I delight in you!

Me: Good morning Lord. Thank you for waking me this morning and for giving me this new day. Thank you Lord, for you gift of life and consciousness, for making us in your own image. Help us to live lives in the image of your divine nature, and to reflect your love into the world around us. I love you Lord.

Lord: Good morning son. Thank you for joining us this morning and for spending this precious time with us. Yes, I gave you life and consciousness, so that we could enjoy each others' company, and build a real relationship together. Life is the most precious gift I gave to man, and it really hurt me and continues to hurt me when, from the very first generation of man, murder entered the scene. The taking of life, whether it is outright murder or abortion or self defence, hurts me and is abhorrent to me. There are enough causes of death in the world today that cause pain and grief, without adding murder.

I gave mankind life, so that we, man and I, could walk together and commune together and enjoy a great relationship. As beloved children, I envisaged man walking hand-in-hand with man, and working together to achieve all sorts of great and exciting things. Yes even exploring the stars and the greatness of the universe, I made for your enjoyment. However, I cannot allow you to take sin and wickedness out to the stars as well. For this reason I have put a barrier around the Earth, to contain the sin and destruction man has wrought on my beloved creation.

I am now concentrating on a move of my Spirit, that will turn the hearts of the disobedient to the forgiveness and purity that I am offering. Man doesn't deserve it! But I love him so much I want him to turn to me and be healed and restored. So I have determined to make this gift an act of grace and to pour out my riches upon man, and bear the cost myself.  To have allowed man to walk the way of sin has been incredibly costly for me. I know you can only begin to comprehend the pain and the cost to me. But it will be worth all that I have suffered, when sinful mankind is clothed with the righteousness of Jesus, and stands before my throne, of his own free will, to ask if he can be taught to love Me as I love him. Yes, I want man to want to love Me, not because he fears the consequences of not loving Me, but because he is excited by the prospect of being close to Me and us being in love.

Many people fear being in love, because their picture and experience of, 'love' is distorted by sin. The longing of My heart is that they will experience and be thrilled by true love, and will come running into my arms. Finding, experiencing, and being in true love, requires a positive turning away from the previous life of self, sin, greed and lust, and a turning to me. It requires tears of repentance, and sufficient openness to hear My words of comfort and forgiveness. It requires a desire to change and become like Me.

When I made mankind, I also created family, which reflects the relationship I have with the the Father Creator, the Saving Son and the empowering Holy Spirit. We are so different, yet we are so much the same. There is a harmony between us that knows no boundaries. Our love for one another is perfect. This is the pattern we have for the family of mankind. So I placed within the relationship of man and woman, children, who grow up in the safety, security and love of that relationship, and become like their parents, yet unique individuals. In a loving family, children are keen to be like their parents, who they admire and loves. And parents are thrilled by their children's likeness to themselves, and their individuality. I am a true Father and delight in your likeness to me, and the individuality I have built into you.

I love your company. I love doing things with you. I love our conversations together. I love to see the delight on your face as you discover new things about my creation. I delight in your achievements. You are my beloved children and I love you.

Walking in the Garden

Lord: The relationship I established with Adam in the garden of Eden was very close. We walked and talked a lot, and would watch the sun rise and set together. Anything he asked me I would tell him, and together we named all the creatures I had made, and gave names to the plants and trees of the Earth. I was an exciting time for him as he learnt all about his environment, and a lot about the heavens as well. No information was barred from him in those days, and we spent a lot of time together just talking. Hearing my voice in those days was easier for him, for there were few distractions, and no other voices to lead him astray.

Even after I made Eve, we all walked and talked together, and he learnt about relationships. They both struggled a bit with how to be close to me, while remaining close to one another. That lesson is still a difficult one, when a couple feel they should give their all to their marriage relationship! And so they should, and indeed can, while still retaining their relationship with me! You see, I am not a threat to the relationship between a man and a woman. I created man out of the dust of the earth and I breathed into him my breath, the breath of life! Out of man I created woman, and breathed into her my life, so together they live. I invented sex for them and allowed my love to flow between them. Everything that binds man and woman together I created and made for them, that they may be one. I do not come between to divide, but to bind together.

When man sins it, grieves my heart of love, and when a man and woman who have pledged love to each other, divorce I feel the pain every bit as much as they do.

I want to restore the relationship I enjoyed with Adam and Eve before their fall. I want to restore it, so that you, my children, may be one with me, as I originally made you to be. I loved the garden I made for Adam, and I yearn to walk in it with you. I want our relationship to be one where we walk and talk together, not just the two of us but all of us! I want all my people to stop excluding me from your relationships with others. I can bind you together in love and make your relationships really special, if you will only let me in.

My intention for Adam and Eve was that they would teach their children to walk with me in the garden also. Sadly, before that was possible, I had to close the garden to them, lest they destroy it with sin. Now, through Jesus, it is possible you you to draw near to me, and for us to build that perfect relationship again. In order to do this there are things, baggage collected from institutional religion, that need to be shed. There are things that need to be taught and passed on, to help you learn to listen to me and hear my voice. I need you to commit yourself to me again, and to listen to all that I will say to you, to learn the ways that I will show you, and to share it with your children and your children's children! Walk close to me always, and encourage those around you to walk close to me also. This is something we do together. Love one another as I have loved you. Gather round and be at one with me and with each other. Let me teach you. I love you.

More from Revelation!

Me: Good morning Lord. Thank you for waking me this morning and for this new day and new week. Help me to use this week to praise your name and give you all praise and glory. I love you Lord.

