And Jesus said to him, “‘If You can?’ All things are possible to him who believes.” Mark 9:23.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
When I look at you, I always see what I made you to be. I see a champion—a hero with the strength of an entire army. Judges 6:12. I see you as one I highly esteem and who is greatly beloved by Me. Daniel 9:23; Daniel 10:11. I see you as filled with grace and highly favored in My eyes. Luke 1:28; Ephesians 1:6. I see you as precious. Isaiah 43:4. I see you as the one I love. 1 John 4:10-11. I see you as more than a conqueror. Romans 8:37.
Do you remember My greeting to Gideon as he hid from the Midianites and hurled blame at Me for the situation? “The LORD is with you, O valiant (gibbor (גִּבּוֹר): mighty, strong, warrior, hero) warrior (Chayil (חַיִל): strength, valor, army, wealth, capability).” Judges 6:12. At first he rejected that he was able to do anything against the enemy, holding himself in small esteem and not holding Me in much esteem either. But once he understood that I was with him to give him the power and the battle strategies that gave him victory, he became just what I had called him—a hero with the strength of an army. And together he and I defeated the enemy and rescued Israel.
I called Abraham the father of many nations. And he became that. I called Simon the name Peter, the rock, and he became the unshakeable leader of the early community of believers. I called Saul the name Paul and he became My fearless preacher.
What made all those people change? Faith. They began to see themselves as I saw them. They saw themselves in the light of My love. In the mirror of My Word. In My light you see light.
For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light. Psalm 36:9.
Often people are thinking they must cajole, beg, and cause Me to change My opinion of them to get what they want, but that is not the case. I have high regard for you, so much so that I gave My Son for you.
If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Romans 8:31-32.
I do not define love as your love for Me, I define it as My love for you.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 1 John 4:10.
To be far from oppression, to be open to receiving all I want to give you, you must see things as I do.
“The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, and the oracle of the man whose eye is opened, the oracle of him who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, yet having his eyes uncovered.” Numbers 24:15-16.
And if you recall, Balak, king of Moab, had brought Balaam to curse the Israelites but Balaam could not curse what I had blessed. And I have blessed every person from the beginning to the end of time. The only one that can let the curse into your life is you. And it comes by disobedience, which is the result of a lack of faith in My Word.
With Me all things are possible, but you can only receive as much as you believe. Even though I long to give you every good thing and every perfect gift if you do not believe I will give you those things, you will block My ability to do so.
If you live under a lie, you will perish. Lies cannot give eternal life. To have eternal life you must have the truth. That is why I desire that all people be saved AND COME TO KNOW THE TRUTH. That is why I desire that you prosper and are in good health even as your soul prospers and your soul prospers only one way: by walking in the truth.
If you want to receive the good things I have for you and all the fullness of what I have freely given you, then you must let Me define you by My Word as written in the Bible, not the world, your flesh, and the devil, and I can do great things with you, but if you hold onto human traditions that glorify sickness and poverty as holy you will not let Me heal, prosper, or lead you out of darkness into My own marvelous light.
“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 . . . thus invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that.” Mark 7:6-13.
I call sickness and poverty curses, why would I want you to seek these things?
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days. Deuteronomy 30:19-20.
And yet many who have hearts towards Me are misled by their traditions to seek these things as holy and pleasing in My sight and even take vows to live in poverty. But they are not pleasing to Me anymore than they would be to any parent for their children.
Another way you limit Me taking you to your high calling is holding up past sins that you have repented of and confessed to Me as if they were not forgiven. Thus you will block yourself from receiving My promises and blessings. And then you reason it was because I did not want to bless you.
In the case of Abraham, Sarah, Joshua, Gideon, Hannah, Samuel, Elizabeth and Mary it was essential for them to see the potential as the current reality. In other words, to believe in the good ending from the beginning.
Now I want you to consider another way you limit Me and block Me from showering you with blessings and taking you to works of excellence. This does not just rest on how you see yourself, it rests on how you see Me. How you see Me is who you allow Me to be to you. How you see Me is who I can be to you. David is a very good example of this. Listen to the opening of Psalm 18:
“I love You, O LORD, my strength.” The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies. Psalm 18:1-3.
I am all those things and for David I could be all those things. That was the way He saw Me and thus he had faith for those things and he was never once defeated or hurt in any of the many battles he fought, even against the giant Goliath. He knew I was for him and on his side no matter what. And I could do that for him as I desired because he had the faith for that. You can only receive as much as you believe.
This I know, that God is for me. In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise, in God I have put my trust, I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me? Psalm 56:9-11.
He knew I loved him, and not only loved him, but liked him. 1 Chronicles 28:4.
And another aspect of this is that I will judge you on how you respond to the standard you set. Remember I judge you fairly because I am able to see the thoughts and intentions of your heart, even if you did not know the truth, if your intentions towards Me were loving and pure, like those who beat themselves and lived in poverty out of love for Me, even though it was not the truth or what My Will was for their life they still had zealous hearts for Me. This was true of Paul (then Saul) and so I revealed My Son to him. And when you cling to Me in love, I show you My Yeshuah (Jesus).
“Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name. He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him, and show him My salvation (Yeshuah).” Psalm 91:14-16.
Jesus told the parable of the talents (minas) the master left for his servants to invest. Two of the three got busy being fruitful but one of them buried his talent and did nothing with it. And he explained to the master why he did that. And though what he said about the master was not true, it was what that servant believed to be true and yet he disobeyed what he thought of the master openly and without shame. He blamed the oppressive quality he saw in the master requiring him to be fruitful with his master’s money when he saw that as not profiting him as the reason he had not invested it. That is disrespect and rebellion. And he was wrong because the master rewarded the ones who had invested with authority over cities!
“And so it was that when he returned, having received the kingdom, he then commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading. Then came the first, saying, ‘Master, your mina has earned ten minas.’ And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant; because you were faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.’ And the second came, saying, ‘Master, your mina has earned five minas.’ Likewise he said to him, ‘You also be over five cities.’ Then another came, saying, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have kept put away in a handkerchief. For I feared you, because you are a severe man. You collect what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’ And he said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was a severe man, collecting what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow. Why then did you not put my money in the bank, so that at my coming I might have collected it with interest?’ And he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to him who has ten minas.’ But they said to him, ‘Master, he has ten minas.’ ‘For I say to you, that to everyone who has will be given; and from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.’” Luke 19:15-26.
Expect great things from Me and you will receive great things from Me. That is a great pleasure for Me for I have in truth given you the Kingdom. Expect little from Me, and receive little from Me. Why? Because that is all you have room for.
“I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you.” John 16:12-15.
David said I overflowed his cup. Maybe you need to enlarge your cup, you contain all of Me by My Spirit in your earthen vessel. I have made you a vessel of honor. Do you see yourself that way? Do you see unlimited capacity? Love without limits is My Covenant with you, enduring forever, holy, faithful and true. Love without limits is My Covenant with you.
I love you. Be faithful in little things and then I can help you expand to greater and greater things.
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.