Monday, March 4, 2019

STERN CORRECTIONS

My Dear Precious Child,
    My Holy Spirit, the private tutor of all of My children, was very gentle with His corrections of most of My children in the first churches after My Holy Spirit came to earth to live inside of My children and when My kingdom of heaven came to earth to surround them on the day of Pentecost and on many other occasions later.  However, to the Galatians and to the Corinthians I was much more stern and exacting in My corrections.  There was a reason for the sternness, because My children were allowing people with evil spirits to pollute My body of Christ.  The false prophets of some converted Jews were reintroducing the political and religious laws into My churches of faith and some former Gentiles were returning to the practice of worshiping idols and allowing demonic lusts of the flesh to consume them again. Once the demons are allowed to re-enter into My body, they will leaven or multiply until they pollute the whole church.
    In My letter to the Corinthians, I first complimented them for their teachers and preachers, their spreading the gospel and their using the gifts of the Holy Spirit to minister to the body of Christ.  However, My chastening of them was genuine relating to there being a vicious church fight which caused division.  Some were claiming to be disciples of Peter, some claimed to be disciples of Paul, some claimed to be disciples of Apollos, some claimed to be disciples of Christ.  My letter to them via Paul asked them if Christ was parceled out in individual portions instead of His being one body?  He asked if any of them had been baptized in the name of Paul instead of in the name of Jesus Christ?  (I Corinthians 1;10-16)
    My emphasis to them in My letters was on My wisdom and knowledge which had been given to them by My Holy Spirit, contrasting My personal insights and understanding with the weak and ineffective human knowledge of the Jews and Greeks to which they had originally been devoted.  I tried to convince them that they had been made members of Christ Jesus and that by My doing so in their lives that they had become My wisdom, My virtue, My holiness and My freedom, not by human wisdom but by the power of My Holy Spirit. (I Corinthians 2:1-5)
    Instead of being mature in their spirituality, they were still babies, still drinking milk instead of eating the solid food of revelation knowledge. They were unschooled and unspiritual in their understanding of spiritual truths so their foundations were unstable.  They had been playing church instead of their individually seeking My kingdom and My righteousness as taught by My Holy Spirit.  (I Corinthians 2:6-9; I Corinthians 3:1-4) 
   The fact that they were split in their devotion to Me, claiming to be followers of the various apostles, that revealed the jealousy that had crept into My body of Christ.  I asked them what could be more unspiritual than their claiming to either be of Paul or Peter or Apollos?
   The same is true in My body of Christ in your day.  There are many factions which claim to be of one denomination or another and each claims to have all of My truth, all which produce unspiritual children because they are refusing to advance into the tutoring of My Holy Spirit as was taught by Jesus Christ. (John 16:7-15)  My Holy Spirit is your tutor, your advocate, your strength, your counselor and the only One who reveals truth to My children.  
   When you refuse the tutoring of My Holy Spirit you declare the sacrifice of Jesus Christ to be of no effect in your life because you have left the Truth and bought into the lies of false prophets which cost you the joys and benefits of My kingdom of heaven becoming reality in your life.
    My Spirit is always speaking to My children.  It is their dull ears which are unable to hear because of division, strife, jealousy and discord which come from their yielding to the temptations of the evil prince of your world which are introduced into My body of Christ by false prophets, of which you were warned by My Son Jesus Christ.  Jesus Christ came into your world to destroy the works of the devil.  (I John 3:8)  When He came to sit down in My heaven with Me, He gave His responsibility in the earth to My Holy Spirit, His ministry of destroying the works of the devil in your world.  My Holy Spirit gives to My children of promise the power to execute My authority in the earth over the evil one, sending his demons into hell. (Matthew 13:36-43)  Instead of assuming their responsibility in My kingdom of heaven, many of My children yield to the teachings of the devil's false prophets which makes the sacrifice of Jesus Christ null and void in their lives.   Thus, they return to the pigpen of their former lives.
    My blessings and rewards still await those of My children who take the words of Jesus Christ, treasure them and follow them as He taught you to do by your yielding yourself to My Holy Spirit for His private tutoring which opens your human mind to My insights and understanding which further the blessings of My kingdom of God in your life.  I await your fellowshipping with Me so that you will enjoy the benefits of being One with Me. (I John 1:3-7)
    Your Father of Great Rewards

