Love Me Where You Are

Love Me Where You Are,   by Francis Frangipane

I have discovered that, as we seek the Lord, our most difficult periods can be transformed into wonderful breakthroughs into God's love. For me, one such season occurred during the years 1979 to1981. The association of churches with which I was aligned had fallen under spiritual deception. Not only were its core doctrines increasingly seeded with New Age influences, but immorality crept in, and key leaders began leaving their wives for other women. I could no longer remain silent. As a result, in 1979 I left my congregation in Detroit, Michigan, where I had served as pastor, and traveled to the organization's regional headquarters in Iowa. I came to plead for repentance. However, after meeting with the senior leaders, I was asked to leave the group.


So here we were


We had left our church, we had no money, and we had four little children and couldn't afford even basic housing. Desperate for anything, we finally found an old farmhouse in rural Washington, Iowa. The home was over a hundred years old, but it actually looked much older. After negotiating with the landlord, we were given a year of free rent provided I did basic repairs to the house, such as cleaning and painting.


Even so, the house needed more than I could provide. The furnace did not work well, so we installed a wood burner stove in the kitchen. That first winter, it turned out, was one of the coldest in Iowa's history. Frost formed on the inside walls, spreading a foot or two around each window; wind chills dropped to 60 below, and even colder, on several occasions.


To keep warm each night, the whole family cuddled tightly on one large mattress on the dining room floor, about 18 feet from the wood burner in the kitchen. A fan behind the stove nudged warm air in our direction. My nightly project, of course, was to build enough heat in the stove to keep us warm until morning.


While I worked the fire, I also would pray and seek God. The wood burner became a kind of altar to me, for each night as I prayed, I offered to God my unfulfilled dreams and the pain of my spiritual isolation. Yes, I knew the Lord was aware of our situation. Though we had virtually nothing, He showed Himself to us in dozens of little ways. I just didn't know what He wanted of me.


As the seasons came and went, another child was born, and then we fostered a young girl from Viet Nam, giving us six children. Still, as the family grew, the little area around the wood burner became a hallowed place to me. Even in the summer, I would sit on the chair next to the stove and pray and worship.


I would like to say I found the joy of the Lord during this time, but in truth, though I gradually adjusted to my situation, I felt an abiding misery in my soul. Our deep poverty was an issue (I barely made $6,000 a year), but more than that, I felt like I had missed the Lord. My continual prayer was "Lord, what do You want of me?"


Three years of seeking God passed, and I still carried an emptiness inside. What was God's will for me? I had started a couple Bible studies and spoke a few times in churches, but I so identified with being a pastor that, until I was engaged again in full-time ministry, I feared I had lost touch with God's call on my life.


In spite of this inner emptiness concerning ministry, I actually was growing spiritually, especially in areas that were previously untilled. I went through the gospels hungry to study and obey the words of Christ. Previously, I had unconsciously defined a successful ministry as something born of my performance. During this time, however, the Lord reduced me to simply being a disciple of Jesus Christ. Indeed, a number of things I thought were biblical I discovered were really just religious traditions. The Lord desired that I take inventory of my heart and examine those few truths for which I would be willing to die. He said the truths for which I would die, for these I should live.


Frankly, things like the timing of the rapture or nuances about worship style or spiritual gifts dropped in their priority, though I still considered them important. Rising to the top of my focus was a passion to be a true follower of Jesus Christ - to obey His teachings and approach life not merely as a critic, but more as an encourager. I also found myself increasingly free to enjoy and learn from Christians from other streams and perspectives.


Yet, these changes, though deep and lasting, occurred slowly, almost imperceptibly. They were happening quietly in my heart, and only in hindsight did I see what the Lord had done. Throughout this time, I was preoccupied with feelings of detachment from God's will. My prayer to know the Lord's plan for me continued daily.


The Breakthrough


One day, as I stood in the kitchen pantry, I repeated again my abiding prayer: "Lord, what do you want of me?" In a sudden flash of illumination, the Lord answered. Speaking directly to my heart, He said, "Love Me where you're at."


In this time and season, remember, I was not a pastor or minister. I was a television repairman doing odd jobs on the side to provide for my family. I hated what I was doing. In my previous church I taught against TV and now I was "laying hands" on television sets and raising them from the dead! The Lord's answer cut straight to my heart. I was awed at its simplicity! I asked, "Love You where I am at? Lord, is that all you want of me?" To this He responded, "This is all I will ever require of you."


In that eternal moment peace flooded my soul, and I was released from the false expectation of ministry-driven service. God was not looking at what I did for Him, but who I became to Him in love. The issue in His heart was not whether I pastored, but whether I loved Him. To love the Lord in whatever station I found myself - even as a television repairman - this I could do!


A deep and remarkable transformation occurred in me. My identity was no longer in being a pastor, but rather on becoming a true lover of God. Having settled my priorities, amazingly, just a couple days later I was invited to pastor a church in Marion, Iowa. In spite of all my previous anxiety about returning to ministry, I did not jump at the opportunity. For I had found what the Lord truly desired of me. Though I eventually accepted this call, my focus was not merely on leading a church, but loving God.


What God Seeks


More than one's ministry, God seeks our love. His great commandment is that we love Him, ultimately, with all our mind, all our heart, and all our soul and strength. If we love Him, we will fulfill all He requires of us (see John 14:15). And it is as we love Him that He orchestrates all things to work together for our good (see Rom. 8:28).


Beloved, loving God is not hard. We can fulfill any assignment - auto mechanic or housewife, doctor or college student - and still give great pleasure to our heavenly Father. We do not need ministry titles to love the Lord. Indeed, God measures the value of our lives by the depth of our love. This is what He requires of every true God seeker: to love Him where we are at.


Lord Jesus, the revelation of Your love has swept me off my feet. Lord, You have drawn me and I run after You. Master, even in the mundane things of life, I shall express my love for You. Consume me in Your love.

The Journey of Man: From Sinner to Perfection, by Mitt Jeffords

           I was now wondering why the Lord would give me this vision in conjunction with this vision about the purpose that God created man. Then the Lord spoke to me and said, “When I created my angels, I brought forth heavenly beings into heavenly places; heavenly beings that then willingly chose to turn from the state of being that I created for them, and to depart from my love. I then took from the fallen the light that I had enlightened their lives with, and I gave to them the darkness.

          The nature of darkness is ignorance of me; the ignorance that alienates and separates the fallen from God. Those who walk in darkness, by nature they do not have any desire to have the fellowship of my love. Afterwards, I cast them out from my presence, and cast them into this world. When Adam and Eve willingly chose to turn from the state of being that I had created for them, and to depart from my fellowship of love, I then cast them out from the garden of my presence into this fallen world. This fallen world is where sin and death reign over the hearts and minds of all those who are ignorant of me.



        When I knew that Adam and Eve had departed from the state of being that I had created for them, I changed their state of being to be darkness. They were led by the wind, the spirit of fear that counseled them to hide from my presence. Is it possible for darkness to have any fellowship with the light? Does fear have any agreement with love?”

       What “fellowship” can light have with the darkness? When Adam fell, his very nature became the nature of darkness, that which can have no fellowship with the light. When the spirit of darkness came upon Adam and Eve, after they received and believed Satan’s lies, did they desire to any of my fellowship with me, or was their desire with that dark, fearful spirit of this world?

         Did they not desire to be lead to separate themselves and hide from the very presence of my love? It was by the Spirit of this world, that spirit of the darkness of ignorance, that suddenly filled the hearts and minds of Adam and Eve, and their relationship and fellowship that they had once enjoyed with God was completely severed.

        The spirit of this world is ignorant of God; the spirit of this world does not love God; the spirit of this world does not believe God; the spirit of this world is not obedient to God; the spirit of this world cannot receive the love of God; the spirit of this world doubts God; the spirit of this world cannot understand God; the spirit of this world rebels against God; the spirit of this world that does not trust God; the spirit of this world is not willing to follow; and the spirit of this world cannot surrender to the love of God.

        Do you see how the spirit of this world blinds the heart and the mind to see and hear the truth about God? Do you see and understand now why the darkness of this world cannot have any fellowship with light of God’s love?

         Know this, that when I saw how great the darkness was that came upon man, and how wicked every imagination in his heart had become towards me, it grieved me so. I saw how much men delighted in having no relationship with me. I truly knew then that unless I revealed the truth about myself to men, how much I love them, then it would not be possible for any to desire for me to be their God; much less to be their Father, their Husband, and their friend. Then in the fullness of the appointed time, I came to man in his own likeness, the likeness of sinful flesh, but I was filled within with Light of God.

          It was time for me to show to men the love that God has for men, even when I dwelt in the likeness of sinful flesh. It was at this appointed time that I came into this world to show what the love of God is capable of doing for those who would come to believe on me and desire for me to be their Lord. Consider that which is written of me, how I delighted in being with man.

          For God so loved the world that he gave me, his only begotten son, to come and be that example; an example of not only what the wonderful works that God’s love is able to do for a man, but also what the love of God is able to do within a man’s heart and mind.

          Even so, the love of God was so alien to men that when I came, the world did not know me, and my own people did not receive me. The light shined in the darkness, but the darkness could not comprehend it; and because the darkness could not comprehend it, I was despised and rejected by men.

           It was here that the scales were completely unbalanced, because when they hated me, I continued to love them. When they despised and rejected me, I continued to love them. When they mocked and persecuted me, I continued to love them. When they sinned against me and offended me, I continued to love them. When they stripped me and spit on me, I continued to love them. When they scourged me and crucified me, I loved them to the end, asking out of love for my Father to forgive them. They did not know me, or receive me, when I first presented myself to them.

           This is the power of darkness. This is the power that rules over and reigns over the hearts and minds of man. This is the power that blinds the eyes of men so that they are not able to see or discern the love that God has for them, nor are they able to desire to have any fellowship with God.

          The blind will praise God with their lips, and they will honor him with their mouths, but they have no desire to draw near to God. What fellowship can darkness have with the light when the light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot comprehend it? I am that light!

           I am the one! I am the one who came into this world compassed with sinful flesh, tempted in all things as you are, but without any sin. Even though I was compassed with sinful flesh, I still loved, I trusted, I believed, I was faithful, and I was true always to my heavenly Father by the Spirit of God that dwelled within me.

          I am the one that God sent into this world to be an example of what the love of God is able to do for any man who desires to come into fellowship and unity with God. I am the gift that God dreamed of to give to his creation.

          No man comes to the Father except through me because I am the one that loves Father with all my heart, all of my mind, and all of my being. I am the first of the ones that God dreamed of having. I am the first one that was able to balance the scales of love.


          As it is written, I could do nothing of myself, yet I surrendered to Father’s Spirit of what he dreamed of. But I could only be that which fulfilled his dream by surrendering to the Spirit of God that dwelled within me. For only I Am can balance the scales with I Am.

John 5:30 “I can, of my own self, do nothing. As I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father, which has sent me.”

          When I dreamed my dream for my new creation, it was I that planned to bring forth all those who desire to have me from out of that old creation that does not know me, that does not believe on me, that is not faithful to me, that does not trust me, and that does not love me. It is I that chose to bring forth my new creation out from among the citizens of this fallen world, whose very nature of alienation and separation is sin against the fellowship that I created man to have with me.

           It is I who planned to send the pattern of my dreams into this fallen world, my son Jesus Christ. I sent my Son into this world to show to the world what my love and my power is able to do for those who are born in the likeness of sinful flesh. I can bring forth in those who first born in the likeness of sin of death. It is I who planned to bring forth my Son Jesus Christ to show to the world what the power of my Spirit and the depths of my love are able to do for all those who have been born in the likeness of sinful flesh, subject to the will (desires) of man and the will (desires) of the flesh.


           Jesus is the one. Jesus is the pattern for my new creation; the pattern that reveals that through my Spirit, a man can be made willing to lay down his life that is subject to the nature of sin and death, and then raised up again in oneness, in equality, and in like-mindedness with God. I have chosen Jesus to be the pattern for my new creation because he loves me in the same manner that I have loved him.

         What man is able to comprehend what my Spirit is able to do in those who were born in the likeness of sinful flesh? Being born of my Spirit, Jesus is the one who knows me, who believes on me, who is faithful to me, who trusts me, and who loves me with all of his heart, and all of his mind, and all of his soul, and all of his being.

         Before the world began, I predestined that all who I called to me should be conformed to the image of my son Jesus Christ. Jesus is the one. Jesus is the pattern of that which I dreamed of. Jesus is the one that loves me with all of his heart, all of his mind, and all of his soul.  Jesus is the one that balances the scales. In Jesus are all of the details that I dreamed of having in my new creation.

          In Jesus are all the details for the relationship that I desire to have with my sons. In Jesus are all of the details for the relationship that I desire to have with my bride. In Jesus are all of the details for the relationship that I desire to have with my friends.

         Before the world began, I predestined that all those that I would call to me should be conformed to the image of my son Jesus Christ. I have called many, but I will only choose those that answer the purpose that I have called them for: to be mine.

          If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation because those who have been conformed to Christ have been set free from the old nature of sin and death that alienated him from my fellowship and separated him from my love.

           I made Jesus to be Spirit of life that sets free from the desires and affections of sin and death. I made Jesus to be for you the way, the truth, and the life that has fellowship with me. I made Jesus to be for you the light of wisdom and understanding to set you free from the darkness of your ignorance.

           I made Jesus to be seeing for your blind eyes and hearing for your deaf ears so that you could understand and believe the truth of my words. I made Jesus to be faith for the faithless and doubtful. I made Jesus to be meek and lowly to set your heart free from being proud and lofty. I made Jesus to be strength for the weak. I made Jesus to be the willingness that overcomes the unwillingness of the flesh.

           I made Jesus to be for you the faith that sets you free from the doubts, and belief where there was unbelief. I made Jesus to be the faithfulness and loyalty to overcome all of the desires to go a whoring and astray from me. I made Jesus to be righteousness for those who seek for righteousness.

          I made Jesus to be the holiness so my love could freely flow to all those who would receive and believe on me. I made Jesus to be the glory of everlasting life; a life everlasting that balances the scales of love. Jesus is the one who overcame the world that is enmity against me. Jesus is the pattern of that I dreamed of; the pattern that overcomes this world that is alienated and separated from my love.



          The darkness of ignorance, the darkness of sin and death, the darkness of the rebellion of hate and pride, the darkness of unbelief, and fear, and doubt, the darkness of lies, the darkness of false religion and corrupt governments, they are all of this world, and they inhabit the children of this world.

         I know that those who willingly choose to seek after me, that choose to believe my words, and that choose to take up their cross to crucify the rebellion of this worldly nature that alienates from my fellowship and separates from my love, that once they have overcome this worldly nature and taste of my divine nature, they will never, ever again be tempted to turn from my love.

