OLD WINE BARRELS

Dear One, Very often My children don’t act like Jesus knew what He was talking about. His wisdom was never mere idealism with no power to change things. His wisdom was always workable, efficient instructions to teach My children how to succeed in life. (John 6:63) His teachings about never putting new wine into old wine barrels is a good example. He said that the new wine will break the old containers, causing the wine to spill out and be wasted. He cautioned that new wine must be put into new containers with new attitudes, new thoughts, new speech, new actions. (Matthew 9:17) His advice is valuable to every one of My children, especially as a new year begins after an old one ends. My children must take on My attitudes toward others, blessing people instead of cursing them with negative words, doing good to those who curse you and take from you, praying for your enemies. He said that the old practices of an eye for an eye and hating your enemies and returning evil for evil would no longer work in newness of life. He gave the new guidelines that are operable in a new creation, blessing instead of cursing, doing good instead returning evil, giving to others instead of taking from them. His teachings were meant to reveal to My children the truth that there are two kingdoms available, two spiritual families available from which to choose to draw your power. One is the family of evil whose father is the devil and the other is My family of good of which I am the Father. (Matthew 6:24) If your past year was replete with hurt feelings, angry energy, vindictive thoughts, depression and strife, leave those attitudes behind and emerge into the new year pure and fresh as a newborn baby, eager to experience the goodness that I have for you. First you must not put the new attitudes into old habits, old thoughts, old religious laws, old political rhetoric, old strife filled relationships. Instead, put on My new life which is filled with the benefits derived from doing what I advised you to do, take off the old and put on the new. (II Corinthians 5:17) There is more power in the admonitions of Jesus than you realize. Loving others as I love you will produce good things being returned to you. Loving others as I love you will produce peace in your family. Loving others as I love you will attract to you more good things than you dare think or imagine because of the power of My love in you which flows to others. (Ephesians 3:14-20) If Jesus is your Savior, begin this new year choosing to heed His teachings which are actually My instructions on how to have the abundant life which I have for you. Old troublesome habits, old negative thoughts, old vengeful attitudes, old bitter words are all the old wine barrels which must be thrown on the garbage heap and replaced with new loving habits, new loving thoughts, new loving attitudes and new loving words which always bless the hearers and bring grace to them. (Ephesians 4:29) When you take the advice of Jesus you become My children in the earth because you sow My peace and love in the lives of others. (Matthew 5:7-9) Your Loving Father (Luke 12:32)

SHED THE DARKNESS

Dear One, With the new year, you must shed the tight, unbearable coat of unforgiving thoughts and attitudes. It jerks your mind backward into the past with images of injury to your body, emotions or spirit, robbing you of life. The object of the coat of bitterness is to keep you from enjoying the freedom that I have for you, freedom from the past. It acts as a moving picture in your mind, lassoing your emotions and catapulting you backward into despair and depression. The new year that I have for you is filled with new adventures, new blessings, new excitement, new loves, new happy memories to be formed in the place of the injurious ones that you leave behind when you shed the heavy coat of darkness, leaving behind all mistakes, all bitterness, all injured feelings, all condemnation, all judgment, all fear and all guilt. The coat of darkness constantly applies hurtful thorns to your life. I replace it with new clothes which warm and heal your flesh. When you shed that coat of heaviness, you emerge as a newly born again child with new visions of love, success, prosperity, goodness, kindness and mercy as your new clothes. They come to you only after the coat of darkness has been shed by you. I do not leave you alone as you shed the coat of heaviness. When you make the decision to shed the darkness, I am present to ease that dark coat off of you, taking it off of both of your arms, then your back and your entire body. Next comes freedom and newness of life because you have released the old bindings and you emerge again as a new creature, eager to be rewarded with what I have for you. The first reward is total freedom from the darkness of the past. You are in Christ, a totally new creature. The old things pass away and, behold, all things become new again, pure, clear and joyful. Declare your newness of life after you deposit the coat of past darkness into My flaming garbage pile. Walk in freedom and newness of life as a purified, clean, new creature who is clothed with joy. Walk out of the darkness of the old year by taking off the coat of dark thoughts and attitudes, then walk into the light of the new year that I have for you. I am the promised abundant LIFE!! ALL THINGS BECOME NEW! Your Loving Father

