PERFECT

The lambs that were presented at the Temple during the Passover had to be perfect lambs.  They could not have any wounds, bruises, or infections.

I am the perfect lamb slain from the foundation of the earth.  When I was crucified on the tree, I was wounded for your transgressions, bruised for your iniquities, and the chastisement of My peace was upon you.

I bore the sins of the whole world which meant that My Father could not even look at Me because He has purer eyes than to behold evil.. My body was restored to perfection after I rose from the dead. You are now perfect in My sight because I exchanged your unrighteousness for My righteousness when I died for your sins.

ISAIAH 53

REFRAIN

Solomon wrote, "He who refrains his lips is wise." Peter, James and John had a hard time refraining their tongues.  I called James and John "The Sons of Thunder." 

When the Samaritans did not receive Me when I was on the way to Jerusalem,  James and John asked Me to command fire to come down from heaven to consume them.

Peter usually blurted out whatever he thought.  I even had to rebuke him at one point. However, it was Peter who learned to refrain his tongue and lips.  He wrote this: "For he  who will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile (1 Peter 3:10) 

PROVERBS 10:19; LUKE 9:53-54; 1 PETER 3:10

RELIEVE

When I see so many oppressed all over the world, I grieve.  So many do not know that I am their hope when  they are bowed down.

I came to relieve all those who are bowed down.  I am able to relieve the widow and the fatherless.  I am able to feed the hungry.  I am able to set the prisoners free.

I am the One Who will watch over strangers. I am the father to the fatherless. These words were written about Me by prophets and psalmists centuries before I came to earth. I am the same, today, and forever. I can relieve you.

PSALM 146

RENDER

The word, "surrender," has the word, "render," in it.  When someone renders something to another person, they are surrendering something of value to that person. The word, "render," means to give or to give over.

You are living in very dark, and evil days.  Paul exhorted believers to not render evil for evil.  It is a temptation for many to do this.  

Paul wrote: "See that no one render evil for evil to any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men (1 Thessalonians 5:15.)." Pray for the those who are evil to surrender to Me and repent.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:15

KNOW

I  knew you before the earth was formed.  I know this is hard to understand, but it is true.  David wrote: "my substance was not hid from You, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth."

I long for people to know that I have known them and now know everything about them.  There is nothing hidden from Me.  This is why I desire for people to come to Me instead of  running from Me.  

I am the One Who knows you better than you know yourself.  Come to Me daily.  Hide nothing from Me. Cast every care upon Me because I care for you.

PSALM 139:15; 1 PETER 5:6-7

ARISE

ARISE, SHINE; for your light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. The prophet Isaiah wrote these words centuries before I was born.

During this resurrection season, give praise to Me for truly I am the light of the world Who desires for many to come to My light.

Pray diligently that many who are in darkness now will come to My light and arise to be shining lights in My kingdom.

ISAIAH 60:1

SENSES

My enemy's strategy is to first tempt people in the area of their five senses.  The lust of the flesh is giving in to the temptation to overindulge the five senses in an addictive way.

The five senses were created by Me so that people could enjoy what I created. Satan used the senses of Eve to seduce her.  She first saw the fruit was pleasant to her eyes. and it looked like it would taste good.

The only way to resist Satan's seduction through the five senses is to have your senses exercised to discern good and evil by abiding in My Word.  So many have become victims of addiction because they do not know My Word. Pray for this generation to return to learning the principles in My Word.

GENESIS 3:6; HEBREWS 5:14

REJOICE

It is nearing the time when people will be celebrating Resurrection Sunday.  It is a time to remember when My disciples discovered My empty tomb.  

There are many religions that worship various gods, but no gods that they worship were ever raised from the dead. I was able to go to Jerusalem with joy in My heart because I knew that soon all the world would be offered the gift of salvation.

Rejoice and celebrate the fact that you now have the same resurrection power (the Holy Spirit) within you that raised Me from the dead.

ROMANS 8:11

CAST

My servant Peter exhorted believers to humble themselves before Me by casting all of their cares upon Me for I do care for them

Never neglect casting your cares upon Me.  Think about how a fisherman casts his rod out into the water with the hope of catching a fish.  He does this with great faith that he will catch a fish.

I eagerly await for you to cast your cares upon Me with faith believing that I not only hear your cares, but I also will perfect all those cares that are a concern to you.

1 PETER 5:6-7; PSALM 138:8

SHEDDING

The author of Hebrews wrote to the Jewish believers before the destruction of the Temple in 70AD these words: "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without the shedding of blood is no remission."

I shed My blood for the remission of the sins of the whole world.  Pray for many today to recognize that though their sins be as scarlet, My blood can make them white as snow.

On that fateful day that I died on the tree, I exchanged the unrighteousness of human kind for My pure righteousness. Pray that many will receive Me as their Savior so that their sins can be washed away.

HEBREWS 9:22; ISAIAH 1:18

 

SLIP

The writer of Hebrews warned his readers not to take for granted the message of salvation that was given to those believers in Christ Jesus.

You are at danger to drift from the faith, not due to what you have done, but instead due to what you leave undone. When you skip your times in prayer and My Word, you leave a space in your heart and mind..

My adversary will fill the space in your mind and heart with doubt and unbelief. Those who are true disciples of Mine will continue in My Word.  Continuing in My Word is the only way you can be set free from the strongholds in your life.

HEBREWS 2:1; JOHN 8:31-32

LONGING

 You used to sing a song titled, "Longing for Jesus."  The words were, "I have a longing in My heart for Jesus, I have a longing in My heart for Him.

