BLESSINGS FROM BEING A LIVING SACRIFICE

My Dear Precious Child, Paul begged the Christians at Rome to make their bodies a living sacrifice that is holy and acceptable to Me with spiritual worship. He warned them about being conformed to the world, but instead told them to be transformed by the renewing of their mind so that they would be able to judge what is My will in everything that you do, judging what is good, pleasing and perfect according to My guidance from the Holy Spirit. (Romans 12:1-5) He cautioned the Roman faithful not to think more highly of themselves than they should. He asked them to estimate themselves soberly in keeping with the measure of faith that God has given to them in the power of the Holy Spirit. He was speaking specifically relating to the gifts, reminding them that just like people have one body with many members with different functions, that so, too, are you all one body in Christ, individually members one of another. He wanted them and you to remember that your gifts differ according to the favor given to each of you. He named prophesy and said that its use was in proportion to the person's faith. Then he mentioned the gifts of ministry, service, teaching, exhortation, giving, organization, and works of mercy, saying they should perform their gifts cheerfully and respecting the gifts of the other members. (Romans 12:6-8) Paul was concerned about their love, and encouraged them that their love must be sincere, detesting what is evil and clinging to what is good. He wrote that their love must be with the affection of brothers and sisters in My family. (Romans 12:9-12) Also of concern to Paul was that the Roman believers would become slack in their zeal but instead he encouraged them that that they, and you, must be fervent in spirit since each of you serve the Lord. He also stressed that they should be patient when under the devil's trials, always persevering in prayers.(Romans 12:12-13) He instructed in the letter that they should look after the needs of the saints just like they look on their own needs. ( Romans 12:13) His admonitions in the letter included that they should always bless the people who persecute them, blessing them instead of cursing them as well as rejoicing with those people who rejoice and weaping with the people who weep, having the same attitude toward everyone. (Romans 12:14-15) He wrote to them that they should put away all selfish ambitions and to associate with people who are of low station in life. (Romans 12:16) A specific warning was that they should never be wise in their own estimation. He encouraged the believers to never repay evil with evil, seeing that their conduct was honorable in the eyes of everyone. (Romans 12:17) As much as is possible, he told them to live at peace with everyone. (Romans 12:18) Especially important was his instruction to never avenge yourselves, quoting that I said that vengeance is Mine, that I will repay. I seek vengeance on the demons behind a person's sins and persecution of others, not upon the person who is only being controlled by a demon. (Romans 12:19) Instead, My Holy Spirit through Paul wrote that if an enemy is hungry that they should feed him, if he is thirsty, give him drink and by doing that they would be pouring hot coals upon the heads of their enemies. (Romans 12:20) He was referring to My angels spiritually pouring hot coals on the heads of your enemies to burn out the demons who are doing the evil. (Ezekiel 10:1-2) In doing the Holy Spirit's instructions through Paul, he said they would not be conquered by evil, but they would conquer evil with good. (Romans 12:21) I endeavor through all means to get My instructions to My children, instructions which will make their lives on earth a paradise just like My heaven. You must follow My advice to live in the earth as the paradise that I intended for it to be. Your Father of Good Fatherly Guidance

