Category: Abundant Living

To be Successful: Follow

Without truth you will live in fear.

Meditation Thought:  “Follow me.” (John 21:19)

Message perceived as coming from Jesus:

“I came that you might have hope and not despair. Look up from the disappointment, the hurt, the confusion, to see My loving Presence to take you with Me to the revelation of the Father’s goodness and mercy. No person can stand alone, for people were created for fellowship with their Father and their brothers and sisters. Only through the exercise of interaction with all of the family can each person grow into the pure image of the Father. For the Father reveals through the Spirit, and the Spirit reveals through believers, and believers receive the power of the Spirit by following Me.

If you do not follow Me, I cannot reveal the truth to you. Without truth you will live in fear, with truth you live in the power of the Living Spirit to overcome fear. I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, and death has no power over Me nor over those who follow Me. To Mine is the resurrection and the hope, for the death of the body is the birth of the beauty of the spirit: the spirit released from the sins, the doubts, and the guilts which the body bound around it.

Follow Me – not at a distance, but taking My hand, that you may feel Me surely, guiding every step, to bring you surely and quickly to the joy of the Father’s glory shining over you.

Follow Me to your rightful home, for only I know the way: let us move together as one in purpose, eager to take each step in harmony and love knowing that the Father awaits our arrival with open arms and open heart.”

Insider Information

The Word in your mind, the love in your heart, and the Presence in your soul will carry you through the world on wings of peace and joy.

Meditation Thought: “For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled” (John 19:36)

“The Word precedes the deed, and the spiritual shall evolve into the physical. Look to the realm of the spirit through the ingesting of the Word of Life that you may be blessed by being in harmony with the creation of the physical from the spiritual – you will have ‘insider information’.

It is the duty of my children to learn the laws of the land in order that they may obey them, and thus be protected by them rather than imprisoned by them. The law in your mind, the love in your heart, and the Presence in your soul will carry you through the world on wings of peace and joy.”

Far Superior to Self-help

With Me available to you at all times, you can put aside fear, worry, procrastination and negative thinking.

Meditation Thought: “For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.” (John 13:15)

“I have given you your homework – the working out of your life according to My life in human form. But I come home with you to help you with your work – in the form of the Spirit I am available 24 hours a day to serve you, to teach you, to guide you.

Heed Me, use Me – for that purpose I came: to teach you in love the ways of the Father that you might rejoice in the ecstasy of glorifying Him in the most appropriate and comfortable ways for you. With Me available to you at all times, you can put aside fear, worry, procrastination and negative thinking. For every problem you encounter, big or small, is solved by either the Word activated by your faith and moved upon by you, or by direct appeal for My help. I want you to learn well the ways of the Father so that His ways become your ways, but you need Me with you always, for only I came without sin and in complete obedience, and only I can keep you using the Father’s ways in ever increasing effectiveness and power.”

Encouraged but not Driven

By God’s grace I am not left alone to cope.

Meditation Thought: “But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain.” (1 Corinthians 15:10)

By God’s grace I am not left alone to cope. I can call upon My Father because He first called me. I know that He loves me, seeks me to be his close companion, partner, child with all the rights and privileges that word implies. The joy! the confidence! The unutterable gratitude that this knowledge engenders! Truly, the resurrection life is “life in a new dimension”. And that “new dimension” is beautiful, exciting, but with a peace of being loved, being cared for, being encouraged but not driven.

Peace & Joy Reign

Wherever you go with My Spirit and My Word, shall the scene be changed, lives be transformed, glory be given to Me, and peace and joy reign in willing hearts.

Meditation Thought: “But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.” (Matthew 6:6)

“Concentrate on My Word, and you shall know My will. For the Spirit gives life to the Word, and the Living Word gives life to you. The seed of your faith shall grow into the manifestation of the works of the Spirit so large that the works will dominate the landscape of your presence. Wherever you go with My Spirit and My Word, shall the scene be changed, lives be transformed, glory be given to Me, and peace and joy reign in willing hearts.

Go, obey My command, and take My Spirit and My Word unto the world.”

My Prayer: “Yes, Lord! May it be so!”

Rise

Do not attempt to burrow deeper within yourself to escape the cold rain or hot sun – but rise to the surface, that the water of the Spirit and the light of the Father and the tilling of the Son may enable you to grow.

Meditation Thought: “What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.” (1 Corinthians 15:42-43)

The seed is tiny, vulnerable, subject to many dangers. But as it changes and grows, it becomes more resistant to what would destroy it, and eventually becomes very strong.

And so must you choose to allow the good of the Kingdom to nourish you after you die to self, which is the beginning of the seed changing into the form which was originally intended as a mature manifestation.

