Thursday, November 19, 2015

Being Set Apart

I have called you to Myself. I have called you out of the world to be Mine. I want you to leave the world with all its charms and pursue Me with all that you have. That means knowing Me, that means hearing Me, that means obeying Me, and that means doing all you can to be the very best person that you can be. I did not call you to continue to play with the world. I called you to be My bride so that we could know  each other and do things together. I want to bring the Kingdom to earth and I want to bring it to earth through you. I don't want you just to listen to sermons and read books, I want you to take action and do your part in bringing in the harvest.

When I lived and ministered on earth many people loved who I was and what I was doing. Many people would sell property that they owned and bring it to Judas and give it to our treasury. People were so effected by Me that they sold all they owned and gave it to Us. These people then came and followed Us. Selling property was just not a tradition of the early church in Acts, but it existed when I was doing ministry. These people gave up their lives and status in society to pursue Me.

Today many people cannot even give Me their time. So many people have no time for Me. So many people are busy doing life, working, attending to children, surfing the web, posting on Facebook and watching Television. Don't you know that you can do all these things but also walk in my presence? Don't you know  that you can be just as busy but take Me with you? You can start to include Me in your life today. You don't have to give up the whole world and its lusts, just take Me into your world and let Me make and impact through you. Sure it may help to give Me you whole life first, and walk free of the lusts of the world for a time, but with a right relationship with Me I can redeem anything. Won't you live a life set apart for Me?

Monday, November 9, 2015

The Anointing

When I call people to minister on earth I give them to anointing to to do the job at hand. The anointing can be described as the power to do the job at hand. If you have been called to lead a small Bible study than you will be given measure of Our anointing to speak to a number of people. If you are called to lead a church of a hundred people each week, we may give you a larger anointing then the Bible study leader. I do not waste My power in people's lives. I give people what they need to do the jobs that have been prepared for them to walk in since the foundation of the world.

When I walked this earth people might know that I walked in an amazing anointing. Few people have walked in a similar anointing since then, but that does not mean that it is not possible to do. The anointing comes upon a life that is submitted to God and My life was fully given over to My Father and His purposes for My life. When I was in ministry My whole life was Kingdom focused. Even when I was alone in prayer, it was so that I could be filled with the anointing to get on and serve others during the coming day.

In these coming days there are going to be revivalists that walk in the full measure of the anointing that I walked in on earth. There are coming men and women whose lives will be so completely consecrated to Me that My Earthly anointing will rest on their lives. They will do great exploits and lead many people into the Kingdom and revive the hearts of many people who are already in the Kingdom. This is not new. Didn't I say that people would do greater works than I? I long to see these people manifesting My Kingdom on the Earth and taking it by force off the evil one. Are you one of these people? No matter if it is you or not, the more that you give of your life to Me, the more that you lay down of your life, the richer My anointing can rest on your life.

Favor

To walk in the favor of God is a good thing. Everybody is loved by God but not all people walk in His favor. I want to tell you that because not everyone walks in it, it is something that is to be sought out and cherished when it comes upon you. Joseph had a portion of My favor in his life and so did Daniel. Both men were in foreign lands serving foreign leaders. The blessings and favor on their life stood out to the leaders and My Father's name was glorified. One reason that We give Our favour to an individual therefore is to have them glorify Our name.

When I came to earth I was a nobody but a poor Rabbi outside of the favor of God. I walked in an amazing anointing and was blessed by My Father. I would have been an unknown without the blessing of the Lord God on My life. I was raised up and did many powerful signs and wonders that got the attention of the people and I was able  to glorify My Father to His people. I was a light in the darkness and I brought hope to a downtrodden people. Without the favor and blessing of God, like I have said, I would have been a nobody.

God is calling you to a new way of living. God wants to be glorified through your life. He wants to make His name known on Earth. He wants to raise people up with His favor and have them bring Him to peoples attention. God wants to do glorious things through His people. He doesn't want people just sit on pews and listen to sermons each week and grow fat on the Word. He wants people to grow, to be bold and to go out and make change in the world. You can seek Us to show you what We want you to do with your life, and you can seek Us for our favor so that work that you do stands out from the crowd.