PRINCE OF PEACE

Dear One Jesus did not intentionally cause turmoil in the earth when He began His ministry. His ministry of love and healing brought the wrath of satan down upon Him through the religious leaders at the time because of the difference between their ministries of guilt and condemnation and the ministry of Jesus which relieved the people of guilt and condemnation, healed their sick, mended the broken hearted and gave freedom to the captives of ineffective religions.(Matthew 10:34-42) His teachings of My wisdom were the sword that He wielded. He did not use a metal sword to injure people, but He used My words which set people free. He said that His words pruned from them the works of the devil caused by his temptations and through religious ineffectiveness, cutting off dead, withered branches which had died from lack of true spiritual nourishment. He spoke words which brought life instead of words which brought death. That is why people flocked to hear His words of life, leaving behind the teachings delivered from their temples which brought death, guilt and condemnation. (John 5:20; Philippians 2:16) Because of His life giving words and the resulting freedom of people, families were divided, churches were empty and religious leaders were inflamed by satan to oppose Jesus, His teachings and also oppose His followers. The truths spoken by Jesus set the people free and revealed how ineffective their religions had become. You know the end results, the crucifying of Jesus. They played right into My hands because Jesus was destined to die for the very sins that were caused by satan through religious doctrines. Through Him the payment was made for the sins of all mankind. My children became the recipients of My Holy Spirit who gives the power to reject evil temptations and reveals My truths to My children. My truths set you free. (John 16:13-14; John 8:32) The Prince of Peace didn’t purposely cause trouble. It was His words of wisdom and His ministry of freeing people from religious and demonic bondage that caused the problem. Religious leaders, prompted by satan, did not want to lose control of the people, Instead of rejoicing in the freedom of the people, they plotted to kill the one who set people free. When they accomplished that crucifixion it worked against them because it accomplished the ministry of Jesus which was to set all people free and provide the payment to their sins. (Romans 10;8) His sword of the Spirit is in your mouth today, the words of My Holy Spirit in His prayer language and the revealed words which enlighten the minds of My children and continue to set them free. (Romans 8:26-28 Don’t fret and worry when family and friends reject you because of My power and your seeking of My truth. Continue to love them and bless them instead of curse them. The more freedom you experience, the more they will want what you have, which is My everlasting peace accomplished only by knowing Jesus Christ, the Anointed One. Your love and your prayers will turn the hearts of your accusers toward you and toward Me, causing them to want the same love and truth inside of them that you have. Then they will become free also, free indeed. Your Loving Father Romans 8:2-11.

DESTRUCTINO TO THE WORKS OF EVIL

Dear One, My Son Jesus came to earth to destroy the works of the devil. In doing that, His ministry was not received by religious leaders and their followers who had their own agendas and their own beliefs relating to the coming of the Messiah, the Savior of the world. They refused to believe in Him and so their rebellion to Him caused division between families. That is why He said that when He came to earth there would often be division in families between those who believed in Him as the Savior of the world and those who believed that He was a fraud. The unbelievers persecuted the believers and so peace between them was not present. (I John 3:8; Matthew 10:34-42) However, peace within the souls of the believers was in answer to their need for comfort and peace with Me. The believers were spiritually elated to be in unity with Me, even to the loss of earthly family unity. Often it is the same today. Powerless religious people persecute those who experience the miracle of the new birth and the baptism in My Holy Spirit. So the sword of which Jesus spoke that He wielded was toward the devil and his presence in the lives of the religious people who were satisfied with their powerless doctrines which added burdens to people instead of relieving them of their burdens. To the religious people their laws became their gods. When My Son came to earth and worked outside of their laws, He was declared evil instead of good. His existence brought division between people. I took that risk when I sent Him to earth, but I knew that when the believers were able to become like Me that our relationship would produce the love necessary to convince the unbelievers that My gifts to them would bring peace within themselves and in their lives. Belief would then flood them and they would become believers in Me, receiving My peace themselves.(Galatians 5:6) I later taught My children that My words are the sword of the Spirit that Jesus wielded and that they must also wield against the works of the devil. I said that flesh and blood are never enemies of Me or My children, the only enemies are the demonic principalities and powers, the demons who cause all evil and unbelief in the world. (Ephesians 6:10-18) So My written words and spoken words yield that two edged sword necessary to defeat the works of evil in the earth. They accomplished much when spoken by Jesus and He said that My children would do more wonderful works because He came back to me and sent My power, My Holy Spirit, into the earth to be received by My children to empower them to destroy the works of the devil. My power of My Spirit changes curses into blessings, changes depression into elation, changes sadness into joy, changes the bodies, souls and spirits of My children into My character images in the earth. (II Corinthians 5:17-23) My words prayed by My Holy Spirit are the power necessary to defeat the works of the devil. Pray in the Spirit at all times and see evil fall at your feet. (Ephesians 6:18) Your Loving Father Acts 10:36-45

