The Lord is saying: I Am here, and I Am with you. I have known you before the foundation of the earth was laid. Before all of Creation, I knew you. I saw you and everything that you would ever do, before I brought everything out of nothing. All that you see and experience is in My creation, but this is temporal and is passing away. My loves, do not set your eyes on what you see, but what is unseen, that which only the heart can discern. That which is unseen is where I Am, so seek Me and you will see what is unseen. This is what faith is all about – the assurance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things unseen. As you walk with Me, I reveal more of Myself as your faith increases, and this process continues up to the moment of your earthly death and your glorification into My presence in what is now unseen. It pleases Me when your faith causes you to seek Me with all of your heart because this shows Me that your heart is striving for what is good, and not what is temporal. As you walk in My will and My ways you prove your faithfulness, and the world is changed by the way that you now walk compared to the darkness from which you came. Everything has led to this moment of “now”, and from here I intend carry you safely into My presence forever. With this journey set and secure, how else are we to act but to live in My power and might in all areas of your life. The world is changed every moment that you step in faith in My design which began before all things. My plan is a good plan, and those who walk in it are truly My children.
Heb 11:1-16 (ESV) Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 2 For by it the people of old received their commendation. 3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. 4 By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. 5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. 6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. 7 By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. 8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God. 11 By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore. 13 These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. 14 For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 15 If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
(Eph 1:4-5; Jer 1:5; 2 Cor 4:18; Pro 4:18; Phil 3:12-14; Matt 5:14-16; Rom 8:14-17)
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