Awaken to Love and Don't Be Afraid

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First John Chapter 4

13. And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us.
14. Furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
15. All who confess that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God.

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.



Philippians 4

6. Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.

7. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.
8 And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.

9. Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me, everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you.




     Lately I have encountered so many believers who are afraid. They are afraid of death, afraid of life, afraid of things to come, and afraid of things that don't even exist. I try to comfort them and tell them that there is absolutely nothing to fear but so many want to hang on to fear. I asked Holy Spirit to help me and I prayed about these things He spoke to me and gave me some words to share to all who are afraid. He said:


     Are you afraid my children? And why would you be afraid? Do you not know that you have already passed from death to life and you will never die. You are not a body. You are a spirit. Spirits don't die. There is no fear in death because you died already. You were crucified with Christ and now you live by our faith. Do you think our faith will fail? Do you think that someone is strong enough to take you from us? Do you not realize that we live inside you and you are safe inside us?

     My children you are doing yourselves great damage by fearing. It's not okay to fear. When you were told to “Fear Not” it was not a suggestion but a command. Fear is the basis for all the destructive things that are in the world. Adam was afraid that he was missing something he needed to be like me so he partook of knowledge that brings forth fear and this fear brought forth death.

     There is only one cure for fear and that is love. Perfect love does drive out all fear and if you are afraid it's because you are setting your eyes upon things that created fear and not on the truth. 

     The truth is that you are a spirit created in my image. You are joined to me and we can never be separated. You must learn to see us as one and not two. There is no separation. You were baptized into Christ. You can't be removed from us. You are as much a part of us as we are a part of each other. 

     Jesus prayed in John Chapter Seventeen that you would each be made “one” with us. Please go read that chapter over and over until you understand just how much a part of us that you are.

     Here is the simple truth. You are our children. You have always been our children and will always be so. I formed you in your mother's womb so you were you mine even then? Yes you were. You are so safe that you belonged to me even before you knew me. You have always been safe in my hands. There is nothing that can separate you from my love so there is no need to fear.

     Here is the problem. My children believe what they see with their eyes more than what they read in their bibles and what they hear in their heart. Jesus said “I am always with you.” But you say “one day Jesus will be back and it will be good.” Who is correct? Is it Jesus that was mistaken, or is it you? One of you is mistaken and I'm quite sure we both know which one of you it is.

     Little children. Take your eyes off the world and look at heaven. It is your home. This world is not where you are from. You are from heaven and you are in heavenly places even now. As long as you see yourselves below and not above you will be afraid. 

     Your kingdom is not subject to this world. Your kingdom is within you and it is a spiritual kingdom. It is eternal and can never be removed. No one can take your Father off of his throne. So you have nothing to fear.

     Please my beloved. Turn off your news and your gloom and doom messages. It is called programming for a reason. They are programming you to be afraid. They are trying to scare the heaven out of you. If I told you not to fear and yet your news anchor or pastor tells you to be afraid then which voice should you hear? Remember that most of them have been programmed for fear also, so most who repeat the fear message are just confused. Although some of them know the truth and still use fear because fear sells merchandise. Either way they are wrong. 

    The kingdoms of this world have no power over you for they are run by fallen spirits working through men. You are safe because the all powerful Creator of all things lives in you and is never threatened by his creation.

     The creator is always more powerful than the creation. All power in heaven and earth is in Christ. The only real power working in the dark world is fear and deception. These are powerful weapons to a fleshly mind but not the Christ mind. 

     If you are in the flesh mind and someone tells you there is a snake in your bed, you may be afraid,  even if it was a lie and he is not there. Whatever you believe in has power in your mind. Once you see these fear mongers for who they are then you will not be afraid any more. They have no power over your spirit. Remember, you are not a body, you are a spirit.

     Look at what was spoken through Paul in Second Corinthians Chapter Five.

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

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

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

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

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

     My little children if you knew that if your worn out car broke down there was already a brand new luxury car waiting for you at the dealership and it was paid for in full,  then would you worry about your car? If you knew that if your home gets destroyed you already have a beautiful mansion already paid for and fully supplied waiting for you to move in, would you be fearful of losing your house?

     I hear many say, well it doesn't hurt to be afraid. Yes it does, it causes your light to be hidden. Those who don't know the truth need your light and you are covering it up with fear. 

     Do you remember that Jesus told you that if your eye is single your body will be full of light, and if it is not single it will be full of darkness? What if all my children only looked at the light and each of you were so filled with that light that you drove darkness out of the world? What if the world could no longer live in darkness because your light was the testimony of Christ living in you?

     Many in the world come into so called church to find hope and all they find is doom and gloom. They don't want what you have because you don't have anything better to offer than the world. Your eyes are so much on the world that you are full of the world and not full of faith. Set your eyes on Jesus and be filled with glory.

     When you awaken to my love and know just how safe you are then you will be the ones  Isaiah saw when he said:

1. Look, a righteous king is coming!
And honest princes will rule under him.

2. Each one will be like a shelter from the wind
and a refuge from the storm,
like streams of water in the desert
and the shadow of a great rock in a parched land.

     Did your righteous King come? Yes He did. Are you not a kingdom of kings and priests? Are you not a prince? Is your Father the King? 

