Dear One,
Freedom from tormenting passions of human emotions, judgmental thoughts, legalistic religious regulations and debilitating fears is the ultimate desire of every human being. Freedom is the desire of the human heart that I put within every person. The things of the earth that were cursed by the devil when Adam allowed him to take over the earth are the things for which Jesus came to earth to destroy and for which He died as the sacrifice for the devil's sins committed by people. Freedom is craved by the human spirit.
I gave the antidotes for the poison of the words of the devil that enslaves people through tempting thoughts. Those spiritual antidotes are My personal words which set you free. Jesus introduced that truth to His disciples when He told them that they must continue in His words and that if they did that they would be deemed His disciples. Then He proclaimed the power of My words which is, "And you shall know the truth and the truth will make you free." That promise is the foundation of My relationship with My children, that My truth will make you free from all of the works of the devil. (John 8:31-32)
Jesus added emphasis and importance to His promise when He again said "verily, verily" meaning that they must listen to the truth that follows because it is of utmost important. He said that anyone who yields to the words of the devil, which is commonly called the temptation to sin, that person becomes the servant of the devil, which every human being does. No one is sinless. (John 8:34) However, Jesus promised that My words do not bring bondage to destruction and death but, instead, My personal words to you will bring freedom from the tempting words of the devil, those being negative, judgmental, accusatory, divisive, strife filled words, destructive words. He said when He makes you free that you are free indeed. (John 8:35-36) Freedom from fear and tempting passions of the flesh allow My kingdom to come upon you and in you to give you the abundant life that I promised. Jesus Christ died for you so that you would have kingdom living while in the earth and also in the spiritual world to come, which is My heaven.
The truths that Jesus spoke to the Jews were hard for them to believe because they were supposed to be My chosen nation. He said that they were supposed to be Abraham's children but they did not do the works of Abraham that I commissioned them to do. (John 8:37-38) The devil had been allowed to invade their minds and use My words given to their forefathers as the measuring stick of righteousness instead of being used as I told them, as a way to avoid the works of the devil. Jesus told them that He only spoke what He saw Me speak but that they spoke what their father, the devil, spoke. He told them that they were of their father, the devil, because they obeyed the guidance of the devil instead of the guidance of Jesus through whom I spoke words of liberation. (John 8;42-47)
The Jews who were listening to Jesus again accused Him of not being of their nationalistic religion but instead spoke from a devil within Himself. (John 8:48)
Jesus, operating in My compassion, told them that He didn't have a devil but instead He listened constantly to My words and so therefore was free from the influence of evil. He said that He did not have a devil, but that they did have a devil because they dishonored Him, My Son. (John 8:49-50) Again He said for them to listen intently to His words. He said that anyone who keeps His sayings will never die.
The promise of Jesus was fulfilled in the person of the Holy Spirit who came to live inside of My children and speak My words to them which sets them free from every work of evil. Jesus said whom He set free is free indeed. There is no other way for humans to be free apart from the sacrifice of Jesus, the rising of Christ from the dead and His sending the power of My Spirit to live within human beings, through whom My personal, powerful, loving, freeing words become My guidance to anyone who accepts My Holy Spirit into their lives.
When you hear My personal, revealed words to you, you shall know the truth and the truth will make you free. (verse 32) There is no other avenue to freedom except through that path. My truth makes you free, not just free but free indeed.
Your Liberating Father
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
KINGDOM LIVING - COME TO THE LIGHT
Dear One,
Jesus was the fulfillment of the prophesy of Isaiah who said that the people who sat in great darkness saw a great Light; and to them which sat in the shadow of death, the Light sprung up. (Matthew 4:16) He came to earth, He taught and ministered, He died, He rose from the dead, He came to live again with Me and We sent that same Light into the world in the person of My Holy Spirit. My kingdom of love came to earth to live in My children and that is called the kingdom of heaven or the kingdom of God. Jesus was recognized by some people as that Light that came to enlighten the people who were engulfed in darkness and sat in the shadow of death. The people who were freed from the clutches of evil and no longer were baptized in the darkness of the devil certainly recognized whom He was. The people who were were made alive again and were no longer enslaved by the devil's destruction and death certainly recognized whom He was. When the Light is turned on inside of a person, all things become clear.
John the Baptist preached that My kingdom was at hand, soon to come upon the earth. Jesus also preached that My kingdom was at hand, soon to be manifested in the earth. In fact, He even taught the people to pray that My kingdom would come into the earth just as it is in heaven. (Matthew 4:17; Matthew 6:10) Yet, some of the people still refused to recognize the brilliant Light. Multitudes of people were drawn to the Light in Jesus, eager to benefit from the healing power of that Light and eager to hear the teachings coming from that source of My Light. Yet, many of the religious leaders of the day did not recognize Jesus as the Light because their minds were clouded by the veil of religious laws in whom they trusted instead of their having trusted in Me. (John 1:1-14) They rejected the Light because they loved the darkness created by their laws.
Jesus taught many times about My Light coming into the world and its availability to people who are seeking answers to their questions, solutions to their problems and guidance into freedom for their entire beings. He eventually identified Himself for sure as being the Light of the world. When the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman who was caught in adultery and challenged Him to do what the religious law required, which was being stoned to death, Jesus reminded the accusers of their own sins and then told the woman that her sins were forgiven and to go and do not sin again. All of that was contrary to religious and civil laws at the time. (John 9:3-11)
Then Jesus announced the truth, that He is the Light of the world and that anyone who follows Him will not walk in darkness but shall have the Light of life inside of him or her. (John 8:12) "The Light of life" is a wonderful description of My kingdom coming into the lives of My children. All of the works of the darkness of hell vanish from the person and I place My Holy Spirit's life inside of the person. My kingdom becomes evident in the person with My insight, My wisdom, My love and My peace resident in the person where there was once only darkness.
