AMBASSADORS OF PEACE

Dear One,

Men make museums out of things that kill and destroy people, like wars. My children should make museums out of things, ideas and instruments of peace.
Jesus is called the Prince of Peace.
Peace can come after a war but at the cost of lives. If peace can come after a war, then peace should be reached and instigated by My children before a war erupts.
Jesus said that peacemakers are blessed and called children of God. You should be instruments of peace and then you will rightly be called My children.
One of the outgrowths of having My Spirit inside of you is the fruit of peace.
Look around you, where are the museums and buildings that are dedicated to remembering men who promote peace, who speak peace and congeniality among brothers, friends, nations and countries?
Your churches that bear My name should be known as instruments of peace because Jesus also said, "My peace I give to you."
When you have My peace you will promote peace among all men. Then you will be known as My children because you bring peace to every situation.
You can be known as a prince of peace just like your brother Jesus. He said He was the first of many brethren. Follow His example.

Love, God
Isaiah 2:4; Matthew 5:9; John 14:27; II Thessalonians 3:16; Psalm 85:8; Isaiah 52:7; Isaiah 57:19-21; Luke 2:14.

ORIGIN OF EVIL DEEDS

Dear One,

People are not evil. Sometimes people do evil deeds. There are evil spirits who are constantly tempting people to do the evil deeds.
That truth is the reason why I look on the hearts of people, not on their flesh.
Many horrible things have been done in My name by My children to others because the evil spirits of religion have caused My children to perform evil actions, all the while My children were thinking that they were doing My will in the matter.
Actually, My instructions to them were to do the exact opposite, but the spirits of religion convinced My children that they must act in a way that is contrary to My will. All the time My children were wanting to please Me. Their hearts were right but they didn't know that they were listening to an evil spirit, the spirit of religion, whose object in its temptation is to produce disciples just like it and its father, the devil. Jesus addressed that issue many times.
There are other actions that are instigated by other demanding evil spirits whose object is the same, to create its own disciples, tempting people to do evil deeds to My other children.
Let love always be the motivation in every action you do and every word you speak. I said to let every word -- notice I said every word -- that you speak bring grace to the hearer. The only words that bring grace to the hearer are words of love.
I also said to love your enemies and to do good to those who do evil to you, turning the other cheek, which means that you must turn away from the evil and not perpetuate it by duplicating it in the situation.
You must determine to look on the spirit of every person, just like Jesus did, refusing to judge and condemn, but sending My love to everyone no matter what evil deeds they are performing.
Your civil laws will take care of the punishment for their breaking the law.
Your job is to distribute the laws of love and forgiveness.
Do what I did through Jesus and what I continue to say through my Holy Spirit. Always let love be your action and reaction to others who are yielding to evil temptations. You have done the same thing in many ways, obeyed the voice of the evil ones.
Extend the same degree of love to others that I extend to you. Jesus died for all men. Remember that I said when you were dead in your sin He died for you.
He died so that you might have the power of love in you to distribute to others.

Love, God
John 8:15-16; Romans 14:13-14; Matthew 7:1-2; John 8:36-47; Ephesians 4:29-32; Ephesians 2:4-6; Colossians 2:13-15.

SEND ANXIETY PACKING

Dear One,
You should refuse to respond to panic and anxiety the way you would refuse to respond to an unruly little child.
My children treat anxiety like it is a big monster but it's not. It's a little, tiny invisible worm of a creature that you can smash with your little finger or you can step on and crush completely. Jesus said that He allowed you to put your enemy under your feet. Yes, he was talking about the demonic spirits who are as snakes and scorpions to you just like satan was as a snake originally in the Garden. They are powerless unless you give them power through fear.
Very often what happens is your imagination buys into the temptation to run and hide from life when anxiety presents itself in your mind. Then anxiety and panic do a victory dance instead of you being the one doing the victory dance on its ugly and tiny worm head.
Anxiety if a minuscule sized worm who is scared of its own image. It is anxious and panicky itself and that's why it wants to make you the same, a coward like it is. The only real power it has is to deceive you into thinking it has the power to scare you with false imaginations.
You have My power and you have the authority in My name. Of whom or what should you be afraid?
Anxiety shrinks in fear at the mention of My name. Stare anxiety and panic down and refuse to be immobilized. It will leave like the coward it is. Make anxiety fear you instead of you fearing it.
You have all the arsenal necessary to overcome anxiety and fear. You have the power of My Holy Spirit, you have the name of Jesus and you have My angels who gird you up with strength. You have more power than the atomic bomb does in y9ur world.
Love, God
Luke 10: 18; John 14:27; Malachi 4:2-3: Psalm 27:1; Psalm 91:1-16.

