You will make show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand there are pleasures forever. Psalm 16:11.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
There is a reason I planned you and made you. It is time for you to enjoy it. I made you unique, there is no one else like you in the past, present or future. No one else like you in spirit, soul, or body. It is time you walked out who you are with joy.
I created you in love and truth, I did not create you to live a lie. I did not create you to be a scammer that lives a false identity and takes what belongs to another instead of having what is your own. I made you to be fruitful, wise, and generous. You are not to live a life of deception, lies perish, but a life of perfection, the truth is forever.
You will not be happy until you walk out the reason you are here. I do nothing idle or in vain. You are here for a purpose—a mighty eternal purpose. You are here to live a life of significance.
Why are you here? The answer is simple: Because it is My Will. You were born, you came into the world, you are loved because it is, was and will always be My Will that you exist, prosper, and be one with Me in purpose, love, and power. You are only here because I wanted you to be here. You are precious in My eyes. You are My masterpiece, the crown of creation and the delight of My heart. You are here for the praise of My glory, that is, to know, walk in, rest in, and prosper in My goodness, My presence and My power. You are here to be amazing. You are here to be wonderful. You are here to know and experience life at its fullest, best, and highest forever. You are here to enjoy the glorious freedom of My children in whom is all My delight.
Everything—the earth and all it contains, the sun, the moon, the stars, and the universe are all here for one reason: My Will. I planned them all and then spoke forth My plans and My Spirit brought them into being in the physical. And I made everything for one reason: You.
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained; what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You care for him? Yet You have made him a little lower than God, and You crown him with glory and majesty! You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet. Psalm 8:3-6.
My family in My own image and according to My likeness. I made you to be like Me. Who else could I fellowship with and lavish My love upon? Who else could enjoy what I had made with Me and understand Me? Who else could I walk with, talk with, and raise up to exalted works of excellence? Only you. It is the true love story and it is forever, it is happily ever after for you who want to walk in love with Me.
For You are my rock and my fortress; for Your Name’s sake You will lead me and guide me. Psalm 31:3.
And yet the first man and woman I made did not understand, they pulled away from Me, their source, their glory, to walk in the darkness of the flesh, of the underworld, exalting the creation about the creator. I made you beautiful but your own beauty and wisdom I gave you led the first man and woman to turn to themselves as god instead of Me. They left their purpose and calling, which was to enjoy their freedom in Me so I could empower them to prosper. You are not the creator, though the way I made you and the good things of the earth, you can reproduce, replenish and create great and mighty things—look at all the glorious architecture, inventions, paintings, sculptures, apparel, governments, books, music, engineering, and so much more as varied and beautiful as I have made each of you that mankind has done and continues to do as you explore My creation in its wonders and intricacies with higher and higher powered telescopes and microscopes and so much more you have discovered and made. But it was all already there from when I created everything you need for life and godliness in six days. You were the crown of My creation and after making you all was complete.
I made you a magnificent home, filled with beauty and wondrous life, surrounded by a universe filled with planets, stars, and galaxies, all there for you as signs, seasons (appointed times) and to shed light on the earth. There is no one else but you in all that vast array. And there is no other God or creator than Me in all the wonders that you see. The universe is not God, the “force” is not God, I AM your God. I made you and everything else. You are here because I willed you to be forever with Me. I alone am your Father.
I care for you. I am always thinking of you. I am always there with you. I am always listening to you. And I am always speaking to you if you will only open your heart and listen, then I will tell you great and mighty things you could not know.
I did not make you and leave you orphans. I never leave you or forsake you. You are Mine. I want you with Me, in Me, and living through Me forever. I want us to be unique but One—united, triumphant, and true. I have a good plan for each life that comes from Me, a life triumphant and fruitful, forever abiding in Me.
And I own everything ultimately but for now I have given you dominion in the earth as a leasehold interest but though it has not worked out as I planned, I have worked it out in your favor and will continue to do so for all who desire to be with Me.
I made you to be amazing. I made you to rule and reign with Me. I Am your reason to be and your eternity.
You have the opportunity to do My Will – to live the life I planned for you before the foundation of the world. You have the opportunity to be amazing. You have the opportunity to have joy unspeakable filled with glory. You have the opportunity to do the works that Jesus did and greater. You have the opportunity for greatness now and forever.
Will you take the opportunity to do My Will? Will you seize it every moment with enthusiastic joy? If you do your life will be amazing, filled with purpose and power. Your life will never be wandering in the dark again. You will be in control of yourself and every situation in your life.