BLESSINGS IN HAVING DIVINE WISDOM

My Dear Precious Child, After Paul explained in familiar language about the Israelites (Jews) whom he had described as being a branch being broken off of an olive tree, the tree of which I am the Root, he stressed that I had not cut them off but that they had chosen to worship idols instead of being loyal to Me. And he stressed that I had sent him, Paul, to the unbelieving Gentiles with My message of salvation to them, My salvation which he described as the Gentiles being grafted onto the branch of Jesus Christ which caused them to share in My blessings because of their being nourished by Me, the Root. (Romans 11:16-24; John 15:5) Because of his ancestry of being a Jew, Paul was distressed that his ancestral Israeli family had not accepted My salvation through Jesus Christ as their Messiah for whom they had so eagerly waited for generations. Paul wanted the Romans to understand My plan and the reason for the Jews having chosen to be so weak in power as to become separated from My love and My favor. He told the Romans in his letter to them that he didn't want them to be ignorant of the mystery of My plan that I derived before the foundation of the world that just in case that chosen race through whom the flesh of Jesus Christ descended through Abraham, just in case they left Me and bound themselves to the demons who inhabit idols, which they did over and over, then I would take My salvation to the Gentiles. Paul wrote to the Romans that they, as converted Gentiles, should not get conceited by thinking they were more special to Me than the Israelite Jews. He wrote that as soon as the entire nation of Gentiles was converted that then all of Israel would enter into My kingdom of God. (Romans 11:25) He wrote that the entire nation of Jews were enemies of Mine at the time, by their own choice, for the sake of the Gentiles. He reminded the Romans that the Jews were loved by Me because of their patriarchs since My gifts and My calling are irrevocable, except at the times that they choose to be rebellious and stubborn by serving the demons who inhabit idols. (Romans 11:26-29) He explained to the Romans that just like they were once disobedient to Me and had currently received My mercy through their disobedience, so the Jews had become disobedient because I wanted to show My mercy to the Gentiles. So at the present time, he explained, the Israelites had become disobedient so that they, too, would eventually receive My mercy. To those who are disobedient, I still show mercy to all of them. Then Paul launched into genuine praise and worship of Me and Christ in his writing to the Romans, extolling My riches and My wisdom and knowledge. He praised My judgments and My unsearchable ways. Again Paul launched into questioning the wisdom of the Roman Christians, asking them who had known My mind or who had become My counselor, asking who of them had given Me anything so as to deserve a return from Me? He signed his letter stating that in Me, through Me, and for Me are all things done. (Romans 11:33-36; Colossians 1:27) Your Father of Divine Favor

