Monday, April 17, 2017

NEW BEGINNINGS - DIVINE COMFORT

Dear Precious Child,
   Before He went to the cross to die as payment for the sins of the whole world, your brother Jesus told His followers that He was not going to leave them without His comfort and encouragement.  He said that He was going to send My Holy Spirit to them to take His place, to be their ever constant comfort. (John 14:23-27) The followers had become dependent upon Him for instructions, guidance, comfort, insight, wisdom and the dispenser of My love to them and to all of humanity.  The thought of His leaving was heavy on the hearts of the followers.  Their religious laws and religious priests added burdens to their lives instead of relieving them of burdens the way Jesus did.  The followers of Jesus were grieved that His comforting presence in their lives would be lost forever.  He had graciously introduced to them the truth that I am a loving Father instead of a stern taskmaster which religion taught.
    You can imagine the thoughts in the minds of His followers like what if He is wrong, what if another comforter comes and we won't recognize Him, what if He comes to another city and I'm not there?  Doubt began to enter into the minds of the followers of Jesus and then His crucifixion added fear to them.  In the midst of the turmoil surrounding His crucifixion they had probably forgotten what Jesus had said would happen.  He said that after His sacrifice for their sins that I would send the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, who was with them at the time in the person of Jesus, but after He rose from the dead and ascended into heaven to be with Me that He would have no more need of the power of the Holy Spirit in His life.   He said that He would send to live in them the same Spirit who did miracles through Him while He was in the earth, the same Spirit whom He said would cause them to be born again of My Spirit and had created within them a new personality, the same Spirit who spoke My wisdom and knowledge from His mouth.  That promise must have seemed like a fairytale then, as it does in to some people today in your world.  His followers asked, "How can that be?"
    He described the coming of My Holy Spirit into their lives as being like the wind, that you don't know what it is, where it comes from, but you see the result of it blowing the leaves on the trees and other visual manifestations. (John 3:3-7) The followers considered it was too difficult to understand, but they loved Him, loved His graciousness, loved His miracles done in their behalf, loved His positive words instead of the negative words of the religious leaders and politicians. 
They were panicked at the thought of being without His comfort, but many loved Him enough to obey him and go to Jerusalem to wait for My promise. (John 16;12-15)
    The people who obeyed Jesus and went to wait for My promise experienced a miracle from Me.  You know the story, that as they waited, prayed and praised Me, they heard a rushing, mighty wind from heaven which appeared as flames of fire upon their heads and they all began to speak in a heavenly language, the same language that I spoke when I created the earth.  Some spoke earthly languages that they had never learned.  It was the greatest miracle from Me in the history of the world.  (Acts 2:1-4)  Their spiritual eyes were opened and they began to understand the truths in the parables that Jesus taught.  His followers were so joyful that they were giddy and as they left the room people who saw them in their gaiety assumed that they were drunk with alcohol.  The followers and the observers understood that it was the fulfillment of the promise through Isaiah which said that I would give them gladness instead of mourning, beauty for the ashes that religious practices required they place on their heads as signs of being sinners.  They were happy instead of sad, encouraged instead of discouraged, hopeful instead of depressed, and they had new joyful personalities.  They were comforted from the inside of them by the presence of My Holy Spirit dwelling inside of their spirits and providing new motivations, new thoughts, new attitudes and new actions.  They were new creations, created by My Holy Spirit.
     My Holy Spirit lives inside of My children who invite Him, ushering into their lives newness of life, just as Jesus promised when He said that He would send another Comforter.  They began to experience the revelations that My Spirit gave to their understanding, My wisdom and insight into the causes of their problems and the wonderful solutions to all of their problems.  My Holy Spirit certainly takes the place of Jesus in the lives of My children who invite Him to live inside of themselves.   My Fatherly guidance becomes real and My truths are no longer mysteries.  Solutions overcome problems and insights lead to understanding.  What a wonderful day when My children receive My promise to them of the indwelling Holy Spirit through whom I establish our Father/child, on-on-one, personal, intimate relationship which brings heaven to earth. (Matthew 6:10)
    I never want My children to be without comfort.  I want them to receive My greatest promise into their lives, My Holy Spirit the Comforter so that they will live the abundant life of Kingdom living while in the earth.
    Your Promise Keeping Father       
      

