Dear One,
Many times, My own children who call themselves by My name punish their own children for not taking their advice, obeying their commands or following their orders when all the time My own children are doing the same in their lives in response to My valuable advice, admonitions and instructions. I said through Jesus many times that if His followers love Him and Me that they will take our advice and do what we say.
Our advice, admonitions and commands are not given as a test of your love for Me. They are insights, wisdom and strategies to assist you in order to avoid the devil's traps in your lives so that you will be able to maneuver away from the devil's traps, take authority over them and as a result be in a position to inherit My blessings which I have stored up for you. Because I love you, I have given My words of protection to you; and, if you love Me, then you will trust My guidance and do what I have instructed you to do. Every word that I speak and every instruction that I give you are to enhance your opportunities to clear the avenues from My kingdom to you from where My blessings flow.
After teaching many sessions on the advantages to receiving My kingdom in your life, the followers of Jesus at the time and you today are tutored by Jesus about love and about obeying My instructions if you love me. (John 15:9-10) Jesus said that I love Him and so He has love for you and that you must continue in that love. Then He gave the results of your love for Me, saying that if you love Me that you will obey My instructions. In fact, He said that continuing in His love depends upon your taking His advice and obeying His instructions, because He knew that your refusing to take His advice would cause you to fall into the traps set by the devil and you will have to experience the devil's punishment for uniting with him. A good parent's instructions are always for the protection of the child. Every instruction that I give and every admonition that I give are for your protection from falling for the devil's traps.
I spoke to you through Jesus by telling you that I am teaching you valuable things so that My joy will remain in you and that your joy will be full. (John 15:10-11) Right there in those few words are the truth behind why I instruct you to do certain things, such as love one another. so that you will have a joyful life while in the earth.
I reiterated the truth of the assurance of My love overcoming all evil again when I instructed, in fact commanded, that you love others as I love you. (John 15:12-13) I said that there is no greater love than to lay down your life for others, not only referring to the death and resurrection of Jesus, but letting you know that when you lay down your normal reaction of returning evil for evil done to you, and when you refuse to react by returning evil to someone's anger, division, judgment, disgust, prejudice, ranting, raving, cruelty or criticism for you or for others; but that if you, instead, love them even in their demonic tirades, then you are laying down your life and loving them as I love you. That is true love, to lay down evil reactions and instead love the person through whom the devil is working at the time. You die to the evil just the way Jesus did on the cross. When you can do that, because of My love within you, then your joy will be full because My joy will be in you.
If you want joy in your life instead of the normal miserable existence that occurs in the lives of most people who do not know My love and My overcoming ways, then you must -- I reiterate -- you MUST follow My valuable instructions on how to remain in My love and in My joy. They are given for your good, that your joy will be full.
Jesus spoke again of His command to love others when He said that He has chosen you to be an image of My love in the world so that you will bear much fruit through My fruit of love in you. (John 15:16-17) Then He gave the ultimate promise that a Father can give to His children, that when you remain in My love, being the source of My love to everyone, that what you ask of Me, I will give it to you. Then Jesus commanded you again to love one another.
If you are sensing a theme in this one teaching of Jesus, it is My instructions that the only command, instruction or admonition I give to you is that you love others as I love you. Earlier I said through Jesus that all of the old laws, rules and regulations are contained in the command to love others as I love you. If you love others as I love you, then you are obeying all of the old rules and regulations. When you love others as I love you, all of the paths from My heaven to you which carry My blessings are propped open and stay open as long as you continue in My love. The only way to ensure that barriers are put again on the path of My blessings to you is if you act or react to the temptation of the devil in order to harm someone by thought, word or deed. Love keeps the path clear and I rejoice that you have chosen My blessings and My love.
Your Father of Blessings
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
KINGDOM LIVING-FATHER, SON, HOLY SPIRIT
Dear One,
The image in the minds of people that I am One God, Father,
Son and Holy Spirit, is hard to imagine because My children are so flesh minded. However, when you consider that you are a human trinity, made up of body, soul and spirit, yet you are one being, then it should be easily understood. Your body is merely your earth suit that houses the real you, the spirit that comes to live with Me in My heaven after the earth suit wears out. Your soul is your mind, you computer that I gave to people to store and reason about information which comes into it. Your mind, or soul, is the part of you through which I communicate with My children. However, since Adam allowed the devil to run rampant in the earth, your mind is also the part through which the devil tempts My children; hence the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (Genesis 2:16-17)
Jesus tried to make it clear to His followers that He, the Holy Spirit and I are one being with different functions just like your body, soul and spirit are one being but serve different functions in your life to make you a whole being. Before His telling about My Holy Spirit coming to take up residence in their spirits, He affirmed and confirmed many times that He and I are One. (John 14:6-11) He had to get that truth across to His followers so that they would understand that when My Holy Spirit came to earth to live in people that they would be My temples, My dwelling places in the earth. Over and over He told them that We are one and even prayed that they would be one with Me just like He is one with Me. (John 17:20-23)
All of that was in preparation for Jesus to tell His followers about the entrance of My Spirit into the lives of people so that they would be My earthly temples, My earthly mansions of which Jesus spoke. (John 14:1-2) His death, resurrection, ascension into heaven and sending My Holy Spirit into My children, who empowered Him while He ministered in the earth, was complete. His mission was accomplished. He no longer had a need of My Holy Spirit's power while in heaven with Me, so He sent My Spirit into the earth to live in My children who believe in Me and in Jesus Christ, empowering them to do the same thing that He did in Jesus, defeat the works of the devil in the earth. (I John 3:8)
That valuable teaching of Jesus preceded His proclamation that He was leaving the earth, but that I was sending another Comforter who would be in them instead of merely with them.(John 14:15-18) First, Jesus had to convince His followers that We are one, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. They had little knowledge of My Holy Spirit being My authoritative power and dynamite power which would empower them with the same supernatural abilities that He empowered Jesus. That fact took a lot of His convincing, yet the followers of Jesus were still concerned about Jesus coming back and restoring Israel to world power. They were not interested yet in their having power and authority over the devil in the daily lives through kingdom living.
