“A time will come, however, indeed it is already here, when the true (genuine) worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth (reality); for the Father is seeking just such people as these as His worshipers.
God is a Spirit (a spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth (spiritual* reality).” John 4:23-24 AMPC.

In worship, The Holy Spirit took me into the most wonderful ENCOUNTER with Father God’s heart!

I am always so wonderfully amazed as I lift my heart and praise up to Him, how He meets me in this place of worship and adoration!

Held by Love

It felt as if I was entirely encompassed in His Heart — immersed in His deep, deep love….

I could see, sense, and feel this blanketing Love. Father God enfolding and enveloping me, then washing over all of my senses with His peace until I was entirely soothed in my soul, “held” in His life-giving embrace…

The sustenance of His Life, renewing me, ohhh, such a quieting to my heart and thoughts…

I felt like an infant held against His Chest, everything else dissipated in the reality of the strength of His “Fathering Abba Love.” (see Psalm 131:2)

My soul is quieted, “like a weaned child upon your breast..”

“ABBA Father” a testimony- breaking off harm

As I was basking in this precious time with The LORD, The Holy Spirit brought to mind a recent session that I had with a dear saint, where, as I was ministering to her, The Holy Spirit took me into a tender, awe-inspiring vision encounter for her…

In the vision, I saw her as a young child held firmly and lovingly in Father’s arms. He was ministering to her “child-self”, sheltering her from harm, breaking off the pain and emotional trauma from the past.

Here “in Father”, she was encompassed entirely by His love: safe, cherished and covered in this beautiful, luminescent, soft covered down… “under the pinions of His wings” (see Psalms 91)

As I shared what I was “seeing” with her, I could hear in her response how she was met by Father God. She could tangibly feel the love of Father embracing her, and the healing effects upon her soul.

It can sometimes be difficult to describe these glorious heavenly encounters adequately, but they always lift both “the receiver” and “the messenger” (me) into the glory state of “childlike wonder” — and that’s where our Abba Father meets us dear saints — when we become vulnerable and trusting before Him, as little children.

“…Truly I say to you, unless you… become like little children [trusting, lowly, loving, forgiving], you can never enter the kingdom of heaven [at all].” Matthew 18:3 personalized.

^*Epinosis through Psalm 139

I want to invite your hearts dear saints into this type of “Epinosis” — Encounter with our Abba Father, through The Beloved Holy Spirit.

It is the fruit of “abiding in the love and truth of Jesus” in the Living Word.

There is so much strength and life to experience as we abandon ourselves entirely to this deep, and very personal love of God, and the Truth of His Word to us.

I invite you to read and “soak” in Psalm 139

Ask The Holy Spirit to minister the chapter very personally to you.

This is the intimate invitation of love and belonging that Father God extends to each one of His children…

When we yield to this invitation, we are stepping through the archway of love and trust into this eternal transcendent experience of love…..

Through Calvary’s Cross

We must each, first come through the “Cross of Calvary” receiving the gift of life that the suffering love of our Beloved Lord Jesus Christ purchased for everyone of us personally….

Jesus, Who for the joy of knowing that we would be His forever, endured the agony of the Cross, taking our sins upon Himself. In exchange He gave us His perfect righteousness —freeing us from the bondage of sin and despair, taking us out of the grip of darkness, and bringing us into the light of His love.

The LORD’s desire was that we would be the first fruits of a New Creation in Him, immersed in a love eternal that transforms our nature…our hearts — and our very beings — forever!

^*Epinosis (Greek) to know through experience

Born from on High!

Jesus says to us,

“The Wine of My Presence is found in My Love.

Follow Me… and I will transform you in this love…!”

Ahh dear saints, to know and experience this great love is what truly transforms our earthly nature into the Divine.

This is what Father longs for us to know and experience in the deepest part of our being.

It is in this place of total acceptance, that we can in turn respond with absolute abandonment and devotion to the great love of our Beloved One.

Our obedience to His call and to His ways then, are “born of love”, in response to the amazing love of God that has been lavished upon us through Christ Jesus.

We come like the disciple John, who defined himself no longer as a “son of thunder” — but simply and intimately as “the one whom Jesus loved.”

If you feel like you are somehow removed from the experience of this great love, I am praying for you to come close, and draw near with an expectant heart into the promises that He wants to fulfill in your lives, and the original intentions that The Father has for your heart and mind to be transformed in His Love, as you experience life within Him.

Original intention of His Heart for us

Prayer

Father God I come before You now through the perfect, complete sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross of Calvary, and ask for your original intention to be restored to the heart and mind of Your dear child, that may they come to clearly see and know, and experience the true design and intention of Your Heart for them Father. and their birthright in Jesus…

Ephesians 3:14-20 — (A personalized medley sourced from TPT and AMPC).

[So I kneel humbly in awe before the Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, the perfect Father of every father and child in heaven and on the earth.

And I pray that He would unveil {deep within your heart giving you understanding of} the unlimited riches of his glory and favor {so that} supernatural strength would flood your innermost being with His divine might and… power.] ^TPT

May He grant you out of the rich treasury of His glory to be strengthened and reinforced with mighty power in the inner man by The Holy Spirit Himself indwelling your innermost being and personality.

{that} Christ through your faith (will actually) dwell (and make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love, [by constantly using your faith, the life of Christ will be released deep inside you, and the resting place of his love will become the very source and root of your life.] ^TPT

[Then you will be empowered to discover what every child of God experiences — the great magnitude of the astonishing love of Christ in all of its dimensions.] … the breadth and length and height and depth of it;

[How deeply intimate and far-reaching is his love! How enduring and inclusive it is! Endless love beyond measurement that transcends our understanding — this extravagant love pours into you until you are filled to overflowing with the fullness of God!]

[Never doubt God’s mighty power to work in you and accomplish all of this…]

“Now to Him Who, by the power that is at work within us, is able to (carry out His purposes and) …..do above all that we (dare to) ask or think (or hope, or dream of) —

To Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever. Amen” (so be it).

Fully Formed in Christ

In this Hour Holy Spirit is brooding over each of us dear saints, leading us into the intended wholeness that Christ has purchased for us.

He desires to lead us through the deep work of repentance, and inner healing, that makes us both receptive to Divine Love, and ready vessels to carry the Life and Light of Christ.

The Holy Spirit is desiring to form the fullness of Christ within our spirit man, so that we may reach the full stature of Christ… that The LORD Jesus Christ may “taste” of the “full, ripe fruit” of His life within each of us.

The LORD has spoken, “This is the Season of True Inheritance…”

Don’t miss out on what is truly and eternally valuable dear saint.

Come and be filled with the Glory and freedom of Christ, tasting the wine of His fullness, and His Presence as you allow Him to be fully formed in you.

 

~ Shelley M Ed

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Shelley M Ed/ LifeSetMinistries: Ordained Minister CMA/ working with Leaders and Ministry Houses: US/CAN/INT. Leadership development, counselling, and oversight.
“Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom…. Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning” Luke 12:32;35.

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