My Will is for you to prosper in every area of your life. That is shalom. That is My plan for you. And when you left that plan and began fragmented and out of control of yourself and the world, I sent Jesus and the punishment fell on Him that made you whole again as if sin had never devastated you and torn you apart.
People do not understand what it means to do My Will. They do not even think of that is the reason they are even alive. Consequently they end up not living My Will and spending many years, even the latter years of their lives, in painful toil, suffering, and disability, burdened with addictions, hatred, bitterness, regret, and greed. Their “independence,” that is rebellion against My Word and plan for them, has yoked them up with the devil and he has stolen, killed, and destroyed the YOU I made you to be. That only comes because you did not do My Will for your life, you left the good plan for the bad plan that ended in death because it seem right in your eyes. But you were deceived.
My Will is not hard. My Son told you that My yoke is EASY, well fitting, and My burden light. It will lighten up your load and carry you on the current of the Spirit in My everlasting arms. On the wings of the wind we’ll take flight.
Many people today tell how they prayed to Me in this way, “Use me, Lord.” And they tell you this is a dangerous prayer for once they prayed it the burden was heavy and they suffered much. But this is wrong and evil, misleading to My people. It is under cover of a form of godliness and self-sacrifice, but it is actually devilish cunning. I do not use people. I stoop to make you great. I told Abraham, then Abram, to follow Me where I showed him and I would bless him, make his name great, make him a great nation, and his life would bless every family on earth. And I was with him and My Will prospered in his hands. He died fully satisfied at 175 years old full of youthful vigor but ready to go. I had put a limit of 120 years but he was not done yet for he was a late starter in knowing My goodness and being fully persuaded that all I promised him, no matter how impossible it seemed, I would perform.
Jesus became one like you and He found it His delight and great joy to do My Will. And My Will, My good pleasure, My delight, prospered (was successful) in His hands. Jesus rejoiced in Me in the Spirit and found My Will amazing, revealing Myself to even the merest children.
Think about the life of Jacob’s son Joseph. He was sold by his brothers to traders who took him to Egypt and sold him as a slave, but there was a difference in him that was not like the other slaves who resented their masters. And what was that? I was with him because he was with Me. He honored My Words and commands that had been passed down to him through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and he became a prosperous man and everything his hands worked upon prospered. He then was unjustly accused of a crime he did not commit but refused to commit because of his honor for Me and the master I had given him under whom he prospered, and because of his integrity and refusal to give in to evil he went to prison. But he was different than the other prisoners he walked in integrity of heart with Me and I was with him. And he prospered in the prison. My good pleasure prospered in his hands. And I stooped to make him great. He became a great man, the highest government official next to Pharaoh in the great nation of Egypt, and his name became great upon the earth.
Years later, when a Pharaoh came into power that knew not Joseph, My people were the subjects of persecution and cruel slavery. Finally, they cried out to Me and I then had authority to come down and rescue them. But to do so I needed to partner with someone willing to work with Me of their own free will. And I found Moses. I told him I would send him to Pharaoh to free My people. And Moses told Me he could not do so great a work as he was nobody important or strong to go against such a powerful ruler and nation. How could he do that was his question. And My answer was simple but it tells you everything about being empowered to be great, “Because I will be with you.” When I am with you no one and nothing can be against you. I stoop to make you great.
I do not use you. I am with you so you can draw all you need to prosper from Me. We do it together. If you are willing and obey you will have the best of the land. Why? Because then you are on the plan. Pharaoh had a dream, but Joseph had the plan. You need the plan to reach your dreams and I have it. That is where Joseph got it.
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, but no one can interpret it; and I have heard it said about you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.” Joseph then answered Pharaoh, saying, “It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.” Genesis 41:15-16.
The same was true of Joshua and Gideon. Joshua had an overwhelming assignment to take over two million people, not trained in warfare, into the land I had promised them and drive out all the wicked nations that had come into that country and to take down their strongholds. But I told him how to do it. Meditate on My Word day and night and speak nothing else and do not veer off it to the right or the left and he would make his way prosperous and successful for I would be with him wherever he went. Joshua 1:7-9.
Gideon wanted his people free from their oppressors but he saw no way out. I came and told him he would be the way out, he would be the champion that would take down the enemy single handed. He did not believe Me but after he walked with Me and saw what I could do with him, he did become that great and mighty champion that conquered the enemy of ten thousands with just 300 men. Nothing is impossible for Me and all things are possible for those that believe that.
My abiding presence makes all the difference. I stoop to make you great with My own greatness. I empower you to prosper with My own wisdom and strength. We work together. I in you and you in Me. One in purpose, unity and power but unique and separate too. We depend on one another to accomplish the great work of glory in the earth. The branch bears the fruit but the vine gives the life, nutrients, and direction to grow it.
