My desire is that these resources will influence both your life and mine, and that God will strengthen our walk with the Lord.

Oh My beloved, abide under the shelter of the lattice (a window, a door, a gate), for I have married you, and though you were sometimes indifferent towards Me, My love for you at all times is as a flame of fire. My warmth never cools. My longing for your love and affection is deep and constant.  Do not be slow in coming to spend more time with Me. Drop what you are doing and seek My face. Things are not as important as you think. Our time together is like a garden full of flowers, whereas the time you give to things is as a field full of stubble. I love you and if you can feel My Heart, you will know many things, the knowledge of which will give you sustaining strength. For the joy of the Lord is your strength. I bare your sins and I wish to carry your burdens. You may have the gift of a light and merry heart. A merry heart does good like a medicine.

My love bower( a safe and private place for rest, a shelter in a garden made of boughs or vines twisted together) is the place where you will find it, for My love dispels (drives away, scatters) all fear and is a cure for every ill (harm or evil, causing suffering or distress). Lay your head upon My breast and lose yourself in Me. You will experience resurrection life and peace; the joy of the Lord will become your strength; and wells of salvation will be opened within you as you spend more time with Me.

Love Calls us to Salvation

Everyone is separated from God because of sin and sinful behavior. The Bible tells us in Romans 6:23 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Isaiah 53:6 says, “We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”

Sin must be punished- separation from God = Hell Romans 6:23 says, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

There is nothing a person can do to gain status with God or to earn merit toward salvation. Ephesians 2:8-9 states, “For it is by grace you have been saved, though faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is a gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast. Titus 3:5 says, “He has saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.”

Isaiah 64:6 says, “All of has become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.”

Recognizing this dilemma, God provided a plan from creation, a way for each of us to have a personal relationship with Himself. The way was through the death of His Son, Jesus Christ.

Romans 5:8 says, “But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. John 3:16 states, “For God so loved the world that he gave His one and only Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. Romans 10:9 says, “That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”

Each of us must repent of our sin and personally believe (trust) in Jesus Christ as the only way to receive God’s forgiveness to gain entrance into heaven. John 1:12 states, “Yet to all who received Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God. John 3:36 says, “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him. Luke 15:7, 10 says, “I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine persons who do not need to repent…In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

Salvation is assured. 1 John 5:13 says, “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.” John 5:24 states, “ I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.”

Bound To Obey – Love Calls Us to Obedience

Hebrews 5:8 Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things He suffered. Philippians 4:8 And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” Matthew 26:39 “And He went a little further, and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, O My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.”  Matthew 20:22 But Jesus answered and said, you know not what you ask. Are you able to drink of the cup that I drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They said unto Him, we are able.

The Spirit of Life

Romans 8:1-4 says, “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Some people believe that since we are saved by grace and are no longer under the law, then we are no longer bound to the law. That is true in this sense: we are not bound to the penalty of the law. Since we came to Christ, the law no longer has power to condemn us. However we are bound to its precepts (commands or principles intended as a rule of action), for God has not changed His morality (system of moral rules). The Apostle Paul said clearly. “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus…For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set (made) me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh” (Romans 8:1-3). So, the sacrifice of Christ freed us from the penalty of the law – He died in our place. So then, we are free from the law only in the sense that it cannot condemn us, yet we are still commanded to obey its precepts.

Love calls for us to be healed. God’s unconditional love provides the beginning of healing. Healing itself is accomplished by the Lord as He is invited in prayer to do His good works. But every person must take hold of his or her own healing and walk in it; no one can do that for you.

In Ephesians 3 we are given an example by Apostle Paul as He says, “For this reason, I bow my knees before the Father…that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man; so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses all knowledge, that you may be filled with the fullness of God.”  (Eph. 3:14-19)

My Prayer for you today: May the Lord bless you and keep you and yours… though I am absent in body, nevertheless I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good discipline and the stability of your faith in Christ. As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude. ( Colossians 2: 5-7)

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