You invalidated the Word of God for the sake of your tradition. Matthew 15:6.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
From the beginning I have been with you, I planned you, conceived you, birthed you, and I continually sustain you. I give you every opportunity to know Me, by the things I have made, by My Word as written by those under the inspiration of My Spirit and as spoken by My Spirit in your heart, and since I gave you My Son, you are seeing, hearing, and knowing Me through Him. He is My Word manifested in action in the flesh. Just look at His works and Words in the Gospels, as we are doing in these Life Lessons, and you will come to know My goodness and My love. My Word is living and actively working, so alive that My Word stepped off the page and out of the Holy of holies to be with you always as one like you. In Him you see the reality of who I am and it is exactly as I told Moses that I AM:
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.
But people, in their great zeal, have given Me a character and reputation which is a lie of tradition, ritual, rote, and human invention. The devil, as he did from the beginning, does not want you to know who I am for he knows that if you do, he can never get you to budge even one inch away from My Words and My plans. He must get you to see Me withholding good from you and not acting in ways that are a blessing and a benefit to you. In other words, that I do not have your best interest in mind.
Thus people have made Me out to be One who inflicts suffering, and in fact demands it of those who are holy, and delights in poverty, acts of self-degradation, withdrawal from being anyone influential in business or politics, and who needs to be constantly appeased through acts of deprivation to the body and self-condemnation that terms yourself a sinner forever. Many people think you cannot even know whether you are going to Heaven or not until you die and that if you were not quite good enough you spend time in a place of torture until I say you qualify. This is NOT of Me. Beware of all things that are contrary to My Word. Beware of those that call good evil and evil good in the name of religion.
Here I am not talking about the worldly, the worldly call acts of murder of children good and a matter of freedom of choice and teach perverted doctrines of demons that mislead many into acts of sexual immorality and lust. They are working hard to destroy the beauty of the marriage covenant and the family and instead turning it into a travesty and mockery of what I made it to be. But at least most of these are not speaking as if in My Name.
I am talking of those who have My written Word and My Spirit to guide them but have so closed their minds to the truth that they preach another gospel, a gospel that glorifies sickness, poverty, and premature death as from Me. They call suffering pain and illness “redemptive.” That is totally false. Jesus redeemed you from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for you and it was your infirmities, ills, and pains He bore so that you would never have to bear them again. Which is easier to say “your sins are forgiven,” or “you are healed?” They go together and are easy for you to have because Jesus bore sickness, sin, pain and death for you. We went through this in the Life Lesson about the conversation of Jesus with the paralyzed man who they let down through the roof. He, however, was no longer paralyzed when he left the presence of Jesus. And that is what I am trying to make you understand. Do not let anyone rob you of your relationship as one with Me that Jesus died to give you, no matter how “holy” it sounds.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel around on sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves. Matthew 23:15.
I call poverty, sickness, pain, and death curses, and I tell you clearly where they came from (and it is NOT from Me), and Jesus constantly undid them because I sent Him to undo, destroy, and annihilate the works of the devil. I sent Him to you to reveal to you who I AM. I heal, I forgive, I prosper, I bless, I save, and I love beyond any love you can know on earth. You must know and experience My love, abide in My love, to know Me as you should. And it is then that you become complete, lacking in no good things.
O taste and see that the LORD is good; how blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! O fear the LORD, you His saints; for to those who fear Him there is no want. The young lions do lack and suffer hunger; but they who seek the LORD shall not be in want of any good thing. Psalm 34:8-10.
What people do not realize is that everything you are seeking is in Me and in Me you have everything already.
