Acts 20:35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Matthew 25:35 Jesus said, “I was a stranger and you welcomed me.”
2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
2 Corinthians 8:7 Since you excel in everything — in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in the love we have kindled in you — see that you also excel in this grace of giving.
2 Samuel 9:1 Now David said, “Is there still anyone who is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”
Galatians 5:14-15 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!
May you seek justice, encourage the oppressed, defend the cause of the fatherless, and plead the case of the widow, for if you are willing to do right and be obedient to the Spirit, you will eat the best from the land. Isaiah 1
May you remember the promise of the Lord that He will restore judges as in days of old and counselors as at the beginning, causing Zion to be redeemed with justice and her penitent ones with righteousness, as He thoroughly purges away the dross and removes all impurities, breaking the rebels and sinners even as those who forsake the Lord will perish. Isaiah 1
May your desire be to go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, so that He will teach you His ways and you will know how to walk in the light of the Lord, following His paths, though the land is filled with superstitions from the East and divination is practiced by pagans, for the Lord alone will be exalted in that day. Isaiah 2
My child, I am the revelation of the Father to you. I came in the flesh to show you the Father. I emptied Myself of all rights and privileges and opinions so that the Father’s will would be done. I spent nights alone in prayer, communing with the Father, away from all other voices and influences, so that you could hear what the Father says and see what the Father does. I scorned the pain and the shame of being misunderstood, rejected, despised, betrayed, falsely accused, condemned, beaten, humiliated, tortured and crucified, for the sake of showing to you the Father’s heart of love for you.
I am the only way to the Father. The majesty of creation and the grandeur of the world declare the existence of the Father and cause men to honor Him, but only I have shown the nature of God in flesh to men, and He has given Me His name, the only Name by which men may be saved from their sins.
Though a hunger for the Father can awaken and develop from viewing nature and studying science, from finding beauty in dew on a spiderweb and hearing the song of a bird, from contemplating the marvelous complexity of the body which your soul has been given to dwell in for a while, you must understand that the hunger-driven desire to know the truth cannot be satisfied outside of a Spirit-given revelation of who I am and the development of a personal relationship with Me as you come to a saving knowledge of what I have accomplished in obedience to the Father’s desire for fellowship with you.
The result of your every effort, apart from Me, is death. Your every attempt to create, develop, sustain, and mature any accomplishment is subject to the laws of this world which, under entropy, will slow, wear down, decay, and end. This world is currently ruled by death, and all objects and actions born of this world are subject to that rule.
Only what is born of the Spirit, born from heaven, re-created and not of or from this world can contain life, and life more abundantly. I am that life, and only from Me can that life come forth. You are given that life when you come to the Father through Me, in that Name which the Father has given Me to bear, and no power of this world or the world to come can or will separate you from the Father as you abide in Me.
Know Me so that you may know the Father, and be able to go forth, led and empowered by My Spirit, to declare Me as the Way, the Truth, and the Life which comes from, and leads to, the Father of Lights in heaven.
May your obedience be complete before the Lord, that you may wage war, not as the world does but with weapons that have divine power to demolish spiritual strongholds which set up arguments and pretensions against the knowledge of God, and take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 2 Corinthians 10
May you have the discernment to see and recognize the person who does not make God his stronghold, trusting instead in the wealth and power gained by destroying others, for that person will be brought down by God to everlasting ruin, but the righteous will flourish in the house of God, and be fruitful as an olive tree, as they trust in His unfailing love and praise Him forever for what His has done. Psalm 52
May you hope in the name of the Lord, for His name is good, and He is worthy to be praised in the presence of His saints. Psalm 52
