ABSOLUTES

Dear One,
   There are few absolutes in your world.  One sure, tried and true absolute is that everything I have is yours because you are My child.  Yes, I said that everything I have is yours, My peace, My love, My goodness, My blessings, My supernatural power, My joy, My salvation from all evil, My righteousness, My prosperity, My grace, My forgiveness, My authority in the earth, My kingdom, and My life. They were all bought and the price paid by My son Jesus.  As you know, they became yours when you were born of My Spirit, when My Spirit came into you and  created a new life within you.  The start of the appropriation of My gifts for you is begun when you are baptized by My Holy Spirit because He is your advocate who dispenses My gifts to My children who desire them.  He is the promise that I gave through Jesus when He told them to wait for My promise, the One who would explain all of the teaching of Jesus, one who would be your counselor, advocate, tutor, the Spirit of truth, the One who reveals of all things hidden and the One who reveals My love to My children. (Acts 1:6-8; John 16:7-15)

    There is a reason that Jesus said to seek My kingdom and My righteousness.  It's because when you seek My kingdom and find it, all of My gifts become legally yours because you are My child.  Then when you seek My righteousness, which is becoming conformed to My image, the dispensing of My gifts to you begins and you become identified in the heavens as My child by your character traits.  Your spiritual royalty is then established and My hosts of angels bring to you all the benefits of being My child.  That doesn't happen all at once.  It happens precept by precept, line by line, here a little, there a little, because your human brain can only handle a little truth at a time.  It takes time for you to take off the old evil habits and put on My good habits which are always character traits of love.  Religious laws are stripped away and spiritual truths are incorporated into your mind.
    My love for you has nothing to do with your ability to assimilate spiritual truths.  My love is never earned.  It is yours because I am love.  Your ability to receive all of My blessings depends upon your seeking to become My righteousness in the earth.  You cannot return evil for evil done to you and expect to receive My blessings.  You cannot hold grudges, being unforgiving, and expect to receive My blessings. You cannot strike back at someone who strikes you and expect to receive My blessings.  You cannot only love those who love you and expect to receive My blessings.  I said when you return good for evil, when you bless those who curse you, when you turn the other cheek, when you love your enemies as I love them, then you are known as My children in the earth and in the heavens.  My blessings to you in the earth and My blessings for you in the heavens will flow like a river to you. (I John 5:2-6)
   Every big and little thing that I have in My heaven belong to you as My child.  Seek My righteousness and receive your blessings.  Your name is written on them.  No one else can have them but you.  They are waiting for you. (Matthew 6:33)
   Your Kind and Loving Father  
      

DISCIPLESHIP

Dear One,
   We have talked at length about what discipline is, that it is discipleship, training a being into becoming what is in the image of the trainer.  Discipleship is not punishment.  It is guidance and training, leading the pupil into the right thoughts, attitudes and behavior as taught by the parent, teacher, guide, master or trainer.   Discipleship requires the time of the trainer and of the learner.  If there is inadequate time given on the part of the trainer, then the trainee becomes unmanageable and undisciplined, ignorant of what is required.  Often the trainer punishes the trainee for doing something that the trainer was delinquent in teaching the trainee.  The problem is not the trainee, it's the lack of time spent by the trainer in leading and guiding his trainee. (Ephesians 2:4)

