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May 12

Light in Your Darkness

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Over the years, I have experienced intense darkness in my life: severe sadness…deep despair…piercing pain.  During times like these, I would try to shine some light onto my darkness and strive to get rid of the fear…the rejection…the unworthiness, but to no avail.  The darkness prevailed.  No amount of light I shone on it would make a difference.

WHOSE MINDS THE GOD OF THIS AGE HAS BLINDED, WHO DO NOT BELIEVE, LEST THE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL OF THE GLORY OF CHRIST, WHO IS THE IMAGE OF GOD, SHOULD SHINE ON THEM
(2 Corinthians 4:4).

For the longest time, I never knew there was a different Light available for my darkness. You see, the father-of-lies had blinded our minds for fear that we would find out about the Glory of Christ that is able to shine on our darkness…and turn on the Light inside us.

BUT THE MINISTRY JESUS HAS RECEIVED IS AS SUPERIOR TO THEIRS AS THE COVENANT OF WHICH HE IS MEDIATOR IS SUPERIOR TO THE OLD ONE, AND IT IS FOUNDED ON BETTER PROMISES
(Hebrews 8:6).

The ministry of the Glory of Jesus is superior to anything you and I will ever come across.  It is the only ministry that has the Power to remove my and your darkness…and replace it with Light.

THE MYSTERY THAT HAS BEEN KEPT HIDDEN FOR AGES AND GENERATIONS, BUT IS NOW DISCLOSED TO THE SAINTS. TO THEM GOD HAS CHOSEN TO MAKE KNOWN AMONG THE GENTILES THE GLORIOUS RICHES OF THIS MYSTERY, WHICH IS CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY
(Colossians 1:26-27).

Finally, the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages was disclosed to my heart—“Christ in you, the Hope of Glory.” The Light of Christ’s Glory has canceled the darkness of depression and despair in my mind and in my heart, in exchange for His Light of Love, Truth, and Hope, in me.  This is still an ongoing process, every day.  Whenever darkness enters my mind and heart, I surrender it to the Light of Christ’s Glory…and watch the darkness driven out by His Light.

What name would you give the darkness that prevails in your life: depression…despair…doom?

I bless you to stop striving to drive out your own darkness. Instead, turn to Jesus—your Hope of Glory! Ask Him to turn His Light on in your darkness. You will experience a miracle.

PRAYER: Lord Jesus, You are my Hope of Glory. Your ministry of Glory is superior to everything and everyone. I invite You to shine Your Glory on the darkness in my heart, so the Light may turn on. Hallowed be Your Name!

Maintain an Awareness

The Lord Jesus has always lived His Life for God, the Father. When we invite Him to come live HIS LIFE in us, He will live it for God, the Father, in the same way He has always done.

The Two Counsels
May 09

Everything That Hinders

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FOR WE WHO ARE ALIVE ARE ALWAYS BEING GIVEN OVER TO DEATH FOR JESUS’ SAKE, SO THAT HIS LIFE MAY BE REVEALED IN OUR MORTAL BODY
(2 Corinthians 4:11).

I have realized recently how many times a day Self, the OLD ME character the father-of-lies has shaped in me, needs to be given over to death, so that the Life of Jesus might be revealed through my actions and reactions.

There are so many opportunities in my daily life where I have a choice to give Self over to death, for Jesus’ sake.  There are the times when my Self feels threatened by other people’s successes.  There are the times when my OLD ME character feels attacked by other people’s selfishness.  There are the times when I feel discouraged, alone, and afraid. The sin that lives in Self so easily hinders and entangles.

The other day I felt my Self cancelled by someone’s selfish remarks. When I took the pain of feeling annulled and deleted to the Lord Jesus, He answered, “But your Self DOES need to be cancelled, so that I may live in you. Stop defending your Self…and let it die.”

LET US THROW OFF EVERYTHING THAT HINDERS
AND THE SIN THAT SO EASILY ENTANGLES,
AND LET US RUN WITH PERSEVERANCE THE RACE MARKED OUT FOR US
(Hebrews 12:1).

I bless you to throw off everything that hinders the Life of the Lord Jesus being revealed in your actions and reactions, even if it means that your Self gets knocked off its throne.

What will it take for you to stop defending your OLD ME…and let it die? Are you willing to allow the Lord Jesus to use another person’s selfishness to delete, annul, or cancel your Self?

