BLESSINGS FROM LIVING IN THE LIGHT

My Dear Precious Child,
    In Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians he had acknowledged that Jesus' promise to come back to My children would come soon.  However, Paul had no revelation at the time that when My Holy Spirit came to live inside of them that He, Jesus Christ, had already come back to them individually, and his appearing as a Messiah for the Jews had also happened when some Jews had also become born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit.  My promise to them had also been fulfilled at the same time as when the Gentiles became My children.   The problem was that none of them realized that My Holy Spirit, Jesus and I are One, One Being, and where My Holy Spirit lives I also live and Jesus Christ lives.  Just like you are a spirit, and that your spirit, who is the real you, lives in your body and that you have a soul, just like I do, which is your mind, that there is no separation between your body, soul and spirit, and so there is also no separation between Me, Jesus Christ and My Holy Spirit. 
    So the Jews and the Christians alike missed out on the revelation at the time that when My Son Jesus Christ breathed upon His disciples and told them to receive the Holy Spirit that they were becoming My children with My authority to forgive the sins of everyone.  (John 20:19-23)  Then when they were baptized in the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, the barriers between heaven and earth were split apart and My kingdom of God came into their lives as an answer to their prayers that Jesus taught them to pray, that My kingdom would come on earth as it is in heaven.  (Matthew 6:10)  That day was the beginning of My new covenant with all of humanity because there were people in that upper room from every country in the world.  The Jewish people who became filled with the Holy Spirit began to pray in languages they had never been taught in order for the newly converted Christians to speak the mysteries of Jesus Christ having died for the sins of the world, gone to hell for those sins, and then ascended from hell back into the earth to fulfill his promise to His disciples that He would soon come back to them.  He came back then and He came back on the day of Pentecost in the person of the Holy Spirit. 
    Paul wrote in his letter to the Thessalonians that they were children of light, not darkness, and they must be alert to recognize the devil's temptations of sexual sins, temptations to defraud others, temptations to assert power over other people and the temptations for political ascendancy in government.  He wrote that they must not be like unbelievers, getting drunk at night and sleeping long hours at night.  He said that they must be sober to work laboriously, to not be like the loafers, the disorderly and unruly, but instead to give their help to the weak and to always be patient with everybody by controlling their temper.  He reminded them not to return evil for evil done to them but instead to aim to show kindness, doing what is good to one another in the church and to everybody. 
    He also wrote to them to be unceasing in prayer, thanking Me in everything because that is My will for you in order for you to obtain My blessings.  Also Paul encouraged the people in the Thessalonian church NOT TO QUENCH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND NOT TO SPURN THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.  However, he also wrote to them to test and prove everything until they recognize that is good and pure in My will.  He added that the people must ABSTAIN FROM EVIL in whatever form they see it and discern it.  He said that if they keep all that Paul advised them to do, that My peace would sanctify them through and through and that they would be blameless at the appearing of Jesus Christ when he appears to take them to heaven when their days on earth are over. (I Thessalonians 5:5-23)
    Paul was concerned about the steadfastness of the church members so he used two letters to encourage and instruct them.  His words are worth heeding.
    Your Father of Wise Instructions 

BLESSINGS IN GUIDANCE

My Dear Precious Child,
    In Paul's first letter to the people in the church at Thessalonica, it being his first letter of encouragement and guidance to any church, he encouraged them in love, to make sure that they loved everyone in the church and also people outside of the church.  In that letter he was concerned about the people using their bodies impurely but instead he wanted them to be consecrated to Me with honor.  Also he warned them about the demonic spirit of lust, admonishing them not to use their bodies to fulfill lust in any area, spiritually, bodily or mentally.  He told them that the heathen used their bodies in many ways, their being ignorant of Me and having no knowledge of My will.   He warned them against sexual vice, shrinking from it completely.  (II Thessalonians 4:3-10)  He also warned against defrauding anyone in lust for money or goods that belong to someone.  The demon of lust has many faces and when someone yields to its temptation in one area they open themselves up for yielding to lust in other ways also.  Paul repeated that I have not called My children to impurity and instead to dedicate yourselves to Me spirit, soul and body. 
    Paul encouraged the people again in the church to display My love to everyone.   He wrote that they were already known as excelling in loving other people and he encouraged them to excel in love even more and more.  In his exhortation on daily living, Paul advised the people in the church to live quietly and peacefully with everyone, to mind their own affairs, to work with their hands as he already had charged them to do. 
   Then he wrote advising them about people in the church who had died, telling the members not to grieve like the rest of the people grieve who have no hope beyond the grave.  He reasoned with them that since Jesus Christ rose from the dead, that they and their fellow believers would also rise to meet Him in the sir, since Jesus, Himself, would descend from heaven with a loud cry and the blast of My trumpet, knowing that the people who are already asleep in death will rise first.   He assured them that the people who are alive in the earth whose bodies die will eventually also be caught up to meet Me in the clouds so that you will live with Me eternally.  (II Thessalonians 4:11-18)  There were people in the church who had belonged to the sect of the Sadducees who did not believe in the resurrection.  They needed to be again reassured about the afterlife that is guaranteed to My children who will live eternally with Me in heaven.  Paul reiterated to the believers the truth of the hope to which they are called, which is to live with Me for eternity.  I am Love and to live with Me is to live surrounded and infused with My Love.  Paul could only remind the people of the blessing.  Each person experiences knowing Love personally as revealed by the Holy Spirit, but they needed to be reassured of their posterity in order to have peace.  
    Your Father of Loving Reassurance

BLESSINGS IN UNVEILED REVELATIONS

My Dear Precious Child,
     When studying the teachings of Paul which were written to the churches at different places, you must realize that his earlier and first writings to the Thessalonians were written more closely to his conversion on the road to Damascus and after his going to the dessert to learn personally from the Holy Spirit.  He was still considered a new Christian and had not shed all of his Jewish traditions and customs left over from his Pharisaical days.  It takes a while to deprogram and then to reprogram My children with revealed Truth.  Paul's first letters which were written to the church members at Thessalonica were consumed with the idea of Jesus Christ soon coming back to earth to set up a kingdom in the earth, as was his religious Jewish training.  That letter was dated in the year 51 AD.  
     Much later, when Paul wrote his letter to the Hebrews in 67 AD, which is believed that he did, his divine revelations into My image of Christ living inside of him and other believers as being already members of My Kingdom of God in the earth by virtue of their being born of the Holy Spirit and baptized in the Holy Spirit had unfolded into being a complete revelation that he and his fellow believers in Christ had actually already experienced the coming of the Messiah in their lives on earth and that it was a spiritual kingdom, and not an earthly kingdom which had been the assumption of the Jews for years.  Paul wrote that they were surrounded by a great cloud of spiritual witnesses and so they must cast off every sin that clung to them.  (Hebrews 12:1) 
     In that same writing Paul went on to identify the witnesses who surrounded them in the spiritual atmosphere.  He wrote that those witnesses were My angels, the spirits of the men who were raised from the dead along with Jesus when He was catapulted back to the earth after He went to hell for the sins of the world.  Also Paul wrote that I, your Heavenly Father, am in that cloud of witnesses, also the spirits of the people who had been made perfect after the ascension of Jesus, and also Jesus, the mediator of My New Covenant, is present in that cloud of witnesses, plus the sprinkled blood of Jesus.  (Hebrews 12:22-25)
    Paul called that cloud of witnesses which surround you and other believers as Mount Zion, the heavenly Jerusalem not made with human hands, and he wrote that they had approached into and lived in that City of the Living God by virtue of the Holy Spirit living inside of them, accompanied by being surrounding by them since the veil between heaven and earth had been removed in their lives.  He warned the Hebrew Christians not to refuse to obey the voice of the Holy Spirit who speaks to them personally from the inside of them.  He wrote that the prophets warned about the Jews refusing to obey My voice but the prophets were ignored.  In Paul's letter to the Hebrew Christians, he warned that I want everything evil in your life that can be shaken loose to be removed, those being the works of the devil, done so by My consuming fire. (Matthew 13:36-43)   He wrote that what was of the devil could be shaken and loosed from their bodies by the power of My Holy Spirit.
    His admonition to obey My voice of the Holy Spirit in their thoughts was accompanied by the warning that the Jews of the past had heard My guidance through prophets but they refused to obey the warnings.  He wrote that the believers under the New Covenant must not turn their backs on Him who cautions and warns them from heaven. (Hebrews 12:25-29)  In other words, Paul is telling the Hebrews who were to receive his letter that Jesus had come back to earth in the person of the Holy Spirit to live inside of My children and He had created My New Jerusalem in their lives.  (Jeremiah 31:31-37; Isaiah 59:16-21) 
    Revelations are unfolding, not revealed in their entirety at once because the human mind could not handle it all at once.  Paul was just like you, reveling in his prior religious teachings until My Holy Spirit revealed My Truth to him, the Truth that My Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ and I are One, living inside of My children of promise.  It was not necessary for them to wait any longer for Jesus to come back to earth and set up My Kingdom of God.  He did it when He came to live inside of their bodies, and also your body, with My desire to lead all of you into all truth until you allow My mind to become infused into your mind and become the mind of Christ.  When that happens you will overcome the world, just like I did in Jesus Christ.  (John 16:33)  You will have heaven on earth, just like Jesus taught His disciples to pray, that My Kingdom would come on earth just like it is in heaven.  (Matthew 6:10) 
    When that happens, that you obey the voice of the Holy Spirit, it is time for real rejoicing!
    Your Rejoicing Father