Sunday, April 16, 2017

NEW BEGINNINGS - EXCHANGE RATES

Dear One,
   My promises to My children involve no payment being made by themselves but great payment being made by Me.  I gave My Son Jesus to die for the sins of the whole world so that My children can have My very own power living inside of them which qualifies them for having heaven on earth.  Those exchange rates may seem unfair for Me, but the crucifixion and death of Jesus was a willing payment as an outgrowth of My love for humanity and the world that I created.  The  resurrection of Jesus and then His sending My powerful Holy Spirit into the earth to be received by those children of Mine who invite Him into their lives completed the exchange,  Defeat for the works of the devil in the lives of people was the final insult to evil.  It was a spiritually legal plan on My part because Jesus was a substitute for the sins of everyone who ever lived by his being crucified, which was the required earthly nationalistic payment at the time.  I paid the great price by sending My Son Jesus to die for the sins of the world.  Jesus paid the great price by suffering in His flesh on the cross.
   The fact that it cost human beings nothing is where it seems like an unfair exchange rate.  Instead of death, My children get life.  Instead of mourning, they get gladness.  Instead of diseases and sickness, they get healing.  Instead of bondage to addictions, they get liberty.  Instead of defeat, they get victory.  Instead of strife and confusion, they get peace.  Instead of retribution, the payment for their mistakes, sins, transgressions and iniquities are paid in full.  Instead of revenge, they get My avenging actions in their behalf.  Instead of  destruction, they get construction.  Instead of negative thoughts from hell, they get positive thoughts from heaven.  Instead of helplessness, they get My authoritative and explosive power.  Instead of  hopelessness, they get faith that moves mountains.  Instead of death, they get eternal life with Me as an exchange.  To Me it's a fair exchange!
   My children do not realize that when I said it is all "paid in full" that I meant that the requirement for breaking spiritual and civil laws in My eyes is completely paid in full for all of humanity.  There are no more requirements for jail costs, court costs, investigative cost, or imprisonment costs.  The price has been paid by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  The only sins that are retained are done so on earth in the minds of My children who, themselves, have already been forgiven.  (John 20:21-23)  If any of My children retain the sins of others, refusing to forgive them as they have been forgiven, then those sins have been retained on earth in the mind of one of My children, but never in My mind.  The sins have been blotted out in My mind, as if they never existed.  When an unmerciful child of Mine becomes the judge and jury in a situation, then he or she will pay the price of being the devil's judge by reaping the judgment plants from the seeds they have sown. (Matthew 7:1-2) That is not My instruction to My children.  It is at the devil's command because his character is judgment and he requires judgment.  The person who becomes a judge of others is identifying himself or herself as a child of the devil instead of My child.  Instead of inheriting beauty for ashes, that person gives up My beauty being evident in his or her life and instead inherits the ashes of the devil's hell.
    The key to staying in unity with Me and My family is by always forgiving instead of getting angry, holding grudges, seeking vengeance and judging a person. The minute you choose to forgive someone, My standard of mercy is raised in your mind and you become eligible again for beauty instead of ashes, for gladness instead of mourning, eligible for all of the blessings of My family because you have made a valuable choice by choosing My will.  When you choose My will, you choose to forgive, to be merciful, to return good for evil done to you, to be kind instead of vindictive, to be loving instead of hateful.
    My children who choose to do My will in the earth will facilitate My kingdom coming on earth as it is in heaven.  You will give up selfish, haughty, judgmental attitudes from hell and put on My virtues of love and peace from My heaven.  When you do, you are enveloped with My blessings and kingdom living.
    Your Father of Love and Blessings
         