Jesus identified the judgment of the Pharisees who judge others according to religious laws as" judging by the flesh." Then he said that He judges no person, but that if he did judge it was the judgment of discerning the works of the devil working through a person instead of judging the person as evil. Jesus judged the devil and cast his demons out of people instead of demanding death by stoning for anyone caught in adultery or other sins. The Light shone in the darkness brilliantly. The forgiveness that came from the Light of Jesus for the woman caught in adultery blinded the Pharisees who persisted in walking in darkness. However, other people continued to follow His light and benefit from His ministry of freeing people from the works of the devil and from the Light of His teachings. Jesus said that His own judgment judged the devil, not people. The religious leaders preferred to judge people. (John 8:15-6)
Later John the disciple wrote that if you walk in the Light as He is in the Light, then you have fellowship with Me and also with Jesus. (I John 1:7) Then He said that the blood of Jesus will cleanse you all of unrighteousness. My Holy Spirit was in the blood of Jesus, the One who made Him into My Son, of My blood line. He is My Power who enlightens your mind to the presence of evil sent to destroy you and He is the Power who gives you supernatural ability to cast out the evil that comes into your mind. There is never any condemnation, as there was none with the woman caught in adultery. There is forgiveness.
Come to My Light for everything in life that is perplexing, confusing, oppressive, compulsive, depressing, hopeless and destructive. I will shine My Light on the way out of every problem and then I will supply the spiritual energy to walk in freedom.
Darkness will kill you. My Light will energize and save you.
Your Father of Light
Jesus was the fulfillment of the prophesy of Isaiah who said that the people who sat in great darkness saw a great Light; and to them which sat in the shadow of death, the Light sprung up. (Matthew 4:16) He came to earth, He taught and ministered, He died, He rose from the dead, He came to live again with Me and We sent that same Light into the world in the person of My Holy Spirit. My kingdom of love came to earth to live in My children and that is called the kingdom of heaven or the kingdom of God. Jesus was recognized by some people as that Light that came to enlighten the people who were engulfed in darkness and sat in the shadow of death. The people who were freed from the clutches of evil and no longer were baptized in the darkness of the devil certainly recognized whom He was. The people who were were made alive again and were no longer enslaved by the devil's destruction and death certainly recognized whom He was. When the Light is turned on inside of a person, all things become clear.
John the Baptist preached that My kingdom was at hand, soon to come upon the earth. Jesus also preached that My kingdom was at hand, soon to be manifested in the earth. In fact, He even taught the people to pray that My kingdom would come into the earth just as it is in heaven. (Matthew 4:17; Matthew 6:10) Yet, some of the people still refused to recognize the brilliant Light. Multitudes of people were drawn to the Light in Jesus, eager to benefit from the healing power of that Light and eager to hear the teachings coming from that source of My Light. Yet, many of the religious leaders of the day did not recognize Jesus as the Light because their minds were clouded by the veil of religious laws in whom they trusted instead of their having trusted in Me. (John 1:1-14) They rejected the Light because they loved the darkness created by their laws.
Jesus taught many times about My Light coming into the world and its availability to people who are seeking answers to their questions, solutions to their problems and guidance into freedom for their entire beings. He eventually identified Himself for sure as being the Light of the world. When the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman who was caught in adultery and challenged Him to do what the religious law required, which was being stoned to death, Jesus reminded the accusers of their own sins and then told the woman that her sins were forgiven and to go and do not sin again. All of that was contrary to religious and civil laws at the time. (John 9:3-11)
Then Jesus announced the truth, that He is the Light of the world and that anyone who follows Him will not walk in darkness but shall have the Light of life inside of him or her. (John 8:12) "The Light of life" is a wonderful description of My kingdom coming into the lives of My children. All of the works of the darkness of hell vanish from the person and I place My Holy Spirit's life inside of the person. My kingdom becomes evident in the person with My insight, My wisdom, My love and My peace resident in the person where there was once only darkness.
Jesus identified the judgment of the Pharisees who judge others according to religious laws as" judging by the flesh." Then he said that He judges no person, but that if he did judge it was the judgment of discerning the works of the devil working through a person instead of judging the person as evil. Jesus judged the devil and cast his demons out of people instead of demanding death by stoning for anyone caught in adultery or other sins. The Light shone in the darkness brilliantly. The forgiveness that came from the Light of Jesus for the woman caught in adultery blinded the Pharisees who persisted in walking in darkness. However, other people continued to follow His light and benefit from His ministry of freeing people from the works of the devil and from the Light of His teachings. Jesus said that His own judgment judged the devil, not people. The religious leaders preferred to judge people. (John 8:15-6)
Later John the disciple wrote that if you walk in the Light as He is in the Light, then you have fellowship with Me and also with Jesus. (I John 1:7) Then He said that the blood of Jesus will cleanse you all of unrighteousness. My Holy Spirit was in the blood of Jesus, the One who made Him into My Son, of My blood line. He is My Power who enlightens your mind to the presence of evil sent to destroy you and He is the Power who gives you supernatural ability to cast out the evil that comes into your mind. There is never any condemnation, as there was none with the woman caught in adultery. There is forgiveness.
Come to My Light for everything in life that is perplexing, confusing, oppressive, compulsive, depressing, hopeless and destructive. I will shine My Light on the way out of every problem and then I will supply the spiritual energy to walk in freedom.
Darkness will kill you. My Light will energize and save you.
Your Father of Light
Monday, September 19, 2016
KINGDOM LIVING - GREAT IN THE KINGDOM
Dear One,
When Jesus said that My children are the light of the world, He was talking about My children who are motivated by My love, My peace, My mercy, My meekness and so forth as He had identified in the Beatitudes. (Matthew 5:1-12) He had just said that those of My children would be abundantly blessed and be a light in the world and salt in the world that had not lost its taste. (Matthew 5:13-16) He was concerned that the people would think that He had come to destroy the principles in the laws and the truths in the words of the prophets, but instead He said that He had come to fulfill them. All of the principles in the religious laws and the truths in the prophesies related to His ministry to the poor, the sick, the demon possessed, the brokenhearted and the crippled, and His dying for the sins of the world. He accomplished every one of those prophesies. When He died on the cross, they were fulfilled and the old covenant was finished, as He proclaimed.
