Year Two
2-1
Love and Jealousy Cannot Coexist
Jealousy and desire for control will destroy relationships and even countries. Israel loved both Saul and David. They were proud of both. Saul’s jealousy of David forced the Israelites to choose between the two men they loved. Both had defended them. Both had been chosen by God. Now there was a forced division. If Saul had succeeded in killing David half of Israel also would have died because they would lose trust in their leader, ceased following him in battle, lose morale and then be overrun by their enemies. Stop jealousy and discontentment as soon as it enters your mind. Cast it out. Give thanks for Our Love and where We placed you. We are good. We know best.
1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
Galatians 5:14-15 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
Psalm 37:1-3 Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong; 2 for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away. 3 Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
2-2
Weakness: The Vehicle to Intimacy
Let your weakness be your car that drives you deeper into intimacy with Me. Rarely do the rich and strong know Me below surface-level. Rejoice that you are weak. You are more blessed with eternal blessings and fulfillment than the talented, beautiful, educated and earthly powerful. Embrace weakness as you look to Me. It drove you to My Love, as a car drove you to the store. Now you know and have intimacy with me but the strong are satisfied with their strength.
Matthew 7:13-14 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Luke 13:23-25 Someone asked him, “Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?” He said to them. Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
Matthew 19:23-24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “I assure you: It will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven! 24Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God
2-3
Flying Lessons
The less attachments you have to people and things of earth the more you can soar above the earth with Me on eagle’s wings. The fewer idols in your life, the less you are weighed down by the cares of the world. Let go of all but Me. Then We will soar above the earth and others will see Us. They will come to you for “flying lessons.”
Isaiah 40:31 Yet those who wait for the LORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary.
2 Corinthians 4:8 We often suffer, but we are never crushed. Even when we don’t know what to do, we never give up.
Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things [food, shelter and clothing] shall be added unto you.”
Colossians 3:17 And whatsoever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
1 John 2:15 Do not love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
2-4
Spirit of Jezebel
Control over others, demanding, dominating through anger, self-righteous justifications, criticism, and threats is the work of the deceiver. Deceiving spirits cooperate with fear and pride to lie to you and make you think your controlling and demanding is for the good. Do not be fooled. I never work through self-righteous control, fear, and pride. Displays of drama come from your flesh cooperating with evil justifications.
Romans 16:17-18 I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
Galatians 5:19-21 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
1 Thessalonians 4:6 and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister. The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before.
Romans 16:18 Such people are not serving Christ our Lord; they are serving their own personal interests. By smooth talk and glowing words they deceive innocent people.
Luke 16:15 He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.
Ephesians 6:16-17 In addition to all of these, hold up the shield of faith to stop the fiery arrows of the devil. Put on salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
2-5
Demands and Drama
Untrained children try to control others through demands, temper, and drama. They must be disciplined or they will grow to be a partner of the destroyer. They will blindly leave a path of pain and destruction behind them rather than My mercy and grace. They teach fear and pride rather than peace. They demand rather than follow Me. Do not do as they do. Repent and humbly ask Me to show you the way of My Love. I will deliver you from evil and turn you away from the tempter. Repentance begins the process. You will gain peace and real Life.
Matthew 6:13 And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.]
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go [teaching him to seek God’s wisdom and will for his abilities and talents],Even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Psalm 34:11 Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
Hebrews 12:7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
3 John 1:4 I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.
Galatians 5:19-21 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
2-6
From Bondage to Freedom
Return to Me and I will return to you. Cleanse yourself with My Love-Blood. Ask Me to take over your thoughts. I must have your permission. Ask Me to teach you new ways of thinking. Ask Me to make you brand new. Hate the old. Desire the new. Hate the dirty. Desire the clean. Hate the slavery to sin. Love the freedom to be beautiful. Hate the destruction and chaos. Love the nourishing and simplicity. Hate the out-of-control living. Love the peace.
Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a right and steadfast spirit within me.
Ezekiel 36:26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Luke 7:47 Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven—as her great love has shown. But whoever has been forgiven little loves little
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
2-7
Divine Destiny
Ask Me to make you into your destiny. Ask Me to lead your thoughts into conversation back and forth with Me rather than with your sinful flesh and demons. Ask Me to quiet your soul and give you real rest. My answer to these requests is. “YES! I love you!”