BLESSED WITH CLEAR ANSWERS TO SPIRITUAL QUESTIONS

My Dear Precious Child, As was Paul's habit, in his letter to the Roman Christians he asked them since the Law is dead because of My new covenant of the Holy Spirit being instituted in the earth, another one of his questions was if I had rejected the Israelites. Then, as was also his habit, he answered his own question. He answered that no, I did not reject the Israelites, who were also called the Jews. He reminded them that he, himself, was an Israelite, a descendant of Benjamin. He repeated that no, I did not reject My people whom I foreknew. He asked them if they remembered that Elijah pleaded with Me against Israel, how Elijah had proclaimed to Me that the Israelites had killed My own prophets, torn down My altars, and that he, himself, was the only loyal one left and the Israelites were after him to kill him. (Romans 11:`1-3) Paul reminded the Romans that I answered Elijah by saying that I had left for myself a remnant of ten thousand men who had not bowed to Baal. Paul told the Romans in his letter that, just as in that instance in their history, that I had a remnant chosen by My grace. He reminded the Israelites that if it's by My grace then it's not by any works, otherwise grace would not be grace. In other words, Israel did not obtain what she was seeking but those who were chosen by Me did, speaking of the Gentiles. He wrote to them that the rest of Israel became blind as a stupor, having blind eyes and deaf ears, and that it was still so in his day. Because the same thing had happened in David's time, he said that what they ate spiritually from hell in ways of temptations was a snare to them and a trap because their eyes had been darkened by the devil so that they could not see. Therefore they received the consequences from rejecting Jesus Christ, the stumbling stone, and their sins had become a retribution to them with their backs bent in slavery to hell forever. However, it would not be forever because of the remnant that I preserved. (Romans 11:4-10; Isaiah 29:10) Because of Israel's persistent habit of yielding to the temptation to do evil and thus spiritually divorce themselves from Me by binding themselves to idols, they had other gods and their separation from Me would not be forever. Instead, by their transgressions My salvation came to the Gentiles in order to stir up the envy of the Jews. If their transgressions and their diminished numbers meant riches for the Gentiles, how much more would be the full number of the Gentiles. Paul wrote to the Gentiles in Rome reminding them that he was a Jew even though he was called by Me to be an apostle to the Gentiles. He wrote that he gloried in his ministry of trying to arouse his fellow Jews to envy the Gentiles so that they would seek to be saved. He reminded the Jews that if it was the rejection of Jesus Christ by the Jews that allowed the reconciliation of the rest of the world, then what would the acceptance of the Jews mean? He answered his own question again, answering that it would mean life from the dead for those Jews. He said that if the first fruits are consecrated, then so is the whole mass of dough and if the root is consecrated, then so, too, are the branches. He further explained in terms that men with orchards would understand. He said that if some branches were cut off and a wild olive tree was grafted-in, then they would share the same root of the olive tree, like the Gentiles, but then they had no reason to boast against the branches. He told them that they, the grafted-in Gentiles, did not support the root, that the root supports them, speaking of Me, Myself, being the root. He told the Gentiles that they could say that the Israelites were cut off so that they would be grafted in and that was well and good. But, he wrote, the Israelites were cut off because of their own unbelief and the Gentiles were accepted because of their faith. Paul advised the Gentiles not to be haughty on that account but instead they must be in awe of My favor to them. He warned them that if they developed the same unbelief as the Jews that they would see that I didn't spare them as branches, either, because of their rebellion toward Me. Instead, he wrote that they must always consider My kindness but also My severity in relation to sins. From Me there is severity toward the Jews' sin but there is kindness toward the Gentiles, provided that they remain in My kindness; but that, if they do not, that they would also be cut off because light cannot walk with darkness. Paul wrote that the Jews who did not remain in their unbelief would be grafted back on because I am able to do it. He explained that if they, as Israelites, were cut off from the natural wild olive and, contrary to nature, were grafted into the cultivated olive tree, so much more would they who belong to it by nature also be grafted into their own olive tree. The Gentiles to whom the letter was addressed understood his teaching about nature because many were farmers with trees and they understood about their trees. They knew that it was important that they stayed loyal to Me; but if they did, like the Jews, turn to idols then they would also become separated from Me and My kingdom of God by their own choices and actions. Paul's letter succeeded in exhorting some of the Romans to continue in their dedication and loyalty to the teachings of Jesus Christ. Your Father of Good Warnings