Lord: Good morning son. Thank you for joining us this morning and for walking with us. The week that lies ahead of you is a busy one, so it is important that you start each day with me. Remember I am with you and I want to be involved in all you do.
 

Yes, the message of Revelation to the Churches applies very clearly to the Church today.

The word I spoke to the Church at Sardis is particularly relevant. For though many congregations have a reputation for being 'alive' and 'lively', they are in fact dead, because all their 'life' is in deeds of busy-ness. Prayer, and building a relationship with me are unheard of, and very few really listen to me anymore. To you I say, Wake up! Strengthen what remains before that also dies. Hold on to my truth and repent now. Remember what you first received from me, and the words you heard that brought you life. Repent and seek my face, that I may wash you clean, and clothe you in white

There are those who still walk with me and have not soiled their clothes. As they walk with me, they are clothed in white for they are worthy. Their names are written in the book of life and will never be blotted out.

The words I spoke to the church in Laodicea, telling them that they were neither hot nor cold, is true of many congregations and fellowships throughout the land. I do not want a lukewarm Church; I want all my people to be on fire for me, and to be so hot that they give warmth to those around them. Open your eyes children, and see that you are no longer rich and have no need, but are indeed poor wretched, blind and naked! I am telling you this, so that you may come back to me. Buy gold from me refined in the fire, so that you can be really rich. Let me clothe you in the robe of righteousness, to cover your shame and nakedness, a white robe, that only I can give. Let me anoint your eyes with a salve that will restore your sight.

I love you, therefore I rebuke you, that you may repent and seek my face. I am knocking on the door of your life If anyone hears me, and opens the door, I will come in, and we will eat together. I long for you all to be victorious, so that you can sit with me on my throne.

Do not look any more at Revelation as being locked in the past. The days are past when a study of this book focuses on the historical. It is prophetic, and speaks directly into the situation today. Until this time the door of understanding has been shut, and what I shut remains shut until I open it again. Today I am opening many doors in scripture, and unlocking the truths that have laid hidden for centuries. I am opening those doors to my Church, because the time is drawing near when all things will be gathered together. Keep alert, watch and pray. I am with you always and I love you.

Now, About Prayer!

Me: Good morning Lord. Thank you for waking me this morning and for this new day. Thank you for allowing me to walk with you this morning, and for listening to all my ramblings. I love you Lord.

Lord: Good morning son. Thank you for your company this morning, You know that we love to listen to your ramblings, as you put it. To us they are not jumbled or rambling  but a flood of emotion, desire, love and concern. Because they come from deep within your heart, they are dear to our heart too, and make more sense to us than they ever will to your human mind!

I want to talk to you today some more about prayer. Prayer is the yearning of the human soul for me. It is when man reaches up to me in Heaven and I reach down to man on earth. It is the moment when we touch, and for a moment we become one again. You can't have too much prayer in your life, for it is a pipeline of my love poured out to you.

There are many expressions of prayer, many different ways of reaching out to me. Some require the mind, and for the body are passive. Others are bodily expressions, while the mind is passive. In still others, both the body and the mind are passive and the prayer is purely a spiritual reaching out. It is difficult to teach prayer by a method, because it is an intensely personal encounter with me, and each individual needs to discover that relationship with me for themselves. Prayer can be seen as a courtship of two lovers discovering one another, and just as no two lovers ever express themselves in the same way, so it is with us. It is not important how you pray, only that you do pray. As we commune together, I am able to feed you, and cause the breath I breathed into you that gave you life, to grow,  and make you ready for the day when I shall call you home.

It is vital that you have a time allocated to me during the day, when I can charge your spiritual batteries. But that is only the beginning, for each day you have a shopping list of concerns you want to bring to me and I have a lot of things I want to communicate with you. I am always willing to give you the time to pour out your ramblings to me. Are you willing to give me some time to feed you with all the good things I have for you? By starting each day with space for me, you will find yourself better equipped to handle the problems of the day.

The godless in the world have tried to make it 'politically incorrect' to bring God into the workplace, and in many professions are trying to make it illegal to wear Christian symbols or speak of your Christian faith. In reality no-one has the right to restrict you. Oh it's nothing new! My servants Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, all had to suffer because they deemed their relationship with me more important than the King's edict. Just as I looked after them, so I will look after those who honour me above all worldly rule. This is not a licence for civil disobedience. It applies only to those restrictions that come between you and me. No-one, I repeat no-one, has the right to come between you and me!

If you build up your relationship with me, I will make my voice clear to you and my words will take root in your heart. I will speak to you and guide you each day, and I will instruct you in my ways. When I tell you to speak of me, you will speak, and none shall be able to silence you. Equally, I will show you when to remain silent. My Son remained silent, when one word from him would have silenced the chief priest and elders forever. He spoke the truth when He told Pilate that he could summon ten legions of Angels to his aid. But His relationship with me enabled Him to know when to speak and when to be silent. So it shall be with those who engage in prayer with me.

For those who love me, and want to be in the centre of My will, prayer is not an optional extra to be used only in times of crisis, but an ongoing 24/7 365 days a year relationship with Me. Closer even than the relationship between husband and wife, although it never need come between them. Indeed it should strengthen that relationship as well.

So, my word to my children today is work on your relationship with me, and let me build up our lines of love and communication together. Build up a regular time with me, when we can share together the deep and important things of life. Don't worry about how to pray, just get on with it and find the way we are comfortable with. Tell me often how much you love me, for I love to hear that. In turn I will tell you and show you, how much I love you.