Monday, July 6, 2015

KINGDOM, POWER AND GLORY

Dear One,
     When Jesus was coaching His followers on how to pray, He was specific on many points; those being that I am the Father of all mankind, that My kingdom can come on earth as it is in heaven, that I will give daily spiritual guidance and encouragement to my children, that My forgiveness is easily attained when people forgive others, that I do not lead My children into temptation but I deliver them from evil.  Then He declared His confidence in Me when He taught them that My kingdom, My power and My glory are what does all of the things for which He prayed. He was speaking confidence in My kingdom, My power and My glory.  (Matthew 6:9-13) Remember that Jesus had not been crucified and had not ascended into heaven yet, so My authority in the earth was only resident in Him. 
      My words came from your mouth long ago when I proclaimed, " You say that Mine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, but I say to you that thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory in the earth."  Your human mind wanted to reject that assurance from Me, but you knew that you would never speak that from your own will, that it had to have come from Me. 
      When you began to research My Instruction Book, you saw that My words to you were true, that I had given My kingdom to My children when I sent My Holy Spirit into them. You had received My Spirit so you had My kingdom in you.  You saw that Jesus, Himself, told His followers  to ask for My power to be evident in their lives, which you had already done.  You had received My power.  You knew that the angelic hosts and the cloud of witnesses accompany My Spirit, so My glory surrounds you in the spiritual dimension.  With those realizations, you knew that My words to you and to all My children were true, that I have given you My kingdom, My power and My glory in the earth in the person of My Holy Spirit.
     We share together in My kingdom because you are My child, born of My Spirit.  We share together My power because you are My child, born of My Spirit.  We share together My glory because you are My child, born of My Spirit.  When you are led by My Spirit, you are identified as My child and everything I have is yours.(Romans 8:14-17)
     Everything that Jesus told My children to pray as a sample prayer has come into reality to those who seek Me because they find Me, and My kingdom becomes theirs.  (Matthew 6:33)
      You marvel that My kingdom, My power and My glory can be yours.  My desire is that you enjoy the benefits that come to you because of being My child. When you are One with Me, everything I have is yours.  (Luke 12:32)
      Pay heed to the sample prayer of Jesus.  He knew everything about which He taught and declared.  My Spirit wants to enlarge your understanding of what you have as your inheritance.  (John 16:13-15) He speaks to you what I tell Him to speak.  They are always My encouraging, loving words. 
      Everything I have is yours. My peace is yours.  My love is yours.  My joy is yours.  My goodness is yours.  My kindness is yours.  My faith is yours.  My mercy is yours.  My patience is yours.  My power is yours.  My kingdom is yours.  My glory is yours.  You are My child.
      Your Loving Father    
     

