+My love...When you think of Me and My Love...you sometimes feel so unworthy. This thought is not from the Holy Spirit - your Mentor and Guide - your Best Friend and Bodyguard! Whenever those thoughts try to squeeze into your psyche, say My Name. The Name above all Names is your weapon against everything that would seek to destroy our relationship. The enemy lives to sow doubt and unworthiness and by so doing, create a chasm to separate us. Such a fool! My Name 8s the Bridge over every chasm...the Balm over every wound....the Truth over every lie. The Father has taken My Perfect Sacrifice and...like the blood applied over the Passover doorposts...He has applied it to everything about you. The enemy seeks to get you to focus on you...the you that can't get things right. He wants you to feel unworthy. The Father wants you to feel gloriously free...forgiven...empowered...beautiful!! No one is worthy. That's a truth that was buried with the Truth; buried and resurrected. The enemy has no legal right over you. He has nothing over you! In Me, you are the righteousness of God! He hates that and beats his fists against that truth and tries to make you believe this redemption is not for you because you are not worthy. The Lamb was slain as the Sacrifice for every, unworthy, beloved child created in love by the Father's Huge Heart! HE has declared you worthy! The Power and Light and Force of this declaration reverberates throughout heaven - "Not Guilty! Not Guilty! Not Guilty!  Let not your heart be troubled. Trust in God and trust in Me! Because you were bought with a price, this pronouncement of your worthiness was ratified when I spoke the words: "It is finished!" The enemy wants you to think that's the lie! But the Holy Spirit has built you up on all sides and reinforced your battlements with angel armies. God is on your side. Who then, can be against? No one, especially the one who was defeated and rendered powerless by your Redeemer, Who has saved you Forever! Throughout this day, whisper My Name. I am in you...moving you...helping you live in total Freedom. Joy. Joy. Joy. This is how you bring Joy to the world!

"Blessed is the woman who believes what God said, believes every word would come true." 
                                                                                Luke 1:45 
                                                                                                                      

+When you meditate on the words I have spoken to you, faith rises up, for you see a consistency...a relentlessness in My Love for you. You start seeing how I never change...how true and pure My Heart is towards you and towards all. The Heart of the Father is so HUGE, so overflowing with Love, that it defies the imagination...mystifies the limited mindset that has no innate ability to comprehend. This is why you must be born again - born of the Spirit to even glimpse these wonders. The mind is incapable of absorbing this information. These glories can only be absorbed by the new spirit within you. You have been freely given this most startling gift. With it, with the Spirit in you, you can attest to the fact that God's promises to you are already being accomplished, just as Mary's 'yes' initiated the Father's plan, already fulfilled from the beginning. Even though seemingly nothing was different ....who could see then that she was with Child....the Promise was already being fulfilled. Blessed are you, beloved, when you seek to affirm the Father's abundant promises to you! He can only fulfill. He does not know how to be unfaithful to His Word. It never comes back void! This is why it delights Him when you rejoice, no matter how things appear. All of creation reminds you that the Father is true. When a tree looks barren in the winter, you know its future is full of blossoms. So you can look at the bare branches and rejoice that flowers are sure to come. This is one of thousands...millions of examples He's put here to remind you Who He is and always will be. Blessed are you who believes that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished. When you trust His Goodness and wait for it with confident joy...that peace that passes understanding becomes a haven where you can rest, no matter how things appear. You have your Father's Word. Nothing else matters because you know Who He is! That, My dear one, is how you live each day in the Kingdom. This is the Joy that is your constant, unchanging Strength.

