Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 2 Corinthians 9:6-7.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
What is important to Me above all other things that I look for in you? There are three things I look for and when I find them in you I know I have found a kindred spirit. I know who are Mine and will never part from Me nor I from you.
If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know; but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him. 1 Corinthians 8:2-3.
When you see Jesus, you see Me, and when you hear Jesus you hear Me. He only spoke My Words and did My works. And what are the three things He told you I am looking for in you? They are three things you find in Me.
First, Jesus was always looking for faith, great faith, in the people who came to Him because they could receive miracles and wonders that I so love to do for you through you when you connect with Me in faith.
“However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?” Luke 18:8.
He would ask people before He reached out to touch them with healing, “Do you believe I can do this for you?” And when they agreed the miracle would happen. Connection by faith. Unless you believe you cannot receive. Remember the people in Nazareth where He had grown up?
And He could do no miracle there except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. And He wondered at their unbelief. Mark 6:5-6.
Jairus who had come to Him in faith to heal his sick daughter, when the report came she had died, Jesus simply said, “Do not fear, just believe.” And Jairus did just that and saw the impossible become possible. Nothing is too wonderful, too hard, or impossible to Me and all things are possible for those who believe that. You see, when you believe you not only receive but you tap into My power, like the woman with the hemorrhage of blood who by faith connected right into the current of healing flowing from My Spirit in My Son. And that same Spirit now resides in the heart of every believer. Tap into your source by faith.
Jesus would monitor people’s faith because then He knew those who would receive and those who would resist. He rejoiced in great faith, such as the centurion who understood the power in My Words spoken even from a great distance to achieve the end for which I send them. But He reprimanded His own disciples for their lack of faith, lost faith, and little faith as they panicked in the storm on the sea though He had told them they were going to the other side with Him. They even accused Him of not caring when they were perishing though He was in the same boat with them. But He stood up and used His faith to calm the storm. Faith in Me and the dominion I have given you in the earth makes you confident and bold to stand up and make things line up with My Word even in your mouth.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing My Word. Once you know I have spoken as to what you are doing or going to receive you will then have the stability to forge ahead with it no matter what gets in the way. You just move the mountain out of your way. When you know I have spoken you have the confidence you need to take down the enemy as you praise Me for the result in joyful songs before you see it. But if you dig your heels in and refuge to budge off My promise you shall reap your harvest in due season.
Faith is a wonderful thing, it turns your life around, it fills your days with beauty and takes away your frown. It turns you into a prophet, telling the good news, that I am here among you, making all things new!
I love faith. It makes you so confident and calm as you walk with Me knowing I am taking care of you and all that concerns you. Be anxious for nothing, just bring it all to Me and tell Me what you need with thanksgiving and I will tell you what to do and how to do it as well as giving you the means and skill to do it with excellence.
I look for faith in your heart, and it is impossible to please Me without it, for your communication and fellowship with Me is based entirely on faith, for I am not longer visible to you as I was in Christ when He walked as one among you.
And faith is the way I operate as well. I speak those things I see in My heart as though they are and they manifest by My Spirit in physical form. Faith is the substance and My Word is the plan.
Second, Jesus was always speaking of love for that is who I am and He is and My Holy Spirit is as well. And that is your purpose as well, to be love. Love never harms the neighbor.
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:34-35.
Jesus told you that the greatest of all the commandments is to love Me with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and the second is like it, to love your neighbor as yourself. And to enable you to have this greatest of all joys—the joy of perfect fellowship with Me and others I pour My love in your heart and so you can operate in that same love beyond all love.
How do I know you love Me? One test: you keep My Word.
Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me. John 14:23-24.
Love is key and I am looking for love in your heart because those who love are born of Me. Faith works by love. You must know and believe in the love I have for you and return that love by faith in all I am and say.
Third, I tell you that I love a cheerful giver! And I am just that. I so loved the world I gave you My Son to pay your judgment and satisfy your sentence to give you back eternal life and open My Kingdom to you. And not only open it but give it to you! You are with Me always and everything I have is yours.
A giving heart—one that gives forgives, one that gives love, one that gives thanks, one that sings with joy at all I do each day and night even in times of trial as the way out, one that is generous with those in need, and generous to Me in giving your time, talent and treasure. One to whom tithing is a joy to show your joy in the abundance of things I give you to enjoy and how I prosper the work of your hands. One who has delight in sharing with others the good things I have given to you.
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Do not judge, and you will not be judged; and do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned. Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure—pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return. Luke 6:34-38.
As you give so you shall receive and more besides.
Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows [e]bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed; as it is written, “He scattered abroad, he gave to the poor, His righteousness endures forever.” Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness; you will be enriched in everything for all liberality, which through us is producing thanksgiving to God. 2 Corinthians 6-11.
So now you know what I am looking for and what about you is the most important to Me: one who is filled with faith and love and is a cheerful giver. Someone just like Me. You are in My image and according to My likeness, act like it through faith working by love and the generosity that goes with that and you will never go wrong.
I love you and thank you for following Me. I will never leave you or forsake you but give Me something to work with to increase you more and more.