Daily Pearls
Encouragement & Scriptures from our Lord Jesus
CHRIST IS THEE EMBODIMENT OF LOVE TO BE CHRIST LIKE IS TO EMBODY HIS LOVE
LOVE AN INTENSE FEELING OF DEEP AFFECTION
BUT LOVE IS SO MUCH MORE THAN A INTENSE FEELING AN EMOTION
LOVE BUILDS BRIDGES CLOSES GAPS HEALS WOUNDS AND SICKNESS CLEANSES THE MIND.
LOVE GOES FAR BEYOND WHAT MAN CAN COMPREHEND LOVE IS AS VAST AS THE UNIVERSE YET CAN BE SUMMED UP IN ONE SINGLE WORD ONE NAME JESUS
JESUS TO THE BELIEVER WELL WHEN WE HEAR THIS NAME A CALM A SECURITY A FEELING OF COMPLETE WHOLENESS TAKES OVER YOU BECOME WRAPPED IN HIS LOVE HELD IN HIS HAND YOU BECOME HIS CHILD NO MATTER THE AGE,
YOU WANT NOTHING MORE THAN FOR HIM TO SPEAK HIS LOVE INTO YOUR SPIRIT AND AT TIMES BECOME ONE WITH CHRIST THESE ARE THE GLIMPSES JESUS REVEALS THROUGH HIS LOVE
THE LORD DOES NOT NEED TO PROVE HIS LOVE HE IS LOVE
LOVE DOES NOT PROVE ITSELF IT SHOWS ITSELF LOVE SEEKS LOVE FINDS LOVE DOES NOT SIT AROUND AND WAIT IT MOVES FORWARD SEEKING TO LOVE.
LOVE CRIES OUT TO THE BLIND THE LEPER THE DRUNKARD THE PROSTITUTE LOVE SEEKS THE LOST BRINGS THEM IN
JESUS DID NOT SIT AROUND HE HAD A PURPOSE A REASON TO BE HIS HEAVENLY FATHER.
JESUS HAD ONE PURPOSE TO BRING US HOME AND HIS LOVE BEARING ALL PAIN BEARING ALL SUFFERING GAVE IT ALL WITHOUT HESITATION HE MARCHED FORWARD TO THE CROSS KNOWING HIS LOVE WOULD CONQUER ALL.
LOVE LIVES IN AND THROUGH CHRIST BUT LOVE LIVES IT BREATHES IT CONSUMES THE HATRED OF THIS ROTTEN WORLD
LOVE FIGHTS A SECOND BY SECOND BATTLE FOR THE SOULS OF MEN.
MAN’S LOVE CONSISTS OF FEELINGS EMOTIONS WHICH GOD GAVE US BUT WHEN WE FINALLY GRASP THE CONCEPT THAT LOVE IS THE MOST AMAZING THING IN THIS UNIVERSE
THAT ARE LORD IS A ALL CONSUMING FIRE OF LOVE WE CAN FINALLY SUBMIT OURSELVES TO CHRISTS LOVE
WE CANNOT RUN CANNOT HIDE WHEN YOU BELONG TO THE LORD HE DOES NOT LET GO THAT IS LOVE’
MOST FEAR A LOVE THAT REVEALS WHO THEY ARE SO THEY RUN
A CHILD OF GOD ACCEPTS FAILURE ACCEPTS THE FACT THAT AS STRONG AS SMART AS BIG AS WE THINK WE ARE WE KNOW WE ARE NOTHING WITHOUT JESUS AND EVERYTHING WITH HIM.
