The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life. Job 33:4.
So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days. Deuteronomy 30:19-20.
God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy. 1 Timothy 6:17.
And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. 1 John 5:11-12.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Love your life that you may live. Love the One who has forgiven all your sins as if they had never been. Love the One who saved you, love the one who made you, love the One who gave you His Kingdom now.
If you love your life, you will enjoy it. If you love what I have given you, you will make the most of it. If you love that you will be with Me forever in splendor and glory you will look forward to it with joy. And today’s Life Lesson instructing you in what to do when Satan attacks is: “Love Your Life.”
If you love what I have done for you in Christ no one can take your joy from you. If you love who you are in Christ no one can take your peace from you. If you love that I have planned you from before the foundation of the world and chosen to give you life, to share My life with you, you will love that you are alive, you will see it as a gift from Me to you in particular and specifically. I planned you. I made you. I love you. I care for you. I want you to be with Me forever. It is because of My love for you that you live and move and breathe.
“You who have been borne by Me from birth and have been carried from the womb; even to your old age I will be the same, and even to your graying years I will bear you! I have done it, and I will carry you; and I will bear you and I will deliver you.” Isaiah 46:3-4. And I will raise you up on the last day to be with Me forever. Once I give you life it is forever. All are alive to Me.
Satan tries to steal your joy by sending you thoughts that what you have is not enough. This is what he did to Adam and Eve, but they had everything. This is what he did with the elder son in the story of the prodigal son, but he really had everything.
Satan cannot move you out of your place of joy and peace if you know that Jesus rose again with all your sins gone and that you are headed to the Kingdom and can access it even NOW. You have been bought with the price of My Son’s Blood and sealed in Him by the Holy Spirit. A glorious inheritance is yours and you can begin enjoying it now—days of Heaven upon the earth. A rich banquet in the sight of your enemies. The devil and his demons cannot partake of the children’s bread. If you stay at My table the devil cannot come there.
Love your life, honor life. Love is very high. Love is very lofty. My love towers above the heavens and the earth and it is deep as the lowest regions. My apostle Paul experienced My love and it made him overflow with joy and be content in every circumstance and he prayed you too would be “strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:16-19.
Love made you, love sustains you , and love raises you to eternal life. Love that you may live.
Love your dreams that I give you and do not give them up. Though they tarry, wait for them. The righteous shall live by faith. I had given two dreams to Jacob’s son Joseph, and he held fast to these through slavery and prison. He never let go of loving those dreams and they came to pass. Do not give up so easily.
Love Me for I am Love. And I have chosen you in love and all your dreams are there for you in Me. I lose nothing. All are alive to Me. Live on in My love.
If you stay in the strong tower of love—loving, being loved, walking in love, resting in love, Satan cannot touch you for his trade is not love but hate. If you hate someone, even your own life, it is not of Me. You must cast that spirit of hate out. Do not give him place in you.
When you speak to a mountain and move it, do not leave a void. Once you have cast out the evil spirit you must fill it so the unclean spirit does not return, so that when he tries to reenter he finds no place. He found no place in Jesus.
I hate voids, I did not make the earth to be a waste place but a beautiful place filled with life and light. When in the beginning it was void and dark, I filled it with light and beautiful fruitful works of creation. If there is a void in your life, you must fill it or the devil will enter it.
How do you fill a void? The same way I did in the beginning, by My Words. Fill your life with My Words and it will become a lovely garden enclosed, like Eden. Song of Songs 4:12-16.
“Indeed, the LORD will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places. And her wilderness He will make like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and sound of a melody.” Isaiah 51:3. And that is a Spirit-filled life of grace. I have brought you to Mt. Zion, the heavenly city of grace, and there is the joy of worship and answered prayer.
