Some Fatherly Advice as we head into 2023:

Will you be “Totally Free in 2023”?

2022 has been a year of “Training for Reigning” for many people.

A bit of advice from Father to prepare us for the next season…

Some of you have fallen short of passing the lessons and heart changes I need you to have to walk in all My fullness for the coming year and beyond; but I am a God of love and mercy and I want you to succeed.

Come to Me with humility and sincerity to serve Me with your whole heart, love Me and love others, obey Me, and walk into your destiny. I can help you pass some tests you've missed along the way and get you caught up. The harvest is plentiful and the workers are few. I need all “hands on deck” to be about My business.

Many of you have taken your eyes off of Me and put them on to seeking My power and My gifts above your relationship with Me, as well as seeking promotions, ministries, and worldly things to gratify your flesh and pander to your ego. I’ve warned you that where there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there is every evil thing. My beloved child, the only thing that will fully satisfy you is to be completely in love with Me and filled with My love for you. I love You because I love You, not because of what you do for Me. Please don’t compare yourselves to others, it will be a snare. Also avoid fear of man and caring too much about what people think of you. Only My love is perfect. I will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast on Me.

I want to clean the closet of your soul before you step into this new calendar year. I want to heal the brokenhearted, give you beauty for ashes, the oil of joy, peace for your weary soul.

I long to hold you close to Me, but some of you have things you've let come between us. Ask Me what they are. Some of you are struggling with sin, ask Me to forgive you AND to help you walk in total freedom by the power of My Holy Spirit. Search your soul for any trace of bitterness, unforgiveness, jealousy, or selfish ambition. Talk to Me and trust ME to show you IF there is anything. Don’t condemn yourself, come to My loving arms and ask Me to help you with any areas you are struggling with. If you ask Me for help in every area of your life, I will help you. I am for you and not against you. I need you to walk with pure hearts that have no ought against anyone including yourself. Ask Me to help you forgive and forget where necessary and to extend My grace by the power of My Holy Spirit to those relationships that have been a challenge.

As you ask Me for My love, My destiny, and My purpose for those people who have hurt you, you will find your heart softening and you will have closer intimacy with Me. As you begin to see them through My eyes, My love will begin to grow in your heart. Children remember that you wrestle not against flesh and blood. No human being is your enemy. It's not My will for one to perish.

Receive My love and allow Me to heal every place in your soul and help you get prepared for the coming year and beyond. I love you.

OTHER INSIGHT: The Lord has been talking to me about being careful not to pick up someone else’s offense at another person, ministry, politician, etc. Stay on God’s side. Believe the best for every person and watch your words and thoughts towards others, as well as yourself. If we see someone, especially a brother or sister in sin, we should lift them up in prayer, not tear them down with our words and thoughts. We also need to stay far away from gossip, slander, and sewing seeds of division. We can disagree with others’ opinions, doctrine, etc., but still walk in love, and pray for them.

PRAYER:

A prayer to start with to help us along our way to full spiritual “house cleaning” and preparing ourselves for the New Year and beyond:

Father, if I'm deceived in any way, please show me and grant me the gift of repentance. Please help me have a pure heart, for I want to see You. Forgive me if I have judged others, or grieved You in any way. Please help me love You, others, and myself by the power of Your Holy Spirit. Please show Me any areas you want me to change, and to ask You and trust You to help me. Please help me even forgive myself if necessary. Please fill me with Your Holy Spirit so that I can do Your will on the earth and help You build Your Kingdom. I choose to forgive all those who have hurt me, and I pray that they will be free to know, love, and serve You. In Jesus name I pray.

SCRIPTURES:

Long ago the Lord said to Israel: “I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself. – Jeremiah 31:3 (NLT)

Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore, the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. – 1 John 3:1 (NKJV)

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Matthew 5:8 (KJV)

And he gives grace generously. As the Scriptures say, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. – James 4:6 (NLT)

12 I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. 13 No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us. – Philippians 3:12-14 (NLT)

14 For if you forgive other people for their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive other people, then your Father will not forgive your offenses. – Matthew 6:14-15 (NASB)

He has told you, mortal one, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God? – Micah 6:8 (NASB)

44 But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! 45 In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike. – Matthew 5:44-45 (NLT)

Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord. - Hebrews 12:14 (NKJV)

21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ – Matthew 7:21-23 (NKJV)

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.” – John 5:14 (NKJV)

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me. – Psalm 51:10 (NLT)

12 Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. 13 For if you live by its dictates, you will die. But if through the power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live. – Romans 8:12-13 (NLT)