KNOW I LOVE YOU

do you know that I love you? do you know that I LOVE you?
I will be your peace. I will be your strength. do you know that I LOVE you?
find rest for your soul. I am not burdensome. do you know that I love you as my son?
do you know that I am please to be your Father? do you know that I LOVE you?
do you know I am wise? do you know I am working for the good of my children?
do you know I am working for the good of you? do you know that I have a future for you?
a plan that will not be disrupted? do you KNOW that I LOVE you?
do you know I know the anxieties of your heart?
do you know I thought about you before I formed you and said Yes!?
do you know I made you for my joy? do you know I find joy in making you joyful?
do you know I find joy in making you into My son?
do you know I love to give you the keys to My kingdom? do you know that I LOVE you, son?
do you know I am full of power and fully capable?
do you know I have come to you?
do you know you are being set free?
do you know there is more?
do you know that I LOVE YOU?
because I love you

You are lovely

i forgot about the heart. He is reminding me of His love. the love i forgot about. He is reminding me that what i'm looking for may not be how it is. Israel was waiting for God to come and make them a mighty nation. what they didn't realize is the way He was doing this. that He was changing hearts and healing the sick. He came destroying the works of the devil against His people. they didn't see His kingdom. they were being made a mighty nation and they didn't see it. they didn't see that God Himself came to them to dwell among them and give them a new and better covanent. a covenant full of intimacy. a covenant in which, because of His mercy, would take away their striving. ive been looking for the physical and forgot that the battle isn't against flesh and blood but principalities and powers. He is working in my heart. telling me how close He is. telling the things He really cares about. telling me of the coming of New Jerusalem. telling me im His son whom He wants near to Him. He's drawing me closer

Behold, I make all things new

Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away." Then He who sat on the throne said, "Behold, I make all things new." And He said to me, "Write, for these words are true and faithful." And He said to me, "It is done!"

-Revelations 21:1-6

This is what i look forward too. this is where my hope stands. that Jesus is establishing His kingdom on the earth. and one day the fullness of heaven will come to earth and all evil will be cast into the fire. i search and wait for my home country.

These all [Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah] died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. And truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return. But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has
prepared a city for them.
-Hebrews 11:13-16

stepping out

Jesus, where do i find you? where do i go to be with you? be Thou my vision

laying down in the River and being swept away

the Lord encouragingly said to me,

"you don't even know what's in you.
you have no idea what you're capable of."

the result?

going into a crowd of people and Jesus healing every person i touched.
many of the people were healed when i touched them,
before i could even get a word out to pray for them.

this is the promise of our Father. this is His word. this is what He said we would do!

When we are fearful He is still heavily
aware of who He is in you.
And even when you aren't aware,
He is still fully aware that you
are His son and a co-heir with Christ

When we are unfaithful,
He is faithful.