BLESSINGS OF SALVATION

My Dear Precious Child, In Paul's informative letter to the Romans he confessed that his heart's desire was that the Israelites would also be saved, as well as the Gentiles. He knew from experience that their zeal was for Me, though that zeal was. and is still, spiritually misguided. The Jews were unaware of My real salvation through Christ Jesus and sought to establish their own salvation, so they did not subject themselves to My real plan for righteousness. Paul wrote spiritual truth when he stated in his letter to the Romans that Christ is the end of the Law. It is only through Christ that salvation comes to everyone who believes. Their ancestor Moses wrote that salvation came from obeying the Law and that anyone who observes the Law would draw life from it. However, nobody could obey all of the laws. So My effective salvation for humanity that comes from faith says this, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who shall go up into heaven to bring Christ down'; or, "Who shall go down into the abyss to bring Christ up from the dead?" (Deuteronomy 30:11-14) What does the word of faith say? It says, "The word is already near and in you, it's on your lips and in your heart, that is the word of faith which is preached." In other words, if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and if you believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, then you will be saved from the works of the evil demons who are in the world. Faith residing in your heart leads to your being righteous and confessing that faith with your lips leads to your being saved from the works of the devil. Scripture says that those who believe in Christ will not experience shame from yielding to the devil's temptations. Paul assured the Roman Christians that there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek, writing that all have the same Lord who is rich in mercy toward everyone who calls upon Him. Everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved. (Joel 3:5) Jews and Gentiles both inherit My righteousness when they believe and then confess Christ Jesus as Lord. Paul reminded the Romans that no one can call upon Christ Jesus unless they have heard of Him and how can they hear about Him if no one preaches about Him? Also, how can they preach unless they are sent by Me? Scripture says, "How beautiful are the feet of Him who announces Good News." But not everyone believes the gospel. Paul quoted Isaiah when he said, "Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?" Faith, then, comes from hearing what is preached and what is preached is what comes from the words of Christ. Paul asked the Romans in his letter if it was possible that the Jews had not heard the gospel? Then he answered himself by writing that certainly they have heard because this prophesy had come true, "Their voice has gone out throughout the whole earth and their message to the ends of the world." (Psalm 19:5) So Paul wrote the question again of the Romans: "Did the people of Israel not understand?" Again he answered his question by writing that Moses had said that I said that I would make them jealous of the people who had no nation, that I would make them angry with a nonreligious nation, referring to the Gentiles. He quoted the prophet Isaiah who spoke boldly when he prophesied for Me, saying, "I was found by those who were not seeking Me; and to those who were not looking for Me I revealed myself." But of the Jewish nation Isaiah prophesied for Me that, "All day long I stretched out My hands to an unbelieving, rebellious and contentious people." (Deuteronomy 30:11-14) Paul was so disappointed that most of his fellow Jews had not believed in the Good News of Christ because he knew firsthand the joy that accompanies living a life of faith in the life of Jesus, His crucifixion, His death, His visit to hell, His being raised from the dead and then His ascending to heaven to sit down with Me after He sent His source of power, My Holy Spirit, to live inside of people in the earth who believe, both the Jews and the Gentiles. All was not lost in Paul's desire for the conversion of the rest of the Jews. Still, in your day some Jews turn from their unbelief and confess that Jesus Christ is Lord when the veil of unbelief is removed from their mind by the Holy Spirit. (II Corinthians 3:13-17) Your Father of the Spirit of Faith

BLESSINGS IN INTERCESSOR PRAYERS

My Dear Precious Child, In Paul's letter to the Roman Christians He listed many of the articles of faith and truth that he had heard from Me, including the one about intercessory prayers in the Holy Spirit. He wrote that My Holy Spirit helps you when you don't know how to pray by His making intercessions for you in His spiritual words like on the day of Pentecost when the believers spoke in languages, both angelic (spiritual) and earthly languages that they had never spoken before in their earthly languages. My Spirit speaks solutions for healing, for deliverance from demons, for restoration, for reconciliation and for solutions to your problems, speaking them in the languages of My heaven. He speaks them to the angels as they scurry forth to perform My words. My Spirit knows what is My will and He speaks it forth into the earth in My heavenly language as instructions to your angels for them to perform My every word. (Romans 8:26-28; Jeremiah 1:8-12; I Corinthians 13:1) Paul admitted that there was great pain in his heart for the sake of his brothers, his kinsmen the Israelites as he called them. He grieved that so few of them had believed the gospel of Christ. He wrote that they had the old covenants from the past, the adoption as My children, the glory, the law-giving, the worship and the promises and he attested to the fact that their ancestors were the fathers through whom the Messiah came into the world. Their rebellion against Me did not mean that My word had failed. The problem was that not all of the Israelites were true Israelites, nor were all of them Abraham's descendants. Scripture says that it is not children of the flesh who are called My children, but it is the children of promise who are considered My descendants. (Romans 9:1-18) In his explanation of who were true Israelites, he reminded the Romans about Sarah having a son at an old age and that Isaac's wife Rebekah had twin children by Isaac while they had neither done good nor evil, in order that My decree might stand that it's not by works but by the favor of Him who called them. The scripture says that I loved Jacob but hated (preferred) Esau. Paul wrote that that does not mean that I am unjust, just that I show mercy to whom I choose, having pity on whom I wish. So it's not a matter of human works that succeed but instead it's a matter of My Works that succeed. Paul wrote that the product that the potter molds does not ask why it's molded a specific way. The potter is the artist so he molds his product like he wants. (Romans 9:19-24) So the lesson that Paul was explaining to the converts in Rome was that the prophets spoke for Me saying that I would call to be My people the men and women who were not My people, speaking about the Gentiles, whom Paul was called by Me to evangelize. Isaiah prophesied that only a remnant of the Israelites would remain, even through they were originally as the sands of the sea. He wrote that the Gentiles who were not seeking My salvation received My salvation by faith, while Israelites who were seeking a law from which salvation would come did not arrive at the method of salvation. He asked why not? Then he explained the answer was that the Gentiles were blessed with salvation because salvation comes by faith, not by works, which is what the Israelites felt was the only way to salvation and justice. Paul said the Israelites stumbled over the stone that was placed as a stumbling stone in front of them. (Romans 9:30-33). Paul did not want the Jews to miss out one day from the glorious events which the Gentiles were experiencing, but their own pride, rebellion and stubbornness kept most of them out of the real promised land, which is My Kingdom of God. Only a remnant of Israelites came into My kingdom of God and they exist in My heaven and the earth to this very day. Your Father of Inclusion