     Please stop being afraid of the problem and be the solution. You don't need to seek shelter, you need to be shelter. You are hidden in Christ. You are the temple. Open up and let those who are afraid see me in you so they will no longer be afraid. My little children, wake up and see just how safe you are and experience my love and peace and you will never fear again.

     Soak your minds in my love and my truth. You can't lose anything. Even your hairs on your head are numbered and inventoried and charted onto a grid so that you can't even permanently lose those. 

     You will lose nothing while sojourning in this land you call earth. I keep your tears in a bottle, do you not think I keep your laughter in my heart? Do you not know that whatever you give to me is safe for eternity? Every precious moment of joy in your life is recorded and one day you can re-live those moments in real time as often as you like. 

     Just wait until you get a look at my living scrapbooks. I wrote books for your life so that every wonderful thing that happened to you can be remembered forever. Think of every time your child brought you joy. Every time you heard your mother sing, All the times you had fun with your Dad. Every time you laughed so hard you could barely breathe. Playing with your friends when you were children. All these moments saved for eternity to be experienced over and over again. And anything that ever brought you pain or suffering will be deleted and remembered no more.

    My loved ones, let these words sink down deep into your heart: I love you and you are safe in me. No more fear. Let my perfect love fill every part of your being until there is no room for fear because all your empty places are full of my love. Awaken to my love and don't be afraid.


     This is the end of the words He spoke to me to share with you on this glorious day of resting in our Father's love. 

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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Return to Peace

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John 14:27
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.


First Corinthians 1
Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ their Lord and ours:
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


Colossians 3:15
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful.




     As I was praying today I heard my savior's voice. He spoke to me these words and asked me to share them with you. He said:




     Little children, don't look at the world and expect to find your peace. I give you peace as a gift for I am the Prince of Peace. I am the Prince who brings peace. You will find true peace only in me. I am not afraid and neither should you be.

    I know you live in days when all you see is doom and gloom and you see fires and storms and you hear many false prophets telling you that these are signs of the end and of my wrath. My little children, I am not angry with you. Nor am I angry with sinners. I poured out my blood to save them. I reconciled them unto my Father.

     Those of you with children will understand that you may be angry with your children for a moment but you can't stay that way long. Your love for them overrules you anger toward them. And why do you get angry even for a moment? Is it not because you love them so much that you want better for them than what they are experiencing? Righteous anger is an outpouring of love because you want what is best for your children. I am not angry at you. In my jealousy for you I want only what is best for you. Your destruction is not my best. Your salvation and deliverance is much better. I seek only your salvation and what is best for you.

     If you had children and someone led them astray and told them lies and they became confused and went the wrong way would you be angry with them? Or would you instead have mercy on them and lead them back to the truth. Do you get angry at the deaf when they can't hear or the blind when they can't see? If you find a lost child wandering the streets do you beat them for running away or do you try to restore them to their family?

     Religion tells you that the world is full of sinners and I am angry with them and can't wait to destroy them. That is not the way I see things. When I was nailed to that cross did I curse the ones who nailed me to it or did I pray for them? If I can show mercy and compassion on the ones who nailed me to the tree then can't you show mercy on those who offend you? All were lost when I was nailed to that cross and yet I still gave my life there. Is my blood enough to save the world or isn't it? 

     I am the great shepherd who loves the sheep, even the ones who are astray. I seek to save that which is lost for all are mine? You were once lost. Were you not mine even when you were lost? You were lost and got stolen and I had to pay with my blood to buy you back from sin. You were a little lost lamb but you were my little lamb and I came to save you.

     Remember how I told you that I will leave the ninety nine in safety and search for the one that is lost, and will come again rejoicing when I have recovered my lost lambs? Those of you with children if you had five children at home safe and one child lost in the woods would you not go after them and find them to bring them home? Do you love your children more than I love mine?

     I tell you these things to bring you peace. Many of you have loved ones that are gone astray and loved ones in danger. I love them more than you love them and I am doing all I can do to bring them home safely. My Father loves the world so much that he sent me to seek those who are lost. I love each of you also and came willingly and gladly, to seek for you and find each of you. Holy Spirit loves you and came to dwell in you so you could never be lost again.

     I want you to look at the world differently so that you will have my peace. I don't want you to see what the world is trying to show you. They will pass up ten happy stories to report to you one evil one. The news you see and hear tries to make you afraid and cause you to lose your peace so that they can lead you astray also. 

     You will do things in fear that you would never do if you were in faith and resting in my peace. Think of the spies that Moses sent into the promised land. Joshua and Caleb saw the giants and the obstacles but understood they were no match for me. Because most of Israel was afraid they didn't enter the promised land at that time. 

     It's the same today. Usually ten out of twelve of my children will look at a situation and ten will see it as negative and fearful, and two will see it as an opportunity to bring me glory.

 

     You are in me. I am your promised land. Don't look at the giants of hate, poverty and anger that are in the world. Look into my eyes and stay in my peace. Do you really think there is anything in the world more powerful than I am?

     I am your peace. I am your safety. I told you that no one could pluck you out of my hand. You dwell in me and I dwell in you so you are always safe in me. The fear of death causes people to live in torment. My perfect loves casts out all that fear. If you are afraid you just need to focus on my love until your fear leaves. 

