TESTING OF FAITH AND LOVE

Dear One,
The testing of your faith always comes from your enemy, the devil.
The testing of your love always comes from your enemy, the devil, and his testing comes to get you into areas of fear, impatience, hatred, anger, disgust, depression, etc. so that you will lose your peace and sense of well being. Then he will send in his reinforcements to try to defeat you in other areas of your life. That is his battle plan.
Because love and faith are attributable to personality traits that you have inherited from Me, he wants to rob you of your identity as My child.
When you have resisted the devil and when you have refused to fall for his deceit, then you are ministered to by My angels just like Jesus was ministered to after He resisted the devil by using My written words.
If you fall for the enemy's deceit and allow him to force you to abandon love and faith, then he can harass you even more because you are in his territory and you are surrounded with his family of demons. If that occurs, you should realize what has happened, then immediately renounce his works in your life and return to your life of love and faith so that I can work for you though My angels.
You know that turning from a wrong path of action is what is called repenting. It means to turn away and go another path.
When you repent you are turning away from the devil's actions and reactions and you are returning to My actions and reactions of love, peace, kindness, goodness, patience, mercy and faith which will restore your peace of mind and loving ways. Then we're back on My game plan of spreading My love into the world, covering everyone with My love.

Love, God
Matthew 4:1-11; Galatians 5:13-25

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POSITIVE IMAGES

Dear One,
Images are important. People are reflected images of their parents.
Children reflect images of their parents, positive or negative.
A person continues to reflect those images unless he meets a person who become his mentor, and then he reflects other images, positive or negative.
The greatest change comes when you meet Me and you have a new image to reflect. There is a supernatural change when you meet Me, because when My Spirit comes into your life you become a new person with My life changing Spirit inside of you. Then you have new images to reflect.
The more you get to know Me, the more like Me you become.
However, if you only know what religious mentors say about Me and if they portray religious images rather than true images of Me, then you are again reflecting other people, not Me, and there will be negative images mixed in with some positive images.
When you know Me intimately and when you reflect My image in your life, then you love other people just like I do and you value each person's uniqueness. You refuse to mold yourself and others into a false idea of My image. When you know Me and reflect Me, then you allow others to be free from your judgment. The result is that you are also not judged. I'm eager to hear people say about My children that they are My images and that if they have seen them they have seen Me. It makes this Father proud.
Love, God
Matthew 5:16; John 5:10; John 14:9-12; I John 4:14-16; Ephesians 3:14-19.

NO LIMITS

Dear One,
My glory is in you in the person of the Holy Spirit.
My glory is also around you in the angels and My omnipresence.
There can be no fear, no dread, no unbelief when you know that I am in you and My angels are around you to minister to you and for you.
I am called the Lord of Hosts because of My angels who minister for me and for My children.
I will give you guidance, comfort and I will teach you and love you though My Holy Spirit. I will fight your battles and minister to and for you through My angels.
When you have so much going for you, how can you keep from having faith for anything? You cannot fail when you walk in the Spirit and pray in the Spirit.
I said that all things will work together for your good when you are led by My Spirit and pray in My Spirit. In fact, I said I would do exceedingly, abundantly more than you dare think or imagine according to the power that is in you.
When the power in you is My Holy Spirit, then the sky is not the limit. Beyond the sky into the heavens is the only limit.
Depend on Me and My hosts of working angels. We are dependable.
Love, God
Ephesians 3:14-20; Romans 8