Jesus went further to convince His followers that He and I are one by telling them that the words that He spoke were not His words but they were My words because We are one being. (John 14:19-11) You can understand the temptations of their minds to reject that truth, because it takes the revelation of My Holy Spirit to pierce through the veil of unbelief put in the minds of people by the devil. Jesus said that when the Holy Spirit came to earth to live in them that they would understand what He was teaching them at that moment. (John 14:19-20)
The truth taught by Jesus that He and I are one being and that My Holy Spirit is one with us with the ability to make My children one with Us is a mission that is given to My Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth. Only when My Spirit comes to live in your own spirit can I infuse you with that truth, which is Christ, the overcoming One, the hope of glorious living while in the earth. What He accomplishes is bringing My words into the lives of My children again just like I had with Adam when we communicated perfectly before the devil came between us and blocked My words.
From the inside of them, My Holy Spirit speaks to My children My healing words, My words of deliverance from destruction and death, My words of life, My words of wisdom, My words of hope, My word of faith, My words of joy, My words of love, My words of mercy, My words of grace, My words of goodness and kindness, My words of patience, My words of steadfastness, My words of freedom.
I found a way to get My personal words into the lives of My children. It is through My coming to live inside of you in the person of My Holy Spirit, infusing My words into your human mind from the inside of you, all of which brings a revelation of My love and freedom from evil by the explosive power of My Spirit residing inside of you.
My plan worked. Now My children must realize the majesty of that plan and appreciate the treasure that I put in your human body. He is My very own Spirit. (John 17:25-26)
Your Father of Eternal Workable Plans
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The image in the minds of people that I am One God, Father,
Son and Holy Spirit, is hard to imagine because My children are so flesh minded. However, when you consider that you are a human trinity, made up of body, soul and spirit, yet you are one being, then it should be easily understood. Your body is merely your earth suit that houses the real you, the spirit that comes to live with Me in My heaven after the earth suit wears out. Your soul is your mind, you computer that I gave to people to store and reason about information which comes into it. Your mind, or soul, is the part of you through which I communicate with My children. However, since Adam allowed the devil to run rampant in the earth, your mind is also the part through which the devil tempts My children; hence the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (Genesis 2:16-17)
Jesus tried to make it clear to His followers that He, the Holy Spirit and I are one being with different functions just like your body, soul and spirit are one being but serve different functions in your life to make you a whole being. Before His telling about My Holy Spirit coming to take up residence in their spirits, He affirmed and confirmed many times that He and I are One. (John 14:6-11) He had to get that truth across to His followers so that they would understand that when My Holy Spirit came to earth to live in people that they would be My temples, My dwelling places in the earth. Over and over He told them that We are one and even prayed that they would be one with Me just like He is one with Me. (John 17:20-23)
All of that was in preparation for Jesus to tell His followers about the entrance of My Spirit into the lives of people so that they would be My earthly temples, My earthly mansions of which Jesus spoke. (John 14:1-2) His death, resurrection, ascension into heaven and sending My Holy Spirit into My children, who empowered Him while He ministered in the earth, was complete. His mission was accomplished. He no longer had a need of My Holy Spirit's power while in heaven with Me, so He sent My Spirit into the earth to live in My children who believe in Me and in Jesus Christ, empowering them to do the same thing that He did in Jesus, defeat the works of the devil in the earth. (I John 3:8)
That valuable teaching of Jesus preceded His proclamation that He was leaving the earth, but that I was sending another Comforter who would be in them instead of merely with them.(John 14:15-18) First, Jesus had to convince His followers that We are one, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. They had little knowledge of My Holy Spirit being My authoritative power and dynamite power which would empower them with the same supernatural abilities that He empowered Jesus. That fact took a lot of His convincing, yet the followers of Jesus were still concerned about Jesus coming back and restoring Israel to world power. They were not interested yet in their having power and authority over the devil in the daily lives through kingdom living.
Jesus went further to convince His followers that He and I are one by telling them that the words that He spoke were not His words but they were My words because We are one being. (John 14:19-11) You can understand the temptations of their minds to reject that truth, because it takes the revelation of My Holy Spirit to pierce through the veil of unbelief put in the minds of people by the devil. Jesus said that when the Holy Spirit came to earth to live in them that they would understand what He was teaching them at that moment. (John 14:19-20)
The truth taught by Jesus that He and I are one being and that My Holy Spirit is one with us with the ability to make My children one with Us is a mission that is given to My Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth. Only when My Spirit comes to live in your own spirit can I infuse you with that truth, which is Christ, the overcoming One, the hope of glorious living while in the earth. What He accomplishes is bringing My words into the lives of My children again just like I had with Adam when we communicated perfectly before the devil came between us and blocked My words.
From the inside of them, My Holy Spirit speaks to My children My healing words, My words of deliverance from destruction and death, My words of life, My words of wisdom, My words of hope, My word of faith, My words of joy, My words of love, My words of mercy, My words of grace, My words of goodness and kindness, My words of patience, My words of steadfastness, My words of freedom.
I found a way to get My personal words into the lives of My children. It is through My coming to live inside of you in the person of My Holy Spirit, infusing My words into your human mind from the inside of you, all of which brings a revelation of My love and freedom from evil by the explosive power of My Spirit residing inside of you.
My plan worked. Now My children must realize the majesty of that plan and appreciate the treasure that I put in your human body. He is My very own Spirit. (John 17:25-26)
Your Father of Eternal Workable Plans
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Monday, September 12, 2016
KINGDOM LIVING - WALK IN THE LIGHT
Dear One,
Jesus continued to use normal earthly things in order to compare them to His truth. Before His death, He wanted His followers to be comforted by the fact that He was only following My orders and that His death and resurrection would benefit them also, as well as His doing My will in dying for the sins of the whole world. In a parable He compared His death and resurrection to a grain of wheat, saying again "verily, verily" in order to get their complete attention because what was going to follow was a truth that they must understand. He said that unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it cannot bring forth more fruit. He encouraged the listeners who desired to serve Him to continue following Him. He said that where He was going, that His servants would also be allowed to go. He promised them that if they would follow Him that I would honor them. (John 12:23-26)
When Jesus asked them what should He say to Me, that He should let this cup pass from Him? Then He answered himself and said, no, that this very thing is the reason that He came to earth, to die for the sins of the whole world and then to be raised from the dead and become alive again.
