This word is submitted by Don Newmeyer (DNewmeyer@csi.com)
Find the Life You Need
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Oh, My children! My children are being torn apart by the enemy, and it is not necessary! Come to me, my children, and find the life you need! Come to me and receive your calling and destiny. Your destiny is everlasting and your calling is irrevocable. But some of you are squandering the time. There is much to do and little time. Therefore, do not go about doing what you only think I want you to do. You rush about, like hamsters on a treadmill, to no effect except your own weariness. Come, spend time with me, dwell in me, and you will have both rest and fruitfulness in your labors. Even in your labor, there will be rest and peace--much peace. You have been working to achieve a worldly reward: the approval of others. This is because you do not truly know your value in my eyes. If you would stop to hear what I think of you, how I see you, you would not waste time on these trivialities.
Remember that what you see with your physical eyes will perish. It will all pass away. What will endure is My Kingdom and My works. I have called you to this everlasting Kingdom and I have called you to work with me, to accomplish things that will last forever! Come to me and I will give you sight into the eternal realm, the heavenly kingdom. In this Kingdom My will is done on earth, just as it is in heaven. In My Kingdom, there is no separation between the earthly and the heavenly. What you bind on earth is bound in heaven, and what is loosed--released--on earth is loosed in heaven. So be about your heavenly business! Come, join in the work of heaven! You must learn to see as I see, with the eyes I give you.
We are engaged in a struggle. We are at war in the heavenly realms. DO NOT see this war with your physical eyes. Do not see your enemies from this perspective of your experiences in the worldly realm or from what happens to you in this arena. The battle is in the heavenly arena, and that is where you must look. If you look only at what you see with your physical eyes, you will become discouraged. If you look at yourself, at your weakness, sin, and inexperience, you will be deceived. Do not be deceived: you WILL reap what you sow. This is true in a positive sense especially. By my grace, the seeds of obedience that you sow will reap abundant rewards in the heavenly realms. If you look for reaping in the earthly realm, you will receive it only there. Your heavenly reaping will be so much greater, and therefore I counsel you to look for fruit in the heavenly realm. Some of this will come quickly, some much later, and some will only be seen when I return. Some will grow throughout eternity! Think of the greatness of that fruit! The heavenly fruit, even in the time soon to come, will be more than you can even imagine; the fruit that is reaped in eternity far greater still.
So, my beloved children, I want you to know who you really are, and where you really live, play and work. You are sons and daughters of the Most High God, and you live in the Heavenly City. In My city, in our city, everything you need is provided for. There are parks, rivers, fountains, streets, and buildings. There are even skyscrapers! These are built from the prayers and worship, even the sufferings of my people, which reach the skies, all the way to my very throne. You cannot now imagine how those things touch and move me to respond!
In my city there are also amusement parks, places where you can park for a while and find real amusement, real joy, real laughter, real excitement and thrills. There are quiet gardens--trysting places--where we can meet secretly to exchange intimate words of love and tenderness. All these things are mirrored in the physical world, but in that realm have been co-opted and twisted by our enemy. They will all be restored for My Kingdom, both on earth and in heaven. There are also office buildings, places where the prophetic, apostolic, pastoring, evangelistic, and teaching offices are building the church. There are financial centers, places where eternal and physical wealth are released and directed for the benefit of my children. There are communication centers--places from which my words and pictures are disseminated. There are highways for shipping, supplying the needs of my people.