Journals of the Heart

Word of the Day

Beloved, all I ever do in your life is done in love and to perfect love in you. As I told you earlier, “I have already done all things first.” The first thing I did was love you…choose you (John 15:16).

Everything flows from this first thing. Without love being the first thing nothing else can be as it should be. Actually, the very first thing I did was to dwell with My father. I dwelt in His love and out of abiding in Him and He dwelling in Me. I love you.

Yes, you were in My heart before the worlds ever were; but, before you physically came to exist I existed and loved My father. I would never ask to do or be something I haven’t already done or am.

I have come to you today…to this time in your life and I am releasing a whole new level of trust…a new level of hope and the realization of My love for you. Trust is building in your heart. Your ears are hearing all that I am saying and your spirit is seeing all I am seeing. As I behold you, life is flowing from me to you…redemptive revelation is streaming like beams of light on a sunny day into your very essence. Feel the warmth and be made new.

Therefore, take time with Me to worship, pray and just simply rest in My presence and …let the light penetrate your heart.,….let the living water create a realization of love that will cast out all fear. Come experience true and reverential fear as you stand in awe of who I am and who you are to Me. Take every opportunity to draw near…to lean into Me…to stretch yourself out to Me…to extend yourself to Me. Come and exist in the midst of My life. Selah (mediate and reflect)…Read Complete Love Letter

We love Him, because He first loved us. (1 John 4:19 Amplified)

You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed you [I have planted you], that you might go and bear fruit and keep on bearing, and that your fruit may be lasting [that it may remain, abide], so that whatever you ask the Father in My Name [as presenting all that I AM], He may give it to you. (John 15:16 Amplified)

Prayer

Lord, thank you for going before me. Thank you for leading the way by example even to the cost of Your own life. I pray this be enough for me…enough for me to trust You and take You at Your Word. Love was and always has been…always will be the first thing with You. I relish in Your love. I so desire for love to flow from me as it flows from You, therefore; teach me to walk in Your ways and in Your footsteps without missing a beat.

It is hard to imagine being in You before the worlds ever were. What a love. What a preparation to be with me. I am amazed and overwhelmed with the beauty of it all. Today I receive the fullness of Your beholding gaze and I ask for You to penetrate the very depths of my essence with a never before experienced revelation of Love…of You. I come to Your presence and experience You as You exist in the very midst of my life. Amen

Reflect and Journal

1. What does it mean to you to be in His heart…in His grace before the worlds ever where. Does it make you feel special…loved. Write Him a love note and tell Him why.

2. Take some time in a quiet place to behold Him…imagine Him beholding you and listen carefully. What is He saying?