BLESSINGS IN TRUTH PROPHESIES

My Dear Precious Ones,
   After Paul assured the followers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Thessalonian church to have confidence in the teaching of Jesus that the holy people, Jews and Gentiles alike, who had been resurrected from the dead at the same time as Jesus Christ was resurrected, that the current believers' spirits alike would meet Jesus in the air when their bodies die (Matthew 27:5-55)  That is the hope to which we are called, not like the Sadducees who previously neither believed in heaven nor the resurrection.  There were many Sadducees who had been converted to Christianity and had adopted the truth about their spirits, their real self, going to heaven.  
    Paul warned the Thessalonians not to be too complicit in their lives on earth.  He warned them that incidents of death come quickly, just like when one feels safe and at peace that something could happen to them and their earthly bodies from which there is no escape.  He admonished the believers that death can overcome them quickly when they become taken out of their bodies and unite with Jesus Christ in the air to be transported to heaven.  Paul encouraged them, and you, that you are children of light and day currently in the world and also citizens in heaven at the same time.   He said that people are not completely residents of either heaven or earth as long as they are in human bodies because their bodies are in communication with the devil's sons of the earth who tempt them.   Paul was of the belief at that time, as a young Christian, that Jesus was coming into the earth to institute a mass exit from earth and take the Jews to heaven.  However, in his teachings he had truth but the truth was that when the bodies of people die that their real self, the spirit of the person, unites with Jesus Christ in the air and He takes them to their Promised Land, which is My Kingdom of God where there is no death, only life ever lasting. 
     In His warning in II Thessalonians that that day was soon coming, either in body or spirit, he was concerned that the people would be easily deceived into believing that a falling away from Me would come first when people with an anti-Christ motivation would be in control of the earth.  That event actually began with Adam and Eve, not after the ministry of Jesus Christ; but the religious training of the Pharisees, of which Paul had formerly belonged, were taught that it would happen again with a great falling away and that it would all be part of My salvation of the earth.  My salvation of the earth began with the ministry of John the Baptist and culminated with the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead which was followed by His ascension into My heaven and His sending My source of power, the Holy Spirit, to live inside of people who become born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit.  They became Christ-people, just like Jesus Christ. 
    Paul warned the people about events that had already happened.  Later in his writings to the churches Paul was less convinced and less dogmatic about the immediate coming to earth of Jesus Christ.  It has now been 2200 years since then and Jesus has not come to take over the earth for Israel, which was the hope of the Jewish people.   My old covenant with Moses was declared null and void when My new covenant of the Holy Spirit with all of humanity began on the day of Pentecost in the upper room and in many lives since that monumental event.  (Jeremiah 33:31-43; Acts 2:1-13; Joel 3; 1-5; Acts 2:17-25)  He encouraged the church in Thessalonica that, as Gentiles, they had been chosen by Me to be part of the bodies of the first fruits of the works of the Holy Spirit in the earth which would work for the salvation of the earth. (II Thessalonians 2:13-14) However, the devil did his works in the lives of the people in the first churches.  The devil had deceived some of them to unite with the Jewish Law again which Jesus, and also Paul, referred to as the Law of Sin and Death. 
    Paul encouraged them in his second letter to the Thessalonians to stand firm in their new traditions taught by Jesus Christ and the apostles. (II Thessalonians 2:15) Some people had already been deceived and left the Church of Jesus Christ and they had united with the Parisees' old covenant law which had deceived them in the past relating to men yielding to the tradition of circumcision.  Later in Paul's writings, he was less stringent on teaching about the soon coming back to earth of Jesus Christ.  In fact, in his letters to the other churches he  advised maidens not to get married because Jesus was coming back to earth soon.  Later Paul wrote to the women in his letter to the Ephesians about how to relate to their husbands, which he interpreted as them being submissive to their husbands with their husbands ruling over them.  With even greater revelation from My Spirit, Paul wrote even later to the Galatian church that men and women must be submissive to each other because in Christ there are no males or females, no Gentiles or Jews, but that all people are equal in My sight. 
    Revelations bring truth.  Truth does not come easily or immediately to anybody.  Jesus Christ, Himself, studied the prophesies in the Law relating to His ministry until he was 30 years old. That is when I could trust Him with My knowledge about the events relating to the salvation of the world through Him.(I Thessalonians 2:13-17)
    With the disciples of Jesus, including Paul, they were all programmed efficiently with Jewish Law to which they referred as the law of sin and death.  It took deprogramming them of errors before I could reprogram them with Truth.  You must also take the warning of Paul to heart to watch for false teachers and false prophets.  My Holy Spirit is the umpire who declares to  you what is truth and what is error.  He is the only trusted Discerner of Truth.
     Your Father of Constant and Progressive Unveiling          

BLESSINGS FROM DIVINE REVELATIONS

My Dear Precious Child,
    In Paul's first letter to the believers in Thessalonica he poured on the admiration, the encouragement and the admonitions in order to help the people stay on the right path that Jesus Christ taught in all of His teachings.  Paul yearned to be with his fellow converts to Christianity but found it necessary to communicate with them by letter because of his being imprisoned and waiting trial somewhere on the road to Rome.  Paul had sent Timothy to continue the ministry to the Gentiles and to help in maturing the elder converts in the ways of Jesus Christ. 
    Timothy had returned to confer with Paul with the good news that the people in the church at Thessalonica were firm in their faith, in the warmth of their love, and how they cherished any news about Paul, Silas and Timothy.  Paul encouraged the Thessalonian church members  to continue in love for one another and for all people, just like Paul and his disciples always did for the church.  Paul encouraged the church to allow Me to strengthen, confirm and establish their hearts in My sight at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Paul was eager for Jesus Christ to return to earth and set up a Messianic kingdom but I was eager for My earthly children to allow My Holy Spirit to tutor them until Christ was formed inside of them into perfect people with the knowledge of their place in My entire scheme of My perfect plan for the salvation of the earth.  (I Thessalonians 3:1-13)
    Paul again complimented the believers in Thessalonica on their love for each other, encouraging them that they should live quietly and peacefully, minding their own business and working with their hands, as he taught them.   He reminded them about the people who had died, reminding the recipients in his letter about the resurrection of Jesus Christ and that at the death of their bodies that Jesus Christ was there to welcome the believers into My heaven.  He gave them comfort in the fact that at the death of their own bodies that they would meet Jesus Christ in the air and be with Him for eternity.  He said in his letter that they must encourage each other in that truth.
    The letters that Paul wrote to the church at Thessalonica are pertinent to the church today, telling you to always comfort and encourage each other in Truth.
    Your Father of Words of Encouragement.    
   