Sunday, March 3, 2019

PRODUCTIVE SUGGESTIONS

My Dear Precious Child,
   My Holy Spirit wrote through Paul in his letter to the people in the church in Philippi that they were his joy and his crown.  Even though he had no complaints about them, he still had instructions and suggestions on how to make their lives even more happy.  He repeated several times His desire that he wanted them to be more and more happy, happy in Jesus Christ their Lord. 
   I had no complaint about My children in the church at Philippi because they had been discerning about whom they allowed to enter into their church, making sure they had not allowed false prophets who were trying to take them backwards into loyalty to their earthly country and old religious/political laws.  My Holy Spirit inspired them through Paul to be loyal to the new country of their born-again origin, which is My kingdom of God.  He clearly said that your citizenship is in heaven and that you must press on toward the high goal to which Christ called you which is becoming mature, full grown and having the mind of Christ. (Philippians 3: 20-21) 
   Paul said that he was determined to forget all that was past, even his loyalty to his old country, and instead he was straining forward to the glories that lie ahead which are resident in his new country of origin which is My kingdom of heaven.  It is impossible to live with one foot in loyalty to a country ruled by Pharisaical politicians and have one foot in My kingdom of heaven whose head is Christ Jesus.  (Philippians 3:13-14)  Paul said that he was once completely loyal to Jewish traditions and political laws, but when he became a new creature in Christ Jesus that he became loyal to Jesus Christ, to Me and My kingdom of heaven.  (Philippians 3:3-15) Jesus said you cannot be loyal to both, that you will love one and hate the other because you cannot have two masters.  (Luke 16:30) He said all that you owe your earthly country is to pay your taxes and obey the laws of your land so that you will live in peace.  Your loyalty belongs to Me and My kingdom when you are born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit because My kingdom of God has come into your life, just as Jesus Christ prayed. (Matthew 22:17-21; Matthew 6:19-21)  I SAID THAT YOUR CITIZENSHIP IS IN MY KINGDOM OF GOD.    
  Suggestions and instructions from My Holy Spirit through Paul to ensure that you are always increasing in happiness are:

    ALWAYS BE HAPPY IN THE LORD.(Philippians 4:4)
    BE TOLERANT, CONSIDERATE AND UNSELFISH WITH EVERYONE. (Philippians 4:5)
    DO NOT WORRY OR HAVE ANXIETY ABOUT ANYTHING. (Philippians 4:6-7)
    PRAY FOR WHAT YOU NEED WITH THANKSGIVING and MY PEACE THAT IS GREATER THAN HUMAN UNDERSTANDING WILL MOUNT AS GUARD AROUND YOUR HEART AND YOUR THOUGHTS IN CHRIST JESUS.  (Philippians 4:6-7)
    FILL YOUR THOUGHTS WITH THINGS THAT ARE TRUE, and
    THINGS THAT ARE HONORABLE, and
    THINGS THAT ARE GOOD, and
     THINGS THAT ARE PURE, and
    THINGS THAT ARE LOVELY AND LOVABLE, and
    THINGS THAT ARE KIND, and
    THINGS THAT ARE GRACIOUS, and
    THINGS THAT ARE VIRTUOUS, and
    THINGS THAT ARE WORTHY OF PRAISE. 
    ONLY FIX YOUR MIND ON THOSE THINGS.(Philippians 4:8)
    When you take the advice of My Holy Spirit you will continue to be happy, blessed in every area of your life and shine like the sun in a dark world.  People will see your good works of love and glorify Me.
    Your Father of an Abundance of Blessings.