+ Faith is just stepping out. When Peter leapt out of the boat, he didn't fast and pray and wait for a clear word...he just looked at Me and did it. I want you to be bolder and less afraid of making mistakes or worrying about how you are perceived. Perception is a mirage. No one has clear perception of other people's hearts and motives - only the Father does. This is why judgment is always wrong! It is based on limited perception and is an analysis that is no different than that of the bragging Pharisee assuring God of his comparative worth! Resist all judgment. Its sweet taste is artificial and quickly turns to poison in your system. It dims your spirit, that is ever seeking to hear My Voice and to have clearer vision. This is a hard lesson to learn. As you grow closer and closer to who the Father created you to be, the Spirit will make you more and more aware of the subtle judgments you still enjoy! I don't judge you...nor does the Spirit or the Father! In fact, the Father has blinded Himself from any and all sin in you by putting you in Me. That's how He has cast your sin and weakness into the sea, as far as the east is from the west. Can you see now, how truly you need to cast any and all judgment far from you? Think of the debtor who was forgiven the great debt and who then turned around and demanded payment! This is no different! I do not tell you these things to lay a burden on you or to get you to analyze your every move. The Father has chosen you to be His own... to be His beloved child. The Holy Spirit is just helping to lead you very intentionally into understanding your heritage. He wants you to look like your Father. You were re-created back into His image. So it's easy to see...just as there's no judgment - only love and acceptance in Him - all the more...there should be these same inherited traits in you. How do you learn to live in this kind of generosity of Spirit? Keep your eyes on Me and if you start to falter and slip, do not fret and focus on your weakness, step out and walk on the water! Your faith is Rock solid! You are IN Me! 

      "I hear this most gentle whisper from One I never guessed would speak to me"
                                           Psalm 81:5         
 
-Lord, I love this scripture, and so I say speak, Lord, your servant is listening!


+Since the time you were a little girl, I have never stopped wooing you. You felt it when you went into the woods and were awed at the giant dead trees, melting back into the earth, enriching the soil by their death. I am always revealing the mysteries of the Kingdom...death to life....darkness to light...hidden treasure ready to be discovered and celebrated by anyone who searched. I have filled the earth with a million secrets waiting to be discovered. It's My own game of hide and seek, where, at every turn, some facet of My Glory is hiding in plain sight. That is why I always encourage my children to seek and they will find. The Father's Love and Beauty are everywhere. There are millions of reasons to be thankful. He has made it abundantly easy if you only look! So,open your eyes and your heart, my love, and recognize the voice of your Maker saying, Arise. Shine! There is Majesty in the air! There is hidden beauty waiting to be discovered and celebrated! All of creation is My love letter to you! Read and see My faithfulness and exuberance. When you give thanks, your heart swells to make room for more thanks. I have created you for Worship. It is the language of Heaven. Thanksgiving and worship shine from star to star on the blackest night, lighting the dawn with rising hope. My Love never stops coming towards you...wooing you....seeking to prove that My Love is ever new...enduring and stronger than death. This is the greatest, highest quest of your life...to come to the One Who calls you by name...Who fashioned you and all the wonders of the earth for Himself. Your heart and soul and spirit were designed to be restless until they rest in the great I Am...the deep Love of the Eternal Father. So come! the Glory all around you is a choir singing "Come!" The Greatest Composer has written the Song of His Heart and He sings it over you. Listen to the eternal, unchanging, ever-changing Love Song of His Perfect Heart. What a miracle to have ears to hear! Come, My love, and listen!

+My beloved, rest in Me. No matter what is swirling around you, there is a place of perfect peace that was won for you and that I have designed for you. It is My Heart. In Me, you are completely protected and sheltered. I created the wild, Hickory Horned Devil caterpillar you saw yesterday on the bike path. When you searched the internet to find out what it was, there were so many different types and varieties of caterpillars, you couldn't even find it to identify it.! I created it in all its color and creativity...wild...fantastical...dropped from a tree to continue the wonder, as he searched for a place on land to weave his cocoon and emerge in time, with wings... ..totally transformed! All of creation continually shouts My Name...declares the mystery of rebirth! Death to life! What was I thinking? ...thoughts too high and deep for your mind to even begin to contain! Proclamation...invitation into the Wonder of Who I am. Your Father, Who created you and sustains you,  leads you to the place of transformation too. Who would even imagine that could be possible? And yet...with an obedience that is pure and unresisting...the caterpillar wraps itself up in its own tomb/womb...creates out of itself its own placenta - a seeming act of perfect faith - substance of things not seen ...and with time...emerges with a totally new identity that knows the giddy joy of flight. I am constantly revealing Who I am and what I have designed for my best and most  beloved creation - man. Look with eyes that see. Listen to the sermon...the testimony of even the tiniest elements of nature. When you become aware of the miracles that surround you, your heart and soul and spirit are flooded with the knowledge of I AM. Best and most empowering of all, I created you to be known and loved perfectly. I have blessed you with the Spirit...your best Champion and Mentor...to help you and strengthen you to grasp, just a tiny bit, the enormity of a Love that beckons to you at every moment. ..a Love that never stops wooing you and blessing you. This Love is eternal and it is yours. I will never leave you or forsake you .I only know blessing and beauty. I always bring death to life...life from death. The lesson: caterpillar - cocoon - butterfly - reveals the vast impenetrable mystery of My perfect plan. Nothing can thwart My Purposes! This is why you can rest and rejoice. Open your eyes and sing your heart out to the One Who loves you the best. "Spread your wings and fly. God will help you dare to try."    