   So where does punishment come in?  It is said that sin has its own punishments.  Those punishments are not pleasant because they are the result of the trainee getting into dangerous territory which causes destruction to people.  So it is the effects of disobedience that brings punishment upon a disciple or trainee. Real discipleship, whether in parenting or in training, is given to protect the disciple from the effects of making bad choices which will cause harm to himself and others.
   Jesus said to his disciples that they were discipled by His words.  There was never any sickness, diseases or abuse given to people to whom He ministered.  He healed their sickness and diseases and took from them the broken hearts that come from abuses done to them.  He cured them instead of punishing them.  Their punishment came from the devil who tempts My children to think and do evil works.  He tempts them and then he brings evil results from their obedience to him. His works are the punishment that comes from disobedience.  When My children return to Me after making the bad choices which resulted in bad things happening to them, I restore them to My family and bless them because they have returned to Me and have turned from the bad choices that came from obeying the temptations of the evil one.   I do not punish.  I restore.
    How do I relate this to forgiveness?  When an offense is done to you, the temptation comes from hell for you to punish the one who offends you.  Also, the prompting comes from Me to forgive someone who offends you.  You have the choice because I gave My children the will to choose between good and evil.  Even the cartoonists in your world have portrayed that scenario when they draw a devil from hell whispering in one ear and an angel from Me whispering in the other ear.  That is exactly what happens. 
    When My children have allowed My Holy Spirit, who is My personal tutor for them, to lead and guide them into truth, they realize that I am not the one who punishes, but that I am the One who heals people from the effects of the punishment that was exacted by the devil upon the ones who obey his temptations.  I am never angry with My children who make bad choices in obedience to the devil.  I am always eager to embrace and restore them to My family and My blessings.  I grieve for them because they have suffered the punishment from the evil one.  And I am always waiting for the prodigals to return to Me for My love and My blessings.
   So when someone hurts you, I tutor you to forgive the person, refusing to wish the punishment of the devil from coming upon them.  When you don't forgive, you also suffer the effects of the punishment because you are bound to the offender in your thoughts. When you forgive the person, you release the person from punishment and you release yourself from the punishment caused by the situation.  When you forgive a person, you incorporate the offender in your efforts to defeat the work of the devil in the offensive situation.  That is why I said to do good to your enemies.  In doing so, you tenderize your enemy who hurt you, causing your enemy to give up his or her anger at you and he or she releases you from the offense that caused the situtation in the beginning. 
   Forgiveness is one of My most powerful tools to aid My children in defeating the works of the devil.  Refusing to forgive a person aids the devil in doing his work in the earth.  When you refuse to forgive others, you work in cooperation with the evil,; but when you forgive others you work in cooperation with My goodness in the world.
   Jesus taught you by His example of forgiving the ones who killed him and asking Me to forgive them.  His remarks about, "They know not what they do," meant that they did not know that they were furthering the devil's work.  You must maintain the same attitudes, that anyone who wrongs you does not know that he or she is furthering the devil's work.  Therefore, they deserve your forgiveness because I forgive you.(Luke 23:34)
    Release yourself from promoting the devil and begin to forgive others so that you promote My kingdom.(Matthew 5:14-15)
     Your Forgiving and Loving Father       
       

FORGIVING YOURSELF

Dear One,
  Some people find it easy to forgive others but find it difficult to forgive themselves for mistakes, for bad choices, for iniquities, for frivolously disobeying civil laws, for forgetfulness, for yielding to temptations, and for disappointing their parents, their children or their peers.  Forgiveness extends to yourself as well as to others.

  Since I immediately forgive you of any infractions, you must learn to immediately forgive yourself. Otherwise, you "beat yourself up" over something that never existed in My mind but only existed in your own mind and in the minds of others.  "Beating yourself up" emotionally is counterproductive because its effect is the same as being unforgiving toward others, it sets up the flow of hormones which will actually "beat up" your body unmercifully, causing undue chemical stress on your immune system, your peace of mind, your foundation of love and your actions toward others.  It is a result of the spirit of guilt which comes from hell. 
   I don't make you feel guilty of anything.  I am the rescuer from guilt, condemnation and judgment.  Guilt is a tool of your enemy, the devil, who exists to curse My children in an effort to rob them of their inheritance from Me. When you choose not to forgive yourself, you are plagued with guilt from hell instead of blessed with forgiveness from Me.   
   We have talked many times about forgiving others.  You need to relate being unforgiving to deeming the person guilty.  When you refuse to forgive others, you are intent on personally finding them guilty of a wrongdoing either against you or against someone you care deeply about.  You want to make that person feel like he or she deserves your condemnation and judgment.  You want to exert your being right over that person, in essence dominating him or her, and you want to see that the person is punished by you.  What happens is that you also get punished because your thoughts, emotions, attitudes and actions are negatively affected chemically by the hormones of your own body which were given by Me to protect you from apparent danger, called the fight or flight syndrome.  Instead of being righteous in the situation by letting the incident go, you want to be right, declaring the other person wrong. You fight the person instead of fighting the devil who brings the guilt to your mind.
   Refusing to forgiving yourself is even more sinister.  You become your own enemy by refusing to forgive yourself, You deny My forgiveness for you and become judge and jury of yourself.  Hospitals are full of people who refuse to forgive themselves of things they have done.  Their thoughts, attitudes and emotions have "beaten" them up by turning against them by their refusing to love themselves as I love them, thus forgiving themselves. 
   You must put your own mistakes, your bad choices, your bad actions, plus your bitterness toward others and yourself on the cross of Jesus.  He died for the sins, mistakes and bad choices of everyone.  You must forgive yourself and other people for not being perfect.  (Romans 5:8) Nobody is perfect, no, not one.  Jesus, Himself, said that even He was not good, that I am the only good Being.  That remark means that He was tempted to sin while in the earth just like other humans, but I am resident in heaven where there is no temptation by evil to sin.(Matthew 19:16-17)
   When My children seek My kingdom they seek liberty, freedom from all manner of evil.  One benefit of your finding the right key to freedom is the key of forgiveness of yourself.  When you do, you become white as snow, free of self condemnation, free of guilt and free of judgment.  I don't judge you.  You judge yourself when you refuse to forgive yourself just like you judge others when you refuse to forgive them.(Isaiah 1:18-19)
   Release yourself from the bondage to guilt and unreasonable expectations.  Forgive yourself for not being perfect.  Bring freedom into your life by releasing yourself from guilt and self incrimination.  Jesus bought that freedom for you.  Enjoy the benefits of forgiving yourself because your relationship with Me is restored immediately when you get your mind off of yourself and onto Me again.  There is perfect peace when your mind is set on Me. (Isaiah 26:3-4)
   Your Forgiving Father         
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LORD WHO?