STAND UP

Dear One,
When your mind is set on religious teachings about the end of time, then you stop truly living in the present time. You also neglect using your authority to put your enemy under your feet when you're planning on a great escape from an anticipated end of the world.
Jesus said, "Father, I don't ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one." I granted His request when I sent the Holy Spirit with all of My authority and power into the world to be received by My children and then used to overcome the evil one.
Many of My children are like soldiers who lay down their weapons and then lay down on the battlefield waiting to go home when all the time they have the power, authority and ability to defeat the enemy who is bringing all manner of evil against them at the time. The soldiers only need to use the weapons of their warfare to chase the enemy off of the field and into prison camps and then the soldiers can live in peace. As long as the soldiers wait for the end, while laying down on the battlefield, there is no victory and the enemy is allowed to continue to use his tactics to defeat the soldiers as well as the families of the soldiers.
My children should not be like those soldiers, defeated while their powerful weapons lay beside them on the field as they wait to be taken out of the battle.
It is all so simple, but the enemy has used deception against My children and My children have believed the lies. Instead of using My power and authority against the enemy, who is the devil and his demons, they use it against other people who do not believe the same doctrines that they believe. My children are not the enemy of My children. The devil and his demons are.
Pick yourself up off of the battlefield if you are waiting for Me to take you out of the battle. Use My authority and power that I have given you in the person of the Holy Spirit and send the spiritual enemies to the abyss where they belong.
I am in you. Because I am in you, you have all power, dominion and authority to restore the earth to a state of peace.
Pick up your weapons. Take up the sword of the spirit. Then gird your loins with truth, putting on the gospel of peace, and your breastplate of righteousness. The battle against evil is yours. You have already won the war. Now win each individual battle in your life with the aid of My Holy Spirit.
Take off your spiritual purple heart medals given to the wounded that you so proudly display and put on the Medal of Honor that your brother Jesus passed on to you. He died for that medal and He passed it on to you when He sent the Holy Spirit into you.
I am with you in every battle; and, guess what, we win when you pick up your weapons and engage in battle against the devil and his demons.
Love, God
Ephesians 6:10-18; John 17:15-2

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UNCONDITIONAL LOVE AND APPROVAL

Dear One,
I created man in My image in the beginning. We exchanged love because I am love. In the beginning man was love.
When man listened to satan, then he lost his feeling of being loved because his fellowship with Me was severed.
However, because we once shared the highest degree of love before the fellowship was broken, all men crave three things: love, acceptance and approval. Those are the true soul foods.
With the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus and then his sending of the Holy Spirit into the earth to be received by men, now it is possible for men to again receive My love, My unconditional acceptance and My approval from within himself.
There are many people who do not know that they can have what their souls crave because they don't know the truth. It is the obligation of each one of My children to show the true meaning of love, acceptance and approval to the unloved, the unaccepted and the unapproved. People will not know it is possible to have what their souls crave unless My children become My image again and freely give the nourishment for the souls that I gave to every person through Jesus and I give now through the Holy Spirit.
Let all men know that I love them just they way they are, that I accept them just the way they are, and that I approve of them just the way they are. You can do that by showing My love, My acceptance and My approval.
I extend the same grace to you, pouring into you My love, My acceptance and My approval. Now you must extend it to others so that they will know that I love, accept and approve of them.
Love, God
Ephesians 2:5; Colossians 2:13 & 14; I John 4:19-21

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

SPIRITUAL PANORAMA

Dear One,
Learning to lean on Me is learning to depend on my expertise in all your affairs, in your work, your family, your friendships, your entertainment. I am interested in every area of your life and I have necessary insights into every area. I know how to make your life the abundant life that I promised.
When you lean to your own understanding you are frequently too close to the forest and you can't see and appreciate the trees, or you are so lost in the forest you can't find your way out because of your limited vision.
My understanding is infinite because I am at a magnificent vantage point where I can see the whole scenario relating to your life. I can see the pitfalls, which I will lead you to avoid. I can see the unencumbered paths that you can take where there is safety and protection, as well as success and prosperity.
Even your spiritual vision is tunnel vision without the guidance of the Holy Spirit. With My guidance, through Him in you, you have panoramic vision, the ability to see and discern the right directions, the right decisions, the right plans and the right words to speak.
Remember that My Holy Spirit prayers are the right prayers to pray at all times and will see astounding results.
You have a powerful guide called the Holy Spirit. Take advantage of his gifts to you which will make your life abundantly blessed.
Love, God
John 14:25-27; John 16:7-15