I SAID EARLIER THAT GOD WILL NOT PROVE HIMSELF TO US PROVE HIS LOVE
BUT HASN’T HE IN SO MANY BEAUTIFUL WONDERFUL WAYS DO WE NOT AS THE LORDS CHILDREN JUST KNOW WE ARE LOVED
IF WE TRULY TRUST AND BELIEVE THEN WE KNOW THAT WE KNOW THAT WE KNOW WE ARE LOVED AND REST WELL IN THIS FACT
LOVE IS COMING FOR ALL OF US THE SAVED THE UNSAVED WE SHALL ALL BOW WEATHER IN MERCY OR JUDGEMENT LOVE SHALL BRING US ALL TO OUR KNEES
SOME MAY FEAR THIS THE BELIEVER SEES KNOWS THE BEAUTY IN THIS
GOD’S PROMISES ARE YES AND AMEN YOU CAN BELIEVE ON THIS FACT
THE LORD DOES NOT LIE BECAUSE HE CANNOT LIE LOVE DOES NOT LIE
GOD’S LOVE IS LIKE A MASTERPIECE OF ART A SYMPHONY IN PERFECT TUNE YOUR FAVORITE SONG ON THE RADIO IT ENCOMPASSES YOU IN PERFECT PEACE
?***ANOTHER OPEN DOOR – REQUESTING ASSISTANCE***
I was presented with an opportunity for us to join with a PRISON MINISTRY to write letters to prisoners of encouragement in Jesus. If you have been in prison, or have a loved one who was or currently is, or simply just have a heart for those in prison and want to assist — Please email me:Angie@Counciloftime.com
?Only requirement ~~~ A loving, non-judgmental heart.
Be Blessed in the Love of Jesus,
?Angela ~ Marked By Heaven
This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. John 8:8
Have you ever wondered why Jesus wrote in the sand? Or pondered even what He wrote? I believe it was not so much what He wrote, but rather the demonstration He gave in choosing to ignore the accusations being railed towards the woman caught in adultery.
Jesus was purposeful in everything He said and did. His actions often spoke louder than His words, even to the point of defeating eternal death for all who would come near and know Him as Lord and Savior.
So much of our lives has been spent on sinking sand. And the times we too have suffered from getting caught in sin, bare and open for the World to see, He is there to join with us, erasing our past in order we may go forward with a clean heart and a clean slate. I cannot count all the times that just like the Pharisees, others are just waiting for my mess up in order to capture me in their net of accusation. The truth is… I am already guilty, broken and full of shame. And it is because I recognize the lack of me, I can fully embrace the Redeemer Who lives within… Him.
Every single day, Jesus writes in the sand upon the fabric of our lives, making all things new and beautiful in His time. Even broken messes like me and you, we are His specialty. Jesus always gravitated to those in need of Him and He changes not. What was His true nature then, is still prevalent in how He moves by compassion to embrace those of a broken heart. As He writes a new word over our lives, what was crushing our souls is turned into a glorious testimony of Him.
The sand represents that which is temporary. All these struggles, heartaches and disappointments are not joined with our destiny in Jesus. In His covering love He embraces us and gently begins to love us back into truth. His truth, not what man says, but what the Lord Himself knows to be true. Jesus rewrites our past failures with one touch of His hand upon our hearts.
I can only imagine the emotions this woman must have felt as she was presented before the Lord in open shame. She likely looked down, gazing upon His worn and dirty feet, ready to receive the punishment she already knew she deserved. If she is at all like me, every accusation railed against was true and if they only knew, time and again she had done worse than that, as a women with a desperate heart for love. Jesus already knew and it was her desperation that moved Him to embrace her in His love, making her whole. He is doing the same with us, each time we get caught, He wipes the shame and fear away.
… And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. John 8:11
The truth is ~ This woman found herself that day. As Jesus removed her out of the clutches of her accusers, she broke free from being an adulterer bound in shame. She was no longer bound by the weight of sin caused by pleasing others to the place where she lost herself.
She was found, once lost, now found.
Jesus restored her true identity in Him, erasing all the past mistakes which had tainted her vision of who she really was.