BLESSINGS IN TRUE COMMUNICATION

BLESSINGS IN TRUE COMMUNICATION
My Dear Precious Child,
    In Paul's letters to the churches he had a formula that worked for him.  He started out each letter praising the people in the churches, complimenting them on their good points before launching into any complaints that he had about their behavior or their sins.   It was My wisdom of tenderizing them before issuing a complaint.  For instance in his first letters written, they were to the church at Thessalonica, he told them that he, Silas and Timothy constantly gave thanks to Me for them and he wrote that the three of them always mention the church members in their prayers.  He mentioned that their works of service and faith were motivated by love and in the hope in the Lord Jesus Christ.   In addition, Paul told the people in the church that I had personally selected them for his teaching not only in the Word but also in the power of the Holy Spirit with absolute certainty on the part of the teachers.  He reminded them of what kind of men they were because they had proved themselves to the people. 
     Paul went on to tell the people in the church at Thessalonica that they had become the imitators of the apostles and that the Lord Jesus, Himself, welcomed the message of the apostles even in much persecution with joy of the Holy Spirit.  (I Thessalonians 1:1-6)  He wrote that they had become imitators of the apostles even in persecution and that the church people had welcomed the message of the apostles in spite of much perseverance in spite of all of the persecution.  He complimented them for becoming a great joy to most of the apostles.
    It was early in the days of the church and the truths about the Messiah were foremost in their minds as they continued to expect Him to come and set up an earthly kingdom, much like their ancestors had expected.  With that tradition in their minds, they were all waiting for Jesus Christ, with whom they had all had wonderful experiences, to become an earthly king with ascendancy over all of the nations of the world.  They were expecting something that would never happen, because when Jesus told His disciples that My Kingdom of God was coming into their lives if they would go to the upper room and wait for My Power on high to come into their lives on earth, He said that My Holy Spirit would make them superior spiritual beings in an inferior earthly world.  However, they had erroneously interpreted it to mean that a new earthly kingdom would come to the earth with them as the rulers over the entire world.  Jesus chided them by telling them that he didn't know when Israel would become a nation again, but what He was wanting them to anticipate wasn't something worldly, such as an earthly kingdom, but instead He wanted them to anticipate a spiritual awakening in the hearts of people that would make them spiritually superior to anything earthly which is cursed by the devil.  He wanted them to know that they were going to receive My Holy Spirit's power over every evil thing in the earth that had caused them to be inferior to the elements of the world; and instead of continuing to be inferior to anything or anyone, they would become superior in their own lives over all of the evil that is in the world.  Even Paul was anticipating the return to earth of Jesus Christ, expecting Him to create a superior race of Jewish people which would make all of the nations of the world inferior to Israel.  That is not in My plan for anyone in the earth, but because of their extreme religious teachings of Jewish nationalism their emphasis was always on their earthly nation instead of My heavenly nation which Jesus always called the Kingdom of God.  (Acts 1:1-11)
    In the first hint of My plan Jesus told the Jewish disciples of Jesus that the perfect prayer is to pray that My Kingdom of God would come into earth in the lives of people in order to  make the people spiritually superior to the devil and his demons who rule the earth. (Matthew 6:10) It takes  My Power of the Holy Spirit to rule over the demons;  it's not My will to make any people superior to other humans or other nations.   Wanting human superiority over people is demonic; it is not from My kingdom of love.  To desire to rule over people is from the bowels of hell.  The devil fathered his offspring, the demons of slavery, inequality, racism, domination and human superiority, which is contrary to the teachings of Jesus Christ who said that anyone who wants to be great in My kingdom must be a servant of people instead of being a member of national human royalty.
     In Paul's maintaining the erroneous Jewish fundamental religious belief in the coming to earth of the Messiah as one who would restore Israel to being the most powerful nation in the world, his Jewish religious teachings from childhood as a Pharisee were difficult to shed because of the programming that when the Messiah set up His kingdom in the earth that the Pharisees would reign as royalty.  After His conversion and tutoring by My Spirit Paul had learned from My Holy Spirit that when the Holy Spirit came to live inside of him when he was born again and baptized in the Holy Spirit, that he became motivated with the desire to be molded into My image and into the image of Jesus Christ.  He knew that his calling would be to serve the Gospel of Peace and Love to the Gentiles and to the Jews who would listen.   Yet, he warned the people at Thessalonica to persist in love and peace because Jesus was coming back to earth soon. (I Thessalonians 1:9-10) As My children mature by the tutoring of My Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ becomes visible in them. 
    That was 2,000 years ago and Jesus has not come back again in a human body.  However, He has already come back in reality in the person of the Holy Spirit in human bodies which have become spiritual temples of My Holy Spirit, and He lives inside of every person who is born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit.  The barrier between My heaven and earth has been ripped apart in their lives and they have the privilege and right to enter into the Holiest place for one-on-one fellowship with Me as Child and Father. (I Corinthians 3:16; II Corinthians 3:17-18) As Paul wrote in his letters to the Corinthians he proclaimed that the Holy Spirit is Lord in the earth and that My children have that Treasure in earthen vessels so that the excellence of all miraculous works will be from Me using their human  bodies as My dwelling places.  Miraculous works never come from unredeemed earthly flesh.
    In I Thessalonians Paul prayed that the people in the church would allow Me, the God of peace, to make them perfect and holy so that they would be safe and blameless, spirit, soul and body, for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.  My desire is that people will become so in unity and in tune with Me that they will become the image of Jesus Christ in the world, worthy of the name of being called Christ-ians.  In that scenario they will exert My power of the Holy Spirit over every demon, sending them into the fiery furnace just as Jesus had prophesied, with My angels ushering those demons into the furnace which I prepared for them from the foundation of the world.  (Matthew 13:36-43)  Then My children will shine like the sun in the world.     
    Jesus came back to earth and to His disciples when He rose from the dead, fraternizing with them for 40 days.  He also came back to them on the day of Pentecost in the person of the Holy Spirit when they became baptized in the Holy Spirit and began to speak languages they had never spoken.  They exhibited My joy, unspeakable, which they had never possessed.  Jesus Christ and I came to live in their bodies and their bodies became Our temples on earth.  Every time they yield their tongues to pray in My Holy Spirit miracles are ordered in My words that I pray through their mouths.  My words of prophesy and spiritual action bypass the human minds of people where there is doubt and unbelief, and I am allowed through human mouths to finally speak My unencumbered Words.  Those Words create miracles in the earth that answer prayers and solve problems for My children.  It's called the Good News and it is the result of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ who died for the sins of the world, went to hell to pay the price for all sins, rose from the dead and came to sit down with Me in My heaven.  Then Jesus sent My Holy Spirit into the earth to live in human bodies to continue His ministry through those human bodies.  My Holy Spirit is now Lord in the earth in the lives of My children who allow Him to lead and guide them.
    Paul was not yet schooled yet in that truth even though he was the result of it, having spent three years by being tutored by My Holy Spirit.  It takes time to deprogram people from false teachings and more time to reprogram them with My Truth.    
    It's a new heaven and a new earth to My children who yield to My Holy Spirit, just like I promised.
    Your Father of Perfect Plans

BLESSINGS FROM GOODNESS

My Dear Precious Child,
     In Saul's ministry after his magnificent encounter with Jesus Christ on the road to Damascus where he was traveling for the local authorities to obtain papers to enable him to harass, arrest and even kill Christians, Saul became Paul in his marvelous encounter with LIFE because he became a new creature because of having been born again and baptized in My Holy Spirit.  He had left Jerusalem a Pharisaical Jew with a reputation of being cruel and unrelenting in pursuing the followers of Jesus Christ.  He returned to Jerusalem a new person with a new name, a new Life inside of him, new motivations, new objectives and new personality traits of the Holy Spirit because My Spirit came to live inside of him just like He was inside of Jesus Christ whom Saul had previously delighted in hearing that He was dead.   But after Saul became enlightened and became Paul, he was enamored by the fact that Jesus Christ was alive after being crucified because Paul met Him personally.  Yes, Saul didn't previously believe in the rumor that Jesus had been resurrected and was alive again, but he did believe it after his encounter with Jesus Christ while traveling to Damascus.  From that day forth, Saul became Paul, a new creation in the image of Christ Jesus, his becoming a man who was filled with My Holy Spirit instead of being filled with the devil's demons who had motivated and controlled him previously.  (Acts 9-Acts 28) 
    Later in his ministry Paul strongly professed that he was PERSUADED that I am able to perform and perfect everything that I have promised. (II Timothy 1:12; Romans 4:21) Saul went from being a man who pursued Christians in order to kill them to a man who became Paul, My missionary to an entire sect of people.  He wrote most of the recording of My new covenant with mankind and, other than Jesus, Paul's knowledge of My truths that he learned from Me are quoted more often than any other person.  Even in Saul's previous sinful nature I recognized a combination of generational genes that could be changed into My image and become perfected into a person who could carry out My will in his life on earth, which happened after he became Paul after his encounter with Christ Jesus. 
     When Paul wrote that he was fully persuaded about My character and favor, he was saying that he had complete trust in Me, laying aside every doubt, every fear, every false teaching, every former motivation and every selfish desire in order to believe that what I said that I would bring into being, I would absolutely do it without any reservations.  I didn't need to ask him three times if he loved Me enough to feed My Sheep.   Because of his apparent dedication to Me in what I evidenced by his sequestering himself for three years from the rest of Christianity in order to learn from My Holy Spirit, I knew that his dedication to Me and that his dedication  of doing My will in ministry for him in the world was secure and unshakable.  (Galatians 1:11-24)  Paul knew the power of My Holy Spirit by revelation and by experience, so he depended entirely upon My presence and the presence of Christ Jesus in the person of My Holy Spirit who lived inside of him.   Plus, Paul allowed Me in intercessory prayers of the Holy Spirit to speak My solutions for any problem planned by the devil that would thwart his ministry to the Gentiles.  Because of My Holy Spirit's presence in Him, He was able to endure and overcome every obstacle set in place from hell in the effort to end My ministry through him.
    Heed Paul's warnings about false teachers just like you heed the warnings through Jesus Christ about them.  They are definite obstacles if you don't recognize them.  When you do recognize them and refuse to join with the false teachings, your paths toward green pastures are clear and unencumbered.   You will lie down and rest in green pastures and your soul will be restored.  (Psalm 23) 
    Your Father of Rest and Restoration   