        Those who overcome the world, they overcome all of the darkness of this world for my sake. I am looking to choose my new creation in those who choose to overcome the world, who become like me.

         He who overcomes this world, the fallen nature that desires a life that is alienated and separated from me, then in him shall I fulfill all that which I have dreamed to give to him: my heart, my mind, my love, my divine nature, my power, my authority, and my kingdom. I will give him all that I am, and that I have so that the I Am can balance the scales with I Am.    

           I Am Love, and I Am free. I Am free to love. I have freely chosen to give my love to all those who choose to receive my love. I Am the Spirit of love that is freely given to those who desire to be conformed to my image. I Am the love that has the liberty to do whatever I think because love never thinks to do evil.
           
          My love is Spirit, and where my Spirit is, there is the liberty to do whatever one thinks because love only thinks to love. When I created man in my own image, my love could not think to do anything other than to give to man the freedom to make his own choices because love never forces it’s ways on another.

          So when I dreamed my dream, to make my bride to be one with me, to make my sons to be equal with me, and to make my friends to be likeminded with me, I could not do so without first giving to them the freedom to make their own choices because freewill is the nature and the gift of perfect love.”

           Until his appearing, we are the sons of God through faith; the faith that allows for us to draw near to God and ask for him to make us his workmanship; for it is God who works in us to do his will and his good pleasure. Have you asked of him?

          It is through the circumcision of the flesh that God prepares us to become equal, to become one, and to be likeminded with him so that we may become his sons, his bride, and his friends, and fulfill that which he dreamed before he ever thought to create the world.

           To those whose heart have been prepared, their new identity is true and eternal because it exists in the only place that reality exists, in the thoughts of God’s mind; for only in his thoughts is where all that he dreams of becomes reality. That which man sees and thinks is only temporary, while that which God sees and thinks is eternal.

           Then the Lord gave to me this vision. I again saw the Lord as he was meditating on that which he had dreamed about. I then saw him take up a book and a pen, and then he started designing and writing all of the details of his design in this book. I then knew that whatever the Lord had designed and written in this book was the plan that was going to allow for God to fulfill his dream in the manner that he had chosen.

           I then saw that when he had finished this book, he then hid it in the thoughts of his mind. I then saw the Lord began to start on the plan outlined in the book that was hidden in his mind; and that plan started with the words, “Light, be!”; and the light of life came forth in the darkness. I then saw that his plan was well in motion when he created all that created in those first six days. I then perceived that the plan that God had written to accomplish his dream are the words written in the Bible.

II Timothy 3:16-17 “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness so that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”

           I again saw God as he was releasing parts of his plan in the proper time. Again he opened my eyes to his thoughts, as well as the book that was in his mind. I then saw his thoughts as they came out of that book and traveled to the earth, and into the hearts and minds of men.


          I first saw Moses as he received and wrote all of the words that the Lord and given to him; and he entitled those books Genesis, and Exodus, and Leviticus, and Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

          I then saw God release his thoughts again to Joshua as he added to the words that God had planned for him to write. I then saw all of the visions that Ezekiel, and Daniel, and John, and the prophets of today were visions that came straight out of the pages of the book that God had stored in his mind.



         I then knew, without any doubt, that the Bible is that book, though it is hidden in God’s mind, that contains his plan to make his sons to be equal with him, to make his bride to be one with him, and to make his friends to be likeminded with him.
   
          I was then mediating on these things that the Lord had just shown to me about the Bible, that it is the book, from Genesis to Revelation, that reveals the beginning and the end of God’s plan. It is the book that details how God is going to bring forth that new creation that will balance the scales of love with God. It is the book that details that which God  has dreamed of having: sons who are equal with him; a bride that is one with him; and likeminded friends.

           I was still meditating on these truths when the Lord quickened to me that though the Bible is his plan, he only gives the “details” of his plan, and he gives his understanding to the scriptures of the Bible. Without God’s understanding and wisdom, the scriptures are like having a set of blueprints that do not have any of the details of plan included: worthless and vanity.

           Without God’s wisdom and understanding, we have eyes, but we are not able to see the truth of his words; and we have ears, but we are not able to hear the truth of his words; and we have a heart, but we are not able to perceive the truth of his words.

           The details of God’s plan are only revealed to those that God himself gives his understanding, his wisdom, and the revelation knowledge of the truth that reveals the truth about God.

John 4:25,26 “The woman (at the well) said to Jesus, "I know that Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). “When he comes, he will tell us all things.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”

Luke 24:45 “Then Jesus opened their understanding so that they might understand the scriptures.”

Proverbs 4:7 “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all your getting, get understanding.”

Ephesians 1:16-20 “I do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom, and revelation in the knowledge of him, and the eyes of your understanding being enlightened so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards us who believe, according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places.”

2 Corinthians 3:12-16 “Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: not as Moses, which put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: but their minds were blinded; for until this day the same veil remains untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which veil is done away in Christ. But even to this day, when Moses is read, the veil is on their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord (the Messiah who tells us all things), the veil shall be taken away.”

Deuteronomy 29:1-4 “These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. And Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land; the great temptations which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: Yet the Lord has not given to you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear (his words) to this day.”

Jeremiah 2:31 “O generation, see ye the word of the LORD.”

John 8:43 “Jesus said, “Why do you not understand my speech? Is it because you cannot hear my word.”

Matthew 13:10-17 “And the disciples came and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables? He answered and said to them, “Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For whosoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever has not, from him shall be taken away even that which he has. Therefore I speak to them in parables: because they seeing, do see not (the words spoken); and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

           And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says, “By hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is grown gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and they should be converted, and I should heal them. But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear (the word).

            For truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see these things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear, and have not heard them.”

            Is not the image that a man has of God according to how he sees, and hears, and understands the scriptures? Would a man be willing to allow for God to change him into the image that God had purposed for him? If there is anything that the Lord has taught to me about himself, it is this: his love is full of liberty and freedom; and in that liberty and freedom,

            God will never force himself on any of us. If we desire his understanding and wisdom, then he will freely give it unto his; but if we do not ask for it, it will not be given because he will not force it upon us.

           I will never forget a word that the Lord spoke to me once when he said, “Mitt, if you are not willing to ask or to receive those things that my words say, then I will find someone else that will be willing to ask and receive that which I desired to give to you.” Speaking for myself, that would be the most awful thing that I could image, to give to someone else that which he had desired to give to me.

          That one statement from the Lord worked a lot of willingness in me to seek, and to ask, and to keep knocking until I receive all that which Father desires to give to me.

Matthew 25:14-31 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them. And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability; and immediately he went on a journey. Then he who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents. And likewise he who had received two gained two more also. But he who had received one went and dug in the ground, and hid his lord's money. After a long time the lord of those servants came and settled accounts with them. “So he who had received five talents came and brought five other talents, saying, “Lord, you delivered to me five talents; look, I have gained five more talents besides them.” His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.” He also who had received two talents came and said, “Lord, you delivered to me two talents; look, I have gained two more talents besides them.” His lord said to him, “Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.” Then he who had received the one talent came and said, “Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed. And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours.” But his lord answered and said to him, “You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed. So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest. So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents.

           For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Matthew 13:12 “For whosoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever has not, from him shall be taken away even that which he has.”

           I was still pondering on how and why the Lord has chosen to bring forth is sons, his bride, and his friends out of the vain, and ignorant, and sinful state that man became after Adam and Eve fell. Then the Lord said, “Consider the lilies of the field? They do nothing to spring forth in beauty? Who is going to change you? Who else could better learn the depths of my love except those whose very nature and being was contrary to the divine nature of God?”

          Then the Lord  asked these questions of me. “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Can any good thing come out of that which is evil? Can any light come forth out of that which is full of darkness? Can anything clean thing come out of the that which is unclean? Can any righteousness come forth from a worker of iniquity? Can any incorruption come forth out of that which is corrupt?

          Can anything that is immortal come forth out of that which is mortal? Can any life come forth out of that which is dead? Can anything holy come forth out of that which is wicked? Can any true and passionate love for God come forth out of that which is enmity against God?”

         Then the Lord immediately answered these questions for me saying, “If man tries to do any of these things, then the answer is no; but that which is impossible for man to do is possible with God.

          For the answer to all of these questions is yes, if, and only if, God brings forth himself out of that which is vain, and ignorant, and sinful.

         For only God is good. For God only is light. For only God is pure. For God only is righteous. For God only is incorruptible. For God only is eternal. For God only is life. For God only is holy. For God only is love. Only God himself is able to balance the scales with God.”  

           Then the Lord asked this question of me; a question that I have read and heard before: “Who is going to love me the most: he who sees that he has a much to be forgiven of, or he who sees that he only has a little to be forgiven of? Who then is going to love me with all of his heart, all of his mind, and all of his soul, those who have little to be forgiven of, or those who have much to be forgiven of?

          Who is he who knows the greatness of the depths of the grace, the compassion, the forgiveness, the mercies, and the goodness of my love except those who allow for my love to enter into the depths of sin and death that dwells in the darkness that has corrupted the senses of the heart, and mind, and soul of all my creation.

         If a man does not love me with all of his heart, all of his mind, and all of his soul, then his soul is corrupted from the purpose that I created him.
       
          How else can the greatness of my love be manifest or measured except my love be allowed to enter into the heart, and the mind, and the soul of those who have been corrupted with sin and death?

         Can my own angels measure or know the depths of the grace, the compassion, the forgiveness, the mercies, and the goodness of the love that I show to those sinners that believe on me? Just one man that truly knows that my love has forgiven him of just one of his sins, has experienced a depth of my love than none of my angels have.

I Corinthians 4:5 “Judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes and reveals the hidden things of darkness and the counsels of the heart. Then shall every man have praise of God.”

Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it ? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, to give to every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. (To the sinner, he reveals the mercies, the compassion, the grace, the forgiveness, and the goodness of his love).”

Romans 7:18 “For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I cannot find.”

Psalm 94:11 “The Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.”

Romans 8:6 “The carnal mind is death, but the spiritual mind is life and peace. For the carnal mind is enmity against God (does not believe or love him), and it is not subject to the law of God (life), and indeed, it cannot do so.”

Romans 3:10-12 “As it is written, “There are none righteous; no, not one. There are none that understand, and there are none that seek after God. They are all gone out of the way, and they are together become unprofitable. There is none that does good, no, not one.”

Revelation 3:14-20 “And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God, “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I wish that you were cold or hot. So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth. Because you say, “I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing”; and you do not know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich and clothed with white raiment so that the shame of your nakedness does not appear. And anoint your eyes with eyesalve so that you may see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hears my voice, and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.”

           It was when I overcame the world, that sinful flesh that is alienated me from having fellowship with God and separated me from the blessings of his love, that my Father spoke from heaven and said, “This is my Son that I am well-pleased with.

          This is he that I dreamed of sharing my love with.” When I overcame the world, I became the only one in all of heaven, in all of the earth, and in all beneath the earth that was found worthy to take the book and remove the seals that kept it bound. I was found worthy because I was the first one that loved God with all of my heart, all of my mind, and all of my being.

           Now those who come to know the truth about themselves, that they truly are blind to see as I see; that they are poor in the spirit of life; that the thoughts of their mind and the intents of their heart are exposed and naked before me; that they are wretched in their unwillingness; and that they are miserable in their bondage to fear, and dread, and double-mindedness, and confusion, and bitterness, and hatred…

          they love me because they know that I make my mercies new everyday, and that I daily cover their sins with my blood, and that through grace….I love them.

           These are they who know the depths of my love in ways that my angels do not know; for my angels are not blind, or poor in spirit, or wretched, or miserable in my presence.

          But my sons, and my bride, and my friends, those who overcome the world through their belief of my love and their faith that I will appear again to change them into my likeness, they know the depths of my love.

           They know that when sin abounds, my love abounds even greater. They know that when their own heart condemned them, that my love never does. They know that there is no sin that my love is not able to forgive them of, and they would never even think to blaspheme the spirit of the Lord because it is the spirit of love.

          These are they that not only know the depths of my love, but they also thirst and hunger to be changed into the likeness of my love: to balance the scales of God with God himself in them. Though you are made to be lower than angels, you will be exalted above angels when I come to dwell in you in all of the fullness of the glory of God, in the perfection of his love, and in the beauty of his holiness.


       
          Then shall you be the son that is equal with his Father, the bride that is one with her husband, and the friends that are likeminded. Then, and only then, shall the scales be balanced, and God will have that which he dreamed of having before even thought to create this world.”


Word Given to Mitt Jeffords

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How Are The Dead Raised Up? by Mitt Jeffords

May
22
2011

I CORINTHIANS 15:34-36 “Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame. But some will say, “How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?” Foolish one, do you not know that what you sow is not made alive unless it dies.”

If there is anything in this world that man cannot explain in the natural, it is love. If a man has never fallen head over heels in love for a woman, then it is not possible for him to understand how the passions of love move a man. If a person has no children, then he or she cannot possibly understand the love that parents have for their children. I have three children that are well into their adulthood, and I also have five grandchildren. All three of my children have been affected by the economy, especially my two daughters because they are married to men that are in the home building industry. So, you can imagine my concerns there. All three of my children have also been called by the Lord, and their faiths, just like the rest of us, has greatly been under attack. Seeing that I am much older in my faith than they are, the Lord has matured me in the faith that he has not yet matured them; and for this reason, I can see things in their faith that they still lack. But I know that it is not I that works in their belief, nor is it that can increase their faith, for it only the Lord himself that is able to do that. I also know that the Lord will provide for all that which they lack in due time, if they continue to seek him.

1 Corinthians 3:6 “I have planted, Apollos watered; but it is God that gives the increase.”

Luke 17:5 “And the apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

Recently, I had one of the most restless nights of sleep that I have had in many years; and the reason was my worries for my children. The next morning, while I was praying out of my worries for my children, the Lord spoke to me and said, “Mitt, you really have a perverted relationship of love with your children.” Obviously, this really surprised me to hear the Lord say this; and so I asked, “How so, Lord?” He then said, “You have been measuring how much you love your children by how much you worry about them. And I have revealed to you that all worry comes from the spirit of fear; and there is no fear in love!” This word immediately pierced my heart, for I knew that it was truth. I was stunned when I heard these words because it has been many years since the Lord had revealed to me that all worry, all panic, all anxiety, and all stress come forth from the spirit of fear. Many, many times I have judged these miserable fears for what they were, lies from Satan that come forth to torment me. Just as the scripture instructs us, I have bound them up, professing before God that none of these thoughts are right in his sight, and that I no longer had any desire for any of these lies to have any power, or any kind of influence over my thinking at all. I would then profess, “Lord, I am yours, and you are mine, and I ask for you to also bind up these unclean spirits for me, and let your love cast them out of my mind. And so he has faithfully done, as I have sought and asked for him to.