I open the windows of heaven to bless the work of your hands. Deuteronomy 28:12. When you walk with Me by agreeing with and obeying My Word the work of your hands will prosper.
I do not use you. I bless you. I empower you, and honor you with greatness and give success and permanence to your work. And you in turn bless Me and allow Me the honor of accomplishing great works through, in, and with you.
Do not tell Me to use you, do not tell Me you surrender to Me, do not tell everyone how much you gave up to serve Me. It is rather I who serve you. My Son gave up His glory at My right hand and emptied Himself of His powers of God to save you and give His life in satisfaction for the eternal life you murdered in you by sin. You have given nothing up, instead you have gained all. Paul understood, all he had thought so important that he left to follow Jesus was like rubbish compared to what he had gained and what I gave Him in Christ.
Do not say, “Lord, use me.” Cry out with Isaiah, “Lord, send me!” Be eager to grab the privilege of being involved in the glorious mission I have for you in the earth. If you understood, you would not be thinking about giving up, you would be thinking about gaining all. You would be pleading with Me for the privilege and honor, the excitement and power of walking with Me and having My Will prosper in your hands.
My apostle Peter understood. When Jesus stepped into his boat and told him to fish, it seemed a sacrifice to use his cleaned nets and go out where no fish had appeared for him all night. But when he saw the work of his hands bring in hundreds of large fish that jumped into his net and his boat till it nearly sank, he was overwhelmed that I had placed My abundance in his hands, that I had caused his hands to prosper and fill his nets and his boat with fish. He knelt down before My Son and said, “Leave me Lord, for I am a sinful man.” He realized it was My being with Him that had made him do something great and successful. But what did Jesus say? “Do not fear, from now on you will be catching men.” I would make him a fisher of men. Not use him, but make him great, make his name famous, so that everyone on earth would know of him and be blessed by his faith. And by joining with Me in My Son he had a most amazing life of wonders, beauty, and, as he put it, joy unspeakable filled with glory.
When he first started following Jesus he was not so sure about this. He told Jesus, “Behold, we have left everything and followed You; what then will there be for us?” And Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious throne, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold times as much, and will inherit eternal life.” Matthew 19:27-29; Mark 10:28-30.
And there is even more, in the new Jerusalem, the heavenly city that comes down to join with earth at the end of time as you know it you find that “And the wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.” Revelation 21:14. And what were these stones made of ? “The foundation stones of the city wall were adorned with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation stone was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.” Revelation 21:19-20.
Peter never again thought he gave up anything compared to the treasures he received. Even his shadow would heal people as he passed them by on the street. He was so full of the Holy Spirit and the abundance of My grace. His life became a wonder. At his hands I healed the crippled, raised the dead, and fed My Word to My sheep.
It is the same with you. Being with Me never decreases you, it only increases you. When you seek the Kingdom first everything is ADDED to you and more besides.
When I touch your life, walk with you, talk with you, be with you, I am stooping down to make you great. To raise you up as I did in Jesus by substitution and identification when I raised Jesus from the dead with all your sins gone as if they had never been between us.
In Jesus I have made you great. A new creation in Christ.
Never tell Me to use you. Use is abuse. The devil uses people to do his will and then he casts them aside for the vultures. He destroys all who are used by him and causes them to destroy themselves and others.
I serve you. I do not use you. I never abuse you. I make your prosperity My priority. I empower you to prosper. I blessed you and the work of your hands from the start.
Pray, “LORD, may your good pleasure prosper in my hands.”
I love you. It is I who give you the power to gain wealth to establish My covenant on the earth. It is a partnership of fellowship in the flow of honor and love. And that is doing My Will. The way of prospering in the divine exchange. People say they are not sure they want to do My Will but what they don’t know is even being alive they are here because they are doing My Will. Otherwise, if I had not willed them to be, they would never have been born. Selah. By existing you are doing My Will so you might as well get on board and do the wonderful plan I have for your life. Let My Will prosper in your hands and make you great.
Then David the king went in and sat before the LORD (Yahavah), and he said, “Who am I, O Lord (Adonai) LORD (Yahavah), and what is my house, that You have brought me this far? And yet this was insignificant in Your eyes, O Lord (Adonai) LORD (Yahavah), for You have spoken also of the house of Your servant concerning the distant future.” 2 Samuel 7:18-19.
David became greater and greater, for the LORD God of hosts was with him. 2 Samuel 5:10.