|
Dear Child,
I want to let you know how much I love you. I
want you to know that I see you as My son or
daughter, and that I am not an imperfect, but a
perfect Father. While you do not have a perfect
earthly father to relate to, I have given you My
Son, Jesus, so that you may see Me and know
Me. He is the express image of Me and I have
spoken to you through Him and though every
man may be a liar, I am true I cannot lie. If
you have seen Jesus then you have seen Me. He
came to do My will. Look at Him and you will
see Me and My heart for you. He came to seek
and save the lost. He came to set the captives
free. He came to destroy the works of the devil.
He came to save you, not to condemn you. That
is My heart. That is who I am. What He said,
He said because I first said it. What He did, He
did because I first did it.
My child, I know how to give you good gifts
and good things, and I do. All good and perfect
gifts in your life are from Me, and all that I
have is yours. I offer you living water that your
soul will never thirst again. My Word is before
you as a lamp unto your feet and a light unto
your path to help keep you from stumbling in
the dark. My eyes are on you, and My ears are
open to your cry! You shall not want. I will
make you to lie down in green pastures, I will
lead you beside still waters and along paths of
righteousness, and I will restore your soul. I will
comfort you. I will prepare a table before you in
the presence of your enemies, My goodness and
mercy will follow you all the days of your life,
and you shall know the truth and the truth will
set you free.
Do not worry I work all things together for
good to you, as you love Me and follow My call.
What the enemy intends for evil, I turn to good.
Be anxious for nothing. My Son's peace and joy
are yours. I take care of all your needs as your
heart draws close to mine I will supply all of
your needs according to My riches. Be assured,
I will never leave you nor forsake you, and in
Me you will find all treasures of wisdom and
knowledge. By My divine power I have given
you all things that pertain to life and Godliness,
and My grace will be sufficient for you.
How much do I love you? I love you so much
that I sent My Son to die for you, that believing
in Him, you night dwell with Me forever, and
not just later, in heaven where I have prepared a
place for you, but now, today, for I have come
to dwell in you and with you. I stood at the door
and knocked and you let Me in and now I dine
with you. You are My temple. You are My
Holy of Holies, My inner place, My dwelling
place. I have made the final sacrifice and I have
torn the veil that separated Me from you that you
and I may fellowship together, that we may have
a relationship with nothing between us. I invite
you to come boldly into My presence I have
washed you, sanctified you, and justified you.
You are a new creation, the old has passed away
and you have become new, and I have sealed
you with My Holy Spirit of My promise.
As I told My son David, I number your
wanderings; I put your tears into My bottle and
record them in My book. I am familiar with
your sufferings, and I have experienced your
temptations. Not even five sparrows sold for
a couple of copper coins are forgotten before
Me, certainly I will never forget you nor take
My eyes off of You. You may wonder what
My love for you is like. Let Me tell you that
My love for you is patient; it is kind; it is not
envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. My
love for you does not insist on its own way; it
is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in
wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears
all things, believes all things, hopes all things,
endures all things. My love for you never fails
it keeps coming and coming and coming.
By Me all things were created that are in heaven
and that are on earth, visible and invisible,
whether thrones or dominions or principalities
or powers. All things were created by Me and
for Me. Let Me tell you about that, because you
need to understand something about it. When
there was but a void, I was, and I stared into it,
into the blackness, and into it I spoke and My
very Word brought forth My desire. I created
first the heavens and the earth. I then created
light for the earth, and I separated the land from
the waters. I covered the land with grass and
seeds and trees, and I placed the stars in the sky.
I then filled the seas with life, and after that the
land. I covered it with animals of all kinds.
Finally I created a special place, a place called
Eden, which means "pleasure" or "delight," and
then I crowned it all with you! You see, My
child, that while the heavens, the oceans, the
trees and flowers and animals that grow and
reproduce, the rainbow, the Northern Lights, the
coral reefs with their brilliant colored fish, the
magnificent eagle and all the other wonders of
My creation that astound and marvel and please
you may seem to you to be My crowning glory
may seem to you more amazing than you can
fathom you need to understand that all that
was just the opening act. You are My crowning
glory! You are My greatest creation! No one
forced Me to create you. I did it by choice,
knowing all you would ever do and not do, and
knowing all that your choices would cost Me.
Understand, My love, that all of creation was
just the frame it still awaited the picture it was
created for, it still awaited My pride and joy . . .
and that was you. You are the one reserved to
have a relationship with Me. You were the one
created in My image. You are the one I gave
My creation to for your use and rule. You
were the one I destined to spend forever in My
presence. You were the one I called My own.
