MEMORY LANE

Dear One,

You have learned a valuable lesson in the fact that there are places in your mind that you just don't go. It's like going to hell when you allow your thoughts to visit those images even for a second. That is where your will comes in.
The will of a person is where choices are made, choosing good over evil, blessings over curses, life over death.
Even some good memories are often places in your mind that need to be avoided until such a time that loneliness and loss are gone. Then you can visit memory lane and enjoy the visits rather than grieving and mourning every time you relive the memories, even though they are good.
Visiting bad memory lane is, of course, never a good idea unless it is a visit in which you are accompanied and ushered in by My Spirit and He accompanies you there to teach you some valuable lessons. Those visits into bad memories should only be taken with the protection of My Spirit and at His guidance.
The "hows" and the "whys" and the "what ifs," and the "if only," thoughts are unnecessary for the newly abandoned person or the recently injured person or the abused person. You should simply enjoy My present and future adventures that I have planned for you, imagining only My plans and surprises and orchestrations that I send to help you over the hurdles that crop up on the road to healing.
I will explain to you all the mechanics connected with a particular bad situation later when the wounds are healed and the scars are gone and the good choices are easier to make.
You are My child and I am obligated to protect you emotionally as well as spiritually and physically. Good earthly dads do that for their children. How much more will I protect My children
Learn to exercise your will by choosing never to look behind but to always look forward toward My new and beneficial blessings for you. I promised them for you and there are already there ready for your harvest.

Love, God
Philippians 3;13-14; Philippians 4:6-8; Matthew 9:16-17; Deuteronomy 30:19-20;

AUTHOR AND FINISHER

Dear One,

Do not give up on your prayers by withdrawing your faith during the waiting time between asking and receiving. Remember that I want you to receive the solutions to your problems as quickly as you do; but there are negative spirits who do not want you to receive the answers to your prayers. They throw into the situation many negative incidents so as to seduce you into giving up, enticing you to lose faith and then they can delay or stop the answer to your prayers.
Your part in the scenario is to hold on to your promises, seek your promises, proclaim your promises time and again to the spirits who are causing the delay.
Speak and proclaim your promises until the negative spirits give up. When they finally give up and when the blockages are out of the way, then the answers will be manifested speedily.
Somebody has to give up. Don't let it be you. You know the Author and Finisher of your faith. You know that I finish every job that I'm given until there is a perfect result.
I author the solution and I finish the job.

Love, God
Hebrews 12:1-3; Ephesians 6: 12-18; Daniel 10: 12-13; James 5:14-15

LIFE OR DEATH, A CHOICE

Dear One,
Life is for the living.
Many people are walking around who are already dead to love, dead to joy, dead to peace, dead to kindness and goodness, dead to mercy and dead to patience because they are not connected to Me through being born of My Spirit. I am Life and when a person is connected to Me, he has Life. The unconnected people are waiting to die because human life has failed them and they do not know that there is spiritually divine life just waiting alongside of them to be invited into their earthly lives to renew and restore and revitalize them with supernatural wonders.
Also, there are some of My children who are walking around with such heavy burdens that they would welcome death as a way of escape from their situations; albeit there are supernatural abilities in the form of My power and authority available to them in the person of the Holy Spirit, sent by Jesus with the promise that He will rid them of the depression by casting off their burdens and changing their bad situations into beneficial ones There is always that choice, choosing between depression and benefits, life and death, good and evil, positives and negatives.
Your spiritual enemies have deceived you into thinking that you have no choice, that you are a victim of bad situations. However, you can choose to be a victim or you can choose to be an overcomer. I can make you an achiever of all good things. You have that choice in every situation. When you choose to achieve success through My benefits, you will be an overcomer. Jesus did and look where He is now, resurrected from the dead and seated at My right hand of Love. You can do that now, achieve resurrection from depression, deceit, strife, conflict and death by drawing on My Spiritual Power to defeat all forms of death, just like Jesus did. I said that when the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dwells in you that he will bring to life your mortal bodies and bless everything related to you. That's a promise you must choose to believe and receive.
Love, God
John 10:10; Romans 8:10-14; II Peter 1:3-9; I John 3:8