BLESSED ABUNDANTLY BY BEING A CHILD OF GOD

My Dear Precious Child, Paul wrote by My revelation that if you live by the dictates of the flesh where the devil tempts you, you will die; but if, by the Holy Spirit's power in you, you put to death the evil deeds of your body, you will live a life of abundance. (Romans 8:13 and John 10:10) In explaining that truth, he wrote that everyone who is led by the Spirit of God are My children. He explained that you did not receive a demonic spirit of slavery leading you back into fear, but you received a Spirit of adoption through which you can cry to Me as your Father. In fact, he explained that the Holy Spirit, Himself, is a witness in your spirit that you are My child. Since you are My child, you are an heir also, one of My heirs along with Christ since you have suffered with Him on the cross and you have also been glorified with Him by having the glory of the Holy Spirit present in your life. (Romans 8:13-17) The sufferings of Christ were abundant in the first church because of the persecution by the Pharisaical Jews who harassed and beat them. In Paul's life, there were more persecutions and harassment because of the attitudes of the other apostles who doubted Paul's being an apostle because he did not walk and talk physically with Jesus Christ. Paul's testimony of his personal encounter with Jesus Christ on the occasion of his being on the road to Damascus did not seem to impress those apostles at all for a while. However, after 15 years when he explained His commission from Me to evangelize the Gentiles, that was welcomed by the other apostles. That relieved them of ministering to the Gentiles because Paul had a calling from Me to do it. He considered as nothing the sufferings of his calling by Me compared to the glory to eventually be revealed to him along with the rest of the believers. Actually, Paul wrote that the whole entire created world waits for the revealing of My sons when they finally realize the power that has been granted in their lives by their being baptized in My Holy Spirit. He wrote that all of creation was made subject to the demonic world, not as a manner of personal choice but because Adam subjected it to the devil; yet creation is not without hope because the world will be freed from slavery to corruption and share in the glorious freedom of My children when My children have revealed to them the power that exists inside of them. (Romans 8:19-25 Paul wrote that the world itself groans in agony even now. Not only that, but Christians themselves, although they have the Holy Spirit as a first Fruit, they groan inwardly while they wait for the revelation of My power to be made known to them. He wrote that in hope My children were saved but hope is not hope if the promise is seen. Awaiting for what you cannot see awaits the promise with patient endurance. However, the Holy Spirit helps you in the weakness of your flesh, because when you don't know how to pray the Holy Spirit intercedes with words that cannot be expressed in known human speech. He, the Holy Spirit, who searches your heart knows what the Spirit means when He prays, interceding for the saints as I, Myself, wills. (Romans 8:26-27) Paul proclaimed that everything works together for the good of those people who are called according to My decree, being called into unity with Me. (Romans 8:28) I knew you before you were born in the earth and I predestined that you would share in being made in My image and the image of My Son because Jesus Christ was the first born of My many children. Those whom I knew before their birth in the earth are called by Me and I justified them by baptizing them in My Holy Spirit, causing them to be born of My Spirit for justification and then baptized in My Holy Spirit for glorification. (Romans 8:28-30) So what more can you say about that except that since God is for you, who can be against you? Paul wrote that it's guaranteed that I, who did not spare My own Son but handed Him over to the devil's judgment for the sins of the whole world, will certainty grant to you all things that are Mine. (Romans 8:31-32) So, because of the greatness of My mercy and forgiveness, who can bring a charge against you? Can I who justifies you? No. Who can condemn you? Can Jesus Christ who died and was raised up for you and sits at My right hand? No. Nothing can separate you from My Love, not trials, distresses, persecutions, hunger, nakedness, danger or a sword. Paul said that for the sake of the brethren he was looked upon as being a sheep for the slaughter. Yet, because of Him who loved Paul, His being Christ, Paul professed to be more than a conqueror. He proclaimed that neither death nor life, neither My angels nor demonic principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor demonic powers, neither height nor depth nor any other creature is able to separate you from My love that comes to you in Christ Jesus, the Lord. You are My child and nothing can come between us except an act of your will. Paul never even considered that to be his choice. He personally met Love on the road to Damascus and he would never, ever choose to leave Me. Once you have met My Love through the person of the Holy Spirit, rebellion from you is never a viable choice. (Ephesians 3:14-21) Your Father of Intense and Compelling Love