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Your Future

You might draw in a sharp breath when you consider the future on earth. Things are getting pretty dark. Things are rushing headlong into the way things were in Noah's day before My Father destroyed the populations of the Earth. So what about your future? How are you going to make a lasting impact on this world rushing faster and faster into depravity? How are you going to shine? What are you going to do in your future and how is that going to be My will in your life? The  time has come for people not to sit on the sidelines any more. The time has come for people to get off the church pews and make a real difference to the world. Are you going to do that in your future? Is that what you future looks like?

When I was a young child I thought about my future life in ministry all the time. As I read the scriptures that talked about the history of Israel and how they strayed from God, and how the prophets corrected them, I wondered how I would as a prophet correct the people of My day. I pondered many times what I would be like, what ministry style that I would have. Would I be like Elijah and confront the Baals and false Gods in my country, or would I be a passionate prophet who wept for His people in bondage to sin, like Jeremiah? Yes I pondered the future quite a lot and in the Gospels you get a little idea of how I came out of the gates and ran My race.

How can you do things differently to what others have done that came before you? How can you make a name for your family name? How can you affect the life on earth in your future? One way to have a great future is to get to know the Holy Spirit and develop the ability to walk in the Spirit and do His will in your life. With a great relationship with Us your future is a sure thing. We have only good things to do in the world. We have so many opportunities for people to take part in as the struggle for the human minds starts in earnest as time becomes short. Come to Me, give you whole life to Me and let me guide  you into a fulfilling future.

Blessings

When you are truely abandoned to Me you are able to recognise when I pour out My blessings in your life. When  you give up your "rights" to owning  and possessing stuff it is easy for you to be aware  when I bless you with friends, family and possessions. Instead of all of them possessing you, they are recognised by you as true blessings in your life. It saddens Me to see My people living life with no awareness of all the ways that I pour out My blessings in their life. Take the time now, stop reading, and think over all the blessings that you have in your life.

When I was on earth My Father blessed Me with people to love and fellowship with. I was blessed with a great mother and father and siblings. I was blessed to be able to call twelve disciples to be close to Me and share in My ministry with Me. I was blessed to be able to heal so many people and to bring the light of knowledge to the people of Israel. I was blessed to be God among His creation. I walked and talked and loved my creation and that was something no other God has done from other religions. My life, each day was blessed by the ability to be able to provide answers to lost and depraved generation.

Your life is blessed so that you in turn can be a blessing. I give you money so that you can be source of supply for other needs that are needed. I give you a healthy love for yourself so that you can be a source of love for others that suffer without it. I give you family and a sense of belonging so you can be a sense of family for other people. Each blessing that I pour out in your life becomes an opportunity for you to bless others. Take some time today to reflect on ways that you can be used to bless other people and then go one step  further and be that blessing! You might even want to share this post with your friends on Facebook.

Abandonment

I am calling you to lay down your life for Me. I am calling you to abandon the world with its desires, its ways and its attractive enticements. Stop letting the world with all its lusts speak to you and come away with Me into your secret place. Let me woo you, let me romance you, let me sweep you off your feet. How precious it would be if you loved me with true abandonment? What it you forsook everything, every relationship, everything that make you yourself and simply collapsed into My arms in a sweet embrace? Imagine letting go of everything that hinders Our relationship and simply coming home to Me? Can you see this happening?

The Father did not have to wait to capture My heart. I knew Him and loved Him from a little child. My angels took Me on trips to meet My Father in Heaven as a small child. I sat on His lap and I was wrecked for life as a normal person. I was totally surrendered to God, and lived a life of abandonment from a very young age and I never ever put one foot wrong in my entire life. Can you wrap your mind around that? I never did anything country to the laws of love. I never actually did one sin. I was abandoned and set apart for God and only God.

