Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, Jesus our Lord, equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. Hebrews 13:20-21.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Do you recall at the Passover meal on the night that Jesus was betrayed that Jesus asked His disciples whether they had lacked anything in their travels when He had sent them out to preach the good news of the Kingdom, cast out demons, heal the sick, raise the dead and cleanse the lepers even though they went with no extra supplies? What did they answer?
And He said to them, “When I sent you out without money belt and bag and sandals, you did not lack anything, did you?” They said, “No, nothing.” Luke 22:35.
They were My ambassadors and ambassadors of My Kingdom lack nothing for the journey. And if you have confessed Jesus as your Lord and believed in your heart I raised Him from the dead, you are My child, My royal priesthood, the Body of Christ, doing the works He did and greater, My church proclaiming My Word, and My ambassador with the ministry of reconciliation.
You are equipped for every good work and Word. You are equipped for the journey home.
All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17.
My Word is living and working actively and I have given you My Words to use as your own to fully equip you for your journey through life for you can do nothing without Me and I am My Word. You find My Will for you in My Word. Yes, you will find the Scripture that pertains to you and I will point it out to you by a word in your spirit. And this will happen more than once, for your calling moves along with the place of the journey you are at.
When I have given you a word for your assignment and you have found the backup of two or three passages that witness with it in the Bible, you must not retreat from that calling because the temporal circumstances around you make it seem like it will never happen and you feel inadequate in yourself to carry it out. Do not draw back, if I have said it to you it will come to pass if you do not give up.
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.
It takes faith and patience to stay on the plan that I have given you until it is done as My good and faithful servant so that you can receive your full reward. If you draw back due to it not happening as fast as you think it should and give up the plan then I am cheated out of giving you the glorious reward I have planned. This grieves Me.
But, beloved, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and things that accompany salvation, though we are speaking in this way. For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints. And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. Hebrews 6:9-12.
For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward. 2 John 1:7-8.
I will never leave you or forsake you and Jesus is with you always until the end of the age when you shall be with Us forever in the Kingdom as we join the heavenly Jerusalem and the heavenly Zion with the earth. And as you travel along the pathways I have prepared for you in advance you should be enjoying the journey. Why? If you are following where My Holy Spirit in you and on you is leading you, you will always be in the right place at just the right time and you will have full sufficiency for your needs and an abundance for every good work. If you are seeking the Kingdom first, everything else is added besides.
Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Matthew 6:31-33.
Now, so you never lose confidence in your ability to fulfill your call, let us consider what I equipped you with in Christ, for you may not think so now, but I have already provided for you everything necessary for your assignment, i.e., your journey through this world, and a surplus for every good work. And this should help you enter My rest and work from the rest with Me as I do.
Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, Jesus our Lord, equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. Hebrews 13:20-21.
From the beginning I made covenants with mankind. It was My way of sharing everything I am and have with you as My family made in My image and according to My likeness. It is the way I raise you up to be seated with Me and living in close fellowship and partnership with Me in your dominion authority over the earth and the works of My hands that I created before setting you in the beautiful world I created for you to enjoy and to maintain in your control thereof. But you would not and Adam separated and broke the covenant by casting aside My Word which was his life.
“Take to your heart all the words with which I am warning you today, which you shall command your sons to observe carefully, even all the words of this law. For it is not an idle word for you; indeed it is your life. And by this word you will prolong your days in the land, which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.” Deuteronomy 32:46-47.
My Words are words of eternal life.
For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak. I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.” John 12:49-50.
Adam separated himself unto a lie and that seed became the essence of his being and what he reproduced was flawed and perishable. He was no longer in My perfect image for I am the truth, the way and the life. He had headed you all in the wrong direction, a path down to the dust of the nether world and no longer a path of ascent to the light.
But My Covenants of redemption changed all that for those who cared to join with Me and repair the breach between us by the blood of the Lamb and the Word of their testimony, My Words which I shared with them and told them to meditate upon day and night to change their minds to think as I do and see as I do.
But it took the fullness of time, when every detail of the Messiah, the One to come to set the captives free and make the blind to see and to proclaim the time of jubilee, the time of redeeming grace, came into the world as Jesus Christ. My arm by which I reached down to save you. And He completed the work I gave Him to do. Satan is no longer on Adam’s throne above the stars that he so coveted and got through deception and misrepresentation.
“How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn (Lucifer, Helel)! You have been cut down to the earth, you who have weakened the nations! But you said in your heart,
‘I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit on the mount of assembly in the recesses of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’ Nevertheless you will be thrust down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit. Isaiah 14:12-15.
Jesus crushed the devil’s head and disarmed of his power, taking back the keys to the netherworld and to death. But on earth he still roams due to Adam giving the devil his leasehold term over the earth. But Jesus has stripped him of power to harm those who belong to the Kingdom, he can only oppress or posess those who enter his domain by obeying his word over Mine as Adam did. The test is still there for all to take. But you know the answer, choose life and not death, choose the blessing and not the curse, choose Jesus and you will be saved, blessed, and have eternal life.