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Habakkuk 2:3 For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
Psalm 138:8 The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.
Proverbs 16:3 Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.
Romans 8:28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
1 Corinthians 2:7-9 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—
Job 23:14 For he will complete what he appoints for me, and many such things are in his mind.
2-8
Real Freedom
Desire, with all your being, for your self, hate-filled thoughts, anger, impatience, blaming others, jealousies, lusts, self-righteousness, religion, me-focused existence to grow smaller and smaller until they die. Desire that I, with My Love for others, My Peace, My cleanness, My clearness, My Light-weightness, My self -control, and My freedom to Be with pure Love of Our Father’s Presence, fill you instead.
Joshua 24:14 Now then, Joshua continued, honor the LORD and serve him sincerely and faithfully. Get rid of the gods which your ancestors used to worship in Mesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve only the LORD. But if you don’t want to worship the LORD, then choose here and now! Will you worship the same idols your ancestors did? Or since you’re living on land that once belonged to the Amorites, maybe you’ll worship their gods. As for my family and me, we will serve the LORD.
1 Samuel 12:14 All will go well with you if you honor the LORD your God, serve him, listen to him, and obey his commands, and if you and your king follow him.
Matthew 11:28-30 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
1 Thessalonians 5:24 Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass
Psalm 145:8 The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth.
Ephesians 1:8I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
1 Thessalonians 4:7 For God has not called us to impurity but to consecration [to dedicate ourselves to the most thorough purity].
2-9
Like a Child
Want all of your sinful ways, thoughts, and desires dead? Want all of Me in its’ place? Make this exchange more and more each day. Take off the old ways. Put on the new. Take off the darkness and chaos. Put on the Light and submitting peace. Take off the pride. Put on child-likeness. Take off independency. Put on happy leaning on Me. New Life with Me is wonderful and wonder-filled!
Luke 18:16-17 But Jesus called the little children to him and said to his followers, Let the little children come to me. Don’t stop them, because God’s kingdom belongs to people who are like these little children. 17 The truth is, you must accept God’s kingdom like a little child accepts things, or you will never enter it.
Matthew 18:3 Then he said, The truth is, you must change your thinking and become like little children. If you don’t do this, you will never enter God’s kingdom.
2-10
More or Less of Me
Examine your heart, thoughts, choices, desires, and emotions. If you do not have more Love, more peace, more stillness, more patience, more kindness, more concern for others, more forgiveness for those in your life, more compassion for those who have hurt you, more humility, more love-filled Wisdom, more direction, more of My Presence that is detectible within you, more of My Voice in your thoughts, more purity in your soul today than you had two months ago, two weeks ago, two days ago, then you do not have Me.
Galatians 5:16-26 16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery, 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
2-11
Empty or Full?
Are you lonely and empty inside? Then you never had Me inside. Ask Me and only Me to be inside. I do not share you with other soulmates. You must want them out. Kick them out and ask Me alone to fill you. If you did not have Life then you had death . . . no matter how “religious” you were. Few have the Truth. Many have deadly substitutes. Don’t be fooled.
Mark 10:29-30 Truly I tell you, said Jesus, no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospel 30will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.…
Mark 8:35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.
Matthew 10:37 Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
Isaiah 26:9 My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit within me diligently seeks You.
Matthew 6:19-21 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
2-12
Dark to Light
I Am the only way to Life, Light, and Love for your dying, tired, starving soul. There is no other option or substitute. Examine your heart. Rethink your ways. Look at your life. Have you been fooled? Have you substituted or exchanged a lie for the real thing? If you have given yourself over to real Life then you would know it. There would not be any doubt. When you marry someone you know it. When you marry Me you know it. When you Live with Truth you know it because you are no longer afraid. I Am perfect Love and I Love you completely.
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the [only] Way [to God] and the [real] Truth and the [real] Life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
John 1:4 In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father full of grace and truth.
Acts 17:28 For in Him we live and move and exist [that is, in Him we actually have our being], as even some of your own poets have said, For we also are His children.