Saturday, March 2, 2019

BLESSED PEOPLE

BLESSED PEOPLE
My Dear Precious Child,
    There were people in a church in a specific country who were progressing in learning truths from My Holy Spirit after the day of Pentecost.  They were loving one another and being kind to everyone.  Paul and Timothy wrote a letter to them, not one of complaint and correction but one of compliments for their fruit of the Spirit and their progressing in the teachings of the Holy Spirit through His tutoring them.  In fact, Paul wrote that I, who had done a thorough work in them, would continue until the Day of Christ Jesus completely dawned in their lives, making them shine like the sun. (Philippians 1:6)  He told My children in that church that they had a permanent place in his heart and that He loved them just as Christ loved them.  Paul was proud of them because they had stayed pure and had not listened to false prophets.
    I did not have to correct them or chasten them because they had not allowed the reformed Jews to enter into their church and pollute them by manipulating them into combining their newfound grace in Jesus Christ with the ineffective rules and regulations of the old religious and political laws.  They also had not allowed the devil to succeed in his temptations to introduce either sexual sins, greed motivations, binding political dedications, worrying and fretting, or the deceitfulness of riches into their congregation. (Matthew 13:22-23) They had remained more pure than the other churches which had formed after the day of Pentecost when My kingdom of heaven became real in the earth in the lives of My children who sought My kingdom and My righteousness. 
    In his letter to My children at Philippi My Holy Spirit wrote through Paul that some people in other churches, like them, were preaching the Good News out of love, which is the right motivation, but other churches were preaching the Good News out of competition and rivalry. (Philippians 1:15-16)  In preaching the gospel from a motivation of love, which was Paul's habit, he told his students not to be concerned about the people who preach My word with selfish and jealous reasons because their ways might make Paul's imprisonment harder; but he felt like it was furthering his preaching because of the fruit of love from Him was in contrast to their competition.  (Philippians 1:17)  Paul was glad that the Good News was being preached, no matter what the motivation was. (verse 18) He said that he wanted Me to be glorified, whether in his death or in his life.  In fact, his preference was that I be glorified in his death because he would be with Me.  However, he knew that he needed to stay alive so that the people at Philippi would progress even further in their faith. (verses 21-26)
   Through Paul and Timothy I encouraged My children at Philippi, and you today, that you continue to be united in your convictions and in your love if your life in Christ means anything to you.  He said that if love motivates you at all, and since you have My Holy Spirit in common with tenderness and sympathy and in their being united in your love and convictions, that you will always be united in purpose.   He told that church that their unity with others of My children would make him very happy. (Philippians 2:1-2)
    My challenge to My children, which Paul wrote by inspiration of My Holy Spirit, is the following advice:
LET THERE BE NO COMPETITIONS WITH OTHER PEOPLE AMONG YOU.
LET THERE BE NO CONCEIT AMONG YOU.
DO NOT THINK OF YOUR OWN INTEREST, FIRST JUST LIKE JESUS DID.(PHILIPPIANS 2:3-5)
DO NOT COMPLAIN OR ARGUE (VERSE 14-16)
BEWARE OF SPIRITUAL DOGS, PEOPLE WHO MAKE MISCHIEF.
WATCH OUT FOR CUTTERS, MEN WHO INSIST ON CIRCUMCISION AS A  
   RELIGIOUS PRACTICE IN ORDER TO SUCK YOU BACK INTO RELIGIOUS  
   LAWS.(Philippians 3:2-4)
FORGET THE PAST, STRAIN TOWARD THE FUTURE AND WHAT IS TO COME,
   RACING FOR THE FINISH AND CLAIMING THE PRIZE TO WHICH CHRIST
  JESUS CALLS YOU UPWARD TOWARD THE PERFECT MAN. (verses 13-16)
REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE A CITIZEN OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF 
   HEAVEN, STRIVING PATIENTLY TO BE TRANSFORMED INTO THE IMAGE OF
  JESUS CHRIST BY THE MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT INSIDE OF YOU. (PHILIPPIANS 3:10 and 20(AMPLIFIED BIBLE )  That is the hope to which you are called, to become His image in the earth.
 ALWAYS BE SELF EFFACING.
ALWAYS CONSIDER THE OTHER PERSON TO BE BETTER THAN YOURSELF.
ALWAYS THINK OF THE INTEREST OF THE OTHER PERSON FIRST.  
   YOUR FATHER OF TRANSFORMING POWER