First, by Jesus’ death and resurrection I changed your destiny from death to life and your nature from a sinner fallen from grace back to My image and according to My likeness.
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.” John 5:24.
I have translated you from the realm of darkness into the Kingdom of My beloved Son, in whom you have redemption, the forgiveness of your sins by His eternal blood ever interceding for you upon the mercy seat in Heaven. I have qualified as a joint heir with My Son to the Kingdom of Light and all it contains.
I have replaced your stony heart that was dead to Me and alive to sin with a living heart that hears My Words and is attune with what I am showing you. And into your heart, Christ, when He ascended back to My right hand have achieved your redemption of salvation, has poured My promised gift of My Holy Spirit into your newly created living heart—a heart now alive to Me and dead to sin.
My Spirit within you will help you know what I have freely given you in Christ. In Jesus I paid your judgement and satisfied you sentence, released you from your sins and made you righteous with My own righteousness so that you and I can join as one in Him with no hindrance of sin in our fellowship. And once Jesus had won you and reconciled you to Me, I gave Him My promise of the Holy Spirit to pour into your hearts so you would again be in My image and according to My likeness, for My love, which is the fullness of who I am, has been poured into your spirit by My Son.
This Jesus God raised up again, to which we are all witnesses. Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured forth this which you both see and hear. Acts 2:32-33.
And that is the gift Jesus gave you from Heaven when He rose from the dead and ascended back to Me to be seated on the throne of the Son of Man with you with Him: the Holy Spirit to be with you and in your always. The great Paraclete.
Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what shall we do?” Peter said to them, “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.” Acts 2:37-39.
He won that throne for you because Adam had abdicated it to the devil.
“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 12:10-12.
So I have given you redemption, salvation, forgiven all your sins, made you one with Me in Jesus, given back your dominion authority, and filled you up with My divine nature by the gift of the Holy Spirit. But that is only the beginning of what I have freely given you in Christ for in Him I have given you the Kingdom and all that is in it. You are with Me always and everything I have is yours in Christ for all I have is His and you are in Him. Every one of My magnificent promises, as many as they be, are all “YES” to you in Jesus, and that includes all My Covenant promise Names, such as Healer, Provider, Shepherd, Deliverer, Strength, Victory, Shalom, Sanctifier, Redeemer, Refuge, Fortress, Strength, and many more.
Jesus also redeemed you from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for you so that you can receive the Blessing of Abraham and the promise of the Spirit by faith.
But the greatest gift of all is that when you believed in the good news of your salvation, I sealed you in Christ by the Holy Spirit as a pledge that you possess redemption which reaches your entire being: spirit, soul and body. Ephesians 1:13-14. You will live forever as one in spirit, soul, and body with all three entirely new, glorified, amazing, awesome and beautiful beyond all you can ask or imagine joined as one glorified life in your glorified body which is exactly the unique you that you are now but made perfect in newness that is forever in My presence and in My light and love. And there is no aging, sickness, torment, or death in any part of My Kingdom.
But before that glorious day when time fades away as eternity is all in all you have a work to do on this earth as it is now that is excellent and glorious. And I have equipped you for it in Jesus with all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge at your disposal at all times at My throne of grace where I have already raised you up and seated you with Him. In this world, as it is in its fallen and corrupt state, I am teaching you how to rule and reign and you have good opportunity for practice on the devil, unclean spirits, and the demons, for which I have equipped with My own armor of light which wraps you safely in My Word for perfect protection of all the wiles and tactics of the evil one. Be proactive and take the offense and go after his strongholds and undo his works before he takes your nation.
I have given you My Word as your sword of the Spirit, I have given you the Name of Jesus by which you are saved and have full authority to use to cast out demons, heal the sick, and command storms, trees, and mountains that get in your way.
Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you. Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven.” Luke 10:19-20.
And don’t forget in Christ I have empowered you to do the works Jesus did and greater but not alone. It is not your power or might but that of My Spirit in you and on you forever and by the faith in the Name of Jesus.
But in all this, I am with you as the God of all comfort and tender mercies. I have a Word for you every morning so you do not become weary in well doing but persevere to the end, not as drudgery but with JOY. Like Jesus. He ran His race with joy, the joy of saving you and carrying out My plan of reconciliation, redemption, and renewal. See each day as an adventure and that all has been supplied that you need to do amazing things. I am with you.
Do you remember when Elijah got weary on his journey through life? He ran away and wanted to die, but I fed him with superfood supplied from Heaven by an angel and he walked all the way to Mt. Sinai and there I spoke words of comfort and encouragement to him that made him strong. Man does not live on bread alone but on My every Word, but I give your both.
I love you. Never forget that and you will be strong. You please Me just by being My masterpiece and in My image, do I please you just by who I am? I am love.