I am not the answer.

     I love you with everlasting, passionate, fiery love and I long for you to feel the same for me. I don’t want my beloved ones to live in fear and worry. I long for you to enter into rest. I am your rest. The only labor you have is to lock the world on the outside and live with me on the inside. You can choose to worry and fear and live in torment or you can choose Trust. Choose to trust me. Put aside your worries and choose trust.

     Do you want fear or do you want me? Do you want worry or do you want me? Please trust me my beloved. Trust the one who gave you all when I gave you myself. You don’t have to live in fear and doubt; you can live in me as I live in you. 

     Trust in me and don’t lean on you understanding. The understanding of the mind leads to worry and doubt. I want you to lean on my love. Please turn from the evils of worry and trust me. You are my delight and I will always be all that you need. Once again my beloved ones: Choose trust: Choose me.



     This is the end of the words He spoke to me early 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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It Is Time To Wake Up!

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

     My sweet beloved ones: Do you have any idea how much you are adored? You are our delight and our great joy. All of heaven is thrilled over you. We rejoice over you always.

     I send you these words because I want you to know how much you are loved and I want to encourage you to awaken to who you are. As you begin to experience my love your roots will grow deeper and deeper into my love and you will be well nourished by my love. As you become nourished with my love you will begin to flow in the power of heaven and will begin to put earth into order, just like heaven.

     You will be filled with my fullness. You have all of me now but you are not aware of what or whom you possess. You are the temple of my Spirit and all of my Spirit dwells within you. You are only limited by your mind. There are actually no limits for you. This is why even before the cross and the resurrection my Son told you to ask whatever you will and it will be done. Since the resurrection all things have been given into your hands. You no longer even have to ask. You just have to insist that earth be like heaven.

     Jesus was the first born among many brethren. As He is, so are you in the world. He went about doing good healing all who were oppressed by the devil. He knew I was with him. He knew he didn’t even have to ask. He just went about putting things in order. He understood our “oneness” and soon you will also realize how complete you already are. He told you that I did the works in him. It is the same with you.

This is where my church is missing it. You go from this person to that person trying to get something you already have. You are not lacking anything but knowledge of who you are. Once again I say to you “as He is so are you in the world.” You are my ambassadors with full power to put things in order. It is time to know who you are and how much you are loved.

     So why is it so important to know how much you are loved? It is because until you understand my love for you then you can’t understand my love for others. When you realize how much you are loved you will truly love your neighbor as your own self. A true child of mine displays my love. I so loved the world I gave my Son. Once you feel my heart for you and for others you will understand my great desire for earth to be just like heaven.

     Just imagine if half of everyone you love was in a wonderful place full of life and joy and fun and the other half was in a miserable place with disease and pain and depression. What would you do? I will not be satisfied until earth is just like heaven. My will is going to be done on earth as in heaven. The only question is will you be the generation that will awaken and do it?

     As long as you believe you are lacking then you will live powerless. When you awaken to the truth you will walk in all the authority of heaven. It’s time to throw out the lies. You are not a fallen man living in a fallen world. You are sleepy people trying to wake up while the world sings you lullabies to put you back to sleep. They try to keep your eyes on everything except the God who lives inside you. The whole point is to keep you focused on the lies so you won’t see the truth. It is not something outside you that you need to see. It’s Christ in you, the hope of Glory. All of heaven is waiting for you to realize that the glory of heaven is already inside you, and for the heaven that fills you to flow from you and fill the earth.

     My beloved ones, how long will you sleep? I told Jesus to sit at my right hand until I make his enemies his footstool. I will do this through you. He can’t come back until you put things in order. He is patiently waiting for all of you to wake up and defeat hate, and poverty and sickness and even death.

     When you get all this accomplished then earth and heaven will be one again. This was the great commission. Go into the world and heal the sick, raise the dead and make disciples of the nations. He didn’t say hide in a cave and wait for rapture. 

     There is coming a day when even physical death will be done away with. Why would we tell you to raise the dead if being dead was the plan? Yes, I hear many say but it was appointed to man once to die and then the judgment. If one died for all then all died, so you must see death as something from the past and not from the future. You were crucified with Christ. You died already and his resurrection is your resurrection.

     The first Adam ate from the tree of knowing good and evil and died. Jesus told you that if you eat his flesh and drink his blood you will have life. My son is the tree of life. You have passed from death to life. You are already alive forever. There will be a people who put an end to physical death because they will be so full of the life inside that even the physical body will be transfigured. This is what my Son modeled for you. He said “no one takes my life, I lay it down freely.” He was indestructible. Even after being beaten and crucified he had to forcefully send his Spirit out of his body so his body would die. He gave up his Spirit; no one took it from him.

     I know many of you are not ready to hear these things. You say death is natural and no one can defeat it, yet you take all sorts of medicine to stay alive. What do you really believe? If it is such a certainty then why are you fighting it? Even your natural mind and bodies know that sickness and disease and death are just wrong. There should not be anything on earth that is not in heaven. I am planting these words in your hearts as seeds. One day there will be a great harvest.

     My beloved, what will it take to wake you up to the fact that you are the sons and daughters of the Most High? What will it take for you to believe that you are the beloved ones that my Son came to awaken from the dead? Will you hear my words of love and awaken to love? Will you turn off the world and listen to the voice in your heart telling you that these things are truth?

     Please wake up and know who you are. Come out of the darkness called religion and fellowship with me in the light. I long to walk in you and live in you and be your God. You are my people and I dwell in you but I can’t get you to fellowship with me inside because you think I’m far away. Turn off the noise of the world and listen to my still small voice in your heart. I know your thoughts and your inner emotions. Speak to me in your thoughts. I hear you. I hear your whispers, your thoughts, your sighs and your tears are like shouts to me. Your heart is my palace and I love living inside you. You are heaven on earth and I live inside you because I love you with all that I am.

     Will you do this for me my loved ones? Will you wake up? Will you arise and shine for your light already came and has been with you all this time? You are my holy temple. You are the treasure in the field. I loved you and bought the whole world so I could have you.

     You are made in my image and in my likeness. Do you know what that means? It means if I look in mirror I can’t tell if it is me or you I am seeing. It is both because we are one. We are no longer two separate beings. We are one. On earth people see me in you. In heaven people see you in me. Your loved ones who are in heaven come and gaze into my heart so they can see you.

     Please hear me my loved ones. Don’t keep searching for what you already have. You have me. What more do you need? Put your roots down deep into my love and let my love and saving power flow though you. You have all you need. You are not lacking. You have what you need because of who you are. You were born my child and you already possess all things.

     It is time to wake up now and then awaken the others. The earth was given into your hands. It is time to wake up and put it in order. Drive out the lies and tell all others that you meet that I am in love with them and I have taken away the sins of the world. They don’t need to run from me for I am not angry with them. I am in love with them and calling them to come to my love.

     It is my will that all would be saved and no one would perish. Tell them to crawl out of the pigpen called the world and come home to me. Tell them there is a robe, a ring and a feast awaiting them. There will be music and dancing as the angels rejoice over their homecoming. Remember my beloved: The lost sheep and the found sheep are all my sheep.

     No more sleeping my loved ones, it is time to wake up.



     And this is the end of the words he spoke to me earlier today.
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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