BLESSED BY THE NEW COVENANT OF LOVE

My Dear Precious Child, When Paul wrote his letter to the Hebrews, he felt compelled to explain the difference between the old covenant and My new covenant with people in a way to explain the Jewish worship services which pertained to the sacrifices and their ineffectiveness which he explained in relation to a person's CONSCIENCE which was condemned by the devil using the Jewish Law if the people do not observe all of the food, drink and regulations that were proposed in the Law. (Hebrews 9:9) In his letter he explained the setup of the temple, first being the outer court and then there was the inner court, which was called the Holy Place in which priests were able to enter and do their duties, Then there was the Holy of Holies where no one was allowed to enter except the High Priest once a year with the blood sacrifices for the sins of the people. Under the old covenant the priests were allowed to enter into the inner room or the Holy Place where there was stored the ark of the covenant, the golden jar that held the manna, the rod of Aaron which had sprouted, and the two slabs upon which was written the Ten Commandments. In that inner room or court, the Holy Place, the priests could enter and perform their worship, but the third area of the tabernacle, the Holy of Holies, could only be entered once a year by the high priest where he offered sacrifices for the sins that people had committed. The common people could not enter into the Holy Place or Holy of Holies until Christ Jesus split the curtain to allow free access to all of My children, signifying that Christ has died for the sins of all people, so therefore all of My children are now able to enter into My presence with no CONSCIENCE accusing them of having sinned. In other words, the sacrifice of Christ Jesus for your sins and the sins of the whole world fulfilled the need for sacrifices under the old covenant. Christ Jesus, Himself, was the sacrifice. There is no need for once a year sacrifices for the sins of each year, which was the Jewish tradition. Paul wrote to the Hebrew readers of his letter that sacrificing the blood of sheep and goats was incapable of perfecting the CONSCIENCES of the worshipers or cleansing and renewsing the inner person of the worshipers because they were only a picture of bigger things to come when My New Covenant of the Holy Spirit was initiated in the earth in which My Spirit came to live inside of people, enabling Me to write My personal words of guidance and revelation to them on their hearts and their minds (Hebrews 1:1-9) For the Gentile believers in Christ Jesus, there was no tradition of sacrifices for their sins, so when they were converted and became believers in the life and death of Christ Jesus, which tore down the devil's wall of separation between people and Me, there was never a need for them to become like the Jews and make sacrifices every year, which is what the Pharisaical Jews wanted the believing Gentiles to do. False prophets and teachers, after hearing about the salvation of the Gentiles under the ministry of Paul, those Jewish prophets and teachers became adamant about making sure that the Gentiles also practiced old covenant sacrifices for sins, even though I made no such requirement. The prophets and teachers endeavored to bring the Gentiles under bondage to Jewish Law for temporary cleansing, even thought it was for the flesh, not from the Spirit. Christ Jesus had already provided cleansing of their consciences. In his book written to the Hebrews, Paul endeavored to make sure that the Gentile believers were not tricked into believing the hypocritical Jewish false prophets and teachers who wanted to bring them under the Jewish Law of rules, regulations and sacrifices which was, in essence, null and void after the ministry of Jesus Christ was fulfilled in the earth and he ascended into heaven to sit down with Me, having given to My Holy Spirit the ministry of reconciliation, which saves the earth from the works of the devil and his demons. (II Corinthians 3:17-18; John 3:16-17)) Paul's letter to the Hebrews also explained to the Jewish believers in Christ Jesus that His blood -- in which resides My Holy Spirit, My entire personality -- had purified the CONSCIENCES of the Gentiles from all of the dead rituals of the old covenant of the Jews because His life is in His blood. (Hebrews 9:14-15) So the Gentiles and Jews need not depend on rituals, rules and regulations for their salvation from the works of the devil. They have My power of the Holy Spirit living inside of them in the person of Christ Jesus and his sacrifices for their sins. The entire ministry of Paul in his letters to the churches was dedicated to saving both the Gentile and Jewish converts to Jesus Christ from being tricked and bewitched into incorporating the Jewish rituals into their gift of faith in Jesus Christ for salvation. (Galatians 3:1-5) You must also be alert to the wiles of the devil and his demons who do the same works in the earth. There are many demons who teach errors and false doctrines in the earth. Be alert to them. Your Father of Discernment