Stop grumbling and complaining, this does not fill the void and the darkness it just digs it deeper and gives Satan more room to attack and take up residence. Instead start building a place of beauty and light. Plant My Word. “For I am the LORD your God, who divided the sea and its waves roar (the LORD of hosts is His name). I have put My Words in YOUR mouth and have covered you with the shadow of My hand, to plant the heavens, to establish the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’” Isaiah 51:15-16. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it with My Words. Put My Word to work, it does not return to Me void but achieves the purpose for which I sent it. I sent My Word to heal you and deliver you, to build you and to plant you. I framed the world with My Word, frame the edifice of your life with My Word. The foundation, the cornerstone, is Jesus, and He is My Word, and everything grows, is raised, and is built upon My Word to have eternal and lasting value. Build on the solid rock of hearing My Words and putting them into practice and you will never be shaken no matter the fierceness of the storm.
Love and cherish what I have given you in My Words for My Words are your very life. My Words are spirit and life. They are Words of eternal life. They are living and working, sharper than any two-edged sword.
Love the life that is yours in Christ. “And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.” 1 John 5:11-12. Cherish and guard that gift of life like I told Adam to do with the garden—to keep and guard it, to cultivate and guard it. There are a lot of things people would not do if they could see the beauty and magnificence of the gift of life. It is a mystery to scientists. You cannot see it, but you know when it is gone out of an earthly body, but those who do not believe do not know where it went, but you know.
“Remember Him before the silver cord is broken and the golden bowl is crushed, the pitcher by the well is shattered and the wheel at the cistern is crushed; then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.” Ecclesiastes 12:6-7.
And you will be judged for the deeds you did in the body but life reaches far beyond the body.
“Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.” 2 Corinthians 5:9-10. Be sure you are walking in the life of good deeds I prepared for you in advance in Christ Jesus so that you may enjoy your life now in the flow of Heaven and receive your full reward. 2 John 1:8.
All life originates and is from Me. It is generated out of Me for I am life itself. And all life was made by My Word, for My Word, and in My Word.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.” John 1:1-5.
Life is light. “For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.” Psalm 36:9. “The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all the innermost parts of his being.” Proverbs 20:27.
“Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.” John 8:12.
Never say you hate your life. Your life is the most awesome gift, far beyond price, it cannot be earned or purchased, it is a gift from My heart into yours. So guard your heart, for in it are the issues of life. Proverbs 4:23. You have a higher life than the creatures of the earth. You were made in My image, according to My likeness, and I breathed My breath of life into you. You were born of My Spirit and you are born again by My Spirit.
Life is a mystery to you, but it is who I am. I always was, always am, and always will be the living God. And when you draw close to Me in the continuum of love, you share that existence with Me.
I love you. Love that life and cherish it. Enjoy it every moment for it has joined you with Me and there is power in My life. Resurrection power. I make all things new. New life is a joy. Don’t treat it as cheap, don’t taint it with depression, don’t treat it impurely, for real life is pure. Your body is a temple of LIFE. Your earthen vessel holds a treasure beyond measure that will never die no matter how much one tries to kill the body they cannot end that life that is from Me, it will continue to exist but in another level of existence. Yes, one day soon, that endless Day that dawns on the last day of mortal life as you know it now, your spirit and soul, where life resides, will be clothed in the immortal glorious body that will give you an eternal home in Me.
Watch yourself and do not ever open the door to the devil. Adam and Eve did and it ruined their lives and those of all their descendants. Walk wisely, not as the fools who say there is no God, and love the life the way I made it to be—PURE joy. If the devil is your master, you will spend eternity in the place of his judgment, which is not a place of beauty and light in vast panoramas of beauty beyond what you now know as beautiful, but of darkness and confinement with no hope or purpose. Do not throw Heaven aside and let sin rule your life or you will perish and there is no way out. Choose life that you and your descendants may live the life that is life indeed.
And if you love and are grateful for your beautiful life I have given you, you will never fall. Love your life and you will enjoy it.
And if you think you don’t love your life I will show you what to do: repeat after Me, “I love my life!” Say this often during the day and soon you will. And you might want to watch little children playing. They know how to enjoy life. There is a reason I tell you to become like little children.
“Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things; therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and the enemy will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.” Deuteronomy 28:47-48.
A lack of gratitude is the devil’s door into your life.