STRESS REDUCERS

 Dear One,
     The attitudes of some of My children deny that this is the most wonderful time of the year, even though they sing that it is.
     Worrying and fretting add to the stress of the season.
     Shed all of the added chores or trim down and eliminate the normal chores until worry and stress fly out the window like the invaders that they are.
     Worry and fretting can rob you of your emotional and physical energy until you have no resources left with which to enjoy the wonderful time of the year.
     Relax and enjoy the love, the joy, the beauty and the celebration of the birth of the Savior who came to relieve you of all the stress.  He said, "My burden is light."   Lighten your own burden by only doing what needs to get done, not the lofty chores that you feel are necessary for this time of the year.
     These days are called holidays, or holy days, so make them holy by lightening your own load and the loads of other people.
     This is a time for celebration of life, not a time of depletion love, peace and joy.
      Restore the joy of your salvation by eliminating anything that is not conducive to life and happiness.
      Make these truly holy days.
      Love, God
Psalm 37:1-8; Matthew 11:30.
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GOD'S GOOD PLEASURE

Dear One,
     It thrills Me with joy unspeakable when I see that you are thrilled with your answers to prayers.  When you are joyful, I'm a  joyful.
     I revel in the exuberance with which you express your joy.  It thrills Me to see that you are, yourself,  thrilled with My works in your behalf. 
    Many of My children who do not recognize My gifts and generosity in their behalf.  They skim over them like they were daily occurrences when, in reality, they are answers to their prayers.  That doesn't affect Me negatively.  I give because I love, not because of any expression of appreciation.  The expressions of appreciation and thanksgiving are important only because of the effects they have in the spiritual dimension.  Praise and thanksgiving clear the avenues from heaven to earth of any blockages and barriers which keep My children from receiving their rightful inheritance.
    So can you see why it thrills me to see you thrilled and appreciative?  It's because I know that your clearing of the avenues will be beneficial to you.
     I said that it is My good pleasure to give you the kingdom.  It increases My pleasure when you decide to accept My gifts and enjoy them.  My joy is complete when you are grateful for them because I know that more of My blessings will overtake you because you have blasted through earthly barriers with your gratefulness and then more of My gifts can flood into your life.
     Keep an eye out for even the tiniest evidence of My generosity toward you.  You miss them so often and consider them to be coincidences when they are, in fact, God incidences. 
     My gifts to you are endless.  For your own benefit, let your appreciation and gratefulness be endless.
                                                                             Love, God
Luke 12:31-32;  Ephesians 1:5-12; I Peter 1:7-9; Psalm 22:3; Nehemiah 8:10; Psalm 32:10-11.
  

SEEKING AND FINDING

Dear One,
     I send My love to you through many different messengers and with many different messages.   However, you must have the spiritual eyes and spiritual ears in order to recognize them.
      Messages may come in the still small voice inside of you, or in flowers, in butterflies, in billboards, in license plates, in casual remarks by strangers, in dialogue in movies, in words from songs, in print in newspapers and magazines, or may be in the words of children. They come any way that I feel that you can receive them.
     With diligence I am able to sneak My loving and encouraging words to you past blockages of confusion, unbelief, worry, fear, concern, and all evil conflicts.
      Remember how many times you sang, "Open my eyes that I might see glimpses of truth thou has for me.  Place in my hand that wonderful key that shall unlock and set me free.  Silently, Lord, I wait for thee; ready, my God, thy will to see.  Open my eyes, illumine me, Spirit divine."
     You sang it over and over and over, determined and eager to receive truths that would set you free.
     The desires of your heart were met and are still being met.  You are able to perceive spiritual truths that in the past you never understood.
     Asking Me to open your eyes to truths was, in essence, seeking Me and My kingdom.  Even singing the words of someone else who was asking for revelation knowledge opened you up to receiving My Spirit and the truths that He teaches which come from Me.
     You were unrelenting in your seeking to intimately know Me, which was a declaration to the evil spiritual principalities and powers of the air that you were choosing My family and My ways instead of their conflicting ones.  You chose life instead of death and blessings instead of curses.
     The revelations, wisdom and knowledge that came and still come as a result of your choosing My ways, My principles and the truths of My family, they flood into your mind precept by precept, line by line, here a little, there a little, only what you can handle at the time. As a result, everything beneficial has begun to overtake you.
     With My Holy Spirit as your teacher, you perceive and understand things that have been hidden in the past from My children by evil being.  Those revelations are  the wisdom and knowledge that sets men free.
     Continue in your journey to become intimately acquainted with Me so that you will be like Jesus and only say what you hear Me say and you only do what you see Me do.  Then the seeds you sow will yield love, peace and joy plants.
    Love, God
Isaiah 28:9-10; Matthew 13:10-14; John 16:12-15; Ephesians 1:16-23; Ephesians 3:14-21.
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WONDERFUL CHOICES

Dear One,
     Looking forward is always the best advice you can be given. 
     The only time that looking backward is good for you is when you have learned valuable life lessons from the past mistakes or bad experiences.  Then, only look at the lessons you learned, not at the mistakes or bad experiences.
     Good experiences can be viewed as exhilarating experiences unless they cause you to become melancholy or cause you to live in the past.
     Looking forward with faith to what lies ahead is saying that you trust Me to bring good events and good experiences into your life because you are My child.
    You have heard it said to bury the past.  That means that the past is dead, the events are over and people and situations have changed.  So when you bury the past you open up the future for new and exciting things to happen for you.  When you breathe life into the bad experiences of the past by constantly reliving them in your mind, you cause your future to already be cursed in some way.
     When you truly have buried the past, your thoughts, attitudes and words spoken will change to ones of expectancy, having faith in Me to manifest My love for you in marvelous ways.  It's simply like changing the channels on your TV or changing stations on your radio or changing apps on your IPhone.  You change from the curses channel to the blessings channel by thinking on things that are good, true and of a good report. 
    You are in control of your own mind.  You permit what images will play on the screen of your mind, either good images or bad images.  I said many times to choose good and you will receive My blessings and the abundant life.
     Love, God  
Deuteronomy 30: 15-36; Philippians 4:4-9.

