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A Love Letter From God To You!
My child,
May My Grace, My unmerited favor, and My
spiritual peace be yours, sent personally to you from Me. I, the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ has poured this grace into your life.
Praise Me! The God
and Father of your Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed you, has given you every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms, every possible spiritual benefit as citizens of
Heaven! All because you belong to Christ!
For consider what I have done - I chose you in him, in Christ - long before I laid down the earth's foundations. Before
the creation of the world, I actually picked you out for Myself as My own. I chose you to be holy, to be set apart for Me; and I see you as blameless and unblemished. I chose
you to be My child living within My constant care. I settled on you as the focus of My love.
In love I predestined you. I planned for you to be adopted as my son or
daughter. My own child through Jesus Christ. You are My child in accordance with My pleasure and will--(What pleasure I took in planning this!)
I want you to enter into
the celebration of My lavish gift giving, which I have freely given you in the One I love. I desire for you to learn to praise that glorious generosity of mine which has made
you welcome in My everlasting love, the same everlasting love that I extend towards My Son.
So overflowing is My kindness toward you, so rich is My kindness, that in
Him, through My Son, Jesus Christ you have redemption. That redemption or payment for your sins was costly. It was at the cost of My Son's own blood.
And you have
forgiveness of sins. You are free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all your misdeeds. All of this is in accordance with the riches and the generosity of My gracious
favor that I lavished on you. I showered My kindness on you with all wisdom and understanding.
And I made known to you the mystery of My will. I have allowed you to
know the secret of My plan. It is a plan centered on Christ, designed long ago according to My good pleasure. And this is My plan: At the right time I will bring
everything, all things in heaven and on earth together under the authority of Christ.
And here is the staggering thing - In Him, in Christ, you were also chosen,
having been predestined according to My plan; and I work out everything in conformity with My purpose of will, in order that you might be for the praise of My glory.
And when you believed in Christ, I identified you as Christ's own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom I promised long ago. You were included in Christ when you heard the
word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in Him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a guarantee of purchase; or a deposit
guaranteeing your inheritance until the day when I complete the purchase of what Christ has paid for as His own; the redemption of those who are God's possession.
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 1 - 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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