GOD'S WILL FOR YOU

Dear One, We have talked about how on the birth of Jesus that My will for the earth and for people was proclaimed by My angels when they announced, “Peace on earth, good will towards men.” So, my will is all good things for My children and that there be peace on earth through the life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ. My will and testament is that My children will use My power to choose good things instead of evil things, choose My blessings instead of the devil’s curses. So My will should never be confusing, never be hidden from My children again as satan caused it to be darkened and hidden under the old covenant with a nation. (Romans 11:9-10) My Holy Spirit said through James that there is no shadow of turning in Me, with My turning into good sometimes and turning into evil at other times. He said that all good and perfect gifts come from Me. When you have that revelation as your firm foundation, you will never be deceived again as to My character. My true and everlasting personality is love, mercy, kindness, goodness, joy, faithfulness and patience. (James 1:12-18; Galatians 5:22) When My good will comes into your life with the indwelling of My Holy Spirit, who is the executor of My will, then as My child you become an ambassador of My will, which is peace of earth, and an administrator of My good will, which is to love all people as I love you. It is two-fold, bringing peace to every situation and doing good to all people. That is My desire for My children, to share their good fortune that comes from My goodness with everyone with whom they come into contact. That is the only way that peace can come into the earth. Unfortunately, My children have their own times of having “shadows of turning” when they become agents of the devil instead of My ambassadors. That happens when they fall for the temptations of the devil to become his agent instead of My ambassador. When that happens, My blessings are thwarted because of their change of allegiance from My family to the family of the devil. However, I make it easy to return to Me and again receive My blessings. Your choice to return to My favor is immediate, but often the delay of receiving My blessings often lasts for a while because of the bad seeds you sowed in obedience to the evil one. But, with faith and patience, you will receive My promises. (Romans 6:7-10; I John 1:8) To be My ambassadors in the earth, spreading peace and good will to all people, you must have the power of My Spirit. He is the Spirit of Truth, the revealer of My love and My dispenser of wisdom to My children. He gives wisdom freely to those who ask in faith, never wavering. He will show you all things necessary to enable you to be the peacemakers who are called My children. When you speak peace and keep peace, you are identified in the earth and heavens as My child, receiving your full inheritance. (James 1:2-8) The beneficiary of an inheritance must be properly identified before the inheritance is dispensed to him or her. Peacemakers are always identified as My children. Dispensers of My good will are always identified as My children, llegal recipients of My inheritance to them. Verify your identity by spreading love and peace in the earth. Your Gracious Father - Matthew 5:9; Luke 12;32