Saturday, April 15, 2017

NEW BEGINNINGS- GENERATIONAL CURSES

NEW BEGINNINGS - GENERATIONAL CURSES
Dear Precious Child,
   You might call it DNA or family traits, but because of Adam's allowance of the devil to take control of the earth there are curses passed down from generation to generation which cause plagues of destructive behavior which affect the thoughts, attitudes, manners of speaking and actions of at least one child in every family and often more than one child.  For instance, if one parent has a violent temper, then at least one and maybe more of the children will also have a violent temper, not only because of observing the parent having anger fits, but also because it is a curse passed down from one of the parents and it took up residence in the flesh of those children while in the womb.  If it is the father who has the demon of anger, people will say that his child with anger is just like his father.  In the same family there might be other children who have inherited kindness and goodness from the other parent and being exposed to the kind and good parent has multiplied the blessings in the lives of those children.  If that kind parent is their mother, then people will say that those children are just like their mother.  The kindness and goodness was passed down while in the womb.  Unfortunately, children have no choice on which they will inherit, whether curses or blessings. 
    Fortunately, Jesus came to earth to help those people who have inherited curses of anger, lust, infidelity, pride, killing, prejudice, domination, lasciviousness. hatred, discord, strife and other curses which control certain people.  When a person with one or more of those demons becomes born of My Spirit, My help is present inside of the person in the new spiritual creation that was born when My Spirit invaded the spirit of the person and created a new person with none of the old damaging traits.  That new person has the desire to display a new personality, one with new thoughts, new attitudes, new manners of speaking and new actions.
    However, there is still a constant battle between the curses in the flesh and the new pure creature in the spirit.  The blessing is that My Holy Spirit, who is present in the new creature, will anoint the person to use his or her supernatural power to drive out the old programmed evil spirits that cursed the life of the person.  My Holy Spirit will influence the person from the inside to allow Me to reprogram the flesh of the person until he or she displays the characteristics of My personality, made possible by the power of My Spirit.  The only thing required of the person is his or her willingness to change from old programming by the devil into new programming by My Holy Spirit.  It involves going from death to life, from being destructive to being constructive, from formerly having negative thoughts to having positive thoughts, from having attitudes that demean people to having attitudes that glorify them, from speaking words that curse others to speaking words that bless people, from hating your enemies to loving and forgiving your enemies. 
   My promise to My children is that old things will pass away and you will behold all things becoming new.  It's a miracle.  Since the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ untold billion of people have become new creatures through being born of My Spirit and being baptized in My Holy Spirit. (John 3:16-17)  My Spirit gives you dynamite power and authoritative power over all the evil in the world and gives you the authority to cast out demons and do every manner of miracles in My name. (Acts 1: 4-8) You have the ability with My Holy Spirit to allow Me to bring My kingdom into the earth as it is in heaven, surrounding you with unimaginable blessings in every area of your life.  Cooperating with My Holy Spirit is paramount to having My blessings flood into your life.  When you become a new creature and My character is evident in your life, My blessings seek you out and become yours.  First, you must seek Me, My kingdom and My righteousness and then all good things will be your inheritance from Me while you live in the earth.. (Matthew 7:33)  
    In the nation of Israel the family curses stay in each family throughout the third and fourth generations if the fathers worship other gods, not at My wish but at the devil's design.  When you are born of My Spirit and are led by My Spirit, My thousands of blessings are evident in your life and in your family for generations. (Exodus 20:4; Romans 8:26-28)
    It's a matter of inheritance.  If you are My child, then you inherit the good things that it is My pleasure to give to you.  If you are led by the evil spirits that are curses in the lives of people, then you will inherit the devil's hell on earth.  Choose every day whom you will serve, the Father of blessings or the father of curses.  You can have heaven on earth or you can have hell on earth.  It's your choice.
   I love you regardless.  It's your loving me that qualifies you for My blessings.
   Your Father of Many Blessings  

