How lovely are Your dwelling places, O LORD of hosts! Psalm 84:1.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
I want to make your life beautiful, the most beautiful life ever lived and I do that by making you My dwelling place as a new creation in Christ. My dwelling places are lovely. Psalm 84:1. They are majestic.
Splendid and majestic is His work, and His righteousness endures forever. Psalm 111:3.
What is man that You take thought 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! Psalm 8:4-5.
They are magnificent.
It is high and magnificent; the whole earth rejoices to see it! Mount Zion, the holy mountain, is the city of the great King! Psalm 48:2.
Seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. 2 Peter 1:3-4.
They are beautiful beyond all you can ask or imagine.
“Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love Him.” For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. 1 Corinthians 2:9-10.
Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21.
And that is how you look in your spirit that is born again from above.
Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are. 1 Corinthians 3:16-17.
And this is not by your power, hard work, or might but by the power of My Spirit in you and on you. Your part is to believe in My gift to you of Jesus, to receive all I have done for you in Him by faith, and let Me work in you by My Spirit as you walk it out.
“This is the Word of the Lord to Zerubbabel saying, ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the LORD of hosts. ‘What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain; and he will bring forth the chief stone with shouts of “Grace, grace to it!”’” Zechariah 4:6-7.
It is yours by grace through faith. Grace is My divine life in you by My Spirit dwelling in your spirit to will and to do within what will, if you yield to My Spirit, manifest outwardly as well, making your life beautiful inside and out.
All of you like sheep had gone astray since Adam, each of you had turned to your own way, which was no longer My beautiful, majestic way of lovingkindness, but in My great love for you whom I planned from everlasting to everlasting and made to be awesome, amazing, glorious, and lovely, strong in dominion authority to steward the earth and My works therein, My heart flowed with mercy and compassion for what you had fallen to. I was not going to let you all leave Me unto the realm of darkness and eternal death. I made you to rule and reign with Me as One in love, purpose, and works of excellence and power. When you fell away from My truth with which I made you, I had a plan, a beautiful plan, that was the cornerstone and foundation upon which the earth was built and the only reason that Adam’s sin and fall to corruption did not totally destroy the earth by its rebellion against him who had rejected the Creator.
For the land has become defiled, therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land has vomited out its inhabitants. Leviticus 18:25.
For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him (Adam) who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. Romans 8:19-22.
I announced the plan in the Garden of Eden after the fall of man. One like you would come to rescue you from darkness and bring you back into My marvelous light, born of a woman, but not from Adam’s now corrupted seed but born again from above by the seed of My eternal Word. When Adam pulled out of his heart the seed of My implanted Word of truth by which he was to grow in dominion authority and eternal security, he planted instead the corruptible seed of a lie, and lies are not eternal like truth, they perish, you cannot live a lie and have eternal life in you, you will perish. And in that way death entered the world in Adam and through him descended to all born of his line.
But, even when you were dead in your transgressions, I sent My Son, who is one with Me as God, to take flesh, joining humanity with divinity again and this time joining divinity to humanity as well, reconciling us as one forever. And I caused the iniquity of you all to fall on Him. The Lamb of the sin offering, burnt offering, peace offering, grain offering, and guilt offering. I accounted all sin to Him and He paid your judgment and satisfied your sentence of condemnation. And when all was more than paid, I raised Him from the dead as the first born again man and the first fruits of you who believe. When He died to sin once for all, you died with Him by substitution, and when I raised Him from the dead with all sins gone, I raised you with Him with all your sins gone. And He took back the throne of the son of man at My right hand that Adam had abdicated to the devil and kicked the devil out of Heaven.
And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night. And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death. For this reason, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has only a short time.” Revelation 12:9-12.
You were dead to Me in your sins and trespasses but I made you alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised you up with Him, and seated you with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come I might show the surpassing riches of My grace in kindness toward you in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is My gift to you; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. For you are My masterpiece, created anew in Christ Jesus for good works, which I prepared beforehand so that you would walk in them. Ephesians 2:5-10.
And I did all this for one reason, My love for you. I want to be your God and have you as My people. I want to dwell with you to be there for you and share in all your achievements as we do the works of the Kingdom together. I want you to reign with Me in life forever. And I have made this available to you in Christ Jesus your Lord.
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.
If you look at the end from the beginning, at the end of the Bible you see Me creating new heavens and earth for you and giving you authority to rule and reign with Me forever as I make My permanent abode with you, right in your midst, and you are constantly with Me and I with you and there will be no death, mourning, crying or pain.
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.” Revelation 21:1-4.
And if you look at the beginning of the Bible you see Me creating the heavens and earth for you and giving man dominion authority over the works of My hands, conceiving you all in My heart to come forth at your appointed times as My own people in My image and according to My likeness. And I was with the first man and woman constantly in the beautiful and abundant garden I had planted for them and there was no death, mourning, crying or pain.
It comes full circle back to Me and your true home. But the second time it will never end and you can never fall again. All who enter the Kingdom with Me at the end of time as you know it are there because they chose to embrace Me by faith, loved and kept My Word, and were My dwelling places, that is, they had My Spirit in them, the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead is in you to raise you up to be with Me forever in a totally new and glorified body not formed of the dust of the earth but of the substance of Heaven which is truth and is forever. I teach you truth in your inward parts by My Spirit in you and on you. And all in My Kingdom are of one heart and one mind with Me and one another, tried and true, you have proved faithful. You have become Love and are ready to live forever in Love. Heaven is union and communion where we all share the same vision, love, purpose, power and know shalom in all its fullness.
But no one goes to My dwelling place for eternity that has not become My dwelling place in time upon the earth. Even the souls waiting in Abraham’s bosom in paradise had to be born again and filled with My Spirit to enter the Kingdom. And as you know they were. Jesus went to paradise to raise them all up with Him when He came home to Me, they came with Him. Heaven was not open to anyone until Jesus died on the Cross and rose again.
Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born, can he?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” John 3:3-5.
Those who kept My Word and were covered on credit by the blood of the lamb under the Old Covenant were waiting in Eden (which had descended under the earth) until Jesus opened the gates of Heaven to men again. He is the gate for the sheep.
I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I made it go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the earth beneath. Ezekiel 31:16.
Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried. In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.’ But Abraham said, . . . between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.’ Luke16:22-25.
And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit. And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth shook and the rocks were split. The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared to many. Matthew 27:50-53.
But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore it says, “When He ascended on high, He led captive a host of captives, and He gave gifts to men.” Now this expression, “He ascended,” what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things. Ephesians 4:7-10.
For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits in prison. 1 Peter 3:18-19.
But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. Romans 8:11.
In Him, 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.
I love you. You are most blessed to be born at such a time as this, the age of grace. It is a beautiful time when the Kingdom is yours and My Spirit is dwelling in you who believe. When you believed in the good news of your salvation and confessed Jesus as Lord beautiful things happened in your spirit and I sealed you in Christ with My Spirit, forever. How lovely are My dwelling places! And that is every believer. And My glorious Kingdom is open, the King of glory has come in and all of you with Him. In spirit you are already there and soon you will be there in your glorified body! Hasten the day by sharing the good news! Be My witnesses, be My ambassadors, be my light to the nations! Gather the whole world in My love.