Dear Sisters and Brothers in Jesus the Christ,

Confessing Colossians 1:11-14 (KJV, NIV, NLT, AMP) – “11 Father, by Your great might, I am strengthened with all the endurance and perseverance necessary with joy. 12 And, in Jesus’ name, I thank You Abba Father, for You have qualified me to share the inheritance of the saints in the Kingdom of Light. 13 For You have brought us out of the dominion of darkness into the Kingdom of Your Only Begotten Son; 14 in Whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our sins.” (personalized),

A true gift is freely given and gift(s) must be freely received; these aren’t earned. Likewise God’s kind of love – agape/divine love is unconditional. However, the fact that God’s kind of love is unconditional makes Him no less just; for the victories by His hand are always right and just (Isaiah 41:10 [AMP]; Jeremiah 9:23-24 [KJV, NKJV, NIV, NLT]). As it is written, God is not a man that He should lie or change (1 Samuel 15:29; Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8; James 1:17). The fact that the WORD of the Sovereign LORD God Almighty never returns void (Isaiah 55:11) necessarily means that the victory is present tense. The question isn’t whether God the Father will give in keeping with His WORD. The fact is that Abba Father has already given whatsoever is necessary for life and godliness (2 Peter 1:3) through Christ Jesus (2 Corinthians 1:20; Philippians 4:19). Therefore, those rendered sons & daughters of God the Father by the blood of Jesus the Anointed One neither earn nor work for God’s gifts because His grace is benevolent. Rather, we receive the gifts of God by faith which works by love (Galatians 5:6).

One of God’s freely given gifts is The Blessing (Proverbs 10:22) which consist of a plethora of blessings. However, holding tight to or steadfast in the things of Satan (i.e., un-forgiveness, hate, etc.) will block the flow of The Blessing like debris in an otherwise steady stream slows to a trickle. (Of course, one might be satisfied with a trickle but The Blessing isn’t solely for self; we’re blessed to be a blessing. Yet a significant number of Believers settle for significantly less than the Sovereign LORD God Almighty has bestowed. Neither poverty or lack are of God.) Abiding by the precepts of God’s Kingdom of Light, of which love is paramount, allows The Blessing to flow. Therefore, since we are commanded to walk by faith which we have already been given the measure of (Romans 12:3), and faith is powered by God’s kind of love which has already been poured into our hearts (Romans 5:5), we may know that unconditional love is key. Divine love doesn’t render one a doormat; rather, it renders one a shifter of the atmosphere. That is, as kingdom citizens we are called or sent or assigned of God to establish His covenant in the earth. Everything in the natural realm has its origin in the spirit realm; and there is an ongoing spiritual war in which the fiery darts of Satan are strategically designed to thwart sons & daughters of God from shifting the atmosphere in advancing the Kingdom of Light. Hence, the WORD advises us to put on the whole armor of God (Ephesians 6:10-18). You must know God’s WORD to believe it; you must believe God’s WORD to say it; you must say God’s WORD to manifest it.

Speak the promise . . . Harriet