I spoke My Amen to His statements when I spoke from heaven, saying that I had glorified Him and I would glorify Him again. Some people heard and said that an angel had spoken and other people said that it only thundered. Those who believed, heard My words. Those who did not believe only heard thunder. It is the same in your world today: some hear My voice and others only hear thunder. Jesus said that the words came from heaven for the benefit of the hearers. (John 12:28-30)
Then Jesus proclaimed the truth that the devil would lose his authority in the earth because of what Jesus was going to do in hell before He rose from the dead. He said that because He would be lifted up from hell that He would be able to draw all people to Himself. The people quizzed Him about the law saying that Christ would live forever and now Jesus was saying that the Son of man would be lifted up. They asked who the Son of man was. (John 12:31-34)
Jesus answered that the Light was with them for a little while but now it was going to not be with them for a short while. He told them to walk while the Light was still with them because darkness was going to come upon the earth. He identified the people who walk in darkness, saying that they don't know where they are going. He cautioned the listeners to continue in the Light and to believe in the Light.
My children become light when they accept My Holy Spirit to live in their spirits and then allow Him to permeate their entire body, causing them to become My witnesses of love in the earth. (Luke 11:35-36)
Jesus said that you are the light of the world and that He is the light of the world. He said that you must shine as a bright lamp in the earth, lighting the way for others to see the path to Me.
The demons who have not been cast out of the earth will still try to snuff out the light that is inside of you. He does it by putting cares, worries, fretting, fear, guilt, condemnation, strife, doubt and unbelief into your thoughts. When that happens, know that the devil is trying to rob from you your joy, your love and your peace. Cast him out from you and the earth into the abyss. I cast him out of My heaven and you have the authority, as My child, to cast him out of your world and into hell. When you do, your light shines brighter and brighter. (Philippians 2:15)
When you become My light in the world, as Jesus is the Light, then you must protect the light, treasure it and enjoy its benefits, which are many. Praying in the Holy Spirit will build up spiritual power, which is called faith. Pray in the Spirit and walk in love with everyone and you will never forfeit the light that I give to you.
Your Light Giving Father
Jesus continued to use normal earthly things in order to compare them to His truth. Before His death, He wanted His followers to be comforted by the fact that He was only following My orders and that His death and resurrection would benefit them also, as well as His doing My will in dying for the sins of the whole world. In a parable He compared His death and resurrection to a grain of wheat, saying again "verily, verily" in order to get their complete attention because what was going to follow was a truth that they must understand. He said that unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it cannot bring forth more fruit. He encouraged the listeners who desired to serve Him to continue following Him. He said that where He was going, that His servants would also be allowed to go. He promised them that if they would follow Him that I would honor them. (John 12:23-26)
When Jesus asked them what should He say to Me, that He should let this cup pass from Him? Then He answered himself and said, no, that this very thing is the reason that He came to earth, to die for the sins of the whole world and then to be raised from the dead and become alive again.
I spoke My Amen to His statements when I spoke from heaven, saying that I had glorified Him and I would glorify Him again. Some people heard and said that an angel had spoken and other people said that it only thundered. Those who believed, heard My words. Those who did not believe only heard thunder. It is the same in your world today: some hear My voice and others only hear thunder. Jesus said that the words came from heaven for the benefit of the hearers. (John 12:28-30)
Then Jesus proclaimed the truth that the devil would lose his authority in the earth because of what Jesus was going to do in hell before He rose from the dead. He said that because He would be lifted up from hell that He would be able to draw all people to Himself. The people quizzed Him about the law saying that Christ would live forever and now Jesus was saying that the Son of man would be lifted up. They asked who the Son of man was. (John 12:31-34)
Jesus answered that the Light was with them for a little while but now it was going to not be with them for a short while. He told them to walk while the Light was still with them because darkness was going to come upon the earth. He identified the people who walk in darkness, saying that they don't know where they are going. He cautioned the listeners to continue in the Light and to believe in the Light.
My children become light when they accept My Holy Spirit to live in their spirits and then allow Him to permeate their entire body, causing them to become My witnesses of love in the earth. (Luke 11:35-36)
Jesus said that you are the light of the world and that He is the light of the world. He said that you must shine as a bright lamp in the earth, lighting the way for others to see the path to Me.
The demons who have not been cast out of the earth will still try to snuff out the light that is inside of you. He does it by putting cares, worries, fretting, fear, guilt, condemnation, strife, doubt and unbelief into your thoughts. When that happens, know that the devil is trying to rob from you your joy, your love and your peace. Cast him out from you and the earth into the abyss. I cast him out of My heaven and you have the authority, as My child, to cast him out of your world and into hell. When you do, your light shines brighter and brighter. (Philippians 2:15)
When you become My light in the world, as Jesus is the Light, then you must protect the light, treasure it and enjoy its benefits, which are many. Praying in the Holy Spirit will build up spiritual power, which is called faith. Pray in the Spirit and walk in love with everyone and you will never forfeit the light that I give to you.
Your Light Giving Father
Sunday, September 11, 2016
KINGDOM LIVING - THE ABUNDANT LIFE
Dear One,
Jesus never stopped using parables to teach about My kingdom and My righteousness. Remember that Jesus used the parables to compare incidents about earthly life to truths about spiritual life or kingdom life. In one teaching session He taught about good shepherds and bad shepherds and their influence upon My sheep.
First of all, in that story Jesus identified the true shepherd and the false shepherd. Since the people were unschooled in the works of the devil, they didn't know anything about that to which He was referring, but when My Holy Spirit is allowed to be the tutor from the inside of a person that person is able to know the truth contained in that parable. He introduced this truth by saying "verily" meaning that what you are about to hear is indeed true. In fact, to emphasize the importance of the truth Jesus said, "verily, verily" to emphacise that hearers should listen intently and believe what He was about to say.