BLESSINGS EVEN IN POISONING

My Dear Precious Child,
    Aboard different ships on Paul's journey to Rome where he wanted to present his case of being falsely accused in front of Caesar, even though he was a prisoner he had almost complete freedom because of the centurion who was sent with him to keep him in chains.  After one of the storms in which the ship on which they were traveling was shipwrecked, the people on the ship safely made it to land because of the guidance of the Holy Spirit through Paul when My Holy Spirit sent angels to give wisdom to Paul on how to safely escape the storms that the devil had sent in an effort for Paul to never reach Rome where he would preach and teach about his conversion experience to the authorities there and hopefully attain his release.  I made it possible that Paul was able to speak about his wonderful experience with Jesus on the way to Damascus in all of his journeys, whether he was in chains as a prisoner or not.  He confessed that he "--- was not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God leading to salvation for all men."  (Romans 1:16)
     While shipwrecked on the island of Malta, the people from the ship were treated with respect and favor by the natives there who had built a fire for the ship passengers to have some warmth.  Paul gathered some sticks for the fire and in doing so a snake bit him and attached itself to him.  Paul merely shook the snake off into the fire with no ill effect from the venom which went into him.  The natives were so impressed they were convinced that Paul was super human because he had no ill effects of the very poisonous snake.  That incident fulfilled the prophesy of Jesus when He said that when people became filled with the Holy Spirit that even if they were accidentally bitten by a snake that they would suffer no ill effects. (Mark 16:16-18)   Jesus prophesied that supernatural event because he had seen it in a vision, evidence of the prophesies that My Holy Spirit would show people things to come.     
      Unfortunately, fundamentalist religious people have made a religious doctrine of that prophesy of Jesus in which he saw in a vision of the future ministry of Paul of an incident of My protection for Paul on his ministry journeys.  It was never meant to become a fundamentalist doctrine being taught in your age in which people tempt Me by handling snakes unwisely to prove their religious power when they have none.  Many have died in trying to prove their faith by tempting Me by purposely handling snakes, making a doctrine of an incident in which Jesus merely saw into the future an event that Paul would accidentally be bitten by a snake and show no ill effects.  What that fundamentalist doctrine perpetuates is contrary to My command not to tempt Me by doing something foolish and then asking Me to protect you, because that it is tempting Me.  (Deuteronomy 6:16; Acts 28:1-5)  Because of the incident of the fulfillment of the prophesy of Jesus Christ, the natives of Malta considered Paul a god because of his having no ill effects from the snake venom.  
    The owner of the island royally entertained the shipwrecked people for full three days.  The owner's father was sick and Paul went to see him, laid hands on him, prayed and the man was healed of the diseases that afflicted him.  Because of that incident, other people came to Paul to be healed.  The shipwrecked people were honored and even given supplies for the continuation of their journey to Rome after repair of their ship after three months.  The ship had a few more stops before arriving at Rome.
    At Rome, Paul called a meeting of the leading Jewish men and he gave his complete history of his life as a Pharisaical Jew and told them that he had done nothing to deserve being accused and arrested because he always kept the beliefs of his forefathers.  He appealed to the Jewish leaders to understand his side of the case, and he asked them to understand and rule that he was merely promoting the Hope of Israel's coming Messiah.  The Jewish leaders told Paul that they had not received any letters from Judah accusing Paul of anything.  They quizzed Paul about the religious sect that he was reputed to believe. Paul set a day in which he would tell those Jews his entire conversion story.  On the designated day large numbers of people came to hear his story in which he testified about My Kingdom of God, trying to persuade them concerning Jesus's ministry found in the prophesies of the Law and the prophets.  Some were convinced and some were not.
    Paul told the crowd that the Holy Spirit had prophesied through the prophets that many would hear and not understand, and look with their eyes and not see, beause their hearts had been hardened by the devil by his putting a veil over their minds so that they could not perceive and turn to Me so that I would heal them. (Isaiah 6:9-10)  He told the Jews that because of that hardness of heart that He had been called to take the message of salvation to the people in Gentile nations whom I had said would listen and understand, turn to me and be healed.  The majority of the Jews in that crowd went away arguing among themselves but not believing.  
    Paul lived in Rome two years at his own expense and in his own house preaching to the Gentiles there about My kingdom of God and teaching about the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for their salvation.  He did so with boldness unhindered.  (Acts 27:1-31)  
    It took many incidents of divine appointment to get Paul to the locations where I sent him to the Gentiles whom I knew would accept the ministry of Jesus Christ because of the lack of the veil of unbelief which many Jews had inherited from the devil's assault on the Law of Moses in the minds of the members of the Jewish nation.   In Paul's imprisonments and in chains, to the disappointment of the devil and the Jewish leaders Paul had never been limited in his writings or his ministry.  My children reap the benefits of those writings even today because they contain Truth.
    Your Father of Powerful Callings        
              

BLESSINGS EVEN WHEN SHIPWRECKED

My Dear Precious Child,
    The ships on which Paul rode in their trip to Rome encountered every imaginable kind of sea misfortunes, but Paul's wisdom and insight often caused them to be saved from calamity and destruction.  My Holy Spirit often told Paul about impending dangers so that the officers of the ships could prepare for problems, which were not uncommon in that age before sophisticated gauges and instruments were invented.  With knowledge of the spiritual dimension and Paul's insight into the demonic beings who are in charge of the devil's curses in the weather in the earth, in every voyage that led to getting Paul to Rome My Holy Spirit informed Paul about My appointed plans on how to save the ships and all of the passengers, prisoners and sailors alike.  The Jews in Jerusalem had nefarious plans already on how to send men to intercept the ships and capture Paul for the purpose of killing him, and the devil had his own plans for Paul's demise through the ships wrecking just in case his plans through men failed.  The devil knew that he could use weather extremes to cause the ships to be destroyed on their trips if his religious and political leaders failed in his plans through them. 
     On the voyages to Rome Paul was a prisoner of the Romans but he had great favor with the centurion who was assigned to him.  Even though he was in chains, he was granted personal freedom from his captor.  In relation to the ships on which he was transported to Rome, on one portion of the voyage he warned the captain of the ship and the other officers that they should not begin the short voyage because of inclement weather on the way, as was told him by the Holy Spirit.  The captain did not heed the warning and after traveling a way, sure enough the weather became tumultuous and the captain had to lighten the ship by casting off certain items.  He ordered certain things to be done that Paul advised were wrong, and the captain finally agreed and did what Paul said that I had told him through My angels to do.  Surely it saved the occupants of the ship even though their belongings, the products being shipped and most of the food had to be cast overboard in order to sail the ship close to land.  After 14 days of fighting the wind and the bad weather and not having eaten for 14 days, the crew was delighted to have Paul pray over a small amount of food that was saved, and it fed all 266 of the men.
    The ship continued sailing dangerously until land was sighted.  The stern of the ship began to break up under the powerful waves. The soldiers wanted to kill the prisoners on board in order to keep them from escaping, but the centurion in charge of Paul kept them from their purposeful act in order that he might save Paul. The men who could swim swam to shore and other men who could not swim grabbed onto heavy boards of the broken ship and floated ashore.  Everyone escaped to land safely, all because of the presence of one passenger, Paul, for whom I had a great mission waiting in Rome.  (Acts 27:1-44) 
    My divine plans for the salvation of the world must always be trusted and followed.   As in Paul's ministry travels, many people benefited from My plans for him, not only the people who became born again and Holy Spirit baptized children of Mine but many men on the ships were saved merely because of Paul's presence on board.
    Blessings are always overflowing!
    Your Father of Guaranteed Blessings  

BLESSINGS EVEN IN LEGAL SETTINGS

My Dear Precious Child,
    When Paul was brought before King Agrippa to answer to all of the accusations of the Jews, he was allowed to defend himself, which he did magnificently.  He praised the king for having been instructed in Jewish laws and customs.  Paul told the king that he, himself, had been schooled in them also, being a Jew, and that his schooling was more exact than others, being a Pharisee.  He told the king that he was being accused and judged on the grounds of the promise of the forefathers of their God.  He said that he was being accused merely on the grounds of his fulfillment of the customs of his forefathers.  He also told the king that at one time he was a persecutor and killer of the sect of Jesus Christ.  He described all of the chilling things that he did to them.  Then he launched into his salvation experience with Jesus Christ on the road to Damacus which later precipitated his telling the Jews as well as the Gentiles that they needed to repent and follow the teachings of Jesus.  He attributed his harassment and arrest by the Jews on that mere action by him, showing that he was not a lawbreaker, only a man of faith. (Acts 26:1-23) 
    When Paul got to the place in his testimony to King Agrippa where he told about the fact that Jesus Christ was crucified, went to hell for the sins of the world and was raised from the dead, Festus yelled out to Paul that Paul's intense learning had driven him insane, that he was considered emotionally and mentally mad. 
     In his defense Paul stated that he was not insane, that he was only speaking the Truth.  Paul reminded the officials that the experiences of which he was speaking were not done in secret, but were attested to by many people.  Then he asked the king if he, himself, gave any credence at all to the words of the prophets who are My messengers?  
    Instead of professing to give credence to the words of the prophets, King Agrippa then accused Paul of trying to make him, the king, a Christian by persuasion in short notice at the hearing, to which Paul replied that whether in either short or long persuasion, he wished that everyone in his hearing might become as he was, a Christian, but without the chains that he was wearing.
    All of the officials rose and exited the court hearing convinced that Paul had been falsely accused and arrested.  King Agrippa even commented to Festus that Paul would have already been set free is he had not appealed to Caesar. 
    Paul's ministry journey to Rome continued with much fanfare after the court hearing, much to the chagrin of the Jews.  Paul had received favor even in persecution and court hearings, which continued.  (Acts 26:24-32)
    Your Father of Magnificent Provisions 

BLESSINGS IN TRAVELING MINISTRIES

My Dear Precious Child,
    While defending himself before the high priests and elders in the temple in Jerusalem, Paul continued with his testimony about his life as a Jew, his persecution of the followers of Jesus Christ, his conversion experience and his ministry, plus he called himself a good citizen and a loyal Jew.  The high priest Ananias ordered those men who stood with Paul to strike him in the mouth.  In answer to the command of the high priest, Paul told him that I was about to strike him and he called the high priest a whitewashed wall.  Paul asked him if he was going to judge Paul in accordance with the Law and yet he was in rebellion against the Law when he ordered Paul to be struck.  The men present commanded Paul not to insult the high priest of God, to which Paul quoted the Law that said not to speak evil of a ruler. 
    Paul suddenly was cognizant of the fact that the listeners in the court of the high priest were all Sadducees and Pharisees.  He cried out to them that he is a Pharisee, a son of a Pharisee, and it was with that hope in the resurrection of the dead that he was indicted and being judged.  With that confession, a disagreement broke out between the two religious and political factions over whether there is a resurrection after death. The Sadducees believed that there was no resurrection but the Pharisees believed in a resurrection.  The Pharisees stood up in support of Paul because he was of like political and religious doctrine as them. They said that they must not rail against Paul because it might have been an angel who spoke through his mouth and they did not want to fight with Me or an angel of Mine.
    As the disagreement became a real fight, the commander became afraid that the crowd might tear Paul in pieces so he ordered the troops to take Paul forcibly from the crowd and take him to the barracks.  That same night I appeared to Paul and told him that just like he was faithful in witnessing in Jerusalem that he would also be a witness in Rome in front of the court there.   At daybreak 40 of the Jews formed a plot together to capture Paul and swore in an oath to perform the curse on him of killing him.  They told the high priest about their plan to kill Paul, and he approved.  However, Paul's sister overheard the plans about the plot, and her son went to the office of the commander and told him about the plot, that the Jews were going to trick the commander into believing that they were taking Paul to the office of the Sanhedrin in order to question him even further, but their real plan was to dispose of Paul. 
    The commander took the news from Paul's sister's son to heart and planned that at an earlier hour his men would have 200 footmen, 70 horsemen and 200 spear men at an early hour swoop Paul away to the safety of the palace of the governor in Caesarea on the way to Rome.  He wrote a letter to accompany Paul and the rescuing party to be handed to Felix, the governor, relating to Paul's arrest according to the Law of the Jews.  He explained that Paul was a Jew which complicated matters.  Felix read the letter upon the arrival of Paul and the rescue party and declared that he would hear Paul's case the next day, ordering that their eyes be kept constantly on Paul in Herod's palace.  (Acts 23:1-35)
     The spreading of My Gospel to the Gentiles was utmost in My mind and Paul was the vessel through whom I had chosen to do the work.  It took My divine orchestration to get Paul to the areas to where his ministry would be well received, among not only the Jews but also to the Gentiles to whom I had given Paul the ministry of reconciling the Gentiles to Me.
    Your Father of Divine Orchestration                   