Let Me take you back a bit to the beginning and introduce Myself to you for many of you have lost sight of who I am and who you are. Lets go on a journey, a journey of love into perfect joy. I told Peter to feed My sheep. And if you listen to his first two sermons, first at Pentecost and then at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, you will see the joy unspeakable filled with glory that belong to you in the times of refreshing I give you in Jesus, that is, in My Word, which is My gift to you. At Pentecost, 3,000 people so wanted the joy of salvation and the presence of My Spirit in them and on them that they were baptized that day. And at the Beautiful Gate, Peter and John demonstrated in a great miracle of love and compassion in the Name of Jesus and faith in His Name and the faith that comes to you through Him by His Name, that by bringing Me into a situation a man crippled from birth was healed and made whole in a matter of minutes from what he had accepted and stayed trapped under all his life. If you only understood what I am telling you, people would seek Me at every moment of the day and night and always find Me right there with them, quick to hear, quick to save, and quick to bless.
But now let us begin our journey to Oneness so that you can link with Me in perfect love, with nothing hindering our oneness.
I conceive all things within Me before I birth them out of My Spirit. What I conceive is sure to be born at the appointed time, in the fullness of time, but it does not come forth in the physical from the spiritual until such time.
So the first step in knowing who I AM is to know that you have life and breath and being because I wanted YOU. I conceived all men and women within Me, as the crown of and the reason for all My creation, clearly knowing My plans for each one since the evening of the sixth day of creation. Just by existing and enjoying your existence you are doing My Will.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Genesis 1:26-27.
And it was then, at that Word, that all the plans and the details of your life were conceived deep within Me until the time came when I called you forth from My bosom to be birthed upon the earth.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5.
That is why Solomon wrote there is nothing new under the sun, though I am always doing something new. But it is the bringing forth that which was already planned and known when conceived that is new. A baby is conceived and then grows nine months in the mother’s womb but when he comes forth, he is called a “newborn.”
Have you not heard? Long ago I did it; from ancient times I planned it, now I have brought it to pass. 2 Kings 19:25; Isaiah 37:26.
O LORD, You are my God; I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name; for You have worked wonders, plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness. Isaiah 25:1.
I called you by name before you yet came forth.
I declared the former things long ago and they went forth from My mouth, and I proclaimed them. Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass. Isaiah 48:3.
When the first man and woman in My plans for each life were birthed upon the earth, I had to form their bodies for as yet the covenant of marriage, the fruit of which gives birth to children in the image of the parents, was not yet possible. So I carefully formed the man’s outer vessel to hold his spirit and soul with all its inward parts that worked together to sustain his life and keep him renewed and strong to be fruitful in creative abilities and skillful works. No one else would ever have the same plan in their cells, that is the blueprint of the body’s design in the DNA, the same color of iris in the eye, the same voiceprint, or the same fingerprint. And I then breathed into him the breath of life and that breath of life would last forever. Once your spirit and soul are born into life, they will never end. Conceived and then breathed. My Word is God-breathed (theopneustos (θεόπνευστος): God-breathed, from “theós,” which means God and “pneo,” which means to breathe out). 2 Timothy 3:16. My breath is in My Word. And so is yours.
Each person is similar in their appearance to Me, but each is unique from Me and one another. And then from the flesh I had already made so intricately, I took and formed the woman, the bride, from the man, the bridegroom. And though unique they fit together as one to be creators like Me of those in their own image and likeness.
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them Man in the day when they were created. When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth. Genesis 5:1-3.
I produced a family by the Words of My mouth and the work of My hands and your flesh had eternal life in it. I formed you to physically renew and never to wear out or die. But you formed of the earth to rule upon the earth. But you came out of Me. And I gave you authority over the earth to rule over the works of My hands.
But I want you to understand dominion authority. I talked to you about this in our Life Lessons about the conversations of Jesus with His disciples, and through them to you, about the abiding life of the branch in the vine. Though the branch produces the fruit upon the earth, its source of supply and the character of the fruit it produces come from the vine to which it is attached. Neither one produces without the other, but the vine is the source. Without the vine’s supply the branch has no life in it or ability to produce. I am your source and supply. And I am unlimited in what I have and what I have conceived within Me. I speak and things come forth, My Word made everything visible from invisible substance. I call those things that be not as though they be and they are. Why? I conceive them in My Spirit deep within Me and they generate into My Word which I send forth to achieve the purpose for which I sent it and the power of My Spirit hovering to hear My Word, brings it into manifestation. And My Words of promise and power will work if you say them as well for I watch over My Word to perform it and My Spirit is hovering in and over you who are in Jesus. If you plant My Word in your heart and speak it out with faith and do that Word, you will have the promise in it. It will not return to Me void but will accomplish the purpose for which I sent it. My Words are your lifeline for they bring unlimited supply.
