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My child,
As for you, you were spiritually dead, dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you habitually followed the ways of this world,
doing what you felt like doing, when you felt like doing it. You drifted along on the stream of this world's ideas of living, and obeyed Satan, the mighty prince of
the power of the air. All lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of your sinful nature; following the impulses and imaginations of your evil nature.
You lived out your life in the cravings of your flesh, indulging the desires of the mind. You were born with an evil nature, and you were under My anger just like
everyone else.
But, because of I am so rich in mercy and have great love for you; in order to satisfy the great and wonderful and intense love with which I love
you, I made you alive with Christ even when you were dead in transgressions-- it is, remember, by grace and not by achievement that you are saved. It is only by My special
favor that you have been saved!
I raised you up with Christ and seated you with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, giving you joint seating with Him. All
because you are now one with Christ Jesus.
I raised you and seated you in Christ, at the right hand of God. And I would say to you now that I did that: so that I
can always point to you as examples of the incomparable, limitless, surpassing riches of My grace; the incredible wealth of My favor and kindness toward you, as shown in
all I have done for you through Christ.
Saving you was all My idea, and all My work. It is by grace you have been saved, through faith-- It was nothing you could
or did achieve - it was My gift from start to finish to you!
Salvation is not a reward for the good things you have done. It is not by works, so no one can pride
himself upon earning the love of God. You are My own workmanship, created anew in Christ Jesus to do good works, which I prepared in advance for you to do.
Out of
the rich treasury, out of the glorious unlimited riches of My resources, may you be strengthened, may you have mighty inner strength through My Spirit living within your
inner being. May Christ dwell in you, may He settle down and make His permanent home in your heart through faith.
I desire that you are rooted, rooted deep and
established, firmly fixed in My love. And that you will have the power, together with all Christians, to know and grasp how wide and long and high and deep is that love.
May you really come to know this love that surpasses knowledge. It is so far beyond your comprehension -- May that infinite love fill all your inner being with
Me…with the fullness of God himself!
Signed,
God
(Compiled from and based on Ephesians 2 - 3)
Make this a prayer to your Heavenly Father:
Now to You who is able to do immeasurably, superabundantly far more than I ever dare to ask or imagine-infinitely beyond my highest prayers, desires, thoughts,
hopes, or dreams.
To You who according to Your power that is at work within me, be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and
ever! Amen.
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