Can you imagine a life of pure abandonment? Can you imagine for a second, letting go of your house, your possessions, your mother and fathers relationship, the relationship with your partner and children, and totally surrendering to Me? Can you let them all go for an hour and give yourself to Me in holy matrimony? Will you surrender and let go of everything for Me?  Can you be a love sick bride to Me? Come to Me right now. Give yourself to Me afresh. Abandon all.

To Cherish

When someone is precious to us we cherish them. We hold them in a special place, that life, circumstances and attacks cannot shift. We hold them in a place in our heart where the walls cannot be broken down. Have you ever loved someone like that? Have you ever cherished someone in a way where satan could not effect with all his fiery darts. Perhaps you cherish your mother like that? Perhaps if you are a parent you cherish your children like that. I want you to know that I cherish YOU like that! To Me, you are in a special place in My heart. When you sin, I don't stop loving you, I don't draw away from you, but I actually lean forward in Heaven and pray that you would confess your sin and draw yourself back to Me.

One thing that I knew when I was on earth that my Pappa in Heaven truely cherished Me. I did not have one doubt in My life of His love. I was overcome and immersed in His extravagant love for all of My life. I did not go from believing one day to doubting His love the next day. In this, if nothing else, I was not like you. I was assured  with and comfortable in My Pappa's love. Can you imagine how indestructible and strong you would be if you were sure of the same?

God cherishes you. He has made a way for your to be close to Him, but first some of you need deep emotional healing. God has even put counsellors on the earth that can get to the bottom of your need and help you to be healed. You really are the apple  of His eye. You really are loved like I am by Him. Just as He loves and cherishes Me, so to He loves you. He has not got one form of love for Me and then another form of love for you. He does not measure out His love for  people that are His according to the way that they behave, Just as you cherish your own mother, or how you cherish your child, God cherishes you. It might be hard for you to contain in your heart and mind right now, but seek that counsellor and come back to these words one day and you will see that I was speaking the truth.

Abiding with Christ

How would you like to walk closely with Me? How would you like to be so close to Me, that no person, no possession, or no circumstance could get between Us? Can you imagine having such  a deep relationship that nothing could seperate Us from each other's love? Can you imagine waking up to a sort of relationship where I am not only your everything but everything that you do is right in sync with My will and My purposes? That is abiding in Me and that is what I have called you to. I have not called you to a relationship that can be understood or simply a knowledge of Me, I have called you to an Intimate relationship with Me where you know My thoughts, My desires and even My moods from day to day.

When I was on earth, I did not only minister to the people each day, but I carried out every thought and intention of My Father. Everything that Dad wanted Me to do, I did willingly and not bearing a grudge, even to My death on a cross. My and Dad were One. Where you saw Me you saw My Father. When I said something it was what Dad wanted Me to say. When I did something, it was what Dad wanted Me to do. I abided with My Father and to Me is was as natural as drawing breath.

I do not want to just be someone that you admire and you want to please. I do not want to be someone that you look up to and never hope to emulate. I do not want you to preach and teach My people out of some obligation to the Bible and man's teaching. I want to be One with you. I want to possess you. I want to indwell you in such a natural way that when people meet you they feel that they are meeting Me. I want to make My home  within you, I want to go where you go and  I want to meet the people that you meet and hug the people that you hug. I don't want to be a God in Heaven far off, I want to be Emmanuel, God with us. Won't you let go of the world and all its requirements of you and let Me into your life?

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Reliability

How many people do you know that are totally reliable? How many people are the same, no matter what comes against them? How many people can be trusted to be the same person no matter of they are approached by a poor homeless person or a rich businessman? How many people can trusted to follow Me at every opportunity and in every situation? Can you be reliable or do you change your behavior depending on who you are dealing with? Will you speak for half an hour to a homeless man when a pretty girl is available to talk to you are the same time? Will you sit down and shoot the breeze with prostitutes and homeless people when you could be discussing Me and doctrine with a visiting prophet?