Jesus told the people the difference between Himself and the devil and how each one entered the world.(John 10:1) The devil used deception to enter, deceiving Adam to allow him entrance into the world that I had created for people. Deception from the devil blinded Adam's eyes to who the devil really was, and Adam yielded his will to the devil by believing the devil's words as well as believing some of My truths which were used by the devil to deceive Adam. That is identified as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. So all humanity was then cursed by the devil by his having their spiritual eyes blinded so that they cannot recognize what is of Me and what is of the devil. Jesus called the devil a thief and a robber, robbing My children of a relationship with Me and as a result robbing them of all of their inheritance that I have for them. (Genesis 2:1-7)
Jesus entered the world legally, as far as the heavens are concerned,
Jesus, My son, entered the world through being born of a woman. His authority in the world was established because I gave the earth to people, giving them dominion over the earth and everything in it. So when He was born of a woman, He entered the earth legally and is the real shepherd of My sheep, My children. (John 10:2) He said that the porter opened the door, meaning My Holy Spirit impregnating Mary and opened the door to the earth through whom Jesus was born and made Him legally the Savior of the world. (John 10:3)
My voice is again recognized by My children who have received My Holy Spirit, just like Adam knew My voice in the beginning before he allowed the devil to deafen him to My words. Jesus said that His sheep know Him and know His voice, and they follow Him wherever He goes before them. They follow Him because they know His voice. The voice of a stranger, one who entered the world through deception, My children will not follow that voice; instead, they will flee that voice of deception, death and destruction.
The parable only confused the people more. so Jesus explained it more clearly to them. (John 10:6)
He said that He is the door of the sheep because He came into the earth legally, through being born of a woman. So He has legal right to redeem the world from sins, death and destruction. (John 10:7-9) He said that all who came before Him, the religious laws, rules and regulations, were also thieves and robbers also because the devil used the laws to condemn and heap guilt upon My children. (Romans 7:5-6; Romans 8:2-4) Jesus said that the religious laws were only a hireling, given to try to keep My children on the right paths, but He said when the wolf, the devil, comes that the laws leave because of their weakness and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. That is what happened with religious rules, regulations and laws. He said that they scattered because they didn't care for My sheep. (John 10:12-13)
Jesus declared His legally entering the world through being born of a woman, being My Son, because My Holy Spirit overcame Mary and she became pregnant with My Son. Jesus, the Savior, entered the world legally, being Son of Man/Son of God. Jesus, the good shepherd, according to the parable, entered the sheepfold legally and My sheep know His voice and He knows them. (John 10:14-18) Because of His being a Son of Man, he could die for the sins of the whole world, accepting the punishment for all the infractions of the religious laws of all people which were tempted by the devil. (John 10:17-18)
Jesus declared that there were others of My children that were not of their fold and that they would also be brought into My kingdom to receive My blessings. He prophesied that there would be one family with One Shepherd. He was speaking of the inclusion of the Gentiles, or unbelievers. Then He also declared that He would lay down His life and take it up again of His own free will because He had been commissioned to do it by Me.
That parable told the history of the devil, of the law, of sin, and of redemption because of Jesus coming into the world legally in order to die for the sins of the world.
This parable made some of the Jews so angry that they called Him a demon, a mad man. Other people disagreed and said how can a demon heal a blind man? (John 10:19-21)
It is the same in your world today. Some believe and some find it hard to believe. Pray for the unbelievers that they might believe and learn to live My kingdom life in the world and in the world to come. Jesus said that He came to earth so that you might have life and have it more abundantly. (John 10:10) You can facilitated it by the power of My Holy Spirit.
Your Loving, Shepherding Father
Jesus never stopped using parables to teach about My kingdom and My righteousness. Remember that Jesus used the parables to compare incidents about earthly life to truths about spiritual life or kingdom life. In one teaching session He taught about good shepherds and bad shepherds and their influence upon My sheep.
First of all, in that story Jesus identified the true shepherd and the false shepherd. Since the people were unschooled in the works of the devil, they didn't know anything about that to which He was referring, but when My Holy Spirit is allowed to be the tutor from the inside of a person that person is able to know the truth contained in that parable. He introduced this truth by saying "verily" meaning that what you are about to hear is indeed true. In fact, to emphasize the importance of the truth Jesus said, "verily, verily" to emphacise that hearers should listen intently and believe what He was about to say.
Jesus told the people the difference between Himself and the devil and how each one entered the world.(John 10:1) The devil used deception to enter, deceiving Adam to allow him entrance into the world that I had created for people. Deception from the devil blinded Adam's eyes to who the devil really was, and Adam yielded his will to the devil by believing the devil's words as well as believing some of My truths which were used by the devil to deceive Adam. That is identified as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. So all humanity was then cursed by the devil by his having their spiritual eyes blinded so that they cannot recognize what is of Me and what is of the devil. Jesus called the devil a thief and a robber, robbing My children of a relationship with Me and as a result robbing them of all of their inheritance that I have for them. (Genesis 2:1-7)
Jesus entered the world legally, as far as the heavens are concerned,
Jesus, My son, entered the world through being born of a woman. His authority in the world was established because I gave the earth to people, giving them dominion over the earth and everything in it. So when He was born of a woman, He entered the earth legally and is the real shepherd of My sheep, My children. (John 10:2) He said that the porter opened the door, meaning My Holy Spirit impregnating Mary and opened the door to the earth through whom Jesus was born and made Him legally the Savior of the world. (John 10:3)
My voice is again recognized by My children who have received My Holy Spirit, just like Adam knew My voice in the beginning before he allowed the devil to deafen him to My words. Jesus said that His sheep know Him and know His voice, and they follow Him wherever He goes before them. They follow Him because they know His voice. The voice of a stranger, one who entered the world through deception, My children will not follow that voice; instead, they will flee that voice of deception, death and destruction.