As Jesus identified the attitudes about which He taught, being blessed has nothing to do with the old covenant laws because the laws were powerless to empower My children to do My will. Not until the coming of My Holy Spirit did My children have My supernatural power to do what I asked them to do in order for them to have kingdom living while in the earth. Jesus said that anyone who breaks one of His instructions and teaches others to do so is least in My kingdom. (Matthew 5:19) His command was always to love others as I love you. (John 13:34)
When He was teaching about your being the salt and the light in the world, He taught about forgiving others, about never returning evil for evil done to you, about forgiving debts, and about refusing to judge other people. (Matthew 5, 6, 7) In those lectures He stressed the importance of doing to others as I do to you because He knew what thoughts, attitudes and actions will open the gates through which My blessings flow into your life.
Many of the teachings of Jesus were contrary to the written religious laws but instead were revealing the spiritual attitudes behind them which were always My love for My children. My Spirit wrote through Paul that the letter of the law kills but the Spirit of the law brings life. (Romans 7:6; Romans 8:2; Galatians 5:18)
Then Jesus said that your righteousness must exceed the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees or you will not be able to enter into My kingdom living while in the earth. In saying that, He said that it had been taught to them that they should not kill but Jesus amplified that commandment by saying that His own insight into My kingdom is that if you are angry with your brother that you are in danger of destruction coming upon you because in yielding to anger you are yielding to the devil and you switch loyalties to another kingdom, the devil's kingdom If you are in unity with his kingdom you are no longer in unity with Me, so you are in a position to receive the devil's judgment which is destruction and death. (Matthew 5:19-22) He said you can't serve two masters. (Matthew 6:24)
Jesus knew that only by My power of My Spirit are My children able to love as I love you. His instructions about your righteousness being greater than the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees is made possible by the power of My Holy Spirit living inside of you. When He told them that anger leads to destruction, He knew the demonic spirit behind all killing is anger. Jesus knew that if you stop your attitudes and thoughts when the demon of anger first enters into your thoughts, that it will not proceed to killings, which is the reason the devil endeavors to make you angry. Casting out the demon of anger will stop all killings, if My children will only do it. When you can remember to cast out the demon of anger from your thoughts, your righteousness will be greater than the Pharisees and scribes, as Jesus taught in His seminar.
His instructions were even more explicit, since at the time the people were still under old testament laws. He told My children that if you are offering gifts at the altar and remember that someone has something against you, that you should leave the altar and make peace with the person, being reconciled, and then go back and offer your gift. He said you must make peace quickly with anyone who is your adversary or you will end up paying the full price for the adversity in which you engage.
Jesus was saying to stop strife when it begins with anger so that it will not proceed to killings. Making peace will always dispense anger. Forgiving the troublesome faults of others will be bearing their sins just like Jesus did for you on the cross. He said to take His yoke upon you and learn of Him.
In taking the advice of Jesus, doing what He says to do in the face of strife, will allow Me to have an open path from My kingdom to you upon which My blessings flow. When you become meek and humble, the paths are clear and My kingdom comes to you on earth as it is in heaven. (Matthew 6:10)
It makes Me ever so joyful when My children receive the blessings of their inheritance from Me because they have followed the advice of My Holy Spirit given through Jesus. The angels rejoice with Me because they are able to deliver your blessings to you because your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees.
Your Father of Wonderful Blessings
When Jesus said that My children are the light of the world, He was talking about My children who are motivated by My love, My peace, My mercy, My meekness and so forth as He had identified in the Beatitudes. (Matthew 5:1-12) He had just said that those of My children would be abundantly blessed and be a light in the world and salt in the world that had not lost its taste. (Matthew 5:13-16) He was concerned that the people would think that He had come to destroy the principles in the laws and the truths in the words of the prophets, but instead He said that He had come to fulfill them. All of the principles in the religious laws and the truths in the prophesies related to His ministry to the poor, the sick, the demon possessed, the brokenhearted and the crippled, and His dying for the sins of the world. He accomplished every one of those prophesies. When He died on the cross, they were fulfilled and the old covenant was finished, as He proclaimed.
As Jesus identified the attitudes about which He taught, being blessed has nothing to do with the old covenant laws because the laws were powerless to empower My children to do My will. Not until the coming of My Holy Spirit did My children have My supernatural power to do what I asked them to do in order for them to have kingdom living while in the earth. Jesus said that anyone who breaks one of His instructions and teaches others to do so is least in My kingdom. (Matthew 5:19) His command was always to love others as I love you. (John 13:34)
When He was teaching about your being the salt and the light in the world, He taught about forgiving others, about never returning evil for evil done to you, about forgiving debts, and about refusing to judge other people. (Matthew 5, 6, 7) In those lectures He stressed the importance of doing to others as I do to you because He knew what thoughts, attitudes and actions will open the gates through which My blessings flow into your life.
