Be therefore alive to My love and to My will! Do you not know you shall judge angels? Grace and peace be unto you! There will be persecution, but submit to God; resist the devil and he shall flee from you! Be not wearied or faint in your mind! I know you and from whence you come. You originated in the heart of The Father, and unto Him you shall return when you have accomplished His will.
Invoke My love in prayer, and My peace shall be with you! Be not bound, but loosed! You are of great value to Me! Cease sorrowing and be delivered of pain. I, The Ancient Of Days, have spoken these words to encourage your dear heart! Remember Me even as I remember you! Enter into My gates with thanksgiving and into My courts with praise! Be still and know that I am God! I am your refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble!
Forsake not My word or My teachings! I do not annul My immediate ultimate will for you, but rather that you should grow where you are planted! You have asked Me to enter into your life to orchestrate the changes meet for your abiding in Me. So shall it be as I desire for you!
Now Glorious and Holy Father, I present My son to you! See Him in My righteousness, Father, and adorn him with the garments of salvation! Holy Father, righteous and true, bless him with the full assurance of My love, joy and peace! Know, My child, that in My Father's house are many mansions! If it were not so, I would have told you! Most assuredly, the keys of the Kingdom are freely offered to those that believe on Me! Go your way with gladness, knowing that I am with you always! I love you!
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Lately I am drawn to this word. It reminds me that I am always fault finding myself and that true acceptance of others begins with acceptance of self. I hate not liking me. I keep wrestling why I should not like myself when God has me in the palm of His hand and says like a true father, I may not be where I need to be but I am not where I used to be...OK and on my way. I have been troubled in spirit. I cast my burden upon Him but then take it back to carry all over again. I try to give place to His Spirit but seem to acknowledge my own more often as not. I am wearied and faint in my mind. I find myself more bound than loosed. I often fail to realize my value as a blood bought child of God. I try to praise and worship but get snagged up in the worry and cares of the day. That I might be still and know that He is God! He is a very present help in times of trouble. I desperately attempt to never forsake His word and teaching, but my mind wanders to efforts of my own. I am growing where I am planted, but is the result more weeds? Weeds grow also in good ground and weeds (thorns) are according to the parable of the sower soweth the word, nothing more or less than the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches....
Rom 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Help me to be that man you think and say that I am, Lord.
