ENERGY ROBBERS

Dear One,

I said that I would give you rest from your labors. Rest is a time of rejuvenation, of restoration. There is no striving when there is rest.
There is often conflict when you are striving because striving requires all of the energy that you can muster. When you have garnered all of your energy in order to strive, then there is often the occasion for a spirit of strife to enter into the situation because you have exhausted your supply of energy.
When you are at rest emotionally, then you are not striving. Therefore your life is void of strife. When there is no strife in your life there is no need for excess emotional energy which is necessary when you are striving. Strife and striving require energy.
Rest allows your body and mind to rest.
Rest from your emotional laboring and enjoy the restful life that I promised, free from striving and free from strife.

Love, God
Psalm 35:1-4; Psalm 10:12; Proverbs 17:14; Proverbs 20:3; Matthew 11:28-20;Acts 2:26; Hebrews 3:18-19; Hebrews 4:1-3.

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LOVE CHANGES CURSES TO BLESSINGS

Dear One,

When you know My love for you, you will love the unlovable, the degenerate, the oppressed and the possessed.
When you know My love for you, then you will love the deceived, the judgmental, the misled and the rigid.
When you know My love for you, then you will understand the least understanding people.
When you know My love for you, then you will judge satan rather than judge people.
When you know My love for you, then you will forgive the ones who are the least forgiving.
When you know My love for you, then you will comfort the sinful rather than shame them.
When you know My love for you, then you will embrace people who are fearful.

When you do not know My love, then you will judge others.
When you do not know My love, then you will condemn others.
When you do not know My love, then you will expect perfection from others.
When you do not know My love, then you will be easily deceived.
When you do not know My love, then you will be easily misled.
When you do not know My love, then you will be rigid.
When you do not know My love, you will live in constant fear and it will be your master.
Knowing My love for you will change everything in your life from bad to good, from curses to blessings, from negatives to positives.
Love heals everything.

Love, God


Ephesias 3:14-20; Revelations 12:11; John 3:16; John 5:5; John 5:8; Romans 8:28.

PROPER SACRIFICES

Dear One,

You need to keep your consciousness alert to discern worry when it attaches itself to your mind. Worry consumes your thoughts about things that are actually none of your business.
When you are actively praying about something, then the workings of My kingdom and how I'm going to answer your prayers is My business. If you make it your business, then you begin to fret about how and when and where I'm going to accomplish the answer to your prayers. When you get into worrying about it, then you have completely moved out of faith into fear via the mental activities of fretting and worrying.
A child does not concern himself with how a parent is going to meet his needs or when it is going to be accomplished. He just trusts his parent to meet that need at the appropriate time and the child goes on his merry, carefree way with trust and faith in the parent, never losing his joy.
My children need to have trust and faith in Me the same way children trust their human parents, without fretting, worrying and wondering how and when and where, but praying and then going on their merry ways with joy, knowing that I have ways and means much more effective than what any human can imagine. My business is not always your business to be concerned with.
My workers, My angels, work much more effectively when they are unencumbered by the opposing forces of worrying and fretting.
I said that double mindedness is always nonproductive.
Worrying and fretting are enemies waiting to snatch your answered prayers before they come to fruition.
Worrying and fretting make good sacrifices. Put them on the altar to be consumed by fire.
Then go do something that brings joy to you, trusting your Heavenly Dad to finish the work.

