My child, My power is perfected in your weakness, and joy in Me is your strength. Come to Me in all your frailties. Come to Me when you are weak. I fill you with Holy Spirit power and lift you up on eagles wings. Look at your weakness as an opportunity for Me to shine through.
2 Corinthians 12:9 Nehemiah 8:10
My child, know that I have come and have given you understanding so that you may know Me, the true God. You are in Me. I Jesus Christ am the true God and eternal life. Guard yourself from idols.
1 John 5:20-21
My child, My desire is that none should perish. I am revealing Myself to the lost. I am looking for receptive hearts open to My way, My truth, My life. Pray for receptive hearts. I am knocking. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him and he with Me.
John 14:6 Revelation 3:20
The Holy Spirit is not sedentary. He wants not merely to exist quietly within us, but to thrive. Because our spirit is firmly fastened to God, the incredible energy of His Spirit is now at work within, motivating us to move forward with Him.
A mounting desire to please God with our lives is the outcome we should expect from His indwelling presence. And as a part of this yearning to please Him comes an inherent sense that we are to be holy. Because God is holy, a godly life must be a holy life.
Let’s be realistic: how many of us could say with a shred of confidence that we are holy in all our attitudes and behavior, especially given the fact that God gives us something seemingly so impossible to live up to as: “you shall be holy, for I am holy.”(1 Peter 1:15-16)
Even though it’s hard to imagine that we could ever achieve such a measure of perfection, we can’t deny that Scripture ushers us toward that goal. So we often feel left with little alternative but to work for it. It’s not hard to understand why we see things this way, because it’s actually pretty common to think in terms of holiness being associated with what a person has achieved. Isn’t that how people of all religious stripes see it—the “Holy Man” as opposed to your everyday run-of-the-mill believer? Not only is this philosophy deeply ingrained in us through our general experience of life, but it’s also prevalent in the beliefs of our churches.
My child, speak to the mountains in your life and I will move them. Say to the sick, be healed and I will heal them. Command the darkness, be gone and I will shine My light so bright that nothing will be hidden. I have given you authority on this earth and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. I have come to set the captives free. Take your rightful place and rule and reign in the midst of your enemies. I am the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Everything is under My feet. Walk in the confidence that I died for you to have. Live bold in My Name.
Matthew 16:19 Psalm 110:2
I’m sure we all realize that the true definition of the term Christian is “one who has been born again into living relationship with God.” Because this union is the result of God’s Spirit taking up residence within us, a rock-solid bond has been established with God—a relationship that cannot easily be broken.
But here a question arises: “As a Christian, does sin separate me from God?” It’s not unusual to hear this answered “yes.” We are often taught that sin causes a separation between us and God, creating a rift which can only be restored when we confess our sin to Him.(1 John 1:9) Therefore, moving forward with our life in God is possible only when our tie with Him can be reestablished through forgiveness.
Though this view certainly seems to have merit, it’s not actually the case. Frankly, sin does not separate a believer from God in any manner. Unquestionably, any sin displeases God and therefore can’t help but affect our relationship with Him, but it does not separate us from Him. If it did, it would mean that God would have to vacate our spirit each time we sin, and then come back once again when we repent.
This hardly seems practical, since it means that God would have to sever the very tie so utterly necessary to overcoming sin in the first place. It would mean cutting off the very resource essential to spiritual growth.
Excerpted from: Free from the Power of Sin: The Keys to Growing in God in Spite of Yourself
My child, your steps are established by Me and I delight in your way. You have searched for Me with all of your heart and all of your soul and have found Me. You will live securely and in peace in undisturbed resting places because you delight in My law and meditate on it day and night. You will have abundant prosperity all your days and your love will continue to abound. This is My covenant promise to you. Believe it.
Psalm 37:23 Deuteronomy 4:29 Isaiah 32:18 Psalm 1:2 Deuteronomy 30:9
1 Thessalonians. 3:12
My child, gird yourself and be ready for I am pouring down the early and latter rains. Your threshing floors will be full of grain and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil. Then I will make up to you for the years that the swarming locusts have eaten. This is My covenant promise to you. Be like a tree firmly planted by a river and stand firm. I am the Almighty, the Alpha and the Omega. Stand in the fullness of My grace. I have clothed you in My robe of righteousness. Know who you are and stand!
Joel 2:23-25 Jeremiah 17:8
My child, you fret too much about the future. I alone know what your future holds. Put your trust in Me. Don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:34
My child, I am continuing the stripping process. Stripping away everything that takes your focus off of Me. Just as the eagle strips the nest so the young will learn to fly, that is what I am doing for you. I am teaching you to fly. You can’t fly as long as you remain in the comfort of your nest.