BLESSINGS FROM FOLLOWING THE HOLY SPIRIT

My Dear Precious Child,
     Paul had been apprised by the Holy Spirit on what to happen to him in Jerusalem when he arrived there.  On his voyage there he made many stops to see the followers of the Good News and to tell them about his fate.  When he stopped in Caesarea at the home of the evangelist Philip while there a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea and upon entering the room he took Paul's belt, bound his own hands with the belt and prophesied by the Holy Spirit that the man who owned the belt would be bound in Jerusalem by the Jews and that they would deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles. (Acts 21:1-11)  When the disciples heard that prophesy, they tried to encourage Paul not to travel on to Jerusalem because of what would happen to him there. (verse 12)
    Upon hearing their protests, Paul told them that they were breaking his heart, but that he knew what laid ahead of him and that it was his delight to be arrested, bound, imprisoned and even to die for the Lord Jesus.  The protestors knew that they could not dissuade him, so they stopped in their protests and proclaimed that My will would be done.
    When Paul arrived at Jerusalem he went to visit with James and all of the elders of the church there.  Paul gave a detailed account about all of the converts he had made and also the miracles of the Holy Spirit done through his hands.  The elders of the church were astounded, praising Me for the works of Paul with the Jews and Gentiles.  Then they told Paul that the rumor was that Paul was neither requiring circumcision of believers nor following the Law of Moses.   They told him that they had appointed four men who would shave their heads to indicate that the laws were being followed by Paul's followers. (Acts 21:12-24)   They also told Paul that they had sent a letter to the Gentiles with instructions that they did not need to be circumcised, but they needed to refrain from eating food sacrificed to idols, not to drink blood and not to eat any meat from a strangled animal and to refrain from sexual impurities.  
   Soon some Jews caught sight of Paul teaching in the temple and they incited a riot and laid hands on him, shouting that he was the man who was encouraging people to reject the Law of Moses and that he had actually brought Greeks into the temple and the inner court.  The whole city was aroused  and the people rushed together, laid hands on Paul and drug him outside of the temple, closing the gates.  While they were trying to kill him, a Roman officer became angry, took his soldiers to the riot and made them stop beating Paul.   Then the commander approached and arrested Paul, ordered him chained, and required whom he was and what he had done to deserve such treatment.  The crowd kept yelling so much that the commander couldn't figure out what was the problem so he commanded that Paul be taken to the barracks.  Paul was carried up the steps by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob.  The mass of people followed demanding that Paul be killed.  Paul asked the commander if he could address the crowd, saying that he was a Jew from Tarsus and he again begged to address the crowd.  
    The man granted Paul permission to address the crowd and Paul told the crowd that he was going to appeal to them.  Because he addressed them in Hebrew, the crowd became quiet and listened.  He told them his heritage and that he was an officer who harassed the believers of the Way unto their death, putting some in chains and in prison, men and women.  He said that he was on his way to get equipment for chaining when he heard a Voice from heaven asking why Paul was persecuting Him.  Paul continued on with every iota of his testimony in his meeting with Jesus Christ on his way to Damascus and his testimony of being baptized and also he told about Stephen's testimony.  The people listened intently until he told them about My instructions to him about going to the Gentiles.  As that point they turned on Paul and insisted that he was not fit to live, and they threw their clothes at him and continued with rioting.  
    The commander ordered that Paul be put into the barracks, that he be examined for a beating in order to learn why the crowd was so against him.  When they started at him with leather straps, Paul asked if it was legal for them to beat a Roman citizen without a trial?  The commander asked if he was a Roman citizen to which Paul replied yes.  The commander said that he had purchased his own citizenship for a price but Paul attested that he was born a Roman.  Instantly the crowd moved back and stopped in their flogging actions.  The commander was frightened that Paul might actually be a Roman citizen and he had already put him in chains.
   The next day the commanders unbound Paul and ordered the chief priests and their council to assemble and he brought Paul down and placed him before them.   Paul had been harassed, arrested, beaten, and chained for no reason, per his vision of what was to happen to him in Jerusalem and the confirmation from the prophet.  
   Jesus had told his followers that when the Holy Spirit came that He would lead them into all truth and show them things to come.  Paul was a good example of it.  My Spirit prepared him for what was going to happen to him in Jerusalem, much to the chagrin of his followers. The plans had been laid out before the foundation of the world and the stage was set for Paul's death and martyrdom.  
    My Holy Spirit does not leave My children without comfort.  He is your Comforter, your Truth and your Peace.   
    Your Father of Divine Love  
              

BLESSINGS EVEN IN THE FACE OF DEATH

My Dear Precious Child,
     After the town clerk in Athens successfully dispersed the crowd of rioters, some being believers in Jesus Christ and some who were worshipers of the goddess Artemis, the town clerk's actions caused there to be no deaths and no injuries, just angry words.  After the uproar ceased, Paul summoned his disciples to himself and encouraged them more and more about My abilities, as they had witnessed for themselves.  Then he continued on his way to Macedonia.  He spent three months in Greece but he then heard about another plot against him by the Jews.  He and his entourage, which now included Luke as well as the disciples he had gained along the way, they continued on to Troas where there were disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ waiting for them.(Acts 20:1-6)
    On the first day of their seven day visit in Troas, another one of My miracles happened.  While the disciples were gathered together to enjoy the Lord's Supper Paul taught them, continuing on until midnight, intending to leave the area the next morning.  The room where he was teaching had sufficient lights since it was midnight.  A young man was sitting in a window when he fell sound asleep and fell from the window the three stories to the ground where he was found dead.  Paul went down the stairs to the young man, embraced him and announced to the onlookers that the young man was alive again.  (Acts 20:7-10) Paul continued in his teaching until the next morning and the young man was taken home, his family being comforted that he was alive again. 
    Paul was compelled by the Holy Spirit to go to Jerusalem by the day of Pentecost, so as his ship passed some of the cities he sent word to the elders of the church of Ephesus to meet with him at a certain location of the next docking of the ship.  When they arrived Paul spoke to them the history of his walk with Me and his devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ, his miraculous calling from Me, his suffering for the Gospel, his vast travels of converting the Jews and Gentiles, and his being directed by the Holy Spirit to go to Jerusalem, his knowing what would happen to him there.  (Acts 20:11-23)  Paul assured the elders of the churches that he knew that imprisonment waited for him;  however, he had no fear or concern about what waited for him.  He affirmed that he was clean and innocent, not responsible for the blood of any of his converts. (Acts 20:24-26) 
   He assured the elders that he had never kept back any of the truth that I had led him to share with them.  He gave them a last command, just like Jesus Christ had to His disciples, even though Paul had not been a believer or an apostle then.  Paul warned them to always be alert and to guard their churches which the Holy Spirit had led them to guard and shepherd which Jesus Christ obtained for Himself with His own blood. (Acts 20:27-28)  His warnings were the same as the warnings of Jesus Christ to His own disciples, that there were ferocious wolves that would get into the flock, not sparing anyone.  He warned them that the wolves would be from their own flock in order to draw the disciples away from their own churches.  He reiterated over and over the truth that their enemies would come from their own groups so they must always be on guard to identify them and then ostracize them from the church.  Paul reminded the elders of the churches that for three years he had been loyal to them, never stopping day and night in admonishing them about the dangers that were to come upon them because of their repentance and their becoming new creations. 
    Paul told the elders that even though they would not see him again that he committed them to Me and the Words of My Holy Spirit, knowing that He was able to build them up and TO GIVE TO THEM THEIR RIGHTFUL INHERITANCE that is given to My PURIFIED AND TRANSFORMED souls. (Acts 20:32)
    Paul affirmed that he never coveted or received any man's wealth or clothes, that he had worked to fulfill his own needs and the needs of his followers.  Paul told the elders of his church that by working diligently he was able to help the people who were weak in faith because of the scripture that says that it's more blessed to give than to receive.  After speaking about his revelation of what faced him in Jerusalem, Paul knelt down and prayed with the men who were elders of the churches.  They all cried freely and threw their arms around Paul's neck, kissing him fervently.  Being distressed about the news that they would see him no more, they accompanied him back to the ship on which he was traveling. (Acts 20: 33-38) 
     It was imperative that Paul give to the elders of the churches that he had formed a last good-bye, just like Jesus had given to His disciples, warning them and admonishing them about the devil's false prophets who would try to manipulate and deceive them with their appeals to entice the believers to return to the old Law of Moses which had become the law of sin and death.  It had already happened in the actions of the Pharisaical Jews from Jerusalem who had enticed the churches of Paul to become circumcised and to return to the old laws which were impossible to keep.  Paul knew the power of the darkness in the enticements to his born again followers who did not hear the leading of My Holy Spirit for themselves.  His fear was that they would succumb to the enticements of the false prophets and become filled again with the curses of the devil, allowing the devil to again capture their souls and cause them to leave behind the freedom and liberty for their souls that they had found in Christ Jesus.
   My children need to heed the last words of Jesus Christ to His disciples and of the apostle Paul to his converts to Jesus Christ.  They are the same truth, that wolves from their own groups will come to lead them astray into fear of only adhering to the teaching of Christ Jesus and instead convincing them to include the Law of sin and death in their beliefs which puts new wine into old bottles, as taught by Jesus Christ, which will burst the bottles and spoil the wine, in which nobody prospers. (Matthew 9:16-17)  Be alert to false prophets.  
    Your Father of Individual Guidance  

