INTRODUCTION (from our daily devotional “Christ’s Love Letters”)
Before dawn, in 1988, I sat alone in our truck waiting for my husband. I was forty-two years old. Though I had been a Christian since the age of sixteen, I had only taken my commitment to God seriously during the previous one to two years. I studied the Bible daily, but hadn’t heard or read God’s teachings with regards to His Holy Spirit, our resurrection, or Christ’s one Body; nor had I read the numerous Bible scriptures that show God speaking with His Children. I was totally unaware of the fact that God wants to communicate with His Children in every generation, and that He clearly expresses this in His Bible.
As we were traveling throughout the United States my husband and I wrote our expenditures on a small notepad that we kept in our truck. I grabbed this in order to make a note on a topic that I wanted to research in the Bible later. As I put the pen to the paper, I heard Jesus Christ speak through His Holy Spirit within me; thus, I wrote down the following love letter.
I literally fell in love with Him as I experienced His immense love for both me and His one Body of Believers. I also felt His tremendous hurt as He said to us, “You are failing to hear Me because you cry and don’t listen. I’m screaming to Comfort you and My Love and Words… fall on deaf ears.”
Though I understood very little of Jesus’ teachings that day, and I knew that I could stop writing if I decided to, I continued to write down every word that He said. This was my first Spiritual experience and contact with my living God and I was in awe of His Spiritual Presence. Naturally, I was very anxious to hear His next words.
After Jesus finished speaking, I slowly began to understand what had happened. Later, I would read in John 10:3-5 “…the sheep hear his [Jesus Christ’s] voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” Though I didn’t realize it then, I had recognized Jesus’ voice as He promises in His Bible. It took me many years to truly understand and internalize the magnitude and reality of Christ’s gift.
As you read His letter below, please notice that Jesus continually identifies Himself through both His Name and the Words that He speaks. For me, Christ’s first Love Letter remains emotionally touching and poignant in every way, and I still shed tears as I read it.
Jesus Christ’s First Love Letter
(1988) “Pray for the Resurrection of My Blessed Ones”
But those who are counted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage; nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
(Luke 20:35-36)
Pray for the Resurrection of My Blessed Ones, My very own, saith the Lord, for they are lost. When one does well they all do well as a Body. My Body is perfect and must come together in their perfection as One. The hand that does well does not receive the credit, the whole Body does. As part of My, Jesus’, Body you are one with God, all of God. God receives the credit when any member of His Body beckons to His Word and responds as told.
My people’s ears fall deaf to the Word. They do not love each other as though I am in each of them. How can they be My One Body when they are not of Me for lack of love? Move as one Body, saith the Lord, just as your body moves as one. Can a hand fall alone? Can it exist alone? Can it exist if not fed by the other members of the Body (see 1 Cor. 12:12-26)?
Literally, come together as one. When one does well, all receive the credit for you are one with Me. Go in My Name literally — as one representing Me. No hand can exist without the arm, the arm of the Lord . Go together in peace and love now. Uphold and uplift each other. Put aside your “self” and we will merge as one. We are one, saith the Lord. Move for Me on the earth.
Work with and for Me, and not yourselves. Where are those who love Me first, you selfish ones? We must work together and now is the time. Come together in one accord in all matters: Spirit, Soul, and Body (see Phil. 2:1-4). Indifferences must fall away. I must come first. Love Me and all else is agape, saith the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
P.S. I love you. I love My people more than they can comprehend, more than it is possible for them to see or feel. Why do they love Me so little? Why are they faithless: without faith? I am the Life for which they seek, saith the Lord Jesus Christ.
Let us be one eternally. Feel Me in you. I am you. You are literally My Body on earth. Go forth in My Name, for you are truly renamed Jesus [within My Body]. I am the only Jesus Christ of Nazareth, but I have given you My Name, My Love, and My Power. Use them. My works depend on your love for Me — shown toward each other. Go in My Name. We are one with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. You are “the Body” on this planet. Go in My Name and do those things the Word commands, but do them in love.
Without love, agape, all else will fail. Without love in Me, I cannot reach you. Have faith and love (same word and meaning when said by Jesus) in Me. I am the Healer, the Provider, and the Eternal Love that you all search for.
You are failing to hear Me because you cry and don’t listen. I’m screaming to Comfort you and My Love and Words (same meaning) fall on deaf ears. You are no longer of this world (see John 17:9-19). Why do you fret and waste each day away? You are lonely and afraid because you choose to be. With love, agape, all things are possible; and I am Love. Stand in faith — as one Body of love — and I will move and the world will know My Presence and Power (see 1 John 4:8; Eph. 4:11-16).
These are My Days, saith the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth. My days are love for Mine very own people. You are Mine babes in My arms. I’ll hold you above the world in Love, Joy, and Peace always and forever.
Have faith in Me and My Name, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Christ Jesus in Heaven. Hallelujah. Now praise thy LORD God. Rejoice in My coming and in My Days, for I am here with you — in you. We are One together always. Love Abound! Amen.
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