     You don't have to fear death. When you trusted in me you passed from death to life. You are already living in your eternity. You are living in two places at once. You are on earth in your body and you are already home with me seated in the heavenly realm far above all the chaos that you see on the earth. I am in heaven and I am in you. You will never be alone again. Not ever!

     The only thing the evil in the world can do is send you home. So why are you afraid my little ones? I have been given all authority in heaven and earth so those who think they are ruling the world are deceived. Pharaoh once thought he was in charge. Nebuchadnezzar thought he was in charge. Those who nailed me to the cross thought they were in charge. They just didn't understand the power of love.

     All authority that exists was made by me and for me. All these things will work out according to my plan so why should you fear? Did the powers in charge when I walked the earth stop my plan or did they execute my plan? They carried our what was previously ordained for them to do. In trying to destroy me they helped me save the world. So why are you afraid?

     Be at peace my loved ones, I know there are many evil things going on today, but there is also great wonder among you. Many are coming into the kingdom. Miracles are happening around you and you don't see them. If someone from the past stepped into the shower that you did this morning they would think it was a miracle. If they got on a plane or in a car they would rejoice at the things you take for granted. Do you know how many miles I walked in sandals? Look at the shoes on your feet. Are they not a gift from me? All good things come from heaven and so many of the things you take for granted or accept as man's inventions were gifts from me to you. So be glad and rejoice that you are so favored.

     Now I want to talk to you about the recent catastrophes. I am not the cause of the floods or the fires or earthquakes that devastated lives. Those of you who lost homes or loved ones or possessions need to know that I did not send this calamity to you. I am your deliverer, not your destroyer.

     I stop storms, I don't send them. What do I have to gain by such a thing? I told you in scripture that it's my goodness that leads men to repentance. Are these things good? When the storm arose on the sea and my disciples were afraid, did I tell them to accept the storm? Or did I stop the storm and ask them where was their faith? I was tired. It would have been nice if they had stopped it and let me sleep. Your enemy tries to deceive you and make you think these things come from me. That way you will continue to do nothing about it.

     I told you in my scripture that out of man's evil hearts these things are brought forth. I told you that there would be earthquakes and disasters but I didn't say I caused them. I saw these things and warned you. If you tell your children to take an umbrella because it's going to rain does that mean you made it rain or that you just saw it coming?

     If you really want to know where some of these things come from then look at your false prophets. The words of mankind are powerful and those who stand in your pulpits and sell you books about my wrath, speak of disaster after disaster. Your enemy takes their words and uses the power in them to bring things to pass. Yet you keep believing their words and adding power to them with your faith and bring about your own destruction. You help them destroy the earth by buying their books and sermons.

     Man's words are powerful. Man is in charge of the earth so you should choose carefully the words you speak to the earth. The good things in the earth that bring forth fruit should be blessed and the evil things that bring forth destruction should be cursed. There is no more curse on the earth. I took that crown of thorns and put it on my head. The blood that flowed from around those thorns cleansed the earth of it's curse and it is blessed again. It should bear fruit unto you and not thorns and thistles.

     Sadly these false prophets who speak destruction and doom are the ones who will stand before me and think they were prophesying in my name when they spoke destruction upon my children. They will tell me of all the curses and judgment they spoke against the children who were gone astray. I will have to tell then they we didn't know each other, and these were not my words. I wanted salvation and mercy and not destruction. If you truly “know” me you will know that I love mankind and my creation and I am saving both.

     All new testament prophesying is to edify and exhort. Yes, there are warnings, but they are for protection and not for destruction. If I warn you of a coning storm it is so you can prevent it or be protected from it. Stop believing the lies. I have come to save the world, not to destroy it.

     Do you really not know that if I didn't love the world it would be destroyed already? I want all to come to me and not perish. Even under the old covenant, repentance would have stopped all judgment. If Abraham had just kept on asking me about Sodom it would still be standing. If he had only said. “Please don't destroy Sodom for Lot is there?” I would have accepted that. Had the people repented then Noah's ark would have been a barn and not a boat. Had Pharaoh not sent his army after Israel there would have still been a place for him. It is my will that all repent and find salvation.

     My loved ones, I tell you these things so that you will have peace. Until you settle it in your heart that I am the savior of the world and not the destroyer then you will never have peace. Once you understand that I have come to save and not destroy, then you will work with me and not against me. You will have my heart for the lost and seek their salvation and not their doom. You will see storms and fires as works of the enemy and you will fight them will all your might and all your faith.

     Finally my loved ones, let my peace settle into your hearts. I am with you and will never leave you or forsake you. No matter what fire, or storm or disaster you are in right now, you are not there alone. Yes, your boat may be sinking, but I am with you and I can walk on water, so why are you afraid?

     I can still the wind and stop the storm. I can send rain and put out the fires so ask me to do so. Command the rains to come and the fires to cease. Command the destructive storms to stop and the wind to be still. I did what I saw my Father doing, so you do what you saw me doing.

     Have compassion on those who have suffered loss and pray for them and help them. Be merciful to each other. See each person as I see them. They are not evil, wicked sinners. They are lost sheep who are astray and think that I am hunting them to kill them and not to save them. 

     Do you remember the story of the prodigal son? I didn't run down that road to punish him, but ran to him to kiss and restore him. Did he squander all I gave him? Yes, he did. Did he commit sin against me? Yes, he did. Was I angry with him? Not even for a moment. What do material things matter compared to the life of a child? Money and possessions are just stuff. People are true treasure.