BLESSED WITH A PURE HEART AND EYES

My Dear Precious Child, In Paul's letter to Titus, he wrote the letter to stimulate and promote the faith of My chosen children and to lead them on to accurate discernment and recognition of the Truth which belongs to and harmonizes with godliness. He wrote the expected character traits of elders and bishops of the church, much like he did with Timothy. However, in the letter to Titus he wrote about some people in the congregation who were disorderly, who were idle, misleading talkers who were deceivers of themselves who had come over from the circumcision party, the Jews. Paul, himself, wasted few words, writing that the mouths of those people must be stopped because they were misleading entire families by teaching what they should not teach, all for the purpose of gaining reputation and wealth. He even repeated what one of their own prophets had said about them, that they were liars, hurtful beasts, idle and lazy gluttons. Paul agreed with that assessment of the Jews who had infiltrated the ranks of Titus' church, writing that they needed to be rebuked sternly, sharply and even severely so that they might turn from their actions and return to sound faith, being free from errors. He wrote that the people in the church needed to cease giving attention to Jewish myths and fables and to the rules and laws laid down by men who had rejected the Truth of Jesus Christ. (Titus 1:10-14) Paul wrote that to the pure in heart and CONSCIENCE all things are pure, but to the corrupt and unbelieving people nothing is pure; their very mind and CONSCIENCE are defiled and polluted. He wrote that those impure people professed to know Me but they denied and denounced Me by what they do. He even identified them as being loathsome and detestable, unbelieving, disobedient, disloyal, rebellious, unfit and worthless for good works of any kind. Paul recognized the evil that they were teaching and he knew that a little poison would kill the whole church. (Titus 1:15-16) In his letter to the church in Crete Paul mentioned the descriptions of the characteristics of righteousness which the elders, bishops, older women, younger women and young men must display in their lives. But, mainly, Paul wrote about the characteristics that he, Titus, must display in his own life, that he must be a pattern and model of good deeds, teaching what is unadulterated, having the strictest regard for truth and purity of motive with dignity and seriousness. Then Paul described the teachings that Titus must give to the church, writing that they must be sound, fit, wise and wholesome, vigorous, and above censure so that anyone who opposed him would be put to shame, finding nothing evil to say about the believers. He continued on in his letter by writing workers should be submissive to their masters, pleasing them in every way, refusing to steal, always being loyal and entirely reliable and faithful so that in every way they would be an ornament and do credit to the teaching about Me, the Savior. (Titus 2:1-10) Paul was constantly endeavering to keep his converts to Christ Jesus pure, undefiled and gifted with enough wisdom to recognize the false teachers and prophets who had begun to invade the new covenant churches in order to bring dishonor to My name and entice My liberated children to return to the Old Covenant Law. It doesn't work. It's putting new wine into old wine skins, splitting the wine skins and spilling the new wine all over the floor, ruining the wine and the wine skins. Endeavoring to add old covenant Law to the True Gospel of Jesus Christ pollutes it and causes the sacrifice of Jesus Christ to be polluted and of no effect. The Law was given to point out sin, not as a means to salvation, even though the Law often prophesied the coming of the new covenant of the Holy Spirit which brought freedom from evil. Your Father of Purity of Heart