Friday, April 14, 2017

NEW BEGINNINGS - RELENTLESS ENEMY

Dear Precious One,
    Your enemy, the devil, never stops setting traps for you.  His strategies are efficient and productive if you don't have My power living inside of you.  If you do have My Holy Spirit living inside of you, then you have My power which is much more effective, more successful and more excellent than any strategies of the devil. 
   The devil has to use deception in order to engage you into cooperating with him in doing his will in the earth, those being by your obeying the temptations in your thoughts of anger, hatred, judging, lust, robbing, stealing, lying, seeking revenge, killing and other vengeful attitudes which lead you to do destructive actions. (I Peter 5:8)  I said that the devil roams the earth as a roaring lion seeking those children of Mine whom he can devour with his temptations.  That is why you must learn to recognize his roars in your thoughts.  They are not your own thoughts.   
     My own promptings in your thoughts are opposite from the evil ones.  They are thoughts of mercy, forgiveness, love, patience, kindness, goodness, being joyful, peaceful and forbearing toward everyone.  My Spirit seeks to encourage you to always be understanding with people who oppose you, injure you or insult you and your family.  My understanding words in your mind will tell you that the offending person is being fueled by the devil's rage toward you and that I have already forgiven the person. (John 3:16-17)  I will tell you that the person coming against you is only an innocent participant because the devil uses the self protective aspect of a person's flesh to strike at other people with words, attitudes or actions. 
   If you will stop for a minute and reflect upon the words of My Holy Spirit, you will hear from Him the insight that I am your protector and that I am your avenger and that you should never attempt to avenge yourself.  (Romans 12:19)  My Spirit will tell you to never be overcome with evil but to constantly overcome evil with good.  (Romans 12;14-21) In other words, My antidote for the devil's poison aimed at you is for you to always bless the person who confronts you, to live in harmony with everyone and to never repay evil for evil.  I said that you must only allow noble thoughts to enter your mind instead of haughty thoughts which exalt you over someone else.  I love everyone equally.  There is no room for favor in My heart and there should be no room for favor in your thoughts.  I know that people who oppress, oppose, hurt, judge, condemn and injure others are pawns of the devil and I know who does the evil in that situation and it's not flesh and blood. 
   I am eager for My children to pray at all times in the Holy Spirit so that I might have your invitation to take vengeance on the real culprit, who is the devil.  I can fight the spiritual battles for you which are the real battles. (Ephesians 6:10-12) Pray when things are peaceful and pray when things are stressful.  If you pray in the Holy Spirit even when things are peaceful, then I can thwart the devil's plans to afflict you through someone.  I can stop the plans before they take effect.   
   I told you in battles with the devil that you should always be walking in peace with everyone, and you must have your mind flooded with My saving grace for everyone.  Having been clothed with My armor, you must use My words by praying in the Holy Spirit at all times.with prayers and supplications. (Ephesians 6:15-18)  In doing that you fight the real enemy, the devil, and there is always a victory for you because you have allowed Me to avenge you by defeating the demons behind every problem. 
   If you persist in handling any fight, skirmish or disagreement by battling another person verbally, physically or in your thoughts, then you are participating in multiplying evil in your life and in the life of the other person.  You have fallen for the devil's trick of returning evil for evil and you have participated with the devil's will of multiplying evil in the world.  You are doing the same thing that Adam did when he opened the door to the evil of the devil to invade the earth.
   Jesus instructed you, warned you, taught you and coached you about this very thing many, many times, that the devil never gives up, and that you should not participate with him in spreading evil in the world.  My Holy Spirit wrote through many prophets in your Instruction Book many, many times that you must walk in peace with everyone by never returning evil for evil done to you.  Still, My children love to battle people, battle countries, battle unbelievers, battle other people who are different in racial backgrounds, political beliefs and religious beliefs.  They love to do it at the temptation of the devil and they don't recognize their enemy, that their real enemy is using thoughts in their minds of judgment and anger in order to get them to react with an evil attitude or action against someone who does evil to them.
    Flesh and blood has never been your enemy or My enemy.  The devil has always been our enemy and when My children are convinced of that truth they will be effective against their real enemy, the devil.  The battle is spiritual and must be fought with spiritual weapons by praying in My words of the Holy Spirit.  That is only half of it.  The other additional way is to bless the people who come against you at the behest of the devil, doing good to them, blessing them, feeding them, giving them drink, praying for them because they need your prayers instead of your condemnation.
    You and I win every battle against the devil when we limit the battle to him and refuse to engage people in the battle, especially people who succumb to the temptations of the devil to come against you.  My ways are always spiritual.  That is why I gave My Holy Spirit to live in My children, to allow Him to be Lord of their lives and to be Lord over the works of the devil and his demons, defeating them every time.  (II Corinthians 3:17-18)  The victory is yours when you obey My words.
    Your Victorious Father  
    
              