"So don't you see that we don't owe this old do-it-yourself life one red cent? there's nothing in it for us, nothing at all. the best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life. god's Spirit beckons. There are things to do and places to go!" Romans 8:12-14   ~The Message

"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live but Christ lives in me."   
                    Galatians 2:20 


-My beloved...My own! This is the mystery of the grain of wheat fallen to the ground. And just as I laid My life down, I call you to do the same - to give that old self- with its insecurities and fears and lies - a decent burial! You pick up the shovel and dig this grave by filling your mind and your heart with thanksgiving. You cover over that old self by proclamations of praise...declarations of faith in all the promises that have been given to you in this great exchange that was finished once and for all 2000 years ago. Don't even think of putting back on the old grave-clothes of poverty and lack and intimidation...of a sense of not measuring up...not measuring up to what? to who? This is such a blatant lie of the enemy. Comparison and striving to measure up are his language of death. It's easy to spot. When you feel that heavy heart...the yoke of the unfulfilled law start to pull you down, throw that old, dead self in a grave of faith! You have been made totally new. The old law with its judgments and fears of punishment no longer applies to you. All this was nailed to the cross. Your eyes have been opened. You understand this great mystery of death to life...the mystery of a  Love so overpowering that everything about you that was trapped and heading for destruction has been totally rescued and redeemed. You are a new creation. The old is buried along with all the lies that shrouded your mind and heart. The new came the very moment the Spirit of God raised Me from the grave. That same Spirit is at work in you...helping you believe the Good News. I have come that you may have life and have it to the full. So rejoice and sing your songs of freedom at the gravesite of the old, never-to-return you! This is such a mystery. Once you understand it fully, there will be no stopping you from enjoying the bounty of your inheritance. Your Father gave everything for you to be His. Be His then...never again to suffer under your old tyrannical task master. His power has also been nailed to the cross. He has no jurisdiction over you any more ever again! This should make you dance and sing for Joy for the rest of your days! Open your eyes! Look for all the blessings that are yours. You have been set free...given eternal life and all the blessings of Heaven! So rejoice and be glad each and every day!  The Kingdom of Heaven has come to earth in you...in your rescued, redeemed, resurrected self.

-Lord, I feel far away from You and I can't stand the feeling. Help me sense Your Presence...to know that "You will never leave me or forsake me." Why do I pay ANY attention to what I feel? I need to submerge myself in what You say. Your Word is True. It is alive and unfailing. Thank you that Your Word assures me that nothing can separate me from Your Love.


