BLESSED BY AVOIDING WICKED COUNSEL

My dear precious child, In the poem of Job, the author wrote many aspects of truth. In the poem the main character of Job had figured out he truth that wickedness brings woes but righteousness brings blessings. Yet, he was still confused about from where the wickedness came and from where the righteousness came. Because of his confusion, he wrote that he was afflicted in every area and he was eager for answers to his horrible problems. He asked of Me the answers to his confusion. He was ignorant of the devil and his works and so Job began to think that maybe I was the cause of both evil and good, but he was not sure. His friends added to his confusion by accusing me of several things, also accusing Job of sinning and they added to Job's confusion, all of which is indicative of a person depending on human knowledge instead of spiritual knowledge from Me. In the poem of Job, when the character of Job met with Me face to face he realized that I am love and he began to know Me intimately. Because of his knowing Me intimately and inquiring of Me instead of his continuing to depend upon human knowledge, Job began to be freed from the curses that had flooded into his life. (Job 42:1-6) All of the erroneous answers of the three men who tried to help Job are common in the human theology that confuses many of My children. (Job10:15) In the poem, the writer wrote that Job apologized to Me and said that he had only known Me by the hearing of his ears instead of knowing Me face to face. When He acknowledged that he had finally begun to known Me by seeing Me with his spiritual eye, Job repented in ashes and dust, confessing that he loathed himself because of his lack of real spiritual Truth. In the poem, after I had called Job into a face to face meeting with Me, I asked him who he was that had sought counsel of people who had no real truth. After I had questioned him, He confessed to Me that he had uttered things that he did not understand, things too wonderful for him to know. Job's explanation to Me in the poem is indicative of the reason for all of the confusion of humans in relationship to knowing My Truth which sets them free and the need for their distancing themselves from the lies about My nature which binds them to the devil and his curses. (Job 42:7-8) Very often their searches that involve their consulting of human beings will feed more lies into their already fragile minds which are burdened with confusion. I wrote in My word that if My children will come and reason with Me that their sins will become white as snow and if they are willing and obedient to My guidance that they will eat the good of the land. (Isaiah 1:18-19) The prophet and king David wrote a song about this very Truth in Psalm 1. He wrote that the person is happy and fortunate who does not counsel with ungodly people but instead if that person meditates on My personal words that I speak to him or her, that that person will be like a well watered tree which brings forth its fruit in season and its leaves never fade and fall off. I promised that that person will prosper in everything he or she does. I even placed the book of Psalms in My Instruction Book after the poem of Job to emphasize the importance of having a one-on-one relationship with Me in order to avoid the curses of the devil, which the writer of the poem of Job proved also. Your Father of the Power of Truth