Thursday, April 13, 2017

NEW BEGINNINGS - DON'T WORRY

Dear One,
   When I told you not to worry, that old things pass away, I also said, "Behold,I make all things new." All of the old curses, mistakes, sins, iniquities and judgments that you commit today will all be gone tomorrow.  If you are being led by My Spirit, the consequences of those infractions of religious laws will also pass away because you have been forgiven by Me and you have made restitution with everyone that you opposed or injured, whether emotionally or physically, because your attitudes and your actions have changed to reflect Mine.  When I said "Behold," it meant that you will behold or see all things become new, redeemed, transformed and created anew because of your new thoughts, attitudes, manner of speaking and your new actions that are caused by My Holy Spirit's guidance of you in His efforts to make you into My image in the earth so that I will be glorified. (II Corinthians 5:17; Matthew 5:16)
    Jesus spoke this principle about your not worrying when He told about the lilies of the field and the birds of the air, how they neither toil nor spin out of control with worry.  He said that I supply all of their needs and they instinctively know it.  Jesus said instead of worrying about your needs being met, that you should seek My kingdom and My righteousness and that everything that you need will be added to your life. (Matthew 6:26-33)  He was saying that worrying never produced anything good but instead produces bad results. 
    In fact, Jesus became more explicit when He said that on any given day that you must never worry about tomorrow because satan has enough plans for your tomorrow already in the works.(Matthew 6:34)  That might seem depressing and certainly not good news to you, but it is truth.  Jesus had just prepared you to receive that truth by telling you to seek My kingdom and My righteousness and everything good that you need will become reality in your life, so nothing should be depressing.
    Seeking My kingdom and My righteousness involves allowing My Spirit to change you into your having My loving characteristics in relation to others, those of kindness, peace, goodness, mercy, love, joy, faith and forbearance.  Seeking to have those attributes of Mine evident in your life will be evidence that I have, certainly, made all things new in your life.  I produce new thoughts, new attitudes, new manners of speaking and new actions which edify and build up the hearers.  I teach you how to edify other people into feeling relieved of their burdens instead of your heaping more burdens upon them.  In making all things new, I teach you how to love the unlovable people, those who oppose you and make your life miserable.  I teach you that you have the authoritative power to forgive sins because I forgive your sins. (John 20:21-23) 
   Instead of becoming depressed that tomorrow will have evil events as produced by the devil, become My child of faith by knowing that I will supply whatever needs that are necessary for you to stand in that evil day against the devil's works aimed at destroying you.  Don't anticipate the evil events, but be prepared by keeping yourself built up in faith by praying in the Holy Spirit. (Jude 20)  When you are energized by praying in My Holy Spirit, you have My Holy Spirit's wisdom and knowledge available to you and you have already defeated the devil spiritually by allowing My Spirit to fight the battle with the devil's demons who are prepared to carry out his will in your life.  In praying in My Holy Spirit and being taught by Him, then My will is done in your life instead of the devil's will being done.  The evil works will fall by the wayside.
   My ways have always defeated evil ways. They still do.  So don't become depressed and defeated when you read that tomorrow's evil that has been planned for you by the devil is real.  With the power of My Holy Spirit in you, you have the necessary means to allow Me to change the curses into blessings by your praying in the Holy Spirit, walking in My Spirit and being led by My Spirit.  That is My promise to you, that I will make all things new, even the evil plans that are instigated in hell to defeat you.  I set the standard for your life.  Not the devil.
    You must allow Me to make ALL things new in your life.  I need your cooperation in order to complete the task, just like all parents need the cooperation of their children in order to bless them.  Cooperating with Me is being in unity with My Holy Spirit who lives inside of you.  Hear His wisdom and heed His guidance.  He is your powerhouse.
     Your Father of All New Creations

