Suffering with Purpose

I love you child. You are so precious to me. The suffering that you experience to break free of the passions of the flesh cannot compare to the glory that will be revealed in you at my coming. You must suffer a little while more but know that I am with you and I'm so proud of your persistence and undying faith in my power to deliver you completely.

I have collected your tears in a bottle and I do not take them for granted. Take heart my little one for I have shed my blood for you and you shall be victorious!

You want to know the secret to enduring suffering without giving into the passions of the flesh? It is found in the hope of glory. For the joy that was set before me I endured it's suffering and its shame. I did not defend my name, I let go of what people would think of me, I let go of my rights to pleasure and comfort all because I knew what was to follow when I would be victorious. I have purchased these things for you, they are already yours yet they are not yet fully manifested in your physical life. Hide in me.

Abide in me, find your strength in me, depend on me, look to me, listen to me, learn from me for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. I aimed to do one thing only, whatever it was that the Father wanted for me to do. I focused on Him and not on the things that I lacked. My gaze was always upward and future focused. Like Paul, forgetting what is behind I pressed on toward the goal.

The finish line is nearly in sight, and I have faith for you that you will not give up before you take hold of that for which I have taken hold of you.

Yes you must suffer a little while in order to take hold of your freedom, but know that I have taken hold of you and I will never let you go. Keep fighting, keep pressing on, don't give up, for your victory is close at hand my valiant little warrior. Your suffering is not in vain. Set your face as flint to take hold of the glory that is already yours. Those who suffer in the flesh have ceased from sin. I have seen your suffering and your faith has been credited to you as righteousness.

A Cup of Ocean

My child, I love you. Thank you so much for continuing to open up your heart and give me a chance to show my love to you.

The darkness is thickening and it has made a formidable attempt to overtake you, but I have heard the cries of your heart. You have felt yourself slipping but I promise you I will never let you go.

It is true what Jesus has said: In this life you will have tribulation but take heart for I have overcome the world. All creation is groaning as in the pains of childbirth for new life to emerge unlike anything you could possibly imagine. Trust me! The suffering you experience now is not worth comparing to the glory that is to be manifested in your life and in the lives of all of those who have adopted me as their Father.

There is no earthly comparison to the riches of the inheritance that is already yours which I have held in safekeeping for you. Even now I have released a deposit into your spirit as my son of that glory—my Spirit. And those who have my spirit are inseparable from me. How then could I ever forsake you? How could I deny my very own? Try retrieving a cup of water after it has been poured out into the ocean. My child, you are lost forever in my love and you are forever ruined as you have discovered who you really are in me.

Remember who you are and the resources you have available to you especially in the face of the coming storm. In this life you will face tribulation, but never forget that I have overcome the world. These things must be for I have called the Evil One to account and he is very angry with me. He would like to disrupt my plans but he will fail. I am unleashing a mighty torrent and I will scatter the forces of the enemy.

And you, my little cup, are an integral part of that torrent. Do not be disappointed for I am your God who shall overtake the Evil One like a flood.