BLESSED FROM PRAYING IN GOOD CONSCIENCE

My Dear Precious Child, There are times when My children commit themselves to pray for some request from another person that when they leave the presence of the other person the committment is forgotten immediately. In his teachings concerning your CONSCIENCE Paul wrote concerning those types of committments which go away from your conscious mind but your unconscious mind reminds you that you have agreed to pray and have not prayed. The solution to that problem is that you do not agree to pray if you realize that you have on many other occasions said that you would pray for the solution to a friend's problem but you immediately forget to pray. The problem is that you actually lied when you agreed to pray, knowing that it is your habit to forget the committment when you leave the presence of your friend. Paul wrote about this when he wrote his second letter to Timothy relating to the people in the church at Ephesis. He wrote that he thanked Me whom he worshiped with a pure CONSCIENCE in the spirit of his forefathers when, without ceasing, Paul remembered that he had committed to praying for Timothy night and day in his prayers and he wrote that he had fulfilled that promised commitment to pray. The spiritual assurance was that if he had neglected to pray for Timothy after commiting to pray for him day and night, then he had no assurance that Timothy would pray for Paul in his own commitment to pray for Paul which Timothy had also made. In that writing Paul said that in his worship of Me that his CONSCIENCE was pure and it did not convict him of neglecting his commitment to pray for Timothy. Paul even referred to Timothy's tears upon his saying farewell to Paul at their last meeting and how touched he was with the degree of Timothy's love. (II Timothy 1:5. Along that line, Paul remembered Timothy's sincere faith of leaning his entire personality on Me, trusting with absolute confidence of trust in his power, faith and goodness that Paul had first encountered in Timothy's grandmother and mother and that he had also experienced lived in Timothy also. Yet, Paul firmly in his writing encouraged Timothy to allow the flame of My gift of the Holy Spirit to him to keep burning intensely, that being the inner fire of My Spirit that was first evident when people laid hands upon him. Paul emphasized that I did not give to him a spirit of timidity and fear, but instead that I had given to him a Spirit of power, of love and of a sound mind. He told Timothy not to be ashamed to testify for their Lord nor for Paul, a prisoner for Timothy's sake, but he encouraged Timothy to take his share of the suffering to which the preaching of the Gospel exposed him, reminding Timothy that it is done in My power and not his own power. (II Timothy 1:5-8) In the second letter to Timothy, Paul reminded Timothy that it was Christ Jesus who had saved and called them with a holy calling that led to more holiness, that being a life of consecration and holiness, not because of the merits of anyone, but merely to further the purpose of My favor which was given to people in Christ Jesus before the world began. Paul went on in the letter to amplify several times the commitment to praying for Timothy that Paul had made and had kept as being a matter of holiness ( II Timothy 1:9) It is in this letter to Timothy that Paul made his most sound profession of faith when he wrote, "I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for I have believed in Him, being positively persuaded that He is able to keep and to guard everything that I have committed to Him until the day it is fulfilled." (II Timothy 1:12) When people ask you to pray for them in your prayers and you agree, it is the same truth, that person is persuaded that you will do what you said you would do, which is to pray fervently in your prayer closet for the person. Don't agree to pray if you know that you probably will not pray. Then your conscience will not convict you of telling a lie when you committed to pray. I am not the crueldiety who convicts you and then brings judgments into your life for lying. It's the devil who waits to catch you in a lie or a committment you know that you will not keep. His judgments are difficult to bear when he sets up a barrier between My children and Me and blocks the power of My Holy Spirit to intervene. Don't commit to anything that you know you will not be able to do. The prophet James covered this truth when he taught for you not to take an oath. Agreeing to do something is the same thing as taking an oath to do it. (James 5:12) Your Father Who is Loyal and Committed