BLESSED BY AVOIDING WOES

My Dear Precious Child, In one of David's songs related to woes, the words to the song stressed that he had cried out to Me and I had answered him. (Psalm 120) As a result, the words to the song appealed to Me to deliver the person singing the song from his own lying lips and deceitful tongue. He even addressed his own tongue by asking what should be given to it or what more could be done to it, calling it a deceitful tongue. He wondered if sharp arrows of a mighty warrior with glowing coals of the wood of a tree were efficient enough to take care of his deceitful tongue. (Psalm 120:1-4) He professed that woes were upon him, possibly from the seeds that he had sown in his own life by his yielding to his unruly tongue. He even compared his activities as having been influenced by barbarous, excessively cruel people, sensing terror on every side. (Psalm 120:5; Jeremiah 49:28-29) He confessed to having too long dwelled alongside people who hated peace. Even though he was for peace, he professed that when he spoke that his words were determined to seek war. (Psalm 120:6-7) He had been influenced by people who had lying lips. Though he intended to speak peaceful words, instead when they exited his mouth they were war-loving words because of the influence of the people who were around him. In the song, the lyrics quoted the words of Isaiah when he viewed the inner workings of My heaven. (Isaiah 6:1-5) He felt unworthy to have experienced what he was seeing, which was the angels praising Me and he observed that the posts of the door moved when I spoke. Isaiah professed in his vision that he was filled with self pity and woes, feeling undone and disconnected, because he was a man of unclean lips living among a group of people who also spoke from unclean lips, and he realized his sin because he was in My company, the Lord of Hosts. The song reviewed Isaiah's experience in the vision. One of the angels in heaven who was present took tongs and picked up a coal from My altar and then with his hand he touched Isaiah's lips, saying that I had touched his lips and so his iniquity was taken away and his sin was purged. Because his lips had been cleansed of deceitful words, Isaiah said that I had said that I had a need to send someone who would go for Him to minister to other people. Then he said that he had answered the challenge and said that he was available and his lips had been cleansed. So there was a volunteer, one who would tell the people that they heard his words but did not understand them, that they had seen My mighty works, but they did not perceive them. Therefore, because of their sins, they were ostracized from the other people and he told the people that I had kept a remnant of people. a tenth, and that they would be able to enjoy a new covenant in the future, speaking of the ministries of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit (Isaiah 6:1-13) The song of David was sung by many people while on the way to celebrations, especially when the people were made conscious of their sins of speaking with lying lips and a deceitful tongue. So one of the main reasons for woes coming upon a person in his or her life on earth is because of his or her yielding to the temptation to speak words that make himself or herself to be at war with another person, even though in his heart he wants peace, like in the words to the song that was sung by David. Because his words had brought war instead of peace, he was condemned and filled with guilt for having spoken words which did not proceed from Me but proceeded from the devil's temptations. David knew the curses that had come upon people because of their lips and tongues. In Isaiah's experience, David knew the series of events which caused almost the entire tribe of people to lose their peace and engage in war, all because of the words of the authorities and the people who lied and yielded to the temptation from hell to seek war instead of seeking peace. Only when My children allow Me to cleanse their speech do they change their attitudes and seek peace instead of seeking war. Then there can be blessings instead of woeful curses in their lives on earth. Your Father of Peaceful Thoughts and Words