The parable only confused the people more. so Jesus explained it more clearly to them. (John 10:6)
He said that He is the door of the sheep because He came into the earth legally, through being born of a woman. So He has legal right to redeem the world from sins, death and destruction. (John 10:7-9) He said that all who came before Him, the religious laws, rules and regulations, were also thieves and robbers also because the devil used the laws to condemn and heap guilt upon My children. (Romans 7:5-6; Romans 8:2-4) Jesus said that the religious laws were only a hireling, given to try to keep My children on the right paths, but He said when the wolf, the devil, comes that the laws leave because of their weakness and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. That is what happened with religious rules, regulations and laws. He said that they scattered because they didn't care for My sheep. (John 10:12-13)
Jesus declared His legally entering the world through being born of a woman, being My Son, because My Holy Spirit overcame Mary and she became pregnant with My Son. Jesus, the Savior, entered the world legally, being Son of Man/Son of God. Jesus, the good shepherd, according to the parable, entered the sheepfold legally and My sheep know His voice and He knows them. (John 10:14-18) Because of His being a Son of Man, he could die for the sins of the whole world, accepting the punishment for all the infractions of the religious laws of all people which were tempted by the devil. (John 10:17-18)
Jesus declared that there were others of My children that were not of their fold and that they would also be brought into My kingdom to receive My blessings. He prophesied that there would be one family with One Shepherd. He was speaking of the inclusion of the Gentiles, or unbelievers. Then He also declared that He would lay down His life and take it up again of His own free will because He had been commissioned to do it by Me.
That parable told the history of the devil, of the law, of sin, and of redemption because of Jesus coming into the world legally in order to die for the sins of the world.
This parable made some of the Jews so angry that they called Him a demon, a mad man. Other people disagreed and said how can a demon heal a blind man? (John 10:19-21)
It is the same in your world today. Some believe and some find it hard to believe. Pray for the unbelievers that they might believe and learn to live My kingdom life in the world and in the world to come. Jesus said that He came to earth so that you might have life and have it more abundantly. (John 10:10) You can facilitated it by the power of My Holy Spirit.
Your Loving, Shepherding Father
Saturday, September 10, 2016
KINGDOM LIVING - SEEING THE KINGDOM
Dear One,
The first reference of Jesus to humans relating to receiving My kingdom into their lives was made to a Pharisee named Nicodemus who had commented to Jesus that He surely must be My Son because of the miracles that He did. Jesus did not refer to My kingdom coming to Israel to make it a world leader, which was expected and anticipated by everyone, but He said that a person must be born of My Spirit to see and experience My kingdom. He said that people, not a nation or a dynasty, but people could experience My kingdom. After the Pharisee questioned Jesus about how silly it was to think that a man could climb back into his mothers' womb and be born again, Jesus cleared it up when He said that a man must be born of water, as in the natural birth process, and he must also be born of My Spirit, and then he can enter into My kingdom. Clearing it up further, he said that being born of flesh is flesh but being born of the Spirit is spirit.
There was little knowledge to My children at the time about My Holy Spirit. Jesus gave again a comparison, saying that when the wind blows that a person cannot tell from where it originated or where it's going, but a person can hear the sound of the wind. He said that being born of My Spirit is similar. (John 3:7-8; Acts 2:1-4) Nicodemus was really confused by that time because he was very flesh minded instead of spiritually minded, plus he had been taught that the Messiah would set up His kingdom in Israel and make Israel a world leader again. Jesus was talking about people being born of My Spirit and entering into My kingdom while living on earth. He reminded Nicodemus that no one had gone to heaven yet but that He, God's Son, had come from heaven to earth. (John 3:9-11) He gave the first hint of what was to be His mission on earth, which was to be lifted up in the resurrection. Jesus made a new and unusual comment, that whoever believed in Him would not die but would have eternal life. (John 3:13-15)
After that comment, Jesus spoke a new revelation to My children, that I loved the world so much that I gave My Son so that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have My very own life within him or her. (John 3:16-17) If that wasn't revolutionary enough, that I love the world, Jesus stated that I did not send My Son into the world to condemn it. That was mind blowing also because many of the prophets had insinuated, in an effort to get people back on My track instead of the devil's track, that I was angry, perturbed and vengeful toward everyone in the world. Here was My own Son telling a man, a Pharisee at that, that He had come into the world to save it, not to destroy it. All of those words were hard for a mere man to understand because of prior religious teachings, but they were coming out of the mouth of My Son.
Jesus gave the criteria by which a person could escape being condemned and that was through merely believing in Jesus as My Son and believing the words that He taught. (John 3:18-19) He even told Nicodemus that a person was condemned already if he or she did not believe in Him as My Son. Jesus explained that the devil's darkness was in the world and that darkness hates light because their actions were evil. He said that light had now come into the world and everyone who does evil hates the light because of not wanting their deeds to be revealed. (John 3:20-21)
Then Jesus stated that anyone who loves truth comes to the light so that his or her good actions will be manifest because they originate with Me.
These truths, the first truths about My kingdom coming to live in and around people, were looked at as being unimportant because the minds of people were dulled by evil so that they could not receive the full impact of My truth. The truth that, number one, I love the world was hard enough to believe but then to state that individual people would be born of My Spirit in order to enter into My kingdom instead of My Son coming to earth to restore Israel to world prominence was too much to believe at the time. They were patriotic beyond reason, as influenced by the devil.
My kingdom comes inside of you in the person of My Holy Spirit and it surrounds you with My cloud of witnesses which help you in your time of need, as orchestrated by My Holy Spirit. The possibility for individuals to have glorious living while in the earth is a promise and a reality.
Instead of setting up a kingdom on earth that is of a country or a nation, I chose to set up My kingdom inside of My children so that they will reign in life as My privileged children, blessed in every area.
I assured you that you must seek My kingdom and My righteousness and then everything that I have set aside for you as part of your inheritance will come to you. You become a servant and serve My kingdom to others. Kingdom living in the earth belongs to you.
Your Father and Dispenser of Kingdom Living
The first reference of Jesus to humans relating to receiving My kingdom into their lives was made to a Pharisee named Nicodemus who had commented to Jesus that He surely must be My Son because of the miracles that He did. Jesus did not refer to My kingdom coming to Israel to make it a world leader, which was expected and anticipated by everyone, but He said that a person must be born of My Spirit to see and experience My kingdom. He said that people, not a nation or a dynasty, but people could experience My kingdom. After the Pharisee questioned Jesus about how silly it was to think that a man could climb back into his mothers' womb and be born again, Jesus cleared it up when He said that a man must be born of water, as in the natural birth process, and he must also be born of My Spirit, and then he can enter into My kingdom. Clearing it up further, he said that being born of flesh is flesh but being born of the Spirit is spirit.