CURSED BY A SEARED CONSCIENCE

My Dear Precious Child, When Paul wrote his first letter to Timothy relating to false teachers and false prophets, he reminded Timothy that prophesies said that during the days of My last covenant with humanity where I come to live inside of people, that My Holy Spirit had warned that the devil would send seducing spirits into believing communities; those being false prophets teaching doctrines taught by demons and doctrines that promote hypocrisy taught by the people having their CONSCIENCES already seared with a hot iron. He wrote that prophesies had predicted that people would be forbidden to marry and that people would be commanded not to eat meats which I had created to be received with thanksgiving by those people who believe and know the truth that every creature created by Me is good and that the meats should not be refused if they are received with thanksgiving and sanctified by My word and with prayer.(I Timothy 4:1-5) In other words, Paul knew that those seducing demons would tempt My children to return to old covenant Law for their salvation as if faith in Jesus Christ was not enough. Paul wrote to Timothy that if he gave those precautionary instructions to the believers that he would be a good minister of Jesus Christ, having been fed and nourished in the words of faith and good doctrine wherein Timothy had already gained knowledge. He warned Timothy to refuse irreverent legends, traditions and old wives tales, and instead to exercise himself in spiritual things by keeping himself spiritually fit. He emphasized that physical exercise is of some value, but spiritual, godly training is useful and of value in everything and in every way because it holds promises for your present life and also the life which is to come. Paul stressed that this warning was reliable and worthy of complete acceptance by everyone in the church. He reiterated the truth that he and Timothy and other ministers were going to continue to toil and strive, fixing their hope on Me, who is the Living God, the Savior of all people, especially to those who believe. (I Timothy 4:8-10) Paul's emphatic instructions to Timothy related to his not neglecting My gift of the Holy Spirit that I had given to him by prophesy, not allowing anyone to disbelieve him because of his young age, but instead for Timothy to continue to be an example for believers in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity. (I Timothy 4: 11-12) He advised Timothy to devote himself to reading the Word and to preaching and teaching sound doctrine. His concern was that Timothy might succumb to the false teachers and prophets that old covenant prophets had warned about who were to come and pollute the Gospel. The apostle Paul's emphasis in his letter was that Timothy would not neglect the gifts of the Holy Spirit which had been given to him with the laying on of hands. He advised his friend and fellow minister to meditate upon his own duties, throwing himself wholeheartedly into the ministry to which he had been called, persevering in all things mentioned in his letter. In so doing, Paul wrote, Timothy would save himself as well as saving those people who heard him preach and teach. (I Timothy 4:15-16) Paul knew that it is in meditating upon My Words through Christ Jesus that I am able to reveal My understanding and My Truths. Do not allow the devil and his demons to sear your conscience with a hot iron, thus blocking the revelation power of My Holy Spirit inside of you. Your Father of Powerful Words

BLESSED WITH A PURE CONSCIENCE

My Dear Precious Child, To his fellow minister who was the pastor of the church at Ephesis, Paul wrote to Timothy the qualifications of bishops of the church, and also the men and women who desired to become deacons of the church. There were restrictions in order to only give those ministries to people who would not bring an accusation of hypocrisy onto the entire church. He wrote that first a deacon must be respected in the community so that he or she will not become guilty of deserving slanderous comments and accusations or the person would fall into the devil's trap of one kind or another. Another requirement was that a person who desired to be a deacon must be worthy of respect both inside and outside of the church, not a double talker but the person must be sincere in everything that he says, that he must not be an excessive drinker of wine, not greedy by craving wealth or he will resort to evil means of getting it. Then Paul also wrote a spiritual requirement for being a deacon, writing that a candidate for the office of deacon must possess the mystery of the Gospel of Christ with a CLEAR CONSCIENCE. In other words, there must be nothing in his or her mind or heart that convicts the person of being guilty of some secret, hidden sin. (I Timothy 3:8-10) Paul wrote that women who desire to be deacons must be worthy of respect, be serious, not be gossipers, be temperate with no craving for wine, be led by self-control and trustworthy in all things. He also added another general requirement for men who desire to be a deacon is that they only have been married one time and are able to manage their own children and their own households well. They must have a good standing in the community themselves and also gain the confidence, boldness and faith which is centered in Christ Jesus. (I Timothy 3:11-13) Just in case Paul was detained from visiting the congregation where Timothy had been placed as pastor, Paul wanted to make sure that Timothy knew how officials were to conduct themselves in the church of the Living God and support the Truth. Then in his first letter to Timothy Paul wrote about the faith that must be evident in anyone who serves in a place of authority in the church, writing that what is the most important requirement for a deacon is that the person possess a personal knowledge of the hidden truth, the mystic secret of godliness which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. (Colossians1:27) Earlier Paul had written briefly about it, writing that an office holder must possess the secret of faith of a Christian which is hidden from ungodly people and is only present in a believer. (I Timothy 3:9) In Paul's effort to more fully explain the mystery of the secret of faith, he described the hidden truth of godliness, that being that I had made Christ Jesus visible in human flesh, justified by the Holy Spirit, was seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed-on in the world and then He was taken up in glory. (I Timothy 3:15-16) That profession of faith must be genuine and true in anyone who desired to serve in the office of deacon in the church. Paul wrote the first letter to Timothy in order to assist his friend and ministry associate on how to govern a church that had been justified by Christ Jesus, and also to make sure that the church members were protected from false teachers and false prophets who were invading the churches of Christ. In his office of bishop, Paul had stepped outside of his first calling as minister and he was operating in the gift of administration by writing the letter, making sure that the entire church at Ephesis was operating as efficiently as possible in order to protect My children from an ungodly element that was desiring to overtake My church. Your Father of Order and Peace

