The Lord is saying: I Am here, and I Am with you. I hold you tightly, My loves and I will never leave you nor forsake you. You are My precious ones and I love you absolutely, and I show no favoritism, for to show favoritism this would mean that I love some more than others, and this cannot be because it would be sin, and I cannot sin. This means that I love you equally, even to My prophets, for none of you are better, or less, than any other in My sight. This should encourage you even while you are in the earth, because your future is brighter than you can imagine. Many may look up to Moses, or Isaiah, or Paul, or Peter, thinking that they are far greater than you, but this is not so. You all are great in My eyes, for each of you walk different paths and accomplish different things, but all fulfill My will. This is how the House of God is being built, with living stones, each bringing your special talents that are unique to you, and beautiful in My sight. As the last souls are being harvested even now, My House is beautiful indeed. Do not listen to the enemy of your soul, who tries to keep you from the tasks that I have ordained for you, for when you finish your race strong, then you are successful in filling your part of My Home. You see this dimly now, and only through your close relationships do you get a glimpse of this glory, but very soon you will see with unveiled eyes what you have been working towards, and your joy will be complete.
Heb 12:1-17 (ESV) Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. 4 In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. 6 For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” 7 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. 11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. 12 Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed. 14 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. 15 See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled; 16 that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. 17 For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.
(Isaiah 43:4; Acts 10:34; Rom 2:11; Gal 3:28; Matt 11:11; John 14:12; Eph 2:6; 1Cor 12; Eph 2:19-22; 1 Pet 2:5; Rev 21; Rom 12:6; 1Cor 12:4-11; Eph 4:7; Rev 14:15; John 10:10; 1 Cor 13:12; John 16:22)
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