When the LORD brought back the captivity of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Psalm 126:1-2.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Keep My Word. Never give up, never give in, never back down, and never sin.
Sin is a terrible thing, it will steal the Word from your heart, bring death to your dreams and Mine for your life, and destroy you physically, mentally and emotionally. Sin is an ugly thing. Do not play with it.
“If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.” Genesis 4:7.
Do not let it have any part in you. It will render you totally unfruitful.
I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned. John 15:5-6.
How do you avoid it? Come and live your life with Me, in Me, and through Me by accepting My invitation to fellowship and partnership with Me through My Son. 1 Corinthians 1:9. If you stay close to Me and follow Me by My Spirit in you, your dreams and My dreams for you will all come true and you will live happily ever after. Your dreams and Mine for you will never end. We have eternity.
Being with Me is a dream come true. My dream and your dream. In our togetherness there is freedom, redemption, healing, restoration, peace, love without limits, perfect protection, wisdom, strength, fullness of joy, unlimited direction, constant correction, and ultimate perfection for you.
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6.
In sin there is painful toil and every evil work. The wages of sin is death but when you turn your gaze upon Me and behold My salvation (Yeshuah, Jesus) it makes a very different end to your story, it turns a disaster to glory.
But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit. 2 Corinthians 3:18.
The fleeting joy of sin will let the devil in and leave a stain upon your soul that takes you off your life’s true goal, and that stain cannot be washed away except by the one and only way, the blood of the Lamb in My heavenly plan on the day of your new birth, when you receive My Son and become one with Him and in Him with Me from now through all eternity.
If you live your life with Me, in Me and through Me by accepting My invitation to fellowship and partnership with Me through My Son you become fruitful in every good work that I planned for you in Him when you became a new creation in Christ. Remember He is the vine and you are the branches and I am the vinedresser. I clothe you in Christ when you are baptized into Christ by My Spirit.
For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:26-28.
But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Titus 3:4-7.
I want to have you with Me forever, filling your cup until it overflows, wiping out sins and offenses with good deeds prepared in advance. I delight in rewarding you and doing good for you. I delight in seeing you fruitful, bearing fruit thirty, sixty and a hundredfold, because that is when you too are fulfilled and satisfied with good things that pour out to enrich every person on earth, but especially those who are members of the Body of Christ.
Let us talk about being fruitful. I blessed you to be that from when I first conceived you in My heart. I empowered you to be that and so if you are not in a place where you are growing and producing goodness you will be frustrated. That is why people are always seeking to learn new skills and find opportunities for promotion. I know that many of you are concerned about being fruitful. You want your life to be fruitful and you are frustrated because you feel it is not. But have you ever asked Me how I define a fruitful life? If you do consult Me on it, I will take you to My Word that I have given you already. And you will find the answer, as you will all answers, in My Word.
I define the fruit of the Spirit as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Galatians 5:22-23. If these qualities are showing in your life, you are bearing much fruit, and so proving to be disciples of My Son. John 15:8. And you are giving Me glory before men by letting My light shine from your heart in a very dark world. My prophet Isaiah foretold this: “Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. For behold, darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you and His glory will appear upon you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.” Isaiah 60:1-3. Do not grumble and complain, but bear the fruit of the Spirit in you, and shine on the world like bright lights for you are offering it the Word of life—a light to your path and a lamp for your feet.
And how do you become fruitful? The way any branch does, you attach to a luxuriant, healthy, spotless vine. My Son is the vine and you are the branches, if you abide in Him (who is My Word) and My Word abides in you, you will bear much fruit and so prove to be My disciples. You can do nothing without Him but everything with Him. Just as a branch cannot produce fruit without being attached to the vine, neither can you without being attached to Him, John 15:1-4, and you attach by listening to His Words, as Martha’s sister Mary did, and that is the one thing necessary for all the fruit to follow.
Do not be so anxious about so many things all the time, that cuts off the sap from the vine into your branch. You must abide—rest in the vine—for the Spirit to flow. And being anxious and worried is not fruitful because then you are not producing love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. So, even though you are desiring to be fruitful, very little fruit is coming forth. A branch does not worry about producing fruit, it just happens naturally by the merits of the vine it is attached to.
Do not worry about your finances and your health so much. If you attach to Me through My Son by remaining in My Word you are seeking My Kingdom, and I then add to you all you need. You will have what you need just when you need it. I tell you not to store up riches on earth but treasures in heaven and I will take care of you always. You can rest in that.
Sheep are taken care of by the shepherd, not by what they have stored up. In Jesus I have given you the Kingdom, so do not fear, I know what you need. Just ask Me for good things and I will give them to you. It is that easy, but you must be united to Me by My Son before you have access to the Kingdom. You must be born again to see the Kingdom of God. Otherwise you miss it and try to be your own source, or look to another, but really you only need look to Me and attach to Me. And you do that by keeping My Word before you and hearing it, reading it, speaking it, pondering it, until it becomes your way of operating. Just as the branch takes on the characteristics of the vine. In a grapevine it often becomes difficult to discern the difference between the branch and the vine. But it is the branches that have the joy of bearing the fruit though it is the vine that enables them to do so. And that is cause for rejoicing. My Son does the work and you come into the gain. But your part is to abide in Him by faith. And faith speaks. And faith works by love. You cannot operate in faith without love. I am love. So faith in Me is faith in love. And abiding in Me is abiding is love.
Does your life show the characteristics of love? If not, you are a clanging gong and a noisy cymbal and what you are doing is not fruitful. And I tell you what love looks like: Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8.
This may sound too hard for you to attain, but I pour My love in your heart through the gift of the Holy Spirit in you, so if you abide in Me and open your heart to My love, you will produce the same. It will come. It all depends on what you are focusing your attention.
Faith comes by hearing, so be careful what you are listening to. Give attention to My Words; incline your ear to My sayings. Do not let them depart from your sight. Keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are life to those who find them and health to all their body. Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life. Put away from you a deceitful mouth and put devious speech far from you. Let your eyes look directly ahead and let your gaze be fixed straight in front of you. Watch the path of your feet and all your ways will be established. Do not turn to the right nor to the left. Turn your foot from evil.
And what keeps you on the right path? My Word. Let My Word guide and light your life. Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. And if you follow Him, you follow My Word, and you will be fruitful. The closer you cling to Me, the more fruitful you will be. You do not produce fruit for Me, you produce fruit with Me. There is a tremendous difference you know. When you put the burden on yourself you will not be joyful. When you rest in Me, you will have joy. I have told you these things that My joy might be in you and your joy might be complete.
Grace makes it and faith takes it. Use your faith. Use your words to accomplish what you want. Use My Words for they are the only words that move everything on earth. My Word has power. It is spirit and life. It is eternal. No other words than Mine have the power in them to heal, prosper, deliver, create, and remake.
Take up the sword of the Spirit, which is My Word, and never let the cares of this world grow up in your heart as the thorns that strangle your wheat. Your harvest only comes when you cultivate it and water it with My Word. And it is even better if you sing it joyfully! With joy you will draw water from the springs of Salvation!
Be fruitful! I told that to the first man and women. It was the blessing I gave them as My first words to them. And My Words create the power and the will to do in you. So I say it now to you: Be fruitful! And you will be. Tell yourself that too. In Me, you will bear much fruit, and it will be fruit that endures. And all who come to you will have the joy of partaking of your fruit.
Don’t surround yourself with thorns (cares and worries) and choke off the fruit.
I love you. Be fruitful! And the fruit I am looking for is the fruit My Spirit will produce in you: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Have you let Me produce that in you today? Have you shared it with anyone? Or have you blocked Me from entering your heart? I was knocking.