FOLLOW

I told My disciples that if they wanted to follow Me, they had to deny themselves and take up their cross and follow Me.  The cross that I want you to daily take up in order to follow Me is You.

My servant Paul wrote that he was crucified with Me and that he now had My resurrection power living through him.  He also exhorted believers to offer their bodies as a living sacrifices and to reckon themselves dead to sin and alive to Me.

I love your praises and songs of thanksgiving and worship, but what I daily want is the sacrifice of yourself to Me. This only occurs when you yield yourself to My Holy Spirit. Allow My Holy Spirit to work through you today to both give you the will to do My will and also the power to fulfill My will.

MATTHEW 16:24; GALATIANS 2:20; PHIIPPIANS 2:13

REMEDY

Whenever you have a physical condition that has weakened you in some way, you most likely go to your internist with the hope that he can diagnose what part of your body needs strengthening.  Your physician will usually prescribe some type of program of exercise, diet, or he may give you a prescription that he believes will help your condition.

I am the "Great Physician," and I know exactly how to strengthen you both physically, mentally, and spiritually.  I gave My diagnosis of what ails you over 2,000 years ago.  Sin came into the world at the Fall of mankind, and ever since then that original sin has caused humankind to be weak in many ways.

Most physical illnesses result from the fallen world that you are exposed to daily.  The mental, emotional, and spiritual weaknesses are usually caused by a void of unconditional love in your inner person.  I came to remedy that condition.  Come to Me today and allow My extravagant, eternal and unconditional love to embrace you.

MATTHEW 9:12

ROB

My enemy came to steal, kill, and destroy.   "I came that you might have life and have it more abundantly,"  You have to have safeguards in order to prevent someone from robbing your home.  You also have to have safeguards to prevent the enemy from stealing your joy.

The safeguards that you can employ to guarantee that My enemy will not have success in robbing you of your joy are being careful about what you see, hear, and say.  You must guard the gates to your mind.  Those gates are your eye gate,  ear gate, and mouth gate.

Like it or not, My enemy is always watching for you to open the doors of your worldly lusts: the lust of the flesh (seeking to gratify your five senses in an addictive way); the lust of the eyes (greed and covetousness) and the lust of the pride of life (trusting yourself more than you trust in Me).  Shut the doors to these lusts when the enemy tempts you and set up your safeguards, and My enemy will not be able to steal your joy.

JOHN 10:10

NOW

It is human nature to review hurts in the past.  This is an exercise in futility.  I want you to live in the present and also daily live in My presence.  The past does not define you.  You now have your identity in Me, and I want to commune with you daily.

Faith can only work right now.  It cannot work in the past and it cannot work in the future.  Today, I want you to ask Me what I require of you.  There are only three things that are required for you to live a life that is not consumed with past hurts.

I require that you love mercy, do justly, and walk humbly with Me.  Humility is seeing yourself as I see you.  I see you cleansed by My blood and complete in Me.  Do not review past failings.  That also is an exercise in futility.  I want your whole being given to Me today and each day.  TODAY, RIGHT NOW we can co-labor TOGETHER in My kingdom on Earth.

MICAH 6:8; HEBREWS 11:1

PURPOSE

So many on Earth aimlessly go through life without knowing the whole purpose of their existence.  I created humankind to do three things: enjoy My creation, praise and worship Me, and glorify Me in the things that they do and say daily.

The purpose in life is to express My love to others in such a way that they can see Me through those who serve Me.  Faith is not seen, but My love can be seen if there are willing vessels on Earth Who daily want to express My love to others.

I even want you to love your enemies.  This is not possible without the power of My Holy Spirit working through your heart and out of your body.  You know your major purpose now, so today ask My Spirit to help you love like I love.

JOHN 17:20-22

GENEROSITY

You have witnessed recently the generosity of many people as they have given to those people who have lost most everything in the natural disasters that have befallen your country.  I always can work My purposes in whatever happens in your fallen world.  I am in the redeeming business.

My Father is a giver, and those who give generously open their hearts up to My Spirit.  Pray for those who are generously giving to recognize My Father's generosity when He gave Me, His only Son, to be the perfect sacrifice for sin to redeem people from the bondage of sin.

I want you always to have your heart open to give generously not only of your money, but also of your time.  It is My very Spirit that causes people to give.  Pray for this move of My Spirit in your country now to touch many hearts and thereby cause many to turn to Me, their Redeemer.

JOHN 3:16:

CHILD

I said, "Verily, I say to you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein."  "Child" in this sentence I spoke is interpreted "infant."  You are well aware of how dependent an infant is upon his parents.

An infant depends upon his parents to feed, clothe, change, love and nurture him.  Good parents do all of these things for their newborn infant.  When you entered My kingdom, you were born again.  You were an infant.  You depended upon Me for everything.

I never want you to lose your dependency upon Me.  As you grow older in My kingdom, it is so easy for you to forget your dependency upon Me.  Often, you feel you can do things in your own strength.
You walk in My Spirit and grow in My Spirit only as you depend upon My strength, My provision, and My love daily.

LUKE 18:17