MERCY ATTRACTS MERCY

Dear One,
After you learn about My mercy, you should be well versed in the benefits of having mercy extended by Me to you. Then you must practice extending My mercy to others.
Extend mercy to the person who is sinning, just like I do to you.
Extend mercy to the person who is diseased and in pain, just I do to you.
Extend mercy to the person who is an abuser, just like I do to you when you unknowingly abuse others by speaking unkind words or by omitting to provide kind words when they are necessary.
Extend mercy to the person who is in rebellion to me or the child who is in rebellion to his parents.
Extend mercy to the person who is indiscreet.
Extend mercy to the person who enjoys his unrighteousness, just like I did to you when you walked in darkness.
Extend mercy to the person who constantly misses the mark.
When you give mercy you will receive mercy. It's an equal exchange and a spiritual principle that you receive back what you give. It's called seed sowing.
Also, when you extend mercy to others, then people will know that you are My child because you have loved the unlovable and the undeserving.
I want to show the unbelievers through My children that I am merciful instead of judgmental and condemning. Unbelievers won't know My true nature unless My children exemplify it.
Extend mercy to everyone so that others will know that I am merciful.
Love, God
Romans 5:6-8; Hebrews 4:15-16; Matthew 7:1-5; Luke 6:37-38; John 7:24; John 8:15-16; John 12:47-50; Matthew 9:13; Luke 1:78-80.

BEGINNING, MIDDLE AND END

Dear One,

In answer to your prayers I have begun a good work and I will continue the good work.
You have only seen the beginning of the transformation. You will see the middle and the end results.
Give salvation time to do its perfect work. Do not stop in your endeavor of walking in the Spirit and praying in the Spirit.
We make a great team working together because we are equally yoked, in unity for the same purpose which is wholeness in all areas of your life, your family, your prosperity, your relationships, your recreation and the revelation of the keys to My kingdom.
Always remember that My promises are yea and amen., so be it.

Love, God
Matthew 11:29; Hebrews 12:3; II Corinthians 1:20-22; Romans 8:1; Galatians 5:16; Romans 8;26

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PRODUCTION TIME

Dear One,
Give Me time to perfect that which is of the most concern to you.
What concerns you is of vital importance to Me, also. It is the most important thing to Me.
I instructed you to be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in love and gentleness and kindness. That is your part in the equation of seeing your prayers answered.
Persist in your prayers.
Persist in loving the lovable and the unlovable.
Persist in determination that you will have the best and the highest in the situation.
You are My child; therefore you deserve the best. Do not settle for anything but the best. Do not be moved by circumstances or negative reports. Only be moved by My promises that you will have the best.
I have promised that your children would be saved. They are constantly being saved by My grace and through your prayers. All situations combine together in the culmination of that promise. Your children will be saved from the curses of all demonic activity.
Trust Me to do the work. My ways are not your ways. They are the highest and the best. Rejoice because salvation is nigh.
Stand back and see the salvation of your Lord.
Love, God
I Timothy 1:11; I Corinthians 15:58; II Corinthians 8:7; Philippians 1:9; Colossians 4:12; James 5:16.

CREATIVE EXPECTATIONS

Dear One,

Your expectations for the future will materialize, whether good or bad, positive or negative.
Expectations are precursors to reality because they are things for which you have wished or things for which you have feared.
Expectations are an image in your mind, thought upon, dwelt upon, then nourished by your mind which added power and energy to them. Then they materialize, having been wished, imaged and nourished much like the formation and birth of a baby.
Creation takes place in your mind all the time and it begins in the form of thoughts. Gestation takes place every day, feeding the images with more and more either positive or negative images. Then birthing takes place, sometimes for things you have desired or sometimes for things you haven't desired, according to whether the thoughts have been positive or negative,.
Thoughts either proceed from life or death. Loving, blessing and forgiving thoughts bring life to you and to others.
I've told My children that what a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
When you keep your mind focused on Me and the benefits of being My child, the benefits of love, joy, peace, goodness, mercy, kindness and patience will flow to you like a river because they are your inheritance.
Your thoughts are the drawing boards of creativity. After all, you are made in My image so you are a creator also, just like I am.