Dear One,
  A lord is someone who is in charge of an area that was delegated to him or her by the owner or official who is responsible for it.  It is a royal position, a position of honor.  With the lordship comes many areas of responsibility including the production of crops, delegated authority over the workers, the care of the resources, the upkeep of buildings, the purity of water, plus the care of all animals and machinery.  A benevolent lord is not domineering to the people as in "lording" it over anyone.  He or she is a gracious, kind, loving, grateful and generous manager.
  The word "lord" is a regional term used by a group of religious men who were responsible for translating My Instruction Book into a certain language. Their idea of being a lord over something might not have the wide range of meaning that I intended.  I certainly didn't intend for it to mean domineering.  I meant for it to mean benevolent and gracious, as I am kind, good and loving to My children.

   I gave the earth to My children in the beginning of time. I told the first man to have gracious dominion over everything in the earth just like I am the gracious God of the universe. I made My children in My image with My characteristics, My love, My joy, My peace, My wisdom, My intelligence, My free will and My joy.  I never told the first man that other people would be subject to his dominion. I gave free will to all people.  I only said that things in the earth, excluding people, would be under the management of My children because it's a gift from Me. When the first man allowed the exiled spirit, the devil, to legally enter the domain of people, things began to be polluted with evil. 
   I redeemed My children and the earth through My son Jesus who entered the earth legally through a woman, thus being both God and man, having My Spirit in His blood and spirit and having the body of a man.  His earthly body made Him legally able to save the earth and people from destruction. 
   The problem now is that My children who are called by My name often become  managers of the earth in the image of their enemy, the devil, who makes them in his image through his temptations.  They change the image of the godly into the image of the ungodly  They curse the earth that I gave to them by their negative, angry, destructive attitudes and words and they curse others who are made in My image by thinking destructive thoughts and speaking demeaning, judgmental, critical words to others, slowly killing them. They become ineffective managers of the world that I gave to them.  The fact that I gave them the power and ability to efficiently manage all that I delegated to them has escaped them.  They give no attention to My Spirit whom Jesus sent to live inside of them and who speaks My words constantly to My children on how to effectively manage all that I gave to them. They make null and void the sacrifice of Jesus.  They also are faithless in believing in My gifts to them of spiritual workers, called angels, which I gave to the ones who inherit My salvation.  They have My power and the workers necessary to accomplish their effective duties in the earth.  What more do they need?  They have My power in the person of My Holy Spirit in their bodies, who is My promise to them. They have everything necessary for the abundant life and My godliness, which is My image and character that I want to develop in their flesh.  (II Peter 1:3-11)
   The effective management of your portion of the world is dependent upon your attention to My voice inside of you which keeps you from making the mistakes which curse your life instead of blessing it. (Deuteronomy 28:1-2) I even gave you an Instruction Book which will reinforce My personal instructions to you and give you faith to accomplish My advice and admonitions.  I promised that if you attend to My voice that you will be blessed in every area of our life.  My promptings will always produce loving ways in you, making you a benevolent manager of every portion of your life, which is My will for you. Blessings flow like a river to My children who heed My voice. Then rest comes to their souls. (Hebrews 4:1-14)
   Many of My children have failed to receive their full inheritance and it grieves me that they do not have what I gave to them from the foundation of the world. (Ephesians 4:29-30) They curse others and curse their lives through their own mouths as tempted by their spiritual enemy, the devil.  I grieve that they do not use My  powerful authority that I gave to them over the one who curses them.  Instead of ruling over him, they unite with him and destruction comes to them.(James 3:6-10)
  Strive to enter into the peace that comes from hearing My voice, taking My advice and thus allowing Me to be the benevolent Lord of your life. (Hebrews 3:11-13)
  Your Loving Father.                       