BLESSINGS EVEN IN THE PRESENCE OF EVIL SPIRITS

My Dear Precious Child,
     There were Jewish exorcists who tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus in authority over demonic spirits by saying that they charged the evil spirits in the name of Jesus, of whom Paul preached, to come out of people.  There were seven sons of a Jewish chief priest who were doing it.  Upon coming out, one evil spirit told Paul that it knew who Jesus was and who Paul was, but who in the world was he?  Then the man in whom the evil spirit lived jumped on the exorcists, subduing two of them and the exorcists ran out of the house stripped naked and wounded.  The testimony of that encounter became well known in the area and the name of Jesus Christ was glorified and magnified in the area to both Jews and Greek Gentiles.  Many men came forward with confessions of faith in Jesus Christ, repenting of their deceptive and evil practices.  Many people gathered up their books on evil magical arts and threw them into a fire, the value of them being over 50 thousand pieces of silver. (Acts 18:12-19)
    The Word of the Lord grew immensely when that testimony became known, prevailing mightily. After those events Paul, by the leading of My Holy Spirit, traveled through Macedonia on his way to Jerusalem and then to Rome, too.  After sending Timothy and another disciple to Macedonia Paul decided to stay in Asia for a while.  In Ephesus a man named Demetrius was a silversmith and he made idols out of silver to the goddess Artemis, making lots of money from his art work.  Demetrius sent word to other craftsmen that Paul was a danger to their trade and their fortunes, and also that the goddess Artemis was very upset and degraded and was falling into contempt in the minds of people.  The listeners were filled with rage and shouted glories to the goddess. 
    Paul wished to go into the crowd but his followers persuaded him to avoid the rioting, if possible.  A great divide started between the worshipers of Artemis and the worshipers of Jesus Christ.  The crowd was so excited nobody knew whom they were yelling about.  Paul again tried to intervene but his followers would not allow him to enter into the confusion.  Alexander was called upon by the townspeople to speak and he just increased the confusion.  The town clerk calmed them down and spoke about the history of the idols, that Ephesus was the guardian of the temple of their goddess Artemis and the sacred image of her that fell from the sky.  He said that the disciples had neither robbed their temple nor had they blasphemed Artemis.  He said the courts were open and if any of the artists had charges against the disciples, then let them be handled by the proper authorities.  He let the rioting people know that they were all in danger of being charged with rioting if they continued in their behavior of harassing the disciples of Jesus, there being much evidence of it.  He took a chance and just dismissed the entire assembly, which worked.  The people had forgotten what they were angry about anyway. 
   It was the unbelieving town clerk who reasoned with the rioting crowd and saved the lives of the disciples.   Without Paul's interference in the riot, per the disciples' wisdom and actions, that town clerk had brought peace to a volatile situation that could have escalated to more violence until people were killed.   Instead, lives were saved and word spread about the Good News of the Lord Jesus Christ being the Savior, the much anticipated Messiah brought to earth in the Kingdom of God for the first time on the day of Pentecost.  As a result more and more people believed and had confidence in My plans and in the words of My apostles and disciples.
    Each situation is different and unique.  Being led by My Holy Spirit is the secret because being led by My Holy Spirit results in your being overcome with My blessings that come into your life as a result of My favor and grace. 
    Your  Father of Unique Solutions for Unique Problems 

BLESSINGS AFTER CONTROVERSY

My Dear Precious Child
    Paul and Silas went to Thessalonica and went to a synagogue of Jews.  Paul entered, as he always did, and began reasoning and arguing about the scriptures with the men.  He explained from the scriptures why it was necessary for Jesus to suffer and rise from the dead.  He proclaimed that Jesus was the Christ, the Messiah.  Some people were induced to believe and associate themselves with Paul sand Silas, as did a great number of Gentile Greeks and women.  However, the unbelieving Pharisaical devout Jews became jealous and went to the city square and incorporated some of the professional loungers there to form a mob,  Becoming more and more in an uproar they attacked the house where Paul and Silas were staying, the house of Jason. 
   When the mob did not find the apostles there, they dragged Jason and some of his friends before the city leaders and cried that those men were turning the world upside down and have come to their town also to spread their venom.   The unbelieving Jews continued to accuse Jason of allowing Paul and Silas in his house to protect them. They accused Paul and Silas of acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar by asserting that there was another king, Jesus Christ.  The leaders let Jason go after receiving security from him.  Jason and his friends sent Paul and Silas on their way to another city where they were more easily received by the unbelieving Jews there.  The Jews in the synagogue welcomed the message with eagerness concerning the attainment of salvation through Jesus Christ.  They searched the scriptures daily to see if what the apostles taught were true.  Many of the Jews became believers along with the Gentiles and women as well as men. (Acts 17:1-12) 
    When the Jews at Thessalonica heard that Paul and Silas were teaching successfully in another city, they came there, too, disturbing the masses of people.  The believers sent Paul off on his way to the sea but Silas and Timothy remained behind.  Paul went to Athens and sent instructions for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible.  They answered his call and departed for Athens.  While Paul was waiting in Athens his spirit was grieved and angered at the number of idols that he observed in Athens so Paul reasoned and argued in the synagogue with the Jews and those who worshiped there, along with teaching in the market place day after day.
    There were philosophers in Athens who were angered by Paul's teachings, accusing him of teaching about some foreign deities because he preached about Jesus Christ and His resurrection. (Acts 17:13-18)  They brought him before the leaders at the auditorium.  Paul stood there and told them that on his occasion to be in their city in the past that he had noticed that they sacrificed to many gods and even to an unknown god.  Paul told them that the God that He worshiped does not live in earthly shrines and neither was He served by human hands, for He gives Life and breath and all things to all people.  Paul said that His God made all things One origin, one blood and one source of all nations and of all men.  He told the leaders of the philosophers that John the Baptist preached repentance and telling people that they should believe in the One who was to come, His being Jesus, and becoming obedient to Me, that I had allotted to them lands and settlements so that they would seek Me and find Me, although I am not far from them.
    Paul continued by extolling My goodness by saying that it is in Jesus Christ that people find Me and have every essence of their being in Me. that I am not a Deity made of gold or silver or stone, fashioned by human hands, or invented or constructed, as was thought was truth in the past by ignorant people.  Paul told them that I had chosen their age in which to reveal Myself through a Man whom I chose for that task, and that I had revealed Him through His resurrection from the dead.  (Acts 17:24-31)
   At Paul's perfect appeal and logic as spoken by My Holy Spirit through Paul concerning the resurrection of the dead by a Man, some scoffed but others believed and wanted to hear more.  Paul left their meeting places because some were on his side, believed and joined him and his entourage of believers.
    My message to each crowd was different for each city because of the religious and political training of each group.  My Holy Spirit knows how to tailor make each appeal so as to authenticate each message by forming it for each individual city or individual or family.  I am Life and I know the needs of every particular human life or group that will satisfy their search for Me.  I make sure that anyone who diligently seeks Me will find Me and then I give the messenger the words of Life for that particular gathering.  I spoke differently to the philosophers than I did to the fishermen or to the religious leaders.   I only speak Truth but each Truth is tailor made for that group of people in order for them to understand that I have the answer to their heartfelt needs.
    Your Father of Grace and Favor  
   
 