BLESSED FROM FORGIVENESS OF SINS

BLESSED FROM FORGIVENESS OF SINS My Dear Precious Child, When My children find themselves being destroyed by the destroyer and he, the devil, is not destroyed, and his demons who dealt treacherously with My children are still around and yet My children do not deal treacherously with them, woe to those evil ones in the future. When the demonic enemies of My children have ceased to destroy My children, woe to those demons for they will be destroyed. And when they have stopped dealing treacherously with My children, My children will deal treacherously with them, oh, the evil ones. That was the future prophesies of Isaiah to the demonic hosts. In other words, sometime in the future of the world woes would come upon the evil demons instead of their being on My children. Their judgment was certainly coming. (Isaiah 33:1) Even though Isaiah usually spoke for Me to people, he directly spoke to Me occasionally in his prophetic utterances and he asked that I would be gracious to My children because they had waited expectantly for Me to appear and every morning bring salvation to them with My defense and strength in their time of trouble. Isaiah wrote and spoke that people flee at the sound that My voice brings which causes their enemies to also flee and that nations flee at the noise of tumult created by My voice that lifts My children up above the nations that scatter. (Isaiah 33:2-3) The utter magnificence of My promise in Isaiah's writings and speech was when he prophesied that the spoils of their enemies would be gathered up by My children just like the caterpillar gathered and the locusts leapt and ran to and fro to collect the goods of the Jews when their enemies captured them. (Isaiah 33:4) All of those judgments by My children through Me on their demonic enemies were prophesied by several of My prophets as encouragement to My children that the days would eventually come when I would be exalted in earth just as I am in heaven. Isaiah prophesied that I would eventually fill the earth with My justice, righteousness and morally correct behavior in every area of the earth. I even promised that there would be stability in the nations at that glorious time, that there would be an abundance of salvation, wisdom and knowledge and reverent worship and awe for Me from My children, which would be their treasure and also My own treasure. (Isaiah 33:5-6) However, as Isaiah wrote at the time, My children had not allowed My salvation to yet become manifested in the earth. Instead, the ambassadors of peace wept bitterly and the valiant men cried outside of the gates, the highways laid wasted, the wayfaring man ceased his efforts, the real enemies of the covenant had broken it, and they had despised the cities, the witnesses and they regarded no person. Also, the land mourned and languished in their woes and was withering away. The land of Sharon in Mount Carmel was like a desert and in the fertile plateau east of Mount Carmel the leaves were shedding all of their leaves. He prophesied that the voices of the people had conceived chaff and their breath had become a fire that would consume them, burning the people into lime with thorns that were cut down and burned in a fire. (Isaiah 33:7-11) He wrote that the people must hear him, attend to his words and even acknowledge My might to work in their behalf. (Isaiah 33:12-13) In this dissertation by Isaiah, he wrote that trembling would seize the godless enemies of My children, that demonic sinners would be afraid, crying and asking who can survive the devouring fire and who could ever live among those terrible burnings. (Isaiah 33:12-14; Matthew 13: 36-43) Then the prophesy of Isaiah for Israel became more positive. He wrote that anyone who walked righteously, spoke uprightly, who despises illegal gain, fraud and oppression, one who shakes his hands free from taking bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and he who shields his or her eyes from seeing evil would rise upon the curses upon the earth. Isaiah wrote that such a person would live high above the problems in the world and his defense would be a fortress of rocks, that spiritual daily bread would be given to him or her and water provided for him or her forever. (Isaiah 33:15) That was only some beginning of the prophesies relating to when My salvation would come to earth eventually on the day of Pentecost, the most supreme benefit being that no one would say that he or she is sick because the people would be forgiven their iniquities and their guilt. That prophesy foretold the most important event in the history of man that was an improvement in the lives of all people, its being a change from complete negativity to complete positivity through My proclamation that their sins would be forgiven through no labor of their own. My children would just be forgiven simply because of My mercy. (Isaiah 33:24) It was a prophesy which deserves absolute praise for Me and gratefulness for My mercy. Your Father of Enduring Mercy

BLESSED FROM HAVING GOD'S WISE COUNSEL

My Dear Precious Child, Isaiah had insight into My wisdom and knowledge which benefit people in every area of life. He especially knew the dangers that come upon people when they leave Me and My counsel and depend upon their own understanding of solutions to problem which are limited to human knowledge. He said that the people at the time only drew near to Me with their mouths and honored Me with their lips but they had removed their hearts from Me and their fear of Me was taught by the precepts of men. I said through Isaiah that I would continue to do a marvelous work among them, even marvelous works of wonder but the wisdom of men would perish and the understanding of their prudent men would be hidden. (Isaiah 29:13-14) Then Isaiah said that there would come WOES upon the people that seek to hide their limited counsel from Me and keep their works in the dark and then they profess that no one sees them and knows what they are doing. I said through Isaiah that your turning things upside down shall be like the potters clay. I said that things that are made by the hands of men would not ask who made it, nor would the things that are framed say of the person who framed it that its maker had no understanding. (Isaiah 29:15-16) Yet, He prophesied that in just a very little while that the thick countryside would be turned into a fruitful field and the fruitful field would be turned into a forest. Also in that day the deaf would be able to hear the words of the book and the blind would be able to see out of its blindness and darkness. Then, Isaiah prophesied, the meek would increase their joy and the poor among men would rejoice in the Holy One. All of those redeemed things would become blessed because the terrible one, the devil, would be brought to nothing and the scorners would be consumed, plus everyone who look for iniquity would be cut off from My goodness. He was speaking of the people who make another person offend in words, lay a snare for someone at the gate and turn aside the just for doing nothing wrong. (Isaiah 29:19-21) I spoke through Isaiah concerning the house of Jacob that he would not be ashamed and neither would his face turn pale, but when they see My children, the works of My hands, in the midst of Him, they will sanctify my name and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and they will be in awe of Me, the God of Israel. I said that the people who err in Spirit will come to understanding and they that murmur shall learn wise doctrine. (Isaiah 29:22-24) In conclusion, Isaiah prophesied that when the children of Israel are rebellious they choose counsel that is not of Me and they cover themselves with human covering but not of My Holy Spirit, and that they add sin to sin. They walk down into Egypt and have not asked anything of My mouth, but instead they become strong with the strength of human political power, trusting in Pharoah and trusting in the shadow of Egypt, their oppressor. I told Isaiah to write down in a book everything that I told him so that it will be for all time to come and forever and ever that a rebellious people are lying children, children who will not hear the words of the Lord. He wrote that because they despise My words and trust in oppression and perverseness and enjoy it, that their iniquity would cause them to break and the break would come suddenly at an instant. Their own sins would come upon them and nothing would be spared by the evil one. The only way they will be saved is in returning and resting in Me; in quietness and confidence they will be saved, yet some will not choose My salvation. The ones who flee will be left as a beacon on the top of a mountain and as a sign on a hill. (Isaiah 30:1-18) However, I will wait for you so that I can be gracious to you. I will be exalted and have mercy upon you because I am a God of judgment for evil and a blessing to all that wait upon Me. I promised that the people who dwell in Zion shall weep no more and that I will be gracious to those people who cry to me. I said that when I hear, I will answer. (Isaiah 30:19) When referring to Zion, I was speaking about the people who are born of My Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit as identified in the book of Hebrews. ( Hebrews 12:22-29) Your Father of Answered Prayers