     Don't you see the cross? Don't you see my blood? Don't you understand I did this because I am eternally in love with each of you? If I loved you so much that I would die for you then don't you know that I want you to live in peace? Put aside your worry and rest in my peace. Don't forget little children to love each other as I have loved you.




     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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Dance With Me

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     As I was praying today I heard Father's voice and he asked me to take notes and share them with you. I hope you are as  delighted by his words as I am. Thanks for sharing this journey with me. He said:

     My children, it's time to know who you are and who I am. It's time to put away religion and join the family. Yes you are a kingdom, but we are a kingdom family. You are a royal priesthood, each and every one. The smallest is equal to the greatest and there is no favoritism except that each of you is my favorite.

     My children. I have given you all things that pertain to life and Godliness. I gave you my son. His blood took away all your guilt and healed all your diseases. You are in me and I am in you. You lack nothing. You have inherited all things including my name. Religion teaches you that you are lacking and you need more. My Spirit teaches you that you are complete because of your union with us.

     This is what is lacking in the so-called faith message that has infected most of you. They teach you that you are lacking things and you must use your faith to gain the things you already received by birth. They train you to speak to things in faith, trying to use your own faith to produce, but that is not how it works. It works because you are one with us, and you speak as one joined to us, and not as one separate from us. True faith says there is not anyone or anything above that you need to bring down, or anything below that you need to bring up, but all you need is in your heart. That is because I dwell in your heart and I am all you need.

     Jesus walked in power not because of his faith but because of his oneness with me. That's why he didn't have to do the works: I did them through him. He only did what he saw me doing. He gave me control of his body to move as one. 

     Many of my children get discouraged because they try to do things that didn't originate with me and when they don't come to pass they feel condemned because their faith didn't work. Until you understand that you are one with me, faith will always be hit or miss. Jesus told you that believing in me was the work of God. Don't just believe in what I can do. Believe that you are one with me and I can do all things through you and you can do all things through me.

     My beloved, I don't long to rule over you, I want to dance with you. Those who are born of my Spirit are like the wind because they don't have to have a natural reason to go here or there. They are just dancing with me by my Spirit. My spirit is the breath inside you and you must learn to live and move as my Spirit moves within you. This was portrayed to you in the wilderness when they only moved when my cloud and my fire moved. At that time the cloud and the fire were external but today my cloud and my fire reside in you.

     So many people today take off on their own dance and expect me to follow. Yes, I go where you go but this dance will go much better if you let me lead. Those who are led by my Spirit are the sons of God. In other words: those who are mature in me will let my Spirit lead them. I want you to be led not by zeal, but by love. I don't want you to move or go because I am driving you but because I am wooing you.

     Saving this world is a family business. That business is to take over the world by love. My beloved son Jesus did the hard part when he came in and broke the power of the enemy. He destroyed his ability to rule by force. 

     Consider this. When Jesus went into the wilderness the devil manhandled him and set him on the temple and set him on a high mountain. Jesus told him to get behind him and rebuked him with holy scripture. From that day on the devil had to work through people to affect Jesus. He was no longer able to manhandle him. His power was being broken already.

     Now the devil can only rule over those who are willing. Jesus took the god who ruled the world and crushed his head. He bound the strong man so you could loot his house. Satan once ruled all the nations by force, but now, you just resist him and he flees like a scared cat. Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil and now its time for you to destroy the lingering effects of the devil's works.

     It's your turn to do your part in the family business. Each of you has a purpose. Our mission is to reach each and every soul on earth and adopt them. My Son's blood took away the sins of the entire world. Just as Satan can no longer rule over them by force, sin can't either if they know the truth. It is your mission to display that very truth before their eyes. 

     You are on a mission to demonstrate my love to them and bring them to repentance. What is repentance? It is changing their minds that they are not under the devil's control anymore and all they need to do is turn to me and turn their back on sin.  My beloved Paul called this the ministry of reconciliation. They have been forgiven but are still running from me because they think I am angry with them. Just like the prodigal son, I want them to come home. What did the prodigal son find when he got home? A clean robe, a feast, music and dancing.

     So what does this have to do with dancing with me? Everything. As the world sees that I am not a destroyer but a lover they will turn to me. As they see your lives flow with me not in toil, but as a beautiful dance to the greatest love song ever written, then they will change their minds about me and come to me. As they see your eyes lost in mine and see the glory of our love they will want what you have. As they learn that they are no longer slaves but are free to dance they will join in.

     So put aside your well crafted plans for taking over the world by force. The world will be won by love not my force. Not by might, not by power but by my Spirit says the Lord. So what is my Spirit doing? The same thing he did in the beginning. My Spirit is hovering over the waters,( the nations) waiting on me to turn on the light in each heart, and inviting the world to dance. Arise and shine, your light has come. Now get up and dance with me. 

     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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Healing is a Person

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Matthew Chapter 9


18.While he was saying these things to them, behold, a ruler came in and knelt before him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”
19. And Jesus rose and followed him, with his disciples.
20. And behold, a woman who had suffered from a discharge of blood for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment,
21. for she said to herself, “If I only touch his garment, I will be made well.”
22. Jesus turned, and seeing her he said,“Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.”And instantly the woman was made well.