FATHERLY ADMONITIONS
Dear One,
   When My Son Jesus, who was My perfect image in the earth, taught My principles of life called the keys to My kingdom to His followers, He taught them attitudes and actions which were diametrically opposed to the religious teachings at the time.  An eye for an eye, avenging oneself and only loving those who love you are some of the religious tenets from their past. (Matthew 5:38-45)               
  When Jesus taught multiple times that My children should forgive people who wrong them because the consequences can be devastating to them if they continue to sow seeds of discord into their lives, His words were met with trepidation by religious leaders. I began to let My Son teach My heavenly ways, the ways that are effective and evident in My Kingdom and would be effective in the earth.  Yet, Jesus was opposed by religious leaders every time He spoke.

 They did not know the truth about the demonic beings that were allowed by the first man to enter the earth and tempt My children to do his evil works.  They did not know that returning evil for evil done to them would multiply the works of the evil in the earth. They did not know the truth about returning good for evil will multiple My works in the earth and overcome the works of evil. (Matthew 6:35-36) 
  My children still persist in holding grudges for years which cause them to be sick in their bodies and cause them to inherit the curses brought by satan which accompany any kind of strife. I even told My children that every demon from hell is invited into a strife-filled situation when there is strife between two people. (James 3:16) Nipping strife in the bud by forgiving a person immediately of any wrongdoing brings liberty into your life and releases you from bondage to the other person caused by having an unforgiving heart.(Matthew 18:18; II Timothy 4:18) When you bind yourself to anyone by having an unforgiving heart, you also bind your benefits from flowing into your life from the heavens.  You begin to do the works of the evil one instead of doing My works.
   Forgiveness and mercy begin with an act of your will.  When you persist in forgiving as an act of your will, then your forgiveness eventually become an attitude which will be followed by actions of forgiveness. Forgiving a person as an act of your will and refusing to think thoughts in opposition to the person, will reunite you with Me and will restore your inheritance which you bound by your unforgiveness. (Matthew 16:19)
   The teachings of Jesus and the keys of My kingdom are still met with resistance by religious leaders today.  Instead of forgiving your enemies they teach that you must fight for Me and My teachings.  I taught the opposite truths.   They don't know Me and the power of My Spirit and the truth of the scriptures.  Jesus said the same thing about the religious leaders of His time.(Matthew 22:29)
   How often you have said of your earthly fathers, "Father knows best."   How I wish that My children would believe the words that I teach them and truly believe that I know the best things to do in every situation.
   Forgiveness should be easy for My children.  It is easy when you believe the truth that I forgave you when you were still in opposition to Me. (Romans 5:8)
   Your Forgiving and Loving Father 
    

BENEVOLENCE

Dear One,
   My children who are born of My Spirit and baptized by My Spirit are spiritual royalty.  I intended for all of My children to be royalty because they were made in My image at the beginning but when they were conquered by an alien and his army, the devil and his demons, they lost their authority that I gave to them in the beginning of the earth.  Later Jesus conquered the devil in hell, the domain of evil, and Jesus retrieved the authority to the earth from him, and sent it back into My children who choose to receive My Holy Spirit into their lives.  As they become more like Me, My images in the earth, the benefits of their royalty are restored, which are the abundant life and soul peace. (II Peter 1:3)  