2-13
No Neutrality
When you are filled with Me, you literally feel Me Loving you inside you. My Love is not just a concept. It is felt and detected. If you feel fear, anxiety, worries, angers, bitterness then you have an imposter god . . . which are demons. There is no such thing as “working on getting better.” I do not share you with darkness. There is no neutrality. You cannot have an empty soul. It is either full of light or darkness, Truth or lies, Me or demons. No exceptions.
James 1:17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
James 3:14-15, 17 But if you harbor in your hearts bitter jealousy and selfish ambition, do not boast in it or deny the truth. 15 Such wisdom does not come from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 17 But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere. 18 Peacemakers who sow in peace reap the fruit of righteousness.
2 Corinthians 6:14 For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
Ephesians 5:11 Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
1 John 1:6 If we say we have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
2-14
You Are Not Alone-Ever
Can you be close to something yet far from it at the same time? Can a room be full of light yet still dark? Can you be near to Real Life, Real Love, Real Truth yet carry resentment at the same time? Can you be obedient to My will for your life while following your own plans? Can you talk with Me while not hear from Me? If you do not hear Me then who are you listening to? Your thoughts are always controlled by a force. They are not neutral. They are controlled by a living force . . . either death or life. There is nothing in-between. Either you are talking to Me, Jesus Christ, who Am in the Father and Holy Spirit, or you are talking to darkness and demons. There is no other option. You are not alone . . . ever.
1 John 4:1-2 1 My dear friends, don’t believe everything you hear. Carefully weigh and examine what people tell you. Not everyone who talks about God comes from God. There are a lot of lying preachers loose in the world. 2 Here’s how you test for the genuine Spirit of God. Everyone who confesses openly his faith in Jesus Christ – the Son of God, who came as an actual flesh-and-blood person – comes from God and belongs to God.
John 8:12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.
Deuteronomy 13:4 It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him.
Jeremiah 26:3-6 Perhaps they will listen and everyone will turn from his evil way, that I may repent of the calamity which I am planning to do to them because of the evil of their deeds. And you will say to them, Thus says the LORD, If you will not listen to Me, to walk in My law which I have set before you, to listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have been sending to you again and again, but you have not listened; then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse to all the nations of the earth
John 10:27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me
Luke 10:16 The one who listens to you listens to Me, and the one who rejects you rejects Me; and he who rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.
Proverbs 8:32-24 Now therefore, O sons, listen to me, For blessed are they who keep my ways. Heed instruction and be wise, And do not neglect it. Blessed is the man who listens to me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at my doorposts.
2 Corinthians 6:14 For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
James 1:22-24 But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was.
Romans 2:13 for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.
2-15
Darkness or Light, Death or Life? You Choose . . .
No matter what you believe, there are only two states . . . you are either full of Me or you are full of darkness. There are no other states of being. Do not be fooled. Don’t be cheated from reality. Examine your inner life and you will know. Me or them. Life or death. I Am the Truth and My Name is Jesus Christ. There is no other Name of Truth. If you have no peace then you do not have Me. If you do not have Me, you have them.
John 10:11 I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down His [own] life for the sheep. 12 But the hired man [who merely serves for wages], who is neither the shepherd nor the owner of the sheep, when he sees the wolf coming, deserts the flock and runs away; and the wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them. 13 The man runs because he is a hired hand [who serves only for wages] and is not concerned about the [safety of the] sheep. 14 I am the Good Shepherd, and I know [without any doubt those who are] My own and My own know Me [and have a deep, personal relationship with Me]— 15 even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father—and I lay down My [very own] life [sacrificing it] for the benefit of the sheep. 16 I have other sheep [beside these] that are not of this fold. I must bring those also, and they will listen to My voice and pay attention to My call, and they will become one flock with one Shepherd. 17 For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My [own] life so that I may take it back. 18 No one takes it away from Me, but I lay it down voluntarily. I am authorized and have power to lay it down and to give it up, and I am authorized and have power to take it back. This command I have received from My Father.
James 1:16 Do not be misled, my beloved brothers and sisters. 17 Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above; it comes down from the Father of lights [the Creator and Sustainer of the heavens], in whom there is no variation [no rising or setting] or shadow cast by His turning [for He is perfect and never changes]. 18 It was of His own will that He gave us birth [as His children] by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits of His creatures [a prime example of what He created to be set apart to Himself—sanctified, made holy for His divine purposes].