I Corinthians 4:5 “Therefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord come, who will then bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall every man have praise of God.”

Matthew 16:19 “Jesus said to them, “And I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall also be bound in heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall also be loosed in heaven.”

Psalm 34:4 “I sought the Lord and he heard me, and then delivered me from all my fears.”

I John 4:18 “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear because fear torments. He that fears is not made perfect in love.”

It is amazing that when God speaks just a couple of sentences to us, it has the power to unveil your eyes to see things that you have never seen before. I was so stunned to hear this word from the Lord that one verse of scripture just kept repeating itself over and over in my mind, “There is “no” fear in love”; “There is “no” fear in love”; “There is “no” fear in love.” All that I could do then was confirm what the Lord had revealed to me, and confess, “Lord, you are so right; I have truly perverted the definition of love by accounting my worries for my children to be acts of love. Lord, I have never considered that any of these worries were anything other than what a good parent should do for his children. But I now know and clearly see that all of these worries are not acts of love, but the works of fear. Now that I was able to see my worries for what they truly are, I began to bind these fears up; and asking the Lord to bind them up in heaven also. I do not believe that I have ever believed a lie to be truth that left me feeling so violated how I felt at that moment; deceived into believing that these worries were acts of love. My mind was so wrapped around all of these fears that I had for my children that I began to question what it would be like to love my children without the presence of any worry for them. I mean, does it not appear that if you do not worry for someone, then it seems like you do not care about them either?

It was then that the Spirit of the Lord quickened to me the story in the scriptures about when the apostles were with Jesus in that boat, and how dire their situation had become. Many of these apostles were fisherman, and I am sure that they had all gone through many storms before. But this storm was obviously different in the worst way; so bad that their boat had become swamped out with water. Now where was Jesus during this storm? Where was the one that loved them without any worry? And look at what his apostles said to him, “Master, do you “not care” that we are perishing?” Would they have said these words if they saw Jesus worrying about their situation in the same manner they were worried about it? We all know where Jesus was, peacefully asleep without any worries of fear to torment him. Where was the storm in my life, but in the worries that I had for my children, giving me anything but a peaceful sleep. I then saw that I was not the only one measuring love by worry because that is exactly how the apostles tried to measure the love that Jesus had for them when they said to him, “Do you not care”. Again the Lord had proved to me that my thoughts are not as his thoughts because I had thought that worry was an act of love.

As I thought on these things that the Lord had just spoken to me, I thought how ironic it was that I have had many people tell me that they have the love of God in them; and in turn, I would ask them what the Lord had once asked me when I thought that I had the love of God in me, “Oh, so the Lord has delivered you from all your fears, all of your worries, all of your anxieties, all of frets, all of your dreads, and all of your stress because you know that it is written there is no fear in love. Now here the Lord was exposing more fears in me that I had been deceived into believing were acts of love. Let me make this clear, there is a difference between coming to know that God loves you, from having the love of God as your very nature. I have known for many years that God loves me; and out of his love for me I have seen him help me, provide for me, do great and mighty things for me, teach me, heal me, care for me, guide me, and forgive me. Even so, he is still working to perfect my nature with his love. The love of God only dwells in the spiritual mind, and the spiritual mind is where no fear is able to dwell.

When the Lord had first opened my eyes to see and understand that all of my worries, and stress, and anxieties were nothing but lying counsels coming from the spirit of fear, it had become fairly easy for me to recognize these lies would show up in my imaginations, to tempt me to follow them because of the worry and anxiety that would accompany their counsels. I had seen, and rightly judged, these fears when they came to me concerning the failing economy, my health, the events of tomorrow, suffering, rejection, other people’s judgments of me, etc…..but this was different. This fear had come to me disguised as love, deceiving me into believing that every good parent should worry about his or her children because if you did not worry about them, then you do not care about them. I know that Satan has deceived the world, and that he tries to imitate the nature, the characteristics, and the power of God, but I would have never dreamed that all of my worries for my children, and other people, were nothing but carefully crafted lies that they had come so cleverly disguised that I even used them to help me define my role as a loving parent.

Then the Lord gave me a vision of this very large cemetery; and in this vision the cemetery that I saw was shrouded with a thick fog. It was also very strange because it was as the darkness of night everywhere, yet there was just enough light that allowed for me to barely be able to read the inscriptions on the gravestones. This cemetery seemed to be so old that it did not appear as though anyone had been buried in it for at least two hundred years. Most of the tombstones were covered with green and black mildew, and many of them had tilted on their side so bad that it seemed like they could fall over at any moment. It did not appear as though anyone had even step foot in this cemetery for quite some time. I did not see any flowers on any of the graves. Not only did the cemetery itself feel creepy, and eerie, and spooky, but it was also as if the air itself felt heavy and haunting. I then asked the Lord the reason that he was giving to me this vision. He then answered me and said, “Each one of these graves that you see in this cemetery represents one of the dead thoughts that lodges in the conscience of the carnal mind. And I brought you here so that you could see where you are going every time you choose to worry about any of your children; a place where you will find no light of life.” I then realized that the Lord was showing to me that this cemetery was actually the conscience of the carnal mind; the place where death reigns. And surely there is no life in worry.

Hebrews 9:14 “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”

Romans 8:6 “The carnal mind is death, and the spiritual mind is life and peace.”

I then began to examine the part of the cemetery that I was standing in, and the first thing that I noticed was this tall stone monument that was about ten feet tall. I noticed that it was not marking any of the graves, but it rather seemed to be one of those stones that identify the name of the family that is buried in that area of the cemetery. It was so foggy and dark that I had to walk right before this monument before I could read the engraved on it; and it read: IMMANI: THE SPIRIT OF FEAR. I then turned around and began examining the names on the gravestones that were immediately surrounding me, and the name written on each of the gravestones in my immediate area was “Worry”. I then walked over to the gravestone closest to me so that I read the epitaph engraved beneath the name that described that which I was had been worried about. The first three gravestones that I read was a gravestone for each one of my children; and the epitaph written on each one described the worries that I had for them. I also saw epitaphs written on other gravestones that had described the worries that I previously had about my health; the worries I had about getting old; the worries that I had about what people thought about me, and how they might judge me; the worries that I had about offending people; the worries that I had about my financial state; and etc.

II Timothy 1:7 “For God has not given to us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”

Matthew 6:25-34 Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not worry saying, “What shall we eat?” or “What shall we drink?” or, “What shall we wear?” For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; and your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But you seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Proverbs 16:3 “Commit your work to the Lord, and your thoughts shall be established.”

I then noticed that before some of these gravestones, the ground had been dug out like it was waiting on a casket to be placed in it. But then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “The reason that this graveyard and these gravestones appear so old is because there is nothing new under the sun; that is, there is nothing that has worried you that has not worried all men since the fall of Adam. Is it not written that I set before you a choice every day, a choice between life and death, blessing and cursing? Know that every time that choose to believe any of the counsels that come from fears of your worries, then the darkness and death that fills this cemetery will be the darkness and death that fills the conscience of your mind; a conscientiousness that is filled with dead thoughts that bring forth dead works. What have the worries of your fears worked in you anything other than unrest, misery and torment? Again, I say to you, choose life; and I will call you forth from the grave, and set you free from all these dead thoughts. I am the resurrection and the life. Choose me!”

Hebrews 9:14 “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”

John 11:25-27 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this? She said to him, “Yes, Lord: I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.”

I Corinthians 15:34-37 “Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame. But someone will say, “How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?” Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies.”

Romans 8:6 “The carnal mind is death, and the spiritual mind is life and peace.”

I then walked along reading all of these epitaphs, and my eyes were clearly opened to see how fear had not only worked in me to bring forth things that I should worry about, but I also saw how this same fear worked in me to bring forth things that I should be afraid of. And things that brought panic upon me, and things that I was apprehensive about, and things that brought stress upon me, and things that frightened me, and of course I saw many things that had brought anxiety upon me. I then understood how easy it is for people to become paranoid or to become subject to all of these phobias that oppress men in their thoughts. Truly, Satan is after our heart and our mind, and he knows well how to deceive us. Did not Jesus say of Satan that this was your adversary? When the Lord would judge these fears for me, he would bring them into the light so that I could clearly see them for what they truly are: vanity and death. And once I saw them in the manner that the Lord saw them, it was easy for me to lay these thoughts on the altar and ask God to come and destroy them with his consuming fire.

I was still in this vision, walking throughout the cemetery of my dead thoughts, examining all of the names and the epitaphs that were written on each gravestone. I was also asking the Lord to open my eyes so that I could clearly see the death and the vanity of all these thoughts. I passed by gravestones that identified such thoughts in me as pride, unbelief, confusion, bitterness, doubt, judging and accusing others, strife, depression, bitterness, arguments, loneliness, dread, contention, dissatisfaction, hopelessness, rebellion, and impatience. Truly, I say to you, I have seen all of these types of thoughts working in my mind; and they are all vanity, worthless, and empty of life. Truly, just as the scriptures say in Psalm 94:11 “The Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.” l find it amazing that all I did was to ask the Lord to judge me, to open my eyes so that I could see the thoughts of heart in the same manner that he sees them, and boom; whenever my eyes are opened, the blindness of vanity just seems to dissolve away.

It was then that I realized that I had been so focused on seeing what was written on these gravestones that I had not noticed that many of the graves themselves had been opened. I then realized that these open graves were all of the dead thoughts that I had previously called out to Jesus to from the death that had ruled over my mind. I was walking along still looking at what was written on these epitaphs when all of a sudden a brilliant light shined from behind me. I immediately turned and saw this brilliant light shining on all three of those gravestones that contained the dead thoughts of my worries about my children. Then I heard a loud voice come from within that light that said, “Mitt, come forth!” Immediately all three graves opened up, and I felt, standing there watching this, like this sudden great weight of heaviness just lift off of me. Glory be to God. I was dead in my thoughts, serving these miserable fears, and now I am alive, freed from all of these thoughts. I had been worried for all these years about the destiny of my three children… and here God revealing to me that my prayers were coming forth from my fears. Jesus was has been asleep on the pillow the entire time, waiting for me to raise up.

Paul wrote in II Timothy 4:18 “And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom”. How is he going to do this except by the word of his mouth? The Lord has called each one of us to come out of the darkness of our ignorance of him; the ignorance that has alienated us from his fellowship and separated us from his love. Even though each one of us has this calling, the darkness still comes in it’s attempts to turn us away from God, enticing us to come back to that old nature of darkness that has no fellowship with God. Even now, it is just like it was when Israel was coming out from their bondage in Egypt, that many get very excited that God had freed them. But the first moment they face adversity, Satan is there again to deceive many of them with his lies; and the deceived began to declare, “Take us back to Egypt, for God has brought us out here to destroy us.” Who among us, when faced with some kind of tribulation or adversity has not heard those same lying spirits speaking into our thoughts that say such things as, “God does not love you.”; or, “God will not hear you”; or, “God does not care about you”; or, “God is not going to help you”; or, “Do not think that God will be faithful to you”. If the darkness was going to just let us go freely to God, then none of us would ever be tempted to believe any lies that Satan speaks to us about God. No matter what state we are in, God still gives us free choice; the choice of what we are going to believe.

We know that it is written that whatever we ask of God believing, it will be done. But if ask anything doubting, then let him not expect to receive anything of God. Where would these doubts and unbelief come from except through the lies of these spirits of darkness? Like the wind that moves about, filled with these lies that are ready to give any a reason not to believe God’s words, or to doubt Father’s love, or to not trust in his faithfulness. They only way that these spirits can find entrance into the hearts and minds of man is for man to “believe” that their lies are right and true. Satan and his demons are like those roaring lions that go about seeking who they can devour with their lies. And just like in the natural, they seek out the weak and the young of the flock. When is the a member of the flock at his weakest but when some manner of trouble, or adversity, or tribulation, or temptation arises. It is then that these lying spirits see their opportunity to tempt the children of God with their lies; lies that are only designed to alienate and separate from God: “You do not think that if God truly loved you that you would be experiencing this adversity or tribulation?”

Matthew 13:20-22 “But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles because he is offended.”

1 Peter 5:8 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the Devil (the one who
accuses God with his lies), as a roaring lion, walks about seeking whom he may devour.”

Psalm 52:4 “You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.”

Speaking only for myself, many times in my own adversity and troubles, when the weaknesses of unbelief, and doubt, and fear are exposed in my trials, God does not come to help me as speedily as I hoped he would. But the Lord, by his wondrous love, has taught me that in these times, I simply have to come to him first, and ask for him to help me overcome the lies that have conceived this unbelief and doubt. Then once the Lord has worked in me to belief and increased my faith, then he performs that which I had first asked for him to help me with. Has not the Lord said that we are all his workmanship? Is it not written that it is God who works in us to believe? When I believe, his love comes; and when his love comes, my relationship with him just grows stronger and stronger. And when my relationship with him grows stronger, the storms of unrest in my mind cease, and he fills me with joy and peace. And so it shall be until that which is perfect comes, when God comes to finish the works that he began in us. But until that say, God is always there for those who draw near to him, calling on his name. Did not Paul say, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith”?

Ecclesiastes 8:11 “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.”

Hebrews 3:12 “Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.”

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 “And he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.”

Romans 8:35-39 “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

There is nothing that oppresses a man more the unrest that fills thoughts of our minds. Jesus came to set us free from our oppressors with the promise that he would give us a new heart and new mind; and that new heart and new mind would love only the truth about God. And it would be the truth of his love that will set us free from ever being tempted again to believe any of the lies that could alienate us from God’s fellowship and separate us from his love. This is the freedom that Jesus Christ came into this world to give to us, not the freedom that a democratic form of government promises. Did not Jesus say that his kingdom was not of this world? Several years ago, when the economy started going bad, the Lord spoke to me and said, “Mitt, I did not come into this world to save the American way of life, but I came to save your soul.” Save it from what? The spirits of this world that continually oppress men in their thoughts with storms of unrest, and trouble, and torment, as well as keeping them separated from the love of God. The promise was not a new government ruled over by men, but a new heart and new mind where the spirit of God reigned over the thoughts of the heart with faith, and wisdom, and truth, and peace, and love.

Luke 17:21 “Neither shall they say, “Lo here!” or, “Lo there!”, for behold, the kingdom of God is within you.”

Colossians 3:15 “And let the peace of God rule in your hearts to the which you also are called in one body; and be you thankful.”

