Heritage for Generations

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Do you see Me? Do you see Me, child? Do you see how I have protected you? Do you see how danger was close but you remained safe? Trust Me. Trust Me with everything you have. I am for you not against you. I love you and want the best for you. Do you see My power? Do you see My strength? Do you see My love? This is all for you. I’m holding nothing back. See Me. Pay attention. Show the world who I Am. I Am fiercely loving and jealous of your thoughts and time. Bring Me in. Push Me out to the world. Show everyone who I am. Moments of human kindness aren’t enough and fade so quickly. People forget. Enter into My courts and you will never forget. No eye has seen and no ear has heard of My glory and My wonderment. Seek Me and you will find Me. I am waiting for you.

Let’s lay out a tablecloth and dine together and feast on love and togetherness. You are My guest, in My courts, and all that My house has to offer is for you. Drink it in. Spin around and take in the glory. I bestow it upon you. Do you now see how you would not forget? There is nothing in the world that exceeds My glory and My power and My might. No one can give you more. Satisfy your soul. Do you see the gold? Do you see the majesty of what you have? You have access to this. I will dress you in the finest clothes and feed you the most beautiful food. The presence you enjoy is Me. My Presence will be all around you. Everything you see is from Me and a reminder to you that it has been bestowed upon you. I am enchanting your heart and giving you wonderment, where nothing new used to live. Breathe Me in. I am in your lungs and in your mind and the very essence of you. Stay with Me forever.

Let me dance with you and celebrate all that is good and righteous. I will spin you around and around. You will smile and laugh. You have freedom here. Freedom of thoughts. Freedom from anxiety and fear. Freedom from stress and fear of rebuke. You can just be and bathe in Me. You will not get bored and each day will be a new exposition in learning My grace and abundance. You will not even look over your shoulder to what you left behind. Nothing compares to what I have for you. Nothing compares to what I give to you. Allow Me to provide for you and protect you. Surrender all and let Me have my way with your heart. Let Me lighten your heart. Let Me make it flutter with joy.

Do you feel the beating of My wings? Feel My rhythm and My cadence. Let Me pull the songs from your throat and the worship and praise will flow like a river from your soul. My presence is so thick about you that you can float on Me and hover above the ground in weightlessness. Let me lift you higher and higher. Do you feel My hand lifting you higher? I have you. Stretch out and feel Me all around you. Feel your weightlessness. That is how I want you to walk through this life. Knowing I am supporting you and you are hovering above the encumbrances below. Your movements are slow and your thoughts are bright. Execute this way. Don’t go back to the old way. Stay in the new, with Me. Don’t doubt it believe it. It is yours.

My courts are here for you to stay as long as you would like. Stay with me. I will give you everything. You will never want again. I want to give you the fullness of your thinking. I want to journey with you through your thoughts and in your mind’s eye. I want to see and experience every thought with you. Leave Me out of nothing. You will receive more from Me than you will ever know to give. My abundance is so great I can only show you a glimpse, so you do not run away. If you saw everything you would be ruined. What you see is greater than you thought, but nothing compared to all that is within Me. Delight in Me. I will make all of your attempts at beauty complete. All the areas where you have fallen short, I will resolve. You are perfect and clothed in righteousness with Me. There is nothing that you can do that will stop the outpouring of My love.

In order for you to know your heritage, you must first understand My love. In order for you to know your future, you must dwell in My love. You were created in My image. Male and female, I created you.[1] I have given you the authority to rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.[2] I formed you from the dust of the ground and breathed into your nostrils the breath of life and you my beloved became a living being.[3] Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.[4]

I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and so you shall be a blessing; and I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.[5] Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and your descendants forever. I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth then your descendants can also be numbered. Arise, walk about the land through its length and breadth; for I will give it to you.[6]

I have called you to be blessed of God Most High. I have called you to possess heaven and earth. I have delivered your enemies into your hand.[7] Do not fear, I am a shield to you; your reward shall be very great.[8] Now look toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them. So shall your descendants be.[9] All have been called, for those who respond and establish covenant with Me, I will rename you with a new name of adoption.

I will deliver you from evil and bring you to a land flowing with milk and honey.[10] I am hungry for you and will go to any length to bring you under My wing. I will defeat your enemies so that I may have intimacy with you. I will fight for you while you keep silent.[11] Through your faith you will raise your staff, and I will come through and sweep the sea back and turn the sea into dry land, splitting it for you to cross over. When you are safe beneath My wing, I will swallow your oppressors with the sea.[12]

I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God besides Me.[13] I will sustain you. I will provide you with all your needs, sweet water and bread from heaven to sustain you. I have given you My commandments so that you may live righteously. This law will only take you as far as your first failure and then it will be through My Son’s sacrifice that you may be set free. I will not fail you or forsake you.[14] Only be strong and very courageous; be careful to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you go. This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall mediate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it, for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success.[15] It will be My Spirit, like a dove, that will transcend sin and deliver you into the promised land.

For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; and the government will rest on His shoulders; and His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness from then on and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this.[16] And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.[17] The Child continued to grow and become strong, increasing in wisdom and the grace of God was upon Him.[18]

As in the days of old, only the animal without blemish was fit for sacrifice. So too was it with My Son, blameless before men. It was He that became a living sacrifice, final and complete atonement for sin. It was in the garden where I loved you so greatly that I gave you the freedom of choice. Relationship is accomplished through choosing. Your choice is the longing of My heart. I have done all of this to bring you back to Me. You are my chosen and I seek you out, through whispers and glimpses, to attract you to My love. The love I have for you is so great it will sustain you for eternity. Behold, I am making all things new. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost. He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son.[19]

Choice is My gift to you.

