December 17, 2012

“To My most loving friends on earth,

          I, Jesus, speaking from heaven to souls open to My call, ask you humbly to turn away from the world to seek My face alone.  I ask you to become true disciples of My heart by renouncing the pleasures and delights of the world by embracing a new lifestyle, a retreat into your inner selves.  There you will find Me waiting for you.

          There is not much time left to serve Me.  Life quickly dissolves before your very eyes.  There will come a day when you will no longer have one more second to live.  No matter how hard you try to hold on to time, it will escape your grasp.  No man, however rich or powerful, can hold his life in his hands.  I am the author of all life and when I decide to take away your breath, you will be lifeless on earth.  Your soul will then be judged by how you redeemed your earthly hours.  Did you live in faith and goodwill?  Did you squander your minutes with trivial pursuits?  Did you seek My face early in the morning or did you rush into the world on your own terms?

          I have redeemed a people of obedient love, those that have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.  I have stated earnestly, “Be ye therefore perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.”  My Father and yours has claim on all that you are.  You cannot run from His penetrating gaze.  He has created you to exist for the praise of His glory.  You are not of the world.  You are set apart to do His will.

          “Come out from among them and be ye separate … touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you.”  These words of clarity will separate the just from the unjust.  If you seek the world, the world is your God.  If you seek My Father’s will, He is truly your God and Father.

          Souls, be wise.  The age is coming to an end.  I have exhorted, warned, preached, and spoken words too many to count to call you to holiness.  My

words continue to fall on deaf ears and hardened souls.  This grief in My heart daily wounds Me, for I came to bring life and this gift is refused day after day.

          Do not be discouraged, My faithful ones.  Your patient endurance shall be rewarded.  Keep crying out in the desert, like My servant John the Baptist.  He was that one crying out, “Repent … prepare ye the way of the Lord.”  He was brutally murdered for his faith.  His preaching of truth made him a martyr.  The price of the Gospel is not cheap.  It will demand your very soul.”

 

Jesus,

Serious About Your Salvation

October 6, 2013

          “To have faith in My great promises is a sure sign of spiritual progress and growth.  The spiritually immature seek signs and miracles, physical manifestations to appease their curiosity.  Those that love Me do not seek or need signs.  They go forward resolutely, keeping their gaze locked in Mine, loving My will, regardless of where it takes them.

          The spiritual giants in history have carried the heaviest crosses on their backs.  They lived amidst persecution, rejection, and misunderstandings.  They resembled their suffering Savior.  Like Abraham, they journey faithfully onward, despising all shame, looking to that eternal city in the skies.

          Man has an earthly mind.  He does not savor spiritual treasures and truths.  He is stuck in the mud of earth, the material matter that clings to his soul.  He was created to soar in the heavenlies in his spirit, but he has been tethered to earth by strings of his own making.

          I have come to set these souls free from blindness to the eternal.  One look at My glory and all else fades away.  I yearn to show heaven to My little children, but they would rather stay among the things of earth. 

          There will come a day of separation, the sheep and the goats.  I will divide the people.  Those that have set their face like a flint to do My will, I will place on My right hand to abide with Me eternally.  Those on My left, the ones who have rejected My teachings, will be cast out of My presence.

          What a day of horror for them!  It grieves Me.

          “Choose ye this day whom ye will serve …”

 Jesus,

Taskmaster

 

October 10, 2013

          “What is My heart cry?  Love Me.  Throughout the centuries there has been one resounding call to all mankind:  Love Me.  I died for your love; I lived for your love; I intercede in heaven for your love; I sustain you for your love.

          If you would set all else aside and concentrate on loving Me, you would soar into the heavens with Me.  Love has wings to fly beyond earth’s atmosphere.

          Love is a powerful antidote to every evil.  Intelligence, wealth, beauty, the pride of life – they are meaningless when compared to love’s bounties.

          Love is proclaimed in actions, in obedient willingness to please Me, in love of neighbor by forgetfulness of self.  Love flows through a pure vessel dedicated to My glory.  There is no effort involved when I take hold of a soul with My love.  The soul is carried to heaven by the swift wings of My heavenly messengers, My angels of mercy.

          To love Me is to live eternally.  To hate Me is to die to life.  To ignore Me is to bob along like a cork in the ocean, a meaningless existence.  To walk in My ways is to be a vessel overflowing with the oil of My love.  This soul perfumes everything it touches with My fragrance.  It is a mystifying sweetness that paves the paths with beauty.

          Spend this day loving Me.  Think of nothing else.  Express your love in charming ways, hidden from the eyes of men, known only to your God.  There is no need for words.  A glance will do.  I see your soul in this glance of joy.

          My child, I have loved you with an everlasting love.  Will you make a return to this love?  I hope you will.  Your love brings such incredible joy to My wounded heart.  So many souls care nothing about Me, though I’ve given them all of Me.  A rejected lover is the saddest sight.

          Gladden My heart this day with your gestures of love.  Bring Me a present today – your heart.”

Jesus,

Lover of Your Soul

 

October 9, 2013

           “Confidence is faith in action.  A confident soul pleases Me greatly and runs speedily on the path to holiness.  A weak, wavering, worried soul drags along wearily, putting up obstacles to My joyful blessings.

          To have confidence in Me, you must get to know Me.  How can you trust someone you do not know?  The only way to get to know Me is to talk to Me, to spend time with Me, to begin to understand Me.  I am so often relegated to the back of your life, not even considered or thought about.  Then a difficulty arises and you turn to Me in your need.  You expect Me to perform a quick miracle for you so that you can then go on your way without Me until you need My intervention again.  This is not friendship.  This is your selfishness refusing to consider My feelings.