Many of the teachings of Jesus were contrary to the written religious laws but instead were revealing the spiritual attitudes behind them which were always My love for My children. My Spirit wrote through Paul that the letter of the law kills but the Spirit of the law brings life. (Romans 7:6; Romans 8:2; Galatians 5:18)
Then Jesus said that your righteousness must exceed the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees or you will not be able to enter into My kingdom living while in the earth. In saying that, He said that it had been taught to them that they should not kill but Jesus amplified that commandment by saying that His own insight into My kingdom is that if you are angry with your brother that you are in danger of destruction coming upon you because in yielding to anger you are yielding to the devil and you switch loyalties to another kingdom, the devil's kingdom If you are in unity with his kingdom you are no longer in unity with Me, so you are in a position to receive the devil's judgment which is destruction and death. (Matthew 5:19-22) He said you can't serve two masters. (Matthew 6:24)
Jesus knew that only by My power of My Spirit are My children able to love as I love you. His instructions about your righteousness being greater than the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees is made possible by the power of My Holy Spirit living inside of you. When He told them that anger leads to destruction, He knew the demonic spirit behind all killing is anger. Jesus knew that if you stop your attitudes and thoughts when the demon of anger first enters into your thoughts, that it will not proceed to killings, which is the reason the devil endeavors to make you angry. Casting out the demon of anger will stop all killings, if My children will only do it. When you can remember to cast out the demon of anger from your thoughts, your righteousness will be greater than the Pharisees and scribes, as Jesus taught in His seminar.
His instructions were even more explicit, since at the time the people were still under old testament laws. He told My children that if you are offering gifts at the altar and remember that someone has something against you, that you should leave the altar and make peace with the person, being reconciled, and then go back and offer your gift. He said you must make peace quickly with anyone who is your adversary or you will end up paying the full price for the adversity in which you engage.
Jesus was saying to stop strife when it begins with anger so that it will not proceed to killings. Making peace will always dispense anger. Forgiving the troublesome faults of others will be bearing their sins just like Jesus did for you on the cross. He said to take His yoke upon you and learn of Him.
In taking the advice of Jesus, doing what He says to do in the face of strife, will allow Me to have an open path from My kingdom to you upon which My blessings flow. When you become meek and humble, the paths are clear and My kingdom comes to you on earth as it is in heaven. (Matthew 6:10)
It makes Me ever so joyful when My children receive the blessings of their inheritance from Me because they have followed the advice of My Holy Spirit given through Jesus. The angels rejoice with Me because they are able to deliver your blessings to you because your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees.
Your Father of Wonderful Blessings
Sunday, September 18, 2016
KINGDOM LIVING - HONORING THE HOLY SPIRIT
Dear One,
Jesus called twelve men to be His disciples, to assist Him in doing His work. In addition to their ministries of healing the sick, casting out demons and cleansing the lepers, He told them to preach that the kingdom of heaven was at hand, in the near future. Many people believed; many did not. John the Baptist had baptized people in water but he had proclaimed that their true Savior would come and baptize them with My Holy Spirit. (Matthew 3:11)
Jesus was always appreciative of the ministry of John the Baptist. When John was in prison he sent two of his followers to Jesus to ask if Jesus was truly to whom they had looked forward as the Messiah or should they wait for another. Jesus told them to tell John that the blind received their sight, the lame walk, the lepers were cleansed, the deaf heard, the dead were raised, and the poor had the good news preached to them. (Matthew 11:2-6) Jesus told His own followers that, even in John's strange habits, that he was a prophet which prepared the way for Jesus' ministry.
The next statement from the mouth of Jesus was that until that time there had never been a greater man born than John the Baptist. (Matthew 11:7-11) Yet, He said, a person who is least in My kingdom of heaven is greater than John. Jesus was prophesying about the coming of My Holy Spirit to live in My children, to be their guide, their strength, their power to overcome evil, their ever constant tutor who would reveal to them the truths in His teachings. He said that they would be greater than John the Baptist because of My power that would be inside of them.
As Jesus continued in His earthly ministry of freeing people from the demons which afflicted them, the Pharisees were threatened at the thought of losing their control over people so they said that Jesus was not casting out demons by His own power but they said that Jesus was casting out demons by the power of the devil Beelzebub. Jesus gave the people a lecture on a house divided against itself will fall, using as an example the accusations of Him by the Pharisees that He cast out demons from people by the power of the devil.
Jesus made a more confusing statement to the Pharisees, but His followers believed Him because they had seen His power and believed. (Matthew 12:28) Jesus proclaimed the power of My Holy Spirit when he said that if He cast out demons by My finger, that being My Holy Spirit, then My kingdom comes upon that person. He was saying that it is the presence of the devil in the life of a person that keeps My kingdom from becoming present in the life of that person.
Then Jesus proclaimed the devil's continued ostracism from My kingdom. He said that if a person blasphemes Jesus that the person can be forgiven but if My Holy Spirit is blasphemed, then the origin of that blaspheme will never be forgiven, neither in the world nor in heaven. He was speaking of the devil who is the being who discredits My Holy Spirit at every opportunity. The devil will never be forgiven for his words which defame My Holy Spirit. The devil constantly tempts My children to speak negatively against My Spirit but that is not blasphemy. Blasphemy is attributing the works of My Spirit to the power of the devil. The devil will never be forgiven for that lie. (Matthew 12;30-32)
Jesus called the words coming from the mouths of the Pharisees as coming from a generation of vipers. He asked them how could they be doing anything good, such as healing the sick, since they were evil to the core. (Matthew 12:34)
Identifying all evil as coming from the devil and all good as coming from Me was the mission of Jesus in this teaching about My kingdom versus the kingdom of satan. He said to His followers that they must either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt because a tree is known by its fruit. (Matthew 12:33)
Then Jesus told a truth that must be understood by My children. He said that a good person brings good things out of his heart, meaning edifying words, and that an evil person brings evil words out of his heart. He went further to say that you are judged by every word that comes out of your own mouth, and that by your own words you are either blessed or you are cursed. (Matthew 12:35-37)
Cleansing your mouth is just as important as when Jesus cleansed the lepers.
