I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine. He who pastures his flock among the lilies. Song of Songs 6:3.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
What is it that draws you to wanting to know someone? First, you are attracted by their outward appearance (physical appearance and demeanor) or by what they have made (rich, famous, inventions, artistic works, talents, skill, books, songs).
The things in the world, such as mountains, trees, the sunrise and sunset, rivers, waterfalls, lakes, ocean, blue sky, puffy clouds, the stars shining at night—all these can cause people to gaze in awed wonder, so much so they attribute deity to them, such as the Sun God, the Moon God, the Rain God, the Thunder God, and now that people think they are more sophisticated, the Universe. People have done the same with the wondrous creatures I make, such as elephants, cats, snakes, and more, but these I have given you dominion over and they are all the works of My hands. All these things are merely creations of Mine, they operate by laws I set up and cannot do differently. You must look beyond them to the Creator of all, who knows all, and has made all these amazing things that work and function in interaction and intricacy for you, who I made in My image and according to My likeness, to take dominion over and enjoy the works of My hands which are for you.
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.” Genesis 1:26.
So just by seeing what I have made people look for the One who made them. And they know there is more beyond the blue sky and the sun that rises and sets each day, they are looking for a relationship for I am love and so are you.
And that is true of your life on the earth with one another as well. For once attracted by appearance or accomplishments of another, you want to know more, you want a conversation to initiate a closer relationship. You want to get to know them by their words because words reveal who you are in the inner man of the heart.
Once you hear another person’s words you generally know very quickly whether you want to pursue a closer walk with them or not. If they are harsh, rude, judgmental, crude, coarse, boasters, complainers, and the like you will draw back and not pursue them further. If on the other hand they are kind, interested, wise, humble and joyful you will want to know more. But even then it may take a bit longer to discern a scammer, a liar, or someone with evil intentions in the heart. But it will eventually come out, for the mouth speaks from the abundance of the heart. You will know them by their fruit, primarily the fruit of their lips which then produces the fruit of their lives.
Now if they have passed the outward appearance and accomplishment test and the inner words and heart test, you will then draw closer and want that person in your life, whether it be good friends, partners in a business, or in the marriage covenant, you have found what your heart was seeking. You have found true fellowship with a like-minded individual.
The closest relationship between a man and a woman on earth is the covenant of marriage. The two become one in fellowship, possessions, name and companionship. It is a partnership to total commitment where each belongs to the other. And covenant is My idea. Not just for you with another but first and foremost for you with Me.
With a man and woman in the flesh it is a commitment limited to the flesh in this life on earth only and the bond is severed at death. Between you and Me it is a joining of our spirits forever and will never be severed.
“I will espouse you to Me forever. Yes, I will espouse you to Me in righteousness and in justice, in lovingkindness and in compassion, and I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness. Then you will know the LORD.” Hosea 2:19-20.
It is in Covenant that you truly know the other. And what I have joined cannot be separated. When you join with Jesus you become one spirit with Him, and in, with and through Him with Me.
But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. 1 Corinthians 6:17.
How do you treat our marriage? Isaiah 54:5; Isaiah 62:5. Yes, you heard Me correctly.
“I am my Beloved’s and my Beloved is mine.” Song of Songs 6:3.
Do you live it as your possession and do you see yourself as My possession? Listen to My Son in His making Covenant with you, and remember that through, in, and with Him you entered into Covenant with Me:
And when He had taken bread and given thanks, He broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.” Luke 22:19-20.
What is your response? What is your part? The same as the apostle Paul after he met Jesus and through Him came to know My love for him that passed all human understanding.
Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and pleasing and perfect. Romans 12:1-2.
Let Me elaborate here a bit. “By the mercies of God,” here we are referring to coming to My throne of grace with confidence to receive and take possession of what is yours in Christ—My mercies (forgiveness mercy, healing mercy, deliverance mercy, provision mercy, protection mercy, comforting mercy, and health and longevity mercy), which are new every morning, and to find grace (My life in you to give you skill, wisdom, solutions, and inventions) right when needed. So come to Me in confidence and trust in My mercies and present your body as consecrated and set apart for Me, in other words, you have determined to use your dominion authority in partnership with Me to bring about My Will upon earth as in Heaven, which you call signs, wonders and miracles but I call My Will being done on earth. And such is acceptable to Me because in Christ you are holy, blameless, and without blemish or stain before Me by His blood poured out for you and by the washing with water by the Word.
And that is where the next line comes in that tells you how to do this, you must be transformed (metamorphous- like the caterpillar to the butterfly) in your mind to think like Me and not like the world, the flesh and the devil which only walk at the natural level centered on this life in the earth only. Why? So you may prove and enjoy in your life My good and pleasing and perfect will for your life—that is, the milk of the Word that you may grow thereby and be walking in the life of good deeds prepared for you in advance, the meat of the Word that you may discern and prosper and become an overcomer thereby, and the honey of the Word, that you may rest therein and be more than a conqueror every moment of every day and night.
I gave My life to you so you give your life to Me. How did I give My life to you? In Christ. How do you give your life to Me? In Christ.
I was in Christ reconciling you to Myself, so you are in Christ reconciling Me to you.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 2 Corinthians 5:17-21.