23. And when Jesus came to the ruler’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion,
24. he said,“Go away, for the girl is not dead but sleeping.”And they laughed at him.
25. But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose.
26. And the report of this went through all that district.

27. And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, “Have mercy on us, Son of David.”
28. When he entered the house, the blind men came to him, and Jesus said to them,“Do you believe that I am able to do this?”They said to him, “Yes, Lord.”
29. Then he touched their eyes, saying,“According to your faith be it done to you.”
30. And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them,“See that no one knows about it.”
31. But they went away and spread his fame through all that district.




     As I was reading this chapter today and praying Father's voice came to me and he asked me to write down the following words and share them with you. He said:


     My children, study the verses that you just read and heard. What do they all have in common? Each of these people in this chapter had faith, but what did they have faith in? Did they have faith in a formula or a five step program for healing? Did they have faith in confessing the scriptures until they were healed? No, they had faith in a person and in that person's ability to make them whole.

     Healing is a person. He is my son. We are healing. Healing is not what we do, it is who we are. We are health and our health is more contagious than your disease. All of these people had faith that Jesus would heal them and he did. All they had to do was have faith to get to him, or even have someone else who did. Healing is not an event. It comes from contacting the healer.

     The good news of the gospel is not a message about a new religion and new ways of connecting with me. It is good news that we became one with you so you could be one with us. It's not about formulas or plans or methods. It is about relationship.

     In the church today it seems every day someone is selling you a new plan about how to be healed. There are three, five, seven and even books full of steps and programs to get you well. I have a great plan for you and it only requires one step. My plan is called Christ. Receive him and you get all that we are. You received him as Lord and Master but have you received him as healer?

     In the old covenant healing was external. Power came from outside of you to heal you. In the new covenant the healer lives inside you and you are healed by fellowship with the healer within, You have no excuse for not touching him because he lives in you.  In the old covenant the power or anointing came upon you to heal you from outside. In the new covenant you are inhabited by my life-giving Spirit who is constantly quickening you and making you whole from inside out. 

     So many of you have been healed from things you didn't even know about because my life destroyed the sickness before you even had symptoms. The more you learn to rest and fellowship with the healer inside you the healthier you will become. You will get better day by day until you are completely whole. There will be a day as I spoke of through my prophet Zechariah when the feeblest among you will be like King David and the house of David shall be as God with the angel of the Lord going before you.

     This truth of my life-giving Spirit living in you is why Jesus told his disciples that it was better if he came back to heaven and sent Holy Spirit to you. Jesus became flesh and is still flesh. He kept his body. You can't be inhabited by another body, you can only be inhabited by a spirit. Holy Spirit is one with me and one with Christ so when he moves in you are filled with all our fullness. This was the purpose of all that Jesus did. We love you and wanted to be one with you.

     I hear you say "What about laying on hands." Yes people are still healed by the laying on of hands but what comes with the laying on of hands? Was not my Spirit received by the laying on of hands? This is why you get healed that way. It still doesn't come from outside. The person who puts their hands on you sometimes releases my Spirit from within them to contact you but most times it just stirs up my anointing within you to heal you.

     My church must start seeing me as the God who lives inside them and not the God far away. It's time to build on relationship and not religion. This is the new covenant. I live in you and walk in you, I write my love laws on your heart and on your mind, and in me you live and move and have your being. No longer separated by space or time or any other thing. It is Christ and Me and My Spirit in you and you in us. Not four but one. Let this sink down into your heart. Not four but one.

     So please my beloved ones, stop buying all the formulas and programs and searching for ways to be well and get healed. I am the God who heals you. Healing is not an event. Healing is a person. Christ in you is the hope of glory. 

     No more reaching out to get healed. Settle into my rest knowing that the healer is inside you. Rest in me and be well and blessed. Fellowship with me in spirit and in truth. My Spirit is within you, so fellowship with me inside. Let's sing together and make melody in your heart and mine. Be well my beloved ones and know that I am with you always.



     This was 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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Psalm 46

1. God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.

2. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,

3. though its waters roar and foam
and the mountains quake with their surging.

4. There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy place where the Most High dwells.

5. God is within her, she will not fall;
God will help her at break of day.

6. Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall;
he lifts his voice, the earth melts.

7. The Lord Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.

8. Come and see what the Lord has done,
the desolation he has brought on the earth.

9. He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth.
He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
he burns the shields with fire.

10. He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”

11. The Lord Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.




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

     My children, I always was, because “I Am.” I will always be, because “I Am.” I am right now, because “I Am” I am present with you right here, right now and forever.

     Do you remember the past victories I gave you? It was because I was with you. I haven't left you. I will never leave you. Your Father and Mother and everyone you know may leave you and yet I am with you. You are never alone because “I Am.”

     Faith is in the present tense just as I am. When you think of past victories don't think that I was with you then and wish I was with you now. I will always bring you the victory. It is not possible to lose because anything you love even if it leaves you in this age it is saved for you in the next one.

     My beloved ones, this is most important that you don't see me as one who visits you. You must see me as the one who lives in you constantly. I am with you when you fight your battles. I am with you when you sleep. If you are moving mountains or brushing your teeth I am with you.

     Why? Because I love you. This was the point of all that Jesus did at the cross. He came to take away your guilt so you would fellowship with me in Spirit and Truth. You live with me in the spiritual world and I live with you in the natural world.