Know that the only way to give Self over to death is to give Self over to JESUS, every day, a hundred times a day, whenever it is provoked.  JESUS IS YOUR SAVIOR.  All authority has been given to Him.  He is the only one who has the power to tie the noose around Self and its sinful habits and patterns.  Since there is only space for one or the other in your body, will you allow Jesus to get rid of Self and put HIMSELF in its place?

PRAYER: Lord Jesus, let me run with perseverance the race marked out for me. Help me to realize that each person’s race is customized and that I cannot run another person’s race for her/him and that another person cannot run my race for me. I surrender my Self to You—the OLD ME with its sin that so often hinders and entangles. Knock it off its throne, Lord God, and take Your rightful place on the throne in my heart.

Maintain an Awareness

We do not understand what is going on within us and we are too afraid to find out. We are too afraid to live…and even more afraid to die.

The Two Counsels
May 04

Restore with Gentleness

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BROTHERS, IF SOMEONE IS CAUGHT IN A SIN, YOU WHO ARE SPIRITUAL SHOULD RESTORE HIM GENTLY. BUT WATCH YOURSELF, OR YOU ALSO MAY BE TEMPTED
(Galatians 6:1).

I bless you with a special anointing to restore…to restore with gentleness.

I encourage you to think of someone you know who is weary and weak—someone who might be trapped in the lies of the father-of-lies.  Take note that you can be of great help and comfort to your friend by being willing to restore him…gently.

Understand that when someone is trapped in a lie, he might behave irrationally.  He might express anger.  He might show jealousy.  He might breathe animosity.  However, regardless of the behavior he displays on the outside, deep in his heart he feels hopeless…helpless…powerless.  Therefore, he hungers for Love—God’s Love.  He hungers for God’s Hope, God’s Truth, and God’s Peace.

HE GIVES STRENGTH TO THE WEARY AND INCREASES THE POWER OF THE WEAK
(Isaiah 40:29).

Grasp that often, when someone is lying with his face in the dust, he is not able to reach God’s outstretched hand of Love, Hope, and Truth.  Recognize that the heavy burden of hopelessness, helplessness, and powerlessness paralyzes a person and can prevent him from looking up into God’s face. Sometimes, a person might need someone to pick him up. Are you willing to extend your hand…and your heart?

ARISE [FROM THE DEPRESSION AND PROSTRATION IN WHICH CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE KEPT YOU—RISE TO A NEW LIFE]! SHINE (BE RADIANT WITH THE GLORY OF THE LORD), FOR YOUR LIGHT HAS COME, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD HAS RISEN UPON YOU!
(Isaiah 60:1).

Do you know of someone who is lying face down in the dust, feeling hopeless, helpless, and powerless under the lies of the father-of-lies?

Stoop down with gentleness and pick your friend up.  Do not condemn, criticize, or control.  These are sinful behavior patterns that only ease your own pain.  Instead, encourage, bless, and understand. Then, you will witness a miracle. You will see your friend arise from the prostration in which circumstances have kept him…to take God’s Hand.

PRAYER: Lord Jesus, fill my heart with Your Gentleness, Your Kindness, and Your Understanding.  Fill my heart with Your Nature, so I may restore those who have fallen face down into the dust. Help me to only see the other person’s pain and not react to my own. Work Your Righteousness in me, so I may restore others with blessings and understanding instead of criticism, condemnation, and control.

Maintain an Awareness

God wants you to desire to be important to Him, because you ARE important to Him…and He wants to tell you so, Himself.

The Two Counsels
April 25

Child, You Are Fully Known

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WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I TALKED LIKE A CHILD, I THOUGHT LIKE A CHILD, I REASONED LIKE A CHILD…NOW WE SEE BUT A POOR REFLECTION AS IN A MIRROR; THEN WE SHALL SEE FACE TO FACE. NOW I KNOW IN PART; THEN I SHALL KNOW FULLY, EVEN AS I AM FULLY KNOWN
(1 Corinthians 13:11-12).

Have you ever wondered how your memories were formed during childhood?  Would you be surprised to know that your mind works like a tape recorder, having recorded every experience since the time of birth very accurately?  During childhood, when something happened to you, your mind recorded the FACTS of that event. But, while that memory was being made, you also made certain INTERPRETATIONS (true or false) about these facts.  These interpretations were recorded permanently into your mind, as well. Along with the facts and the interpretations, certain EMOTIONS cropped up, too, which were also permanently recorded in your mind during the forming of your memories. Know that these emotions were permanently linked with the interpretations you made.