Isaiah 57:20-21 “But the wicked are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest,
whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace to the wicked”, says my God.

Acts 2:2-4 “And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”

John 3:5-8 “Jesus answered, “Truly I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, “You must be born again.” The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Mitt Jeffords
May 22, 2011

Why did God create man? by Mitt Jeffords

 This is a word that the Lord began speaking to me at the end of November until now.

 I was praying when one morning when the Lord spoke these words to me. “The destiny that you seek to fulfill, to be changed into your new identity, is that which God planned for you before he ever thought to create this world. Not even to this day has any eye seen, or any ear heard, or any heart perceived that which Father predestined for every man before the world began. It is as it is written, that many, many prophets and righteous men have desired to see with their eyes and to hear with their ears the things which God has prepared for those who believe on me, but they have not seen nor heard. Though many have tasted the goodness of my love, and the peace in my spirit, and the abundant life of my presence, they still have see have not seen me in the perfection of love, or the glory or everlasting life, or in beauty of holiness. Fear not, for I have been working in your heart and your mind so that when I appear, you shall not only see me as I am, but you shall be ready and willing to be changed into my exact likeness. I am the identity that seek after. He that finds me finds the identity that Father predestined for all to be conformed to before this world was ever a thought in his mind. I have come in visitations, in dreams, in revelations, in visions, and I have given many prophetic words to reveal my will for you and to help prepare your hearts so that you will be able to receive me when I appear.

 Romans 8:29,30 “For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he predestined, these he also called; whom he called, these he also justified; and whom he justified, these he also glorified.”

 I Corinthians 2:7-12 “We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world for our glory, which none of the rulers of this world knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love him.” But God has revealed them to us through his Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we not have received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God so that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.”

 If there is first a willing heart and willing mind, then shall you be able to receive me when I appear, and when you are able to receive me, then shall you be changed into my very likeness. This is the plan that God had for you before the world began. There are none who have yet to see, or to hear, or to perceive the perfection of all that which shall come upon you at my appearing, which is the completion of that which God has planned for all those who love him. So know this, that the only place that your new identity exists is in the only place that reality exists, and that is in the mind of God. The identity that God has chosen for all of you is that which God dreamed about for you before he ever thought to create this world. That which eye has not seen, nor any ear heard, and that which no heart has perceived is that which God planned for you in the beginning; for your beginning began only as a thought in God’s mind.”

 II Corinthians 8:12 “For if there is first a willing mind, then it is accepted according to that which a man has, and not according to that which he does not have.”

 I John 3:2 “Beloved, now we are the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that when he shall appear, we shall see him as he is and be like him. And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.”

 Shortly after the Lord spoke these words to me, I was in prayer when the Lord suddenly had me revisiting many of the wonderful works that he has done in my heart and in my life and many of the things that he has taught to me over the past 31 years. One of those things that he brought vividly into my remembrance is that which the Lord had taught to me about the fall of Lucifer and his angels. He reminded me of how Lucifer, the most wise and beautiful angel that God ever created, had turned away from the state of being that God had created for him. His own wisdom tempted him to completely corrupt the state of being that God had created for him when so that he might satisfy his desires for another state of being; to be as God. And having fallen to the temptations of these corrupted desires, he actually deceived himself into believing that he could actually achieve this new identity for himself. Lucifer was so fascinated and entangled in these lies that he had deceived himself with that he then proceeded to speak these same lies to all of the other angels also in his attempts to deceive them into believing that they could change their identities from being angels to being gods. The Lord reminded me also of that which he had taught to me, that if God had not intervened in this rebellion, then Lucifer would have successfully deceived all of his angels, rather than just the one third; that is, he would have deceived all of the angels into desiring to have an identity other than that which God had created for them. When the Lord revealed these things to me the first time, I was astonished at the realization that God’s own angels, those who dwelled in his holy presence and were the recipients of all the cares and blessings of his love, were the very ones that rebelled against the purpose that God had created them to be. I was just as astonished to realize that after this fall had occurred, God knew that none of the remaining angels could be trusted; obedient; yes, trusted; no. What these angels did not realize was that their desires for this new identity would lead them to depart from the purpose that had created for them; and if they chose to depart from his purpose, then what place could they have in his kingdom?

 Job 4:17-18 “Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

Behold, he puts no trust in his servants; and his angels he charges with folly (foolishness/madness/ senselessness/without understanding).”

 Then the Lord began to remind me of all the wonderful works that he has done for me, how by the grace and mercies of his wondrous love he had called me out of my hopeless, my lifeless, and my empty atheistic state of being, and how his love came and delivered me from all of my loneliness and depression. He also reminded me of how when he first called me, his love delivered me from a tongue that constantly spoke profanity and cursing. He also reminded of how his love delivered me from a 18 year, 2 ½ pack a day cigarette habit; and not one time since this deliverance over 30 years ago have I desired to have one. He also reminded me of how his love delivered me from a really, really bad temper; how his love delivered me from all of my self-condemnation as well as pointing the finger to condemn others. He also reminded me of how his love has forbeared with me through all of the times of my sins and my foolishness; and how his love has blessed me continually with his forgiveness, even in those times that I thought that I had gone beyond what I thought was the boundaries of his grace. He reminded of the times that his  love would suddenly appear and bless me with his presence when the darkness had been trying to entertain with lies that were greatly troubling my thoughts. He also reminded of how his love appeared in the times of my correction, not to harshly punish me, but to redeem me from my flesh with his Spirit. He also reminded me of how his love came to me and took me by my hand and walked with me in a time that I no longer considered myself worthy to be his son. He reminded of the times that his love showed me favor when I owned my own business. He also reminded me how his love would suddenly come to open the eyes of my understanding with an incredible revelations when I had been in a state of confusion; and how his love has come to cast out all of my fears and dreads. He also reminded me of how he has proved his love for me in all those times that  I called on him, and he helped me out of situations that seemed impossible. Story after story, and testimony after testimony were flashing through my mind of all the wonderful works that his love has performed and blessed me with.

 Even though I was greatly edified and encouraged at the remembrance of all these things, I then considered why the Lord would suddenly stir up my mind to remember the story about Lucifer, and all of these wonderful works that he has done for me. Then the Lord gave me this vision: I saw a set of weight scales or balances suspended in the air; one like the justice system uses as symbol for their profession. But unlike those scales, which show a blindfolded woman holding a set of scales in her hands that are balanced, I saw no one holding these scales, and they were completely unbalanced. One side of the scale was as high as it could go while the other side of the scale was as low as it could go. What was interesting to me was that I saw nothing at all on the scales that could be weighing that  side down. Then the Lord said, “This scale that you see first represents my relationship with my angels, how I have loved them with all of my heart and my mind, but they have not loved me in return in an equal manner. Even so, my love continues to bless them at all times.

 These scales also represent how I have loved you, as well as all men with all of my heart and all of my mind, even in those times that you not loved me, or returned my love to me in equal manner in return; that is, I have loved you with all of my heart when you have not loved me with all of your heart. All of the these wonderful works that you have allowed for me to do for you, did I not do them in times that you did not love me? Even so, as I my love has done for you in the past, so will my love do for you now, and in the future; for I always bless you with my the blessings of my love and with all of the wonderful works that I have promised to do for you, even when have not loved me in a manner that is equal to the manner that I have loved you. All that I have asked for you to do until now was to believe on my love for you; for it is your belief that allows for my love to bless and to do all of these wonderful works for you. Your lack of love for me has never prevented the perfect love that I have for you from performing my words for you; only unbelief, and doubt, and pride are able to shut up the windows of my love.” It was then that I realized that it is the love that God has for us that was weighing down that side of the scale where I could not visibly see, while the other side represents the love that we lack towards him. I then knew that even though I could not see his love on these scales, I knew it was there because of all the wonderful works his love has done for me.

 The Lord continued, “I Am. I Am God. I Am love; and my love would never think at any time to corrupt any of the relationships that I have entered into with any of my beloved, whether they be in heaven or on the earth. My love only thinks to bless: to work all things for your good, to save you, to care for you, to protect you, to correct you, to provide for you, to help you, to guide you, to deliver you, to redeem you, to heal you, and to give myself to you. Many have heard of my love, received my love, tasted my love, and believed on my love, but they have not yet been to return to me the love that I have given to them. Even so, I still love them as perfectly as if they were able to love me perfectly. It is not possible for perfect love to do anything other than love perfectly; otherwise, it would not be perfect. As you have received and believed on my love, so has my love blessed you with all of these wonderful works that I have brought back into your remembrance. In the darkness, man does not know or understand love; for all that sees are reasons to love, or reasons not to love. Those who are ignorant of my love cannot comprehend how love is only able to love, without having these reasons to love, or reasons not to love. I am the love that continually loves without having any reason to love, and I am the love that reasons have no power to for me to stop loving.

 I John 4:8-11 “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”

 I John 4:16 “And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.”

 1 John 4:19 “We love Him because he first loved us.”

 My love gives, and gives, and gives. My love gives all that I have, but it never runs out because my love is a well-spring of life. My love never thinks to forsake, or to despise, or to be unfaithful to, or to not care for, or to turn away from, or to ignore, or to go awhoring after another, or to betray, or to break any of the covenants that I have ever entered into. It is impossible for my love to ever be tempted to do any of these evil works because none of these evil thoughts can abide in my love. Have I not declared, and is it not written, “Your thoughts are not as my thoughts”? I Am love, and love does not think to do evil; and because I never think to do even, I cannot be tempted to do any of these evil works, and neither is it possible for me others, whether they be heavenly or earthy, to do any of them either. Do you hear me when I say that my love “never thinks” to do any of these evil works? Even so, my heart knows the hurt and the grief that comes when my beloved forsake me, despise me, are unfaithful to me, that turn away from me, that ignore me, that betray me, that go awhoring from me, and that break my covenant. It is my love that is the bond of every covenant that I have ever established. My love never fails, and it delights always in honoring my covenants….not in breaking them. All that I have asked you to do is to believe on my words and put your faith in my unfailing love, and I will perform all of my promises for you. You are my workmanship, except those who break my covenant and depart from my love.” Then the Lord also said, “Now do you understand why these scales are so unbalanced? There are none in heaven, or on the earth, or in the earth beneath that have been able to return to me the same love that I have loved them with. None that is but one.”

 I Corinthians 13:5 “Love does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, and it thinks no evil.”

 James 1:12,13 “Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him. Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted of God”: for God cannot be tempted with evil, and neither does he tempt any man with evil.”

 Galatians 3:26 “For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.”

 Galatians 5:6 “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.”

 Isaiah 55:6-9 “Seek the Lord while he may be found, and call upon him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord; for he will have mercy on him; And to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For My thoughts are not your thoughts (the love that never fails), nor are your ways my ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

 This is the hour of revelation of Jesus Christ; it is the hour that God has chosen to reveal things that have been hidden in his heart and secrets that have been in his thoughts that have never before be revealed. For many years, I thought that this revelation would not occur until he appeared, and then those who were chosen would see him as he is, and then be changed into his likeness. I did not know that the revelation of Jesus Christ must first take place to prepare us for this actual appearing; for he is only going to appear to those who are ready and willing to be changed into his likeness. Like the 5 virgins that were not prepared, so also will the unwilling, the unbelieving, and the unwise also not be ready to receive their new identity. For many years the Lord has given to me, and to many others dreams, prophesies, visions, and revelations to prepare us for his appearing. No man that has received any of these messages from God has been able to choose the method that God has chosen to reveal himself. What I am about to share transcends all of these former ways that God has communicated these things in my past.

 After the Lord had given to me the vision of the unbalanced scales, he then took me to a place that I am becoming a little familiar with because he has brought me to this same place a couple of times before. I cannot possibly understand how he does this, nor can I do any justice in trying to explain how, but he takes me into the thoughts of his own mind. I am so thankful that the Lord has not laid one me the burden that would require for me to make men to believe that I have actually been in this most secret of places, but I am excited in being able to testify of what I have seen and heard while I have been there; for that which I have seen and heard I will bear witness; and my witness will testify to the truth or not, whether of whether God would actually allow a man to come into the most secret and intimate of places. Those who desire to know him, to fulfill their destiny in being transformed into his likeness, they will take this witness to the Lord himself for confirmation.

 First of all, just as it is written, God thoughts are not as man’s thoughts; for the thoughts of all men, no matter how imaginative or intelligent they may be, are nothing at all like the thoughts of God. Man’s thoughts are so vain and so full of boundaries and limitations simply because the mind of man is only able to think on the things of this world. The first thing that overwhelmed me when he allowed for me to enter into his thoughts was the reality of God of himself; for the mind of God is filled with nothing but reality. It is a place where the reality of God is so real that not one thought of doubt, or reasoning, or unbelief could ever even attempt to enter into my own thinking while I am there. He is I Am because all that he is, is reality. The next thing that overwhelms me is my own reality, that I am not real because I am a man, but that I am real because I am in the thoughts of God and he thinks about me. I see the love that he has for me, and I know that this is my reality, to be loved by God, and to love him as he has loved me. Everything outside of this reality is vanity; lying illusions that appear as reality.

 The mind of God is like the heavens themselves; endless, infinite, without having any limitations, or boundaries, or restrictions. Oddly enough, just like the air that we breathe on earth, there is also an atmosphere in the mind of God; and atmosphere that makes me feel like it is the most perfect of sunny spring days X infinity. I know that I am not only standing in the place where the atmosphere is full of life, but I am standing in the place where all everlasting live is birthed from because every thought of God is like abundant life bursting forth; and it is this abundant life that makes to know that every thought in his mind is reality. The atmosphere of his thoughts is far more alive than the freshness of that perfect spring day that signifies a new season, with new birth and new growth all around you. It is being in his thoughts that bears witness to the truth of that which is written in Romans 8:6 “The carnal is death, and the spiritual mind is life and peace.” It is no wonder that God said that our thoughts are not his thoughts because his thoughts are filled with reality of life, while the natural mind of man is filled with the vanities and miseries of death.

 Isaiah 55:7-9 “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and neither are your ways my ways”, says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

 *If the unrighteous man is to forsake his thoughts, from whom then will he get his new thoughts from?

 Romans 12:1,2 “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but you be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”

 The mind of God is a place of indescribable peace, and beauty, and excitement, and serenity, and love; and with the reality that all these wonderful things are not fleeting, but everlasting. Because it is a place that is so unlike the thinking of man, it is a place that cannot even be imagined in any of the thoughts of natural man; and the main reason that no man on this earth can go there in his thoughts is because the mind of man cannot even grasp what the love of God consists of. Love is the life in all of God’s thoughts; and his love gives life to all who are in his thoughts. Love is that freshness, that life, and that newness that is in the atmosphere of God’s mind. It is seeing and feeling saturated in his love that makes my life to be reality. God is love, and God is I Am. I  Am is reality, and I am because I am loved by God, and because he thinks on me; and all of his thoughts towards me are now my reality.