     I never left man. Man left me. I drove them out of the garden in my wrath against sin, not my wrath against man. I did this for their protection so they wouldn't eat of the tree of life and live forever in their guilt. I came calling Adam even after they fell. I knew where they were hiding. I didn't ask Adam where he was so that I would know. I asked him so he would realize he left our fellowship and hid himself. I didn't want him to hide from me. I didn't want our relationship to be broken because of sin.

     I have never left anyone and never will. Many think I turned my back on my own son on the cross because of what he cried out. He wasn't stating that I forsook him. He was quoting the Psalmist so that those around him would recognize that the Psalm you call Twenty-Two was being fulfilled before their eyes. I have never abandoned anyone at any time. So I will never leave you. If you remember Paul's letter to the Corinthians he explained that I was in Christ on that cross, reconciling the world to myself. I never forsook my son and I will never forsake you.

     The reason I tell you this is so you will not call upon a God who is far away in heaven. You will not call upon a God who is in the past or in the future. I want you to call upon me because I am with you right here, right now and will always be with you right where you are at all times.

     I know many of you are in pain and trouble and wondering where I am. I want you to know that I am with you and if you will give me those cares and troubles I'll take care of them for you and let you rest.

     I know many of you are frustrated because what you see in your lives is not what you see in your bible. You long for the miracles and wonders that the early church saw. The difference between them and you is that they built their lives on a relationship with my Son and people today build their lives on religion and rules and regulations.

     The early church knew my heart and they would heal the sick because I love them. They would say, “I can do this because Christ is in me”. The church today says “I must heal the sick or I will not be accepted.” In today's world people don't look for the fruit of my Spirit as my mark on people's lives. They think it's signs and wonders. So many times they fall victim to those who are false and not real. The proof of my discipleship is love and will always be love. People want my power to flow through them to prove that I am with them. In the beginning they knew I was with them and power flowed naturally because of my presence. 

     Religion teaches you today that if you worship long enough you can get my Spirit in a good mood and He will heal and do wonders. The truth is that I am always in a good mood but I work through love and relationship, not because I am bribed. Think of the man called Simon the sorcerer who tried to bribe the apostles for the power of my spirit. How did that work out for him? 

     I am not bribed yet the church today teaches that you must give me something for me to be who I am. You must be able to quote ten scriptures and that will force me to do what a loving Father naturally does for his children. You must confess that I am good or I won't be good. See how sill this all is? The scriptures say you believe with your heart and confess with your mouth. If your heart doesn't believe I am good then all the confessing in the world will never change a thing. You confess "because you believe," not so you will believe.

     I heal because I am the healer. I love because I am the lover. I raise the dead because I am eternal life. The early church's foundation was who I am. Today the church is built on what I do. When you awaken to the truth of the gospel and you know my character you will understand that miracles and wonders are not purchased by religious acts or acts of great faith. Great faith comes from great relationship, not from being religious. Great faith comes because you know me. It comes because we have bonded and you know my ways. It comes because you hear my spoken voice from inside you.

     So my loved ones, will you please stop the madness. Stop treating me like I'm a million miles away and you have to cry and scream and beg me to get me to do what I have longed to do already. I want you to be blessed and I want you to see miracles more than you want it.

     Think of it this way. Would you be happy if some of your children got well and the rest remained sick? Would you be happy if one of your kids was wealthy and the other homeless?

     I want all my children blessed and well but it does not come through works or through religious acts. It comes through fellowship with me and by building a relationship with me. When you know me as I am then you will do what I do.

     Religion tells you Jesus led his apostles away from their homes to teach them what to do. This is not the case. He took them away to spend time with him to build a relationship with them. Just as we long for a relationship with each of you. We live right inside you and you don't know it. I spoke through my son and told Phillip that I was in Christ all the time and he didn't recognize me. So I am with you and yet you look for me somewhere else.

     If you will stop looking outside and look inside you will find me. You are my temple. You are my home. I dwell in you because I love you and I want to be one with you for eternity. You will always be in me and I will always be in you.

     You will find me when you seek me with your whole heart. You will find me in your heart when you seek me for love's sake and not for sake of the works or the blessings. How would you feel if people only wanted you for what you could do and not for who you are?

     Please my beloved. Once again. Stop the madness. Return to your first love, not your first religion. I am with you. I will stop the storms and I will cure all your ills if you will learn who I am. What I do comes in the package with who I am and not vice versa. Non- religious people were in awe of the love and wonders that flowed through my son, while the religious Pharisees were in the same place asking for a sign.

     I am love and love can only be seen by the heart. Think of it this way. When you love someone why do you want to be with them? Is it not your heart's desire? Why do you want to hold their hand? Does your hand get cold and just want to be warm, or is your hand obeying your heart's desire? Why do you want to kiss them? Does love live in your lips or in your heart? Did you fall in love with your spouse because they could move mountains, or because they could move your heart?

     An evil generation seeks for signs. A righteous generation seeks for a person. Stop seeking my hands my beloved and seek my heart. You will find me right here inside you waiting to reveal love like you have never known. You get the heart right and everything else will work properly. 

     I am with you and yet I miss you. I long for relationship with you. I am with you and yet you look for me everywhere except where I am. I am inside you but you look for me in others. Please awaken my beloved and know that I am with you, right here, right now, forever.