Jesus defended My Holy Spirit and His power that was at work in Jesus. Some of My children still refuse to accept My powerful good works as coming from My Holy Spirit. Yet, they attribute storms, wars, destruction, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and other disasters as coming from Me. They don't know Me. They also do not know that those destructive actions come from the collective evil words of My own unenlightened children through whom the devil is able to gain permission to do those evil acts in the world. (James 3:16-18)
My kingdom is righteousness, peace and joy in My Holy Spirit. Anything that brings conflict, strife, fear and destruction is not from Me. If something is not loving, peaceful and patient, it is not from Me. (Romans 14:17-19)
My Holy Spirit deserves your honor and attention. He is My spiritual umbilical cord to you. He is My life in you. He is the Spirit of the new and final covenant that I have with humans, which is Christ in you, the hope of a glorious life. (Colossians 1:27)
Your Loving Father of Blessings
Jesus called twelve men to be His disciples, to assist Him in doing His work. In addition to their ministries of healing the sick, casting out demons and cleansing the lepers, He told them to preach that the kingdom of heaven was at hand, in the near future. Many people believed; many did not. John the Baptist had baptized people in water but he had proclaimed that their true Savior would come and baptize them with My Holy Spirit. (Matthew 3:11)
Jesus was always appreciative of the ministry of John the Baptist. When John was in prison he sent two of his followers to Jesus to ask if Jesus was truly to whom they had looked forward as the Messiah or should they wait for another. Jesus told them to tell John that the blind received their sight, the lame walk, the lepers were cleansed, the deaf heard, the dead were raised, and the poor had the good news preached to them. (Matthew 11:2-6) Jesus told His own followers that, even in John's strange habits, that he was a prophet which prepared the way for Jesus' ministry.
The next statement from the mouth of Jesus was that until that time there had never been a greater man born than John the Baptist. (Matthew 11:7-11) Yet, He said, a person who is least in My kingdom of heaven is greater than John. Jesus was prophesying about the coming of My Holy Spirit to live in My children, to be their guide, their strength, their power to overcome evil, their ever constant tutor who would reveal to them the truths in His teachings. He said that they would be greater than John the Baptist because of My power that would be inside of them.
As Jesus continued in His earthly ministry of freeing people from the demons which afflicted them, the Pharisees were threatened at the thought of losing their control over people so they said that Jesus was not casting out demons by His own power but they said that Jesus was casting out demons by the power of the devil Beelzebub. Jesus gave the people a lecture on a house divided against itself will fall, using as an example the accusations of Him by the Pharisees that He cast out demons from people by the power of the devil.
Jesus made a more confusing statement to the Pharisees, but His followers believed Him because they had seen His power and believed. (Matthew 12:28) Jesus proclaimed the power of My Holy Spirit when he said that if He cast out demons by My finger, that being My Holy Spirit, then My kingdom comes upon that person. He was saying that it is the presence of the devil in the life of a person that keeps My kingdom from becoming present in the life of that person.
Then Jesus proclaimed the devil's continued ostracism from My kingdom. He said that if a person blasphemes Jesus that the person can be forgiven but if My Holy Spirit is blasphemed, then the origin of that blaspheme will never be forgiven, neither in the world nor in heaven. He was speaking of the devil who is the being who discredits My Holy Spirit at every opportunity. The devil will never be forgiven for his words which defame My Holy Spirit. The devil constantly tempts My children to speak negatively against My Spirit but that is not blasphemy. Blasphemy is attributing the works of My Spirit to the power of the devil. The devil will never be forgiven for that lie. (Matthew 12;30-32)
Jesus called the words coming from the mouths of the Pharisees as coming from a generation of vipers. He asked them how could they be doing anything good, such as healing the sick, since they were evil to the core. (Matthew 12:34)
Identifying all evil as coming from the devil and all good as coming from Me was the mission of Jesus in this teaching about My kingdom versus the kingdom of satan. He said to His followers that they must either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt because a tree is known by its fruit. (Matthew 12:33)
Then Jesus told a truth that must be understood by My children. He said that a good person brings good things out of his heart, meaning edifying words, and that an evil person brings evil words out of his heart. He went further to say that you are judged by every word that comes out of your own mouth, and that by your own words you are either blessed or you are cursed. (Matthew 12:35-37)
Cleansing your mouth is just as important as when Jesus cleansed the lepers.
Jesus defended My Holy Spirit and His power that was at work in Jesus. Some of My children still refuse to accept My powerful good works as coming from My Holy Spirit. Yet, they attribute storms, wars, destruction, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and other disasters as coming from Me. They don't know Me. They also do not know that those destructive actions come from the collective evil words of My own unenlightened children through whom the devil is able to gain permission to do those evil acts in the world. (James 3:16-18)
My kingdom is righteousness, peace and joy in My Holy Spirit. Anything that brings conflict, strife, fear and destruction is not from Me. If something is not loving, peaceful and patient, it is not from Me. (Romans 14:17-19)
My Holy Spirit deserves your honor and attention. He is My spiritual umbilical cord to you. He is My life in you. He is the Spirit of the new and final covenant that I have with humans, which is Christ in you, the hope of a glorious life. (Colossians 1:27)
Your Loving Father of Blessings
Friday, September 16, 2016
KINGDOM LIVING - RISING DOUGH
Another parable that Jesus taught about My kingdom of heaven coming to earth to live in My children and changing curses into blessings is the parable of the woman who took yeast and mixed it thoroughly into sixty pounds of flour until it was incorporated completely into the flour. Then all of the dough was leavened, raised immensely until the bread that was produced fed many people. Jesus told His followers that the parables contained secrets that had been hidden from the foundation of the world. (Matthew 13:33-35)
The secret inside of the parable of the yeast mixed in with the flour which produced a great amount of bread is that when My Holy Spirit comes to live inside of you, His work not only creates a new person in you, but He desires to permeate your mind and your body, raising your whole being to newness of life. That is called being baptised in My Holy Spirit, when you allow Him to work in your whole person, your mental thoughts, your emotional attitudes and your bodily actions. When you allow Him to baptize you in My Spirit you give Him permission to change your whole being from one programmed by the devil to one programmed by Me, the Spirit of life. You do not become more religious. You become more godly, being schooled in My righteousness. You become free from religious laws, rules and regulations. You become more loving, more kind, more merciful, more gracious, more faithful, more loyal, more encouraging, more peaceful and more joyful. (Galatians 5:22-24) Because your whole being is changed into My image, I benefit because My other children see the changes in you and want to know Me intimately because they want the same degree of peace that you have. Then I am able to bring My wonderful kingdom benefits into the lives of others because they have seen My good works inside of you and want to become My children in a close Father/child way.