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

RETURNING TO THE PIGPEN

My Dear Precious Child,
   We have talked about the wonders of having been born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit, experiencing joy unspeakable, enduring peace and the knowledge of being loved unconditionally.  Yet, some of My children become like Adam and they begin to again yield to the temptations of the devil which takes them right back to the former life of curses and pigpen living, wallowing in the dirt and mud of life instead of continuing to live in My kingdom of love.
   My children in the church at Galatia is a good example.  The prophet Paul heard of their life journey backward into sin, forgetting that the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for their sins was My plan of their salvation.  In Paul's letter of correction to them, My Holy Spirit inspired Paul to quickly launch into My chastening of them for following a different gospel in which they were encouraged by deceived prophets to return to observing the religous laws of the old covenant.  He identified the people who were spreading that different gospel among them, one that required them to combine the teachings of the old covenant with My new covenant of the Holy Spirit.  The heresy was that My childen must return to obeying the religious laws with its dependance upon obeying the rules and regulations of the old ineffective covenant for salvation instead of continuing to trust in Jesus Christ for their salvation. (Galatians 1:6-8)  Paul said if it was a man or an angel teaching them to return to old covenant laws, whoever it was, that he is condemned.
   The first thing that the deceived teachers insisted upon was My newly born again men being circumcised as an additional way to salvation, along with belief, instead of My children depending upon Jesus Christ, My Holy Spirit and Me to continue to remove the real skin, which is the demon of unbelief that covers the minds of people.  My salvation is a spiritual work while circumcision is a physical work which has nothing to do with salvation, only with physical cleanliness.  Under the old covenant the practice of circumcision was meant to only be a prophesy of what the sacrifice of Jesus Christ was going to accomplish when I sent Him to save My children from the works of the devil.  So the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for your sins has to do with My Holy Spirit removing that inivisible veil that has allowed the devil to deceive you and curse your life.  When My children come to Me to be born again and baptized in My Holy Spirit, that veil, or spiritual skin, is removed and My Holy Spirit with his power over evil floods into you.(Galatians 1:6-9)
   In Paul's letter, I asked the men in Galatia who had tricked them, who had cast a spell upon them so that they would so quickly reject faith in Jesus Christ as their salvation?  I asked them in My letter to them if it was because of obeying the written laws that they had received My Holy Spirit or was it by faith in Jesus Christ?  I asked them if they were so foolish, so silly and so senseless as to try to reach perfection in the flesh after having begun their new life with My Holy Spirit?  I asked if all of My gifts and miracles had been wasted on them or did they think that I had given My Spirit to them so freely because they had practiced the Law instead of believing in Jesus Christ and the anointing of My Spirit?  (Galatians 3:1-5)
    My Holy Spirit through Paul's letter compared people of faith to the people who depend on the religious laws for justification.  He said that people of faith in Jesus Christ are blessed, happy and favored by Me through believing and trusting in Me.  In contrast, He reminded the people in Galatia that people of the old covenant who depend upon obedience to the rituals of religous laws to justify them are under a curse, doomed to destruction and disappointment.  (Galatians 3:9-10)  The people had forgotten that it was written in the scriptures that anyone is cursed who adheres to the religious laws, doomed to be punished if they don't obey every precept and command that's written in the laws and practice them. (Deuteronomy 27:26)
     It is by faith in Jesus' crucifixion, death and battle in hell that My children inherit the blessings that come from being My child.  My devoted children experience the blessings of having My life inside of them instead of experiencing the devil's death and destruction which comes from observing religious laws.  The religious laws are impossible to obey and My children are open for the condemnation of the devil when they can't obey them.  Jesus Christ, Himself, did not obey all of the religious laws when it was necessary to heal someone, feed someone and minister to someone in some way.
    Jesus Christ purchased your freedom from the devil's curses of the law by His becoming a curse for the whole world so that through belief in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ the promises of My blessings might come upon them, and that through faith in Him you might receive the promise of My Holy Spirit.  (Galatians 3:16-19; John 20:22-23; Acts 2:1-4)  When you have faith in Him and are led by My Holy Spirit, you are blessed with peace and joy in every area of your life.  Yet, My children in Galatia had returned to the religious laws that brought destruction and death.
    My Holy Spirit inspired Paul to tell the Galatians that I meant for them to be free and to stay free instead of retreating back into the curses that come from strict religious laws.  He challenged them to stand firm in the liberty wherein Christ set them free.  He told them, "DO NOT BECOME ENTANGLED AGAIN IN THE YOKE OF BONDAGE," by looking to circumcision as a way to salvation.  When My children do, then they are obliged to obey all of the religious laws.  Faith expressing itself in love is what is important to Me. (Galatians 5:1-6)
    Returning to old covenant laws as a means to salvation will only cause My children to return to their former pigpen-living after having enjoyed the blessings of My kingdom of heaven.  Reject every temptation from the devil or from emissaries of the devil who are men sent to tempt you to return to old covenant laws instead of depending upon your faith in Jesus Christ to reconcile you to Me.
    Beware of people who require obedience to religious laws as a means of living a life of faith in Jesus Christ. 
    Your Father of Warnings