          I am God but I am also man.  What man do you know would continue as your friend if you treated him in this manner?  Yet, daily this is how I am treated, even by the souls that say they are My disciples.

          I am easy to befriend, easy to hear, easy to talk to.  You must stop what you are doing to consider that I am really another human being, not a set of rules or laws.  People have caricaturized Me as religion, whereas I am Love.  I am all the love you could ever imagine in your finite mind.  I am sensitive and humble, quiet and meek.  I have hopes and dreams, sorrows and pain.  How could a Shepherd watch His dying, suffering sheep and not feel pain?

          When I see you fall, knowing I can help you, and I recognize that you will not look to Me, it hurts Me.  I can solve every problem.  I can fulfill your every need.  To see you walk away from your own mercy grieves My heart.

          Again I cry out:  Come to Me, My overburdened and weary children.  I will help you.  I will give you the peace you so desperately seek.  I am here.  See Me!

Jesus, Shadow Not Seen

 

October 30, 2012

          “I have chosen you to go and bear fruit that will last.  As you abide in Me, as you remain in Me, My sap of love will flow through you to nourish My gifts and graces.

          You seek union with Me.  That is the highest grace and glory.  Union will be attained when God cleanses you of all fleshly defilement, when your will becomes God’s will, when you are dead to your flesh.  This is a process whereby God makes of you ‘another Christ’ on earth.  You are to lie still in obedience as you are fashioned by heavenly hands into a masterpiece of God’s love.

          I seek ‘presence’.  As you sit before Me, empty and silent, adoring and thanking, I mold you into Myself.  As you relax into My embrace, your malleability produces a perfect image.

          Has it taken so many years to tech you to let go and let Me form you in My way?  Your humble, docile submission allows Me free access to do what I will for you for your greatest good and My glory.  I am forming a beautiful masterpiece, a stupendous work of art.  Let Me work unhindered that I may display My handiwork in the heavenlies.

          If only you understood My ways … You would leap for joy at your weakness, for that is the point of My entry into your inner being.”

 

Lovingly Yours,

Jesus

October 26, 2012

          “The cry of the turtledove and the nest of the swallow – two images that conjure up the tenderness of God.  Only God could create the silky bird’s feathers.  They fly through the sky singing His praises.  They are so little, yet they constantly do the will of God.  What an example they are to rebellious mankind!

          Every one of My creatures was created to portray a facet of God’s love.  All of creation is a beautiful diamond, glittering with movement, changing, encircling, growing, dying – all in the circle of God’s never-changing love.

          Every bird is content to be a bird.  If only humans could be content to be what I have made them!  I have placed each soul exactly where I desire them to blossom and bring forth fruit.  Only in that sacred place will they flourish.  Yet men resist My plan, My will for their greatest beauty.  Lack of trust causes them to choose paths of their own making which lead them away from the peaceful paths I had prepared for them.

          Can you not understand that I am the infinite God, O men of earth?  If I created you from dust, cannot I sustain you?  Do you not realize that I am eternal, that I know your future and your eternal destiny?

          O, for loving and trustful children, for obedient and faithful friends – this is My glory!  Your loving smiles, your peaceful acceptance of all I bring into your lives, your docility to My inspirations, your faithfulness to duty – how lovely you are in My sight!  Little children of earth, those that know Me as Father, those that follow Me closely, I will make you giant pillars in the house of My God, for the lowly shall be exalted.

          My Father works and I work.  Let us work together to please Him.  His grace, His benevolent grace, will be your sure reward!”

 

 

Jesus,

Grace Bearer

October 24, 2012

          “My chosen people adore Me in spirit and in truth.  Though their bodies decay, their spirits are as youthful as a child’s.  “Man looketh on the outward appearance but God looketh on the heart.”  My little children surround My throne in obedient and loving service.  How I cherish them!  These children of Mine love Me with a pure and fervent heart.  How this consoles Me in a world that continually rejects Me!  My little ones charm My wounded heart.  They gather like little sheep, bleating out words of praise and thanksgiving.  I gather them all in My embrace.  I pour out My gifts and blessings upon them.

          They are irradiated by My presence among them.  They light up as the sun in a darkened place.  They fill My Tabernacle with a holy fragrance.  These are My chosen ones, those who have “made a covenant with Me by sacrifice,” the sacrifice of their lives for love of Me.  How I love these faithful souls!  Their fragrance pleases Me.  I shall dwell with them eternally.

          Holiness is invisible to the world.  It leaves behind a fragrant aroma, pleasing to the spirit’s senses.  It is a hidden, yet vital aura of light that surrounds and penetrates the atmosphere.  It is quiet and unobtrusive, beautiful and edifying.  It glows with an ethereal beauty, beyond human senses.

          Love is beautiful and it captivates all who come within its circle of life.  God’s love created all that exists, the heavens and the earth.  Love is God’s aura, His Essence.  God’s love is infinite.  Love is the ladder from heaven to earth.  The Holy Spirit is God’s tiara, God’s crown.  When the Holy Spirit penetrates and commingles with a heart, God’s love walks the earth in human form. 

          Be the Holy Tabernacle of Love I created you to be.  May your fragrance be diffused through all the earth.  God’s aroma will be as incense scattered to all.  What a beautiful spectacle!  You will be a grace diffuser.”

Jesus, God’s Incense of Joy