THE SAMPLE PRAYER OF JESUS

Dear One,
    The entirety of the gospel, the good news, was contained within the sample prayer that was taught by Jesus to His followers.  It was good news that My children could approach Me as their Father instead of a distant king.  My Son, Himself, is the One who taught that truth, to people. 
    It was good news that the day would come when My kingdom would come in the lives of people just like it came in the life of Jesus, by the power of My Holy Spirit.
   It was good news that I would eventually be able to reveal My will and My power to every one of My children and they would be able to experience My kingdom while they still live in the earth.  My daily bread of life would be theirs.
   It was good news that all of their sins would be completely blotted out as they blotted out the sins of others. The truth that they were able to forgive sins was mind boggling to My children. 
    The next thing that He taught them to pray was that I would not lead them into temptations but that I would deliver them from evil.  The first man, Adam, was tempted by the devil and he obeyed the devil and allowed curses to come upon all of mankind.  Jesus had to suffer the same temptation as Adam in order to establish His power and authority over the devil.  Jesus refused the temptations to do evil when He was tempted in the wilderness, having been led there by My Spirit.  It was necessary for Him to show His authority over evil temptations of the devil in order to cast out the demons that controlled people with diseases, physical, mental and spiritual ones.  He had to do what Adam could not do, refuse to obey evil. (Matthew 4:1-11) In doing that, He established His power and authority for His ministry. If He had obeyed the temptations of the devil in the wilderness, He would not have had authority to cast out demons from people because He would have been an agent of evil rather than My Son. (Romans 15:40-50)
     Jesus coached His disciples to pray that they would not be led into temptation, like He was, in order to establish good in a world that was controlled by evil.  He knew that they did not have the same power at that time to resist evil temptations because they were still under the authority of the devil, who was the prince of the world at that time having been handed authority in the earth by Adam in his fall out of a relationship with Me.  (Luke 8:43-44)
     Jesus had My life within Him and My anointed kingdom around Him, so He had the power to refuse evil temptations.  He knew that His followers did not have the power and authority to resist evil temptations, so He wanted to make sure that I did not lead His followers into temptation like I had to lead Him into the same situation that Adam was in when he obeyed evil.  Jesus had to resist in the same situation with the same temptations that Adam had.  Jesus triumphed over evil temptations but He knew that His followers at the time did not have the power of My Holy Spirit in their lives in order to resist the same evil temptations.
      However, Jesus prayed that I would deliver My children from evil instead of leading them into temptations like I strategically had to do with Him to establish His authority over evil. He knew they needed to be delivered from evil and He knew that He was the One who was to do the sacrificial work. 
     It was good news to My children at the time and throughout history that I would deliver them from evil.  That was accomplished when Jesus died for the sins of the world and after He came back to live with Me. He sent the same power that caused Him to triumph over evil into the world to be received by anyone who asked, that power being My powerful, authoritative Holy Spirit. 
     Jesus knew that the only way My children and My creation would be delivered from evil was through the power of My Holy Spirit being incorporated into their entire beings by their being born of My Spirit and being baptized in My Spirit.  (John 3:5-8; Acts 1: 4-8; Acts 2:1-4)
      Every word that Jesus coached My children to pray was good news, the gospel, the truth about My coming to live in the earth inside of them and becoming their personal Father, giving them them the power to forgive others and the power to overcome evil.
      The instructive prayer of Jesus (Matthew 6:9-15) contained all of the good news that My children yearned to hear from Me: first, that I would make it possible for humans to have a one-on-one Father/child relationship with Me; second, that My heaven would come to earth in their lives, and through that event that I would make it possible, with My power, for My will to be done by them; third, that I would provide daily guidance for them; fourth, that forgiveness would be universal for all people in My heaven and it must be incorporated in the earth through My children; fifth, that I would give My children the power to triumph over evil by My power and authority living in them which would deliver them from evil.
     It was all good news, not the bad news that they had heard from their religious leaders.  People need to hear My good news in your world.  Speak it and live it.
     Your Loving Father  
          