2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
2-16
Call Out to Me
Remember, demons can hide in religion or ways of thinking or explanations. If you are not following My Voice then you are following them. My Voice won’t fill you with fear. Their voices and thoughts will. My Voice increases your Love and kindness. Theirs increases your criticism and anger. Who are you following? Return to Me. Return to your Maker. Call out to Me. Say My Name over and over. You will see more clearly. Ask for Me to fill you and be the only One who talks to you in your thoughts.
Hebrews 12:25 Be careful that you do not refuse to listen when God speaks. Your ancestors didn’t escape when they refused to listen to God, who warned them on earth. We certainly won’t escape if we turn away from God, who warns us from heaven.
2-17
Come Back Home
If you really want Me, you can have Me. My Name is Jesus Christ, the One who is the only Lover of your soul. No other god Loves you just because you are you. Return to Me. You knew Me before you were born, because I knew you before you were born. That is why My Presence will feel familiar and right. Return to Me. Leave the stranger within you. Come back Home to Me and My Father and Holy Spirit. We are your Family. Come feel Our hugs of Love.
1 Peter 2:9-25 but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect
Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you [and approved of you as My chosen instrument] And before you were born I consecrated you [to Myself as My own]
Galatians 1:15 But when God, who had chosen me and set me apart before I was born, and called me through His grace
Ephesians 1:4-5 even as He chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will
Revelation 13:8 and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.
2 Timothy 2:19 But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: The Lord knows those who are his, and, Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.
Romans 11:2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?
John 17:22-23 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
2-18
Take No Offense
It is not possible to follow Me and be offended. I will never lead you to be offended. If you are offended, angry, resentful, or upset with other people, circumstances or your life in general, then you are not close to Me. You are following the voice of a stranger. My children become like Me . . . full of selflessness and humble Love. We do not fight for ourselves but look after the interests of others. We are patient and never demanding.
Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
1 Corinthians 13: 4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
2 Corinthians 11:4 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
Colossians 1:13 He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son
1 John 4:7-8 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
2-19
Footholds, Traps, Flee!!
I Am Love. My true people follow Me. Offense and Love are opposing forces that cannot exist side by side. Are you offended? Then you are not full of Me. Repent and come back to Me. Do not let demons gain a foothold in you again. Resist the thoughts that lead to offense and they will flee away. Submit to My leading. I love You!
1 Corinthians 13: 4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Ephesians 6:11-12 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.…
James 4:7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
2-20
Test Yourself
To know and Love someone is to be willing to die for them. Not just physical death but the pain-filled death of the self. This means changing from old life to new. This means changing your opinions, demands, lifestyle, and desires for the One you Love. Test yourself. Do you know and Love Me?
John 3:16 For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life.
Romans 5:8 But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
1 John 1:7, 9 Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous, 9 Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
2-21
Your “Culture” or Your Sin?
Are you willing to see your sin and hate it or only look at the sins of others? Are you willing to let go of offenses or cling to them while defending your rights? Are you loving the difficult ones without trying to change them or do you demand that they conform to you? Is your love conditional? Do you allow sin while telling yourself you are “working” on it and besides it is just your “culture” or do you hate all uncleanness and want no part? If you know and belong to Me then you will not want to fail this test. Come Home.
2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
1 John 1:7, 9 Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous, 9 Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
Matthew 7:2-3 2 For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye?…
2-22
Do You Love Me?
Give yourself to Me. No one can partially belong to Me. Either you are for Me or against Me. No neutral ground. Examine where you stand. Come home to Me. Belong to Me. Let Me massage My Love into your being. It will change you. Just desire Me as I desire you. I will do the rest. Don’t worry about your part. I will do it.
Matthew 6:24 No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
Galatians 1:10 Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
James 4:4 You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
Joshua 24:15 if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve.
2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
John 21:17 Jesus asked a third time, “Simon son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was deeply hurt that Jesus had asked him a third time, “Do you love Me?” “Lord, You know all things,” he replied. “You know I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep.”