In a bigger scale, think about when the Holy Spirit draws others unto Himself by changing your actions and reactions, when other people begin to live in a close, personal, intimate relationship with Me and become more and more like Me, then the earth is being covered with My knowledge like the waters cover the sea. As others have been redeemed and recreated, as you have been, then the whole earth benefits. It is written that the whole creation groans under bondage to corruption from the devil until My children are revealed by their love as being My true children. The whole earth is then redeemed and restored by the unconditional love of My children to others.(Romans 8:18-23) The more of My children who become conformed into My image in the world, the more redemption is provided by Me for the entire earth, thus the yeast of My Holy Spirit leavens the whole world.
Some of My children are satisfied with having only a small part of their inheritance delivered to them, merely the promise of going to heaven. Others of My children want to take full advantage of the promises of My Holy Spirit, that you will inherit the abundant life, a life full of blessings and surprises from Me while you live in the earth. It's all possible through being able to hear My voice and take My advice. I am your Heavenly Father. I make it possible to inherit all that I have for you.
Allow My Holy Spirit to enter into your spirit, creating a new being, and then allow Me to baptize you with My Spirit into your mind and body. When you do, you fulfill the parable, allowing the yeast of My Holy Spirit to raise your life in quality to the excellent degree of My life, perfecting your mind and your body, also. I do it easily and efficiently. All I need is your permission.
Your Father of Earthly Benefits
The secret inside of the parable of the yeast mixed in with the flour which produced a great amount of bread is that when My Holy Spirit comes to live inside of you, His work not only creates a new person in you, but He desires to permeate your mind and your body, raising your whole being to newness of life. That is called being baptised in My Holy Spirit, when you allow Him to work in your whole person, your mental thoughts, your emotional attitudes and your bodily actions. When you allow Him to baptize you in My Spirit you give Him permission to change your whole being from one programmed by the devil to one programmed by Me, the Spirit of life. You do not become more religious. You become more godly, being schooled in My righteousness. You become free from religious laws, rules and regulations. You become more loving, more kind, more merciful, more gracious, more faithful, more loyal, more encouraging, more peaceful and more joyful. (Galatians 5:22-24) Because your whole being is changed into My image, I benefit because My other children see the changes in you and want to know Me intimately because they want the same degree of peace that you have. Then I am able to bring My wonderful kingdom benefits into the lives of others because they have seen My good works inside of you and want to become My children in a close Father/child way.
In a bigger scale, think about when the Holy Spirit draws others unto Himself by changing your actions and reactions, when other people begin to live in a close, personal, intimate relationship with Me and become more and more like Me, then the earth is being covered with My knowledge like the waters cover the sea. As others have been redeemed and recreated, as you have been, then the whole earth benefits. It is written that the whole creation groans under bondage to corruption from the devil until My children are revealed by their love as being My true children. The whole earth is then redeemed and restored by the unconditional love of My children to others.(Romans 8:18-23) The more of My children who become conformed into My image in the world, the more redemption is provided by Me for the entire earth, thus the yeast of My Holy Spirit leavens the whole world.
Some of My children are satisfied with having only a small part of their inheritance delivered to them, merely the promise of going to heaven. Others of My children want to take full advantage of the promises of My Holy Spirit, that you will inherit the abundant life, a life full of blessings and surprises from Me while you live in the earth. It's all possible through being able to hear My voice and take My advice. I am your Heavenly Father. I make it possible to inherit all that I have for you.
Allow My Holy Spirit to enter into your spirit, creating a new being, and then allow Me to baptize you with My Spirit into your mind and body. When you do, you fulfill the parable, allowing the yeast of My Holy Spirit to raise your life in quality to the excellent degree of My life, perfecting your mind and your body, also. I do it easily and efficiently. All I need is your permission.
Your Father of Earthly Benefits
KINGDOM LIVING- UNDERSTANDING THE PARABLES
Dear One,
Jesus, Himself, explained to His followers why he taught in parables, which is comparing earthly things with spiritual revelations. He used the parable of the sower of seeds to amplify the truths to them. He told them first the parable about a farmer sowing seeds on different kinds of grounds, on a path, rocky soil, among thorns, and on good soil. (Matthew 13:3-9) He told them whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.
His disciples inquired why he taught in parables. He said that the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven had been given to the disciples but not to many others. He said that to a person who has revelations, that to that person will more revelations be given and also an abundance. Then He said to the person who has no revelations, that even what that person has will be taken away. He said that He spoke in parables because the other people don't see, don't hear and don't understand spiritual things. (Matthew 13:10-14)
Jesus described the religious leaders whose eyes, ears and understanding were blinded and deafened by the devil using powerless religion. (Matthew 13:15) He told His disciples that they were blessed because they had seeing eyes, hearing ears and minds that understood Him. (Matthew 13:16-17) He said that many people who came before them longed to see, hear and understand like the disciples did, but they could not.
He launched into a more full revelation of the parable of the farmer who sowed seed. (Matthew 13:18-23) He explained that anyone who hears the words of the kingdom like he was teaching them and they don't understand, the devil comes and snatches the truths away. The person who receives the words on rocky places receives it with joy, but there is no root in himself, so when tribulations and persecutions come the person is offended. The person who receives the words among thorns are the ones who hears the words of kingdom living but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the truths and the person becomes unfruitful in blessings, as in the rich man finding it impossible to enter My kingdom living. He said that the people who hear the words of life on good ground and understand it will bring forth 30, 60 or 100 fold of the fruit of My Spirit in their lives. In other words, there will be a transformation in those people into becoming My images in the world, becoming loving, peaceful, joyful, good, kind, merciful, and patient. Because of those fruit of My Spirit, the paths from My blessings to them will never be barricaded by the devil. Blessings will flow unfettered.
