Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 2 Corinthians 5:17.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
I want to make your life beautiful, the most beautiful life ever lived. To have a beautiful life your life must be eternal, it must be free from the burden of sin, and it must be Spirit filled. And these three things only come to you in One way and that is IN CHRIST.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” John 14:6.
I make your life beautiful in Christ. I gave Him to you as a gift so that you can live your life through Him. 1 John 4:9. I beautify the lowly with Salvation, which is the word “Yeshuah” in Hebrew in which the Old Testament was written.
For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the afflicted ones with salvation (ישׁוּעָה). Psalm 149:4.
I named My Son “Yeshuah (ישׁוּעָה),” which means “Salvation” and that is who He is to you in every area and situation of your life.
But when he had considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for the Child who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” Matthew 1:20-21.
You are born again from above as My child by faith in Christ and when you were baptized into Christ, you clothed yourself in Christ. Galatians 3:25-26. I have clothed you in the garments of Salvation and the robe of Righteousness. Isaiah 61:10.
When Adam rejected My Word, he rejected Me as His Lord. I am My Word. And when he rejected My Word of imperishable truth and submitted his life to the lies of the devil, as in the parable of the sower sowing the seed of My Word, the devil stole the seed of My Word out of his heart and planted his seed, which being a lie was perishable and subject to death. This was the parable of the weeds and the wheat that My Son told.
Adam exchanged the truth in his heart for a lie. Lies are not eternal but perish so that was then Adam’s destiny. He did not repent and he perished. My Son told the questioning crowds, if you don’t repent you will likewise perish. Why? Factually (temporal) you were born of the corrupted seed of Adam, but once you repent (confess and leave behind your old temporal way of thinking and renew your mind with the truth of My Word) you will not perish but have eternal life. How? You are born again from above, that is, the imperishable seed of My Word was received into your heart. Repentance is pulling out the lies you have lived by and turning entirely to My Word. If you confess your sins and leave them behind for newness of life in Me, you are cleared completely as if you have never sinned.
When Christ died to sin once for all, you died with Him by faith in Him, and when I raised Him from the dead, I raised you up with Him and seated you with Him at My right hand in Heaven in your inner spirit of the heart.
I made Jesus who was sinless to be sin by accounting all your sins to Him and punishing them justly on Him. In exchange you received the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness. You are made righteous with My righteousness in Christ.
When you believe in your heart that I raised Jesus from the dead to your justification and you confess Jesus as Lord with your mouth you are saved and made righteous. For believing the truth of My Words in your heart makes you right with Me and speaking My Words with your mouth brings you salvation in every situation.
When you submit to My Word, the good news of your salvation, you are born again through the birth canal of the imperishable seed of My Word spoken in truth. 1 Peter 1:23. You are regenerated by the Holy Spirit into a new creation in Christ and the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come. 2 Corinthians 5:17; Titus 3:5. Though you are still in the world, you are no longer of the world. John 17:15-16. You are now born again as My child and you are a born again citizen of My Kingdom. John 1:12; Philippians 3:20. You are no longer under the jurisdiction of Satan, the domain of darkness, but you are under My jurisdiction, the Kingdom of My beloved Son, who is the light of the world. Colossians 1:13; John 8:12.
Before being born again, you were under the jurisdiction of the law of sin and death but now you are under the jurisdiction of the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1-2. By receiving Jesus and being born again, you have passed from death to life. John 5:24. Sin is no longer your master for you are now under grace. Romans 6:14. So you must start speaking the right law and no longer speak the lies of the kingdom of darkness over your body, your home, your family and your territory if you want the benefits of My Kingdom to manifest in your life. Stop speaking death and speak life, it is there for you who are in Christ Jesus. Proverbs 18:21; Deuteronomy 30:19.
In Jesus you have eternal life by the blood, the water, and the Spirit. By the blood of Jesus all your sins are cleansed away and it is as if you never sinned. So that burden is lifted and you can have a beautiful life going forward with you assignment for this world. But to do that you must be filled with the Spirit. But to be filled you must make room, that is, throw out the clutter of your old mindset and be able to soar with My Spirit in the flow of abundant grace.
When you restore a painting that has faded and become a mere remembrance of the vibrant beauty it had originally as the artist’s initial inspiration and image, you have to strip it first of all the filth and then bring it back to the vibrancy and life it had when first created. And that is what we must do for you to restore you to My image and according to My likeness as a new creation in Christ. For the restored painting is actually a new creation of the original.
Your mind needs the cleansing water of the Word and then you need to feed on the milk, the meat, and the honey of My Word to produce the fruit of the new creation, which is thirty (good, the milk only), sixty (pleasing, the meat stage of solid food), and one hundredfold (perfect, the honey of the Word, the highest stage of spiritual growth when all becomes sweet to you and this is the beauty of the abundant life Jesus came to give you). At the hundredfold stage My Word is the joy and delight of your heart. It is the mountain moving, storm calming, dead raising, and miracle working faith that My Son is looking for to bring the glory of the Kingdom to the earth. He can work with that kind of faith. It is that stage of growth where I can reveal My secrets and plans to you and know you will be in agreement with Me and faithful to see it through with My grace. Not like Adam, but like Jesus. Not the old man, but the new Man.
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. John 15:7.
That describes the honey stage. And the result? One hundredfold.
My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. John 15:8.
So what must you do? Three things: selective thinking, new upbringing, and joyful singing.