 

[1] Genesis 1:27

[2] Genesis 1:26

[3] Genesis 2:7

[4] Jeremiah 1:5

[5] Genesis 12:1-3

[6] Genesis 13:14-17

[7] Genesis 14:19-20

[8] Genesis 15:1

[9] Genesis 15:5

[10] Exodus 3:8

[11] Exodus 14:14

[12] Exodus 14:21-29

[13] Isaiah 44:3-6

[14] Deuteronomy 31:6

[15] Joshua 1:7-8

[16] Isaiah 9:6-7

[17] Luke2:7

[18] Luke 2:40

[19] Revelation 21:5-7

The Garden Unlocked

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Night pressed itself onto the earth. The sun, obscured by the shame of man, hid its face. Nothing but a void was reflected by the moon. The stars withheld their light as the bitter wind ripped around the three trees atop Golgotha’s Skull. The earth shook while the universe listened to the ripping of flesh as the veil was torn from top to bottom.

When the veil became two, I was tending my sheep near an ancient stone wall. I heard a click and when I turned around, a hidden gate opened toward me. For generations, we have grazed our sheep in this pasture and never before had the opening become uncovered. As I passed through the gate, creation was before me. This garden, like the first, displayed itself in ways unknown in the natural. All transformed by Him who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and marked off the heavens by the span, and calculated the dust of the earth by the measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance and the hills in a pair of scales.[1] My journey lasted three days, and with the whole earth, I share what there is to tell.

At the entrance, the cornerstone was engraved with a riddle, “The Stone which the builders rejected.”[2] Trees on either side of the gate embraced in an arch overhead, and while hugging each other, they spoke. “Lift up your heads, O gates.” And from the next, “And lift them up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in!” And from the next, “Who is the King of glory?” And from the next, “The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory.”[3] They repeated these words over and over, never ceasing, never tiring of the good news. As I stepped through the gate, it spoke to me, saying, “Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name.”[4]

The garden was ancient, suspended in time, sealed since creation. The presence of God was everywhere, like a protective marine layer, motionless while its molecules danced before me. Each tree was carved with ancient heavenly writing and design.[5] Something was happening within these walls and it became clear to me there was a new alignment on earth as in heaven. As I walked, rocks split on the path and the prophecy revealed itself as streams poured out and ran like rivers.[6] I heard the voice of the Lord upon the waters, and it shook the wilderness and everything cried, “Glory!”[7] The earth trembled under His gaze and the mountains began to smoke.[8] The cypress trees rejoiced over me.[9] The mountains and the hills broke forth into shouts of joy before me, and all the trees of the field clapped their hands.[10] While they clapped, they shouted, “We know You are the Lord.”[11] A celebration was rising.

I sought counsel with the trees and asked, “What is happening?” A giant cedar bowed its branches toward me and said, “Born of a virgin,[12] His throne will last forever![13] We call Him Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.[14] Pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities.[15] He has died among the wicked ones and buried with the rich.[16] The whole creation groaned and suffered the pains of childbirth together until now.[17] And while we mourn, we also rejoice for we know what is to be. He will be resurrected from the grave, for God would not allow His Holy One to suffer decay.[18] And with His resurrection, all creation has been set free![19] At the consummation of the ages, He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.[20]

Each counted star, unique in its glory, whispered their names, which He had given them.[21] The ends of the earth said “Awake, O north wind, and come, wind of the south; make my garden breathe out fragrance, let its spices be wafted abroad. May my beloved come into his garden and eat its choice fruits!”[22]

In the center of the garden, there was a new tomb, in which no one had yet been laid,[23] until now. As I gazed upon the tomb, the angels who stood watch, rolled the stone away. From the tomb stepped a gardener dressed in a white linen robe. The holes in his hands eternal reminders of the brambles of sin. With each step, lilies sprung forth and reached toward the heavens. All creation bowed before Him and exulted and sang, “He has risen!” All the earth worshiped Him and sang praises to Him and sang praises to His name.[24] We glorified His name.[25] We worshiped Him in spirit and truth.[26]

The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.[27] I too stepped out of my grave alongside of them. It was without thinking and within the truest part of my being that my soul exulted in my God. He clothed me with garments of salvation; He wrapped me with a robe of righteousness.[28] Before my eyes, the Lord God caused righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.[29] Pierced and illuminated, He handed me a cup and said, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”[30]

The Messiah, chosen and set apart, ascended into heaven. The morning stars sang together,[31] “Who has ascended into heaven and descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has wrapped the waters in His garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name or His son’s name? Surely you know!”[32] Truly this was the Son of God.[33]

And from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood – and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father – to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. BEHOLD, HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. So it is to be. Amen.[34]

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen. (Romans 1:20)


[1] Isaiah 40:12

[2] 1 Peter 2:7

[3] Psalm 24:7

[4] Psalm 100:4

[5] Psalm 74:5

[6] Psalm 78: 16

[7] Psalm 29:3

[8] Psalm 104:32

[9] Isaiah 14:8

[10] Isaiah 55:12

[11] Ezekiel 17:24

[12] Isaiah 7:14

[13] 2 Samuel 7:16

[14] Isaiah 9:6-7

[15] Isaiah 53:5

[16] Isaiah 53:9

[17] Romans 8:22

[18] Psalm 16:10

[19] Romans 8:18

[20] Hebrews 9:26

[21] Psalm 147:4 and 1 Corinthians 15:41

[22] Song of Solomon 5:1

[23] John 19:41

[24] Psalm 66:4

[25] Psalm 86:9

[26] John 4:24

[27] Matthew 27:52

[28] Isaiah 61:10

[29] Isaiah 61:11

[30] 1 Corinthians: 25

[31] Job 38:7

[32] Proverbs 30:4

[33] Matthew 27:54

[34] Revelation 1:5-7