The more My words become flesh in My children, producing My witnesses in the world, the more the benefits of My kingdom living become reality in their lives. My guidance through the tutoring by My Holy Spirit will change your thoughts, attitudes and actions until you only speak what you hear Me speak and you only do what you hear Me do because you don't follow the voice of a spiritual thief and a spiritual liar, the devil. You only speak and act like My child because you only listen to My Fatherly advice.
When you hear My personal revelations to you, you are restored to the same communion with Me that Adam experienced before he allowed the devil to enter the earth. You will be guided by My Spirit and be led by My Spirit because you know that I have the words of life. (John 6:68) Blessings will flow into your life in different ratios, depending upon the ratios of fruit produced in your life. All of the plants of blessings for your future are in the seeds of the fruit that you allow My Holy Spirit to produce in you today. My seeds grow Life in you and in others.
Your Father of Life
Jesus, Himself, explained to His followers why he taught in parables, which is comparing earthly things with spiritual revelations. He used the parable of the sower of seeds to amplify the truths to them. He told them first the parable about a farmer sowing seeds on different kinds of grounds, on a path, rocky soil, among thorns, and on good soil. (Matthew 13:3-9) He told them whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.
His disciples inquired why he taught in parables. He said that the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven had been given to the disciples but not to many others. He said that to a person who has revelations, that to that person will more revelations be given and also an abundance. Then He said to the person who has no revelations, that even what that person has will be taken away. He said that He spoke in parables because the other people don't see, don't hear and don't understand spiritual things. (Matthew 13:10-14)
Jesus described the religious leaders whose eyes, ears and understanding were blinded and deafened by the devil using powerless religion. (Matthew 13:15) He told His disciples that they were blessed because they had seeing eyes, hearing ears and minds that understood Him. (Matthew 13:16-17) He said that many people who came before them longed to see, hear and understand like the disciples did, but they could not.
He launched into a more full revelation of the parable of the farmer who sowed seed. (Matthew 13:18-23) He explained that anyone who hears the words of the kingdom like he was teaching them and they don't understand, the devil comes and snatches the truths away. The person who receives the words on rocky places receives it with joy, but there is no root in himself, so when tribulations and persecutions come the person is offended. The person who receives the words among thorns are the ones who hears the words of kingdom living but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the truths and the person becomes unfruitful in blessings, as in the rich man finding it impossible to enter My kingdom living. He said that the people who hear the words of life on good ground and understand it will bring forth 30, 60 or 100 fold of the fruit of My Spirit in their lives. In other words, there will be a transformation in those people into becoming My images in the world, becoming loving, peaceful, joyful, good, kind, merciful, and patient. Because of those fruit of My Spirit, the paths from My blessings to them will never be barricaded by the devil. Blessings will flow unfettered.
The more My words become flesh in My children, producing My witnesses in the world, the more the benefits of My kingdom living become reality in their lives. My guidance through the tutoring by My Holy Spirit will change your thoughts, attitudes and actions until you only speak what you hear Me speak and you only do what you hear Me do because you don't follow the voice of a spiritual thief and a spiritual liar, the devil. You only speak and act like My child because you only listen to My Fatherly advice.
When you hear My personal revelations to you, you are restored to the same communion with Me that Adam experienced before he allowed the devil to enter the earth. You will be guided by My Spirit and be led by My Spirit because you know that I have the words of life. (John 6:68) Blessings will flow into your life in different ratios, depending upon the ratios of fruit produced in your life. All of the plants of blessings for your future are in the seeds of the fruit that you allow My Holy Spirit to produce in you today. My seeds grow Life in you and in others.
Your Father of Life
Thursday, September 15, 2016
KINGDOM LIVING - WORDS CREATE
Dear One,
The importance of words is never completely revealed as to their importance until My Holy Spirit is able to explain it from the inside of you as your tutor. Even though Jesus taught on that truth time after time, the eyes of My children are blinded to the importance of their words until My Holy Spirit is able to convince you of their importance.
Even the truth that I created the world with My words and everything in the world became evident and visual as a result of My speaking words, that truth will come to your mind only as a result of My Holy Spirit's tutoring. Because you are My child and I have given you authority in the earth just like I have authority in heaven, your words have creative power in the earth. (Genesis 1:1-3; Genesis 1:26) Just like at the beginning when I spoke My words, the Holy Spirit and His angels gathered together the spiritual ingredients which compose material things, and the world was created. The same is true today in relation to My children. When you speak, there are either My angels or the devil's demons who are summoned by you to either curse or bless you and other people.
When Jesus was teaching about blasphemy against My Holy Spirit, He taught on the importance of your words. He said to either make the fruit, or words, of the tree good and its fruit good or make the tree bad and its fruit bad. (Mathew 12:33-34) He said at the time that He taught this truth that their generation were vipers because of their words, identifying their words as coming from the devil instead of coming from Me. The devil was the prince of the world at the time and he had cursed My children with evil thoughts, attitudes and deeds. Jesus told the listeners that they are either condemned or they are justified by their words, either blessed or cursed by their words. (Matthew 12; 35-37)
Your positive, merciful, loving words summon My angels to bring My blessings to you but your negative, judgmental, fearful words summon the demons from hell to bring curses into your life. It's that simple. This is the day of judgment, when My children have the authority through the Holy Spirit in them to cast offensive demons into hell, judging them just like I judged the devil and cast him out of My heaven. When you join with the devil by speaking his negative, unmerciful, judgmental and offensive words to others of My children, you speak them to Me, calling Me the same destructive descriptions. (Matthew 25:40)
Later Jesus called a crowd to Himself in order to again teach them something of grave importance relating to words spoken. (Matthew 15:10-11) He said that it's not what goes in the mouth that condemns a person, that it's not breaking their restrictive diets as outlined by their religious laws or not washing their hands before eating that condemns them. He told them what does defile them, and He was emphatic about it. He said that the words that they speak defile them.