For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper. Psalm 72:12
It is my prayer we no longer be shameful of being needy, broken and hurt. To deny our shortcomings, would be to deny Jesus’s desire to make us clean and new in Him. Remember this is your story, Jesus is the Author and Finisher of all that is written about you. Man often sees all our missteps, while Jesus erases them. So this begs the question… Just “Who” should we follow after?
May The Lord Bless You In His Love,
?Angela ~ Marked By Heaven
And the burden of the Lord shall ye mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hosts our God. Jeremiah 23:36
I am not sure if it is just me and the few within the company I keep, but it seems there is so much “Noise” out there anymore, it is getting more and more difficult to tune it out and tune God in… You know what they say about opinions – Everyone has one and I won’t finish the rest of what they actually say, but I am sure you get my drift. Evidently, Jeremiah was discerning the same “Noise,” since he wrote about this at the leading of the Holy Spirit, especially in Chapter 23. Since we know there is nothing new under the sun, what was prevalent then, remains a tactic today.
I used the word tactic purposely, because that is exactly what this noise producing chaos seeks to use to not only wear down the Saints of the Most High God, but also dull our senses to hearing the still small voice of the Lamb, Who is leading us Home into His Kingdom. It is getting harder and harder all the time to sweep out the cobwebs held within the corner of our minds, in order we can take captive OUR thoughts, replacing them with HIS thoughts. But how can I possibly even accomplish this if I run with the others, proclaiming the Burden of the Lord while screaming my lungs out? The truth is, I can’t. That’s not to say you can’t, but I am saying… I cannot.
So, as I was seeking the Lord on why it seems very loud lately, He reminded me of a verse that reflects this irritant, resembling magnified noise.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become assounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 1 Corinthians 13:1
In pondering this Scripture, I began to consider how even silence can be loud at times or how loud voices can be soothing, so I began to see a distinct lack of love which precipitates noise. In my humble opinion, it is not so much the volume of things which is irritating in nature, but rather the source and any source outside of love simply rubs us the wrong way. We know by the Word, that the love of many will grow colder and colder, this is something we are witnessing in the World around us today on a greater measure than ever before.
We were made for LOVE?
It is for this reason, I and several others, sense a need to pull away, retreat or withdrawal from the outside influence of the World and those still caught up in it. As I was focused on the noise, it appears the noise is all I could hear and therefore, become a prisoner of it, so to speak. The Lord began to show me how we all are prisoners in this World and death to self is our only escape. Jesus came to set the captives free, me being one held captive in this foreign land.
When the Father put chaos to rest and formed something out of nothing, He laid the groundwork for our lives to be free of chaos, too. The saddest thing to face is when drama has become your comfort and what you cling too, rather than walking free abiding in Jesus. I can’t say I have figured this out fully yet myself, as I am doing my best to follow in His footsteps, listening intently so that where He leads, I will follow. But, these days it is a moment by moment leading that we require to stay on the path of righteous calm.
Our Faith is greatly increased when we actually experience and see Him forming what the enemy meant as bad in our lives, into something precious and good for our eternal life. When our life is nothing but troubled waters, Jesus is the bridge to help us cross over to the other side, into green pastures of rest in Him. I used to focus more on what I did FOR Him, rather than what I did WITH Him. We haven’t always hit on all six cylinders, Jesus and I, mainly due to my profound degree of lack, but lately I feel an urge from Him to push through, blocking everyone and everything else out just to spend time alone with Him, listening and receiving from only Him.
He reminded me yesterday again, that He is as close as the air I breathe. Air is life sustaining, it is not seen or perceived unless we don’t have it. This is similar to Jesus. We need Him to endure here on Earth and often neglect to perceive He is present with us, but when He is hidden we cannot sustain in our own circumstances.
I keep getting these impressions that if we do not seek Him in our state of plenty, a severe time of lack is on the horizon. No one wants to hear this really and I am aware of that. But, if we cannot stop being so noisy a drastic measure is coming to straighten us out on just what is important… Love? People always overlook one another’s flaws and differences during a time of calamity and brother begins to love brother again in truth. It has been my prayer for the past few weeks, that we not need a day of reckoning to awake us out of our slumber of selfish imprisonment and begin to love again.
