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. 2 Corinthians 5:20.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
To know My plan for your life, you must first know who I am, what My Will is for the earth, and who you are in Me. My plan for every person is fourfold and is the same but as to how you carry the fourfold plan out in the path of life I prepared for you beforehand that you should walk in it depends on the time and place in which you are operating. You may very well be called to save a nation who knew you not, Isaiah 55:5, but even though Esther had that same calling, the way she walked it out would be entirely different for her time and place than it is for your time and place today.
There is an appointed time for everything under the sun and it is good if you discern the signs of the times. And if you have noticed the fig tree (Israel) is blooming again.
Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. And then He will send forth the angels, and will gather together His elect from the four winds, from the farthest end of the earth to the farthest end of heaven. “Now learn the parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near. Even so, you too, when you see these things happening, recognize that He is near, right at the door. Mark 13:26-29.
So it is time for you to be busy so I can reward you upon My return. Jesus was busy about My business and the affairs of the Kingdom during His entire sojourn upon the earth and you will find the same fourfold plan I have for you was the plan He lived as well. He is the way, the truth and the life. No follower of His will ever walk in darkness, no never, for you will have the Light of life.
First know that which we have already covered in these life lessons, that I am love and who I am is My purpose. It is the same for you. I made you in My image and according to My likeness so you also are love, and even though through Adam and Eve you separated yourselves from Me and became hostile to Me, and thus to love, and were trapped in the realm of darkness with no way out, I rescued you out of the realm of darkness and qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light. How did I do that? The plan of Salvation. I sent My Son as one like you but sinless and with an eternal life to give in the flesh for the one you lost in the flesh, for sin is of the flesh and you are now of the spirit in Him.
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. Ephesians 5:21.
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Romans 8:1-4.
The earth, in My plan, was the place of the test. What test? To see what was in your heart. I gave you a choice life or death, blessing or cursing. And the one you choose shows whether there is love or hate, forgiveness or unforgiveness, goodness or evil in your heart. Only those whose hearts go after life, love, forgiveness, and goodness can operate in union with Me forever. How can two walk together unless they agree? I cannot have the Kingdom of Light where love reigns entered by anything that is foreign to that atmosphere of goodness. There are those who have chosen to go to the realm of darkness, trapped in hate and unforgiveness forever. But the fact that you are reading this means your heart is tuned the other way, that is, heavenward.
Now, the reason I allow the evil and the good together in the earth is because there is always room for repentance and change. It is NOT My Will that any should perish but that all would repent, be saved and come to know the truth. We have discussed this in prior life lessons but just by way of review. Here is My Will for all people:
First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2:1-4.
Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers. For I was very glad when brethren came and testified to your truth, that is, how you are walking in truth. I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth. 3 John 1:2-4.
But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. 9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:8-9.
All these are found in Jesus, for there is no other name given among men by which you are saved. Acts 4:12. He is the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to Me but through Him for He alone paid your judgment (an eternal life in the flesh for the eternal life you lost in Adam and thus all his seed was corrupted by planting a lie in his spirit, which is perishable, in place of the seed of My imperishable Word) and satisfied your sentence (went to the dust of death and hell for you). You must receive the gift I give you in Jesus of eternal life or you are still in your sins. A gift must be received to be completed.
So My Will for all people is to receive Jesus as Lord so I can qualify you for your inheritance in My Kingdom of Light.
When you receive Jesus, you are regenerated by My Spirit by the implantation of the imperishable seed of My Word in your spirit in place of the lie of the devil so that you are born again as a new creation once again in My image and according to My likeness unto eternal life. You are empowered again to bear much fruit that will endure and bless you and every person on earth, proving you are My disciple.
But you may be thinking since you are now saved and sealed by My Spirit in Christ forever that you might as well leave the testing ground and go right into the Kingdom. But that is not My immediate Will for you because the gift you have received you must now freely give for I have no other ambassadors on earth than those who have been saved and reconciled to Me through Jesus for Jesus is no longer on earth. I sent Him to seek and save the lost and so as I sent Him He now sends you.
“Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. John 20:21-22.
Now let Me tell you the fourfold mission that is My plan for you just as it was for Jesus but yours is somewhat different, for now Jesus is your great High Priest.