   The power that has been restored is two-fold: authority over everything in the earth, which is their rightful domain, and also My explosive power which comes from the army of angels that accompany My Holy Spirit when He enters into their lives.  My children cannot be defeated when they take their places as the authorities in the earth. (Ephesians 1:16-22)  My authoritative power  and explosive power are given so that all the works of evil will be defeated by the power of My Holy Spirit, who is My presence in the world living inside of you. He gives you power over every form of evil which comes by temptations to do the work of the devil in the earth.  My authority is also given to you so that you can be an effective administrator of My will in the earth, similar to the authority given to children of kings who are anointed when they are given countries. (Matthew 3:14)
   The abuse of power happens when My children obey the temptations of the evil one and use their authority and power over other people.  They rob people whom I created with free will of their free will, establishing dominion over them instead of being My image in the earth and sharing the authority in the earth with them equally.  When the devil tempts them to exercise authority over My other children, he accomplishes his revenge on Me for ostracizing him from My heaven.  The devil know that whatever he can do to My children affects Me and affects everyone in the earth.  (Matthew 25:40-43)
   Instead of My children being humble, meek, loving, joyful, kind, merciful, good, patient, faithful and benevolent like Me, the ones who yield to the evil one become prideful, angry, domineering, judgmental, faithless, unkind, vengeful and cruel just like the evil being that they obey. They kill others, abuse others in many ways, dominate others, condemn others and criticize others.  They become cruel taskmasters, just like the evil one that they obey. (Matthew 6:22-24)
  Jesus said that whatever you do to others you do to Me.  Can you understand now why the evil one wants to get you under his control?  He wants to kill, rob and destroy My children who are made in My image and he wants to use some of My own children to do it, all in an effort to defeat Me through My children who are made in My image.  How pitiful it is that he uses My own children to do it.  Temptations are his way to master people so that they will do his work in the earth.  (John 10:10)
   My work in the earth can only be done through My children because the earth is their domain, given to them by Me from the beginning of the world.  The work of the evil one can only be done through My children because he knows their authority in the earth.  The authority given to My children by Me is usurped by the evil one through temptations; and if people follow those temptations they participate with him in destroying the world that I created and love.  Jesus came into the earth to destroy the works of the devil and restore My children to fellowship with me, putting them in direct line to receive all of the benefits of being My children; that being the abundant life and soul peace.  (I John 3:8-10)
  You become spiritual royalty when you are filled with My Spirit.  You receive the benefits of My benevolence when you reflect My image, the image of love.(John 13:34)
  Your Loving and Benevolent Father             
  

TUTORIAL ADVICE

Dear One,
   Parents get angry at their children if the rules of the parents are not immediately obeyed.  Often the parents are not patient with their children, knowing that it takes several times for an admonition to be given attention by the children.  Some parents give no leeway for their rules to be followed.  They will administer physical punishment with one infraction.  That is called abuse that comes from domination. (Colossians 3:21)
   Have you considered that in My Instruction Book I have repeated My admonitions, often called My commandments, many, many times by Jesus, Paul, Peter, James and others because I know that it takes many, many times for My children to understand My guidance.  The same parents who exact harsh punishment upon their own children by provoking them to anger which leads to discouragement are the ones who look into My good news and My admonitions leading to liberty, and then they go away and immediately forget My advice.  They expect quick obedience from their own children but they do not follow My advice in any measure. For instance, they discourage their own children by administering angry punishment which will eventually boomerang back upon the parents because the children will rebel. Yet, they refuse to follow My advice to forgive others for your own good.  My discipline is guidance, not harsh physical punishment.  Jesus said that his disciples are taught by His words.  My children are changed into My image by My words spoken to them.

   Many times have I said in My Instruction Book that to avoid any discord you should do good to your enemies and that you should not return evil for evil.  Yet, My children delight in doing the opposite, they oppose people who have differing opinions from them, whether socially, religiously or politically.  They delight in opposition.  Instead of doing good to others, they are proud when they return evil rhetoric for evil rhetoric aimed at them.  They fail to remember that opposing anyone will result in the opposition returning to them.  Rather than opposing someone who robs you, give him more than he asks. Jesus said if someone asks for your coat to give him your cloak also.  In doing that, you escape the wrath of the robber who will probably injure or kill you if you resist his commands.  My guidance is meant to protect My children, yet many do the opposite from what I taught. They demand absolute obedience from their own children while they do not take My advice which brings blessings instead of curses upon them.(Matthew 5:38-48)
  Earthly parents tell their children to do what they say, not what they do.  I do the opposite.  I tell My children to love those who hate them, to return good for evil because that's what I do.  I loved you when you opposed Me and I sent My good upon you when you did evil acts against which I cautioned you.  I tell you to do what I say because those things are what I do. I told My children 42 times in My Book not to return evil for evil done against them, yet My children avenge themselves and hold grudges against others who oppose them.  Then they exact severe punishment upon their own children for not obeying them instantly.  It should not be so. (Matthew 7:17-20; Luke 6:35; Romans 12:21; I Peter 3:10)
  You have the choice between good and evil.  That choice came into the earth when Adam allowed the devil to enter the earth.  Since that time, all humanity has had the choice between taking my advice and doing good versus obeying the temptations of the devil and doing evil to others.  When they follow My guidance and do My good works of love in the earth, they are in direct line to receive all of My inheritance because they are identified as My children. (Matthew 6:33)
  My children who know Me will always sow My works of goodness in the earth.  It is My good pleasure to give you My kingdom.  Make it easy for Me to complete the deliverance of your inheritance by taking My advice and following My admonitions, which are often called commandments. (Luke 12:32)
   Your Good and Loving Father