 There is no darkness, or shadows, or illusions, or pretenses, or vanity, or hypocrisies, or lies of any kind in the thoughts of God because none of these things are reality. Only in the ignorance of man’s thinking do these things appear real. There are no worries of any kind, or stress, or anxieties, or any other kind of fear to be found in any of his thoughts because as it is written in 1 John 4:18 “There is no fear in love; (this is reality); for perfect love casts out fear: because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love.”

If any man thinks that he understands and knows the love that God is God’s divine nature, but he has any worries, and fears, and anxieties, then I assure you that you do not yet know the divine nature of God. Yes, we know what is to be loved by God, and some of else have even tasted of his divine nature, but that which is perfect has not yet come to any of us. There is no foolishness, or evil, or unfaithfulness to be found anywhere in God’s mind.

 James 3:17,18 “The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.”

 James 1:5-6 “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.”

 Jeremiah 4:22 “For my people are foolish, they have not known me. They are senseless children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.”

 When God has allowed for me to come into his thoughts, it is like there is this incredibly friendly “Welcome Mat” not only at the entrance of his mind, but throughout all of his thoughts. The entire atmosphere is filled with gentleness, with humility, with tenderness, with joy, with peace, with excitement, with goodness, and of course, with love. I will always remember what the Lord said to me the first time that he allowed for me to see his thoughts, “I Am love; and love never has anything to hide. I yearn for you to know the love that I have for you.” It was on that visit that God’s love for me became my reality; the reality that no doubt or fear, or unbelief is able to overcome. His love for me is no just a hope in me, but it has become my reality. It is not possible for a man to see the thoughts of God without knowing the truth about how much God loves him.

 I am just standing there amongst his thoughts when the reality of where I am sweeps through me, the reality that abundant and everlasting life truly does exist in the thoughts of God’s mind; and with the reality that this is the place where Jesus is desirous to lead us to. For Jesus said in Matthew 7:14 “Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads to life, and few there be that find it. And is also written that the spiritual mind is life. I then tremble at the thought that this is the kind of thinking that God desires to bring us all into. But the way in cannot be found except by those who are first willing to forsake his own thoughts. I can easily see in his thoughts that there are no limitations, or boundaries, or walls to restrict any of the wonderful works that God’s love desires to do for those who draw near to him. But I also see this incredible meekness in his thoughts, and it is by reason of his meekness that he will not force any of his thinking of his love on anyone; but if you seek for, and ask, believing what you ask for, then he will give to you his all.  His thoughts are so much higher than man’s thoughts that it feels blasphemous to me to even try and compare the best of man’s thoughts to the worst of God’s thoughts; for the worst of his thoughts would still be higher than the heavens are above the earth than the best of man’s thoughts. His thoughts will always be unexplainable and indescribable to those who have not seen them; and speaking only for myself, even after experiencing that which the Lord has allowed for me to experience, I still find it hard to grasp how much more wonderful and living his thoughts are to my own. Even so, every thought of God that he has allowed for me to remember is far more real to me than anything that I ever experienced in my own thinking; and even more real to me than anything event that I have lived in my past. Truly, abundant life does dwell in the thoughts of the spiritual mind; and God himself is that Spirit.

 John 10:10 “Jesus said, “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”

 *Philippians 2:5,6 “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.”

 *I had literally read this word hundreds of times, but a few months ago I was reading when the Lord spoke to me and said, “Will you “let” (permit; allow) me establish my thoughts in you?”

 Proverbs 16:3 “Commit your work to the Lord, and your thoughts shall be established.”

 Romans 8:6 “The carnal mind is death, and the spiritual mind is life and peace.”

 Isaiah 26:3 “You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts in you.”

 The mind of God is a place that never changes, yet at every moment, it is birthing new life and new things with every thought that God thinks; and the thing that is the most incredible is that no matter what these exciting new things are that God thinks, his love desires for all of his children to be partakers of them all. I witnessed in the mind of God that it is the only place that true reality exists and dwells; for reality is not that which is temporary, but it is that which is everlasting. Anything that has an end is only temporary; and it is for this reason that this old earth and old heaven is going to burned up and destroyed because it is only temporary. And when it is burned up and destroyed, then all of the memories of this old world, and all of the memories of the deeds that were done in this old world by the mind of man are going to be destroyed and forgotten forever. It is not possible for vanity and reality to dwell and exist together, and as it is written, all of the thoughts of God are reality and all of the thoughts of man are vanity. God’s reality is love; the love that no hatred can dwell in; the love that no unbelief and doubts can dwell in; and the love that none of the worries and anxieties of fear can dwell in.

 When the kingdom of God’s reality comes to reign on the earth, the Lord is going to wipe away all pain, all sorrow, all troubles, all wounds, all grief, as well as all of the sinful  works of pride; and he would not be able to wipe away any of these things without first removing the memory of all the works and events that occurred that brought about all of these sufferings and evil works; for the memory of these works and events can bring about just as much pain and suffering as the pain and suffering that came about when these events actually occurred. When that which is temporary comes to an end, so also will all of the thoughts of the temporary also come to an end. It truly is as it is written, “We brought nothing into this world, and we will take nothing out.”

 Daniel 9:24 “Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and on your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.”

 Psalm 94:11 “The Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity (emptiness; useless [No reality here]).”

 Proverbs 16:3 “Commit your work to the Lord, and your thoughts shall be established.”

 Isaiah 43:18-19 “Do not remember the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth. Shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert (in your heart and mind).”

 Revelation 21:1 “Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away…3-7 “And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.” And he that sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” And he said to me, “Write: for these words are true and faithful.” And he also said to me, “It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.”

 2 Peter 3:13 “Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.”

 The second reason that I know vanity is not going to be able to dwell with reality is because when I was present among the thoughts God, I walked in an atmosphere of truth and reality, like nothing this world has ever experienced. As his senses were, so also were mine while I was present there; and I have never experienced, nor have I ever heard anyone ever testify of ever experiencing such a reality that I saw in God’s thinking. It is laughable to even thing that any kind of foolish reasoning, or deceitful lie, or vain imagination could ever enter into a place so holy in life and filled with the purity of love.   It is written that love believes all things, and every thought that God thinks to do is conceived out of love; and because it comes forth out of love, it is accompanied with all power to perform that which he thinks. On the other hand, man fantasies about having those things that he does not have, but God never fantasies about having anything that he cannot have because all of his thoughts are reality itself. If God can think, then it is possible for God to do it. I have never been in the presence of the Lord where any doubt or reason to question God about anything can come into my thinking because to be in his presence is to be in the presence of truth and reality. Isaiah 14:24 “The Lord of hosts has sworn saying, “Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass (reality); and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.”

 Lamentations 3:37 Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass when the Lord has not commanded it?

 I Corinthians 13:7 “Love…believes all things…”

 Matthew 8:13 “And Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done to you.”

 Jeremiah 3:33 “Call upon me, and I will answer you, and I will show you great and mighty things that you do not know.”

 Ephesians 3:20,21 “Now to him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.”

 Matthew 19:26 “But Jesus beheld them, and said to them, “With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.”

 So I am standing amongst all of his thoughts in a state or wonderment, just gazing and admiring all of the beauty, all of the excitement, all of the newness, and all of the wonderful works that his love is thinking to do. I feel as though I am in the midst never ending forest of extremely tall trees, and each tree is one of this thoughts. The best way that I know how to describe what it feels like to be among the thoughts of God, and believe me, this does not do any justice to what it is really like, is to compare it to what it feels like when you are in one of those electronic superstores where you almost find yourself completely surrounded by several rows of TV’s. If you have been in one of these stores, then you know what this feels like. Sometimes they have the all of TV’s on different channels, and sometimes they are all of them are turned to the same channel; and so it is in God’s thoughts. Now see if you imagine this, that instead of TV’s or trees, there are these giant circular pillars, and each one is about 5 to 6 feet in diameter; and each one of these pillars has like a TV screen wrapped all of the way around it. I can walk all the way around it, and no matter what angle I look at this screen from, I can always clearly what is being displayed on it. That is how I see a thought of God. Now see if you can imagine what it would look like with these pillars of thoughts all about 8 feet apart, and no matter what direction you look in, all that you can see is an endless forest of these pillars, and the skies above, as well as the air around me are as bright sunny day. No matter where I look, I cannot see any walls or a ceiling. Let me say this also, that whatever thought that I am standing before, it is so real, so life like, and so close, that I feel like that I could just walk right into that thought and actually experience what I see that he is thinking. In fact, it is so life like that I did reach out and touch one of his thoughts, and it rippled like water. I knew that what I had touched was liquid light because I have seen this before in God, and when I withdrew my finger, it was not wet at all. I cannot possibly explain how light can be liquid, but that is what I saw.

 So I am standing there when I realize that every thought that I see has a single person in it; and I can also see whatever that person is presently doing. The people that I see are all life-like size, some shorter than me, and some taller; and I suddenly feel as though I am standing in the midst of a crowd. As I examine the people I see that they are peoples of all nationalities, of each gender, of all races, and both young and old. It is strange to see only a single person in each one of his thoughts because as I look around me, I can tell that several people are engaged in conversations or activities with other people, but I never see more than a single person in that thought. I then realize that every man on the face of this earth has his own personal thought in God. Then I experience something that is really incredible, for I can not only see what that person is doing, but I can also see what that person is thinking. I now know that being in the mind of God, and by seeing his thoughts, I am able to see as God sees, into the thoughts of man’s heart.

 I see a soldier fighting in Afghanistan, and he is so stressed out with fear, not with thoughts of being killed, but with thoughts that he could be captured. I then see a person who is in the midst of a heated argument, and his heart is so full of hatred and rage that he thinks of harming the person that he is arguing with. I see a child that looks like he has not eaten in several days, and he feels completely abandoned by everyone around him. I see a man whose is at work at his job, but he is filled with dread that he could be laid off at any moment. I also see a man who has no job, and has lost all hope that he will ever find one. I see a woman who is actually in church singing and praising God, but I see that she has no belief that God will do anything good for her. I also see a man leaving a church service, and he is feeling good about himself because he believes that God is pleased with him for just attending. I see a mother trying to control the activities of her child because she is so worried that something evil will come upon that child if she does not do something. I see a drug addict trying to act normal because he is so paranoid that his drug addiction will be discovered by those around them. I see a man that is so zealous to do good works for God, but he never has any thought to draw near to God. I see a teenage girl complimenting a friend for her looks, but she secretly hates this girl because of the envy and jealousy that is in heart I see a man praying, and just like that Pharisee that Jesus spoke of, he was trying to get God’s attention by declaring how good that he is, and how righteous his works are. in I see a very old man who truly wants to die because he no longer has anything left to live for. I see a beautiful woman full of arrogance because of the looks she was born with, yet she is very lonely. I see a man that is looking at porn, and though lust has a hold of him, he is also filled with shame, and guilt, and self-condemnation, convinced in his own mind that God would not help him or forgive him. I see a man who has been saved, and he is sitting at table, staring off in space because he is troubled about his entire life, and he thinks about praying, but he does not because he does not want to bother God with his problems.

 Genesis 6:5 “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”

 1 Chronicles 28:9-10 “As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve him with a loyal heart and with a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you. But if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.”

 Psalm 94:11 “The Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.”

 Isaiah 66:18 The Lord said, "For I know their works and their thoughts. It shall be that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and see my glory.”

 Luke 2:34-35 “And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against. Yes, a sword shall pierce through your own soul so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”

 Daniel 2:30 B (Daniel speaking to King Nebuchadnezzar) “But as for me, this secret has not been revealed to me because I have more wisdom than anyone living, but for our sakes the interpretation is made known to the king so that you may know the thoughts of your heart.”

 Matthew 9:4 “And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?”

 Matthew 12:25 “And Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.”

 Luke 6:7-9 “And the scribes and Pharisees watched Jesus to see if he would heal on the Sabbath day so that they might find a reason to bring an accusation against him. But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which had the withered hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And he arose and stood forth. Then Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one thing; “Is it lawful on the Sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? To save life, or to destroy it?”

 If seeing these things was not incredible enough, what was even more incredible to me was that though I could hear the thoughts of all these people in my own thoughts, I could not hear the sound of any of their voices. It was as though none of their audible voices could not be heard in God’s ears, or in my own ears. I cannot possibly explain this. Then the Spirit of the Lord reminded me again of the word that says that man’s thoughts are not as God’s thoughts; and it was quickened to me that if God actually heard the thoughts of man, then that man’s thoughts would be in God’s thoughts, and they would become thoughts in his own mind. And if that could happen, then the peace of God would no longer rule in the thoughts of God because the thoughts of man are filled with such unrestful thoughts as fear, hatred, stress, bitterness, impatience, worry, arguments, depression, strife, hopelessness, suspicions, and anxiety that do nothing but trouble the mind. It was then, amongst all of this peace, that I realized that the mind is God is not peaceful because it is quiet, but it is peaceful because of the kind of thoughts that he thinks. I also noticed present among his thoughts these background sounds that were like nothing I have ever heard on earth. Though I do not know what they were, they were having the effect on me that sounds in nature have had on me; like such soothing sounds as listening to a waterfall, or birds gently singing, or the rhythm of gentle waves breaking at the seashore. It was as if these sounds were spiritual sounds that filled the air all around me.

 Romans 8:6 “The carnal mind is death (full of troubling and miserable thoughts), but the spiritual mind is life and peace.”

 Jeremiah 29:11-12 “For I know the thoughts that I think towards you”, says the Lord. “Thoughts of peace and not of evil, and to give you a future and a hope.”

 As I continued to look at the people that were appearing before me in the thoughts of God, I became aware of couple of things. First of all, I became aware that when Jesus said that God cares so much for us that he knows all of the hairs on our heads, it is truth. I then realized that God does not have a thought for each man so that he can spy on us, to try and catch a man in an evil deed, or to see who has been naughty or nice, but it is by reason of his love for us that he thinks on us. When a carnal man sees another man commit a sin, or have faults, or make a mistake, then his thoughts direct him to judge, or accuse, or to point the finger of guilt at, or to criticize, or to look down there nose at, or blame, or to find fault with, or to bring shame upon, or to be disappointed with, or to gossip, or to mock, or to condemn, there was absolutely none of this darkness at work anywhere amongst the thoughts of God. Vanities of Vanities; I have seen all of these thoughts at work in the mind of men, and they are all the works of vanity. Did Jesus have any of any of these vain thoughts working in him when the woman who was caught in the act of adultery was brought before him? So also, I saw in the mind of God, that when any man sinned or erred, the love of God was not only ready and willing to forgive him, but to also cleanse him of his thoughts, if that man would repent and ask God for his thoughts. I then realized that his love is the atmosphere throughout all of his thinking; and that is some really good air to breathe.