And how does this all work? By substitution and exchange.
I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Galatians 2:20.
How are you crucified with Christ? Not by going on the Cross, He did that once for all and perfected all by His one sacrifice of Himself. It is by substitution. He took your sins and died in your place but His payment of the judgment against you is attributed to you.
Consider this, if someone pays off your mortgage debt entirely for you, you now own the house free and clear. Did you pay it with your own money? No, another paid it for you but as far as the debt goes with the company it was owed to it is paid just as if you had paid it. You do not pay for it all over again. It is credited to your account. It is credited to you as righteousness.
When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Colossians 2:13-14.
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace which He lavished on us. Ephesians 1:7-8.
“It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in Me,” I gave you Jesus as a gift that you might live your life through Him. He lives in you, your hope of glory, your perfection and in Him are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. It is not you alone doing things now in your flesh, it is doing them with Him and in Him clothed in His merits and strength.
Consider this, say you are unable to open a jar lid or a bottle. So you put on the rubber kitchen glove with which you wash the dishes, and your hand is then able to grip and open the lid. The glove gave you the strength you needed. I tell you to put your hand in Mine, that I have hold of your hand, and then I tell you to lay your hands on the sick in Jesus’ Name and they will recover. The healing is in My hand but when you partner with Me by putting your hand in Mine you can do the works Jesus did. When you are in His hand, you are in My hand. When you put your hand in His hand, you put your hand in My hand.
In a marriage, everything that each spouse has also belongs to the other. Everything I have is yours, it has pleased Me to give you the Kingdom, it has pleased Me to give you My Son, it has pleased Me to give you My Name, and it has pleased Me through My Son to pour My Spirit into your born again spirit, making you a partaker of the divine nature even in your humanity, making you one with Me. Jesus has joined divinity and humanity in one seamless life.
Spouses give their bodies and their lives to one another. They are no longer just their own.
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20.
I called you in Jesus, you answered in Jesus, and in Jesus we became one. He steps aside and makes Me all in all.
For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ’s at His coming, then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be abolished is death. For He has put all things in subjection under His feet. But when He says, “All things are put in subjection,” it is evident that He is excepted who put all things in subjection to Him. When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all. 1 Corinthians 15:21-28.
But there is much more. Spouses fellowship and partner together. Eve was a suitable partner for Adam. And I have called you to partnership and fellowship with My Son.
God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship (partnership) with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 Corinthians 1:9.
The New Testament was written in Greek, and the original word there is koinonia (κοινωνία), which means fellowship, communion, partnership, or sharing. The Greek word κοινωνία (koinōnía) is most commonly translated into English as “fellowship,” “communion,” “partnership,” or “sharing.” Looking more closely at that word, you get more of the meaning of what I have called you to with Me in Jesus. Fellowship: A close association or relationship, especially one that involves sharing or participation. Communion: A deep sense of togetherness, spiritual union or participation. Partnership: Working together toward a common goal, sharing responsibilities and benefits. And, sharing: The act of having or using something in common with others.
Do you recall when My Son was teaching in His home and a large group of Pharisees and scribes were there and, finding no room to come in, the friends of a crippled man, let him down through the roof to land on his mat right in front of Jesus. Jesus healed him by forgiving his sins. The Pharisees were scandalized that Jesus would forgive sins. But Jesus asked them a question that amazed all, “Which is easier to say, “Your sins are forgiven,” or to say, “Get up and walk?” He called that easy. Why? He would take all your sins and offenses, sickness, disabilities and pain on Himself and pay the judgment for them and release you from them by bearing them in His own body for you. He did all the hard work, you and I have come into the gain.
For man in flesh alone it was impossible to forgive and heal that man, but WITH ME all things are possible for those who belief. Through Christ (I have given Him to you so you can live your life through Him, 1 John 4:9), with Him (you can do nothing without Him but bear much fruit attached to Him), and in Him (in Christ you can do all things) My works can be done on earth as they are in Heaven.
I exercise My power with you as I did with Jesus. As you know, Jesus emptied Himself of His powers as God and came to dwell among you as one like you filled with the Holy Spirit and power to show you the Way, the Truth and the Life to undo the works of the devil. And He pulled you into partnership and fellowship with Me as He was. For as He is, so are you in this world. 1 John 4:16-17, 1 John 4:9-10.
You have dominion authority over your own life and over the earth and you determine whether you will enter into partnership with Me and My Son or with the devil in exercising that dominion.
Do you recall that the people of Nazareth, where Jesus had been reared, rejected as Messiah and had no faith in Him. He could work no miracle there though My power was present to do so. The same is true to today, if you will not join with Me in partnership by faith in My Word, I cannot, though My desire is to do so, perform miracles of healing, provision, and deliverance in your life. You block it by unbelief.
Next time someone accuses Me of not performing My promises in his or her life, you will know right away by their tone and their frustration that they are not in faith and they are not in partnership with Me.
Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. For yet in a very little while, He who is coming will come, and will not delay. But My righteous one shall live by faith; and if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him. But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul. Hebrews 10:35-39.
How about you? Examine yourself to see if you are in the faith.
I love you. I have called you to be My own. You are primary to Me. Am I primary to you? I am My beloved’s, and My beloved is Mine.