Sunday, July 5, 2015

SAMPLE PRAYER

SAMPLE PRAYERS
Dear One,
    Jesus would not teach you, His brothers and sisters, anything that is not possible, effective and workable.  In His sample prayer He taught many truths that were different than religious traditions at the time and He taught truths that were difficult for His disciples to understand. The reason He gave examples and taught in parables later is because of the lack of understanding that they had and so he always related the truths to their daily lives. 
     He called Me Our Father, which angered the religious leaders. (Matthew 6:9) He said that calling Me the name of Father is just as special as the traditional names that they were afraid to utter.  He prayed that My kingdom would come on earth and that My will would be done on earth just as it is in heaven. (Matthew 6:10) That inflamed the religious leaders and their religious followers even more after He taught that His casting out devils from a person would cause My kingdom to come upon them.  It was an answer to His sample prayer. 
    When He prayed that I would give daily spiritual food to My children by My speaking personally to them, it was blasphemy to religious leaders because traditionally they were the only ones who could hear from Me. (Matthew 9:11) It was thought that commoners were unclean, too dirty to speak to Me face to face, spirit to Spirit. Yet, Jesus ministered to the common people instead of to the religious leaders and their religious followers at the time.
     He also taught His followers to pray that their sins, trespasses and debts would be forgiven as they forgave the sins, trespasses and debts of others. (Matthew 6:12) That was true blasphemy to the religious leaders because under traditional religious laws only the priests could forgive sins, trespasses and debts, and then only when the proper sacrifices were made.  Jesus was telling the people that as they forgive the offenses of others that their own sins and trespasses would be obliterated, too. That was revolutionary at the time and is still often revolutionary in certain doctrines.
     We have talked at length in the past about forgiveness and the fact that it means to give forward, to release the offense from your mind, letting it go and blotting it out as if it never happened.  We talked about the spiritual truth that when you release an offense from your mind that it no longer exists as a memory and therefore it never happened,  I have already forgiven all offenses so there is no record in heaven of sins or trespasses happening.  In the crucifixion of Jesus they became white as snow, completely obliterated in My mind. (I John 2:1-2; Isaiah 1:18-19) Sins and trespasses only exist in the minds of people and so they need to be released, forgiven, and blotted out in your mind.  When you obliterate them, there is no record of them in the earth just as there is no record of them in My heaven. Then satan, who loves to remind My children of their mistakes, can no longer torment them with guilt and condemnation, which are his most powerful demons of accusation.
     When the devil reminds you of your sins and trespasses or the sins and trespasses of others, you need to remind him with one word that they did not happen in your mind or My mind.  That word is powerful, it is the declaration power of, "Forgiven."  Speak loudly to any accusation that enters into your mind of any offense done against you or an offense that you have done, speak the declaration of, "Forgiven."  It is canceled out, nonexistent, and the accuser devil needs to be reminded that I have blotted it out and you have blotted it out. (Revelation 12:10-11) He is a liar.  He wants to resurrect a sin or trespass in your mind so that he can torment you with it.
    Jesus gave My children even more power to forgive when My Holy Spirit comes to live in them because My Spirit is the Spirit of Truth who reveals the forgiveness that Jesus purchased for the whole world.  Jesus, by the power of My Spirit, reminded My children that whose sins you forgive are nonexistent and whose sins you retain are still in existence. Refusing to forgive everyone hands to satan the authority to torment you and the offender.  (John 20-21-23) That is not My will for My children, to give their enemy arsenal with which to defeat them.
     All sins came upon Jesus when He was on the cross.  He bore them for you and for all My children.  If you refuse to forgive, you are making His crucifixion and resurrection of no effect.  My Spirit can lead you to refuse the temptation of satan to resurrect the sins of others in your mind. 
     Celebrate the obliteration of all sins by Jesus when someone offends you.  Celebrate that Jesus died for that offense and change your reaction to every offense.  Do what Jesus coached you to do, love your enemies, do good to them, pray for them and then you will be identified as a child of Mine, your Father in heaven.
     Your Forgiving Father
           

