My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. John 15:8.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלוהים) says:
In preparation for eternity it is always wise to go back to what I have spoken as My Will for your life. And from the beginning I have blessed you to be fruitful and to take dominion over the works of My hands. I blessed you to reign in life with Me now and eternally. I made you for greatness.
May I ask you, who are a new creation in Christ with a life of good deeds prepared in advance wherein you are to be doing the works He did and greater, are you there yet? Look at your life and you will know the answer immediately. If your life looks nothing like that of Jesus and you have never witnessed to anyone about Jesus, you are not even close and it is time to begin to live the life you were born again to live. Stop burying what I have given you in Christ in the ground. Invest it.
The end of all things is near; therefore, be of sound judgment and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer. Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without complaint. As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. 1 Peter 4:7-11.
However, if you do not know what is yours in Christ, you are missing out on so much that it grieves Me deeply because Christ died to give so much to you that I want you to enjoy. But to know who you are and what you have, to know My Will and to receive all I have equipped you with to go forth and shine, you have to know My Word, because otherwise you have no idea who you are, what you have, or your purpose, and all these are not limited to this life but they are forever. So today I have good news for you. I want you to step up and live the life you were born again to live and reign with Me through Christ Jesus now and forever.
For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. Romans 5:17.
And there will no longer be any night; and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illumine them; and they will reign forever and ever. Revelation 22:5.
Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, Jesus our Lord, equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. Hebrews 13:20-21.
You are fully equipped, lacking nothing, to do My Will. You are equipped in every good thing. But first, before covering this, let us go back to the three things: who you are, what you have, and your purpose for a foundation on which to build the edifice of your life.
My servant Paul prayed you would receive this revelation and he also told you the way to get it. Ephesians 1:15-13; Romans 12:1-2; Romans 10:8-10; 2 Corinthians 4:13; Philippians 4:4-9. And it was the same way I told Joshua for him to prosper and live the life of dominion authority that I gave man from the start. In Adam, you all fall short, but in Jesus, you all stand up tall. And Jesus is My Word, so all things start with the Word and are sustained by the Word, as all creation was, is, and will be.
Let us begin our journey with the prayer that Paul received by the inspiration of My Spirit for each one of you. Paul begins the prayer: “For this reason,” so first, let us look back and see the reason he is praying this:
In Him [Jesus], you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory. Ephesians 1:13-14.
Paul is addressing you who have been saved and sealed in Christ by the Holy Spirit as a pledge of your inheritance as joint heirs with Christ of eternal life in My Kingdom in a glorified immortal body, raised from the grave imperishable and perfect forever. Now that you have been born again, My Spirit wants you to know what I have freely given you in Christ so you can be fruitful to the maximum. 1 Corinthians 2:12. And the result will be JOY unspeakable filled with glory as you bring the good things of the Kingdom to manifest on the earth.
For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you and your love for all the saints, do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.” Ephesians 1:15-23.
Essentially Paul is praying by My Spirit that you may know by revelation knowledge the greatness of your calling by which I have called you and look to its fulfillment with hope (I have given you a future and a hope beyond all you can ask or imagine, it takes revelation by My Spirit to even begin to tap into all that is there for you), the riches of the glory of your inheritance in Christ, which is a joint inheritance with Him (all He has, He has given you, 2 Corinthians 8:9), and the surpassing greatness of the power that it working in you by My Spirit dwelling in you. It is the same power that raised up the beaten, mangled, sin infested body of Jesus out of the depths of Hell, once He had paid the full price for your sins, in perfection, with all sins gone, of a beauty, splendor, and capability far beyond anything on earth, and seated Him in glory at My right hand far above all things with a Name above every other name. And I raised you up with Him and seated you there with Him and blessed you with every spiritual blessing in Heaven.
See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure. 1 John 3:1-3.