BLESSED BY RELYING ON TRUTH

BLESSED BY RELYING ON TRUTH My Dear Precious Child, Truth always has power. The power of truth will make you free from all demonic influences. The unveiling of truth is done only by My Holy Spirit. There is no other administrator of truth. I said in My Instruction Book that when the Spirit of Truth comes upon you that He will lead you into ALL TRUTH. He is the One who removes the blinders from the eyes of My children and allows their conscious mind to understand the mysteries that are contained in every cell of My mind. So because Truth comes from the Holy Spirit, it has My power to lead you and guide you into all of My knowledge and wisdom on how to have the overcoming life in the world that I intended for all people to have while still in the earth. I said through Jesus in John's writings that the Holy Spirit will not be speaking from his own will and wisdom when he speaks to you but He will speak only from My will and wisdom. He said that He would even tell My children things to come. Jesus said that My Spirit would glorify Him, bringing glory to His place as Son of the Father, since everything that He tells you are also taken from the mind of Christ. (John 16:12-15) Jesus said those things about My Holy Spirit after He said that unless He left the world that the Holy Spirit, the Advocate, would not come into you because the Holy Spirit was His source of power and He was passing on to My children in the earth His own source of power that He needed while He was in the world. Since He was going to sit down with Me, He knew that My children would also need the same power that He had in the earth to overcome all of the works of the devil. He talked about the necessity of My children having the same power of Jesus Christ. One of the three things that Jesus said the Holy Spirit would teach to you was about sin, teaching that the force behind sin are the devil and his demons instead of Me or mankind being the source of evil and sin. The second thing that he said that the Holy Spirit would teach you is about goodness, which is My righteousness, saying that He would teach you that all goodness comes from Me and in Me there is no turning from being good to evil and evil to good. (James 1:13-18) The third thing He said that the Holy Spirit would teach you about is the gift of discerning of Spirits and My eventual judgment of the devil and his demons. In other words, My Holy Spirit would dispel the belief that I was the dispenser of good and evil, which was a traditional belief. He said that My Spirit would make it clear to people that the devil is the author of sin and evil; and I am the author of goodness and righteousness. Plus, My Holy Spirit teaches My children that they have His authoritative power to cast the devil and his demons into the lake of fire in the abyss which I created before the foundation of the earth as the final judgment of evil. (Matthew 13;36-42; John 16:8-11) Those revelations of the Holy Spirit will enable My children to become free from the works of the devil while in the earth and they will have My authoritative power to execute My judgment upon the devil and his demons who are the perpetrators of all evil in the world. (I John 3:8-9) Without the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the lives of My children, there would be no opportunity for Me to share the mystery of the gospel which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. (Colossians 1:27) Your Father Whose Power of the Holy Spirit in the Midst of You is Mighty