Saturday, July 4, 2015

DAILY BREAD

Dear One,
    The prayer by Jesus holds a multitude of spiritual truths when He obliged by answering His disciples questions relating to teaching them to pray.  His example of what name by which to address Me was new and revolutionary because of their tradition of being taught that My name is too holy to be uttered.  Jesus taught them to address Me as Father of all. That started a rebellion by religious leaders because of their rigid traditions.
    Then He taught My children that they should pray that My kingdom would come on earth as it is in heaven.  That request to Me is still considered by many people to be a false petition because of the belief that My kingdom is only accessible when  people die and  their spirits come to live with Me in My heaven.  However, Jesus later told His followers that when He cast devils out of people by My finger, which is My Holy Spirit, that My kingdom came upon them.  So Jesus was teaching that My kingdom is available to all of My children who seek Me.
    Included in His sample prayer was the request to Me that I will supply the bread necessary for each day.  That requested bread was not particular to any kind of bread but related to any bread that is necessary to sustain life, whether spiritual bread, physical bread or emotional bread.  On any particular day, the needs of some might be the bread made of wheat which nourishes the body.  On another day, the needs of some might be the emotional bread needed to encourage them, ego food as you might call it. 
   Jesus knew that every day My children need spiritual food, revelations which bring My wisdom into the mind of anyone who is open to receive it.  He called it  the bread of life.  (Matthew 4:4) Jesus said that He is the bread of life,  He said that Moses gave them bread for their bodies but that I give the spiritual bread which brings true life to My children.  My words spoken through Jesus and My Holy Spirit are life to those who consume them. (John 6:33-37; 6:48-59)  Any good food consumed nourishes your body, making it healthy.   It is the same with My spiritual food, it changes you, spirit, soul and body.
    So receiving My spiritual, personal words are health to your body and bones because I will direct you away from the paths of evil and into the paths of goodness which always bring peace and rest to you.  (Proverbs 3:5-8)
    Jesus was telling My children in His sample prayer that you should pray to hear My words to you, My spiritual bread, so that you will have heaven on earth because My guidance always leads you away from spiritual curses and guides  you into collecting your inheritance as My child.
     My words are life.  They are health.  They are guidance.  They are revelation.  They are wisdom.  They are love words and they are comforting words.  They are all the words which bring My life into your life, or bring My kingdom into your earthly life, bringing heaven to earth. (John 16:13-15)
     Don't be satisfied by merely hearing the words that I speak to others.  Seek to hear My personal words to you because those words are filled with My life. 
     Pray like Jesus did, that I will give you daily spiritual bread through My Spirit which will bring love and wisdom to your human mind. Your darkened minds will be enlightened and you will be thrilled with the daily spiritual bread which I give.
     Your Father, the Baker of Spiritual Bread Necessary for Life. 

Friday, July 3, 2015

MY KINGDOM COMES

MY KINGDOM COMES
Dear One,
    If you were alive at the time of Jesus, Peter and Paul you would have a different idea than you have now to what Jesus was referring when He talked about My kingdom coming on earth as it is in heaven.  My heaven it is a spiritual kingdom made up of angels, the spirits of people whose bodies have died, My Holy Spirit, Jesus and Me.
    I have complete authority over everything in My kingdom because of My power and My sovereignty.  The only beings over whom I do not have complete authority are humans, because I gave them free will, the right to make their own choices. Angels do not have that right.  Only humans do. I do not have complete authority over the earth because I gave it to humans.  However, when they ask Me into their earth, accompanied by My kingdom, I come at their beckon call and bring My kingdom and My authority into the earth.
    When Jesus told My children to pray that My kingdom would come on earth and My will would be done on earth as it is in heaven,  He was telling you the power that is available to you, that being My supernatural, infinite power and authority over evil in every form.  He was telling His disciples that they must pray for it, for My heavenly family to come into their lives to empower them with a power that is impossible by human means.  The minds of the disciples and all who heard that prayer were in shock to even imagine that I and My host of angels would ever come on earth and rescue the sick, the depressed, the confused, the abused, the spiritually, mentally and physically injured, the broken hearted and the people whose eyes were blinded by evil.  Yet Jesus told My children to pray for that to occur in their lives.
     Truthfully, it happened even while Jesus was on earth.  He told his followers that when He cast out devils with My Spirit that My kingdom came upon them.   They could not completely understand it because My Holy Spirit had not been given to them, meaning that My kingdom had not come into their lives.  When He healed people by casting out devils, My kingdom came spiritually upon them.  Thus, the example prayer of Jesus was answered. (Luke 11:20)
      After Jesus died, went to hell for the sins of the whole world, took back the authority to the earth from satan, He rose from the dead and told His followers that He was coming back to live eternally with Me but that they should not be sad.  He encouraged them that My Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, would take His place in the earth with the same powers that He demonstrated.  He said that My Spirit would do even greater works in them because He was coming back to live with Me. He told them to wait for My promise to them. (John 7:37-39; Acts 1:2-9)
      On the day of the feast of Pentecost, My Spirit and My Kingdom came into the lives of My children who were waiting for Him and praying for Him to bring My kingdom into their lives.  Their prayers were answered abundantly.  The people who were waiting for Him to enter into their lives were joyful when they began to speak in many different tongues, the first evidence to them that they were spiritually filled with Me and My Holy Spirit. Their prayers in the Spirit began to be answered quickly because those words are My orchestrations which provide answers to their prayers.  My children began to understand the things taught by Jesus more fully because My Spirit became their personal tutor and His words became their perfect prayers. (Acts 2:2-4) 
      All of the prayers that Jesus prayed and taught His disciples to pray were answered.  My kingdom can come on earth in your life and My will can be done in your life as it is in heaven.  Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.   I promised it and I keep My promises.
    One writer identified the residents of My kingdom which comes upon you and in you at your request as the cloud of witnesses. (Hebrews 12:1) He said that you are surrounded by them.  He even identified them as the angels, the spirits of the saints, My Holy Spirit, Jesus, His blood and Me.  He said that while you are in the earth that you are surrounded by them.  So that prayer of Jesus was answered to the highest degree.
     My kingdom takes up residence in the lives of those people who ask to be baptized with My Holy Spirit.  Then it is possible for My will to be done in their lives if they stay in unity with Me and do not stray from My ways.  Heaven is available to come into the lives of all of My children.  He is My comforter, counselor, advocate, tutor, intercessor, strengthener, My peace and My ever present presence in your life. (John 14:26-29; John 16: 7-15)
     I make My Spirit and My kingdom available to you.  Heed His words and His teachings and Heaven will come to you.
     Your Loving Father  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Thursday, July 2, 2015

