As We Enter 2016

As you enter 2016

Prepare for the new year by searching your heart and releasing any and all offenses, oughts or should haves.

Then purpose, in your heart, to fully trust, lean and rely on Me no matter how any circumstance of life appears.

You will encounter events this year which in the natural are impossible.

That is because in the natural they ARE impossible.

But remember, Beloved, you are not restricted to or bound by the natural.

In some ways you are, you are limited to time and space. Things will occur over which you have no control.

But that, the natural physical world, is not where the true “you” resides.

It is in Me that you LIVE and MOVE and have your BEING.

I am Immanuel, God With You, in EVERY circumstance of life.

I am your Peace.

I am your Resting Place.

I am your Rock.

Your Shield.

Your Strong Defense.

Your Refuge.

Whenever your heart is overwhelmed,

At the first hint that you are becoming overwhelmed,

Draw near to Me.

Make a conscious effort to pause, admit, and receive ALL you need in that moment.

For that moment.

For however long that moment lasts.

The key to abundant life is to be aware of My Presence with you.

No matter what.

No matter who.

And no matter the questions or even doubts that arises in that moment.

The Word for this year is STEADFAST. To be steadfast in seeking Me. To be steadfast in knowing I AM is Immanuel. To be steadfast in drawing near to Me when your heart is overwhelmed.

It is going to be a year of DEEPER. Deeper in love, deeper in hope, deeper in joy and deeper in trust.

I love you.

You are Mine.

We enter 2016 together.

Isa 26:3

You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.

Psalm 61:1-4

Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.

From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.

I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.

 

Receive Believe Become

What a GREAT time of YEAR to REMEMBER the GIFT of GOD found in John John 1:12-13
“Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.”
AMP 12 But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the right [the authority, the privilege] to become children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name— 13 who were born, not of blood [natural conception], nor of the will of the flesh [physical impulse], nor of the will of man [that of a natural father], but of God [that is, a divine and supernatural birth—they are born of God—spiritually transformed, renewed, sanctified].

Our Hope Every Day

From the Heart of Abba
Beloved, there is a hope that lead to JOY. On the first “Christmas”, I came to earth as THE Hope of ALL nations.

I AM HOPE and JOY and PEACE and LOVE. My name was foretold to be Emmanuel.

Before the beginning of time, I was destined to come to earth, to walk among you as Emmanuel. Once you come to Me in new birth, I literally take up residence within your heart and am Emmanuel, God With You in a different sense.

There is no trial that is devoid of My presence with you. You may not be aware that I am with you but that does not change the fact.

There is nothing, not one thing, that can separate you from My love. I created you in love, for love, because I loved you. Nothing ever changes that fact. Before time began I planned for you with LOVE.

As you learn by trusting Me. to trust Me and to place your hope in the fact that I am Emmanuel and will never leave you nor forsake you, you will be able to know both PEACE and JOY no matter what is going on.

One definition of JOY is knowing someone is glad to be with you no matter what.
I AM EMMANUEL and I am GLAD to be with you even on your worse day.

You will know both PEACE and JOY when your heart remembers that EMMANUEL, who is aka LOVE is also PEACE and JOY.

Hope of ALL the Nations: Matthew 12:21
KJV And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
Berean Study Bible. In His name the nations will put their hope.” ESV and in his name the Gentiles will hope.”
NIV In his name the nations will put their hope.”

Emmanuel or Immanuel: Matthew 1:23 & Isaiah 7:14 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).
Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.

Our hope: 1 timothy 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,

Our Joy: John 15:11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

Our Peace: Isaiah 9:6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

He loved us first: 1 john 1:10 & Ephesians 1:3-5In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Eph 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will…

God dwells in us: 1 Cor 3:16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

Nothing separates us from his love: Romans 8:38-39 38 For I am persuaded beyond doubt (am sure) that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things impending and threatening nor things to come, nor powers, Nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I Can’t Do “It”, But I Can Do “That”

Conversation with Abba… not really, well kind of really. LOL

Person: “I can’t do this. I can’t! I can’t !! I CAN’T !!!!!
Abba: “I know, it is beyond your capacity.”
Person: “I can’t do this, I am not good at it. I don’t know HOW to do “this”.”
Abba: “Beloved, can you TRUST Me to be with you, even when you in all honesty simply “can’t”?
Person: “Ok, I CAN choose to do that”.

Really it can boil down to when we get to an “I can’t” moment or season, do we choose to trust God anyhow?