2-23
True Change
To know and belong to Me is to spend your life with Me. When you are with Me, My Love washes you, heals you, teaches you, and changes you. If you are changing more each day then you belong to Me. If you are not changing but still dealing with the same old issues then you are not Mine. No one can change their own heart. Many try. You can change a surface level behavior for a while but a heart attitude, perception, thought-pattern, self-love, self-centeredness, you cannot change. It is not possible. Only I can change you.
Psalm 15:1 O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy hill? He who walks with integrity, and works righteousness, And speaks truth in his heart. He does not slander with his tongue, Nor does evil to his neighbor, Nor takes up a reproach against his friend
2 Peter 1:5-11 Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins. Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble; for in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you.
Matthew 7:24-25 Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.
John 15:10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
Romans 6:11-14 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God
Galatians 5:16 I say then, walk by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, 21 envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar, about which I tell you in advance-as I told you before-that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, we must also follow the Spirit. 26 We must not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
2-24
Doing the Impossible
Come Home to Me. I will do the changing of your heart just like I do the washing away of your sin. Leave the impossible to Me. Your part is to desire Me above all else. Desire to belong only to Me. Then receive My Love constantly like receiving oxygen. Breathe in My Love and nearness. Exhale old self. Do this over and over every hour. I Love you!
Ezekiel 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Jeremiah 24:7 I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
Romans 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
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Simply Receive
Become an active receiver of My Love and Truth. A baby’s job is to receive Love and milk. He is not to change his own soiled diapers and teach himself how to walk. No, he must simply receive. Receiving My Love and milk is the only way to grow. Leave how that is done to Me. You do not need man’s ways to grow. You need more intimacy and time with Me. You need to soak in more of My Love.
1 John 3:1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.
1 John 4:16-18 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
Philippians 3:1a For the rest, my brethren, delight yourselves in the Lord and continue to rejoice that you are in Him. To keep writing to you [over and over] of the same things is not irksome to me, and it is [a precaution] for your safety
Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart.
Isaiah 58:14 Then will you delight yourself in the Lord, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage [promised for you] of Jacob your father; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.
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Cultivate Intimacy With Jesus
All the distractions of studies and obligations will not fill you with Me or cause you to grow. Come and simply be with Me. I will change and teach you. Then I will take you on outings here and there, slowly. You are to be a baby now. Just take in My Love.
1 Timothy 4:15 Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress.
MERCY – Deep Waters
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To have mercy on someone means much more than withholding punishment from them. To have mercy on someone is to look far below the surface level of things. Look deeply below the exterior. There you will see Truth. There you will see not only the bare naked soul of the one who sinned but also your own bare naked soul. When you then begin to swim in these deep waters much more will be revealed to you.
Titus 3:5 He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit
1 Peter 1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Luke 17:4 Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to say, I repent, you must forgive him.
Micah 6:8 He has shown you, O mankind, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
John 8:7 He has shown you, O mankind, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
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MERCY-Go Deep With Me
If you remain in the shallow water of circumstances then you miss the true state of the ocean. Shallow beach waves won’t tell you very much about the ocean. To have mercy begins with swimming in the depths of Truth. Do not be afraid to go deep. The deeper you allow Me to take you, the more Truth you will see. The more Truth revealed, means the more fullness of mercy for you and others. Mercy must begin with Truth.
Titus 3:5 He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit
1 Peter 1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Luke 17:4 Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to say, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
Micah 6:8 He has shown you, O mankind, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
John 8:7 He has shown you, O mankind, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
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Mercy and Truth, Death and a Lie
Ask Me to awaken you and take you diving in the Sea of Truth. If you seek Truth with all your heart and to be fully awakened then I will take you swimming with Me. I Am happy to reveal Truth to those who really want it. There is much to show you. Mercy begins with Truth. Death began with a lie.
Amos 3:7 For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.
Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.
Colossians 1:26 The mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints.
Proverbs 1:5 Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,
Deuteronomy 29:29 “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Romans 16:25 Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages
Daniel 2:22 He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.
- Genesis 2:17 The LORD God commanded the man, saying, ‘You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die
- Genesis 3:4-5 You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God
- Proverbs 14:5 An honest witness does not deceive, but a false witness pours out lies.
- Proverbs 17:7 Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool— how much worse lying lips to a ruler!.
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