The Burden of the Lord is not Worldly in nature, as He certainly is not on His Throne wringing His hands on what to do with the calamities on Earth. His burden reflects His true nature, which is a pure love for His people. And just like Jesus was moved by compassion to act, so should we be, so that in truth we can release our burdens to Him in the security of His love. In the place of His love, there is no noise and confusion, only peace and serenity. If it seems too simple to believe, it is because it is. Therefore, I am urging you today, to take a deep breath and remind yourself… He is as close as the next breath you breathe, because nothing can separate us from His life giving love and all we have to do is just take a moment to breathe…
In His Love,
?Angela ~ Marked By Heaven
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth. Revelation 3:16
For a little over a week now, I have been hearing these four words continually in my Spirit ~ I AM THE STORM. There have been others who are hearing these same words, so initially I just passed it off as confirmation. However, this morning I am sensing He is not going to release me until I fully release what He is giving me, with the Body of Christ. Messages such as these are even more difficult to deliver than to receive and something I do not take lightly, as I too am working out my own Salvation daily with fear and trembling, standing in awe before Him.
It has been a very long time since I have received such an urgent warning for the Church Body, let alone share it with others. But, due to the pressing nature of what the Lord has shown me, I am being urged to release this timely word, as a warning of what is and is to come.
He has impressed upon me numerous times of how He is pleading with His people, via physical manifestations upon the Earth and His target are those who are lukewarm, or rather still in the Valley of Decision. But, before you count yourself out of the gathering of the lukewarm, may I ask… Have you passed the “Love test?”
When we have passed the “Love test” we have fully received the “Love of the truth.” Since Jesus is; The Way, THE TRUTH and The Life, as He makes His abode in us as His Temple, we receive into us His love so that as a demonstration of Him on Earth, we pour His love out to others. What we give love wise is not based on what another may deserve or how they treat us or anything of fleshly benefit to self. Freely we receive, freely we give, without condition. Hence, the “Passing of the Love Test.” Agape at it’s finest?
The danger with being lukewarm is they mix the two into one, however it benefits them. They are not “Hot” receiving and sharing His love and they are not “Cold” without His love, but rather pick and choose who they show love to with partiality, playing favorites so to speak – they are the most critical self made judges in the church today and because they judge harshly, sadly they will be judged harshly.
This collection of people is who the Father is pleading with at the moment and in turn is who He is commanding I deliver this message to: Any who are compromised and wavering at the moment, by refusing to take a stand against entertaining evil of any kind and partaking in the evil devices of the enemy.
Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you. Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil. And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. Romans 16:16-20
The Father is “Marking those who cause division and offense contrary to the Image of His Son, Jesus.”
As He is marking, He is also pleading with His people to separate themselves and come out from among them.
How is He pleading? I am so glad you asked… As the whole Earth is experiencing birth pains, which are ever increasing and intensifying, there is a direct correlation between the Earth manifesting storms and such and people’s behaviors. It is dramatic and telling to the highest degree, if we will just take a moment to sit back and watch. The Earth is basically manifesting in accordance with the heart conditions of man who resides within. From our vantage point, it is both great and terrible at the same time.
With that, I will share the revelations He gave me on just how this is all intertwined together as a beautiful display of His Sovereignty crossing over where Spiritual births natural.
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:9-11
?Jesus is the purpose in all things. May He rule and reign, through love, in our hearts authentically for His perfect will to be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.
I too am joining the Father in Spirit and Truth, calling for all to come together in Jesus, Who is Love, as One Body in Him, none of us know just how long until the Father stops pleading with us to let go of all anger, strife and foolish divisions of wrath. Because, if we do not humble ourselves in such a way, sudden destruction will surely come knocking on our doors and all wrath we have laid upon others as a heavy burden, will in turn come upon us swiftly.