Plan is for you to be fruitful branches on the Vine of Jesus and He has told you how that is carried out:
Jesus prayed that I would not take you out of the world but that you would stay in the world though you were not to be of the world but of My Kingdom. And I told you exactly what that meant:
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. 2 Corinthians 5:17-20.
- Ambassadors with a ministry of reconciliation to the homeland.
An ambassador goes to a country which is not his homeland to represent his country there and create good relations. His homeland supports, protects, and provides for all the care and supplies, including a beautiful place to live, that he needs delivered to him in the foreign country. He is not worried if he is in a poor country where people are in abject poverty for it is not like that for him. He is in that country but not of that country and he is not bound by its limitations.
I have made you who are the body of Christ in the world a very particular kind of ambassador. You have a ministry of reconciliation in that you are to bring all in the foreign land to salvation in Jesus and make them born again citizens of your homeland, which is the Kingdom of Heaven. You are bringing those among whom you are stationed out of darkness into My marvelous light to the praise of My glory.
Next Jesus is very clear about what you were to do as His representative and body in the world once you were clothed with the power from on High, that is, the baptism in the Holy Spirit.
Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, “Which,” He said, “you heard of from Me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority; but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.” Acts 1:4-8.
- Witnesses to Jesus
From where you are to the ends of the earth you are to show My love and light to the world in telling the good news of the gospel of Salvation in Jesus. You are to show them by your personal knowledge of Me the joy of My love and what it is like to experience My love every moment of the day and night. Testify to who I am and what I have done for everyone in Jesus. He paid the ransom for ALL.
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it. “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.” John 14:12-17.
- Indwelt by My Spirit and the Mystery of Christ in You, Your hope of Glory, You are to do the works Jesus did and greater.
Just as Jesus sent His disciples with His authority to heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons, and preach the good news so now He sends you in the full authority He won by His life, death, resurrection and ascension to glory, where I seated you with Him, to do the works He did and greater in His Name and by the power of My Spirit in you and on you.
These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” Mark 16:17-18.
And these signs follow My Word as you teach and preach it just as they did for Jesus.
And what is the greater work? You can lead people in the prayer of salvation so they are born again from above as a new creation. Jesus could not do that while on earth because He had not died for your sins yet so the wall of sin and separation still was a rift between us that you could not cross on your own. Thus, the work of reconciliation, which is now complete.
And there is one more to make the fourfold and it has to do with His anointing by the Holy Spirit as a priest forever according to Melchizedek when He returned to Me in Heaven to now sit upon the throne reserved for man.
Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood—and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. Revelation 1:5-6.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 1 Peter 2:9-10.
- The Royal Priesthood of Intercessory Prevailing Prayer
You are now given the great office of the royal priesthood which I foretold to the Israelites as the desire of My heart when I brought them out of Egypt on eagle’s wings as a Covenant people to be My own special treasure though the whole earth is Mine. They were to be a light to the nations, calling in the gentiles to join them in the oneness of My Word and My Covenant. But they broke My Covenant and were unfaithful, going to other gods, idols of gold and silver. So I made one tribe that was more loyal than the others to be My priesthood to minister to Me and the people but they failed at that as well. But now the royal priesthood is instated in the New Covenant in Jesus and will not fail for your great High Priest ever lives to make intercession for you. And I have invited you to come with Him as the High Priest of your words that are in perfect agreement with His to My throne to receive mercy for all the nations and to find grace for wondrous solutions, signs and wonders right in the Holy of Holies before Me. I watch over My Word to perform and your prayers in union with His each morning and evening are taking down strongholds that the devil has entrenched in the nations he has plunged into darkness, poverty, and pain, sending in light, lifting up Jesus, and getting My Will done in the earth. Prayer is the most powerful of all in changing stony hearts to hearts open to My Spirit.
And remember, besides making intercession and offering the blood of the lamb at the mercy seat, the priests went out to teach the people My Word so they could keep it and be fruitful. And so should you.
I have put My Words in your mouth and My Spirit in and on you so that you can be just as Jesus was while on earth:
You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him. Acts 10:38.
It is all prepared and waiting for you to advance in your fourfold plan for as He is so are you in this world in Spirit and truth.
I love you. Do not be conformed to this world with its darkness, peril, and limitations, instead be transformed by the renewal of your mind in My Word to know who you are in Jesus and the plan for your life and then I can conform you to the image of My Son who, like Me, is Love and Light.