BLESSINGS IN SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT

BLESSINGS IN SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT
My Dear Precious Child,
     Paul went to the region where Timothy lived, whose mother was a devout believer.  Timothy had a good reputation in his church.  Paul knew that Timothy's dad had been a Greek and so he circumcised Timothy, knowing that his father had been a Greek.  Paul and Timothy traveled together declaring the kingdom of God having come in the person of Jesus Christ. There were towns where the Spirit of Jesus Christ would not allow them to preach so Paul had a vision that led him to go to Macedonia, declaring that I had called them to proclaim the glad tiding of Jesus Christ in that region.  (Acts 16:1-11)
    One Sabbath they gathered with some women who met together regularly and they sat down with the women and addressed them.  One of the women was Lydia, a woman of great faith, a woman who dealt in fabrics, and one who was already a worshiper of Me.  I opened her heart to pay close attention to the teachings of Paul.  Then she became baptized along with her household.  Lydia insisted upon the apostles staying at her house for the night .  On the way to her house they encountered a slave girl who was possessed by a demonic spirit of divination, claiming to foretell future events and to discover hidden knowledge, gaining money from her fortune-telling activities for other people.  The slave girl followed Paul and his entourage around shouting at the top of her voice that the men were of Me, the Most High God, and that they would announce to people the way to salvation. (Acts 16:16-19) 
    The slave girl followed Paul and the crowd for a few days announcing her message constantly which disturbed and annoyed Paul.  Finally he was worn out by her announcement and he spoke to the evil spirit within her to come out of her, and it came out of her at that very moment.  When her owners saw what happened and knew that they could not gain money from her divination any longer, they captured Paul and Timothy and dragged them before the public court and the magistrates, declaring that the apostles were Jews but were causing confusion because they were encouraging unlawful practices for the Romans to accept.  The crowd joined in with the accusations, tore the clothes off of Paul and Timothy and beat them with rods.   Then they threw Paul and Timothy in prison, demanding that they be kept safe which caused the jailer to put them in a dungeon and chain their legs. (Acts 16:20-26) 
   Paul and Timothy did not fear their treatment and instead sang hymns and praised Me constantly which the other prisoners enjoyed.  Suddenly there was a great earthquake, the foundation of the prison was shaken and the prison doors were opened and the chains fell off of all of the prisoners.  When the jailer saw that the doors were opened and the chains had fallen off, he drew his sword to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped.  Paul shouted to the man not to hurt himself, that all of the prisoners were still there.  The jailer brought them out of the dungeon and asked them what he needed to do to be saved, to which Paul told him that he needed to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved, including his entire household, by their turning themselves over to His keeping instead of continuing in their own keeping.  Paul and Timothy declared the Word of the Lord to the jailer and his entire household, who had washed and treated the injuries that Paul and Timothy suffered from the beatings.  The jailer kept leaping for joy at his newfound relationship with Me through the Lord Jesus Christ, along with his household. (Acts 16:27-34) 
    The next day the magistrate sent word to the jailer to release Paul and Timothy without a trial and that they should go in peace.  Paul demanded that the magistrate and his workers come personally to release them since he had doubts about the sincerity of the magistrate.  The magistrate and his staff appeased Paul and came to the city in order to legally release Paul and Timothy, asking the apostles to leave the city.  Paul and Timothy agreed and stopped by Lydia's house in order to warn the believers there to be on their guard against the rulers. (Acts 16:35-40)
     I stand by My Word, making sure that it is preached and taught by people who are devoted and convinced of My power of the Holy Spirit that is present in those very Words.  Paul and Timothy's experience of My sending an earthquake to open the doors of the prison dungeon and causing the chains to fall off of the prisoners was evidence enough to convince the apostles to continue in their ministry of the Good News.  The blessings were well worth the costs.
    Your Father of Divine Protection and Provision

BLESSINGS EVEN IN DISAGREEMENTS

My Dear Precious Child,
    While Paul and Barnabas were ministering to the Gentiles some Jews came down from Judea and were instructing people that they needed to combine circumcision to their newly found freedom.  They even went as far as to say that men could not be saved if they did not succumb to being circumcised.  When Paul and Barnabas had some heated discussions with those men, it was decided that Paul and Barnabas and other believers would go to Jerusalem and confer with the apostles and elders there concerning the matter.   On their way to Jerusalem, Paul and Barnabas told believers in towns along the way about the many conversions of the Gentiles, causing much rejoicing among the believers.  
    The entourage was welcomed in the church in Jerusalem and they told about the many wonders that I had accomplished through them.   But, still, some of the believers of the sect of the Pharisees rose up and demanded that circumcision be necessary for all male believers, even demanding that they obey all of the Law of Moses.  The apostles and elders conferred together considering the matter.   After a long debate among the believers Peter got up and told Paul that long ago I had selected him to speak to the Gentiles the message of the Gospel of Christ's salvation in the kingdom of God and that it is necessary for them to place their faith in it.  He said that I understood their hearts and sent My Holy Spirit just like I did to the Jews.  He said that there was no difference between Jews and Gentiles who welcome the conviction that Jesus is the Messiah and that through Him they receive eternal salvation in My kingdom.
    Peter went on to chide the Pharisee believers for testing Me by putting a yoke on the necks of the Gentile disciples, a yoke which neither their forefathers nor the disciples were able to endure.  He proclaimed that they were all saved by the grace of the Lord Jesus, just like the Jews had been.   Everyone remained silent while Paul and Barnabas entertained them with telling about the signs and wonders that I had performed through them among the Gentiles.  James demanded a say, and he said that through the prophets it had been foretold that the house of David would be rebuilt so that the rest of men, the Gentiles, would seek the Lord.  He said that it had been set in place from the beginning of the world.  (Isaiah 45:21; Jeremiah 12:15: Acts 15:13-18)  James gave his opinion that no one should put obstacles in the way of the Gentiles who had turned to Me.  (verse 19)
    James added that there should be a letter written to them that they should abstain from eating food sacrificed to idols and from all sexual impurity, should not eat meat from animals that had been strangled, and not to drink blood.  The apostles and elders, together with the whole church, resolved to select men to accompany Paul and Barnabas's entourage back to deliver the message to the Gentile believers.  Judas and Silas were selected to accompany the men back to the Gentiles, though Silas decided to stay.  The letter enumerated that some Jews from the number in Jerusalem had unsettled the minds of the Gentile believers, although their actions were not instructed by the apostles and elders.  The letter went on to say that the Holy Spirit did not lay any further burden on the Gentile believers other than the ones mentioned by James relating to idol food, not drinking blood and not eating the meat from strangled animals, plus to refrain from sexual impurities.  The letter affirmed that if the Gentiles did those things, then everything would go well for them. (Acts 15:20-29)
    The Gentile believers were pleased about the letter and Judas and Silas encouraged the people with many words which strengthened them.  Judas and Silas contemplated going back to Jerusalem but Paul and Barnabas remained with the Gentiles teaching and proclaiming the Word of the Lord concerning Christ being the eternal salvation in My kingdom.  Paul and Barnabas wanted to eventually call on all of the churches where they had ministered.  Barnabas wanted to take John Mark with them.  Paul did not like the idea because John Mark had abandoned them earlier in another city.  Paul and Barnabas separated from each other and Silas went with Paul, commending the brothers to My favor and mercy.  (Acts 15:36-40)
    Even in disagreements, when unity is restored there are blessings flowing into the lives of all believers.  Unity needs to be restored between people in order to be able to walk in My blessings.  Division and strife are sent from hell in order to upset the spiritual atmosphere where unity prevails.  Heaven and My angels cannot exist with division and strife because of My blessings that My children forfeit as a result of engaging in division and strife.
    Your Father of Peace and Mercy     
             
 

BLESSINGS AFTER PERSECUTIONS GUARANTEED

My Dear Precious Child,
    In the city of Iconium Paul and Barnabas taught with such an anointing of the Holy Spirit that a great number of both Jews and Gentiles believed on Jesus Christ and My kingdom of God having come into the earth.  As was in most previous instances, the unbelieving Jews incorporated unbelieving Gentiles in their bitterness toward Christian people.  Paul and Barnabas stayed on there for a long time, determined to freely and boldly preach in the Lord.  They continued to bear witness with testimonies to the Word of Grace, even allowing signs and wonders to be performed by their hands.  The town was divided, some siding with the Jews and some supporting the apostles. (Acts 13:1-5)  
    There became a group of both Gentiles and Jews alike. along with their rulers, to insult, abuse and molest Paul and Barnabas along with stoning them, fulfilling the prophesy of Jesus Christ that they would be persecuted.  The apostles escaped to other regions where they continued to spread the Good News.  At one place there was a man whose feet were useless since birth.  He had never walked.  He was listening to Paul and Paul fixed his stare upon the man and discerned that he had faith to be healed.   Paul shouted to the man to stand up and walk.  The man stood up and walked. The people began to shout in their native language that their gods had come down in human form.   They called Barnabas Zeus and called Paul Hermes, the god of speech, since he led the discourse. (Acts 13:12-14)
    There were priests of Zeus at the city gates and they brought bulls and garlands in order to join the apostles in sacrifices.  When Paul and Barnabas heard of their plans, they tore their clothing and dashed out into the crowd telling them that they were only human beings, like them, and that Paul and Barnabas brought them Good News but they must turn from their foolish and vain things to Me, the living God who made heaven and earth and the sea and everything that they contain.  They told the people that in the past that I had allowed people to do that they wanted, yet I did leave some things as a witness to Myself because I had done kindness to them by sending to them rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying their years with nourishment which made them happy. (Acts 13:15-17)
    Even with Paul speaking such enticing words, the people continued to want to sacrifice things to both him and Barnabas as gods. Some Jews arrived from other towns and won the crowd over so they stoned Paul and, thinking he was dead, they dragged him out of town.  The disciples formed a circle around him and he later went back to town.  The next day he went with Barnabas to a different town where they made disciples of people.  They strengthened the souls and hearts of the disciples, encouraging them to stand firm in the faith.  The apostles assured the people that it is with many tribulations that people must enter into My kingdom of God.  (Acts 13:18-27)
     Paul and Barnabas appointed elders in that city and then moved on to another city after being assured that those elders were well established in Christ Jesus.  Upon arriving in Antioch, they gathered together the church there and told them about all of the events that had happened to them. proclaiming the Good News that the door had been open to the Gentiles for them, a door of faith in Jesus Christ through whom they could gain salvation from the works of the devil for themselves in My kingdom of God.  (Acts 14:23-28)
     Those apostles needed to rest and recuperate because in their future was a spiritual  battle between themselves and some other believers about whether the new converts needed to incorporate the Jewish laws into their newly found freedom from the curses of the Law and their freedom that they found by having faith in Jesus Christ.  It would be a heated disagreement.  False prophets had already gained entry into My church of Jesus Christ and they had enticed some of the Christians to return to the old covenant laws of sin and death instead of their only being loyal and devoted to My new covenant of Life in Christ Jesus.
    You must be attentive to My Holy Spirit who enables you to discern good from evil.
     Your Father of Faith, Peace and Freedom from the Curses of the Law
         