     This is 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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     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 loved ones, I know many of you are struggling and wondering why it is taking so long for the dreams to come to pass and for your prayers to be answered. You have been fighting and wrestling with impatience and with worry and strife. I am here to remind you of the first call you heard. That call was me speaking through my son saying “ come unto me you who are weary and are carrying heavy burdens and I will give you rest.”

     It's time to take a deep breath and rest in the finished work of my son. He accomplished all things for you and as you. He bore your problems, your sickness, your discomfort and all your worries on his cross. He became poor so that you could be rich. You don't need to struggle with all these things, you just need to surrender them to me.

     My lovely ones, I spoke to you about being at rest and told you that those who truly believe enter into that rest. No more fighting to make your way. No more struggling to grow into something that you already are. All you need to know is Christ in you and you in Christ. We are all one. You are in him and he is in me and I am in you. So why do you worry? Why not put aside all your cares and worship instead of worry.

     Resting in me is the highest form or worship. That is why I said if you believe you enter into rest. If you can't leave it with me and leave it alone that you are not at rest. If you truly trust me you will give me your cares and let them go.

     I am your promised land. I am your heaven just as you are mine. I dwell in you because you are my heaven. You are where I want to be. You are seated with me in heavenly place in Christ and we are seated in you in heavenly places in you.

     The kingdom is inside you. I know from a physical standpoint this seems hard to hear. There is a vastness within you that you are not aware of. Think of it this way: How many thoughts can you put in your mind and yet your mind is never full? Even your natural mind contains more information than you could ever imagine. So what about my mind in you? How much of me does it contain?

     In the spirit realm all things are possible. Do you remember that I once lived in a box called the ark of the covenant? What, I was in a box? Yes, I was and I am in you. All things exist in me and I exist in all things. There is no space where I am absent and I fill all things. So why do you worry? I am not a big God in heaven and a little God in you. All the fullness that makes me who I am is in Christ and he is in you. You have all the power and might and all the creative power that built and runs the universe inside you already.

     Now here is the problem. Christ entered into rest when his work was done. If you want to dwell in me you dwell in my rest. I have already given you all things that pertain to life and Godliness so you already possess all things. They are inside your spirit and will flow out of you as you worship.

     The flow of my Spirit does not come through struggle and might. I told you not by might and not by power but by my Spirit. You don't have to produce things, you just have to rest in me and let all these things flow into your life by my Spirit.

    Does this mean you become lazy and do nothing? Of course not. When you love what you do it is no longer work but pleasure. Many of you have hobbies that are much more physically demanding than your jobs, yet you don't consider it work, but fun.

     Working is hard. Bearing fruit is natural. You never hear a tree straining and struggling trying to get fruit to appear on the branches. The tree just rests with it's roots down deep so it can get a good drink and it soaks up all it needs for fruit to appear.

     Do you remember that the scripture says in Jeremiah that if you trust in the Lord you will be like a tree planted by the water, and would bear much fruit? This is how simple life is supposed to be. This is why when Jesus prayed for the blind man he said he saw men as trees that were walking. It wasn't that he didn't get healed right the first time. It's just his spiritual eyes opened before his natural eyes did. He may have been blind but he had ears to hear and he had heard that truth.

     This what men are supposed to be. You should soak up my truth and my love and bear fruit so that as you walk through this world people can eat of your fruit and taste me. The seed that produces the tree is in the fruit, so as they eat of the fruit they ingest the seed that becomes the tree in them and then they bear fruit also.

     You don't have to struggle and strain to get through life. You just need to rest in me and as instructed through my beloved Paul. You should sink your roots down deep into my love until you are rooted and grounded in my love for you and bear much fruit. Once your roots are in the right place you will understand the mysteries of my kingdom and be able to see all things.

     So many have their roots in religion or false doctrine and not in my love. So they don't bear love fruit, instead they bear false fruit. It looks like fruit and sometimes smells like fruit but it is sour and not sweetened by my love. Others have one root in love and one in the world, so you never know from one season to the next what will be on their tree.

     So my loved ones. What I want you to do is to give me all your cares are worries and stop struggling. Enter into my rest and sink your roots down deep into my love and take a good drink. Keep drinking until you are full of my love and everything in your lives will change. Because you have put your roots in my love when the wind blows it will not break you. You will just sway with the breeze in a dance of worship. When other trees around you suffer from drought and their leaves wither and their fruit fails, you will still be green and fruitful.

     Please my loved ones, give me all your problems and trust me with them. Enter into my rest and trust me with your children and your health and your money. I will never leave you. I love living in you. I would never think of dwelling any other place. I am your heaven and you are my heaven. So let's dwell in love and dwell in rest. No more fear. No more worry. Just keep soaking your roots in my love and bearing sweet fruit.

     I love you my children. Please love each other with the love I have for you and take just a moment and ask yourselves the following two questions:

Am I at rest?

Where are my roots?




     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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Colossians Chapter Two.

6. And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him.

7. Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.
8. Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ. 

9. For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. 

10. So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

10. So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.


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

     My children, why do you run to and fro looking for more when I am right here inside you? You listen to others telling you that if only you will learn this or that you will be complete. You are already complete on the inside. The only thing lacking is your understanding of how perfect you are.