When John saw Jesus, the risen Lord, in his visions on the island of Patmos, all he could do was fall upon the ground before Him in awesome wonder at the magnificence of the glory he beheld. In Heaven as well constantly, spontaneously, those who have had the joy and honor to enter to dwell with Me forever give glory to Jesus for He alone made them worthy and He alone is the reason they qualified for so great an inheritance. No one came on their own righteousness, they came with His.
Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing.” And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, “To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever.” And the four living creatures kept saying, “Amen.” And the elders fell down and worshiped. Revelation 5:11-14.
The full impact of what I have given you in Christ can only come when you experience the Kingdom and see the holiness and purity of life of a place with no sin, no corruption, no hate, no death, no sorrow, no pain, and no fault. In Mt. Zion all have been made perfect by the blood of the Lamb and the Word of their testimony.
And you can prepare for that now, but even more, you are equipped far more than any of you realize or take advantage of, though you should know by now, to do the work Jesus did and greater. In the book of Acts you see the new converts living in miracles, signs, and wonders, after all these years you should be doing far more. It is time you began the mighty works of taking the nations for the endtime harvest that I have equipped you to do. It is time you become who you are as a new creation in Christ and moved the earth and the heavens.
How do you do this? By renewing your mind in My Word. You must immerse yourself (abide, remain, dwell) in My Word, to learn who you are and the language of Heaven that will plant and establish My Kingdom on earth. This is My Covenant with you: My Words in your mouth and My Spirit in and upon you. Isaiah 59:21; Isaiah 51:16; John 14:16-17.
They knew to do this in the early community of believers: “So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls. They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.” Acts 2:41-42.
Kingdom thoughts bring Kingdom ways, Kingdom ways bring Kingdom days, and Kingdom days make lives of praise, and praise brings about miracles.
My thoughts and ways are higher than yours, but I send them down to you like the rain and the snow to shower you with purity and soften the soil of your heart. But the only way you will plant and grow the seed of My Word in your heart is by reading, hearing, speaking, and meditating upon My Word until it becomes your word. Moses taught this to the Israelites who had come out of the slavery of Egypt so that they could change from slave mentality to master mentality and rule and reign with Me as a royal priesthood as My own special treasure. However, most of them would not and were not serious about immersing themselves in My Word though My servant Moses wrote it down for them and showed them how to use it.
Once Moses had written the Torah (the first five books of the Bible), however, I had the material for the transformation of the mind from thoughts from below to thoughts from above. And now you have much more than the first five books, you have the Old and the New Testaments filled with revelation.
Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and pleasing and perfect. Romans 12:1-2.
And Paul also went on to tell you that faith comes by what you are hearing, so if you want My thoughts and My results, you must be hearing and hearing My Word about Christ, the Messiah, to learn who you are, what you have, and your purpose. Romans 10:17.
And how to get to be a doer of the Word, to do the works of excellence it equips you to do? By the Spirit of faith. 2 Corinthians 4:13. You first receive the Word in your spirit (heart) and believe it as true as you hear it and hear it, and then you speak it with your mouth to release that faith into the world so you can do it and I can perform it. As Moses explained it, you speak words of life instead of death, and words of blessing instead of cursing. You speak the result you have promised in My Word as your preferred outcome and do not speak the negative, dreaded result you do not want.
The majority of the Israelites that Moses brought out of Egypt did not take this to heart or do it. They spoke rather what they did not want and got that instead of the good result. They spoke death instead of life, and cursing instead of blessing, and much to their unhappiness, they got what they spoke. You choose.
I cannot overcome your decision for it makes your heart hard to Me. Jesus could work no miracle in Nazareth even though the power to do so was with Him because they hardened their hearts against Him. That is why hard hearts grieve Jesus and My Spirit. Hard hearts shut us out and I cannot do the good in their lives I want to do. I long to heal and prosper them but they have shut Me out, even their prayers are rebellious demands for Me to prove Myself over their accusations. They question My goodness while trying to cajole and flatter Me into giving them what they want. And if they do get healed, they attribute it to themselves and not Me, saying they used new techniques of controlling the mind by their powers without Me. They call it science or quantum physics. I understand those things far better than they do for they operate because of Me and I set them up to work. Not you.