Monday, February 25, 2019

EFFECTIVE CORRECTIONS

My Dear Precious Child,
    In dealing with correcting My children's tendencies to return to the passions of their flesh and thus retreat from the blessings of My family, My Holy Spirit wrote letters to the new churches who had been blessed with all spiritual blessing of heaven through Jesus Christ.  He reminded all of My children that you were all chosen to become holy and spotless and to live and move in your life on earth through the love of His presence in your newly created life.  He reminded you that it was through the shed blood of Jesus Christ that you have freedom from sin and forgiveness of your sins.  A marvelous benefit of My grace is that I have showered you with the wisdom and insight of My Holy Spirit so that you might know the mystery of My purpose, the hidden plan that I so kindly made in Christ from the beginning, that everything in heaven and earth would eventually be brought together under Christ.  My method is accomplished by My Holy Spirit coming to live inside of you and putting My words in your mouth which allow My words to speak out solutions to problems in your life on earth, and My words placed in your heart which illuminate your understanding of spiritual matters. (Ephesians 1:3-14; Acts 2:1-4) 
    The prophet Paul wrote a letter of correction to My children in Ephesus about not only some of their good virtues but also about the passions of the flesh to which they had succumbed.  First, as is My custom, I spoke positive things through My Holy Spirit which were written through Paul that I was happy with their faith and the love that they had shown to others. (verses 15-16) He said that, yet, he never failed to pray that I would reveal to you and to them the FULL KNOWLEDGE of My will.  I wanted to challenge all of you to continue to seek My kingdom and My righteousness after you are born of My Holy Spirit so that you and My other children will know fully the hope of your calling, which is that Christ might grow in you until you are a complete spiritual person with My loving character displayed in its entirety in you.  (Ephesians 1:17-18)
   He said that he also prayed that you might have revealed knowledge of the rich glories of your inheritance that I laid up for you when you became My child, your inheritance being for you spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically.  He also prayed that you would seek complete insight into the power that I placed in you when you were born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit.  He reminded you that you have resident in your body the same infinitely great power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead and made Him to sit in heaven with Me with power over every demon from hell, every sovereignty, authority, power and dominion in your world, in the heavens and in the world to come. (Matthew 28:18-20)  He wanted you to fully understand that My Holy Spirit inside of you has the power to put under your feet and thus under my feet all evil tempters who entice you to sin. (Ephesians 1:15-23; Matthew 13:36-43) 
    My Holy Spirit wrote in the letter to the Ephesians through Paul a reminded of their lives and your life before you became My children, how you were spiritually dead through crimes and sins when you were ruled by the devil and his demons. Yet, I loved you and had mercy upon you so much that when you were dead through sins I brought you to life and saved you through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.  It is by My grace that you have been saved, not of yourself, but by the life and sacrifice of Christ. (Ephesians 2:1-10)  It is by My grace only that you have been saved. 
    He reminded My children in Ephesus, and also you, that at one time when you lived according to the dictates of the flesh by the temptations of the devil that there was no peace between us, but Jesus Christ broke down that barrier and made you One with Me, creating one single New Man in Christ. (verses 11-22)  Paul  reminded you about the mystery to which he was called to reveal, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory, emphasizing that My Spirit has been given also to pagans.  My Holy Spirit is a treasure entrusted to you to live in your body and in the bodies of all of My children. (I Corinthians 1: 16; Ephesians 3:1-13)
    Another prayer that Paul prayed constantly for the believers in Ephesus and for you is that I would, out of My infinite glory, grant to you by the power of My Holy Spirit that you might grow strong in revelation so that Christ continues to live in you.  He prayed that you would have a convincing revelation of My love so that you will be firmly rooted and grounded in My love, knowing the breadth, length, height and depth of My love until you are filled to overflowing with My fullness.  My Holy Spirit inspired Paul to tell you that when you allow My Spirit to fully do His work of revelation in you of renewing your human mind, then I can do exceedingly, abundantly, infinitely more than you dare ask, think, imagine or desire for you and all of My children according to the power of My Spirit inside of you.
    Those words of Mine inspired by the Holy Spirit through the prophet Paul preceded My exhortation of My children in Ephesus, and others of My children, about your yielding to some temptations of the flesh which are causing you and My other children to begin to lose your glorious inheritance because you have bonded with the devil's kingdom instead of Mine.  You must heed the exhortations of the Holy Spirit and abandon your spiritual lukewarmness, choosing to return to your full and complete devotion to Me.(Revelation 2:1-7)
    My forgiveness and grace is forever constant.  My children often need a reminder of what Jesus Christ did for you and what My Holy Spirit is doing for you now when you devotion and love for Me are still strong.
    Your Father of Loving Corrections