BLESSINGS IN MINISTRY

My Dear Precious Child
    In Paul's ministry he discerned men who were of Me and men who were of the devil. In their ministries Paul and Barnabas encountered a man who was considered a wizard and a sorcerer, a false prophet named Bar-Jesus who was associated with a man who was considered to be wise and intelligent, Sergius Paulus.   Bar-Jesus called Paul and Barnabas to himself in order to hear the Word of God concerning salvation in the kingdom of God attained through Christ Jesus.  However, the wise man opposed them, seeking to keep the officials from accepting the faith of Jesus Christ.  Being filled with the Holy Spirit Paul looked at the man who was considered to be a wise man and called him a master of deception, reckless, unscrupulous, wicked, the son of the devil,the enemy of everything that was upright, asking him if he would ever stop making My straight paths crooked, continuing to plot against My saving purposes. 
    Not only did Paul call him names associated with the devil but Paul said that he would be blind and unable to see the sun for a time.  Instantly a darkness fell upon the man as he groped to see who would lead him by the hand.  One of the men of the council became a believer when he saw what had occurred because he was deeply astonished at the teaching concerning Jesus Christ from Paul.  Paul and Barnabas separated themselves and went to Antioch to meet there with people at the synagogue. (Acts 13:1-14) 
   After the Law and the words of the prophets had been read in that meeting, the men asked Paul and Barnabas if they had anything to say, any word of exhortation, consolation or encouragement for the people.  Paul rose and addressed the men as God fearing men and told them to listen to what he had to say.  He went back to the story about the Jews being chosen by Me to be great during their stay in Egypt where they were slaves, and then said that I had led them out of Egypt.  The men were familiar with that part of the history of the Jews and also they were familiar with the history about the Jews being cared for by Me the 40 years they were in the wilderness before entering into their promised land where they were granted their appointed lot of land which took 150 years.  He reminded the men that I had granted human judges for them, per their requests, then he reminded them that they asked for a king which resulted in their being given Saul for a king, which lasted 40 years, and then I gave to them David to be their king, a man of whom it was said that He had My own heart who would do My will and carry out My purpose.  (Acts 13:15-22)
    Then Paul launched into the Good News, which the men had never heard.  Paul told them that it was out of the human lineage of David that I had brought a Savior, according to My promise.  Then Paul told the men who were gathered in the synagogue about John the Baptist who had preached repentance to all of the people of Israel.  Paul told the listeners that John the Baptist, who was nearing the end of his life, had told people that he was not the Christ, the anointed One, that in fact he was not worthy to untie the sandals of the Christ, but that He was to come. 
    Paul addressed the men as the sons of the race of Abraham who revered Me, that to them had come salvation through Jesus Christ whom they had not recognized as being the One promised in the prophesies,  He told them that the very person of whom they had heard, read and studied in their scriptures every Sabbath had been sentenced to death, having fulfilled the scriptures, even though there was no law broken by Him that would justify His death.   Paul told the listeners that what happened next fulfilled all of the scriptures.  He told them that Jesus Christ was crucified on a cross and then I raised Him from the dead and he appeared many days to those people who were His disciples and followers.  Paul told the listeners that he and Barnabas were telling those Jews the long awaited Good News, that their Messiah had come, had been crucified, went to hell for the sins of the whole world and was raised from the dead in order to fulfill all of the prophesies.  He told the listeners that He fulfilled the prophesies that promised that I would fulfill and give to them My sure and holy mercies and blessings that were promised and assured to David about the Good News. (Acts 13:34; Isaiah 55:3)
    Paul told the listeners at the synagogue that David had been merely a man, that he had died just like all of their forefathers, and that he was buried.  He told them that it was through Jesus Christ, whom they had killed and was raised by Me, so that through Jesus Christ the forgiveness and removal of sins would be proclaimed to them.  Paul assured the men that for everyone who believed in Jesus Christ their sins would be absolved of every charge and they should not scoff or scorn at the Good News because if they did they would perish away. The men asked if Paul and Barnabas would come back the next week and continue the teaching.  
   The next week almost the entire city of Jews showed up at the synagogue to hear the teaching about the Good News from Paul concerning salvation in My kingdom of God.  The religious and political Jews, who had also harassed and scorned the Words of Life from Jesus Christ, were also filled with envy and jealousy so they contradicted every word from the mouth of Paul, even reviling and slandering him.   Nevertheless, Paul and Barnabas spoke firmly to them that the Good News must come to the Jews first, but that since they had rejected the Good News that they had passed judgment on themselves that they were unworthy of eternal life, because out of their own mouths they were judged.  It was to those Jews that Paul announced that he and Barnabas were going to return to the Gentile heathen to present the Good News to them.  Paul told them that he was called to be a light to the Gentiles, and to bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.
    When the Gentiles heard that news, they rejoiced and glorified My Word and trusted in Jesus Christ as the Christ, the Savior.  It was through Paul and Barnabas that the entire region heard the Good News, even though the Jews incorporated some devout women of rank and men of reputation to persecute Paul and Barnabas. 
    As per the instructions of Jesus Christ, Paul and Barnabas shook the dust of that region off of their feet and moved on to another region. (Acts 13:51; Matthew 10-14)  The disciples were continually infused throughout themselves with the Holy Spirit as a result of their praying in the Holy Spirit and meditating in the Words of Jesus Christ.  
    My instructions were that the truth of the kingdom of God having come to earth in the person of the Holy Spirit would be spread over the whole earth.  On the day of Pentecost people from every country in the world were present to hear My words of salvation spoken in their own country's languages so that they would hear in their own understanding the marvels of My kingdom of God.   To follow up with that miraculous event, I sent Paul and Barnabas to confirm and energize the words that had been told to them or to introduce through them the first wonders of the Good News, that being salvation and for the forgiveness of sins through Jesus Christ.  (Acts 2:1-12)
    There is no salvation and forgiveness of sins except through the Good News of My kingdom of God through belief in Jesus Christ as the Savior of the world.
     Your Father of Holy Spirit Anointed Ministries             

BLESSED IN MIRACLES

My Dear Precious Child,
    As the church began to multiply more and more in Jewish and Gentile believers Herod became more and more paranoid about that sect becoming too powerful.  He instructed his armies to increase their oppression and tormenting of the believers in Jesus Christ.  When he observed that it pleased the unbelieving Jews he increased even more and even arrested Peter and he killed James, the brother of John, with a sword.  His arrest of Peter was a monumental arrest because of Peter's notoriety of having been one of the closest disciples to Jesus.  In order to make sure that Peter stayed in prison Herod put four squads of soldiers, each squad being four men, to guard Peter, planning to try him before the people after Passover.  Peter was kept in prison but the church increased in fervent prayers persistently for him.(Acts 12:4-6)  
    The very night that Herod's plan was to come to fruition Peter was sleeping in his prison cell between two soldiers fastened with two chains to them and with sentries at the door to his cell and guarding the entire prison. Suddenly one of My angels stood before Peter wakening him and whispering to him to get up quickly.  The chains fell off of Peter's hands.  The angel told Peter to put on his belt and sandals and to wrap his outer garment around him and to go with the angel.  Peter obeyed and followed along even though he was not sure if he was having a dream or a vision.(Acts 12:6-7)
    The angel and Peter safely passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate to the city.  On its own power the gate swung open and Peter and the angel passed through it onto a city street.  Then the angel left him because his assignment was finished.  Peter suddenly realized that I had sent the angel and delivered him out of the hands of Herod and all of the Jewish religious and political people who were seeking to kill him.  With the revelation that what was happening was real, Peter went to the house of Mary, the mother or John Mark, where a large crowd of believers were assembled praying for Peter.  (Acts 12:10-12)   Peter knocked at the gate and Rhoda came to answer, but when she saw that it was Peter she left him at the gate and ran and told the believers that Peter was standing at the gate.  The people told Rhoda that she was crazy, that it must have been his angel.  Peter continued knocking and when the gate was opened they saw him and were amazed at how he could get away from four soldiers in four brigades who were guarding him.  It was certainly a miracle.  
     Peter, of course, told them the entire testimony of his imprisonment and his supernatural release, even the chains binding him to the guards falling off of his hands and the gate to the prison opening without human assistance.  He told the believers to tell the testimony to James and the believers with him when they saw James.  Then Peter left that place and went to another town.  (Acts 12:13-17)
    At the prison site, when it became day there was a huge uproar among the soldiers about what had happened to Peter.  Herod himself looked for him and could not find him, so he placed the guards on trial and commanded their execution.  Then Harod went to Caesarea and stayed there with even more bitterness and animosity toward the church of Jesus Christ.  The officials of two provinces came to Herod and begged for peace between him and them because their countries were nourished by the affairs of the king. (Acts 12:18-21)
    On a special day Harod put on his most regal ceremonial clothes and spoke to the people who were loyal to him.  The crowd regarded his speech as that of a god, not a man.  He was cut down by an angel because he did not give glory to Me as the supreme ruler, instead giving glory to himself.  Because of his bitterness Herod became eaten up by worms and died.
    After the death of King Herod, Barnabas and Paul came back from Jerusalem where they had completed their mission that was ordained by Me and the Word continued to spread about the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  (Acts 12:23-25)
    When My children dedicate themselves to praying intercessory prayers in the Holy Spirit, supernatural and unexplainable miracles happen because My angels become part of the solution to the problem as ordained and commissioned by the wisdom and power of My Holy Spirit.  Miracles only happen when My Holy Spirit's commands that come from My mind are the Words prayed in My Heavenly Language out of your mouth.  It's called other tongues, meaning languages not of the earth but praying in the language of My heaven, as happened on the day of Pentecost.  (Acts 2:1-4)
    Your Miracle Producing Father