His disciples got upset that the Pharisees were offended by the words of Jesus because their dietary laws were of utmost importance to them, as was washing of hands before eating. Jesus told His followers not to be concerned about the Pharisees because they were blind leaders leading the blind.
Immediately Jesus taught them in a more clear parable about the importance of the words they speak. He told them that the food they eat goes through their bodies and then into the latrines. (Matthew 15:17) But, He said, the things that you speak come from the heart and they defile you. He said that your words identify the state of your heart and soul, and that those words judge you by summoning into your life either My kingdom to work for you or the devil's kingdom to work against you. (Matthew 15:18) He said that evil thoughts of murder, adultery, fornication, thefts, lying and blaspheming all come out of the mouth and define the speaker who speaks them.
The insight of Jesus was clear and concise, telling the listeners that there are things that defile a person, but that eating with unwashed hands does not defile a person, even though their religious teaching cautioned against it. He reiterated time and time again the importance of the words that you speak, that if they are negative, demeaning, judgmental, divisive, angry words against someone, that you will be judged, condemned and defiled by those words.
That parable was an important one, as is all of them. But when you fully understand the power of your words, you will know that they either bring blessings or curses into your life. Develop a filter through which you judge your words before you speak them. That is why I told you to be slow to speak. If you are in a hurry to speak, you will not judge your thoughts before you speak them and you will end up speaking negative words which curse yourself and your family. But if you are slow to speak, you will have time to discern from where the thoughts come, from heaven or from hell. The positive ones are from Me and you will be blessed if you speak them because they will be loving words which edify others (Ephesians 4:29-32)
Your Father of Loving, Edifying Words
The importance of words is never completely revealed as to their importance until My Holy Spirit is able to explain it from the inside of you as your tutor. Even though Jesus taught on that truth time after time, the eyes of My children are blinded to the importance of their words until My Holy Spirit is able to convince you of their importance.
Even the truth that I created the world with My words and everything in the world became evident and visual as a result of My speaking words, that truth will come to your mind only as a result of My Holy Spirit's tutoring. Because you are My child and I have given you authority in the earth just like I have authority in heaven, your words have creative power in the earth. (Genesis 1:1-3; Genesis 1:26) Just like at the beginning when I spoke My words, the Holy Spirit and His angels gathered together the spiritual ingredients which compose material things, and the world was created. The same is true today in relation to My children. When you speak, there are either My angels or the devil's demons who are summoned by you to either curse or bless you and other people.
When Jesus was teaching about blasphemy against My Holy Spirit, He taught on the importance of your words. He said to either make the fruit, or words, of the tree good and its fruit good or make the tree bad and its fruit bad. (Mathew 12:33-34) He said at the time that He taught this truth that their generation were vipers because of their words, identifying their words as coming from the devil instead of coming from Me. The devil was the prince of the world at the time and he had cursed My children with evil thoughts, attitudes and deeds. Jesus told the listeners that they are either condemned or they are justified by their words, either blessed or cursed by their words. (Matthew 12; 35-37)
Your positive, merciful, loving words summon My angels to bring My blessings to you but your negative, judgmental, fearful words summon the demons from hell to bring curses into your life. It's that simple. This is the day of judgment, when My children have the authority through the Holy Spirit in them to cast offensive demons into hell, judging them just like I judged the devil and cast him out of My heaven. When you join with the devil by speaking his negative, unmerciful, judgmental and offensive words to others of My children, you speak them to Me, calling Me the same destructive descriptions. (Matthew 25:40)
Later Jesus called a crowd to Himself in order to again teach them something of grave importance relating to words spoken. (Matthew 15:10-11) He said that it's not what goes in the mouth that condemns a person, that it's not breaking their restrictive diets as outlined by their religious laws or not washing their hands before eating that condemns them. He told them what does defile them, and He was emphatic about it. He said that the words that they speak defile them.
His disciples got upset that the Pharisees were offended by the words of Jesus because their dietary laws were of utmost importance to them, as was washing of hands before eating. Jesus told His followers not to be concerned about the Pharisees because they were blind leaders leading the blind.
Immediately Jesus taught them in a more clear parable about the importance of the words they speak. He told them that the food they eat goes through their bodies and then into the latrines. (Matthew 15:17) But, He said, the things that you speak come from the heart and they defile you. He said that your words identify the state of your heart and soul, and that those words judge you by summoning into your life either My kingdom to work for you or the devil's kingdom to work against you. (Matthew 15:18) He said that evil thoughts of murder, adultery, fornication, thefts, lying and blaspheming all come out of the mouth and define the speaker who speaks them.
The insight of Jesus was clear and concise, telling the listeners that there are things that defile a person, but that eating with unwashed hands does not defile a person, even though their religious teaching cautioned against it. He reiterated time and time again the importance of the words that you speak, that if they are negative, demeaning, judgmental, divisive, angry words against someone, that you will be judged, condemned and defiled by those words.
That parable was an important one, as is all of them. But when you fully understand the power of your words, you will know that they either bring blessings or curses into your life. Develop a filter through which you judge your words before you speak them. That is why I told you to be slow to speak. If you are in a hurry to speak, you will not judge your thoughts before you speak them and you will end up speaking negative words which curse yourself and your family. But if you are slow to speak, you will have time to discern from where the thoughts come, from heaven or from hell. The positive ones are from Me and you will be blessed if you speak them because they will be loving words which edify others (Ephesians 4:29-32)
Your Father of Loving, Edifying Words
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