I told Joshua how to renew his mind so he could successfully do the impossible and conquer the land I had promised Abraham and his descendants. It made Joshua more than a conqueror and he took dominion over every place his feet trod. Remember, you trample on Satan and the demonic spirits by answering their lies with the truth of My Word. And that is the only way you take authority of any place, is by My Word of truth.
“Only be strong and very courageous; be careful to do according to all the Torah which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you go. This book of the Torah shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate (hagah) on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:7-9.
This was not a new teaching to Joshua. He had been the servant to Moses and stayed in the tent of the meeting for many years. He knew this well and that is how he and Caleb had the spirit of faith.
“You shall therefore impress these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. You shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as days of Heaven upon the earth. For if you are careful to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and hold fast to Him, then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you. Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours; your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the western sea. No man will be able to stand before you; the LORD your God will lay the dread of you and the fear of you on all the land on which you set foot, as He has spoken to you.” Deuteronomy 11:18-25.
This is just as true today as it was when Moses spoke it to the Israelites. Obviously, from the disaster when they came to the Promised Land and refused to go in and cried and spoke against My promises and said I had lied for an entire night, they never took this teaching to heart. The result would have been far different for every person redeemed out of Egypt if they had done this, but only three did, Moses, Joshua, and Caleb. And all three of them worked signs, wonders, and miracles beyond human capabilities or comprehension. And all three of them stayed vigorous, strong, and active to ages well over one hundred years. All the rest, under the judgment of their words died at 70 years or 80 at the most, but I had set 120 years as the age for man. Moses lived that out. Abraham stayed to 175 so that he could be fully satisfied before he departed to Paradise.
When I told Joshua, and I am telling you as well through My Words to him, to meditate on My Words day and night, “meditate” does not relay the full meaning of the word I use there. The word in Hebrew is “hagah (הָגָה),” which means to utter the words aloud even to mutter, moan, growl as you muse over what you are reading and hearing. You chew on the words like a camel does the cud until you are able to swallow it to become part of you. Often in inarticulate sounds, spirit words.
In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. Romans 8:26-27.
The main idea is exactly what Jesus did. He did not just say anything that came across His mind. He told you that He was very careful to only say My Words as I commanded Him and do the works I showed Him because My Words contained eternal life. And this is what I taught Joshua. You will also find the same instructions in Psalm 1 and Proverbs 4. As well as Philippians chapter 4.
Once you have done the groundwork of diligently renewing your mind in My Word, this is what should be your foundation to know who you are, what you have, and what you should be investing in and producing in your life.
Let Me give you a short list of what you HAVE already. You are equipped in every good thing and perfect gift and are ready to do the good works prepared for your assignment.
I have given you My Words and put them in your mouth, Isaiah 59:21; Isaiah 51:16; Proverbs 4:20-27; John 1:14; John 3:16, 1 Peter 1:22-26; 2 Peter 1:4; James 1:21, I have given you My Spirit to dwell in you and on you, to be with you and in you, Isaiah 59:21; John 14:16-17; Acts 2:38; 1 Corinthians 3:16; Ezekiel 36:26, I have given you My Covenant Names, Ephesians 3:15; John 17:6, 11-12; I have given you the Name of Jesus, the only name by which you must be saved, Acts 4:12; John 14:13; John 16:23-24, I have given you total forgiveness and released you from your sins by the Blood of Jesus, Revelation 1:5-6; Ephesians 1:7; Isaiah 53:5-6, I have given you the blood of Jesus to offer spiritual sacrifice and overcome Satan as in the Passover, 1 Peter 2:5; 1 Peter 1:18-19; Revelation 12:11; I have given you the Kingdom, Luke 12:32, Jesus gave you His Words and His works, His joy and His peace, and the ability with the baptism of the Holy Spirit to do the works He did and greater works than those, John 14:12; John 14:27; John 15:11, the authority to ask in His Name, John 14:13-14, I gave you Jesus that you might live through Him and never perish but have eternal life, John 3:16; 1 John 4:9, in Jesus, I gave you the nations, Revelation 2:26-28; Psalm 2:8-9; I have given you the authority to judge and to forgive sins, 1 Corinthians 6:2-3; John 20:22-23. I have lavished My grace on you, Ephesians 1:8; and I gave you authority over the earth and the work of My hands, Genesis 1:26-28; Psalm 8:6-9; Matthew 28:18-20. And when Jesus was coming back to be seated with Me, He gave you the authority to cast out demons and trample Satan underfoot, and lay your hands on the sick so they recover, Mark 16:17-18; Luke 10:19. And there is so much more.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich. 2 Corinthians 8:9.