 Isaiah 65:2 “I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people that walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts.

 Psalm 94:11 “I have seen all of the works done under the sun, and all is vanity.”

 I then continued to watch and see what the men were thinking and doing before me, but now I was seeing and thinking in the same manner that God was seeing and thinking of them. I was seeing that no matter what situation or circumstance a man may be in, or what evil or vanity may dwell in their hearts, God was seeing all of them through the eyes of love. In every instance I was seeing what the love of God was thinking and desirous to do for them. To some his love was desirous to show them the wonders of his grace; to some his love was desirous to deliver them from all that which was troubling them; to some his love wanted to redeem them from their fleshy desires and thoughts with his Spirit; to some his love was desirous to help them; to some his love was desirous to increase their faith; to some his love was desirous to work good for them; to some his love was desirous to heal them; to some his love was ready to correct of them of their unbelief; to some his love was desirous to show the wonderful works of his mercies; to some his love was desirous to show them the right way; to some his love desired to forgive; to some his love was desirous to give them hope; to some his love was desirous to show them great and mighty things that they did not know; to some his love was desirous to lead them to repentance; to some his love was desirous to care for them; to some his love was ready to give them his strength; to some his love was ready to reveal the truth about his love; and to some his love was desirous to do those things that are impossible for them to do for themselves. I did not see one person, no matter what circumstance or situation they might be in, or whatever evil or wicked condition their heart might be in, or how vain they were in their thoughts, that the love of God was not right there, as close to them as I was to them in the thoughts of God, ready to reveal the works of his love in one manner or another.

 Jeremiah 29:11,12 “For I know the thoughts that I think towards you”, says the Lord. “Thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall you call upon me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will hearken unto you.”

 Romans 10:8-12 “But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”

 Psalm 34:18-19 The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, and he saves such as have a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lords delivers him out of them all.

 Psalm 73:28 “But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord God that I may declare all your works.”

 Psalm 145:18 “The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon him in truth.”

 Then suddenly, the peace throughout God’s mind was disrupted by an audible voice, and I could not tell from where this voice was coming because it seemed to be coming from everywhere around me; and the voice was simply saying, “Lord, help me”. I kept looking around me until I noticed that all of the scenes on every pillar had been switched to this one young man; and I instantly knew that the reason all of the scenes on this pillars had been changed was because all of God’s focus was no on this one young man that was crying out to him for help. I then saw that the reason this young man was crying out to the Lord was because he was troubled because he was he was being tempted to believe thoughts that had appeared in his own imaginations that were trying to tell him that God had forsaken and abandoned him. I then saw the love of God send his word forth, the word of life, and it immediately delivered this young man from all those lies that had been trying to overcome his faith. Immediately after the Lord sent his word, the scene on all of these pillars of God’s thoughts returned back to the individuals that they had been previously focused on. The Spirit within me then quickened to me the word that Jesus spoke when he said that he would leave the 99 to go after the one that was lost; and from I had just witnessed, I know without any doubt that as soon as someone calls out on the name of the Lord, all of the focus of God’s thoughts immediately to that person.

 Isaiah 55:10,11 “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there until they have watered the earth, it make it to bring forth and bud so that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth. It shall not return to me void (returns with thanksgiving and praise for what the Lord has done) but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.”

 Psalm 107:20 “He sent his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”

 Daniel 9:20-23 “Now while I was speaking, praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God, yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, reached me about the time of the evening offering. And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you skill to understand. At the beginning of your supplications the command went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved; therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.”

 Psalm 34:4 “I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from “all” of my fears.”

 Psalm 34:6 “This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.”

 II Timothy 4:18 “And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work.”

 Psalm 60:11 “Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.”

 Psalm 121:2 “My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.”

 Psalm 33:20-22 “Our soul waits for the Lord; for he is our help and our shield. For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we hope in you.”

 Psalm 94:17 “Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul would soon have settled in silence.”

 Over the next few minutes, I witnessed this same scene occurring where a few more times where I heard the audible voices of those who crying out to God because of their desire for his help, or from out of their desperate need of him, or for his guidance, of for his strength, or for deliverance. I then remembered something that the Lord had told me several years ago, that it is our need for him that opens the door of his heart. It was in that moment that I realized the truth of this word because I realized that though I had seen the thoughts of many men, and several of them were even religious, that the only ones that God actually heard the audible voices of were those who had humbled their hearts, drew near to him, and asked for God to help them in that which they had need of. In all of these instances I saw the love of God send his word to perform for them whatever his love saw needful to for them; and it was done. Each time after the Lord responded to those who called out to him for help, those natural sounds of heaven would then return into his mind, and that incredible peace would return.

 2 Chronicles 16:9 “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.”

 Psalm 46:1 “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”

 Let me add this at this time, one thing that I was so obvious to me when I was among all of these thoughts of God, and that there was not one thought to found anywhere there about any specific religion or any government; no, not one. I thought that Jesus had done a pretty good job at both ignoring and avoiding both the religion and government that was in Israel during his time on earth. I mean, he never got entangled with any of their doctrines, or disputes, or the manner that they ruled over the people. Because God was in Jesus, he just went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the Devil, which are the very works that I saw the love of God desiring to do for anyone that would come to him. Jesus saw the temple as a place to worship and fellowship with his heavenly Father, while the hypocrites saw, and still see today, as a place to spread their religion. Even though there was no thought that I saw in God that pertained to any of man’s religions or any of man’s governments. Even so, I still saw that all of the religious and all of politicians each have their own thought in the mind of God, that if any time, they humble themselves and seek God, he will hear their voice also.

 Job 35:13 “Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.”

 Is there any government on this earth that bows down and worships God, asking and waiting on God for his guidance, his help, and his protection? Did not Satan even tempt Jesus by saying that if he would bow down to him, then he would give him all of the kingdoms, or rather governments, of the world to rule over? Did not Jesus answer and say that his kingdom, or government was not of this world? Who then controls all the kingdoms of the world? Is there any government on the face of this earth where the love of God is the law of the land? I have seen the kingdom of God, and it in no resembles any government on this earth. God sees what the thoughts of all men are, but he only hears the audible voice of those who draw near to him because they believe that he alone in there God, and King, and Lord. This bears witness with that which the Lord spoke to me about a year ago. When I saw how badly the American economy was failing, fear and anxiety came upon me; and fear and anxiety are my enemies because when I bow down to them to believe their lies, I am turned away from the God who loves me so. I then called out on the Lord and asked for him to deliver me from these fears. He then spoke to me and said, “Mitt, I will not come to save the American way of life, but I will come to save your soul.” Then the love of God cast out of mind all of my fears and anxieties. When Jesus makes you free, you are free indeed.

 Psalm 94:11 “The Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.”

 Jonah 2:8 “They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.”

 II Timothy 2:4-5 “No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life so that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.”

 II Corinthians 10:3-6 “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.”

 Ephesians 6:10-12 “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil (the affairs and cares of this life). For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”

 James 4:1-2 “Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?”

 I Peter 2:11 “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul.”

 Let me also say this about God, “He is the king of multitasking; multitasking to the power of infinity.” When it was revealed to me that all men have a thought in God’s mind, I then realized that there are at least 7 billion different thoughts that are presently in his mind, and I am not talking about in his memory. Yet there is absolutely no confusion or chaos present, and neither does God, at any time, ever get overwhelmed with having so many thoughts in his mind at one time. It also amazes me that when I was present amongst his thoughts, I did not get confused or overwhelmed either. The wisdom of God reigns over all of the thoughts of God’s mind, and there is no confusion, or chaos, or disorder of any kind in his wisdom.

 I was thinking that the Lord had allowed for me to come into his thoughts just to see how quickly he would release his love to those who drew near to him. But then I was taken to see thoughts that dwelled God’s memory; and when I did, I soon realized that God was allowing for me to see what he was actually thinking shortly after Lucifer and the angels that he deceived had fallen. I just watched and listened as he said in his thoughts, “I am the God who created them. I am the God that loves them. I am the God who provided all things for them. I am the God who continually blessed them. I am the God who cared for them. I am the God that gave them life and purpose. I am the God who gave them all. I am the God who would never think to turn from my love for them or to do any evil to them. Though I have loved them with all of my heart, they have not loved me with all of their heart, but have instead chosen to depart from the state that I created them to be. And having departed from that state, they have departed from the fellowship of my love that I created for them to be partakers of. Through their own desires to be their own gods, they have utterly corrupted the relationship that we had with one another. Even so, I see that they were not capable of loving me in the same manner that I loved them because I did create them to be as my equal.

 Job 4:17-18 “Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? Behold, he puts no trust in his servants; and his angels he charges with folly (foolishness/madness).”

 Then the Lord allowed for me to feel just a small amount of the pain that grieved his heart in the moment that he discovered iniquity and foolishness in the hearts of his beloved angels. Though I only experienced this small amount of grief, and it lasted for just a moment, it was more than I could bear because it hurt so deep in my heart. I felt the pain of the rejection he felt when his angels turned from this fellowship. When this grief began to subside in me, I then felt the pain in God’s heart of what it feels like to give so much love, but then not be able to receive any of love in return. The only thing that I could humanly compare this pain to was the pain that I felt when I was 13 years old, and I had fallen head over heels in love with a girl for the first time in my life. She was my first love, and she was all that I thought about; she was all that I cared about; and all that seemed important to me was learning what her likes and dislikes were. I was not happy unless I was spending my time with her. Even though we became “a couple” for a short time, I knew that she never came close to loving me in the same manner that I loved her; and my heart greatly hurt because of this imbalance. I obviously had a lot of grief and pain in my heart when she broke up with me. It felt like the end of my world, and when my dad said, “Don’t worry, there are more fish in the sea”, those words only worked to agitate me instead of comforting me. But even as bad as that hurt me then, it did not compare at all to the grief that Father felt for his beloved angels. It was here that I began to think that I was beginning to understand why the Lord had given to me this vision of the unbalanced scales; and that is because it represents the unbalanced love that has existed in all of God’s relationships. He gives all that he of the love in his heart to his beloved, but none of his beloved, whether they be his creatures in heaven, or his creatures on earth, have been able to give back to him an equal amount of love.

 I was still watching this scene playing out before me in his thoughts when in the midst of all his pain and grief, and for lack of a better word, I saw that God began “daydreaming”, and I saw the first thought that God had about bringing forth a new creation. I then watched as God thought back to the moment that he first designed and created his angels, as well as the purpose that he created for them. I watched as he brought back into his remembrance that he had originally designed his angels so that they could fit into three roles: he would be their God, and they would be his servant; he would be their King, and they would be his servant; and, he would be their Lord, and they would be his servant. I saw that God designed his own role so that he could reign supreme in all three of these kinds of role. I then saw because God’s thoughts are not as man’s thoughts, his supreme reign over his kingdom was nothing at all like how a fleshy king or a lord would  reign over his kingdom at all. I saw that because God is love; the love that gives all, he created his angels to be recipients of his love. His angels in return would give to them thanksgiving, and praise, and glory for all of the blessings that his love showered them with. As I watched these remembrances playing out in his thoughts before me, the Spirit of the Lord brought back into my remembrance that which Jesus said, “He that is greatest among you shall be your servant”; and there is none greater than God himself.

 Matthew 23:11-12 “Jesus said, “But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.”

 I continued to watch as God established a kingdom for his heavenly host, and I saw that his love was the law that reigns supreme. I also saw that when God created his angels, the first thought that he had for their design was freewill; the right to make choices for themselves. I then saw his kingdom; and in his kingdom it is God’s love that provides for all, that continually blesses all, that continually cares for all, that gives life and purpose to all, and that never thinks to do anything other than to do good for all. I then saw his angels coming before him to honor and worship him with their thanksgivings and praise for all that his love had done. Then I saw the day that God found iniquity in Lucifer and in the angels that had been deceived; and with this iniquity he found that they no longer had any desire to continue in the estate that God had created for them, They were no longer satisfied with being his angels because their deceived heart’s only desired to be as God himself; and they would not be satisfied until their corrupted desires were satisfied. I then saw that they no longer had any desire to give any praise or glory to God because they now desired to for themselves to be praised and glorified. I then saw that it was by this evil desire that the relationship that had existed between God and these deceived angels had become perverted; and in this perversion, they corrupted the entire purpose that God had created for them.

 A actual chill then ran through me, from my head to my feet when I began to realize what sin actually is; that it is any desire, or thought, or deed that leads one to depart from, or to go beyond the will and the purpose that God created for them. I then remembered that the same lies that Lucifer deceived himself with, as well as the other angels in heaven, was also the same lie that he used to deceive Adam and Eve with. And when they chose to believe that his lies were truth, their hearts also began to desire to be as God. And once this desire arose in their hearts, that which had been evil in their eyes had become that which is good, to disobey God. As the deceitful lies perverted the relationship that God had created between himself and his angels, so also did these same deceitful lies pervert the relationship that existed between God and man. I then realized that the reason I saw no religion or government in God’s thoughts was because God created every man on this earth for the purpose of having fellowship with him. He did not create man to have fellowship with either religion or government; for both of these institutions enforce laws so that you should worship them rather than God. I am still in among the thoughts of God, so I am still in the only place that reality exists, and it is no longer hard for me to discern where the illusions of lies dwell, in the foolishness sins of vanity that leads one to desire to be his own lord and god. It is this sinful desire that separates one from the purpose that God created him for.

 I continued to watch into God’s “daydream” that followed the fall of Lucifer and his angels, and I saw how God himself began to dream about having a new relationship, one that would go much deeper than that which he has enjoyed with his angels. I then watched as God begin to dream more about this new relationship, and I saw that he really desired to have a relationship where he would not be the only to give love, but that he would also be able to receive the same amount love as that which he gave. It would be for this sole purpose that would bring forth his new creation. I then saw that the more he thought about this new relationship, the more he began to desire to make his dream a reality. It was then that I saw God, in his own thoughts, take out a pad, and using his finger as a pen, he pointed towards the pad and simply began to just doodle. As dreamed some more, he also doodled; and from his doodling, he became to conceive. As he conceived, he began to design; and as he designed, he began to write down all of the details that he desired to have in this new relationship. I then watched as he began to think on the various ways he thought to make this new relationship a reality. I saw that before God was able to design this new creation, he first had to design all of the details that he desired to have in this relationship, and the only requirement necessary for this new creation would be that they would be able to perfectly balance the scales of love with him.

