Do You Believe?

“Jesus told her, “I Am the resurrection and the Life.  Anyone who believes in Me will live even after dying.  Everyone who lives in Me and believes in Me will never die.  Do you believe this, Martha?”   John 11:25

“Lazarus is dead.  And for your sakes, I’m glad I wasn’t there, for now you will really believe.”  John 11:14b-15

“Can you direct the movement of the stars—binding the cluster of the Pleiades or loosening the cords of Orion?  Can you direct the sequence of the seasons or guide the Bear with her cubs across the heavens?  Do you know the laws of the universe?  Can you use them to regulate the earth?”   Jeremiah 17:9

Do you believe that I Am the resurrection and the life?  Do you believe that I have come to bring you life and life more abundantly?  You spent too much time in fear for your life.  I have literally snatched your life from the pit.  I did not rescue you to allow you to fall back into a place of hopelessness.  Take authority over the darkness and banish it back to the pit rather than letting it drag you back there.  You are blessed in your experience with the jaws of death.  You know that you are only here because I rescued you.  Every new gift you recognize as directly from My hand because you know where you would be without Me.  Such a firm grasp on truth is a gift to you that keeps your eyes in gratitude on Me.   Look back on all the miracles I have brought to your life in only the last few years.  Remember that I Am the resurrection and the life in your circumstances.  I Am giving you Life and will continue.  Your future is filled with My life.  I Am holding all the stars and the planets in place; I can hold your heart in My hands.  I wrote the laws that govern the universe and use them to keep it moving in perfect harmony; I can direct the circumstance and direction of your life.  As you see My resurrection life explode in your life, your belief in My power will also surpass your wildest imagination.  I Am creating a warrior of faith in you.  I Am the resurrection and the life.  Anyone who believes in Me will live even after dying.  Everyone who lives in Me and believes in Me will never die.  Do you believe this, ________?

His Truth

“During the time he was in Jerusalem, those days of the Passover Feast, many people noticed the signs He was displaying and, seeing they pointed straight to God, entrusted their lives to him.  But Jesus didn’t entrust his life to them.  He knew them inside and out, knew how untrustworthy they were, he didn’t need any help in seeing right through them.”   John 2:23-25

“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked.  Who really knows how bad it is?”  Isaiah 43:4

“You are precious in my eyes and honored, and I love you.”   Jeremiah 17:9

What people say to and about you does not change or even effect who you are.  You are My beloved.  Do not let things people say or do affect your behavior or perception of yourself.  If people called you a slave it would not make you one; what matters is the truth, your belief of the truth and how you behave in response to what you believe.  Slavery happens in the heart not in the outside circumstances.  Joseph was called a slave by all around him for many years but he knew it was not My truth.  He was never a slave in his heart.  I had given him a dream telling him who he was and what his destiny was to be; it planted the seed in his heart of who he really was in Me.  Through all the difficult years he clung to My truth and put aside the lie of slavery.  He did not bow to his master’s wife’s desires, he did not bow to being a prisoner, and he did not bow to the idea of defeat; He saw My Truth and pursued it.  When truth met actuality, he became ruler of all Egypt second only to the Pharaoh, he was not surprised because it had always been the My Truth revealed years earlier in his dream.  Jesus did not let either the praise nor the scorn of men affect Him; He knew the truth that He was My Beloved Son in whom I was well pleased.  Neither should you allow let idle comments from people who do not know you affect you.  They will say positive things one day and negative things the next, but you have the same identity—My beloved—greatly loved and pleasing son/daughter.  Nothing changes that identity.  You are My own highly honored and I love you.