Sunday, February 24, 2019

BENEFITS OF FATHERLY CORRECTIONS

My Dear Precious Child,
   Just like in the earth when a good father gently but emphatically corrects his children who have been rebellious by joining with people doing evil things, My corrections through the writers of the letters inspired by the Holy Spirit to the churches were meant to do the same thing, set My children back onto the right path.  I want them on the narrow path that leads to righteousness instead of their continuing on the wide path that leads to destruction.  The problem was and is that My children who become born again and baptized in My Holy Spirit are tempted by the devil to return to their old either pagan ways if they were Gentiles or return to their old ineffective legalistic, religious ways if they were Jews.  Often they do.
    In the letter that Paul asked that his letter also be sent to the Laodiceans, My Holy Spirit inspired Paul to name the destructive demonic activities to which My children had returned. (Colossians 4:15-16) We looked at those previously and and discovered that they were activities which did the devil's will in the earth instead of their doing My will in the earth.  (Colossians 2:6-23)  I reminded them with My wisdom through the Holy Spirit that they had been cleansed from those wicked activities by Jesus Christ but yet they had returned to yielding to the temptations of the devil to repeat those activities which caused their lives of peace, joy and love to again be destroyed.  They had yielded to the temptations of the devil just like Adam did at the beginning and allowed the devil to bring his demons into their lives to harass, abuse, tempt, curse and destroy the paradise that I had created for My children.  
    Before writing His words of instruction, My Holy Spirit first softened the blow of his writing specific chastenings and corrections to My children by attempting to renew hope and faith in them.  He complimented them for their faith in Christ Jesus and the love that they showed to My other children and the hope that I have stored for them in heaven.  He assured them that the Good News that had converted them was also being heard over the whole world, the gospel that had changed them according to the power of My Holy Spirit. (Colossians 1:4-8)
    Paul encouraged My children at Colossea and Laodicea that he never ceased to pray for them so that they, through perfect wisdom and spiritual understanding, would reach the full knowledge of My will.  His desire was that they would be able to lead the kind of life which I, their Father, expects; a life acceptable to Me in all aspects.  He told them that the life that is acceptable to Me is one that produces good actions and shows an increase in knowledge of Me with the results that all of their actions would reflect My will and My character. (Colossians 1:9-10) 
    Paul wrote that He prayed for them that, BASED ON MY GLORIOUS POWER IN THEM THAT THEY WOULD HAVE THE STRENGTH NEVER TO GIVE IN TO THE EVIL TEMPTATIONS; BUT INSTEAD TO BEAR EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS TO THEM JOYFULLY, THANKING ME FOR THE BLESSING OF HAVING BEEN BROUGHT INTO MY LIGHT.  The Holy Spirit wrote through Paul that Christ Jesus had brought them out of the power of darkness and created a place for all of My children in My kingdom of My Son, Jesus Christ; for it is through Him that we gain freedom and the forgiveness of our sins. (Colossians 1:12-14)
    After reminding My children about Jesus Christ being My image,  My first-born of creation, that in Him all things were created, that He holds all things in His power inside of the Church, which is His body and He is the head, I reminded you that all things were reconciled to Me through Him by His death on the cross. (Colossians 1:15-20)  Then My Spirit reminded you and My other children that you were once ENEMIES OF MINE in the ways that you used to THINK and IN THE EVIL THINGS THAT YOU DID, but now you are reconciled to Me as long as you  persevere and stand firm on the solid foundation of faith, never letting yourself wander away from the mystery of Christ in you.  He is the hope of your having a glorious life in the earth and in the world to come life everlasting.  (Colossians 1:21-23 and 27-29; Luke 18:29-30)
   After preparing My children for My words of correction and guidance, I wrote warnings and chastening words to you about staying loyal and devoted to Me instead of changing allegiance and returning to the old ways which cursed your life in the past.  I said that all instruction and My gentle chastening is necessary to keep you on the right path. (Hebrews 12:5-13) Listen to My instructions and then heed them, following them with all diligence so that you will walk as led by My Holy Spirit who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, far over and above all that you can dare think, imagine, ask or desire, according to My power that is in you. (Ephesians 3:20)  My confirmation of that is yes, amen, so be it.
   Your Father of Mercy     