 I then watched that as God began to think on this new design, he again thought of the design he had created his angels after, but he immediately dismissed this type of creation because he already knew that this creation was not only corruptible, but that they could not at all return the love to him that he gave to them. I then watched as God began to  doodle more with this new design when he all of sudden it was like he realized that before he could design his new creation, it was first going to first be necessary for him to rethink and redefine his own definition for “relationship”; for all the relationship that God knew until this moment was that he was God, and King, and Lord to his heavenly hosts, and they were all his servants. I then saw that as God meditated and doodled about with this new design, thoughts began to come into his mind that he had never before had; and they were thoughts that began to define not only the role of his new creation, but his new role also. I then began to witness a new level of excitement rising up in God’s thoughts about this new relationship and new creation that he was going to bring into reality. I then saw that God became so excited about these new things that he began to focus solely on how he was going to bring it to pass. I then watched as God began to put all of his focus on this new creation; for all of his thoughts around me were all thinking on this one thing. It again reminded me of that electronic store where all the TV’s are turned to one channel. It was only then that I began to realize the magnitude of what I was witnessing with my own eyes, the actual moment of conception and birth of God’s design and purpose for all of mankind. What really fascinated me then was that I was also witnessing the conception and birth of a new kind of relationship that had never before existed in the kingdom of God.

 What was really interesting to me was the more I watched God mediate and consider about what it was going to take to make his “dream” become a reality, I saw that he realized that to accomplish his purpose, it was going to be necessary for him to eliminate the traditional role of “servant” that had existed between his angels and himself. I then actually saw that no where in God’s thoughts did I see him defining the role of his new creation like that which he had with his angels, who were his servants. I only saw that his new creation would love him in the exact same manner that he loved them. I then watched that as God doodled some more, designing his role and the role of his new creation. Then I saw that God realized that he alone is love. He alone is the being of love. He alone is the thinking of love. He alone has the diving nature of love. He alone has the characteristics of love. He alone lives the life of love. He alone is where the goodness and righteousness of love flows from. And that he alone has a heart that beats to his love. I then saw that it was in this moment that God realized that he could not create what already existed: Himself. I then saw that it was in this very moment that got the design for his new creation, that he would make his new creation after his own image. For the only possible way to balance the scales of perfect love is with perfect love.

 John 15:12-15 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No greater love has a man than this, that he lay down his life (hating one another, judging and accusing one another; criticizing and despising one another; and not forgiving one another) for his friends. You are my friends if you do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I no longer call you servants because a servant does not know what his lord does, but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known to you.”

 It was at this point that the spoke to me and asked, “Mitt, if I no longer call you my servant, then what do you call me?” I really considered what the Lord had asked me, thinking that if I called him God, or King, or Lord, then he would he not have to answer me by calling me servant? I thought that it was a very interesting question.

 I then watched as God began to design his new creation after his own image, and that he planned to fill his new creation with the fullness of his own Spirit; for God is spirit. I then saw that in the fullness of God’s spirit dwells the perfection of love; and that perfection allows for God to love with all of his heart, all of his mind, and all of his Spirit; and when he would fill his new creation with the fullness of Spirit, then they would be able to love God as perfectly as he loves them; with all of their heart, with all of their mind, and with all of their spirit. It would only be when he filled his new creation with the perfection of his love that his dream would finally become reality, and his plan be finished. Only this equality of love would be able to balance the scales: Perfect love being balanced with perfect love. I then saw that God now had the pattern necessary for his new creation; for only “I Am” is able to balance the scales with “I Am”.

 Matthew 5:49 “Therefore, you be perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”

 Deuteronomy 6:5-6 (Old Testament) “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart.”    [Keep the words, but that which is perfect has not yet come]

 Matthew 22:37-40 (New Testament) Jesus answered and said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”    [Again, keep the words, but that which is perfect has not yet come]

 II Corinthians 1:22 AMP “[He has also appropriated and acknowledged us as His by] putting His seal upon us and giving us His [Holy] Spirit in our hearts as the security deposit (a deposit, not the fullness of perfection) and guarantee [of the fulfillment of His promise].”

 1 Corinthians 13:8-10 “Love never fails, but where there are prophecies, they shall fail; where there are tongues, they shall cease; and where there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.”

 1 John 4:7,8 “Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”

 1 John 4:16 “And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.”

 1 John 4:12 “No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.”

 1 John 5:2 “By this we know that we love the children of God when we love God, and keep his commandments.”

 1 John 4:20-21 “If a man says, “I love God”; and he hates his brother, he is a liar: for he that does not love his brother whom he sees, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from him, “That he who loves God loves also his brother.”

 Matthew 5:43-49 Jesus said, “You have heard that it was said, “You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.” But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you so that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and he sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do that is more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.”

 I continued to watch as God not only designed one new kind of relationship, but three. I the saw that the reason that he had designed three different kinds of relationships was because he saw that it was going to take all three them to allow for his love to flow in all of it’s fullness and perfection. I then watched as began to detail his role and his new creation’s role in each one of these relationship. When I first saw what these three relationships were, I was really kind of surprised to see what they are because established these relationships among men to be examples of that which he desired to have with us. Because we are all so well acquainted with these relationships, I just had not considered that before God dreamed his dream, which was before this world was created, neither God or any creature in heaven had experienced what it would be like to be in a marriage relationship, or in a father/son relationship, or in a likeminded friend relationship. For these were the three types of relationships that I saw God design in his thoughts; and not one of these relationships had ever existed before that moment. I then saw that if you only had one or two of these relationships, it would not adequate to satisfy the passions of love that God desired to flow out of him and back to him in an equal manner. It was going to be necessary for his perfect love to flow in all three of these relationships to balance the scales of love. I still could not believe that the Lord was actually allowing for me to witness the moment he conceived in his thoughts the design for these relationships that he desired to have with his new creation.

 Matthew 5:49 “Therefore be you perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”

 I Corinthians 13:8-10 “Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will fail; where there are tongues, they will cease; where there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away with.”

 1 John 4:18 “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love.”

 I clearly saw that when God designed the marriage relationship, he designed it for the purpose that two separate beings could become as one through the perfection of love; that is, they would both share, and enjoy, the same intimate passions that perfect love has for one another. I then saw that when God designed the father/son relationship, he designed it so that through perfect love, he could raise up his sons to be equal in with him in love; and being equal with him in love, he could then give them his authority and power. I saw that it is through this father/son relationship that he desires to jointly share his kingdom with his beloved sons. Through his holy sons, God’s love would be able to flow out and return to him in the exact manner that it left him. His love would continue reign over all of his kingdom; but flowing out of his sons also as the love that gives; as the love that blesses; as the love that provides; as the love that does good; and as the love that gives purpose and life to all. I then saw that God designed the friend relationship around the perfection of his love so that he could have like-minded companionship with his new creation. As his love thinks to do, so also will his friends be likeminded in their doing. I saw that it would be through this like-minded friendship that his new creation would also love one another as perfectly as he loves them. There is nothing that a likeminded friend would not do for any of his friends. I then saw that though he has given to us natural examples of all three of these relationships on earth, we cannot experience what it any of these relationships would actually be like because the perfect love of God has not yet come to fill us with the fullness of his Spirit.

 John 17:20-23 Jesus said, “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in me through their word; that they all may be one, as you Father are in me, and I in You; that they also may be one in us so that the world may believe that you sent me. And the glory which you gave me I have given them so that they may be one just as we are one: I in them, and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that you have sent me, and have loved them as you have loved me.”

 Ephesians 5:30-32 “For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.”

 John 5:18 “Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.”

 Philippians 2:5,6 “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.”

 Romans 8:15 “For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, “Abba, Father.”

 Romans 8:29 “For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son so that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.”

 1 John 3:1-2 “Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world does not know us because it did not know him.” Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”

 I then saw that as God put his pad down, the thought to confirm to himself that he had not left anything out of that which he dreamed of having. He thought, “Yes, the only being that can be equal with perfect love is he who is perfect in love; and only I Am is perfect in love. Yes, the only being that can become one with perfect love is he who is perfect in love; and only I Am is perfect in love. Yes, the only being that can be likeminded with perfect love is who loves with all of his mind, and only I Am is able to love with all of his mind.” The Lord then said, “Perfect love flows only from perfect love; and only I Am is perfect in love. I Am the only source for perfect love. I Am perfectly loves his beloved with all of his heart, all of his mind, and all of his being. Do not think that I Am would create any new creation that would not be able to receive and rejoice in all of the love that flows from my heart” After he spoke this word to me, I then realized this: “If we do not know God, then we do not know who we are because he created us for one single purpose: to love him as perfectly as he loves us. Jesus said that we should all be perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect; and if we do not know that God is perfect in love, then we do not only know the destiny that God has planned for us, but we also do even understand that his identity will also be our identity. Is it any wonder that this the greatest commandment, and the commandment that is equal to it, is to love God with all of our heart, all of our mind, and all of our soul; and to love one another as ourselves, seeing that God designed and planned this destiny for us before he even thought to create this world?

 Matthew 5:49 “Therefore be you perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”

 Proverbs 4:4 “He taught me also, and said to me, “Let your heart retain my words: keep my commandments and live.”

 Revelation 14:12 “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

 Then the Lord said, “I Am that I Am. I Am the Creator of all that is. All that is, is I Am. I Am is all that is. I Am the Creator and Maker of all that which is real and true. I Am he who thinks, and it comes to pass. There is nothing that can hinder or prevent me from bringing to pass that which I have thought in my mind. But I have chosen only to perform that which I have thought in the souls of those who are willing to allow for me to fulfill my dream in them. I Am love, and love never forces itself on any. My sons, my bride, and my friends are real and true not because they breathe air and walk in the flesh, but because their real and true identity dwells in the dream of my thoughts. Reality is not that which is temporary, but it is that which is everlasting. I Am everlasting. My thoughts are everlasting. I Am reality. You will not find reality in that which man thinks, but only in that which I think”, says the Lord. “It is not those things that exist in this world that are reality, because all that which is in this world is temporary. But I speak to those things that seem not to exist as though they do exist because they are in my thoughts; and my thoughts is where all reality dwells.” I then realized in that moment that what God has revealed to us concerning our identity as his sons, as his bride, and as his friends is the only identity that God has ever dreamed for men to be; and any other identity that is outside of being his son, and his bride, and his friend is only a temporary existence that dwells in the vanity of men’s thoughts. The temporary only exist in a world that has been ruled over with illusions of lies; and the deceived say, “I think, therefore I am”; but there thoughts perish when they die. God knows that all such thoughts are vanity because they are only conceived from those illusions of lies that dwell in the vanity of man’s thoughts. There is nothing that has an end that is reality, only that which is eternal. Love is eternal, and you will not find any love for God where vanity reigns.

 Psalm 94:11 “The Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.”

 Proverbs 23:7 “As a man thinks in his heart, so he is…”

 Isaiah 14:24 “The Lord of hosts has sworn saying, “Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.”

 Lamentation 3:37 “Who is he that speaks, and it comes to pass when the Lord has not commanded it?”

 Romans 4:17-18 “….God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did.”

 I Corinthians 15:45-50 “And so it is written, “The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam is made a life giving spirit. Howbeit that which was first which is not spiritual, but that which is natural; and then afterwards that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, so shall we also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; and neither does corruption inherit incorruption.”

 Truly, no eye has seen, or ear heard, or heart perceived that which God has purposed for us; but these are the days of the revelation of Jesus Christ, the revelation of our identity, that which God dreamed for us before he thought to create this world. These are the days  when there is nothing secret that shall not be revealed, nor anything that has been hidden that shall not be manifest. When Christ is revealed to his sons, then shall we see him as he is, and we shall be changed into his very likeness. And when we are changed into his very likeness, we shall then be filled with his Spirit: filled with the perfection of love, with the beauty of holiness, and the glory of everlasting life. Then shall the scales of love be perfectly balanced, and we shall love him in the same manner that he loves us; with all of our heart, all of our mind, and all of our soul. Then that which has only existed in God’s dream shall be a reality; and his will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

  The end of his plan is now being made known to us in this hour of incredible revelation. I then saw again into the thoughts of God, and this time I saw that he was putting the final and finishing touches to his plan; and he is very, very excited and well-pleased with his a plan because he knows that once it is completed, his new creation will come forth exactly as he has dreamed. I also saw that the more God dreamed about his new creation, the more excited he got about his perfect love returning to him in the same equal manner that it flowed from him, as a river of life full of love. I saw that God is so excited about this plan that he began to think less and less about himself being God, and King, and Lord, and the more and more he is began to think about himself in his new role as a Father, husband, and a like-minded friend. Yes, he was, and is, and will always be the God of gods, and the King of kings, and the Lord of lords, but these are not the identities that now stir up the passions of love that dwells in his heart.

 After seeing God so excited for what is about to complete, the Lord brought back into my remembrance a word that he spoke to me about seven years or eight years ago in which he said, “You think that you are eagerly waiting on me, but I tell you this, I have been waiting for 6000 years to perform that which I am about to do; and I am extremely excited about it.” I had no clue at that time what the Lord was talking about because all that I was looking for seven or eight years ago was for the manifestation of antichrist and the end of the world. Then the Lord allowed for me to see into his thoughts again, and I saw more and more of the excitement that he has for the perfection and completion for his new creation. I saw the excitement that he has for the soon manifestation of his sons that will be his equal in love; his excitement about showing forth his bride in oneness with him through perfect love; and the excitement he has about bringing forth his beloved friends that he has made to be likeminded with him. When I saw this excitement in God’s thoughts, I saw an excitement in him that I never really expected to see in the manner that I saw it. I have seen joy in the Lord before, but I have never seen him with this kind of joy and excitement. It was really strange for me to see God in this manner because for so many years I had pictured God in my mind as always being very serious and so evenly keeled that he appeared almost emotionless, yet compassionate and tenderhearted, sitting up on his throne commanding this and commanding that.

 But here I was seeing into his very thoughts, and seeing that he is filled with this child-like joy and excitement. The best way for me to describe his joy and excitement is like the joy and excitement that a young child would have on Christmas eve that knows that he or she is about to get all that which his or her heart has desired to have. I not only witnessed this childlike joy and excitement in him, but I was also saw that he has the same kind of joy and excitement in him that you would expect to see in a bridegroom that is just moments away from walking down the aisle to marry his beloved bride. I also saw that he has the same kind of joy and excitement in him that you would expect to see in a father whose wife is just moments away from delivering their first child. And I also saw that he has the same kind of joy and excitement that you would expect to see in best friends that are about to depart on a long awaited trip that they have been planning and anticipating to take for quite some time; a vacation trip where they will be doing those things that they all enjoy because they are likeminded. Could you imagine having all of these kinds of excitement going on in your at one time? Now take that and multiply it by a billion, and then you will be closer to the joy and the excitement that I saw in his thoughts.