One thing that I was is reliable. If someone had a question and the person wasn't try to trap Me with an answer I was to give, I gave the Teachers of the Law and the harlot the same attention when I framed My answers. I was the same Jesus to every person that came to Me. I had the time to touch lives, to make people think and to challenge the thought patterns of the world whoever I was. At a dinner party I could be found with the publicans and tax collectors table and the teachers of the Law used to get offended with Me as they felt that they were more deserving of My time and My knowledge. But who would you prefer to talk to, someone who challenged everything that you said, or someone that was so hungry for everything that you had to say that hung on your every word?

People are watching you. People don't want to see that you show favouritism with the people you would give your time to. People want to know that you can be trusted. People want to know that you don't change your story depending on who you are addressing. People want to know that you can be reliable with your words and your actions. The first person that needs to commit to being reliable is not your friends, it is you. The world does not need to change, people don't have to join you in your new way of life, you can really be a maverick and change and go from being different with every  person to becoming reliable. Try it out. It will change your life and you outcomes. I promise you!

Loyalty

You live in a world where integrity has been sadly lacking. A man used to promise to do something, and he would make sure that he would do as he promised. Today it becomes harder to find people that stay true to their word and remain loyal to a cause or to a person for their whole life. Loyalty is such an integral part of successful ongoing relationships but it is so sadly lacking in the world in which you live. One way to be looked upon with favor from God, is to be a person who is loyal to his friends, his colleagues, the people in authority over him and to God. If you cannot be loyal to people that you can see, how can you be loyal to a God that you can't see?

Many people will consider My life as they read the Gospels. There was one person that wasn't loyal to Me, that went out and sold Me and betrayed Me. When he came to Me in the Garden, I kissed him also as he kissed Me. My heart was crying not for what he had done to Me in his betrayal, as I needed to be betrayed, but My heart went out to him as I knew where his guilt was going to drive him later that night. Many people would consider that Peter denying Me was not loyal of him, but few people put in the same circumstances as him would have said they were with Me. Many can be disloyal to Me, but I will always love them, and sometimes after twenty five years away from Me in the wilderness as a lost sheep, My love, forbearance and loyalty to them will draw them back.

You live in a world where it only takes thirty seconds to unfriend someone who has insulted you on Facebook. You live in a world where a man that confesses adultery to his wife is left and divorced because the Law of Moses allows it. You live in a world where relationships are like shifting sand, always moving, and always changing. But it doesn't have to be that way. You can forgive, you can extend grace, you can show mercy, you can have compassion, and you can be loyal to a relationship despite the offences that may come. This is an important subject for us to cover, because if you cannot love the person that you can see, and you are so quick to destroy relationships, how can you really love Me that you cannot see?

Mercy

One of the purposes of Me coming to earth was so that the Father could take out His justice on Me and your sin, and yet at the same time extend you mercy. To be merciful is to extend compassion and favour to a person that might not be deserving of such actions according to man's standards. To let a person get away with sin, to excuse a person and forgive them, when you could judge them, condemn them and not forgive them is an act of mercy. And that is how I want you to behave.

On earth when I walked, people mocked Me all the time. Many people were rude to Me, especially in My home town. I acted with grace, healed the sick, taught those that wanted to be taught and forgave every offence that was given to Me. My life was poured out as Paul would put it, as a drink offering. My death on the cross, was facilitated so that God, My Father could show you mercy. It wasn't just at the cross I showed people mercy, it was every day in the heat of the day, that I gave of Myself and healed the sick and fed the hungry. You may think I just turned bread loaves into basketfuls for the 4000 and the 5000 men, but multiplication happened so often in my ministry that they were the only accounts the Gospel writers cared to mention. I had compassion on all men and women, I showed people My love and acted favourably toward all men.

Why should you only treat people nice that treat you well. Don't people who have been showed little love, who have deep wounds and act out deserve your mercy too? Shouldn't all people, no matter what they believe be able to access My love through you? Should you only be nice to those that you feel deserve it, or should you be twice as nice to those peoples lives that are a little rough around the edges? When I called you to be My disciple, I called you to a life of love and dedication and that includes showing mercy to people.