Just to be near Him, to feel His presence.  I have a longing in my heart for Him. You sang that song when you were a teenager in your youth fellowship.

I am so grateful that you still have a longing in your heart for Me.  I want you never to lose that longing.  Pray for those you know who do not have that longing to be near Me and to feel My presence.

PSALM 107:9

KEEP

 I created your body. Since you received Me as your Lord and Savior, your body is now the Temple of My Holy Spirit.

Every day I want you to offer your body to Me as a living sacrifice.  You can daily offer the members of your body to be used as instruments of My righteousness, joy, peace, and love.

When you are faithful to do this every morning, I will be able to use you as a co-laborer with Me to build up My kingdom on earth.

ROMANS 12:1  

EXALT

I appreciate it when you exalt Me with your praises and your worship.  I am always blessed when you sing to Me and mention My name.

I know that it is human nature to want to be successful and even to be exalted in this world through promotions and praises.  It is against human nature to be humble.

I humbled Myself and denied My kingly glory so that I now can help you humble yourself before Me. The best way to humble yourself before Me is to cast every care upon Me, and I promise to exalt you in due time when you do this.

1 PETER 5:6

SINCERE

My servant Paul wrote to the Philippian Church this exhortation: "That you may approve things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ."

This was Paul's exhortation and it also is mine to you.  While I was on earth, I truly was an offence to many, but I was never and offence to My Father.

There will be people who are offended by your stand for Me.  When you appear to My father, know that My blood shed for you will provide right standing with My Father.  I became sin for you, so that you will be able to be righteous in My Father sight. You will appear without offence before My Father.

PHILIPPIANS 1:10

DEEDS

There will be a day of judgment when I will render to everyone according to their deeds. There will be those who have done good deeds, but the motivation of their good deeds was to make themselves appear to be righteous.

There is only one way that a person can be righteous in My Father's sight. When I died on the tree, I offered mankind the opportunity to be righteous in the eyes of My Father. 

My blood was shed in order that those who believed in Me could receive remission for their sins. Pray for those who have yet to receive My redemptive power. I have the power to turn their hearts toward Me.

ROMANS 2:6

BRIGHTNESS

When I return, I will destroy My enemy with the brightness of My coming. I am the very brightness of My Father's glory.

When it is a very bright day with no clouds in the sky, you are not able to look directly at the sun.  If you were able to do this, you would have to close your eyes quickly because your eyes could not receive that brightness.

When Paul had his Damascus Road experience, My brightness surrounded him.  He described that brightness from heaven to be brighter than the sun. When you reach heaven, My Father is clothed in that brightness and His glory light fills all of heaven.  In heaven there will be no darkness. Only bright days.

HEBREWS 1:3

UNBLAMEABLE

You are living in the days when you will experience more and more persecution.  My adversary who is called the accuser of the brethren will use this tool to come against many of My beloved.

When accusations come your way, I do not want you to take it personally.  I want you to consider the source.  You are not fighting flesh and blood. You are fighting principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, and wickedness in high places.

Pray for those who come against you with accusations and lies. Through My death on the cross, I have made you righteous and unblameable.  Thank Me for this wonderful gift of righteousness.

EPHESAINS 6:12; COLOSSIANS 1:22

FORWARD

A walk with Me is a walk of always moving forward.  I do not want you to regret anything in the past. When I forgave you of your sins before I died on the tree, I forgave you for every sin (past, present, and future).

I did not just cover your sins. I took them away.  So far as the east is from the west, so far have I removed your transgressions.

Meditate today and tomorrow and every day on how My blood was sufficient to cleanse you of all unrighteousness. I see you today dressed in a robe of righteousness.  See yourself dressed that way today.

PSALM 103:12

KNOW

The question I want you to ask those you meet as you go is, "Do you know Jesus?"  People either know Me or they do not.

At the end of time, there will be those who come before Me and I will say to them, "Depart from Me you workers of iniquity for I never knew you.

They will tell Me all that they did miracles in My name, but their motives were selfish to glorify themselves, not Me.  When you appear before Me, I will not only judge those things you have done in your body on earth, but I will also judge the motives behind what you did.  Remember this.

LUKE 13:27

turn

I know you are praying along with many of My beloved for a turn around in your nation.  You desire your nation to turn back to Me. This is My desire also.

First, before this turn around can happen, many even in My body on earth need to turn again to Me and seek My face.  When you seek My face, those things you need to confess to Me and repent of will become clear.

Repentance always precedes revival and restoration of a nation occurs only if My body on earth will humble themselves and turn from their wicked ways.  Then I will hear from heaven and heal their land.

2 CHRONICLES 7:14

STONE

When My beloved John was given the revelation I sent him, he heard: "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him who overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, that no man knows saving he who receives it."

Sometimes you may not see yourself as an overcomer, but John also wrote this. "Who is he who overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?"

Because  you are born of Me, I am in you, and you are in Me, and I have already overcome the world.

REVELATION 2:17; JOHN 5:5

DEPART

I told My disciples that it was necessary for Me to depart from them because if I did not depart from them, the Comforter would not come to them. 

I was God in flesh form when I walked on earth. Because I lived in a body on earth, I could not reach the whole world with the good news of My kingdom.

Once the Comforter came to all those who believe in Me, the world could be reached. I now live within you, and I will never depart from you. You now have the power of My Spirit to share My gospel. Take every opportunity to do this.

JOHN 16:7