BLESSED BY YOUR DECLARING GOD'S LOVE FOR YOU

My Dear Precious Child, When Isaiah prophesied the coming to earth of My Savior, My Son Jesus, he was seeing a vision of My salvation of the world at that time. He said that through Him I would pour My righteousness and justice upon the poor, that I would decide with fairness for the meek, the poor and the downtrodden of the earth and he said that I would smite the oppressor, being the devil, with the rod of His mouth and with the breath of His lips that He will slay the wicked. (Matthew 5:1-22) Isaiah said that righteousness would be the girdle of His waist and faithfulness the girdle of His loins. He said that even the animals would be at peace with each other and that there would be no hurt or destruction in My holy mountain, meaning on Zion, because the earth would be full of the knowledge of Me as the waters cover the sea. (Hebrews 12:1 and 22-29) He also said that in that day that Jesus Christ, the root of Jesse, would stand as a sign to all people and that people will inquire of Him to seek knowledge and His dwelling would be glorious. He also promised that I would, for the second time, recover the remnant of My people which is left in the earth. (Isaiah 11:4-11) It was from Isaiah's wonderful habit of praising Me for My goodness, even in the midst of sin, iniquity and bondage to evil, which has always succeeded in connecting My Children to Me that Isaiah wrote praises about Me being in the midst of My people, thanking Me for turning away My anger and instead that I was comforting My children. His profession that I was his Salvation and so he would not be afraid, instead that he would trust Me because I was his strength and his song and that I had become his salvation. He proclaimed that in times of trouble that he would give thanks to Me and call upon My name. He also said that it was by means of His name that I would declare and make known His mighty deeds among the people of the earth, proclaiming that My name is exalted in the earth. He instructed the people to sing praises to Me because I have done excellent things and so they should gloriously let that truth be made known in the earth. (Isaiah 12:1-2) The habit of Isaiah of praising Me instead of speaking about the woes happening in their lives in the earth at the time is the perfect cure for the "poor me," "self pity" thoughts that the devil places in your mind in an effort to get your mind off of My desire to restore you to My goodness by Me encouraging you to merely praise Me for My goodness and My kindness, even in the midst of apparent demonic curses brought by the devil and his demons into your life. When you think and speak those self conscious, "poor me" thoughts which are caused by your having sown sin into your world, you are in reality praising the devil for his works which cause you to have thoughts of self pity. As Isaiah did and said, the cure for the depression that accompanies self pity is for you to praise Me and glorify My ability to place you at the top instead of at the bottom, to secure you above the problems instead of under them. Yes, I live inside of you and I am mighty against evil in every form. Remember that the prophet Zephania said that I am mighty in you, that I will save you and rejoice over you with joy; that I will rest in My love and I will express My joy over you with singing. Imagine that truth, that I love you so much that I sing about you with joy. (Zephaniah 3:17) Yes, I sing about my love for you. When you sing about your love for Me, all darkness, evil, sin and demonic forces have to leave because they can't stand to hear your love songs for Me. Your Father of Joy