Love, God
Psalm 139:23 & 24; Proverbs 23:7; Matthew 6:7-9;
Matthew 15:19-20; Philippians 4:8; Hebrews 4:12 & 13; I John 4:17

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HILLS AND VALLEYS

Dear One,

On any adventuresome journey you pass over hills and through valleys. The two different terrains cause the trip to be varied, to be more beautiful and adventuresome than merely boring flat land.
There is a thumbprint to every spiritual journey which reveals that all of My wisdom and knowledge are available to you in the form of solutions to each problem you will encounter in your spiritual journeys. The thing is, you must always seek my wisdom and knowledge of how to travel every particular road because they've all been traveled many times before by other people and My solutions were instigated by many of them. You will receive My insight into the problems along the way, and the solutions to those problems will come with My wisdom and knowledge.
Discouragement does not come when you travel over hills and through valleys on car trips, so it must not be allowed to reign when you travel through spiritual hills and valleys in your earthly travels. Just appreciate the beauty that is there while you travel and know that you will be through the valleys eventually.
Even when you travel by car, when you are in the valleys you can see the tops of the hills and you know that you will arrive there in a short matter of time.
Spiritual journeys have the same scenario, you can see the tops of the hills where you will have freedom from the problems in the valleys. Keep your eyes on the tops of the hills.
A wise man wrote, "I will lift up my eyes unto the hills, from whence comes My help. My help comes from the Lord which made heaven and earth."
Another man wrote, "Turn your eyes upon Jesus. Look full in His wonderful face. And the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace."
Jesus said, "Come unto Me all you who labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest."
There are solutions to every problem because they are all common to men.
Love, God
Psalm 121; Psalm 23; I Corinthians 10:13

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REST FOR YOUR SOUL

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Dear One,
There is a place of peace and quiet rest inside of you where you can find tranquility, even though there is strife and turmoil around you.
I am in that place of rest in the kingdom within you, and My presence is the reason for the peace and the tranquility.
When Jesus walked the earth, every place He put his feet became holy ground because of My life within him. It is, likewise, true of your spirit within you where I live. There is rest and peace and tranquility there because I live there . I'm always ready to restore peace and tranquility to you. They are present within your being, within your spirit.
How do you find peace? You must shut down your troubled mind, retreat into your inner man where I live, and rest and peace will flood your entire being.
I said I would give rest for your soul. It's always there. You must turn from the frantic life that you live, decide you want rest, and then shift your whole being into fellowship with Me. I'm not far away. I'm inside of you in your spirit. I live inside of you in the person of the Holy Spirit. He is the distributor of My peace and rest within you. Ask Him to flood you with peace and He will. He's the Giver of peace.
"Peace, peace wonderful peace," is yours.
I will sweep over you with peace from your spirit in fathomless billows of love.
Love, God
John 14:1; John 14:27; Romans 8:8; Romans 14;19; Romans 15:13

DAMAGING EXTREMES

Dear One,
Your spiritual enemies and My spiritual enemies work in extremes.
They work in these:
extremes in emotions, resulting in emotional instability or detachment;
extremes in reason, resulting in unbelief and philosophical ideology;
extremes in religion, resulting in separation from society, becoming exclusive;
extremes in control, resulting in loss of freedom;
extremes in discipline and punishment, resulting in beatings and even death;
extremes in politics, resulting in divisions, strife and wars;
extremes in consumption of food and drink, resulting in gluttony or alcoholism;
extremes in responsibility resulting in neglect of family;
extremes in irresponsibility resulting in failure to provide;
extremes in dress and undress, resulting in judgmental modesty or nakedness;
extremes in sexual appetite, resulting in enslavement and abuse;
extremes in physical exercise, resulting in obsession;
extremes in lack of exercise, resulting in sloth and physical ills;
extremes in work ethics or lack of work ethics; resulting in work obsession or poverty.
Remember that the devil always takes things of Mine and takes them to extremes. he is not original because he is not a creator. he has to take what I created as good and turns it into evil by taking it to extremes.
Keep that thought in your mind as you assess the viability of everything in your life, is it extreme or is it balanced? Is it beneficial or is it harmful? The extremes are harmful to you and they are the things with which the devil temps. he tempted Jesus with extremes. Remember how Jesus refused the temptations, quoting My balanced insight and instructions relating to each temptation. You can do the same. Be on the alert for extremes, for they will be presented into your life. Refuse anything that is extreme and unbalanced.
Love, God
Matthew 4:2-11; Galatians 5: 19-25