There was little knowledge to My children at the time about My Holy Spirit. Jesus gave again a comparison, saying that when the wind blows that a person cannot tell from where it originated or where it's going, but a person can hear the sound of the wind. He said that being born of My Spirit is similar. (John 3:7-8; Acts 2:1-4) Nicodemus was really confused by that time because he was very flesh minded instead of spiritually minded, plus he had been taught that the Messiah would set up His kingdom in Israel and make Israel a world leader again. Jesus was talking about people being born of My Spirit and entering into My kingdom while living on earth. He reminded Nicodemus that no one had gone to heaven yet but that He, God's Son, had come from heaven to earth. (John 3:9-11) He gave the first hint of what was to be His mission on earth, which was to be lifted up in the resurrection. Jesus made a new and unusual comment, that whoever believed in Him would not die but would have eternal life. (John 3:13-15)
After that comment, Jesus spoke a new revelation to My children, that I loved the world so much that I gave My Son so that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have My very own life within him or her. (John 3:16-17) If that wasn't revolutionary enough, that I love the world, Jesus stated that I did not send My Son into the world to condemn it. That was mind blowing also because many of the prophets had insinuated, in an effort to get people back on My track instead of the devil's track, that I was angry, perturbed and vengeful toward everyone in the world. Here was My own Son telling a man, a Pharisee at that, that He had come into the world to save it, not to destroy it. All of those words were hard for a mere man to understand because of prior religious teachings, but they were coming out of the mouth of My Son.
Jesus gave the criteria by which a person could escape being condemned and that was through merely believing in Jesus as My Son and believing the words that He taught. (John 3:18-19) He even told Nicodemus that a person was condemned already if he or she did not believe in Him as My Son. Jesus explained that the devil's darkness was in the world and that darkness hates light because their actions were evil. He said that light had now come into the world and everyone who does evil hates the light because of not wanting their deeds to be revealed. (John 3:20-21)
Then Jesus stated that anyone who loves truth comes to the light so that his or her good actions will be manifest because they originate with Me.
These truths, the first truths about My kingdom coming to live in and around people, were looked at as being unimportant because the minds of people were dulled by evil so that they could not receive the full impact of My truth. The truth that, number one, I love the world was hard enough to believe but then to state that individual people would be born of My Spirit in order to enter into My kingdom instead of My Son coming to earth to restore Israel to world prominence was too much to believe at the time. They were patriotic beyond reason, as influenced by the devil.
My kingdom comes inside of you in the person of My Holy Spirit and it surrounds you with My cloud of witnesses which help you in your time of need, as orchestrated by My Holy Spirit. The possibility for individuals to have glorious living while in the earth is a promise and a reality.
Instead of setting up a kingdom on earth that is of a country or a nation, I chose to set up My kingdom inside of My children so that they will reign in life as My privileged children, blessed in every area.
I assured you that you must seek My kingdom and My righteousness and then everything that I have set aside for you as part of your inheritance will come to you. You become a servant and serve My kingdom to others. Kingdom living in the earth belongs to you.
Your Father and Dispenser of Kingdom Living
Friday, September 9, 2016
KINGDOM LIVING - EXPERIENCING THE CLOUD
Dear One,
Peter and John experienced My kingdom coming to earth before the day of Pentecost when they accompanied Jesus to a mountain to pray. He had told the disciples and others that some some of them would see My kingdom before they died. Eight days later, when they went to the mountain with Jesus, they reveled in My kingdom as it was evidenced ministering to Jesus. (Luke 10:27-28)
As Jesus prayed, His entire countenance changed and He was white and glistening as My kingdom enveloped Him. Moses and Elias appeared to them in their glory and spoke to Jesus about His death which was shortly to come at Jerusalem. Peter, who had been asleep, awakened and saw My glory surrounding Jesus, Moses and Elias. (Luke 10:29-32) Peter, always the practical one, without thinking offered to make tents for Moses, Elias and Jesus. As He spoke, there came a cloud and enveloped Moses and Elias. They entered into the cloud, the manifestation of My kingdom. I spoke My identification of Jesus when I said, "This is My Son. Listen to Him." After I spoke My firm identification of My Son to them, Jesus was there alone. Moses and Elias had re-entered My heavenly kingdom. (Luke 10: 33-36) Jesus had prophesied that some of his disciples would see My kingdom before they died. Peter and John had surely seen with their natural eyes the glorious presence of My kingdom coming to earth temporarily.
That wonderful situation happened because of My unconditional love for My Son Jesus. I wanted Him to be prepared for what was ahead of Him, His death, His trip to hell as payment for the sins of the entire world, His resurrection and His walking the earth for 40 days ministering about My Holy Spirit and My kingdom.
In the world today, when a person is born of My Spirit and baptized in My Spirit, there is an immediate change inside the person. There is a glorious transformation that takes place that is equal in importance to the situation that happened on the mountain. Old things pass away and all things become new. My kingdom becomes number one in importance because of experiencing My glorious kingdom of love. Jesus had said earlier that looking back at the old life or going back to the old life and its demonic influences is equal to Lot's wife who turned to a pillar of salt when she looked back at the destruction. My desire is that you become dead to the old life and you are alive to newness of life. (Luke 10:23-26)
My Holy Spirit told you in your Instruction Book that you, also, are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses consisting of the city of the living God, an innumerable company of angels, the assembly of the firstborn whose names were written in heaven, the spirits of just men made perfect, Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, the blood of Jesus, and Me, I am the one who judges evil spirits, casting them into the abyss. (Hebrews 1:1 and 22-24) He admonished you to lay aside every weight and sin that so easily comes upon you so that you can run with patience the race that is set before you, looking only to Jesus who is the author and the finisher of your faith, looking to how He defeated the works of the devil so that you can have kingdom living in this life and in the life to come. (Hebrews 1-2) I cast the devil out of My heaven and now you must cast his demons out of your earthly life and earthly home by the power of My Spirit.