BLESSED BY IDENTIFYING GOOD AS GOOD AND EVIL AS EVIL

My Dear Precious Child, Isaiah was well acquainted with the woes of the devil. In His prophesies to Israel and Judah he gave to them the reasons for their WOES which came upon them because of their engaging in sin, iniquities and oppression of the poor. One of his warnings that he spoke to the leaders of those countries is that they had gone into captivity to their enemies of demons because they had no knowledge of Me. Because of refusing to honor Me and be bound to Me, they became bound to evil temptations and thus became defeated by their spiritual enemies of demons acting through other humans. (Isaiah 5:13) Isaiah described the part that the devil plays in the scenario of the battle between good and evil because he is all evil. The prophet described it as Sheoul, or hell which is the unseen realm of evil, that hell had enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth without measure and therefore Jerusalem's nobility and her multitude of politicians in their pomp and conflict exulted in their descent into hell. They brought the common people lower in stature than they already were locked and even the great rulers were brought low, plus the eyes of the haughty were humbled. Even though humans were cursed by the WOES of hell in their lives on earth by binding themselves to the devil and following his voice of temptation, yet I am exalted again in your life when you do justice to other people and I show Myself righteous and I do righteous works in contrast to the evil that the elite politicians and religious leaders engage. (Isaiah 5:14-17) Isaiah spoke to the leaders of Israel and Judah and warned them that WOES would come to the people who bind themselves to calamity with their cords of iniquity and falsehood, bringing punishment upon themselves with the rope of wickedness toward their fellow men. He said that the people say to the prophets to hurry up with their prophesies so that they will see their prophesied calamities and let the Holy One of Israel come so that they will know the prophesies were real. (Isaiah 5:18-19) Then Isaiah prophesied that WOES were coming upon the people who call evil good and who call good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. He also added to that prophesy that WOES would come upon people who are wise in their own eyes and prudent and shrewd in their own sight, and WOES would come upon people who are heroes to themselves by drinking strong wine and men of strength who think they get strength in mixing alcoholic drinks, plus Woes would come upon those people who acquit the guilty for taking a bribe and whose who take away the rights of the innocent and who take righteousness from the innocent. Isaiah explained fully in this prophesy that bad things in the earth come upon humanity because of the seeds of evil that they sow in the lives of the innocent, the sojourner, the poor, the widows, the orphans and the downtrodden. (Isaiah 5:20-23) He prophesied that My anger was kindled against people who know My commands and yet they do not do them. Because of their being bound to the works of evil instead of being bound to My works of good, they have bound themself to the works of the devil and Isaiah said that the devil would send his army of men to consume Judah and execute his judgment upon the Jews. They should have known good from evil and bound themselves to good instead of the evil temptations from Sheol to which they so easily obeyed. It was not My judgment that was executed upon them, it was the devil's judgment which I had pronounced against the evil works in which men so easily engaged. I pronounced that judgment on the evil demons when I set in place the lake of fire in the abyss to which the demons must be sent as My judgment upon them. I never meant for humans to inherit My judgment for the devil, but when humans bind themselves so tightly to the devil by obeying his temptations and persecuting and harassing My prophets, the poor, and the widows and ophans, they inherit by osmosis My judgment on the devil. (Matthew 13:36-42) I sent prophet after prophet to speak My truth and My words of love to people but they refused to listen to Me and turn from their wicked ways. They often choose evil over good because their eyes have been blinded by the devil to call evil good and to call good evil. The displeasures of the calamities that come upon them were meant for the devil and his demons, and only them. They were not meant for My children. However, when My children bind themselves to the devil by yielding to his temptations, they also inherit My judgment that I intended for the devil and his demons. That is why I said to choose good over evil, so that no WOES will come into your life on earth and cause you to have self pity and then exhibit "poor me" attitudes in the earth which only multiply your WOES. When WOES do come into your life, you must repent and begin to declare your loyalty to Me through praise and thanksgiving which allow you to shed all of the WOES because you have chosen to switch from loyalty to evil and only choose to be loyal to My goodness. Follow the prophesies of Isaiah and Jesus Christ that tell you to do right by doing justly to the oppressed, correcting the oppressor, defending the fatherless and pleading for the widow. Learn to reason with Me instead of obeying the temptations of the devil so that your scarlet sins will become white as snow. I said if you are willing that you will eat the good of the land. (Isaiah 1:17-19) Your Heavenly Father of Mercy and Forgiveness.