I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in the truth. 3 John 1:4.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
You can never be walking in My Will if you are not walking in the truth. And many times this is not sin on your part but just error. You must read, listen to, speak, and do My Word. You must listen to My Spirit and let Him guide you to all truth and remind you of all I have said. I call Him the Spirit of Truth. I have given you My Words and I have not left you without a guide.
The truth is very important to Me. I hate lies because lies rob you of life, that is, of abundant life, of the life that is life indeed. You cannot walk in authority until you walk in the truth. You cannot be free until you know the truth. You cannot be the amazing YOU I made you to be until you know, walk in, and live the truth. Lies enslave you, scam you, make you lose your identity, your vision, and your joy. Lies will rob you of your life and your possessions. Lies can turn you into a cowardly fool. Lies rob you of the faith. Lies rob you of the truth. Lies are perishable but the truth is forever.
There are six things which the LORD hates, yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that run rapidly to evil, a false witness who utters lies, and one who spreads strife among brothers. Proverbs 6:16-19.
I am love and I am light. I think in love, talk in love, and walk in love. All else is foreign to My nature and cannot enter into Me or abide with Me. There is no evil or deception in love so love is always in the light to prove itself pure and blameless. There is nothing that needs to hide in love because love never harms the neighbor. It is impossible for Me to lie. I speak only truth. Love is truth.
People today say love is toleration of the evil in others, but it is not. I am love and that obligates Me to hate lies. Why? Love cannot tolerate deception and evil. Evil is evicted out of the presence of love as soon as it tries to enter for the light of love reveals it immediately. Allowing ones you say you love to live on in the darkness of deception and evil is not love but is cowardly, devilish, and selfish. You are afraid to lose their good opinion of your liberality and tolerance, but that is not love. Love saves. Love rescues. And love walks in truth alone, for therein is freedom.
So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” John 8:31-32.
And I want My people free from the slavery of sin and death.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, so that they may serve (worship) me.” Exodus 9:1; Exodus 3:18; 5:1; 7:16, 26; 8:4, 16, 23; 9:1, 13; 10:3, 24).
My desire is that all people be saved AND come to know the truth. 1 Timothy 2:4. Without the truth established in your innermost parts, all the way to your core, you can be tossed about by human trickery and the devil’s schemes. He operates in lies to pull you out of the light into the darkness where he can play upon your emotions and either entice you to glittering falsehood, as he did with Adam and Eve, or into the depths of despair as he did with Judas. He can put you into false assurance of your power by evil and watch you perish in the midst of your pomp as Herod did.
Behold, You desire truth in the innermost parts, and in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom. Psalm 51:6.
But even worse, people can live under human traditions that are called “religion” and mere doctrines invented by men that have a semblance of holiness due to the harsh treatment of the human body or the glorification of useless suffering as if it pleases Me. People will follow these and live lives that take them nowhere and totally lose their true destiny in a mediocre life way below the level at which they should have walked thinking they are pleasing Me by being nothing and denying themselves successful, fruitful lives.
These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence. Colossians 2:23.
Jesus ran into this with the Pharisees. He called them hypocrites. He said they put burdens on people and then did not lift a finger to budge them. He told them that they traveled far to make converts and then made them devils worse than themselves. And yet they were thought to be holy men that knew My Word better than the “common” people. The people listened to them as if speaking from Me but they were not, they even expelled those from the synagogue and Temple who had faith in My Son or followed His teaching. And yet in seeing Him you are seeing Me. He is My Word and fulfills all My Words.
Lies blind people to the truth.
Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we received mercy, we do not lose heart, but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 2 Corinthians 4:1-4.
Do not let anyone or anything rob you of your crown.
Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. I am coming quickly; hold fast what you have, so that no one will take your crown. Revelation 3:10-11.
Be careful about following mere human doctrines or traditions. When they are contrary to My written Word, do no make them your life.
And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far away from Me. But in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’ Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men.” He was also saying to them, “You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition.” Mark 7:6-10.
