FRETS BRING REGRETS

Dear One
     My advice to all of My children to not fret is valuable advice.  The inclination to fret and worry comes from a lack of faith,l faith being confidence in Me. 
     When you intimately know Me and when you trust Me to know how to handle every troublesome situation in your life, then there is no room in your mind for fretting and worrying.  There is confidence in Me to orchestrate all things necessary to bring about an excellent result. 
     You must realize, though, that there will always be outward signs that a bad situation has not changed for the better but outward signs will often look worse.  That is no indication of impending doom to My children of faith. 
     My children who know My power and My ability will always know that, no matter what outward circumstances look like, I am working behind the scenes in the situation to perfect everything according to My will. 
     Your confidence in Me will keep the beneficial activity working until everything is accomplished for your good.
     Frets lead to regret.
     Faith lead to blessings.
                                                                                       Love, God
Psalm 37:1-9; Proverbs 19:3; Proverbs 24:19; Matthew 6:28-29; Matthew 8:5-13.

THE PRIVATE TUTOR

Dear One,
     You should always be eager to learn.
     My children are often unteachable in relation to certain life lessons that I try to teach them. 
     There are areas in which you are very teachable.  There are areas in which you are very unteachable so you have chosen to learn them by experience.  Those are hard lessons to learn because some emotional or physical hurts accompany them. The times when you have chose experiences as the best teacher rather than allowing Me to be your tutor, often you come to Me to expand in those areas so that you can fully understand the intricacies of the cause and effect.
     There are areas in which you have been unteachable because you thought they applied to others and not necessarily to you.  You have seen a weakness in the personalities of others, but not in yourself.
     You don't realize that all things are common to all people. The situation just has not yet presented itself in your life which would cause you to react like others do.  You suddenly become teachable in that area when you are involved in the same problem.  Often the situation presents itself in your life because you have judged the actions of others and the same activity boomeranged back in your life. All of a sudden you become teachable in that area because you are a participant in it.
     My Spirit is the perfect teacher.  He is the private tutor for all of My children.  He has your best interests at heart.  He wants to save you the discomfort of your having to learn by experience.  It's too painful for you to have to learn that way.
     I'm your Father.  I desire that you and I have intimate learning sessions.  You always gain wisdom, insight, knowledge and revelation; plus, you always leave happy, joyful and at peace.  That's the rest that you always seek.
                                                                                                  Love, God
John 14:12-17; John 15:26-27; John 16:7-15; Galatians 4:1-7; Romans 8;12-17; Romans 8:26-28.

GRATEFUL AND THANKFUL

Dear One,
     Gratefulness grows and grows and grows.  It never stops growing because gratefulness is the pathway to more blessings because you have accessed My endless well of blessings when you are grateful.
     It's not that I pour onto you more and more blessings when you are grateful.  The secret is that your gratefulness puts a suction on all the wonderful things that I have already set aside for you as your inheritance. 
     Genuine attitudes of thanksgiving open the gates to your life so that blessings that had been previously blocked can find the open pathway to the door of your life. 
     Gratefulness is a precursor to great-full-ness in your life.  It is so easy to be grateful.  You can just reflect back on the wonderful things that I have done in your life and the lives of your family. 
     My children shouldn't force gratefulness just to get My blessings.  I know your heart and the purity of your heart.
     Good things are attracted to you when you live in an attitude of true gratefulness.  It might be the parking place in front of the store or the clerk opening a checkout line just when you walk up, or it might be a miraculous healing or even being thankful to me for putting into human bodies the ability to heal themselves from minor injuries.
     If you have a problem finding things to be grateful about, then you and I need to have a long talk.  There might be demonic influences blinding your eyes to the marvelous things that I do for you every day, the small things and the huge things.
     Have you thought about it this way, when your thoughts are on the wonderful things that I have done for you, your mind is stayed on Me.  I promised that when your mind is stayed on Me that you will have perfect peace. 
     Do you need peace in your mind?  One sure way to get it is to think, speak and sing your gratefulness.  Then it will be, "Open, I say," to the gates of your life for rivers of blessings to flow.
     Love, God 
Matthew 11:25-26; Matthew 15:36-39; Luke 17:12-19; I Corinthians 1:4; Psalm 18:49-50; Psalm 26:7; Psalm 35:18; Psalm 50:14-15; Isaiah 26:3.

Photo compliments of Barb Mullally, Princeton, Wisconsin

PERFECT LOVE

Dear One,
     Perfect love casts out fear because fear is bondage to death. 
     With My children who know My love, there is no fear of death because they know that they will never die but will merely transition into My heaven, which is into My family of love .
      Fear always thinks of punishment or destruction, but My children know that because of the substitution of Jesus on their behalf there is absolution for all sins and there is no punishment for them, only punishment for the devil who is the one responsible for all sins.
      For My children who know My love there is eternal love, rest, comfort and peace while in the body and out of the body.
      Mercy should be the attitude of My children in the earth because it is the prevailing attitude of the atmosphere of My family home.  There is never the thought of punishment.
      My children should teach, preach and talk My love so that others will be released from the fear of death and enter into My complete rest while they live in the earth.   They need to know that when their bodies fails them, they will be transported into complete happiness. 

                                                                                           Love, God
I Corinthians 2:5-6; I John 4:12-13; I John 4:17-21; Ephesians 3:14-20; James 1:17; Romans 5:5-11; Romans 8:38-39.

JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS

Dear One,
     When you jump to conclusions, the deduction is usually wrong because the  jump was based on emotions.  Emotions will cloud reasoning and wisdom every time because reasoning and wisdom come from a different part of the brain than emotions. 
     The term "jumping" itself connotes a hurried plunge into a quick deduction which is rarely based on facts or wise insight.
     When people jump to conclusions and accuse someone or quickly judge the actions of  someone, there has been no investigation, no interview of witnesses, no gathering of true facts, no opportunity for accurate information.  In that instance there is more opportunity for damaging errors which will affect your attitude and your actions toward the people involved in the situation.
     The reasoning part of your brain will take previously learned facts and form a more righteous deduction in relation to a bad situation.  When My principles such as do not judge, do not condemn and forgive seventy times seven times, when those instructions are resident in your brain to be pulled up as part of your reasoning every moment of the day, then emotions will not rule you and determine a bad outcome of a trying situation. 
     You must realize that there are people who have not ever heard my wise counsel of do not condemn, do not judge and to forgive many times a day, so they are left with only the damaging energy of their emotions to rule them, and they will return evil for evil and reap the fruit of their actions.  It is those kinds of people that Jesus asked me to forgive because they don't know what they are doing.
     As My child you must always slow your mind down, eliminating emotional responses to situations and listen to My inner voice which will tell you Truth every time.  Then you will have reasoned with Me, like I advised through Isaiah.  I will keep you from making mistakes in stressful situations when you are tempted to act out of emotions rather then out of reasoning with Me.
     Refuse damaging emotional responses to situations, listen to My still, small voice inside of you which will impress upon you My understanding, wisdom, knowledge and insight.  Then a bad situation will work for your good because you will return good for evil done to you or others. Good will triumph over evil every time.  There is My power in good.  There is only the devil's power in evil. 
     Love, God
Matthew 5:21-26; Matthew 5:38-46; Matthew 7:1-5; Matthew 18:21-22; Isaiah 1:18-20; I Corinthians 12:7-11; Romans 11:33-36; I Corinthians 2-9-12.

WHO'S YOUR FATHER?

Dear One,
     Render to your government what is the government's, but render to Me what is Mine.   That applies to devotion.   Pay your taxes and obey the laws of your country, but be careful about who is the object of your devotion. 
     Extreme devotion to nations in the form of patriotism is often more important to people than devotion to Me.  The word patriotism comes from patriarch, which connotes fatherhood. If you are totally devoted to a nation by reason of patriotism, looking to that country to be the answer to all of your problems, you will be sorely disappointed because the people governing your country are humans and they are made from earth just like you are. They are no more equipped to be your father than you are able to answer all of your own needs.
     Your country cannot be your savior.  If you make it your savior, you are putting your trust in human beings again.  Be cautious that you don't substitute devotion to your nation for your devotion to Me.
     The disciples who walked and talked and were taught by Jesus made that mistake.  After His miraculous resurrection, their main concern was if their country would be restored to power.  They thought Jesus was more concerned about their country than He was about My kingdom, which is My family.  Like Me, Jesus was concerned about saving My children from the destruction of the devil but the disciples were concerned about their country being restored to power.  When Jesus had told them to go to Jerusalem to wait for the promise of the Father, they thought the promise of the Father was to give land and power back to their country.  However, they went to wait for My promise.
     My real promise, which was instituted by Jesus, was the coming of the Holy Spirit into the earth to live in all My children who invite Him. My promise was to grant power over evil to My children, not grant power to one nation over another nation.  The disciples had substituted patriotism for their nation for a relationship with Me, the real Heavenly Patriarch.
     Yes, the right amount of devotion for your country is good, being thankful that you are free to make choices is important.  But don't think all of your future happiness and prosperity depend on who is in a governing position in your country.  Your relationship with Me determines that, not the people who govern your country. 
     My children should still ask themselves, "Who is My Father?  Is it my country that I have made my savior or is it Father God through Jesus Christ, the real Savior?"  That's what your future depends upon.
     Love, God
Matthew 16:15-22; Luke 24:44-53; Acts 1:1-9; Acts 2:1-4; Acts 2:29-38; Ephesians 1:16-23; I John 3:8.    

SUPERNATURAL POWER

Dear One,
     There is mental power in your soul, which is your mind, 
     There  is supernatural power in Me. 
     You are made in My image, so you have a measure of faith, which is the natural power in  your mind.  There are many teachings and philosophies relating to the power of the human mind.
     There is the power of positive thinking to bring good. 
     There is the power of negative thinking which will bring bad things into your life.   Negative thinking is not of me.
     There is the negative power in the mind which furthers the power of addiction.  That is not of me.
     There is the teaching of the power of your thoughts and words.  That revelation came from Me because I created the world with words. You are created in My image, so you are a creator with your own words, either for destruction or construction.
     There are people who are gifted in the power of the mind so that they can make objects move at their command.  Those people have developed the power of their natural mind to a high degree.
     When you have My supernatural power in you, made available only in My Holy Spirit, then there is additional power available to you.  When He lives inside of you, you have the power of My Spirit, who participated with Me in creating your world and created all human beings, the same power that was resident in Jesus and raised Jesus from the dead.  
     Now, that is power, real power, the power to overcome every obstacle, every disease, every sin, every negative situation, every imperfection and everything that is sent by the devil to defeat you.   You can end the reign of evil in your life if you will but listen to Me for My instructions. 
     When you hear My voice you become completely plugged into My power and nothing can harm you.  Evil will fall at your feet to be trampled on. 
     We are all in this together.  If you will act in harmony with Me, we will end suffering in your life and in your world .
                                                                                                   Love, God
 Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4-9;  Acts 2:1-4; I John 3:8-10; Romans 10:17-18; Ephesians 3: 20; Ephesians 6;10-18.