Seeking to intimately know Me like I know you, as Paul said he did, is what qualifies you to live in My kingdom benefits while you are still in the earth. The more intimately that you know Me, the more My blessings are able to be ushered into your life because My kingdom becomes more evident in your life. One never knows a person until he or she spends quality time with the person. It is the same spiritually, spending quality time with me one-on-one in total communion with Me will allow Me to fill you with truth and teach you the principles of My family. My Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth and He is eager to fill you with My truth which sets you free from death and destruction in every area of your life.
You are not alone. My kingdom is already yours because of My Holy Spirit living inside of you. You are also surrounded by My kingdom of love, as evidenced by Peter and John when two of My cloud of witnesses became evident to them.. You only need to spend time with Me for it to be evidenced in your life. The more time you spend alone with Me, the more you become the light on a hill, lighting the way for others to know Me because of your enjoyment of kingdom living.
Your Kingdom Living Father
Peter and John experienced My kingdom coming to earth before the day of Pentecost when they accompanied Jesus to a mountain to pray. He had told the disciples and others that some some of them would see My kingdom before they died. Eight days later, when they went to the mountain with Jesus, they reveled in My kingdom as it was evidenced ministering to Jesus. (Luke 10:27-28)
As Jesus prayed, His entire countenance changed and He was white and glistening as My kingdom enveloped Him. Moses and Elias appeared to them in their glory and spoke to Jesus about His death which was shortly to come at Jerusalem. Peter, who had been asleep, awakened and saw My glory surrounding Jesus, Moses and Elias. (Luke 10:29-32) Peter, always the practical one, without thinking offered to make tents for Moses, Elias and Jesus. As He spoke, there came a cloud and enveloped Moses and Elias. They entered into the cloud, the manifestation of My kingdom. I spoke My identification of Jesus when I said, "This is My Son. Listen to Him." After I spoke My firm identification of My Son to them, Jesus was there alone. Moses and Elias had re-entered My heavenly kingdom. (Luke 10: 33-36) Jesus had prophesied that some of his disciples would see My kingdom before they died. Peter and John had surely seen with their natural eyes the glorious presence of My kingdom coming to earth temporarily.
That wonderful situation happened because of My unconditional love for My Son Jesus. I wanted Him to be prepared for what was ahead of Him, His death, His trip to hell as payment for the sins of the entire world, His resurrection and His walking the earth for 40 days ministering about My Holy Spirit and My kingdom.
In the world today, when a person is born of My Spirit and baptized in My Spirit, there is an immediate change inside the person. There is a glorious transformation that takes place that is equal in importance to the situation that happened on the mountain. Old things pass away and all things become new. My kingdom becomes number one in importance because of experiencing My glorious kingdom of love. Jesus had said earlier that looking back at the old life or going back to the old life and its demonic influences is equal to Lot's wife who turned to a pillar of salt when she looked back at the destruction. My desire is that you become dead to the old life and you are alive to newness of life. (Luke 10:23-26)
My Holy Spirit told you in your Instruction Book that you, also, are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses consisting of the city of the living God, an innumerable company of angels, the assembly of the firstborn whose names were written in heaven, the spirits of just men made perfect, Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, the blood of Jesus, and Me, I am the one who judges evil spirits, casting them into the abyss. (Hebrews 1:1 and 22-24) He admonished you to lay aside every weight and sin that so easily comes upon you so that you can run with patience the race that is set before you, looking only to Jesus who is the author and the finisher of your faith, looking to how He defeated the works of the devil so that you can have kingdom living in this life and in the life to come. (Hebrews 1-2) I cast the devil out of My heaven and now you must cast his demons out of your earthly life and earthly home by the power of My Spirit.
Seeking to intimately know Me like I know you, as Paul said he did, is what qualifies you to live in My kingdom benefits while you are still in the earth. The more intimately that you know Me, the more My blessings are able to be ushered into your life because My kingdom becomes more evident in your life. One never knows a person until he or she spends quality time with the person. It is the same spiritually, spending quality time with me one-on-one in total communion with Me will allow Me to fill you with truth and teach you the principles of My family. My Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth and He is eager to fill you with My truth which sets you free from death and destruction in every area of your life.
You are not alone. My kingdom is already yours because of My Holy Spirit living inside of you. You are also surrounded by My kingdom of love, as evidenced by Peter and John when two of My cloud of witnesses became evident to them.. You only need to spend time with Me for it to be evidenced in your life. The more time you spend alone with Me, the more you become the light on a hill, lighting the way for others to know Me because of your enjoyment of kingdom living.
Your Kingdom Living Father
Thursday, September 8, 2016
KINGDOM LIVING - COMPLETE FREEDOM
Dear One,
After His crucifixion Jesus told His followers several times that He would come back to them and He did, not once, not twice, but many times. When the women told the disciples that the tomb was empty and that Jesus had risen from the dead, the disciples were not excited, thinking the story of the women was idle gossip, even though they remembered what He had told them. (Luke 24:10-11) Peter ran to the tomb to check out the story that the women had told to the disciples. (12)
Two others went to another city and while they were discussing the current events together Jesus appeared to them and asked why they were sad. (Luke 24:13-20) One of the two commented that the man must be a stranger to not know what had happened in their city and he must be ignorant of the things which were to occur. The two told Jesus about the death of a great prophet and how it had been three days since the event and nothing had happened so far to redeem Israel, their beloved country. They were still ruled by concern that Israel would have world dominance instead of being assured by Jesus previously that My promise is to all people, not to nations or denominations or religions. (Luke 24:21) Jesus had formerly told them that His return would be visible to individuals on house tops or in the fields. However, they told the stranger, who was Jesus Himself, that the body of the prophet had disappeared from its burial place. Their hope of My kingdom coming to earth was to restore Israel to prominence, and it was their only concern.
Jesus called them foolish and asked them if they did not remember the prophesies concerning Him. (Luke 24:25-26) He gave them a quick course in explaining the prophesies concerning Himself all the way back to Moses.(Luke 24:27) They rested later and that is when Jesus blessed bread, gave it to them and their eyes were opened and they knew whom He truly was.