When your mind recorded the facts, interpretations, and emotions during the making of your childhood memories, the father-of-lies was present.  His goal was (and still is) DECEPTION—luring you into false interpretations of your circumstances. Why? The father-of-lies came to destroy your heart by tying his negative, destructive beliefs of abandonment, shame, rejection, and condemnation to your childhood facts, emotions, and interpretations. He knew if he could get you to make false interpretations about yourself, others, and God, during childhood, you would be impaired for the rest of your life, since these false interpretations carried over into your adulthood.  And because of these wrong childhood interpretations, you see but a poor reflection of yourself, others, and God, now, as an adult.

GOD FROM THE BEGINNING CHOSE YOU FOR SALVATION THROUGH SANCTIFICATION BY THE SPIRIT AND BELIEF IN THE TRUTH
(2 Thessalonians 2:13).

What false interpretations did you make during childhood, when your memories were formed?  How do these affect your life, today, through your feelings?

Even though the father-of-lies lured you into false conclusions as a child, God chose you to believe in the Truth as an adult. Expose your childhood conclusions that are causing you to feel abandoned, shameful, rejected, and condemned to Him, and ask Him for His Truth, today. He will show you who you are, because He knows you fully.

PRAYER: Most High, how encouraged I am that, although I see but a poor reflection of myself, I am fully known by You. Lord, I long to know the real ME: the person who was created in Your image…the person without the negative, destructive beliefs of the father-of-lies…the person who lives in the Truth. Help me to find the false childhood conclusions I had made about myself, others, and You, so I could see myself, others, and You in the face of Your Glory.

Maintain an Awareness

Be certain that your Father DOES answer your prayers, but His Answer might be different from the one you are expecting.  It might be radical… revolutionary…extreme.  His Answer might not fit your purpose, but it will fit God’s Purpose for you.

The Two Counsels
April 21

God Is Love

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LOVE IS PATIENT, LOVE IS KIND. IT DOES NOT ENVY, IT DOES NOT BOAST, IT IS NOT PROUD. IT IS NOT RUDE, IT IS NOT SELF-SEEKING, IT IS NOT EASILY ANGERED, IT KEEPS NO RECORD OF WRONGS.  LOVE DOES NOT DELIGHT IN EVIL BUT REJOICES WITH THE TRUTH.  IT ALWAYS PROTECTS, ALWAYS TRUSTS, ALWAYS HOPES, ALWAYS PERSEVERES.  LOVE NEVER FAILS
(1 Corinthians 13:4-7).

GOD IS LOVE
(1 John 4:16).

Precious One, I, the Savior, want you to know that I am patient, even when your pain and weaknesses show…because I am Love.

Ponder that I, the Redeemer, am kind and do not condemn as people do…because I am Love.

Value that I, the Good Shepherd, am not boastful, but came to this earth to serve you and share everything I am, with you…because I am Love.

Embrace that I, the Resurrection and the Life, am not rude, but gentle…because I am Love.

Know that I, the Wonderful Counselor, am not self-seeking, but came to share My own Wholeness and Holiness with you…because I am Love.

Celebrate that I, the Author and Finisher of your faith, am not easily angered, even when you come undone…because I am Love.

Speculate that I, the Bread of Life, keep no records of your wrongs, after you have asked forgiveness…because I am Love.

Capture that I, the God of Light, do not delight in evil done against you or anybody else…because I am Love.

Recognize that I, the Way, the Truth, and the Life, rejoice whenever you are set free by the Truth…because I am Love.

Acknowledge that I, Immanuel, yearn to protect you from the negative, destructive beliefs of the father-of-lies…because I am Love.

Understand that I, the Everlasting Father, always trust and hope that you will bring your pain and weaknesses to Me, instead of hiding from them, running away from them, and blaming them on someone or something else…because I am Love. My Love never fails. I will never fail you.

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 HIM
(1 John 4:16).

What has the father-of-lies told you about God: that He has forsaken you…that He wants to harm you…that He is not faithful?

If you have been believing these lies, you have been missing out on God’s Love for you. Submit these beliefs to the Way, the Truth, and the Life, just the way you hear them in your mind. Then, experience the Truth…and God’s Love for you.

PRAYER: Lord God, I submit my beliefs about You to the Truth. I realize that I have an enemy—the father-of-lies—who wants me to think that You are phony…that You are cruel…that You are easily angered. But I come to YOU. Show me who You really are, so I may EXPERIENCE Your LOVE…and believe.

Maintain an Awareness

When you pray and lay your problem before God, give Him the freedom to answer you in any way He wants to, according to His great Mercy and Grace. Push your own preconceived answers aside. Then, HIS Answer will enter your mind and heart.