I seek those who worship Me in spirit and in truth. Spirit is walking by faith and not by sight alone. The mind set on the Spirit is life and peace. The mind set on the flesh is death and confusion. The flesh is perishable, the spirit is not. It is the Spirit that gives life, the flesh is useless. Flesh is limited to this life only but the spirit is forever. It is of a higher realm where Christ is seated at My right hand. The devil seeks to keep you in the dirt below, but you have not been called to walk in that life. You are not an evolved animal randomly seeking to survive, you are blood bought kings and priests that were planned from everlasting to everlasting as far above the animals and plants over which I have given you dominion as the sky is above the earth. Do not be tricked into the lie of evolution, it is demeaning of the dignity in which I made you in My image and according to My likeness. You are of the God kind. Walk in that nobility in love. Love lifts up, it never brings down. Love never falls flat or to a lower place.
So I tell you I seek those who worship in Spirit and in TRUTH. My Word is truth. Nothing else is truth except My Word and apart from My Word there is no truth. In fact, there is no life apart from My Word. My Word made everything, sustains everything, and saves everything. My Words are Spirit and life, they are Words of everlasting life. My Words are life to those who find them and health to all their bodies.
In both the Hebrew of the Old Testament and the Greek of the New Testament you will see again and again that My ways are lovingkindness (grace) and truth.
Then the LORD passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth. Exodus 34:6.
All the paths of the LORD are lovingkindness and truth to those who keep His covenant and His testimonies. Psalm 25:10.
I will bow down toward Your holy temple And give thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your truth; For You have magnified Your word according to all Your name. Psalm 138:2.
By lovingkindness and truth iniquity is atoned for, And by the fear of the Lord one keeps away from evil. Proverbs 16:6.
In Hebrew the Word is “chesed (חֶ֣סֶד)” which is translated in many ways such as lovingkindness, mercy, favor, grace, compassion, but My servant Paul explains it as follows: But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:4-7.
Truth in Hebrew is the word emet (אֱמֶ֑ת) which you will also find translated “faithfulness.” It is the root of “amen (אָמֵן)” which is to believe and affirm as truth that which has been spoken, verily, truly.
In Greek you will find the equivalent to the Hebrew words “chesed and emet” in grace (charis (χάρις)) and truth (alétheia (ἀλήθεια)), which I very clearly tell you come to you in Jesus.
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14.
And of His fullness we have all received, and grace on top of grace. For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him. John 2:16-18.
With My love, mercy, compassion, favor, and grace comes truth. Do you see? That is the truth that sets you free. When you know and believe in the love I have for you that gave you Jesus and took all your sins away on Him as if they had never been between us, you have the faith that overcomes all the lies of the world. When you know and believe in the legal mercy I extend to you on the mercy seat by the propitiation of your sins and failures in Jesus you are more than a conqueror. When you are full of My divine life, My favor, and My skill you walk in authority over all the lies of the world, the flesh and the devil. When you know the truth it sets you free for who the Son sets free is free indeed. He has opened the new and living way right to My throne of grace where you receive mercy and find grace just when you need it. And that is all the time, every time, forever. Each morning My mercies are new, My lovingkindness is great, higher, vaster, broader, deeper than all you can ask or imagine.
Do you see why that I desire above all that you prosper and be in good health in every area of your life even as your soul (mind, will, and emotions) prospers, and then I tell you how your soul prospers and your life is in perfect balance, heath, provision and prosperity (these chase you down and overwhelm you): BY WALKING IN THE TRUTH. And I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in the truth. 3 John 1:4. For then you are strong and I can trust you with everything pertaining to life and godliness.
And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the [e]knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.As a res ult, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. Ephesians 4:11-16.
To know the truth you must continue in My Word and be open to laying aside your former ways of thinking about Me and yourself that were lies and be transformed by the renewing of your mind to the truth of who I AM as you see so clearly in Jesus, My great AMEN.
That you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth. Ephesians 4:22-24.
I love you. Do you see now why Jesus identifies himself as “the Amen, the faithful and true witness, and the beginning of God’s creation.” He is My final and perfect revelation. Jesus is the “yes”, the amen, to all of My promises. He is the way, the TRUTH, and the life. My Word is grace and truth, chesed and emet. I am looking for truth in your innermost parts, all the way to the core values of your being, and then I see My image again in you, for there is no lie in Me. The devil turned your life into a lie, but Jesus brings you back to the truth by My grace—My divine life in you.