Like You

I was tempted just like you, yet I did not sin. People tend to idolize me, creating false images of me. When you read My Word, you miss much of my earthly nature. I was fully God and fully man. From my daily interactions with the disciples and loved ones like Martha and Mary, you see that I didn’t shine with a bright light. Before my ministry, I worked and even had business dealings. People treated me as a regular man—cheating, lying, and interacting with me as they do with you. Often, they broke promises or negotiated unfairly. The temptation was not their bad behavior but the pressure I felt to respond. I felt what you feel when people lie or cheat, but I did not sin. Whenever these feelings arose, I turned to Abba. I was always with My Father and knew I had to stay close to Him—it was a matter of life and death. It was through Him that I gained the strength to resist temptation. You must stay with Me always. No one understands you as I do. I know your struggles because I understand the pressure of temptation. I love you, forgive you, marry you, wash you, provide for you, and uphold you. I am your Life. Stay connected to Me.

Walk Forward Into Your Past

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. The quickest way to find peace and order is by taking your next step with Me today. Dwelling on past failures won't help; there's no reconciliation in dwelling on them. In My world, the only way to bring order to the past and redeem the time is to walk with Me today. Regret resides in the house of past failures, filled with condemnation, making it hard to find Me there. But I am right here, right now. I hold your plan for today because I AM your plan. My purpose for you today encompasses your past and future. Remember, every act of obedience to My Voice while walking with Me today permits Me to bring order to your past, present, and future.

Life on Mars

Obedience has a practical purpose: your life hinges on the choices you make about the world. My life is the sum of decisions I make from another realm. When Mark Watney arrives on Mars, he encounters the hostile environment, which relentlessly threatens his survival. However, Mark brings life with him, aiming to live independently of Mars's deadly conditions. Outside his suit and pod, Mars is deadly; inside, there is life. Therefore, first and foremost, the goal is to survive. All other goals depend on this. The next goal is to expand life. I came so that you might have life, and to know that you have it abundantly. Every decision Mark makes revolves around sustaining life. Every thought, word, and movement is driven by this purpose. Routine habits are maintained to preserve life, making natural interaction outside impossible. Shedding the suit to bask in the sun on a nearby rock would mean instant death. No contact with native life is permitted, as communication occurs only between the supernatural life within and the natural death outside. Manuals and checklists serve as guides, reinforcing that Life Steps are non-negotiable—deviation leads to death. Rebellion in this context is foolish, as only the one who strays from the Routine of Life suffers death.

But life is more than just survival, and living does not equate to abundance. Mark relies on the Life support system, allowing Life to expand. Watney's life leads to an abundant existence on Mars. Initially, it might not seem that way—the terrain, temperature, and atmosphere are so severe and challenging. Yet, there is a strategy to bring Life to Mars.

I often give instructions that may seem odd or illogical to Martians. For example, telling Joshua to walk around a city seven times, Naaman to wash in muddy water, Peter how to fish, or Noah to build a boat away from water—all of these seem unreasonable because Martians do not act that way. To live the Martian way, one must fight, fish, and combat disease as Martians do. However, My Words are not intended for living death the Martian way; they are meant for living Life on Mars My Way. Life on Mars is dead; you are alive. My instructions aim to teach you how to live and expand life. My Way offers new directions for a being on a hostile planet. Every word I give maintains and amplifies Life.

Are you attempting to live My Life by Martian standards? You cannot live My Life through your intellect; obedience is what sustains my Life.

Cocoon

I place a cocoon around you as we walk together.

I do not eliminate the storm, the shouting winds, and waves.

What changes are perception and feeling. In the cocoon of the spirit, sight and sound changes.

If a tree fall's in the forest and there is no one to hear it did it make a sound? To complete a transaction there must be a receiver for the offer.

The storm offers up its bluster, roughness, and chaos. But does it exist if there is no one the receive it?

One of the beautiful things about watching a movie is that it places you in an alternate reality that you enjoy while safe in bed eating popcorn. When you are with me in the spirit it's that way. We can eat popcorn while watching a movie about a storm. We can laugh and enjoy ourselves within the tumult. We are in the bed of the spirit eating the food prepared for us in the midst of our enemies. They growl and scream but it's like watching a movie. Our reality together is another.

I welcome you to the cocoon of my love. I welcome you to the bed of the spirit. I welcome you to loving relationship and interaction with me.

Abide in my love. Abide in my presence. In my presence, there is love and joy and peace in the spirit. In my presence, there are words of life…. Always. Always. Always.

It's from this spiritual cocoon that you interact with the outside world on my terms and not the worlds. It's from the cocoon that you dictate reality. It's from the cocoon that you walk calm through wind or waves or you tell the wind and waves to be still.

Perfect authority operates from a position of perfect rest and peace: From the cocoon.

Singular Scaled

Your soul is a singular, unique manifestation in a world of time and space.

There has never been, nor is, nor ever will, be another person that can manifest into the earth that unique blend of the Father that was placed in you. When you, by the Spirit, fulfill your eternal destiny in the earth, then your singularity is on display for all of the world to see and to never forget.

One of the unfortunate effects of sin is to dampen, dilute and dissipate your God given singularity into a mass of unrecognizable mediocrity where the lowest common denominator is the norm. But when you come into Christ and yield to the Spirit, He begins to flow through your soul empowering that unique spiritual genetic mixture that was placed in you before time began.

The extent of the impact of your singular life cannot be measured, nor even comprehended, for it not only has unlimited potential to shine alone. Its most far-reaching effect is not in individuality but in the power of the one to strengthen and empower those that come into your sphere of influence.

For the singularity is empowered exponentially as the Life of Christ in you, that has been freely given to you, begins to be freely given by you.... to others.