The Two Counsels
April 20

Why Don’t I Hear God’s Voice?

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BUT THEIR MINDS WERE MADE DULL, FOR TO THIS DAY THE SAME VEIL REMAINS WHEN THE OLD COVENANT IS READ. IT HAS NOT BEEN REMOVED, BECAUSE ONLY IN CHRIST IS IT TAKEN AWAY
(2 Corinthians 3:14).

I love the ocean.  One of the things I love the most is the fog.  Often, the fog would lie low on the water, rendering the fishing boats mysterious and undefined.  During times like these, the fish shacks become hazy, as if someone has drawn a veil over them.  I love watching with wonder, as everything around me becomes obscured and hidden in the fog.

The last time I witnessed the obscurity of the fog, I heard myself whisper, “God, sometimes You are like the objects in the fog: out of focus…remote…distant.  Why is that?”

Through the continuous drone of the ocean I heard a palpable answer in my heart, “My Child, if you are not seeing or hearing Me, it is not because I have chosen to be unresponsive…unsociable… unfriendly.  I am not trying to hide Myself from you.  I am not trying to make it hard for you to find me.  You cannot see Me, because I have been obscured by your own understanding…veiled by your own perturbing perceptions…dimmed by your own negative, destructive thoughts.  I am always close to you—just on the other side of the veil.  Nothing will separate you from My Love.”

And then He added, “You can lift the veil and experience My Presence by exchanging your own understanding for Mine.  You can remove the veil by yielding the messages the father-of-lies has delivered to your heart, to Me.  The only thing that is standing between us is the deception of the deceiver: the darkness of your own tormenting thoughts, the murkiness of your own childhood conclusions, the gloominess of your own irrational interpretations. Turn to Me. Then, the veil will be taken away…and you will experience Me.”

BUT WHENEVER ANYONE TURNS TO THE LORD, THE VEIL IS TAKEN AWAY
(2 Corinthians 3:16).

Do you often hear God’s Voice? Do you regularly experience His Love? Or has God been someone who is hidden from you? Do you want to see His Hope, hear His Truth, and feel His Love in your life?

What has the father-of-lies told you is the reason you are not experiencing God’s Presence in your life? If you believe these lies, they have been doing exactly that—drawing a veil over your understanding, so your mind becomes dull, unable to connect with God.

Turn to the Lord Jesus. Submit these beliefs to Him. Then, look for Him.

PRAYER: Lord God, I want to see You. I want to hear Your Voice. I want to experience Your Presence. Therefore, I submit these negative, destructive beliefs to You that claim that I am unworthy of Your Presence. Show me the Truth, so the veil can be lifted…and I can come into Your Presence.

Maintain an Awareness

Do not go to the Scriptures to read them only. Go to them with the intention to seek and experience the Light through them.

The Two Counsels
April 19

Secure in Him

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HIS FAITHFUL PROMISES ARE YOUR ARMOR AND PROTECTION. DO NOT BE AFRAID OF THE TERRORS OF THE NIGHT, NOR THE ARROW THAT FLIES IN THE DAY. DO NOT DREAD THE DISEASE THAT STALKS IN DARKNESS, NOR THE DISASTER THAT STRIKES AT MIDDAY. THOUGH A THOUSAND FALL AT YOUR SIDE, THOUGH TEN THOUSAND ARE DYING AROUND YOU, THESE EVILS WILL NOT TOUCH YOU
(Psalm 91:4-7).

Beautiful One, do not base your security on the way those around you live their lives.  Instead, keep on uniting with Me, the Perfect Father, through My Son, Jesus Christ.  Let your relationship with Me guard you against doom, despair, and disappointment.  Stand firm. Endure. Overcome.

Persevere when you feel you are the only one standing on My Truth—My personal promises to you.  Be tenacious.  Keep on doing what is right.  Be unyielding in your obedience to My Counsel. Never give up. Never give in. Never say never.

Though a thousand fall at your side, yielding to the negative, destructive beliefs of the father-of-lies, be unyielding in your submission to the Truth. Continue to trust Me, the Perfect Father, with all your heart, instead of relying on your own perturbing perceptions and circumstances. Keep on authorizing the Spirit of Truth to direct your life.  Stop at nothing. Run on. Abide.

Though ten thousand are falling around you, walking in the darkness of shame, condemnation, rejection, and abandonment, continue to live as a child of the Light, rejoicing with Hope through the Power of the Holy Spirit, persevering in affliction, and praying without ceasing. Do not be afraid.

