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Free from Man, Free to Love

Wow. I am utterly amazed at the HUMAN side of Jesus. He is so approachable and so real to Himself. I don't even know if I can explain it. The revelation the Lord has given me about this seems so profound and yet it is sooo simple. I journaled about it below. Read through some of my old entries and you will see that the Lord has spoken to me for a number of years about the Bride awakening to who she is made to be. This entry refers to that but overall,it's about being free from man's opinions BUT free to love them and how the two truths go hand in hand:



Thank you, Lord. You are so awesome. You are so…You. You were truly true to yourself and your nature. You didn’t care about what others thought about you YET you were totally concerned about others. Oh, Jesus! I want to be like that! Free from the fear of man but free to love them without bars! Oh, let it be in me! This is what freedom looks like!


Child, this revelation has your heart because it is a high calling and it is one you are called to. Oh, the joy of knowing you see it, child! I want all of my children to see this great invitation! True freedom comes to us when we walk in a way where we do not fear man’s opinions of us. This comes, however, from having a firm foundation in ourselves…confidence in who we are in God alone. Awakening to this is vital for the church in this hour, as I have told you, dear. A firm foundation in understanding who we are as individuals in the body is vital to walk in the freedom of the Lord. Knowing who we are awakens us to walk before His eyes, to live before His gaze.

Jesus, you don’t usually talk like this, in the 3rd person. Are you referring to the Father?


I am speaking to you as one who has had to learn to walk the walk of faith in God alone. I, fully human, had to learn to live before HIS eyes. This comes in knowing who I am. Knowing who I am. Even as your heart is thinking of John’s account in the upper room (John 13:3-5 crazy amazing passage)…I knew who I was and knew where I was going…this freed me, then, to serve men because I was not connected to them for my identity. I was connected to them in service and love. Child, if you can learn your identity in Me, you will be free to love and serve.

Selah.

Child, I understood that true Life was in me. I had to be myself! I had no other choice if I wanted to save the world. I had to be true to my calling, true to my purpose and created purpose on earth. True freedom for others begins here…when we are true to ourselves. The one who fears….who even fears mans opinions and nature…has not been perfected in LOVE (1 John 4:17-18). Love begins at the foundations of our calling, in knowing who we are created to be in our purpose on the earth.  If we do not know this, child, we will be looking to others to define us and our calling.

To know your calling is to know yourself. J And this is freedom, child, to truly be YOU as you are created to be. Yes, apart from me you have no good thing. But you in me IS your new nature! So, what does it look like? What are you created for? This is freedom! Only THEN will you love rightly for only then will you not be swayed by man’s opinions of you. If you can be swayed in your calling based upon mans approval or disapproval, then you are not true to yourself (your CREATED self) and you are not loving them rightly…for it is shifting sand that changes with the tide of opinion.


You are created to bring salvation to the world, as I was created to bring it child. You are called to take up your cross and die daily, to lay your life down for the brethren, to let your light shine. Yes, I paid the price…but you are just as much witnesses to the Father on the earth as I was. You are called to be LIFE to the dying around you. MY life is in you…so you must be true to YOURSELF, too! Do you see this? You are created to walk in freedom as a dead man who now lives in me! You are the salvation to the world in ME. You show ME…you show my love and light! Yes, you reveal salvation, child! You are not the Savior…but you are a bringer of salvation. Be true to yourself, child. Be true and you will be Truth, Life, and Light to the lost and to the body around you. Yes, it is reliance on the Father! Dependence on the Spirit! But this IS IN YOU, child! Do not doubt! You are MADE to dwell with me and I in you. This is your TRUE self. Let the expression of it shine forth for all to see... Knowing that I am the Life inside of you, enabling you to be yourself…to live above the opinions of man AND to now walk in love like each one is the only one in the room.

This is what you are beginning in me, isn’t it? You’ve been doing the first…now you are awakening me to the latter.

You are called to this but I will be the one who lights the flame. You just come and stand before my breeze with hands open are heart open and I will fan it into flame each day.

Thank you, Lord ;)

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