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

NEW BEGINNINGS - ALL INCLUSIVE PROMISES

Dear Precious Child,
    I would be a cruel father if My promises to you were only for when you die and come to live with Me.  If My promises to you only involved the abundant life when your earthly body dies and you come into My glorious heaven, then I would be a cruel parent to make you wait for your bountiful inheritance.  My instructions to you through the prophets of old and through Jesus Christ and through His disciples were to guarantee your having kingdom living while you still live on the earth. 
   There is no evil in My heaven, so why would I strongly instruct you not to return evil for evil unless it brings good results in your life now?  Why would I tell you not to strike someone who has stricken you if that instruction was for the afterlife?  No one is striking anyone in My heaven or it wouldn't be heaven.  All of My instructions have always been to enhance your life while you live in the earth.
   I am your Good Father who desires that My goodness will be evident in your earthly life so that you will receive your inheritance of the abundant life while you still live in the earth.  Living in heaven with Me eventually is a perk to having a one-on-one relationship with Me while you live in the earth.  Kingdom living while on the earth begins your heavenly existence when you inherit what are the wonderful things that it is My good pleasure to give while you still live in the earth. 
    The way to inherit My kingdom while you live in the earth is for you to be born again of My Holy Spirit, baptized in My Spirit, led by My Spirit and to become transformed into My image as tutored by My Spirit.  In allowing My Holy Spirit to create in you a reflection of My virtuous character, you are recognized by My angelic hosts as My child and they begin their ministry of supplying to you the benefits of being My child and an inheritor of My kingdom.   Your inheritance from Me is not only reserved for you until your own body dies.  It was issued to you when the body of Your Brother Jesus died for you on the cross.  No person receives an inheritance when his own body dies.  The inheritance comes to that person when a relative dies and the will is administered.  It's the same in My family.  Jesus Christ died for the sins of the whole world and then His inheritance for My children was dispersed into the world by My Holy Spirit to those of My children who believe and who are My images in the earth.  There has to be an ID of a person's spiritual family heritage in order to receive My inheritance just like in an earthly reading of a will where inheritances are dispersed.  That is done in order that someone will not sneak in and rob others of their inheritance. 
   My children who allow Me to transform them into My image by their becoming intimately acquainted with Me are immediately ID'd as My children and true inheritors of My spiritual fortune.  The inheritance has been held in trust for My children and at the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ the dispensing of My will began to be implemented as My obedient children gathered and waited for My promise of the Holy Spirit to be delivered to them.  Those people who waited and believed Me were recipients of the first fruits of My inheritance which was the indwelling of My Holy Spirit in their bodies.   Supernatural abilities were witnessed by others as those obedient children of Mine were blessed with spiritual power that was more magnificent than anyone could imagine. (Acts 1:4-8; Acts 2:1-4)
    My Spirit begins His job of creating new personalities within My children who are conformed to My image as was Adam in the beginning before his disobedience in allowing the devil to enter the earth.  The influences of the devil begin to be identified and cast away by My enlightened children who want no more to do with the devil's thoughts, evil attitudes, evil manners of speaking and evil actions.  My children who seek Me and listen to My Spirit take on My character and begin to do My will in the earth as it is in heaven. (Matthew 6:10)  They begin to experience My kingdom blessings of having peace for their minds, peace within their families, peace in their relationships, peace in their work, and health in their bodily functions because there is no strife in their lives.  Peace reigns in their lives because they do My will in their thoughts, attitudes, speaking and actions which rejects any evil temptations of the devil to be in conflict and strife with anyone. (Matthew 5:9)
   Jesus said that when He cast demons out of a person that My kingdom came upon that person.  (Luke 11:20)  It's still the same.  When My children allow My Holy Spirit to cast out the evil demons previously sown in their lives by the devil, then My kingdom comes upon them and My blessings flood into their lives.    
   Cooperating with Me through My Holy Spirit has great rewards.
   You Loving, Generous Father 

