POWER PRAYERS

Dear One,

Whatever you are going through that is unpleasant, upsetting, hurtful and trying, there are millions of people in like circumstances in the world who are going through the same things. Your obligation at this time is to pray for them.
In praying for those people you are also praying for yourself, calling into action all of My forces to minister for you as well as others.
You are not alone in your grief and in your trying situation. There is a cloud of witnesses who also are observers of your situation. They are all poised to enter into the circumstances and begin the saving grace that I have promised.
We all work together, Jesus, the Holy spirit, the redeemed saints, the angelic host and Me. We work as One to heal your injuries, whether they are injuries of the body, the soul or the spirit. We wait for just one person to invite us into the situation by prayer. Then We spring into action to save everyone who is calling upon Me for relief and freedom from their burdens.
You must spring into action yourself by praying for others as well as yourself. It only takes one person who prays to save the multitudes who suffer the same tribulation.
Remember that Jesus said to rejoice because He overcame all tribulation and He will overcome the present one for you.

Love, God
James 5 16; Hebrews 12:1-2; John 10:10; I John 2:1; I Timothy 2:1-5.

NEW HORIZONS

Dear One,

Broaden your horizons and find hew horizons.
A horizon appears to be the end of something, a line that sets a limit, an end. I desire that there be no limits to your interests, no limit to your talents, no limit to your love and no limit to your joy.
Boundaries and horizons portray limits to some people. I desire there be no limits to love and joy and peace and faith and patience and all of My personality characteristics that are resident inside of you in the person of My Spirit. The only boundaries that I set are boundaries which protect you from the works of evil. In My family there are no boundaries set which keep you from the good and beneficial things that I have for you.
The devil will set boundaries for you to keep you from attaining the best and greatest things that I have provided for My children. Fear and ignorance are two of the messages that he puts in your mind that limit you. My wisdom and My love for you will overcome those limits.
Push beyond the boundaries that limit your spiritual growth and that limit the fullest growth of My personality traits within you. Don't let the spiritual pests and the spiritual emotional weather extremes of the devil cheat you out of the best things.
The spiritual weather extremes are the emotional extremes that he hurls at you and that land in your mind. If you accept them and dwell on them, then you will retreat from your goals.
The spiritual pests are the demons themselves who try to delay you on your way to claiming the best that I have for you.
Press forward and upward toward the prize of the high calling that I have for you without fear, ignorance or defeat. See beyond the horizon to the brightest lights and the highest prizes. They already are prepared for you.

Love, God
Isaiah 54:2-5; Philippians 3:13 and 14; Hebrews 12:1 and Galatians 5:22.

ASSUMPTIONS AND PRESUMPTIONS

APRIL 2, '97
Dear One,
Assumptions and presumptions are of the natural mind of men.
Assumptions depend on past experiences and always assume the worse scenario without using faith in My abilities in the spiritual world which exist to change circumstances and situations. Assumptions are based on judgments and unbelief.
Presumption are the same as prejudices. They presume something without any true knowledge of the person or the situation.
Presumptions are judgments about a person or a situation ahead of time, before you know the real facts and before you know what I have to say about the situation. Prejudices relate to prejudging people and presumptions relate to prejudging situations and circumstances.
When you assume or presume, you are refusing the leading of My Spirit and you are believing only what you have seen, heard, felt or touched about the person or situation. In other words, you have yielded strictly to sense knowledge and refused My spiritual knowledge about the situation.
Assumptions and presumptions are the first step towards judgment of any person or situation. Then if you continue in that judgment, it will return to you from others.
Reject all assumptions and presumptions from your mind. Speak what I say about that person or that situation, stating that complete redemption is available.
Love prefers to believe for My salvation of the person or situation.
Judgment prefers condemnation of the person or situation.
Learn to perceive My reasoning about any situation instead of prejudging it with your earthly mind.

Love, God
Matthew 7:1; Mark 8:17; I Corinthians 2:9-11;

LORD IN THE EARTH

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Dear One,
You asked Me why the words of the Holy Spirit have been relegated to such a low position in the minds of people, even with some of My children.
Part of the reason is that many of My children fail to realize that I AM the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is Me. He is My omnipresence in the earth because We are One. Therefore He is God. The Apostle Paul spoke truth when he said, "The Lord is the Spirit."
Just like religious people failed to recognize Jesus as My Son when He was in the earth, men refuse to recognize My Holy Spirit as being Me in the earth today. The devil has blinded the eyes of men to the truth of the Holy Spirit and the devil has caused My words through the Holy Spirit to be looked upon as foolish babbling rather than powerful utterances. Jesus was ridiculed when He walked the earth and the Holy Spirit is ridiculed as He moves in the earth. The instigator of that ridicule is the devil and his demons.
I so loved the world that I gave My Son. I so loved the world that I gave My Holy Spirit. More precious gifts have never been given. However, the devil still ridicules both so that men will be reluctant to accept either gift. Today, those who receive My Spirit are viewed by others as being foolish people.
Will you raise Him, the Holy Spirit, to His place of honor in your life just like you raise Me and Jesus to a place of honor?
Will you honor the Holy Spirit's powerful words, raising them to the place of respect and honor that they deserve?
When you pray in the Words of the Holy Spirit, think about the fact that you are bilingual, speaking your native language at times and speaking My spiritual language in times of prayer. That should clear your mind of any ridicule, the fact that you are bilingual, at least. You have dual citizenship, in the world and in My Kingdom. Your primary citizenship is in My family, speaking My language. Often My children are trilingual or multi-lingual, but their primary citizenship is still in heaven.
My own children must give the prayer words of My Holy Spirit the place of honor and respect in their own minds before others will give them the honor and respect that My Holy Spirit deserves.
Honor every spiritual utterance, honor every intercession, honor every spiritual song, honor every spiritual prayer because they are My Words, the powerful Words of your Father given through the Holy Spirit in you.
Jesus honored My Words when He said they are spirit and life.
Yes, they are that, they carry spiritual power and they bring life abundant by speaking healing and redemption and restoration and creative power to bring My blessings and benefits to you and the rest of the world
The spiritual Words of the Holy Spirit are the gospel, for they are My power unto salvation for everything that concerns you.
We are one, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We reside in you in the person of the Holy Spirit. You provide Us the temple, your body. We provide the powerful Words which change curses into blessings, mistakes into solutions and negative thinking into revelations which bring peace and joy and love.
Honor the Gift and honor the Giver of the Gift.
Love, God
II Corinthians 3:17; John 6:63; John 14:15 and 25-27; John 16:12-15; Acts 1:1-9; Acts 2:1-4

