Word of the Day
Beloved, you have at times thought time with Me an obligation, and have seen it on occasions as drudgery. Sometimes you come because of guilt and feel you will miss out or be penalized if you don’t. There are times you come and right when I am ready to open the windows and doors of Heaven to pour out My goodness, you turn away because of unworthiness or busyness. This must not be. I have so very much to give…so much love to provoke in your heart towards Me, others and yourself.
It is here beyond the veil, in communion with Me, where you will discover how to love Me with all your heart. Love is not done at a distance. Love is accomplished best face to face in both the good and the bad times. Know this, I am not a fair-weather friend nor will I ever be. I am immovable and unshakable for you and in you. Come close and see.
In being with Me you will have all you need in every time and season…in all the weariness of life. You will find out how much I love you and learn to receive when you least deserve anything. In being with Me, you will learn to love the unlovable, even as I have loved you in your most unlovable times. I will teach you about honor, using My kindness, My mercy and My goodness to captivate you. You will forever more be compelled to come back for more. Come near no matter what you are experiencing and be with Me…be face to face with Love…Read Complete Love Letter
For the Lord is [rigidly] righteous, He loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold His face, or He beholds the upright (Psalms 11:7 Amplified)
As for me, I will continue beholding Your face in righteousness (rightness, justice, and right standing with You); I shall be fully satisfied, when I awake [to find myself] beholding Your form [and having sweet communion with You] (Psalms 17:15 Amplified)
My inner self thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God? (Psalms 42:2 Amplified)
Prayer
Lord, I choose to come with You into the very depths of Your heart. I leave behind all limitations and wrong self-assessment and accept who I am in You. As I come into Your Presence, I am changed. I lay all my worries and cares at Your feet, knowing all is safe in the shelter of Your care. I leave the drudgery and obligation of religion and law behind to embrace rest and freedom of heart.
Help me to release every dark place of the soul…every dark night I have experienced which have toe holds in my heart and emotions…which keep me from living in a place of love and rest. All the times and seasons of my life are bound up in Your love and grace. I am enclosed around and about by love.
Lord, I declare that I am one who demonstrates a thankful and grateful heart for all the things You have done in and through me…all You have done for me and most of all, I am thankful for all the love You have filled and covered my life with. May I never forget to rejoice in abundance. May I never run away from you out of fear. May I never forsake others who are in need of being loved. I choose this day to forget the past and embrace who I am in You. Yes, today I come face to face with love. Therefore, I am changed. Amen
Reflect and Journal
- How often do you find time with the lover of your soul to be an obligation…drudgery or something you do to somehow garner favor or avoid some perceived judgment? If so, this can come from being influenced by someone with an abusive personality, a performance or perfectionist based mentality, from being ridiculed, from being trained up according to religion and not relationship and so on. If any of these have happened to you take time to forgive the person, persons or institution. The Lord has already forgiven and Scripture says that even if your father and mother forsake you the Lord will take you up. What a blessing…what a place of freedom.
- It is in daring to come into His presence with boldness based on the redemptive work of the Cross that you will receive the grace and mercy to love God, love yourself and love others. Sometimes we do not do this because we see the Lord like we see people, as fair-weather friends. How have you seen God as a fair-weather friend and what wrong perceptions about self and God are you willing to lie down so that you will take Him at His Word?
- Take some time while listening to some soft instrumental music and imagine mercy overtaking you…imagine goodness being poured out on you. It has already happened in Jesus. The time has come for it to be a reality in your life in the big and little moments. You don’t have to be in big trouble or need something extraordinary to do this. If you do this on a regular basis, mole hills will not turn to mountains in your own thinking and overwhelm you.
- Contemplate coming face to face with Love. What is love saying to you today?