Later, on the day of Pentecost when Jesus appeared to the many people who had obeyed Him and had gathered in Jerusalem for what Jesus had promised them was going to happen, they were still believing that the sacrifice of Jesus happened so that Israel would be returned to world dominance, and they asked Jesus, who had appeared to them again earlier, if that was the time that the kingdom would again be restored to Israel. (Acts 1:2-8) Their extreme patriotism had blinded them to My truth, the truth that I was to enter into their own spirits and make My earthly home in them, bringing My kingdom into the lives of individuals instead of a country. The demon of extreme patriotism still blinds the hearts of people today, convincing people that their country is their savior.
As I told you in the past, I admonish you to be obedient to the governing authorities, rendering to your governing bodies what they legally require, but not looking to them to be your god. Extreme patriotism is blinding because it is the spirit of idolatry. It was evident in the Israelites at the time when Jesus walked in the earth and it is still evident in counties at this time. I told you through Jesus to only give to your country what is required of it, paying taxes and being obedient to its laws, but do not give the devotion to your country that you would give to Me. We are not the same entity. I am the God of love, compassion and peace. Countries have their own gods of war, conflict and domination. I said you can't serve two masters. You cannot put your complete trust in your country's government and also put your trust in Me. They are most often opposed to one another.
Don't be like the Jews were at the time and still are, so blinded by the devil that they are still waiting for their Messiah to restore Israel to world prominence. Jesus was crucified for the sins of people and He sent My Spirit into My children, not into the governing bodies of any country. My Holy Spirit will show you who is important to Me and it's always the people who have been assaulted by the devil, the poor, the sick, the brokenhearted, the fainthearted, the demon possessed, the oppressed and the depressed. Most often, those people have been oppressed by their governmental officials who have robbed from them, enslaved them and put them into bondage to religious laws.
Rejoice, the price has been paid for your sins and the sins of the whole world by Jesus Christ. (I John 2:2)
Rejoice! He rose from the dead and We sent My Holy Spirit into the world to be received by those of My children who seek Me and My righteousness. All things will be added to the lives of My children who become My righteousness through My Holy Spirit's indwelling them. (Matthew 6:33)
Rejoice! My plan that was hidden from the foundation of the world has been facilitated. It is Christ inside of you, the hope of living a glorious life in the earth and in heaven, free from the works of the devil and having the ability to enjoy complete communion with Me, the designer of your entire universe. (Colossians 1:27)
Rejoice! If I am for you, then who can be against you? No one. Not even the gates of hell.
Your Joyful Father of Freedom
After His crucifixion Jesus told His followers several times that He would come back to them and He did, not once, not twice, but many times. When the women told the disciples that the tomb was empty and that Jesus had risen from the dead, the disciples were not excited, thinking the story of the women was idle gossip, even though they remembered what He had told them. (Luke 24:10-11) Peter ran to the tomb to check out the story that the women had told to the disciples. (12)
Two others went to another city and while they were discussing the current events together Jesus appeared to them and asked why they were sad. (Luke 24:13-20) One of the two commented that the man must be a stranger to not know what had happened in their city and he must be ignorant of the things which were to occur. The two told Jesus about the death of a great prophet and how it had been three days since the event and nothing had happened so far to redeem Israel, their beloved country. They were still ruled by concern that Israel would have world dominance instead of being assured by Jesus previously that My promise is to all people, not to nations or denominations or religions. (Luke 24:21) Jesus had formerly told them that His return would be visible to individuals on house tops or in the fields. However, they told the stranger, who was Jesus Himself, that the body of the prophet had disappeared from its burial place. Their hope of My kingdom coming to earth was to restore Israel to prominence, and it was their only concern.
Jesus called them foolish and asked them if they did not remember the prophesies concerning Him. (Luke 24:25-26) He gave them a quick course in explaining the prophesies concerning Himself all the way back to Moses.(Luke 24:27) They rested later and that is when Jesus blessed bread, gave it to them and their eyes were opened and they knew whom He truly was.
Later, on the day of Pentecost when Jesus appeared to the many people who had obeyed Him and had gathered in Jerusalem for what Jesus had promised them was going to happen, they were still believing that the sacrifice of Jesus happened so that Israel would be returned to world dominance, and they asked Jesus, who had appeared to them again earlier, if that was the time that the kingdom would again be restored to Israel. (Acts 1:2-8) Their extreme patriotism had blinded them to My truth, the truth that I was to enter into their own spirits and make My earthly home in them, bringing My kingdom into the lives of individuals instead of a country. The demon of extreme patriotism still blinds the hearts of people today, convincing people that their country is their savior.
As I told you in the past, I admonish you to be obedient to the governing authorities, rendering to your governing bodies what they legally require, but not looking to them to be your god. Extreme patriotism is blinding because it is the spirit of idolatry. It was evident in the Israelites at the time when Jesus walked in the earth and it is still evident in counties at this time. I told you through Jesus to only give to your country what is required of it, paying taxes and being obedient to its laws, but do not give the devotion to your country that you would give to Me. We are not the same entity. I am the God of love, compassion and peace. Countries have their own gods of war, conflict and domination. I said you can't serve two masters. You cannot put your complete trust in your country's government and also put your trust in Me. They are most often opposed to one another.
Don't be like the Jews were at the time and still are, so blinded by the devil that they are still waiting for their Messiah to restore Israel to world prominence. Jesus was crucified for the sins of people and He sent My Spirit into My children, not into the governing bodies of any country. My Holy Spirit will show you who is important to Me and it's always the people who have been assaulted by the devil, the poor, the sick, the brokenhearted, the fainthearted, the demon possessed, the oppressed and the depressed. Most often, those people have been oppressed by their governmental officials who have robbed from them, enslaved them and put them into bondage to religious laws.
Rejoice, the price has been paid for your sins and the sins of the whole world by Jesus Christ. (I John 2:2)
Rejoice! He rose from the dead and We sent My Holy Spirit into the world to be received by those of My children who seek Me and My righteousness. All things will be added to the lives of My children who become My righteousness through My Holy Spirit's indwelling them. (Matthew 6:33)
Rejoice! My plan that was hidden from the foundation of the world has been facilitated. It is Christ inside of you, the hope of living a glorious life in the earth and in heaven, free from the works of the devil and having the ability to enjoy complete communion with Me, the designer of your entire universe. (Colossians 1:27)
Rejoice! If I am for you, then who can be against you? No one. Not even the gates of hell.
Your Joyful Father of Freedom
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