SPIRITUAL EDUCATIONS

Dear One,

     There are technicians who have expertise in repairing every kind of machine and equipment.  You are grateful for them and grateful to them for their knowledge, which you obviously don't have or you would fix things yourself.  They are well acquainted with the different elements of  equipment because of education, either formal or experiential. They also know the composition of the equipment and how every piece works, either independently or in conjunction with the other parts.  Some of the technicians have a natural affinity toward understanding the mechanisms but they still need to be educated or self taught with instruction books in order to be able to fix your equipment.
    It's the same things spiritually, some people have sought to be educated in the operations of the different aspects of My power available in My Holy Spirit and educated in the ministry of Jesus.  Those people have learned about My dealings with a certain nation with whom I made a specific covenant.  Also, some peoplee, because of genetics or mere desperation to know Me, do have a natural affinity toward knowing the dynamics of the war between good and evil.  They understand all of the effective weapons that My children can use to defeat evil in their lives and the lives of other people.   The spiritually educated people recognize the faces of evil and are not deceived.
     You must seek to know me intimately.  Then you must seek to know the inner workings of My spiritual dimension and its influences upon your entire existence.  That is called seeking My kingdom first, above everything else.  That is the secret to your success in every area.
     I am the spiritual expert and I have the expertise to teach you how to fix anything in your life that is broken.  Other people have sought My expertise.  Learn from them and their experiences, also.
     Love, God 
II Peter 1:3-11; Matthew 6:33; Ephesians 1:16-23; Ephesians 3:14-20; Ephesians  4:11-16; Ephesians 6:10-19.Matthew 11:28-30.

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BATTLE PLANS

Dear One,
     Strategy is the most important element in any war, in any battle, in any endeavor, in any business, in any sport, in any game or in any relationship.  Winning always depends upon strategy.
     Strategy is merely a game plan or an educated process toward attaining a goal.
     Think about strategy in relation to strengths and weaknesses.
     Think about strategy in relation to mental and spiritual power.
     Think about strategy in relation to your own game plans.
     Think about strategy in relation to wisdom and knowledge about your own spiritual weapons.
     Think about strategy by thinking about your knowledge of the battle that ensued between good and evil when Jesus rose from the dead and defeated your spiritual enemies in the spiritual dimension.  Think about the truth that when you simply mention his name that the demons cow in defeat.
     Strategy is knowing your righteousness, knowing your power and knowing your resources, all of which are provided by Me.  Strategy is knowing that you have a myriad of angelic forces behind you and ahead of you and surrounding you.
     Strategy is having a winning attitude, knowing that because you are My child that you will emerge a winner over evil and its plan for your defeat.
     Strategy is knowing the truth about overcoming evil with good and that it is strategy that always produces good results.
     Strategy is becoming what I ordained of you, that you become an overcomer
and victor in every battle because you are My child.
     My strategy was to send Jesus as payment for the sins of everyone in the world.  After His ministry in the earth was completed, My strategy was to send My Holy Spirit with My power into the world to live inside of My children.  My strategy was and is that My children use My power to defeat evil in their lives and the lives of others.
    My strategy always works.  Come to Me and learn the individual tenets of strategy that are necessary to defeat evil and restore love and peace into your life. Each battle has the same weapons but every battle has different strategies.  That's why you must clear your mind of earthly confusion and learn to hear from Me.  There is a battle plan available and it's called My wisdom.
     Love, God
Ephesians 6:12-18; Romans 3:21-26; Romans 4:21-25; Romans 12:21; I John 3:8.       

IT'S CALLED GRACE

Dear One,
     Accepting everyone you know and accepting everyone you meet just the way they are is a step in the direction of operating in My grace.
     You have unmerited favor with Me and I look beyond any and all imperfections in habits, features, speech affectations, unpleasant actions, sins, transgressions or iniquities. You are cleansed already by the heavenly washing cycle of the sacrifice of Jesus.
    Grace sees every person as perfect in My eyes, therefore perfect in your eyes if you are operating in My grace.
    Grace does not allow any judgmental thoughts and grace does not display judgmental actions.
     When your thoughts begin to turn into the vein of judgment and you entertain those thoughts for hours and hours, you have left My gift of grace for yourself and others.
      When you find that your thoughts have turned judgmental, you must rapidly gird up the loins of your mind and change to grace thoughts, seeing the good in people, seeing the needs of the less fortunate rather than seeing the unpleasantness.  Bring the person or persons into your love and cleanse them and heal them of all perceived imperfections.  Then, whomever sins you forgive are forgiven.  You can either do the act of grace or you can retain their imperfections by judging them, thus signing yourself up for judgment by others.
     All people you encounter are deserving of My grace and your grace just like you are deserving of My grace, simply because Jesus died for all the shortcomings of men.   All have fallen short of the high marks.
     Let love and grace flow from your mind, cleansing your thoughts on the way toward extending love to others.  Then you are operating as My child, deserving of My forgiveness and operating in my forgiveness and grace.
     Love, God
Luke 2:40; Acts 11:22-23; Acts 14:26; Acts 20:24-25; Acts 20:32; Romans 5:15-19; Romans 5:8-11;  Romans 4:7; John 20:22-23;
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