GOD'S GOD WILL TOWARD MEN

Dear One, My will is peace on earth, and it is My will that all good will be present in your life at all times. That was the proclamation that the angels made upon the birth of the Savior when I sent Him to earth. My message from heaven through Him is that My desire for all of My children is that they have peace in their lives and that they will revel in all of My good things that I have prepared for them. That is My good will for all of My creation. (Luke 2:14) There are people who pray “if it be thy will” relating to healing, prosperity, emotional and social peace. The proclamation of the angels declared My will in all matters. They said peace is My will and good things for all of My children is My will. Nowhere in My Instruction Book do I say that bad things are My will toward My children. It says that it’s My good pleasure to give you My entire kingdom. My Son proclaimed it, so that statement reveals My will also. (Luke 12:32) Anyone who births a child and says that it’s the will of the parents that bad things happen to that child is a monster and is speaking from the bowels of hell. At the birth into the earth of My Son, I commissioned the angels to proclaim My will for all people, that being that through Jesus there is the possibility of having peace on earth and through Him My will is that My goodness will prevail. The teachers and preachers who don’t know My will are the ones who only know Me by the hearing of their ears, being taught by other people who also know facts about Me but do not intimately know Me. They are like Job when he was uninformed about what was at the basis of the curses in his life and he entertained the thoughts that I was the dispenser of evil. When he sought Me and I appeared to him, he said that when he became intimately acquainted with Me that He knew that I am not the dispenser of evil but I am the dispenser of good only. All of his curses were reversed by Me when he became unified with Me instead of being motivated by fear. (Job 42:1-6) There are multitudes of people who call themselves by My name who don’t know Me personally, so they don’t know My will in difficult matters. Without knowing My will in matters, it is impossible to have faith for Me to turn the bad events into My good blessings. If you are ambivalent about My will toward you, then you are unbelieving about My ability to turn mourning into dancing and gird you with gladness by bringing My goodness into your life. Psalm 30:11. Paul spent years alone in the desert getting to know Me intimately. He prayed that My children would be so rooted and grounded in My love that they will intimately know Me instead of merely knowing about Me. He also prayed that after becoming deeply rooted in My love that you will also intimately know the power of My Holy Spirit, who is present in the earth with the commission of revealing My will, My goodness, My kindness, My love, My mercy to you and then empower you to defeat the evil one in the earth who brings curses upon you. Paul’s advice is to be strong in faith like Abraham, being persuaded that what I promise I WILL perform. (Romans 4:20-21) Your Loving Father Ephesians 3:14-20 and 1:15-22.

UNFETTERED LOVE

Dear One, My unconditional love is completely unfettered. It never stops flowing to My creation because I am Love. It says in My Instruction Book that there is nothing in the heavens or in the earth that can separate you from My Love. Even if you choose to separate yourself from Me, My Love still flows from Me to you. (Romans 8:35-39) That truth is demonstrated in the story of the Prodigal Son. The son left the father but the father’s love never stopped. The family benefits stopped temporarily but the love never stopped, as evidenced by the glorious welcome home party when the son returned. My Love has powers that completely restore and revitalize My rebellious children, erasing the mistakes and misdeeds from My memory and giving to My children the crown of life. Another truth in My Book that needs to be revealed to all of my children is, “As He is, so are you in the world.” As I am in the heavens toward My children, so must you be in the world toward them, loving, kind, merciful and gracious, forgiving their sins and rebellions. (I John 4:16-19) My Love covers a multitude of your sins and the sins of others. When you extend My unconditional Love to others, your sins are eliminated and their sins are eliminated. They are constricted, meaning that the evil spirits whose temptations caused the problem will be squeezed out of the lives of My children because evil cannot remain where My Love is in abundance. You must seek a revelation of My Love. That is one of the admonitions in My Book, that you pray for and seek a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of My love in its fullness. When you are rooted and grounded in My Love for you, I will be able to do superabundantly more than you can dare think or imagine, according to the power of My Love in you. (Ephesians 3:14-20.) As was revealed by My Holy Spirit to Paul, you can have faith to do miracles, speak in spiritual tongues and sacrifice everything but if you don’t have My Love operating in you, you will be nothing and have nothing because only My Love gives power to faith. Miracles follow after Love. Answered prayers follow after love because I am Love.(Romans 5:5) My Spirit taught that love must be without dissimulation, meaning it must be unchanging from one person to another, being constant, loving the unlovely as well as the lovely. Love the person of low esteem just as completely as you love the people of high esteem. Love the sinner as much as you love the righteous. I do. (Romans 12:9-13) If your faith and patience are not producing the answers to your prayers, you should assess your revelation of the height, depth, breadth and width of My Love for you and for everyone. Therein lies the real spiritual power to overcome every trial or temptation and receive the answers to your prayers. Faith works by love. (Galatians 5:6-9) Your Loving Father II Corinthians 5:17-21; I Corinthians 13; 1-8.