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SOAKING IN

Dear One,
Soak in beauty today.
Soak in music.
Soak in love.
Soak in peaceful places.
Soak in miracle stories and images.
Soak in everything that I have provided to enrich your life . Then the worries and cares and fretting will have no room to enter your mind because your mind is already filled with My gifts to you.
Fill your mind to overflowing with My miracles that I have performed for you. Then be thankful for them. Yes, there will be no room left for negative, nagging thoughts because your mind is fixed on My goodness and kindness.
Fill your mind with me and be thankful. Everything will fall into place.
Love, God
Philippians 4:8; Isiah 26:3; II Corinthians 13:11

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DECEPTION

Dear One,
I am constantly cautioning My children with My gift of discerning of spirits. Yet, most often, My children will refuse to believe the inner check, inner discernment, the inner umpire.
If you will always rein in your emotions when you have an uneasy feeling, then you will be free to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit and discern whether heaven or hell is ministering to you.
Remember that evil appears in sheep's clothing, especially religious evils. They appear as genuine when all along they are wolves enticing you in many ways. Always use My reasoning instead of emotions when dealing with religious people and you will receive the good parts and refuse the evil that is clothed in sheep's clothing. I don't want you deceived.
Love, God
Matthew 7:15-20; Matthew 24:4-12

WORDS AND THOUGHTS

Dear One,
Prayer changes things. Prayer changes people. Prayer changes situations. Prayer changes circumstances.
Remember that every word prayed in the Holy Spirit has power to restore.
Prayer brings all of My spiritual hosts into the situation and gives strategies and intricate working plans so that My perfect will is instigated.
Are there oppositions to your prayers? Yes, there are. First of all, your negative thoughts and words are opposing forces to your prayers. You pray one thing but if your mental images or verbal words are in opposition to the prayers, then there is a time of delay and sometimes a complete cessation in the perfect results. That is called double mindedness.
Negative spirits wait for you to give them negative plans and strategies through your thoughts and words. Those spirits are waiting for you to give them permission, through unbelieving thoughts and words, to bring destruction. Resist the negative thoughts and words and only speak and think in unity with your prayers.
Reinforce the ones who work and wish for your success and the success of all your family. We are all cooperating with you. Your angels are eager to bless you, just like I am. Agree with My plans and strategies by only thinking and speaking blessing words into the situation. That's when miracles happen, when blessing thoughts and blessing words are added to your prayers.
Love, God
James 1:2-8; John 10:10

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Faith Paths

Dear One,

The path of faith is a very narrow one. It involves disciplining the mind to keep it on the believing path and not allowing the mind to take tangent paths into doubt, confusion, unbelief, fretting and wondering, etc. Those crossroads will always present themselves to you on the path of faith because your spiritual enemies do not want you to operate in faith.

If you allow your mind to take a temporary journey down one of those negative roads, then you are in enemy territory and it is hard to get back on the right path, the faith path.

Many times during the day you are presented with crossroads and they come to you in the form of thoughts. If you will immediately choose the faith path and stay on it, then your power walk will be easier.

Often, the way to stay on the faith path is by confessing and declaring what I have to say about the matter. Other times the way to stay on the faith path is by praying and then hearing My words of comfort. Other times the way to stay on the faith path is by declaring your allegiance to Me. Those positive actions in the face of negative thoughts will guarantee your getting back onto the faith path They will bring your mind into unity with your spirit where faith is established.

Love, God

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