Let the Truth be your defense, so that the accuser’s lies do not throw you to the ground.  Then, the father-of-lies will not kill your Peace, steal your Hope, and destroy your Joy.  No, these evils will not touch you.

Are you deriving your truth from those around you: how they act…what they believe…what they say? How does this affect YOUR life?

There are many Truths that God wants to tell you that will not be in line with what others believe, but you need to meet Him in the places where others might not want to go. You need to believe the promises that others might not want to believe. You need to follow Him into the places where others might never have been.

PRAYER: Most High, show me Your ways. May I be willing to follow wherever You lead, even if nobody has ever been there before, lived that way before, or believed that way before.

Maintain an Awareness

Temptations give us many opportunities to be trained in God’s Holiness.

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April 17

It Is All about the Relationship

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BUT I AM AFRAID THAT JUST AS EVE WAS DECEIVED BY THE SERPENT’S CUNNING, YOUR MINDS MAY SOMEHOW BE LED ASTRAY FROM YOUR SINCERE AND PURE DEVOTION TO CHRIST
(2 Corinthians 11:3).

The father-of-lies had a perfect plan when he attacked our relationship with God. He led our minds astray through our own childhood misinterpretations. Using them to his advantage, he turned these into his negative, destructive beliefs—deception that is strong enough to kill, steal, and destroy. Thus, the OLD MAN was born—a personality that speaks to us through our very own thoughts, with our very own voices, through our very own childhood conclusions.

PUT OFF…THE OLD MAN, WHICH IS CORRUPT ACCORDING TO THE DECEITFUL LUSTS
(Ephesians 4:22).

Over the years, these childhood misinterpretations—the negative, destructive beliefs in the OLD MAN—grouped together to form a Deserted Child, a Defiled Child, a Defeated Child, and a Deprived Child in us. The Deserted Child consists of the negative, destructive beliefs that deem us forgotten and abandoned by God. The Defiled Child is made up of the group of accusatory beliefs that deem us doomed and damned by God. The Defeated Child, raised by the father-of-lies, functions as the set of shame-infested beliefs that accuse us, daily, of not being good enough for God. And the Deprived Child oppresses us, moment-by-moment, with beliefs that God has rejected us.

Together, these OLD MAN characters keep us from experiencing God’s Presence. We desire to be loved by God, but the Deserted Child, under the management of the father-of-lies, barges in and lies “God does not care about you.” We want to be good, but the Defiled Child, controlled by the father-of-lies, interferes with the words, “You are evil from the inside out and nothing and nobody can change you…not even God.” We long for a purpose that would make us special, but the Defeated Child, formed by the father-of-lies, always reminds us that “You are a disappointment to yourself and God. There is nothing special about you. You do not count and have no purpose.” We long to have a relationship with God, but the Deprived Child intervenes by saying, “God does not want you!” Thus, the father-of-lies achieves his purpose—to oppose God’s Truth, so we might be separated from our relationship with God, to belong to him, instead.

PUT OFF THE OLD MAN…AND…PUT ON THE NEW MAN, WHICH IS RENEWED IN KNOWLEDGE AFTER THE IMAGE OF HIM THAT CREATED HIM
(Colossians 3:9-10).

How have you noticed these OLD MAN personalities interfering with your relationship with God, over the years?

Do you want to experience God’s Presence, daily? Then, you need to stop relying on your Deserted Child interpretations, your Defiled Child conclusions, your Defeated Child assumptions, and your Deprived Child beliefs. Instead, ask God for HIS Truth. Then, He will exchange these beliefs for a Redeemed Child, created in His Image.

PRAYER: Lord God, bring me to the place where I will have a real relationship with You through the NEW MAN.

Maintain an Awareness

Be certain that your Father DOES answer your prayers, but His Answer might be different from the one you are expecting.  It might be radical… revolutionary…extreme.  His Answer might not fit your purpose, but it will fit God’s Purpose for you.

The Two Counsels
April 14

Put Off the OLD SELF with Its Deeds

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PUT OFF YOUR OLD SELF, WHICH IS BEING CORRUPTED BY ITS DECEITFUL DESIRES…AND PUT ON THE NEW SELF, CREATED TO BE LIKE GOD
(Ephesians 4:22). 

We all have a CORRUPTED PERSON living inside of us: a being, shaped in us by the father-of-lies, filled with negative, destructive beliefs of condemnation, shame, abandonment, and rejection—the OLD SELF.

