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