Wandering Mind

Your mind does not wander because I am not here. It wanders because its accustomed to wandering.

Your mind seeks Me not, finds Me not and then, in frustration, seeks fulfillment elsewhere.

I say seek (love) Me with all your heart (spirit) but I also say seek me with your mind.

Your mind accustoms to bouncing like a ping-pong ball from desire to desire; ever focusing on the fear or thrill of the moment.

If you are to seek Me I say bring your mind along in the quest and, when you spirit finds Me, your mind will also.

Don't let your mind pull your spirit but let them both join in the relentless pursuit of Me.

From Duty to Desire

Your discovery of My Presence changes everything.

Who wants to spend time on their knees for an image, even if that images name is Jesus.

You have you achieved? Callouses on your knees, eyes that fight to stay open, and mind and body resentful of lost slumber.

I never meant your time with Me to be defined by duty and
discipline, but desire and fulfillment.

Duty to the discipline of prayer only finds its fulfillment in the actual activity of seeking. Real fulfillment is in the finding.

The thrill of hide-and-go-seek is in the finding. No one ever wins if the person hides so well that they are never discovered. Everyone just gets bored and moves on to something else.

Cast your discipline and duty aside and come seek Me with expectation. I am waiting to be found.

No Soup For You

You're always trying to get something that you feel like you need. You come to Me for need. You give to others, but because you need. It’s always about your need. Your heart seeks fulfillment. It’s willing to seek, willing to give (grudgingly) if it will lead to a fulfilling of need. 

Come to me and I will give you what you are really desire: Rest. Rest that comes from the realization of a revelation: I have given you it all. It’s yours. You never ever have to think any more about getting. You got it all when you got Me. 

Stop returning to the dry wells of temporary fleshly fulfillment. Stop selling your eternal inheritance for a daily bowl of soup. Bask in the knowledge that you have it all. Revel in the vastness of the Kingdom I have given you. Know that daily need in this world is always provided. 

Adjust your perspective. See the Real. 

I've got you and you've got Me. 

Don’t Think About It

I awoke every morning of every day without thinking about finances. I never thought about resources the same way you do. My present was so busy I had no thoughts of the future. All thoughts concerning resources require future thinking. I was a present doer.

When I was on the hill that day I didn't think about how I was going to feed all of those people. How many times, when you are teaching, do you all of sudden stop and think, “How am I going to feed all of these people?” It doesn't even enter your mind. You are thinking about the task at hand. Well I was attending to the task at hand as shown to Me by my Father.

It would have been totally understandable to send everyone home. That was the expected thing to do. It was physically impossible to feed all those people. It doesn't even say that I had enough food for myself. Also, this miracle had never been done before so there were no expectations from the disciples, the multitude or even Myself.

I was not thinking about what I was going to do next.

When the disciples asked me to send the people away, My Fathers will was revealed to Me by The Spirit. Once I knew that He wanted to feed the multitude, My expectation of provision was activated. Within the atmosphere of rest, of knowing that He always provides, I could hear The Spirit telling Me how it was to be done.

Peter didn't think about walking on the water. He walked on the water. All of the provision was at the right place at the right time. Looking around was evidence that Peter had begun to contemplate the future; how the wind and the waves might affect him. Future and Past reflections are not conducive to Present provision. Peter sank.

You can’t think about it.

Go back and read how My day unfolded. I hear the news of the death of John, I retreat, the multitudes come, I am moved with compassion, I teach, I heal, the disciples comment that the people need to go home, My Father comments that He wants to feed people, I believed Him instead of the disciples, He gives further instructions, I obey, 10-15000 people + some loaves and fishes = full stomachs for all, I send the disciples away, My Father wants to talk, I go to the mountain to talk, He says it’s time to go, I walk down the mountain to the water’s edge, He says, “Keep walking”, I walk on water.

Hear, believe, obey…stuff happens.

I didn't think about it.

For you to receive perfect present provision in whatever form that it might take, it is necessary to obey the immediate will of the Father.

Also, if you are going to believe My Word, you are going to have to believe it on its face. You are going to have to believe it without placing it into any logical context.

You are going to have to believe it without thinking about it.

When I told Peter to come to me walking on the water it was impossible to place that Word into a logical framework because walking on the water is physically impossible.

Peter was in a situation where the only two actors on the stage were My Word and Peter’s belief. He had to accept My Word as stated and understood. Come. At this point, mental speculation on the details would be lethal because it would (and did) hinder the supply of Present Provision by the Spirit. Also, speculate on what? Peter had no context within to place My Word. He was operating in unknown territory. Thus is the nature of faith.

You can’t think about it.

I speak My Word that you might believe. I reveal My thoughts that you might believe; not so that you can think about it. Bring your thoughts under subjection. Believe what I say. Obey what I say. Have what I say.

The Lie of Penance

The enemy of your soul is very real and very astute. He knows that you are weak, imperfect, and that, although righteous, you are far from holy. He knows that residual strongholds of deception within your belief system are the fertile ground of sin.  

When you were born of Me, the enemy lost all legal right to dominate and coerce you because his only inroad into your life was through your own disobedience. I’m using disobedience as a positional term: You were a “Son of Disobedience”. That was your nature. What father doesn’t have the right to influence and guide a son in the world in which he lives? Thus your father, the enemy, guided you in this dark world. 

Once you were born anew of My Spirit, the enemy’s legal rights were revoked. A spiritual wall was erected. You are a child of light, the enemy is the father of darkness, and nary shall the two have communion.

When you are disobedient to Me, My Words, and your nature, a door in the wall is opened through which the enemy can enter and you have no legal right to stop him. 

The only action that will close this door is repentance. The minute you repent that open door can be shut. You can order the enemy out of your life and he must obey because he no longer has a spiritual right to be where he is.

Since the door that allows the enemies influence can be slammed shut so quickly through repentance, don’t think that the enemy hasn't thought of a way to keep the door open. 

He has, and it’s a good one: Condemnation.

The minute you feel remorse and wish to repent of your disobedience the enemy launches an all-out attack of condemnation. He wants you to feel that you cannot come to your Father and receive my forgiveness. But you can.

The enemy knows that that when you repent that My forgiveness is complete and he has no legal right to be in your life. But he also knows (better than you I might add) that the authority to remove him from your life resides in you. If you can be convinced some way, after having repented, to not use your authority, to take no action to drive the enemy from your sphere of influence, he will remain and continue to disturb you.

To strengthen his position and prolong this unlawful period of influence, the enemy uses a very simple line of deception. 

He tells you that even though that you have been forgiven, that the damage has been done. That, because you did decide to disobey Me (and make no mistake about it, you are disobedient because you decide to be), that for a certain season you should expect a harvesting of the seeds of disobedience that you planted. He even will use My Word against you: what you sow you will reap. And, because you believe the enemy, you step back from your use of authority thus giving tacit permission to continue to bring his destructive influence into your life. 

You are duped into laying your authority aside for a “certain season” because you believe that you must pay penance for your disobedience in the natural even though the bill has been cancelled in the spiritual.

Of course the enemy never tells you just how long this “certain season” is: one week, one month, one year… your whole life. He cleverly lures you into thinking that you can, and should, pay for your disobedience in the natural by letting him walk on you for an indefinite period of time. 

Nonsense.

The price I paid for your disobedience is enough. I don’t need, or want your help in paying it. You aren't getting any brownie points letting the enemy kick you around in the name of penance. My willingness to forgive you is everlasting. 

If you disobey, repent. Fast. Then tell the enemy to get out of your life and slam the door behind him.