Love, God
Matthew 6:28-33; Psalm 37; Hebrews 11:1; Hebrews 10:33

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DESIRE, HOPE, FAITH, EXPECT

Dear One,

Desiring the best and expecting the best are not the same thing. One is passive and the other is active.
Desiring the best is passive and is classified as wishing for the best. It has no scriptural or spiritual basis. When a wish or desire becomes hope in your mind, then it becomes active because hope begins to open spiritual doors. Hope will eventually become faith if it is fed with My promises.
Expecting the best is also active and is classified as faith. Expectation is based upon being fully acquainted with My promises for you and knowing that My desire for you is that you live the abundant life, free from worries, cares, conflicts and other mental afflictions.
The progression is usually desire, hope, faith, and expecting the answer to your prayers to be manifested at any moment, but being willing to be patient in the meantime.
Most often I have given you the desires to have that for which you have wished. I often give you the desire to wish for something that you had heretofore thought was unattainable. Since I desire that you have life and have it more abundantly, I can give you desires for everything that I have promised. I don't see the limits that you see. I only see abundance.
When your desires are based upon my promises, then they are guaranteed to be fulfilled.
I said that I can do super abundantly more what you can think or imagine according to the power that is in you. When your desires become hope and the hope becomes faith, then the power of faith will see that your desires and My desires for you come to fruition.
You must know that My promises are based upon My desires for you. Then you can dare to believe them, knowing that I will fulfill My promises. You can expect an outcome better than you even desired or imagined.
I said I would supply your needs according to My riches in glory. My riches are not limited.
Believe that I desire the best for you, then believe that I will supply the best for you, and then expect the best things will be manifested in your life.

Love, God
John 10:10; Ephesians 1:18-23; Ephesians 3:16-21; Philippians 4:19; II Peter 1:3.

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FREEDOM FOR ALL

Dear One,

Never allow regret to enter your mind when you have spoken My wisdom. Often wisdom is opposite from tradition, opposite from uninspired teachings and always opposite from binding religious laws. Yes, people need to hear My wisdom because it is truth and truth sets them free.
Every man seeks freedom from something, from addictions, from abuse or the memory of abuse, from neglect, from bullying, from insecurities, from suspicions, from rejection, from judgments, from condemnation and many other afflictions. My words of wisdom can release them immediately because I have the words to set them free.
If it seems that My wisdom has not done its full work, trust that it will eventually. The seeds that were planted will eventually sprout and grow into full grown plants, releasing the hearer from his bindings.
My words always set you free. Trust that they will do the same thing for others.

Love, God
John 8:32; John 14:16-17; John 15:26-27; John 16:13-15.

QUAGMIRE OF DISCOURAGEMENT

Dear One,

Avoid discouragement like you would avoid a plague because it is just that, a plague from the bowels of hell. The spirit of discouragement will rob you of all courage, all honor, all faith, all tenacity, all human drive that allows you to prevail in fights against an enemy. That is why your spiritual enemy, the devil, brings discouragement, to render you helpless and hopeless.
Discouragement will tell you that I can't do anything in a situation. It will tell you that everything is hopeless and will never change from the bad situation that it is. It will bring fear and all manner of oppression to your mind.
Girding up your spiritual loins is the first step toward getting out of the mental quagmire of discouragement and into faith and courage. Girding up means gathering your courage and deciding that you will not be defeated.
You can discourage the spirit of discouragement itself by speaking words of faith, speaking declarations of My promises of blessings, and then praying fervently with My life changing, situation changing words.
Fight fire with fire in those instances when you are discouraged. You must speak what you believe, that I will heal, save, restore and change every bad situation to a good one. Discourage that spirit of discouragement by speaking My ordinance, My statutes, My precepts and My testimonies to it. Then it will disappear and My angels will come to minister to you and to the situation, making it advantageous to you.
You have the words of life. Pray them.

Love, God
Psalm 119; Matthew 4:2-11;Hebrews 4:12-13; James 5:16.

LIMITLESS

Dear One,
You limit yourself when you limit Me. You limit yourself to mediocrity, to insufficiency, to want, to need, to unfulfilled desires.
When you limit Me in your expectations, then your prayers cannot be answered to the degree that I want to provide for you. When you limit Me, you bind Me and shut Me off from your life and your family's domain, preventing Me from fully giving you what I have designed for you, the abundant life.
If you believe doctrines of religion which say that I only speak a certain way or act a certain way or that I follow a certain religious form, then you have limited Me.
Your preconceived expectations are what limit Me or they free Me, one or the other. When you limit Me by thinking that I do not heal today and I do not speak individually to My children today, then you have bound Me from providing health, mercy, counsel, supernatural abilities and peace for you.
You must refuse to believe doctrines that limit My participation in the lives of My children. I'm your Good Father, One who wants an intimate relationship with you. When you know Me, then you will have the faith to expected miraculous things in your life.
Faith is believing for the impossible as far as human thinking is concerned.
I Am the Father who performs impossible things for My children.
Love, God
John 10:10; Ephesians 1:19; Ephesians 3:20.