I have made you a partaker of My divine nature and a joint heir with Christ so that you are not only heir of the world with faithful Abraham, but heir of the Kingdom as well. It has pleased Me to give you the Kingdom. Do you understand what you have? EVERYTHING. Stop acting like you have nothing and doing nothing. You are not waiting on Me. I have blessed you with every spiritual blessing in Heaven and seated you there with and in Christ. Satan is under your feet. I am waiting on you.
Do you remember what the father in the story of the prodigal son said to the elder son who never left him? “You are with me always and EVERYTHING I have is yours.” That promise, in Jesus, is YOURS. Do not be like the elder son in the parable, he never knew what he had and never used it, but instead kept the mentality of a slave and lived a lowly life, resenting the father. He missed it all when he had it all. He could have had such an abundant, powerful life in close communion with his father, but instead he stood off in resentment complaining about his life when he actually in truth had everything already he was longing for. Do not be like that. He would not even join the party when his brother came to his right mind and returned to join him in the father’s house.
You can move mountains, stop storms, trample down the devil, heal the sick, and bring the nations to salvation. I have commanded you and given you the supply, ability, and Spirit to do the works Jesus did and greater. And what did He do?
You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him. Acts 10:38.
I anointed sent Him to undo the works of the devil, to seek out and save the lost, to set the captives free, to make the blind to see, to heal the broken hearted, to make the lame to walk and the deaf to hear and the tongue of the dumb to sing, I sent Him to preach the good news of the Kingdom and announce a year of Jubilee. And as I anointed and sent Him, so He has anointed and sent you! Receive the Holy Spirit!
What are you doing with the amazing life I entrusted to you? Many people are sitting around being depressed and others are complaining, blaming, shaming others and themselves, and living dishonorable lives. What a travesty of who they are. This does not honor Me. Do you think I approve when you sit around gossiping about and judging others? Even those of your own family?
“You let your mouth loose in evil and your tongue frames deceit. You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. These things you have done and I kept silence; you thought that I was just like you; I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes.” Psalm 50:19-21.
Meditate to know what you have and use it. Get it in your heart. Write it on the tablet of your heart by your tongue, what you speak you write on the tablet of your heart. Psalm 45:1.
It is time for you to take possession of your possessions.
But realize all these magnificent gifts and promises are only for those who are with Me always, that is, those of you who are saved, born again, baptized, filled with Holy Spirit, and filled with faith. And if you are not there yet, start with Joshua 1:8 and Romans 12:1-2. It is for those of you I know because you have My love in your hearts.
I love you. I have blessed you to be fruitful and you will live frustrated until you are, for I have put that into your heart. Do you recall, in the parable of the talents that My Son told, what the master expected his servants to do with the talents He gave them? Use them, invest them, and increase. I have given each of you a special gift to use, as unique as your DNA, the iris color of your eye, your voice, your personality, and your fingerprints, take care of the stewardship of My grace that I have given you. The body of Christ will not be complete without it. I bless you to be a blessing to yourself and others and unto Me for My joy is to see you filled with joy. As you recall, even Adam and Eve were commanded to guard and cultivate the garden and increase it until it covered the earth. They were not just to sit around and chat with the devil. Selah. Do not live to be a busybody, a burden, a taker, and not a giver. My servant Paul told the early church community that those who did not work, but remained idle living off the others, would not eat.