ABOUNDING

 I have works for  you to do that I planned even before you were born.  I want you daily to ask My Holy Spirit to guide and direct you to complete those works.

Paul prayed this prayer: "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immoveable, always abounding in the work of the LORD, for as you know that your labor is not in vain in the LORD.

This is My prayer for  you as you enter this new year.  Listen carefully to My Holy Spirit within you Who will lead and direct you to the works I have ordained for you to do in this new year.

1 CORINHIANS 15:58

Width

Paul prayed that believers would know the width, length, depth, and height of My love which passes your human knowledge.

However, My Holy Spirit can help you to know these measurements of My love and what they mean.  The width of My love is My truth.  I am the way, the truth, and the life.

When I spoke the truths of My Word, the whole universe was formed. By Me, and through Me and for Me were all things created that are created. The universe reveals the breadth of My love.

EPHESIANS 3:18; COLOSSIANS 1:16

INFINITE

 My understanding is infinite.  Never doubt that I am in control of events and I am aware of the devastation in many countries where My precious body on earth is being persecuted and killed.

I predicted that this would be happening in the last days.  You right now are seeing what mankind is capable of when they are demonized.

Intercede daily for the persecuted church and for those who boldly proclaim the gospel all over the world without fear. As you pray for their protection, I respond with legions of angels. Never doubt this.

PSALM 147:5

FREED

My servant Paul wrote the churches this: "For he who is dead is freed from sin."  He later wrote that believers need to reckon themselves dead to sin and alive to Me.

The term "reckon," means to take an account.  Paul wanted to remind My beloved that when they were born again, the old man that was full of sin died, and now they had My nature living within them.

This is something that I want all My beloved to remember.  It is My life now within each one who has been born again. Sin has no more power over you because I became sin for you when I died on the tree.

ROMANS 6:7

TEMPERATE

My servant Paul wrote the church at Corinth to be temperate in all things if they wanted to obtain an incorruptible crown. You will receive crowns in heaven as rewards for your works of faith on earth.

Since sin entered the world, humans have had a hard time being temperate in most things because of the lust of the flesh.  The worldly lust of the flesh is seeking to satisfy your five senses in an indulgent way.

Only My Holy Spirit can help you fight the temptation to over indulge.  Ask My Holy Spirit to help you discipline yourself to not over indulge in the cares, riches, and pleasures of  this life.

1 CORINTHIANS 9:25

TOGETHER

 I just finished the parable of the wheat and the tares.  I shared that the enemy had sown tares among the wheat. The servants wanted to gather up the tares so that the wheat could prosper.

The owner of the field said to let the tares grow together with the wheat. At harvest time the reapers will come and gather up the tares first. They will bind the tares in bundles and burn them.

The owner then will tell his servants to put the wheat in his barn. This is what you have today in your culture.  The true believers are together with those who are wicked.  I will separate the two at the end.

MATTHEW 13:24-30

DRAW

I said that if I be lifted up, I will draw all men to Me. I was lifted up when the soldiers nailed Me to a cross bar and lifted Me on to the tree.  Then they nailed My feet and hands to the tree.

I was lifted up then, and now it is your turn to lift Me up as you share what I purchased for you when I became My Father's perfect sacrifice. My blood was shed to forgive and redeem you from sin.

Be bold in these last days to share the redemptive plan My Father had with others.  Pray for their hearts to be fertile ground to receive Me as their LORD so they can be born again into My family.

JOHN 12:32