MENTAL PLAY AND REPLAY

Dear One,
Your mental activity, the screenplay in your mind, is so much more important than you realize.
The Psalmist David wrote, "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be always acceptable in your sight, my strength and my redeemer."
He wrote that truth because he knew the power that is inherent in the human mind. He wanted to remind himself that he should only allow beneficial images to play over and over in his mind so that good would always be the surrounding atmosphere and the reaped products.
The Psalmist knew that the good ground can be in the mind that produces 100 % return of good things because his faith displayed through mental activity.
Overcoming evil with good also applies to mental activity. Replace imaginary bad images with good ones and you will see the good ones materialize. The first battle is always in the mind between good and evil. Overcome evil with good in your mind and it will be overcome in your world.
Love, God
Psalm 19:14; Matthew 13: 18-23; Philippians 4:8

TEMPORARY INCONVENIENCES

Dear One,
Always know that the best is yet to come!
When you realize that ALL of My promises to you and your children are yea and amen, then you will reap the crop of the good seeds that you have sown.
Realize that My best is your best, that My benefits are your benefits.
Your continued Holy Spirit led prayers are the seeds that guarantee your excellent crops.
Refuse to accept less than the best for all of you.
Since I have given the best to you and you can appropriate it by faith, then your prayers will do their work, they will bring the harvest.
Outward circumstances mean absolutely nothing. They are only the outer covering which will shed when the inner promises emerge.
Looking to the inner promise, forget the negative outer wrappings. They are temporary.
You were created for the best of everything because you are My child. Your heritage is nobility.
Love God
Philippians 3:13 and 14; II Corinthians 1:20; II Corinthians 4:18

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POWER SEEDS

Dear One,
You hear a lot about giving in relationship to receiving your blessings.
Have you considered one aspect of giving the action of giving to Me your mouth in prayer so that I can give to you My words of power which will go forth from your mouth to create the blessings for which you have prayed?
In other words, you give to Me the ingredients for Me to create the blessings, the ingredients being your will, your mouth, your voice and your time. And the end result is that I give back to you the answers to your prayers because we have been in unity. Your participation is minimal and My participation is great because I have also given to you the words to pray.
Giving love to people is also giving love to Me. That love will be returned to you from others and you will be blessed considerably. Love seeds have the most productive ability of all seeds.
Love, God
I Corinthians 14:14-19; I Peter 4:8

POWERHOUSE FAITH

Dear One,
Faith comes by hearing the words of a person in whom you have utmost confidence, one who has promised that he will do what he says he will do.
Deep seated, powerhouse faith is a result of My children knowing My voice and hearing My voice or seeing My actions and then they have total confidence in Me.
Surface faith comes about when one only knows about a person, only knowing his reputation for honesty and concern. Surface faith only lasts for a while, and then when testing of that faith comes from the devil the person will abandon his surface faith and take on fear. In dire circumstances sometimes a person with surface faith will come to Me for My words of faith and he will receive My gift of faith, the kind of faith that is power filled and necessary for bringing about the answer to prayers. Surface faith is only the foundation upon which powerhouse faith is built.
Powerhouse faith is what My children have when they know Me and know My promises and know My voice. They know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I will perform what I have promised because I have taken an oath to them that I will do something in particular. I am always talking to you to give you powerhouse faith, which is that oath to you that I will do what I promised.
I am always looking for ways to get My words to you in the form of my oath. There is a veil of darkness that the devil has put in your mind that I have to pierce before you can receive My oaths to you. You should determine to hear My personal words to you so that you can receive powerhouse faith to move mountains. Then the efforts on My part are easier.

Love, God
Hebrews 6: 11-20; Hebrews 11:1; Acts 1:8

BLAME

Dear One,

When blame is to placed for any and all tragedies, there are two things to consider: number one, the devil comes to rob, kill and destroy; number two, Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil so that you might have the abundant life.
If someone is killed or robbed or something is destroyed, it is the work of the devil in the life of the robber or the killer or the destroyer.
If abundant life is evident in a person's life, then it is the work of the power that in Jesus who destroys the works of the devil in lives.
When evil deeds are done, place the blame on the devil who instigated it, contrived it and temped the person who carried out the evil deed.
Praise and thanksgiving are to be placed on My Son and Me when evil is defeated in any way.
Consult Me and I will show you how to destroy all the works of the evil one.

Love, God
I John 3:8; John 10:10; Ephesians 6:12

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