The Lord is saying: I Am here, and I Am with you. Though you may feel unqualified and unusable, you are Mine and I love you with everlasting love. You may think and feel that because of what you have done that you are disqualified to do the work of God in the realm that you live within. But My loves, you are precious in My sight, and you are of eternal value. If you were the only person in the earth, I would still have died to save you, so this makes you right with Me and uniquely qualified to fulfill My will for your life. Each of you are more than qualified when you surrender your will to Me, for this shows your love to Me. When you were saved, instantly you were given a heart of flesh that has all My qualities and the ability to carry these out. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness and self-control are the true mark of one who knows Me intimately. And these will grow in your lives as you walk with Me closely as it takes a while for the old man to be finally laid to rest. This is known as the act of sanctification – which simply means that each day you look a little more like Me, until that moment when you will be changed and stand before Me and will see Me as I Am. Never forget that no matter what you are experiencing right now, this is moving you closer to Me.
Gal 5:16-26 (ESV) But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
(Phil 1:6; 1 Cor 1:4-9)
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