You were the one I died for chasing you like
a shepherd chases his lost sheep drawing you
to Me. You were the one I placed My Spirit
in. You were the one who became My dwelling
place. You were before My eyes as I made all
the rest.
Do not be fooled, My child it was not for man
in general that I did this you are not just "a
part of the package" that is "thrown in" with the
rest in a "take one you have to take it all" deal.
You, yourself, are known by Me and precious
to Me. I know the very number of hairs on your
head. As I told My son Jeremiah before I
formed you in the womb I knew you; before you
were born I set you apart. You are not a surprise
to Me, nor an accident. I made you by choice,
in love. I formed your inward parts; I covered
you in your mother's womb. You are fearfully
and wonderfully made your frame was not
hidden from Me when I made you in secret
My eyes saw your substance when you were still
unformed. You are mine, forever, and nothing
can separate you from My love! I am for you,
and when I am for you who can be against you?
You have thought that if I knew the real you I
could not love you, but I have searched you and
I do know you. I know your sitting down and
your rising up. I understand your thoughts afar
off they are not hidden or a surprise to Me.
Beloved, I know you and I love you. Just as I
knew Peter's denial of me, and Paul's murder
of my children, and Noah's drunkenness, and
Moses doubt, and Rahab's prostitution and I
have loved them and called them My own. I
know your failings too and I love and call you
My own. Remember, My child, I do not look at
outward things as man does, but I look at your
heart.
Now I ask you, "Does this scare you, that I look
at your heart? That I see its darkest parts?"
Don't let it, My child as you have confessed
your sins to Me I have cleansed you of all
unrighteousness and I have separated you from
your sins as far as the east is from the west. I
have forgiven you. I have released you. There
is no condemnation for you. You are hidden in
My Son, and that was My choice to do and I did
it freely, because I love you. Remember My
Samaritan daughter, your sister whom I found
by the well, who'd had many men in her life and
today she dwells with Me in paradise.
Remember the thief who hung next to Me on the
cross who today dwells with Me in paradise as
your brother and My son. Remember Peter,
who long before he found his strength in Me I
already gave a new name to the stone, the rock
calling those things about him that were not
yet as though they already were. I, too, see who
you are in Me, and not where you have fallen
and will fall.Think, again, if you will My child,
of Rahab's prostitution, of Abraham's cowardice
while in a foreign land with a beautiful wife, of
Noah's drunkenness, of Sarah's doubt and
laughter . . . and then think of how I recorded
their story in My letter to the Hebrew believers.
I did not record their failures, but their
successes. It is their victories I held to their
name, not their defeats. It is their stands of faith
I boasted about to the world as their proud
Father. Think of My son and your brother
David who, though he stumbled, I have called a
man after My own heart. I rejoice over each of
these, all of them, even with all their mistakes,
and they each await you in heaven for an
eternity of rejoicing together!
You are, My child, as white as snow. You may
not feel that, but I have told you that you walk
by faith and not by sight, fixing your eyes not
on what you feel but on what I have told you,
anchored in the unseen and not the seen. I
promise you, You are Mine, and I do love you,
and I call you my own. You are a chosen one, a
royal priest, My own special person, and I have
called you out of darkness into My marvelous
light. You are a joint heir of Mine with My
Son, Jesus, and I am your Maker, your husband.
The LORD of hosts is My name. With
everlasting kindness I have mercy on you. For
the mountains shall depart and the hills be
removed, but My kindness shall not depart from
you. I am your God, forever and ever, and I
will be your guide even unto death. I have
loved you with an everlasting love; I have
drawn you with loving-kindness. How can I
give you up? My heart is turned over within
Me. Your prayers to Me your talking with Me
are like a sweet fragrance or incense to Me
and I surround My throne with them. I love you
as I love my own Son! When you are broken
hearted today I am near to you. When you wait
upon me I renew your strength and I make you
to mount up with wings like eagles, and when
you arrive in heaven I will wipe away every tear
from your eyes; there shall be no more death,
nor sorrow, nor crying and no more pain.
I am love, and I abide in you! My thoughts that
I think toward you are thoughts of peace and not
of evil, to give you a future and a hope, and you
can be confident of this very thing, that I who
have begun a good work in you will be faithful
to complete it. I promise you that as you honor
Me I will honor you, and when you call upon
Me and go and pray to Me, I will listen to you.