What Adam did was he cut himself off from Me as his source and submitted himself to a lie in place of My truth. He rejected My Words, which gave him his source, and went with the words of a creature who lied to him who had nothing within him to produce what he promised.
Lies are perishable and Adam received the implanted word of the devil, so that Satan, like happened to Judas, entered his heart and ran his life from then on and the lives of his descendants until two people broke out and came back to their source by making Covenant with Me. I am speaking of Noah and Abraham, but most particularly of Abraham.
Adam cut himself off from Me and in that way had no source and seeking his living out of the earth became painful toil, which it was never meant to be. It was meant to be fruitful joy in the works of your hands drawing all you needed at every moment from, in, and through Me. And you are with Me always and all I have is freely yours as a never ending supply forever as I lavish My grace upon you.
And all creation was made to respond to you and work with you and never against you. But Adam ended that heavenly flow into his life by rejecting My Word as his source. But still I was a source to him in a general way as I am to all people. I made the earth and all that is in it. Everything you have comes from the work of My hands and the Word of My mouth. You would have no means of support if I did not give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, And cause crops to grow and the earth to produce. It is only Me that has a source of unending supply in Me. Everything that man or the devil does is using what I made and make. There is no other source.
I shine My sun on the good and the bad and send rain on the just and the unjust, but it is very different for those who come under My jurisdiction and link with Me by covenant, it is there My tender mercies flow and the delights at My right hand forever. For when I open My hand you are filled with good things. Miracles, signs, and wonders follow My Word and are for My children, not the dogs.
Adam linked with the devil as his master by submitting to his lies and giving his dominion authority to him, but he had linked to a dry source. The devil supplies his children by stealing what is Mine through the dominion authority of the man he has taken captive to do his will but from within himself he can offer you nothing. That is why the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous. They took what is Mine and is meant for you who are in Covenant with Me. The devil is the thief who comes only to steal, kill, and destroy. But I come in Jesus to bring you life in abundance until overflows with all that is good. Every good thing given and perfect gift is from Me, coming from My Kingdom above. Many align with the devil thinking he can give them what the want in the world better than I can but this is a lie from hell that takes you captive to do his will and amass things for him that are Mine. What he offers you is not lasting and will degrade your fruitfulness to do good works that endure to bless you and all people.
But I give you a way back to the Eden blessing and to the source of all. I conceived you and birthed you to be enjoying all through your connection to Me, but above all for a relationship of fellowship, partnership, and covenant with Me where our communication is constant and unhindered and your wisdom, skill, and success are a result of your tapping into My depths of all good things, all wisdom, and all solutions that become yours, your way of thinking and seeing, through, with, and in Me. You are to live in Me in the place of answers. This is a level far beyond where most of you are walking but by now, after all these years with the treasure of My Spirit in you who believe and the revelation of Myself to you in Jesus, you should be far beyond where you are. But the problem is rote, tradition, and the lies of the world keep you from the reality of who I am and what I have done for you in Jesus.
I draw you to Myself through Jesus. You were in Me from the time I conceived you and were meant to be with Me and in Me, going forth from Me and returning to Me in an amazing life of creative fruitfulness using Me as your source forever.
So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. John 10:7-10.