Saturday, February 23, 2019

REJECT THE OLD DESIRES

My Dear Precious Child,
   My Holy Spirit wrote corrective instructions through the prophets of the new covenant, the covenant of My Holy Spirit, corrections that relate to you and My other children having allowed some old habits, old sins, old demons and old attitudes to invade your thinking again, cursing your life.  Jesus Christ had warned against allowing demons from your old ways to enter back into your life, saying that after the wicked spirits have been cast out that if you allow them to reenter into your life they will bring seven more demons even more evil than themselves and your last state will be worse than the first.  (Matthew 12:43-45)
    By the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the prophet Paul wrote to the Christians in the church in Colossea reminding them what My plan of salvation had done in them, what Jesus Christ had done for them, His crucifixion, death, descent into hell, His being raised from the dead and then coming to sit down with Me, sending My Holy Spirit to live in the earth in My children.  After reminding the church there about the Good news, I began My loving correction about their having returned in some ways to slavery to the demons of their flesh to which they had been slaves in the past.    
   My first correction related to the Colossians HAVING RETURNED TO PUTTING THEIR FAITH IN THE OLD COVENANT LAWS, OBSERVING THE FEASTS, THE FESTIVITIES, THE SABBATHS AND THE NEW MOON OBSERVANCES, (Colossians 2:9-15)  My Spirit excoriated them for returning to those fleshly observances, telling them sternly that all of those observances were prophesies in the old covenant about the coming into the world of Jesus Christ and His sacrifices in their behalf.  He wrote that THE REALITY of those observances is CHRIST, who already came to earth and accomplished what the observances were predicting would happen. (Colossians 2:16-17)  The people were going backward in their religious practices, leaving the truth behind and returning to ineffective religious laws.
   My Spirit also warned about GROVELING TO AND WORSHIPING ANGELS, which some people were doing.  He warned that people who worship angels are forgetting Me and My Lordship over My kingdom of heaven, forgetting Me as the Head of their lives. (Colossians 2:18-19) The angels are your servants, not your saviors.  They are given to you by Me as servants to aid you in your search for  My righteousness.  A person does not worship his or her servants.  He is grateful for their work but he does not revere his servants.  Neither should you worship your angels.  (Hebrews 1:14)
   He also chided you and My other children for RETURNING TO DIETARY RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY THE OLD COVENANT LAWS as though you are living by fleshly rules given in that old covenant.  He identified those rules as being SELF IMPOSED DEVOTIONS, SELF ABASEMENT and SEVERE TREATMENT OF THE BODY.  He wrote that they have no power in them and a person eventually returns to eating wisely. (Colossians 2:20-23)   Those religious restrictions are called asceticism, requiring you to cause your body to suffer in order for you to feel spiritual.  Your body can do nothing in order to feel spiritual.  My Holy Spirit gives to you My new birth and baptizes you in My Holy Spirit.  They are spiritual gifts from Me which transform your body.  Any religious practices that begin with the dictates of the body are demonic instead of being spiritual.     
