Journals of the Heart

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Not only do reckless words plant a destructive crop of weeds, they will cause you to drift back into old habit patterns, opening doors to …

I see how you fight it out to see the light when all seems dark. I am always with you and even a small flickering light is all you need to create a glow in the darkness. You are My salt and light in this world (Matthew 5:13a). I illumine your darkness and make you …

I am leading you to a place where My glory dwells. I am taking you to your own personal Mount of Transfiguration within My all-consuming heart. It is not a mystical place, a far away place or an ethereal place. It is a very common and yet uncommon place. It is not limited nor is it attainable to only a few. It is for whosoever will. Access is not limited to a select few. Most of all, it is not saved only for a promised day in the by and by.

Like Moses, you have been called out of the wilderness, for you know who your Father in Heaven is. I am the Lord God of Israel —the great I AM that I AM. I called you from birth, from conception. I knit you together for a purpose beyond your comprehension to be fulfilled in the here and now (Psalms 139:13-28). Destiny in life is lived moment by moment, day by day.

Come into My all encompassing, steadfast love and the heaviness will lift, for My yoke is easy and My burden is light (Matthew 11:30). Cover yourself with a garment of praise and a thankful spirit. See your ashes turned to beauty, and your mourning to joy. (Isaiah 61:3). I destroy the…

As My light…as the truth of My Word comes as light, all dark areas will be dispersed and come to no more. As this happens your vision will grow clearer and clearer. Things you could not see before you will see. Like Paul you will arise, have all scales of hindrance removed in order to see clearly and lead many to faith in Me (Acts 26:15-19)

Yes, you have the thoughts and intents of My heart; but still I am a mysterious and sovereign God. I do mysterious things in mystifying ways and I have come to mystify you…to baffle you with My amazing love. Many “suddenlies” will happen in the most unlikely places…in the most unlikely circumstances. I want you to be one who looks for the silver lining…the mystery in all things. I am indeed mysterious but at the same time I reveal unsearchable things you know not (Jeremiah 33:3)

I tell you to break up the uncultivated soil of your life…but only in response to what I have spoken to you or am speaking to you. This is like planting your garden with all kinds of varieties of plants at different times and seasons for the greater benefit of each plant. As a result they all come to harvest at different times making provision possible on a continual basis. While one variety is planted in cultivated soil, the gardener can be working on other soil all the while nurturing what He has already planted with the expectancy of great gain. When it comes to harvest, faith and excitement grow in relation to the rest of His crop to come. This is called hope.

There will soon come a time—a day in which I lift your head, lift your eyes to see—that you might observe the good repercussions of our union within the enclosed garden of My being. And behold, all things will have been made new while you were lost in Me. You will be amazed that you have doing yet there was no realization of doing for there was no struggle, no strife. (rewrite sentence. Unclear) You will find to your great delight that your focus changed when you dared to cross the line of choice, when you dared to heed the Voice of Promise. The heavy yoke having disappeared while beholding Me will no longer have power to weigh you down. You can carry out vision and purpose in a relaxed state while reclining at My table.

The word “saw” to Me means to stretch out to see all I can see…to lean in and behold what I am looking at…and on the day when I proclaimed all things good it, included you. I was even then leaning into you to behold you. I was beholding you and called you suitable and pleasant. I approved of you completely.