Read this and Psalm 23 and you will see who I am to you. I never want you to lack or want. I supply for all your needs as I lead you to pleasant pastures and healing waters of peace. If you wander into a dark valley of the shadow of death, I come to your aid and lead you out to a table of plenty right in front of your enemies. I anoint your head with the oil of joy and give you the helmet of salvation, the mind of Christ, and overflow you cup with good things and living water leaping up in you to eternal life. And you are to dwell with Me in My house forever.
I prepare a life of good deeds for you in advance with all the supplies you need in place. You see this in My call to build and furnish My amazing tabernacle in the wilderness so that the people and I traveled and did everything together as One on the way to the promised land. And it was to continue as a flow of blessing from Me to them for the rest of their lives and that of their children and their children’s children as they stayed in My Word and acted in accordance with such wisdom and life. But they rebelled over and over and went after idols that could not supply for them.
I gave Moses the plans in a time of deep fellowship and friendship with Me, in fact, I revealed to him all the events of creation and of the patriarchs so that he was able to write the book of Genesis though he had not experienced it in the flesh, but I showed him in the spirit and we became friends. I made him a man of great works, astounding miracles taking place at his hands in his covenant walk with Me. But I could not have done it without him and he could not have done it without Me. Our power and position were very different for I was the source and direction of it all, but he was the one that released it into the earth. And he was the one that received the reward for doing it and bringing a great deliverance like had never been before and would never be again.
But back to the tabernacle. I supplied the people with extravagant wealth as they departed Egypt even though they had been slaves for 400 years and should have left with nothing. But I gave them favor with their masters and they despoiled Egypt so that the wealth the wicked had amassed from the slavery of My people was returned to them doubled and tripled and they left rich in flocks, herds, and goods. And not a feeble or sick one among them for the journey after partaking of the Passover Lamb.
And then I asked them to contribute their riches to the building of My dwelling tent among them and they freely gave of what I had given them until Moses told them to stop as their was an overabundance of supplies (like the twelve baskets full left over when Jesus multiplied the bread and the fish), for giving to Me never lessens you, it only increased you for more giving and receiving.
And then I gave skill and wisdom in all crafts and engineering for the execution of the plans to make the tabernacle a reality. They received the vision that Moses wrote down and ran with it and enjoyed the wonderfully creative project with the skill from My Spirit for there was no one to teach them the skills of artistic weavers, sculpturers, metal workers, engravers, pattern making and fashioning of fine garments, jewelers, perfumers, and the like in the wilderness but My Spirit teaches you all things and reminds you of all that I said.
But I have wandered from the return cycle. I draw you to Jesus so that in Him you are cleansed and made righteous of all sin in His live giving death and resurrection (for I accounted all your sins to Him and He took your sentence and satisfied it in giving His eternal life in the flesh for the one that you lost), in Him you die to sin and in Him I raise you to new life as a new creation in Christ made righteous with My own righteousness, and with all hindrance of sin gone as if it had never been in your life, I draw you clothed in Him back into Me forever to again live in the sweet fellowship of love. Abide in My love, love without limits is My covenant with you in Jesus, enduring forever, holy, faithful and true.
Do you know Me in all the beauty of the holiness with which you now shine in Me? I want you to know this Oneness with Me that nothing on earth can even come close to for joy and peace beyond understanding so that rooted and grounded in love you are filled with all My fullness and the delights at My right hand forever.
This makes everything that does not line up with My Word of reconciliation, healing, and peace a mockery of who I really am to you and who you are to Me. Many doctrines of men do not line up with My Word. And the things they say are pleasing to Me actually keep you at a distance from who I am putting a dividing wall between us and turning you into resentful whining beggar like the elder brother in the parable of the prodigal son.
This teaching is the introduction to tomorrow’s conversation of Jesus with the scribes and the Pharisee who came to criticize God incarnate because His disciples did not ceremoniously do the washing prescribed in their tradition for your hands before the eating of meals.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others. You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel! Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence. Matthew23:23-25.
Watch where you are putting the emphasis in your life and stop wasting your time on things that are not fruitful. They are not from Me. Make sure you are tapped into the true source.
I love you, come share your master’s joy.