    The truth of those corrections emphasizes that you must not be earth minded, always keeping your mind on restrictions of earthly things instead of your being  heavenly minded which causes you to have your mind on heavenly things, things that My kingdom has brought into your life. (Colossians 3:1-4)      
   I warned you though the Holy Spirit that you must kill every thought, attitude, words and actions that belong to the former earthly life including FORNICATION, IMPURITY, SEXUAL PASSIONS, EVIL DESIRES, AND GREED -- which is the same thing as worshiping a false god -- saying that all of those evil activities anger Me because I judge and condemn the demons behind those activities.  My anger is toward the devil and the demons, not toward My children who are deceived by them.  I stated that My children of promise must also give up those things along with: BEING BAD TEMPERED, SPITEFUL, USING DIRTY TALK, ABUSIVE LANGUAGE AND LYING. (Colossians 3:5-11)
   I reminded you and My other children that you are My children, a chosen race, My saints, and I love you.  My admonition through My Holy Spirit is that you must return to being clothed with COMPASSION, HUMILITY, KINDNESS, GENTLENESS, PATIENCE, FORGIVENESS, PUTTING ON LOVE AND LETTING MY PEACE RULE IN YOUR HEART. (Colossians 3:12-15) 
   In addition to putting on the fruit of My Holy Spirit, I told workers to be obedient to their bosses as though they are working for Me.  I also told bosses to be fair and just with their workers, knowing that they also have a Boss in heaven. (Colossians 3:22-25)
   I told My children to persevere and be thankful in your prayers and to pray for the ministers.  In addition, be tactful with unbelievers and make good use of your time with them, displaying to them My graciousness.  Agree with them in matters with a flavor of wit, trying to make your conversation with them fit their needs.
   Because I love you so much I warn you about the devil's traps that he sets for you in order for his demons to again enter into your life and bring seven more demons with them in order to curse your life abundantly instead of your living a blessed life from your inheritance from Me.
   Pay heed to what My Holy Spirit spoke in correction of My children in all of the letters to the churches.  They reveal the failure of the first churches to become what I want My children to be in the earth, which is an extension of Jesus Christ with the authority that He gave you to cast demons out of your life and into hell instead of fraternizing again with them and inheriting more demons which curse your life more than when you were an unbeliever.
   Your Father of Gentle Correction