+The enemy has no access to you except through your thoughts and your feelings. I want you to learn to live your life completely FREE from his negative influence. He is the father of lies. That's all you need to know. Never forget Who is IN you! Never forget that you are protected and guarded and made whole by the Prince of Peace. All that I won is yours for the taking: confidence, truth, peace, the ability to love (remember this is not about feelings!) You have all you need to live your life fully , operating completely as you were created to be...filled with all the gifts of the Holy Spirit - love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper - forbearance) kindness, goodness (benevolence) faithfulness, gentleness (meekness) humility, self-control (self restraint). When the enemy comes in like a flood, remember that these gifts that are yours are the standard you can lift up. You are in the High Tower of God's perfect Love. You are guarded by angels on all sides and indwelt with the Power and Presence of the Holy Spirit. Long ago, the high priest...one high priest...once a year...would be allowed to enter the Holy of Holies. I came and opened the sanctuary by offering the perfect sacrifice for all time. Your 'yes' to Me is all you need. You are now a tabernacle where God Lives by the power of the Holy Spirit. Let not your heart ever be troubled. Trust your Father. Trust that He has put you in Me. This is a union forged in heaven...ratified by the blood of the Lamb. Never again...never...do you have to submit to the lies of the enemy. simply choose this day Who you serve and know,
without a shadow of a doubt, that all of heaven is with you to help you maintain and celebrate that choice. The Good News is so clear...so simple. Say yes and believe. You need not even glance at how well you're doing (that actually is a trick of the enemy!).
Your 'yes' transfers you completely out of darkness into the Kingdom of Light. Peace is yours when you fix your eyes on Me and let everything else go. Your Father knows exactly what you need at every turn. The Holy Spirit in you is carrying the good work begun in you to completion. so rest and rejoice this day. Throw every anxious thought and care on Me...the One Who is your joyous Strength. Laugh and rest and rejoice. Live in High Praise of your perfect, adoring Father, Who is smiling over you...singing over you every second. This is the Truth you need to meditate on. Leave the cares with Me. Come and drink from the waters of life. Freedom is yours.

- Father, thank You for the blessing of Your deep presence and healing. Thank You that Your Goodness surrounds me and I see Your Love running to meet me at every turn. Yesterday, I saw seven or eight empty birds' nests high in the bare trees. Is there any significance to them... something You want to show me regarding them? 

+Twig by twig, I guided those little birds to build their nests high in the trees. It was their diligent joy...obeying without question, the Father's command. They were preparing for the new life to come. Now, that season is over and the nests belong to another season...one that is gone. Unfettered, the birds have moved on. This is a little sign of their obedience and trust. Birds only know now...today. They are cared for moment by moment by a Love that provides all their needs. They are a picture of freedom. They fly. They sing. They belong to their Creator, Who has designed them...each feather tailor-made...for flight. 

You, My beloved, are My little songbird. I have designed you to be unique and free. I have designed you to sing your heart out to Me. I have created you for flight. ..to soar in the freedom that was purchased for you as the Great and Perfect Gift of your life. You have assembled the little twigs of your heart and created places designed for the seasons before you. You have used the gifts I've given and waited for life to emerge. Each nest you made with love and with an eye to My design... listening all the while to hear My still small Voice saying, "This is the way." Now, I am teaching you to live a life of freedom and ease...of confidence in the constancy of the Father's loving care. I'm teaching you to let go of all the encumbrances that might hold you back and down. ..restrain your flight and muffle the song that must be released. All your nests have produced life, but they do not belong to today. The Kingdom is eternally NOW and the sweet mystery that is Your resting place, your nest forever, is right in the Father's Hand. Now, you need not build, but merely rest in the sweet goodness that is yours. This is the Gift. I have come that you might have Life. Relax, beloved, and live in this Perfect Love that knows no bounds, that is unfailing and completely yours forever and ever.     

-Speak to me, oh Lord of my heart. More than anything, I want to live with a high consciousness of Your Presence today. Open my eyes to see You. Open my ears to hear Your voice.

+So, you have moved to this little cottage that is a shadow of what it is going to be. You love it now, but you are going to bust it wide to the sun. You are already seeing it with eyes of faith. You look at a wall but you see the window that will soon be there. This, My love, is a perfect illustration of how I am transforming you! Blessings that are walled out because of forces you don't understand are soon to be yours. The walls are going to be replaced - busted through - to bring in the light of My goodness and glory. The places where you feel lost and closed off will be the very places I light up! Oh, you are going to have fun! Think of the joy the Father has as He tears down the old and rebuilds you in His Love. As you can already feel the sun pouring in the windows that aren't there yet, so He sees you basking in the freedom He purchased for you! Every time you look at the future of this house, you see what it is going to be...what you've planned from the start. This, My love, is what redemption looks like...the substance of things to come...seeing the things that are not as though they are. This, My love, is why you can be filled with expectation and praise ...right here...right now...before a single wall has been touched. When you view your life according to the plans I have for you - to prosper you and give you hope - you already enjoy the finished product. It already exists in My mind. It is the fruit of the cross.
This is why a thankful heart advances the recognition of your perfect Father's love at every turn. The eyes of your heart are open and hope carries you through the day with joy. So rejoice...rejoice! Your Father has just begun to show you even more of the Kingdom. Stand in awe. You are on holy ground!

