The Lord is saying: I Am here, and I Am with you. I will never leave you nor will I forsake you. I love you with a love that you cannot understand, and this compels Me to hold you to a high standard, that you represent Me while you are still in the earth. It is not My will for you to stay in the place that you are, but instead I want you to flourish in Me and on My path that I have laid out before you. If you become fearful you then hold back from moving forward and this is how the enemy keeps you from the blessings that I have prepared for you. Seek Me and My face and I will comfort you in your circumstances and this will cause you to move forward in Me and the enemy will be put to flight from you, for he has lost his case against you. I tell you these things to show how easy it is to allow the enemy to bring paralyzing fear into your lives, but how much easier it is to allow Me to show you the right way. You have a choice, My loves, to let fear overcome you, or to overcome fear in My strength.
Col 3:1-17 (ESV) If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. 12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
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