HARVESTING BLESSINGS

We enjoy each Holiday with Joy!

Dear One,
Bless those who curse you.
That is a huge order for men to mentally assimilate.
Sometimes you have trouble blessing those who love you, let alone those who curse you.
Can you really get to the spiritual place where you bless those who curse you? Yes, you can,when you understand that blessing them takes away the power of the spirit who is cursing you. Then all the negative power that was poured out on you will diminish and leave the person free of his evil deeds. The result is that you will be free, too, of the effects of the person's curses.
Rejoice when you are given an opportunity to return good for evil and blessings for curses because you have defeated another spiritual enemy and you have restored the person to a place where he can receive blessings himself. You have rescued him from the land of the dead and positioned him in the land of the living. That is a thrilling place for you to be.
Cursing other people means you will reap curses.
Blessings others means you receive blessings from others.
It always works that way. You reap what you sow.
Love, God
Matthew 13:19-23; Matthew 13:31-32; Matthew 5:44-48

IMAGES BECOME REALITY

Dear One,
You must realize what negative imaginations can do to you.
They can convince you that something detrimental is about to happen and you will dwell on it, you will begin to expect it to happen, fear will become rampant and then you will agree to its happening; then, voila, it happens. It all began with a negative, fearful image in your mind. Then you added the emotional energy of fear to it. Then your belief in it brought it into being because you believed for it.
Learn to immediately replace negative imaginations with positive ones, the ones for which you are praying. Then add faith in Me to the positive image, prayer and thanksgiving. Faith and patience in prayers will see that the positive blessings will be brought into being.
Your imagination can work for you or against you.
Imagine the best things happening and they will happen.
Love, God
Philippians 4:8; Mark 11:23-24; Matthew 18:19

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PROMISES AND OATHS

Dear One,
There is surface faith and then there is heart-felt, deep seated, immovable faith that comes from the Spirit.
Surface faith is natural belief that some people have which originates in their minds. It can really be termed trust or reliance. Surface faith is a result of knowledge of facts about someone or something, often facts about Me.
Heart-felt, deep seated, immovable faith is supernatural faith which originates in the spirit of a man and it is generated by My Spirit, the real powerhouse.
Deep seated, powerhouse faith is a result of hearing an oath from Me, My personal oath to you, which guarantees the results.
You have heard people say that a person's air of confidence is only on the surface, meaning that inside, in his inner being, that person is lacking in confidence. So it is with surface faith. It is only on the surface.
When a person allows Me to speak My personal words to him in the form of words or visions in relation to a situation, then he receives My supernatural faith, faith that can move mountains. He knows that he knows that he knows that he knows that the thing promised will happen because I have taken a oath to him that I will bring My supernatural ability into the situation. In that instance, My promises are yea and amen, so be it.
You can rely upon surface faith to be your foundation, but you must have My gift of faith to be able to rely upon Me for supernatural changes in people and situations.
I have a powerhouse full of gifts for you in order to facilitate the answers to your prayers.
Love, God
Matthew 21:21; Hebrews 6:16-20; Hebrews 7:21-25; Hebrews 11:1

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Rejoicing in Heaven

Dear One,
The secret place within your mind where you and I commune is where all the answers to your questions are found, where all of the directions that you need are found and where all the wisdom for which you thirst is found.
The secrets that have been hidden from humans for ages are freely found there because I have previously given them to men and they still reverberate there, ready for your discovery.
Nothing in the earth is worth getting distressed over. It is all so trivial. If you could only see things from the heavenly perspective you would see that an act of love, an act of giving, an act of forgiveness, and a genuine outpouring of sympathy, all of these are regarded in the heavens as eternal acts, as the only monumental experiences in the earth. Those acts bring great joy in the heavens.
There is great celebration in heaven when love is shared, when an unlovely person is loved unconditionally, and when one person shows an act of love to another person. There is exuberant rejoicing when love is returned for evil. It is like a beautiful symphony.
Be conscious of the rejoicing in heaven when you show love to another person.
Love, God
Psalm 40:16; Psalm 63:7; Psalm 68:3; Psalm 96:11

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The Secret Place

Dear One,
You must determine to live in the, "Secret place of the Most High, under My Shadow." Then, and only then, are you gathered unto Me like a hen gathers her chicks under her wing.
There is constant protection in the secret place. There is constant revelation and wisdom in the secret place. There is constant peace in the secret place. There is constant joy in the secret place and there is health and healing in the secret place. All of My blessings begin in the secret place and you receive your inheritance there. The secret place is where your spirit must live in union with Me.
When negative things of the earth insist on making you part of the earthly realm, find that secret place where your mind seeks Me. Then you are immediately there. I am always waiting for your presence so that we can commune as One. When you dwell in the secret place with Me, we can become of one mind, in complete unity.
When you seek Me, you always find Me because I'm always waiting for you.
Love, God Psalm 91:1-7; Luke 13:34

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