It is written: Jesus said,
"Father loves you because you love Me" John 16:27
I remember the first time I read these words of hope .... even though I knew
deep down without even so much as a shadow of a doubt God was my creator Father
and He loved me ... I still cried. I cannot express with words what it
meant for me deep inside to see these words of hope in print. I cannot find the
words to articulate my love for Jesus and what He has done that we might have
life and it more abundantly through the will of our Father. Through sending
Jesus Father had made His love real to me deep within and HE was confirming it
in another tangible way ... I had asked the Holy Spirit to speak to me through
the Bible that day and opened it at random. As I wept... in gratitude with love
returned, I remembered there had been times when I wrestled with thoughts to the
contrary. I am not sure if they were twisted, condemning lies coming from Satan
or my own thoughts .... originating from my unredeemed nature struggling with
His truth as He renewed the Spirit of my mind or both. I did know His revealed
truth experientially. I could boldly push these thoughts away with great faith
and offered them to my heavenly Father as lies I once believed. I knew better
now, Father had seared His love and truth through the reality of our
relationship into my new heart. I could see with compassion how someone could
very easily get caught up in dead works in an effort to earn Father's love...
increase it... or keep it. I could see this tendency within me to do the same
and released it as of the unredeemed nature, to Jesus in agreement with His
finished work at Calvary ... in my minds eye I could see these lies being nailed
to the cross, and made powerless by His truth made alive within. I repented for
the times I might have unconsciously been caught up in dead works or encouraged
it and prayed for those who are caught up in such ways of being. Through the
Spirit of Christ abiding within me ever living to intercede though our union, I
was led to extend the victory for us all, that HE had made me aware of, in
agreement with words made alive within that Father's promises to us would not
return to Him void. Afterward... I am brought to a place of abiding rest
within... aware, the Spirit of the Lord reveals such truths according to the
unfolding of Father's eternal plan for His creation and the revealing of His
truth sets us free. During such preordained moments, I am brought into another
level of increasing awareness and understanding experientially, that He is
indeed working all out after the counsel of His will as He establishes His
Kingdom on earth as it already exists in Heaven... within us all in our eternal
now. Through His eyes of eternity I have been made aware Father's creation is
going through a spiritual awakening which will evolved into an explosion of
faith, hope, love, peace and joy and manifested redemption the like of which
humanity has not experienced as a whole. I have been given eyes to see men
fleeing darkness towards joy and hope as they run to His living word of light
and truth to embrace it as their own ... through their choice of union with the
Spirit of the Lord of life empowered through divine truth and all that is.
Father may we ever be blessed with an awareness of the reality of Your
unconditional love and truth far beyond what we could ever think or imagine
before we ever heard Your voice or first chose to answer Your call to believe by
faith. May we freely speak with boldness and humility of Your truths in our
lives... revealing Your Presence among us as Your family ... a Presence all can
know without a shadow of a doubt when one chooses to believe with all their
heart. May we see with ever increasing spiritual clarity through Your eyes of
eternity as we grow in Spirit and in truth. Bless You for Your gift of such as
this and that which is to be ... according to Your unfolding for each of us.