Do not attempt to burrow deeper within yourself to escape the cold rain or hot sun – but rise to the surface, that the water of the Spirit and the light of the Father and the tilling of the Son may enable you to grow, to thrive and to be the beautiful plant to be used for healing, for nourishing, and to be fulfilling not only the purpose for which you were crated, but fulfilling the purpose for which those whom you are healing and nourishing were created.

Graceful Yielding

‘There’ in the palm of His hand, close to His heart

Meditation Thought: “Is anything too hard for the Lord?” (Genesis 18:14)

Nothing is too hard for the Lord – but He has created in love creatures who can facilitate His works, or obstruct them and slow down His perfect timing if He chooses to allow them to do so as a means of teaching. And this seems to be Standard Operating Procedure.

“Seek first the kingdom and all these things shall be added unto you” (Matthew 6:33) is not only a wonderful promise to us – but a graceful yielding on God’s side to let us choose to seek the kingdom.

Nothing is too hard for the Lord – sometimes we just think it is because what we desire to happen when we desire it to happen doesn’t occur. But God knows our hearts, and all of the facets of the situation – including where He wants us to be, and what He needs to do to get us there – ‘There’ in the palm of His hand, close to His heart – willingly staying close and enjoying it and desiring it above all else.

Whether we perceive it early or late, or not at all, that is His aim – He states it in His Word, He works it in His will, He empowers it through His Spirit, and He implants it in our heart.

Yield to a Better Way

I could not do this in my own sinful, rebellious, ego-centered nature no matter how long or how hard I tried. I must allow it to happen, but I cannot cause it to happen.

Meditation Thought: “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.” (Romans 12:1)

In view of the mercies of God present myself as a living sacrifice. I do not have to present myself by my own effort. Instead, if I humble myself and yield myself to God, then He will do the preparation needed for me to be presented holy and acceptable. I could not do this in my own sinful, rebellious, ego-centered nature no matter how long or how hard I tried. I must allow it to happen, but I cannot cause it to happen.

It is my job to give the loaves and fishes; it is God’s job to feed the 5,000. (See Matthew 14:13-21)

A Twist on Stem Cells

This is the reason that thoughts are critical to life – or death; to peace – or agony; to fulfillment – or discontent; to health – or to sickness; to richness of lifestyle – or poverty of lifestyle.

Meditation Thought: “So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace.” (Romans 8:6)

A thought is the tiny first cell of the growing expression which will take form in many mediums and influence many others. This original cell-thought has within it all the genetic features needed to multiply it into a huge far-reaching form.

This is the reason that thoughts are critical to life – or death; to peace – or agony; to fulfillment – or discontent; to health – or to sickness; to richness of lifestyle – or poverty of lifestyle.

God seeks to illuminate our understanding that we may recognize that thoughts seeking relationship with Him are the key to the fulfillment of our creation both spiritually and humanly.

To come to the realization that God- almighty, all powerful, all loving, all creating, all righteous, all beautiful, all orderly, all reconciling, all accepting, all encouraging, all giving of freedom to choose His offer of companionship, of fellowship, of fatherhood is our Father, is to be completely awed, completely, happy, completely obedient.

We do not expect to do as well as our Hero (Jesus) in expressing our life in our humanity, nevertheless, the determination to do our best to adopt the same thoughts, the same attitudes, the same type of language, the same type of actions, and the sure conviction that our Hero was and is real and is able, by our belief in His realty, to empower us to become more like Him.

Choose Your Storehouse Carefully

And the conscious decisions bring into your life the contents of the storehouse so that the unconscious decisions draw upon the stock within you, thus reinforcing either sickness of Satan’s stock or health of God’s stock.

Meditation Thought: “ Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.” (Romans 6:13)

All manner of things are in the storehouse – you must choose what you will take from it and bring into your life. It is easy to walk into Satan’s area – for it is downhill, easy to just let the inertia of sin and self-will to almost propel you down the hill to his area.

God’s area is higher – more difficult to reach because you must take effort to remove sin and self-will by energy, time, and commitment before you can make the walk up the path to reach God’s storehouse. But for those who try – what blessings! The fruits and gifts of the Spirit are there: the storehouse is pleasant, commanding a beautiful view. (See Galatians 5:22-23)

Life is a series of trips to the storehouse: each conscious decision takes the path to either the storehouse area of Satan or of God. And the conscious decisions bring into your life the contents of the storehouse so that the unconscious decisions draw upon the stock within you, thus reinforcing either sickness of Satan’s stock or health of God’s stock.

Seek ye first the Kingdom – God’s area – and the joys of the Kingdom’s stores shall accumulate in your life. (See Matthew 6:33)