What we sow, therefore we also shall reap. There has never been a more crucial time as this to continue Sowing the seeds of love?into all, deserving or undeserving in our own eyes.
Every knee will bow to something, it might as well be to truth. Truth being, Jesus. Jesus being, Love.
In His Love,
?Angela ~ Marked By Heaven
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?May the Lord Jesus Keep You Continually Bound To Him In LOVE.
God Bless You ~ Angela, Marked By Heaven
?Or… Is it even permissible to be JOYFUL? Well, that simple question prompts many things to say and even more to think about. I feel unsettled today. You know the feeling of coming down from a JOY filled moment, after one looks upon you narrowly from partaking in a giggle or two. And I am frustrated with myself once again and must admit I let the enemy steal my JOY. Worse yet, I handed it right over to him… Sigh…
In the Word it says, “There is a time to laugh and a time to cry.” Which tells me, laughing in an appropriate way is permissible and even encouraged. Of course, this should never be at the expense of another through mocking or at lewd or vile topics, but harmless laughter in which the JOY of the Lord indwells within us, strengthens us to take another step with Him.
Am I even having this conversation right now? It must be of importance or otherwise why would the Lord wake me up so early after such a short time of rest? I was thinking about the stuff we do in the Name of the Lord and since it appears “holy” we do not blink an eye to proudly pronounce it in full declaration of self. The Word also tells us to, “Boast only upon the Lord.” And yet, we find great comfort in boasting on that which we do and do not do, touting on our personal religiosity. Who are we really to even say what is permissible and what is not, unless it is already written and even at that we had better make sure we are not judging someone for sinning differently than us, because in truth for every wrong doing we so easily recognize in another, we have at least 10 more which are unrecognizable in ourselves.
Newsflash ~ We are not the personal measuring rods for another person’s faith walk.
As a matter of fact, even having an intention to do so will cause us to be puffed up to the point no one will want to interact with us. It is so true that the higher we climb the harder we fall. And if I am honest, I do not even want to fellowship with those who are constantly scornful, peering at others with a crooked brow of disdain. These falls we succumb to are not only purposed, but required to keep us walking with the Lord in Spirit and truth, wearing humility as a crown.
Back to JOY?
Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations. Psalm 100
I simply love this portion of the Scripture ~ Serve the Lord with gladness! It seems some of us, have checked our gladness at the door to the point we no longer have JOY and are becoming depleted of strength. Jesus contains all that we need, He completes us in ways no man can orchestrate or explain. Him, as our Source of JOY, will also produce the FRUIT OF JOY within us. Religion without JOY and LOVE and PEACE is just that… Religion. But, with Jesus we can go deeper, be fuller, find contentment, in which we lack for nothing, because He is our everything. For centuries this has confounded the wise and still does today. People often judge that what they do not understand and sadly, many religious people do not understand JOY because the narrow way they were taught is narrow mindedness. However, that truly is not what the Lord meant at all. He did not mean the narrow way was the rule way, He meant HE IS THE NARROW WAY few will find, because they are so caught up in earning salvation through doing this or not doing that, they missed the Savior of the World right before them… They missed the JOY OF THE LORD and just like the Saducees, who were sad because they could not see, so will we be if we cannot see Him either.
We are bombarded with the terrible atrocities we are faced with in the World each and everyday. And somewhere along the way, we have vacated a portion of Jesus, the portion of Him which infuses JOY into our lives. Today, He is calling us to step back into Him and out of the chaos and confusion of the World. To divinely receive fully all He has to offer, not as the World offers, which is temporary, but to drink of Him and never thirst again. It is my prayer, you will join me today on a quest for JOY, so we are no longer weighted down by the World, which in all actuality is a place we do not belong anyway. We are just passing through… May the JOY OF THE LORD be your strength from this day forward.
Smile… Jesus loves you!?
In His Love,
?Angela~Marked By Heaven