 John 17:13 “And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.”

 Matthew 25:21 “His lord said to him, “Well done, you good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, and I will make you ruler over many things. Enter you into the joy of your lord (the relationships that God dreamed of having).”

 Isaiah 51:11 “Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.”

 Romans 8:19 “For the earnest expectation of the creature (and God) waits for the manifestation of the sons of God.

 Revelation 21 “And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.”

 I then saw that God was not only joyous and excited about his sons, his bride, and his likeminded friends, but he was also excited about him becoming the God of gods; the King of kings, and the Lord of lords because he is not only going to make his sons to be equal with him in perfect love, but he is also going to make them to be his equal in authority and power when he gives to them his kingdom. I then realized that though God is sovereign over all the kings and lords of the earth, just like he was over Pharaoh, they do not have a heart to serve him as their God, or their King, or their Lord, nor do they worship him in spirit or in truth. No, these are not the gods, the kings, or lords that God is of, but it is his sons, his bride, and his friends when he fills them with the fullness of his Spirit and makes them to be his equal, to be one with him, and to be like-minded with him that he also becomes the God of gods, the King of kings, and the Lord of lords; for these relationships reality because they are everlasting.

 Philippians 2:5,6 “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.”

 Revelation 5:10 “And you have made us to our God to be kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.”

 Revelation 22:5 “And there shall be no night there; and they have need no of a candle, neither the light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them light: and they shall reign forever and ever.”

 I continued to watch in God’s thoughts that as this day draws closer, the more excited and passionate he is becoming about finishing the plan that was started in his dream. You know that saying that some men speak when they experience something that is really, really wonderful, “This is to good to be true”. Well, I have seen in God’s thoughts some of those things that he has planned for his sons, and for his bride, and for his friends, and I bear witness to you that God has prepared the best that he can do for his sons, his bride, and his like-minded friends. Just think on that a second, “The best that God can do.” There is no doubt that the wisest things that his people can do in this hour is to draw near to God; to ask him to reveal himself to them, to increase their faith, to bless them with his wisdom and the knowledge of the truth, and to help them overcome all of their unbelief, doubts, and fears. Is it not written that God freely gives his wisdom and understanding? Is it not written that it is God who works in us to believe on him? Is it not also written that it is only God that increases our faith? Abraham was strong in faith in that he believed that God was able to perform all that he promised.

 Philippians 1:6 “Be confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you will complete it.”

 Mark 9:23 “Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes."

Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”

 John 6:28,29 “Then the disciples said to him, “What shall we do so that we might work the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent.”

 James 4:3 “…your have not because you do not ask.”

 Romans 15:13 “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

 Romans 4:20,21 “Abraham did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.”

 Luke 17:5 “And the apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

 I Corinthians 3:6 “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.

 It was at this moment that this vision and visitation ended; and I kept waiting and waiting because I felt like there was so much more about his plan that I wanted to understand and know. My heart was burning with desire to know the answer to this question. “Lord, when you designed these plans for your new creation, why did you not just go ahead and bring them forth? After all, when you created Adam in the beginning, you did create him in your own image, but you did not bring him forth perfected in your love; for if you had, he would have never entertained any of Satan’s lies because he would have known that these were the lies that would lead him to turn away from you, his beloved. For as you have revealed to me, your love would never think to depart from, or to turn away, or to forsake, or to go awhoring from because love would never think to do such an evil thing.” I knew that even the scriptures testify that Adam was not perfect because it is written that God actually created man lower than his angels. So at that moment, I could not comprehend at all why God created man in his own image, but did not finish right then the plan that he dreamed about for his new creation. But I now knew one thing for sure, that Adam was just the beginning of God’s plan for man.

 Hebrews 2:5-9 “For He has not put the world to come, of which we speak, in subjection to angels. But one testified in a certain place saying: “What is man that you are mindful of him, or the son of man that you take care of him? You have made him a little lower than the angels. You have crowned him with glory and honor, and set him over the works of your hands. You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” For in that he put all in subjection under him, He left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put under him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that he, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.”

 Later on, while I was praying about this vision, the Lord spoke this single word to me: “Freewill”. As I began to consider this word, the Lord spoke again and said, “I create no living being without first to it the gift of Freewill. Perfect love is freedom. Perfect love is liberty. Freewill is the gift of perfect love. Freewill is my gift to all. Did Lucifer or any of the other angels not have the freewill to make their own choices? Did I put Adam or Eve under any oppressive laws that would take away their freedom to choose whatever they desired to do or to believe? I gave them freewill, and I also told to them what the consequences would be if they freely chose to eat the fruit that came from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. There is no liberty without choices; and there are no choices without freewill. Even when Adam fell, and the darkness of ignorance came to alienate him from the fellowship he had with my love, I still did not take away from him the freedom of choice. To this day, I have given to every man the freedom in his heart to choose for himself that which he desires to believe to be right and true. There is no desire that the darkness has that is any greater than to take away your freedom of choice, but that is the one gift that the darkness is powerless to take away. If Satan could take away the freedom to choose, then no man would be able to repent or turn to me. As I told you before, I will never force my love on any, but I will freely give my love to all those who choose to have me.

 Joshua 24:15 “And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether it be the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood (their own imaginations Gen.6:5), or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

 Deuteronomy 30:19 “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life so that both you and your seed may live.”

 Leviticus 22:21 “And whosoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beef or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted. There shall be no blemish therein.”

 II Corinthians 8:12 “For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that which a man has, and not according to that which he does not have.”

 My Spirit is love. In the fullness of my Spirit is the seeing and the hearing of love. In the fullness of my Spirit is the affections and desires of love. In the fullness of my Spirit is the thinking and speaking of love. In the fullness of my Spirit is the liberty of love. Only the truth of my love is able to set men free from the laws, the doctrines, the rules, the guilt and shame, the threats, the restrictions, the boundaries, the limitations, and the fears that the darkness uses to keep men in bondage to the lies of this world. Those who are led by my Spirit are not in bondage to any of these lies. Only the nature of my love, the Spirit of life that is in Christ Jesus, is able to set free a man’s soul from his bondage to the nature of sin and death. Have I not set before you every day a choice between life and death? Is it not written that whose words you choose to believe, his servant you become? Though I have given you all this choice, the ignorant will not choose life because they cannot discern the difference between life and death; that life and death is defined by the thinking that is in thoughts of the mind. In the fullness of my Spirit is the life I have called you into. In the fullness of my Spirit is the life of love. In my love is the relationship that I designed for all of you to be partakers of with me. In my spirit is the willingness to be my son, to be my bride, and to be my friends. Is it not written that I will freely give of my Spirit to all those who ask of me?”

 John 8:31-32 “Then Jesus said to those Jews that believed on him, “If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed; and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

 II Corinthians 3:17 “Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.”

 Romans 8:6 “The carnal mind is death, but the spiritual mind is life and peace.”

 Romans 8:2 “The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law (nature) of sin and death.”

 Galatians 5:22-24 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, temperance. Against such there is no law.”

 Romans 8:14-15 “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, “Abba, Father”.

 The dead receive nothing from me because they ask nothing of me according to my will. I see their thoughts, but I never hear their voice. The dead praise me with their lips and honor me with their mouths, they have no relationship with me; they have relationship with me because they will not give to me their trust, or their confidence,, or their time, and neither will they choose to believe my words or put their faith in my love.

They are not willing to enter into fellowship with me because they are not willing to be partakers of my love. The dead have no interest in being changed into my likeness, but that they all desire to become as a God, as a king, and as a lord so that they can satisfy their lusts to judge and condemn, to control, to oppress, and to rule over the lives of others. There is no love in any of their desires.

 Proverbs 21:16 “Those who depart from the way of understanding will remain in the congregation of the dead.”

 Matthew 15:7-8 “Jesus said, “You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying, “These people draw near to me with their mouth, and they honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.”

 Shortly after the Lord spoke these words to me, my brethren and I were gathered together for worship and prayer when the Lord gave this vision to my sister in the Lord,  Carey Sue. She saw Jesus coming in a vision to transplant a new heart into a certain man, but this man’s body rejected it because this new heart was not compatible with the desires and the affections that had been in his old heart. When Carey Sue shared this vision, it so struck me that I immediately began asking the Lord to show to me what was in this man’s heart that would cause his body to reject this new heart. The Lord answered me and said, “Unwillingness.” Then the Lord gave me a vision where I saw the arm of this extremely muscular bodybuilder, and he suddenly flexed his arm to show me how incredibly large his bicep muscle was. Then the Lord spoke to me and said that the strength of the flesh is it’s unwillingness to choose to follow after the Lord, to believe his words, and to put their faith and trust in his love. The Lord also said, “I have called many, but only a few have chosen to take up their cross to crucify this enmity of unwillingness that is their flesh. I want to remind you of that which I previously taught you, that the Spirit that I have given to you only delights in doing my will; and my will for you is that receive my love and give to me your love. It is in the love relationships that I have purposed for you that you will find the abundant life that I have created all men to be partakers of. Do not grieve my Spirit by yielding to the unwillingness of the flesh, lest you be no partakers of the relationships that I have called you into. My Spirit gives life; a life of relationship with me. It is only by my Spirit that you will delight in choosing life because the flesh has no delight in the nature of love.

 Romans 8:5-7 “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.”

 John 10:17 AMP Jesus said, “For this [reason] the Father loves Me, because I lay down My [own] life--to take it back again. No one takes it away from Me. On the contrary, I lay it down voluntarily. [I put it from Myself.] I am authorized and have power to lay it down (to resign it) and I am authorized and have power to take it back again. These are the instructions (orders) which I have received [as My charge] from My Father.”

 Galatians 5:24 “And those that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and desires.”

 John 1:12,13 “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name, which were not born of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”

 1 John 3:8-9 “He that commits sin is of the Devil; for the devil sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested so that he might destroy the works of the Devil (the sin of alienation and separation). Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin because he is born of God.”

 John 3:5-7 “Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said to you, “You must be born again.”

 I have given you my Spirit to help you overcome the strength of the flesh; strongholds of unwillingness. As the strength of the flesh is unwillingness, so also is the strength of my Spirit willingness. The flesh is willing and desirous to change me into it’s likeness, but it is unwilling to allow for me to change it into my likeness. I Am love. My role is God, and King, and Lord, but my likeness is love. Again I say to you, I will never force my love or my heart on any, but I will draw near to those who willingly draw near to me. Those who are prepared and willing, I will freely give to them my Spirit, and they shall see me complete the work that I have started in them. Do you think that I would raise up my sons to be my equal if they were not willing for me to be like their Father? Do you think that I would marry a bride that was not willing to become one with me in love? Do you think that I could become friends with those who have no desire to befriend my love? I have called many, but I will only choose those who are willing for me to give them a new heart and a new mind; a new heart and new mind that is filled with the fullness of my Spirit; and in the fullness and perfection of my Spirit you will find the freedom to receive all of love, and to freely give it to others. Only by the gift of my Spirit will you be able to balance the scales of love”, says the Lord.      

 Matthew 26:41 “Watch and pray so that you do not enter into temptation: for the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak.”

 Psalm 110:3 “In the day of his power, his people shall be made willing.”

 Philippians 2:13 “For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

 Romans 8:13,14 “For if you live after the flesh (unwillingness), you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”

 Then the Lord gave me another vision, and I again saw these same weight scales; and they were perfectly balanced. I was then expecting to see perfect love on one side of the scales being balanced with perfect love on the other side; but that was not the case at all. On one side of the scales, I did see the perfect love of God, but on the other side I saw the words “Willing Heart” on the scale. Then the Lord said, “No man can be perfected in my love unless he is first made willing to be perfected in love. Otherwise, he would reject the new heart and the new mind that I desire to give to him. Are you willing to forgive those who have offended you and sinned against you? Are you willing to bless those who have cursed you and persecuted you? Are you willing to love your enemies? Are you willing to do good to those who have hated you? Are you willing to freely give that which I have given to you to those who have spoken evil of you? Are you willing to serve rather than to be served? When I come in the perfection of love, I will not be coming to those who think they have been perfected in love, but I will be coming to all those whose hearts are willing to be perfected in love. A heart that is willing to be perfected is just as acceptable to me as the heart that has been perfected. For at any moment, like the lightning that flashes in the sky, so shall my coming be for those who have been prepared, having a willing mind to be perfected in my love. Do not think that my likeness is coming in anything other than the perfection of love, because I Am love. Then that dream which only existed in my thoughts, shall become reality.

 1 Chronicles 28:9 “And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, you will find him; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.”

 2 Corinthians 8:12 “For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that which a man has, and not according to that he does not have.”

 Romans 7:14-20 “For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not do; but what I hate, that I do. If then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. But now, it is no longer I who does it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I do. Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I that does it, but sin that dwells in me.”

 Matthew 5:44-48 “But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

 I John 3:2,3 “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.”

 I Corinthians 13:8-10 “Love never fails: but where there be prophecies, they shall fail; where there be tongues, they shall cease; where there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, but when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.”

 I am coming to those who have sought after my heart, to know me. I am coming to those who have humbled their hearts and asked for me to make them the works of my hands; for willingness is the works of my hands. I am coming to make those perfect in love who have desired to be as perfect as their Father in heaven is perfect. I am coming to give to those who have a willing heart that which they have desired to have: the perfection of love, the beauty of holiness, and the glory of everlasting life. When I come, my reward will be with me. I Am the reward. I Am the spirit that is perfect in love. I Am the beauty of holiness. I Am the glory of everlasting life. I Am that I Am; and I Am the I Am that balances the scale with I Am. Those who are prepared for my coming are ready and willing for their change. Those who not prepared for my coming have not sought to know me; for to know me is to know that I am your Father, and you are my son; I am your bridegroom, and you are my bride; and I am your friend, and you are my friend”, says the Lord.

 Hebrews 13:20-21 “Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”

 Philippians 2:13 “For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”

 Psalm 110:3 “In the day of his power, his people shall be made willing…”

 Jeremiah 9:6 “Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; and through deceit they refuse to know me”, says the Lord.

 Jeremiah 4:22 “For my people are foolish, they have not known me. They are senseless children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”

 John 15:15 “No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master does; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from my Father I have made known to you.”

 As I meditated on all these plans that God created us for, I realized that God still had not answered my question: “Why did you not just create man and perfect him right then? Why all of this pain, and suffering, and trials, and temptations? To my surprise, the Lord did answer this question, and I will shortly be posting this word also. I was surprised because I can never remember the Lord ever answering a “why” question for me.

 Word given to Mitt Jeffords

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