BRINGING HEAVEN TO EARTH

Dear One,
    After addressing Me as Father and speaking about that name being set apart for you by Jesus as hallowed, while teaching His disciples to pray He taught them to pray that My kingdom would come on earth and My will be done on earth as it is in heaven. (Matthew 6:9) That sounded impossible to people at the time and it sounds impossible to people in your generation.  Yet, Jesus instructed My children to ask for that miraculous thing to happen, that I would bring My heaven into the earth.  Jesus never asked for the impossible.  He knew My power and so He always asked for things that He knew were possible.  He had lived in heaven with Me and He knew that nothing is impossible for Me.  
     There are people who think that there will be another point in time where My kingdom will take over the earth.  However, while He was ministering to people and being questioned by whose authority he was casing out devils from the diseased and mentally harassed people, Jesus told them that when He cast out devils by My finger that My kingdom comes upon the person.  (Luke 11:20) So I, through Jesus, was fulfilling that prayer that He had earlier prayed when He prayed that My kingdom would come to earth as it is in heaven.  My finger to which He was referring is My Holy Spirit.  So when My Holy Spirit comes into the lives of My children, then My kingdom comes along with Him.  The more My children are led by My Spirit and pray in My Spirit, the more of My kingdom enters into the lives of my children. (Romans 8) As My words become flesh in you, changing you more and more into My image, then My kingdom becomes more and more evident in your life.
     I said through Paul that those who are led by My Spirit are My true children.  (Romans 8:14-17) My children who are led by the passions of the flesh are not identified in the heavens as being of My family because of their uncontrolled passions.  To the heavens they are identified as children of another kingdom, followers of evil.   (James 4:17)  But those who are led by My Spirit are identified as heirs of My family inheritance and My kingdom comes into their lives while they are in the earth.  That is called the first fruits of My inheritance, all of which is ordered and ordained by My Spirit. (Mark 4:23-32)
     So pay attention to My Son Jesus and His revelation of My kingdom coming into the lives of My children.  He added a caveat to His request.  He asked that My kingdom would come as My will is done in the earth, or in relation to My will being done.  My temple in the earth is your body, so as My Spirit cleanses My temple of the negative things of evil which curse your lives, then the benefits of My family will become more and more evident in your life.  (I Corinthians 6:19-20)  My Spirit is in charge of house cleaning in My family.  He did it through Jesus when He cast out demons and He does it in the lives of My children when He alerts them and you to your negative thoughts, attitudes and actions which are not of My family. (II Corinthians 3:17-18)
     Kingdom living can be yours in the earth if you will allow me to fulfill that prayer that was taught by Jesus, that being that My kingdom would come on the earth as My will is done in your life. 
     I have already given your inheritance to you.  Allow My Spirit to access it for you by making Him your instructor of truth.  He even takes what Jesus taught and fully explains it to you so that you will understand and willingly follow in My ways, empowered by My Spirit.
     Your Heavenly Benefactor, Your Loving Father