+ Trust Me now, My love...in the gray and cold...where earth is holding its breath, waiting for the sun...waiting for life to burst forth once more. It is silent. The birds wait to sing. They wait for the new rains...for the emerging life. All creation bows to My perfect plan. All creation waits for My "yes" to echo forth across the fields. So you, My little one, as you wait, My heart wants you to sing now in anticipation. I want to see your upturned face...your heart full of expectancy, despite the cold and gray. I want to know that your trust is relentless, like My love...that you truly do know Me in the deepest regions of your heart...that underneath the frozen crust of your unfulfilled hopes, you know, that your Redeemer lives. Your heart belongs to me. Your heart refuses to doubt that My resurrection is SURE and that it covers over every detail of your life, just like the snow softly covers the ground outside your window. The Truth, My love, is this irrevocable fact: I will never leave you or forsake you. Even when you feel at a loss- disoriented - alone in your sadness - I AM is right here with you...holding your life together...preparing a million flowers to come to your land. This faithfulness is what all creation knows...what you must choose to believe. Look up, My love. See. Your Savior is ever coming to you with redemption and reward (His hard-fought reward) in His hands. Nothing - no darkness, no cold, no sense of feeling lost - NOTHING can come between you and Me. This is the secret that is whispered from star to star - from field to field- by the dazzling work of My Father's hand. God - Your God - your loving Father, Who sees everything about you and cherishes you every moment - God is LOVE. This is the message that is hidden in all the barren fields and bare branches. God is LOVE and His love is ever coming to you...ready...available...wooing you...reaching out to you... protecting you ... healing you...saving you from feeling lost and frozen. Oh no, My love...that's the last thing you are! You are His beloved chosen one. He woos you as His bride and declares that you are eternally, completely His. So, be still My love..as the waiting earth silently receives the blanket of white. Believe that green, green Hope awaits. Your joy will be abundant and full. That's the only measure your Father knows.

+Be filled with Hope, My love. By now, you have seen ... you know deep in your being that I can only be Faithful. I know no other way. This gives you great freedom because you can approach your life and every element of your life with child-like expectancy. You know I'm always up to something good...no matter how things appear. The more you choose to always believe  in My Goodness and My Unfailing Love for you, the freer you become. No longer are you fettered by what appears. You view your life and every situation with eyes of faith. This includes your deep desires for those you love. Whatever darkness seems to rule has to melt into the white light of My Perfect, Unfailing Will. My Will is always for good...always for freedom...always for reconciliation...always for love triumphing. I am always taking captivity captive. This is a life of adventure and joy that keeps you steady and confident. You know Who you belong to. You know that My heart is always For you...never against! With God on your side (and He is with massive armies of angels!) Who can be against? No one! no situation that seems impossible....no relationship that seems unfruitful...no barrier that seems insurmountable! This is a life of Freedom and Abundance...of Authority and Power! You have been redeemed from all that could pull you down and keep you ineffectual. Truly, "I know the plans I have for you - plans to prosper you and never harm you...to give you a bright hope and future!" Jeremiah 29: 11 
So open your arms, My love. Open your heart and welcome My Presence with everything you are. Everything you are belongs to the Master of the Universe, Who loves you more deeply than you can imagine. He is stretching your ability to believe in the power and quality of a Love that never fails. Rest and rejoice. Look! Your Savior is ever coming to you with healing and fulfilled promises just for you! Live each day knowing you are a beloved child of the King. Treat everyone in your life with His unconditional...life-giving Love. Let no stone of unforgiveness remain. Clear the landscape of your heart and rejoice!