You will seek Me and find Me, when you
search for Me with all your heart. Even if I
chasten and correct you, I do it because of My
love for you that it might yield the peaceable
fruit of righteousness in you. Even when you
sorrow I give you reason to do so differently
than the others, not like those who have no
hope. Why? How? Because your hope and
your faith no longer need to be limited by you
and your ability, but now have a new object. I,
the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the Good
Shepherd, the Wonderful Counselor, the great I
Am, the Maker of the Universe, the Spotless
Lamb, the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and
the End am now the object of your hope and
faith, and I know no boundaries, there is no
power greater than Mine, and My love for you
knows no end. I give to you a living hope and a
faith that moves mountains a faith that is not
in the wisdom of men but in My power. I am
the Father of mercies and the God of comfort
and I will comfort you in all tribulation. Cast all
your burdens upon Me because I care for you,
and I will sustain you I will not permit you to
be moved. There is no temptation too great for
you to bear as you walk with Me. As you avoid
the counsel of the ungodly and the path of
sinners, and as you delight in My law and
meditate upon it day and night you will be
blessed, whatever you do will prosper, and you
will be like a tree firmly planted by rivers of
water that brings forth its fruit in season and
whose leaf will not wither. In My presence you
will find fullness of joy. Delight in Me and I
will give you the desires of your heart.
My child, I rejoice in you. I sing for you. I
take pleasure in you. As I continually pursued
Israel, longing for their heart, I have searched
after you with all of My heart, and I and all of
heaven were filled with joy when you chose to
come home to Me! Now, My child, your name
is written in heaven! Your name is written in
My book of Life!
Do not tremble, My child. Do not live in fear
as though you are on the losing side, but rather,
go in boldness for you are Mine, and I have
defeated the enemy! Go, knowing you are
loved. Go, knowing you are Mine! Go into
all the nations! Go into all the world teaching
them about Me, making followers of Me,
teaching them to obey all I have commanded
you. You are My chosen preacher of My Good
News. You are My chosen custodian of the only
message and power that stands in opposition
to the work of the devil in the world! You are
now privy to the mysteries of the world to
comfort those in trouble as I have comforted
you. It is you I have chosen to be My hands and
feet, doing My will, continuing My mission of
seeking the lost and destroying the works of the
devil. In My name you will cast out demons.
In My name you will lay hands on the sick and
they will recover. In fact, you will do greater
works than even My Son did on earth, and I look
for ways to show Myself strong and mighty on
your behalf.
God is your courage. Be strong and not afraid.
Your weapons in Me are mighty for pulling
down strongholds of the enemy, and as you
humble yourself in My sight I will lift you up.
I don't give you a Spirit of fear, but of power
and love and sound mind. You are more than a
conqueror through Me. Your effective fervent
prayer avails much, and whatsoever you ask
according to My will you have.
I am on your side. I want you to succeed. I
have not just placed My desires and will in you,
but I work in you to bring them to pass. I send
you in My authority. I send you in My name.
You have an anointing from Me. You are My
soldier. You are My ambassador, and My
kingdom is not in word, but in power! Nothing
is impossible with Me. When you speak in My
name and when you act in My stead it is as if I
have spoken and acted. When they reject you
they are rejecting Me! You carry My name.
You carry My authority. As you transform your
mind to Mine you will prove My good and
perfect will. When you resist the devil he will
flee from you, you will stand against him when
you put on My armor and take up My sword,
and you will overcome him by the blood of My
Son, by the power of the testimony, and by not
loving your life unto death. Your faith, My
child, is the victory that overcomes the world!
Though the devil would love you to think that
you stand alone, you in fact co-labor with Me.
When the demons tremble before Me remember,
it is Me in you that they see! Greater am I in
you than he who is in the world! Do not be
dismayed, the battle is not yours but Mine!
Never, ever forget, My child, that even when
you cannot see them, those who are with you
are more than those who are with the enemy,
that My angel encamps around you to deliver
you, and that the angels are there to minister to
you, who will inherit salvation. You, My child,
can do all things through Me who strengthen
you.
My child, let Me close for now with this. I
know that you will not always understand My
ways or My "whys" My thoughts and ways
are often past finding out for you but you can
trust Me. I will not make you trust Me, but I
give you My love as a reason to. Greater love
has no one than this than to lay down one's life
for his friends and I have lain down My life for
yours. I stretch out the heavens like a curtain,
and spread them out like a tent to dwell in, but
you are My beloved, you are My bride, and
to you alone do I say, "Sanctify yourself set
yourself apart for Me for tomorrow I will do
wonders among you!" Remember, and never,
ever forget, I made you. I love you. And, lo,
I will be with you always, even unto the end of
the age!
Your Father,
God
|
