I have wrestled and wrestled with the idea that I don’t have to work to earn my place within the Kingdom.  I remember when the Lord began to speak to me about being His Son.  It wasn’t something I was comfortable hearing at all.

I did not consider myself to be a son of a King and yet in Christ that is exactly what we are.  We are a royal priesthood in Christ.  The inheritance that comes to a son comes to us.

The problem is when you grow up believing that you are nothing, it is very difficult to believe that you are the child of a King, and yet that is what you are.

As we wrestle with the thoughts that God has for us, we come to a new identity of self.  This identity is formed by the word of God working its way into our very hearts.  The word of God is sharper than any double edged sword and will accomplish what it was sent to do.

When God begins to speak to you about His grace and mercy and how they are sufficient for you it can be difficult to believe such a wonderful thing.

So many people are working hard to try to please God.  As a prophetic minister many people come up to me asking me to pray and ask God what His will is for their lives.  They are looking for something to do.  They believe that if they do something for God then He will be pleased, but this is not what God is like at all.

His first desire for our lives is to be His child, to enjoy His presence.  Slaves look to their masters for a task to complete so that they can please the master, but in Christ we are children of God and have the right to just hang out with Him and enjoy His presence.  It is not doing something for God that pleases Him, it is enjoying His presence.

I have prophesied over so many people now that I can’t tell you how many I have prophesied over but I would imagine that there have been thousands.  Not one of these prophetic words has the power to make me more wonderful in God’s eyes.

I have prayed for many people who have been healed physically and emotionally, but not one of these things made me more special or gives me greater honor as His son.  I am his son.  It is as simple as that.  I do these things because as a son I can do them.

He just loves me and considers me His own.  When people ask God what they should do sometimes He will say “Don’t do anything.  Just rest.”

He is trying to destroy a mindset that says that in order to be loved I have to earn it.  I have to accomplish something to be His child.  I have to become a great man before my dad loves me.  These are all lies.  God loves you because you are His child.  In the same way that I love my children, because they are my children.

My children did nothing to earn that love.  In fact they are not always the best people to deal with.  Some of them have said all kinds of lies about me and even go out of their way to sometimes hurt me and yet I still love them because they are my own.  Nothing can change that love.  I love them because they are mine.

I pray that today you will get a revelation of this Grace so that you understand the love of God for your life.  I ask God to bless you with the sound of His voice in your ear.

God will spend an entire lifetime trying to communicate the truths of Christ to the inner sanctuary of the heart.  Many people wrestle with pain and fear, not wanting to let go of vengeance, bitterness and anger, but it is these things that hold our hearts captive. They do not liberate us.

When our hearts become like the heart of Christ, great transformation is worked inside of us.  This is the place that we reach where we lay down our very lives and wills.  It is in this place that we begin to walk in humility, love and peace.

The old nature is dead when we come to Christ.  It is by His grace that we are transformed into His nature.  We cannot hide the old self.  It is what it is.  Many will try to hold onto their old ways, but unless we truly die to this world, we will never really know the peace of Christ in our hearts.  And this death to the old self is worked in us by the grace that was released by the act of Christ’s death on the cross.

I would have to say that the transformation of the human being from Adam to Christ is much of a mystery to me.  I am not sure why some seem to hold onto their angers and abuses and others lay down their arms and surrender to Christ.

I have seen many people with great potential never amount to much in Christ.  This always confuses me because the same God I serve they seem to serve.  They still seem bound after 20 years even while you might be free as a flower in the wind of God’s Spirit.

I don’t know why one person surrenders and another holds onto their lives.  It confuses me and is a major point of prayer for my life.  I ask God to bless those who seem to hold onto their old ways.  Certainly if they do not have a change of heart they will continue in their sin.  And perhaps one day stand before their God to hear that they were not really his friend.

We must seek Him first.  We must cherish His presence.  We must allow Him to transform our nature and we must love our fellow man even when they don’t love us.

There is a portion of this transformation that lies in our hands.  We must be humble when He speaks and step out in the way that He dictates.  When we do, we will be transformed.  We will be changed.

It gets easier as we surrender more and more, because the blessings of surrendering seem to overtake us.  We learn to surrender quicker in order to remain in blessing.

I pray that you will have courage to live for Christ because to live for Christ is gain.  All else is folly.

Perhaps most people will never know love unless we become love before their eyes.  Perhaps Jesus in our hearts will work a miracle in their hearts and they will come to surrender.

Recently I stepped back into a place where people once judged me because of the anger that was once in my heart.  When I stepped into that place again, the anger was all gone.  They could see the love of Jesus in my heart.  One person in that room burst into tears in my arms repenting for the anger they held toward me, asking me to forgive them.

I did nothing except shine Jesus before their eyes.  We must become light in darkness in order for darkness to be ripped before people’s eyes.  This is the way of revival and this is accomplished by the grace of Christ in our lives.