BLESSED WITH VICTORIOUS WARFARE OVER EVIL

My Dear Precious Child, Paul wrote to his fellow minister named Timothy that he must commit to the prophetic utterances of the Holy Spirit through other ministers by which he could wage good warfare with the devil and his demons. Then he wrote that Timothy must hold onto faith and a good conscience. Paul knew that when a person's conscience convicts him or her of having bad thoughts, speech or works that his or her path toward righteousness is blocked and faith is diminished. In fact, he wrote that some people had shipwrecked their own faith with evil thinking. Paul even named two men whom he had turned over to the devil so that they would learn not to blaspheme Me and My name. After he contrasted having a good conscience with having a conscience that convicts a person of blaspheme or evil deeds, he continued with good instructions on how to live a peaceful life. He instructed Timothy to, first of all, pray for all people who are in authority over him, praying supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgiving for all people who are in high positions civilly or politically so that the result of your prayers would be that you would live a peaceful, godly and respectful life. He said that those prayers are good and acceptable in My sight because I desire that all people would be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth. He professed that there is only one real God, and there is only one mediator between Me and people, that being Jesus Christ. He reminded Timothy that Christ Jesus had given himself up as a ransom for all people, his testimony being borne as truth in its proper time. Paul admitted that he had been called by Me to be a preacher and a teacher of the Truth, a teacher of faith and truth to the Gentiles. He even wrote to Timothy that he desired that in every place people should pray and lift holy hands without anger or quarreling, that women would adorn themselves modestly and sensibly, and that they do good deeds. He continued to further Jewish traditions when he wrote that women should learn in silence and be submissive, declaring that no woman should teach a man or have authority over men. He stressed that since woman was taken out of man, that she is in an inferior position to him in the world. His reasoning behind men continuing to be the heads of all areas of a woman's life was his former dedication to Jewish Law. (I Timothy 2:1-12) However, in some of his later writings, Paul wrote that in Christ there are no males, females, slaves or free men, that everyone is equal in My sight. (Galatians 3:28) His later revelation was insight into My view of no one being in submission to anyone, that all people are free and equal in My estimation. In fact, he wrote that men should also be submissive to women just as women should be submissive to men in areas of family decisions and in society.(Ephesians 5:21-33) Submitting to each other is a way to maintain peace. Submitting to the other partner's gently explained ideas very often allows me to declare who is right in a situation. As I told you before, would you rather be right or would you rather be righteous by your refusing to insist on being right in a conflict? When you have allowed Me to prove you to be right in a decision making situation instead of your insisting on your own way, the outcome was glorious on your part and My proof brought peace to the conflict. Insisting on your always being right leads to anger and resentment from your counterpart. However,the person who humbles himself or herself often turns out to be the person who was right all along in the situation because I provided the evidence that he or she was right. Before Jesus Christ came into the earth it was taught in Jewish Law that women were always wrong, were always guilty, and were always yielding to the deceiver because of a weak character since she influenced Adam to sin. In Christ, though, males and females become equal, with both being willing to humble themselves and allow Me to prove who is right in a tense situation. The way to become righteous is often to refuse to insist on your own way, but instead to yield to the opinions of other people. If you are right, I will prove to the other person that you were right, thus you becoming the righteous one and the person who was right all along. Everything changed when Jesus Christ came to earth. When My covenant of the Holy Spirit came into the earth the old covenant became null and void. My children became new creatures. Males and females became equal in My eyes. Officials in authority must also submit to ideas of his or her workers in order to become a humble official. When a person becomes strictly authoritative, he or she institutes rebellion in others, giving the devil the occasion to create conflict and strife, in which there is every evil demon from hell. (James 3:16) That is why I change the hearts of people in the new birth, so that all people are equal in their own eyes just like they are equal in My eyes. Then the devil is robbed of his ability to create wars, conflicts, divorces, robbery, etc. , if all people will look upon each other as equal according to My new covenant of the Holy Spirit. Your Father of Equality and Love

