Morning by Morning, October 12 - Embracing the Place Prepared for Us Good morning, Lord Jesus. Be high and lifted up -- here in my heart and every moment of my day (John 12:32). ... “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in Me. In My Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to Myself, so that where I am, there you may be also” (John 14:1-3). Your Father’s house is not merely a mansion in Heaven. It’s wherever we make room for our Father in our hearts, as sons and daughters of the Living God. You’ve not merely prepared a place for us in the sky when we die. You’ve prepared a place for us wherever we welcome You into our hearts, wherever we embrace Your invitation to abide in You as You abide in us (John 15:4). You bring us into our Father’s house; You bring us into the place You’ve prepare for us, as we open our hearts to Your Holy Spirit to live in us, to abide in us, to dwell in us, filling us with the love and Presence of the Living God -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God. You expressed this beautiful promise of spiritual intimacy to Your first disciples and to all who are willing choose to become Your faithful disciples: “If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever--the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him” (John 14:15-21). Lord Jesus, “manifest” Yourself to me, I pray. “Manifest” Yourself within me. Help me, Holy “Helper”, Holy Spirit of God to enter into the place prepared for me -- the place of spiritual intimacy with You -- God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Let my mansion of glory be the “manifest” Presence of God abiding in me and me abiding in You. Help me experience the truth of the apostle Paul’s powerfully intimate prayer for every disciple of Christ: “I pray that, according to the riches of His glory, He may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through His Spirit and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love. I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:16-19). “Filled with all the fullness of God” -- that seems too amazing, too intimate, too good to be true. Yet that is exactly what the Bible says. And that’s exactly what You desire, as we make room for You, as we embrace the place You’ve prepared for us. So, by Your grace, I do. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My friend, may you embrace the place prepared for you in your heart by Jesus Himself, in Jesus' name. God bless you!
Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries Mailing Address: 412 S. Adams Street #148 Fredericksburg, Texas 78624 Please share this word to encourage a friend! Anyone can sign up for free at:
https://messiah-ministries.org | 