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

NAME RECOGNITION

Dear One,
    We talked about that when Jesus taught His disciples to pray, He shook the religious traditions of the day.  He began by addressing Me as Our Father.  Then He proclaimed that the name of Heavenly Father was set apart for Me only.  That is what "hallowed" mean, to set apart for Me, to be respected far above all other names that I am called.  (Matthew 6:9)  Jesus said to call no earthly being your father because I am your Father.  Again He was saying to set apart that name for Me.  (Matthew 23:9)
    To call me "Father" was outside of the understanding of My children at that time because of their religious beliefs that I am a king instead of being a Father.  Certainly, addressing Me as their Father was a term of familiarity and closeness, one that is personal and endearing. That was the first declaration of Jesus that I am the Father of all mankind.  That day brought great joy to Me because I had wanted to be known as the Father of all from the beginning of the earth.  My desire had always been to be known as approachable and forever available to My children rather than distant and unobtainable.  It is as if Jesus introduced My children to Me as the Father I really am for the first time.  He was saying, "Meet  your Father, your provider, your protector, your guide, your assurance of peace, your tutor, your healer, your counselor, your constant companion.  Yes, He is your Father.  When you come to Him in prayer you should address Him as who He is, your Father. " 
     I had tried to get the revelation of my Fatherhood into the minds of My children from the beginning.  I declared that I was their provider at one time. (Genesis 22:14) Then I proved Myself by providing for them.  I declared another time that I was their protector.  Then I protected them from their enemies. (Exodus 17:15) One time I declared to them that I was their peace.  (Judge 6:24)  Then I gave them peace.  Another time I declared that I was their healer and I healed their diseases and told them through laws how to stay healed. (Genesis 15:26)  Later I told them that I was their guide in the wilderness and I guided them by a cloud by day and a fire by night.(Exodus 13:24)  I declared that I was their counselor by giving them laws, precepts, testimonies, statues, commandments, ordinances and revelations which would make their lives heaven on earth if they would follow My words of guidance.(Psalm 19:7-14)   That is what a good Father does.  He guides his children by his words, his examples, his teachings and his companionship.  Those attributes show My personal attention to and interest in the lives of all of My children. (Deuteronomy 28:1-14)
    A good father tells his children to listen to his guidance and they will stay out of trouble.  I teach My children how to avoid the evil being, satan, who wants to tempt them and curse their lives. 
    My Son Jesus declared My Fatherhood to My children, My desire for a close and personal relationship which would result in one-on-one teaching, guidance, protection and provision.  Good fathers love their children. They want the best things for their children.  I am the Good Father.  It is My pleasure to give you everything necessary for a glorious life while you are in the earth and then in My heaven.
    Jesus said it so explicitly when He said, "It is the Father's good pleasure to give you His kingdom."  (Luke 12:32)
    Peter mirrored that declaration by Jesus when he said that I have given everything necessary for life and godliness through My divine power, who is My Holy Spirit. (II Peter 1:2-3)
    Seek to intimately know Me by spending time with Me and with the revelation of My personality given to you by others who know Me.  I will enlarge your understanding of our Father/child relationship.  We will walk and talk like Adam and I did in the beginning of the earth.  That is My desire, that you and I are One, Father to child and child to Father, as Jesus prayed. (John 17:20-23)
    That is My desire.  Please make it your desire.  Paul did and he said that his deepest desire was to know Me, to become intimately acquainted with Me.  He did and he wrote most of the revelation of My covenant of love.
    Your Loving, Kind and Good Father, your Heavenly PaPa