BLESSINGS ACCOMPANY NO CONDEMNATION

My Dear Precious Child, After Paul explained the difference between the temptations in your mind which come from the demons from hell and the gentle instructions in your mind which come from My Holy Spirit, he wrote to the Romans that there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus and walk in the guidance of Holy Spirit. (Romans 8:1) He wrote that the words of instruction and guidance from Me which come from the Spirit of Life that was in Christ Jesus has freed you from the words in your mind from the devil which condemn you and cause you to feel guilty which bring curses and death to you. He also wrote that the Laws were weak which the devil of sin and death uses to condemn you, weakened by the flesh which has no power to overcome evil. Then I sent My Son in the likeness of sinful flesh as a sin offering that was required by the Law, thereby condemning the sinful actions of the flesh so that the good demands of the Law might be fulfilled in you who live not according to the words of the devil from your flesh in your mind but who live according to the words of My Spirit which comefrom Me. (Romans 8:2-4) It was clear to Paul that the people who live according to the temptations from their flesh, where demons speak to people, if you live according to the dictates of the flesh then you receive condemnation from hell in your mind, but those people who live according to My Fatherly instructions which come into your mind from My Holy Spirit will live according to those beneficial dictates from Me and receive My blessings and rewards because you pursue the things of the Spirit. The tendency of the flesh is always toward death but when you pursue things that are of the Spirit they will bring life and soul peace. Not only did Paul know the truth that the actions of the flesh that is in unity with the devil always bring death to you because the flesh is always at war with Me and My Spirit, but he also knew that the flesh is never subject to My words. (Romans 8:5-8) As far as the Roman Christians were concerned, Paul wrote to them that they were not in the flesh; instead they were of the spirit since My Holy Spirit lived in them. He went further to write that anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him. He wrote that if Christ is in you in the person of My Holy Spirit, then your body is dead to sin while your spirit lives according to My justice in raising Christ from the dead, thus raising you from the dead. It's clear from My revelations to Paul, and it must be made clear to you, that if the Spirit who raised Jesus Christ from the dead lives in you, then the Holy Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead will bring your earthly body to Life also through the Holy Spirit who lives in you. You are not a debtor to the flesh because it has always been opposed to you. So if you live according to the temptations of the flesh, then you will die; but if you live by the dictates of the Spirit, then you will put to death the evil temptations of the devil and his actions and you will live a life filled with blessings and rewards. (Romans 8:9-12) It's all so simple, you have the choice between life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life by choosing the instructions of My Holy Spirit. (Deuteronomy 30:19; Jeremiah 21:8) Your Father of Life and Soul Peace