My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. John 10:27-28.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
The safest place on earth is in the center of My Will. That is your secret place of refuge where no affliction can come into your tent. It follows then that the most dangerous place to be is out of My perfect Will. When you are living within the parameters of My Will you are in My hand and there is no snatching out of My hand.
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.” John 10:27-30.
How do you stay in My perfect Will so that you never perish and have eternal life? You follow your good Shepherd by hearing His voice. And He leads you in the Way, the Way to My house. And He keeps you in His hand, feeding you and sheltering you from harm, sheltering you from evil.
Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. And you know the way where I am going.” Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” John 14:1-6.
Remember what Jesus told you about the Way? The Way to the place that I have prepared for you. It is the Way to My house which is your place forever.
Jesus has prepared a place for you in Heaven that is open to you who believe even now. It is the place I have prepared for you since the foundation of the world. For I knew then who would choose to be Mine and who would choose Me. Not because you had to, but because you would freely choose to do so. The fact that I can see all time and eternity does not mean that things are set in how they must happen, it means that there are some whom intervention will turn and some will not but I always give every available help to get you to the Kingdom until it is sealed. But knowing how it will turn out does not mean you have to make the choices you do.
Consider Judas Iscariot. After he hung himself the apostles chose another follower of Jesus to “occupy this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go TO HIS OWN PLACE.” Acts 1:25.
He turned aside from the Way to go to his own place. A place I did not prepare for him or direct him to go to. Jesus came to Me having finished the work of salvation I gave Him to do and He prepared the place for you that I have chosen for you since the foundation of the world.
“Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.’” Matthew 25:34.
And when the time comes for you to relocate to My Kingdom, Jesus has promised to come and receive you to Himself.
If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. John 14:3.
If anyone serves My Son, he must follow Him, that is, be a disciple, which means you continue in My Word until the Word speaks to you and you know My Will, which is the truth, and it will set you free. It will keep you on the road of the Way.
If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him. John 12:26.
When you follow and serve My Son you honor Me who gave Him to you. I sent Him to reconcile you to Me, undo the works of the devil, and bring you safely home to My house, complete in spirit, soul, and body to be glorified with Me forever. Those who honor Me, I honor. 1 Samuel 2:30.
I want you to know how very safe and secure I have made you in Christ. When you believed in the good news of your salvation I sealed you in Christ with the Holy Spirit as a pledge of your eternal redemption of spirit, soul, and body. Ephesians 1:13-14. I sealed you in Him and gave you to Him as your good Shepherd and great High Priest and I commanded Him to keep you and raise you up glorified on the last day. John 6:38-40.
Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You, even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life.” John 17:1-2.
It is My Will that when you behold My Son and believe in Him you have eternal life.
This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.” John 6:39-40.
My desire is oneness with you whom I have made to be like Me for fellowship in fruitful partnership. Just to have things we do together that matter in beauty and glory, edification and communication.
Consider this, for it is important for your life: Why do people go off course and end up going a way that I never wanted them to go, even believers? I want you to avoid sin and avoid the ways that shipwreck your life. I want you to live like Me so your life can be a joy crowned with glory and honor. So now I am going to teach you to live like Me.
How do I live? In Heaven.
Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. Colossians 3:1-4.
Keep your mind above where I have seated you with Christ at My right hand. When you get involved in daily affairs you forget where you are in the spirit. You need to set your mind above where you are thinking My thoughts, which you find in My Word, and My Word is truth, which is eternal and does not change.
If you set your mind on the things on the earth, i.e., those are where you focus your attention without consulting My Word, you are set on facts, which can contradict My Word for they are temporal and often corrupted against My Will. The good news is, however, you can change the facts with the truth. You can correct a lie which is perishable by the truth which prevails as eternal. You understand this in a legal battle where someone is taking what is truthfully yours by deceit, misrepresentation, robbery, or just breaking a contract, but you can recover all and change the facts so you receive what is rightfully yours by judicial decree aligned with the truth. Do you see what I am telling you? By your words received from above you can change the evil below.
Now look where I tell you, “For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” You may be thinking you are not dead at all but quite alive on the earth. Let us go to Paul’s Letter to the Romans and see what My Spirit is saying to you as the Body of Christ.
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:1-11.
You are dead to sin but alive to Me in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:11.
But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:4-7.
My thoughts are higher than your thoughts and My Way is higher than your Way but I have raise you up and given you the mind of Christ. Use what I have done for you and begin to walk free from sin in the glorious freedom of the children of God by monitoring your thoughts to line up with who I am and who you are in Me.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. Romans 6:12-14.
Now if you really want to be diligent about this and make your days on earth, days of Heaven, follow the instructions of My Spirit which I have given you for your edification. I enable you do what I tell you to do.
Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience, and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them. But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him—a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all. So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father. Colossians 3:5-17.
I love you. What I have just shared with you is infinite treasure without measure that will turn your life from a lowly one crawling along the earth, like the fallen snake, to a heavenly one soaring above with Me on eagle’s wings.
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable. He gives strength to the weary, and to him who lacks might He increases power. Though youths grow weary and tired, and vigorous young men stumble badly, yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary. Isaiah 40:28-31.
Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob and tell the sons of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to Myself. Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own special treasure among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. Exodus 19:3-6.