Let us go over each one so you can do them:
- Selective thinking is needed on your part to make your life beautiful. Select the thoughts upon which you will permit your mind to dwell and cast down all others. If thoughts that present themselves to you cause you to fear, to worry, to lust, to be resentful, to be bitter, to hate, and to complain and cry, these are not thoughts you want to keep and dwell upon. They will cause your mind to fail eventually to shut them down and cause illness in your inner parts. I have already given you how to do this and a list of what to think upon so let us look at that now:
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:4-7.
First you must stop the thoughts of worry, fear, and anxiety that trouble your mind. Jesus told you how to stop taking the care:
Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ For the unbelievers eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Matthew 6:31-33.
You stop feeding your doubts by dwelling on your needs first and saying them. Instead you put your attention first on Me and My Kingdom by worshipping in Spirit and truth, such as singing Psalm 23, that I am your good Shepherd and I see to it that there is no lack your life. You come and cast all that care on Me to look after EVERYTHING in your life, make your requests known, and then thank Me that I am taking care of whatever it is. Find the promise in My Word that takes care of the need and apply the truth of My Word to the fact and put you mind on the truth that will trump the fact and look for the provision and how I instruct you to find it and apply it.
This is the what I point out to you in that same chapter of Philippians:
And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever. Amen. Philippians 4:19-20.
When a need arises, you do not first set you mind only on the need and worry about the need SAYING “what will I do?” “This is impossible to fix.” Etc. Instead you first lift your heart to Me as YOUR God, then you consider the supply I have available to you now in Christ in My Kingdom, for it has pleased Me to give you the Kingdom, and then you point out the need and thank Me for delivering the supply to take care of it and I will show you where it is and what to do to have what you need. That is simple.
And then I tell you what to think about while you are waiting for the solution to surface in your spirit:
Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell (think) on these things. The things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. Philippians 4:8-9.
You think on the truth of My Word that applies to that need and stop concentrating you attention on the temporal fact of the need. And do not permit thoughts that trouble you and cause you doubt, David sang he wanted to dwell in My house night and day to gaze upon My delightful loveliness and inquire of Me there. So put your thoughts on the excellent and lovely things of My Kingdom that are for you. Keep your thoughts pure and not on the profane so you can be My mouthpiece, as I told Jeremiah, bringing My Kingdom to the earth to work wonders, signs, and miracles. Call in the good things you want not the evil you don’t want. What your mind dwells on you will speak.
- New upbringing: In Christ I have raised you up to a whole new level of life. When He died to sin, so did you who are in Him by substitution, and when I raised Him up with all sin gone, I raised you up in Him and seated you with Him at My right hand in Spirit and truth. In your spirit you are seated above, far above all sin and evil, but in the flesh you are still in the world below but now you walk in newness of life as an ambassador for the Kingdom. And having been born again you have a new life to live as a new creation so you must develop that life and put on the new man in Christ. So how do you grow? On the nourishment of My Word—the milk, the meat, and the honey of the Word. Faith comes by hearing and hearing My anointed Word. My instructions to Joshua are still what will cause you to grow and become more than a conqueror:
This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate 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. Joshua 1:8.
In other words, then you shall be fruitful, very fruitful. These instructions I gave Joshua are like the instructions Jesus gave you also, remain in My Word and let it remain on you like a branch on the vine, drawing all you need from the Vine, and you will bear much fruit, that is prosperous and successful.
Remember your life is mouth controlled, what you are putting in and what you are putting out. And the more of My Word you put into your heart and the more you speak that Word in agreement with Me, the faster you will grow in maturity to the stature of Christ.
- Joyful Singing: (this could also be called “Spirit filling”): Do not seek joy by getting full of wine but get full of the Spirit by speaking to yourself and one another in Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Those on the Highway of Holiness, as told by the prophet Isaiah, are singing joyful songs of praise and thanksgiving, and not softly, they are shouting them in full voice.
A highway will be there, a roadway, and it will be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it, but it will be for him who walks that way, and fools will not wander on it. No lion will be there, nor will any vicious beast go up on it; these will not be found there. But the redeemed will walk there, and the ransomed of the LORD will return and come with joyful singing to Zion, everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. Isaiah 35:8-10.
This seems so simple but it is not that easy to sing songs of joyful praise when it is midnight in a dark, dank prison cell with your feet and arms in chains and everything looks dead and gone. But Paul and Silas dared to put in the Key of David and sing Psalms, hymns, and Spirit sent songs, and they got the result they wanted, all the chains flew off and the prison gates opened, and better still, everyone got saved, the jailer, his household, and all the inmates and the church at Philippi was born.
A beautiful life comes from doing beautiful things in the face of totally contrary facts. But when you sing the truth, the truth will set you free. Joyful singing in the face of circumstances that are anything but joyful is great faith, and that always gets My immediate attention for I watch over My Word to perform it. It never returns to Me void, especially when you return it in song. It matches what I am doing, for I surround you with songs of deliverance.
I love you. When you can sing in a storm, a fiery furnace, and a lions’ den, it means you know something no one else knows, you know Me. And you know that you go out by joy and are led forth with shalom peace that passes all worldly comprehension but makes perfect sense in heavenly wisdom. You know the answer to doing My Will always come down to the Big Three: Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, and give constant thanks for this is your way to the victory of a beautiful life, the most beautiful life ever lived. But to be able to do that, you must know Me. All things are possible to those who believe in My Word, just open your heart and receive.