When these OLD SELF beliefs of condemnation, abandonment, shame, and rejection are triggered, we hurt so much that we want to bandage the pain as soon as possible.  And the father-of-lies stands ready with his SOLUTION: sinful habits and patterns of hiding, running, and blaming others.  THESE ARE THE PRACTICES OF THE OLD SELF.

Some people think that in order to become holy, they only need to put off the PRACTICES of the OLD SELF.  They think that all they need to do is to stop their harmful habits of hiding, running, and blaming in order to become whole and holy.

SINCE YOU HAVE TAKEN OFF YOUR OLD SELF WITH ITS PRACTICES
(Colossians 3:9).

But I have discovered that it does not help to only put off the PRACTICES of the OLD SELF.  You have to put off the PERSON of the OLD SELF, first.  If you only put off the PRACTICES of the OLD SELF, the OLD SELF PERSON is still in you.  This deceived OLD SELF PERSON is void of God’s Love, Hope, and Truth, and feels unloved, unworthy, and unacceptable. The OLD SELF PERSON NEEDS ITS PRACTICES OF DEFENSE, so it can take care of its pain.  If you take its defense patterns away, it will find new ones.  You cannot do this backwards.

Have you noticed the OLD SELF PERSON that lives in you? What are the negative, destructive beliefs that keep it alive? What are its practices—the harmful habits that take care of its pain?

I urge you to invite the Lord Jesus to put off the OLD SELF in you, and to put on HIS SELF in you, who is filled with new beliefs of Love, Truth, and Hope.  Then, your harmful habits will disappear, because it is only if there is someone NEW living in you with whole and holy beliefs that you do not need your sinful defense patterns anymore.  Know that you cannot better your SELF from the outside; you need to be exchanged on the inside for a NEW SELF—the SELF of the Lord Jesus Christ.

PRAYER: Lord Jesus, I lay my corrupted OLD SELF PERSON by Your feet. Please come and replace it with Your Self—the NEW SELF. Then, I will not need my harmful habits anymore. Then, I will be new.

Maintain an Awareness

God wants you to desire a purpose from Him, because He has a purpose that He has been saving just for you.

The Two Counsels
April 12

Jesus Did Not Come to be Served…but to Serve

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THE SON OF MAN DID NOT COME TO BE SERVED, BUT TO SERVE, AND TO GIVE HIS LIFE AS A RANSOM FOR MANY
(Matthew 20:28).

Celebrate that the Lord Jesus has been raised from the dead…to become your Life.

Beloved One, I, the Bread of Life, want you to know that, first and foremost, I did not come to be served by you, but to serve you: to care for you…to minister to you…to save you.  Know that in the first place it is not about what you do for Me, but what you allow Me to do for you.  It is not about how useful you are to Me, but how valuable I am to you.  I am offering My Life to you, so you may be unchained from sorrow, discharged from guilt, and unyoked from slavery to harmful habits.

SO IT IS WRITTEN: ‘THE FIRST MAN ADAM BECAME A LIVING BEING; THE LAST ADAM, A LIFE-GIVING SPIRIT’
(1 Corinthians 15:45).

Precious Child, it is not about what you have done in the past that was wrong, but about what I have done in the past…that was right.  I died for you, then became alive for you, to offer you My Self—a Life-giving Spirit.

THEN JESUS DECLARED, ‘I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE. HE WHO COMES TO ME WILL NEVER GO HUNGRY, AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN ME WILL NEVER BE THIRSTY’
(John 6:35).

Are you so busy serving the Lord Jesus that you are missing out on Him serving you with His Life? What is it that you need the Lord Jesus to do for you and to BE for you through His Life-giving Spirit, today?

Receive from Jesus, the Bread of Life, so your hunger for Hope may be stilled, your longing for Righteousness may be satisfied, and your yearning for Wholeness may be fulfilled.  Accept that it is only after you have received from Him that you can give back to Him, because without Him you are nothing and you have nothing.

PRAYER: Lord Jesus, I come to be served by You. I come to receive Your Life, so I may be unchained from the sorrow that has lived in my heart for so long. I come to receive a drink from Your Living Water, so I may be unyoked from the guilt my past mistakes have caused in my heart. I come to You to be my Bread of Life, so that my hunger for Righteousness may be satisfied and my thirst for Love may be quenched.  How joyful I am that You have been raised from the dead…to become my LIFE! How blessed I am that You have given Your Life to me as a Ransom.

Maintain an Awareness

Truth comes to us when we speak to God…and when God speaks to us.

The Two Counsels