     You are one spirit with my son and with me and with Holy Spirit so why do you think you need something more to make you whole? It's time to stop chasing the latest teaching and embrace the truth that is already inside you.

     You are not lacking in anything except in the revelation of who you are in me and who I am in you. You didn't gain me by all the things you learned. You gained me when you invited me to live in you, and when you accepted the message I told you about my son and his perfect, finished work of salvation.

     Do you really think you can add anything to him? When he told you it is finished then it is finished. You can't add to it, all you can do is accept it and grow up into the truth of Christ in you the hope of glory.

     You don't need to do some twelve step program or fight against some evil old nature that I already killed. You need to wake up and realize that your old man is already dead. The only reason he is bothering you is because you keep listening to those who tell you he is alive. You old nature is not the problem. You have been baptized into my son and I have circumcised that old nature from you. Those who would deceive you make you think that it's still alive and you must fight it. This is your enemy telling you these things. 

     You don't wrestle against flesh and blood, not even your own. You wrestle against principalities and powers and wickedness in high places. Especially high places like pulpits and terror programs you call Christian television. You know the ones. The ones who constantly tell you there is something to be afraid of when I told you not to fear. You know the ones, the ones who tell you that you only need this latest teaching series that they are selling you to make you complete?

     Isn't it odd  that no matter how many they sell you there is always one more to sell you. WAKE UP! You are complete in my son and you only need to realize that you are not lacking in any thing. This is the same deception that the serpent sold Eve. He told her she was lacking in knowledge and if she learned something new she could be like me. She was already made in my image and likeness. She wasn't lacking. Adding a negative does not give you more positive. Knowing evil does not make you holier.

     It's the same message today. You need this or that and you will be more like God. What a lie. I baptized you into my son and joined you to me in spirit so how could you need anything else? You are one with me so tell me just what will you add to us to make us greater?

     Demons trouble you by disguising themselves as your old nature and try to make you feel guilty because you have done wrong. They make you forget you are a holy being. They bombard you with nasty thoughts and make you think that you thought those things. You have the mind of Christ. Those things don't come from his mind. See how deceptive this is? They put thoughts in your mind and then accuse you of having evil thoughts.

     If you want to walk in holiness then embrace the truth and stop fighting the lie. The truth is you are justified, sanctified, and glorified. You are complete in me. You are washed and pure as snow. 

     My son took away the sins of the world. I was right there in him reconciling the whole world to myself. The whole world died in Christ and the whole world can be born again if they choose to leave their old life on that cross and embrace his new life in them.

     Life and death is truly in the power of the tongue. You can confess Christ and be born again from that death or can refuse to confess him and stay dead for eternity. If one died for all then all died. 

     I did this to take away my children's debt in hopes they would realize they are free and come to me. I cleared the books of all charges against all men so that they could come to me without guilt and embrace the death of my son in their place and be born again. Man would not come to me because he was ashamed so I took away that shame so he could come to me in innocence and be saved.

     If you are in Christ then you have left your old life on that cross and now you are a new creation. Old things are passed away and all things are new. Your old nature is not still with you. It is dead and all you have to do is reckon yourselves to be dead to that old sin nature and take it off like a dirty shirt. 

     You don't have to wrestle and beg and plead for sin to go away, you just need to embrace your new life and realize that you have been cleansed. You are not a dirty rotten sinner saved by grace. You once were a sinner but that person died. Now you are my sons and daughters dressed in my royal attire. You are seated with my son right beside me on my throne.

     My lovely ones, the only thing you are lacking is the understanding of who you are and what really happened on that cross. You really did die and you really are alive again in spirit and are a new creation. You are not your old self and you are not guilty. You are forgiven, holy, righteous children who only need to awaken to who you are.

     So please my beloved ones, don't listen to the lies and condemnation of those who only want to make you feel like a worm so they can sell you worm food. Listen to the truth. There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ. You are in Christ and in me and in my Spirit. Do you really think you could be in us if you were unholy? Would we live in you if you were a dead, rotten, stinking corpse?

     You are one spirit with us so you can't say anything bad about yourselves without it applying to us also. As he is so are you in this world. Please wake up my children. Don't doze off. Set your mind on things above. Don't be entangled in the yoke of bondage from those who would tell you that you are lacking. 

     Open up the door inside. That door is Christ. He is the only way, the only truth and the only life and there is no other way. So why do you want to come any other way?  If you want to see heaven then look inside. I am right here on the throne of your heart. I am not far way.

     Think about your children. Do they have your last name? Are they your children because of what they do or because they were born to you? Did they have to learn how to be your children or were they born that way? They are your children because they were born to you. Now your job is to teach them who they are and what it means to be in your family?

     You were born again into my family. You are my offspring. You are my beloved children whom I love very much. Settle it in your hearts once and for all. You are mine and I love you. Now let me teach you who you are. Don't listen to anyone on the outside of our family. They don't know who we are.

     Can't you see how valuable you are to me? Don't you see what I paid for you. You are my treasure and you are just like my first born. When I look at you it's like looking into a mirror. I see me in you. I see my light and my life and my hope in you. I see my Christ in you. 

     When you look into my eyes you will see yourselves as I see you and then you will know who you are. So if my eyes are your mirror why would you want to look at anything else to see who you are?

     Please my loved ones. Look into my eyes.


     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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