BLESSED BY THE UMPIRE, THE HOLY SPIRIT

My Dear Precious Child, You have heard it said, "Let your conscience be your guide," which is true. The apostle Paul said it in words more easily understood. He said to let your conscience be your umpire, telling you if you are out of My will in the earth and doing the devil's will in the earth or if you are being guided on the paths of righteousness of which Jesus spoke. (Matthew 7:13-14) Sometimes the voice of your conscience, the Holy Spirit, will come in loud, emphatic thoughts which are not easy to miss and sometimes your conscience will come in that still, small voice that is sometimes easy to miss. It all depends on if you are a small child spiritually who does not recognize My voice or if you are a mature, experienced adult spiritually who is adept at being guided by Me. I am your Good Father and every good father is attentive to the thoughts, words and actions of his children, being good watchers in discerning good and discerning evil and alerting His children to which spiritual entities are ministering to his children, whether it's the devil or whether it's Me. I am attentive to the thoughts of all of My children, being eager to teach you to recognize the voice of evil in your thoughts which tempt you to do the devil's evil will in the earth. I alert you to traps, tricks, sinful circumstances and situations with which the devil endeavors to entice you off of the narrow path that leads to righteousness/Life and onto the wide path that leads to sin and death. Some of My children who do not know Me have been erroneously schooled by false teachers to believe that I tempt you with evil in order to test your faith. That is blaspheme, saying that I am a tempter. I am a Good Father who leads you away from evil, not into evil. The false teachers and false prophets are schooled by the devil in order to teach some of My children to believe that I am both good and bad, righteous and evil. They don't know Me. They are like Job, only knowing Me by the testimonies of teachers who also do not know Me. If those false teachers only knew My words through the disciple/apostle James who wrote that I am good and that I have no shadow of turning, there would be no blaspheme. In other words, I am not good on one side of Me and evil on the other side of Me. I am Love. In Love there is no evil. There is only good. (James 1:13-18) The apostle/prophet James did not mix his words. He wrote truth and he wrote it perfectly when he quoted Jesus Christ. Then James did the same thing, he wrote, "Do not say when you are tempted that you are tempted by Me." Even though I had given the Mosaic Law to point out the works of the devil for the Jews, the devil blinded their minds and caused them to believe that I both kill and save, that I tempt and I also absolve sin, or they believe that I use the devil to keep My children on the straight and narrow path. Those are all lies and are from hell. I cleared up that misinformation for you from false teachers by reminding you that your own earthly father was a kind and giving father, so how could you believe that I, your Heavenly Father, is both evil and good, as you had been taught doctrinally in your church, just as the pastor/teacher had been taught erroneously by his teachers. You began to see that through the life of Jesus Christ that My complete personality was exhibited as being Love. You were like Job in the poem found in your Bible, when you met Me face to face you saw My true nature, that I am Love. (Job 42:1-5) That point is the place where you truly began to see Me as the Father who saves and rehabilitates people, not a father who judges and condemns people. You began to see that My wrath is reserved for the devil and his demons who are the real culprits who tempt, try and harass My children in an effort to entice them to do his will in the earth. The reason that I gave to My children their conscience is so that you would recognize from the inside of you where evil exists and where good exists in the earth. By your hearing the words of the Holy Spirit, who is the UMPIRE from inside of your thoughts, you learn to trust and rely on Me to lead and guide you with My wise Fatherly counsel. You learn to trust My cautions and My instructions and you remain on the narrow path that leads to the abundant Life that I intend for you to have. (Colossians 2:16-18) Don't allow anyone to judge you for what you eat or drink or for not obeying the feast days or the Sabbath. In the Law they were only a shadow of the real liberty that you have when Christ creates a new person inside of you with direct access to My Umpire inside of you who is the real GUIDE. My Holy Spirit is your guide and your wisdom from the inside of you. Let Him decide if you are on the path of righteousness or the path that leads to death when He makes His judgment. He is the EXPERT in your conscience. Your Heavenly Father of Peace and Wisdom