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

NEW BEGINNINGS - THE HARD ROAD

Dear One,
   I said that the gate leading to destruction is easy and many people enter it, but the gate that leads to the abundant life while in the earth is narrow and the way is hard and few enter it. (Matthew 7:13-14)   Know this and know it well:  I am not the one who makes it hard to enter into My abundant life.  It is the devil who is the deceiver, the tempter and the robber.
   My children have been deceived into thinking that I am the one who brings destruction and death upon them.  As long as you believe that, you have passed through the gate and are on the road to destruction.  Your teachers and your ministers teach it and many believe that I use evil to punish you.  They teach that I am omnipotent and that nothing happens in the earth without My permission, good and bad.  That is the lie that comes from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the devil. That devil knows many of My truths and he always blends some good in with his evil temptations in your thoughts so as to deceive you, just like he did with Jesus when he tempted him and just like he did with Adam when he tempted him.  Adam believed the devil but Jesus was not deceived. 
    The truth is that I gave the earth to My children and they are the authority in it, not Me unless they allow Me to be their Benevolent Father.  I told Adam at the beginning that people would have dominion over the earth.  (Genesis 1:26)
   If you do not make Me the Lord of you and your life through our Father/children intimate relationship, then you often yield to the devil and make him the lord of the earth through your believing his lies which he dispenses second by second into the minds of My children.  The only way that I can be sovereign, omnipotent and omnipresent in the earth is if My children allow My will to become their will.  Otherwise, the devil's will is done in your life because you allow him to deceive you into doing his will  in the earth. 
   I cautioned My children about the wide gate to destruction as instigated by the devil and I encouraged them about the narrow gate to the abundant life as instigated by My Holy Spirit.  That insight was taught to you by My Son when I taught about forgiving others, refusing to return evil for evil, refusing to judge others, about refusing to obey two masters in both the devil and Me, about seeking My kingdom and My righteousness instead of worrying and fretting, about refusing to yield to the devil's temptation to become angry and hateful, about not yielding to the devil's lust, and about refusing to be condemned by old religious laws which never accomplish a thing because there was no spiritual power in the people. (Matthew 5)  With My power of the Holy Spirit inside of you, My children have the authority to refuse the temptations of the devil and you have My power to do My works instead of evil works.  My children are identified by the faith and the loving works that they perform when doing My will and defeating the works of the devil.  As My light shines from them, My blessings will flow into their lives. 
    It is not an easy accomplishment according to human views, but I make it easy for you by giving you supernatural power over the devil's works. (Acts 1:4-8; Acts 2;1-4) Remember that the hard way that leads to the abundant life is made difficult by the devil, not by Me.  So when you have My magnificent power living inside of you, it is easy to defeat evil because My Spirit does all of the work.  He is the one who discerns evil, casts out demons and sends the demons to hell through you.  
   What is hard for you is learning to recognize and identify the voices in your thoughts, whether they are from Me or from the devil.  My Spirit makes that easy, too, because He gives to you the spirit of discernment to recognize evil thoughts and cast them into hell.  He gives you the same discernment to recognize My righteous thoughts and He gives you the power to obey them.  (John 16:7-11) 
   The only suffering to which you are called is in learning to recognize evil thoughts because they are so deceptive.  Often you suffer anguish, just as Jesus did, because the devil's thoughts in your mind are so couched in truth that you are deceived into thinking they are My thoughts or even your own thoughts.  Anything that judges, hurts, injures, condemns or insults another person or yourself is not from Me. Any thought that exalts you above another person is not from Me.   Those thoughts are from hell, set on fire in hell, and they are meant for you to speak them out of your mouth into your earth and authorize a flood of the devil's curses into your life. (James 3:5-6) 
   When you learn to recognize the voice of the devil in your thoughts, you will suffer no more because you have been enlightened to only think pure, gracious, enlightened, truthful, loving and honorable thoughts that are worthy of praise.  (Philippians 4: 8-9)  I said for you not to have any anxiety about anything, but by praise and thanksgiving you should let your requests be made known to me.   When your pure will and My pure will are done by you, then you can ask what you will and it will be done for you.  There is agreement between My heaven and your earth and your inheritance from Me is established.
    Don't be depressed and defeated because I said that the way that leads to the abundant life is hard.  Only when you are yielding to the devil's will that is interjected into your thoughts is the way hard.  When your will and My will are in agreement, the way that leads to the abundant life in the earth is easy and filled with adventure and joy.
    That's what good fathers do, they enhance the lives of their children.  I am your Good Father and I do more for you than you dare think or imagine according to the Holy Spirit who lives inside of you.  (Ephesians 3:20) That is why being led by My Holy Spirit is paramount to receiving the abundant life.
    I never close any gate or close any door to you and I never make the way hard that leads to My abundant life.  I do all the work of opening the gate and the door.  I give you the power of My Spirit, I teach you, I guide you, I battle for you and I defeat the devil for you as led by My Spirit.  Your job is to choose Me and My words instead of the evil words that come into your thoughts.  Hear and then heed My loving words to you and you will live the abundant life while in the earth, as I promised. (Acts. l4-5)
   Your Father of Love, Blessings and the Abundant Life