What is it about faith that keeps demanding greater testing? Those closest to the heart of Jesus will be tested with a great intensity. Faith must go beyond believing for the provision of God, faith must reach the very heart of God and His purposes. The heart of this message tells us our present battles are not about testing or chastening, it is what God is doing in our hearts to prepare us for service in eternity! We will rule and reign with Christ and in the ages to come we will show forth His glory. God has a larger purpose than just this world.

We must not set our hand to bring about our own justice. God will stop us when we are going down the road of bitterness and unforgiveness. When He leads us in the direction to love our enemies, He will provide what we need to do it. God will simply put His hand of supernatural mercy in our hand and He will give us the power and love to wash the feet of our enemies. The Lord will fight our battles and bring about justice for us, but will He find a willing heart to be merciful to our betrayers?

So many Christians don’t know the mind of Christ because they are not willing to live a selfless life. A person who has the mind of Christ makes himself of no reputation and is a servant. When we delight to do God's will and we are willing to be poured out for the betterment of others God's thoughts will be revealed to us through the Holy Spirit.

Jesus said, "Be ye merciful as I am merciful." This is not an easy thing to do and it will cost us. Jesus Christ paid the highest cost so that mercy could be shed on humankind. The price He paid is beyond calculating. Mercy does not rebuke, examine, or accuse one another. We need a supernatural revelation that the body of Christ and Jesus are one. What we say and what we do to one another is what we are saying and doing to Jesus. The Lord is gracious and merciful and we are to be an extension of this to one another.

What is it that causes so many young people to leave the house of God today? It is the older brother syndrome, when service in the house of God becomes hard labor from an angry joyless heart. It is the Father that meets His children with love and mercy. God almighty will bring His sons and daughter back home and we need to be prepared to celebrate their home coming.

Do we have a distorted view of God because of our experiences with our earthly father? Some of us view our heavenly Father as angry and difficult. Some fathers just weren't there at all. Some of us were raised in good homes and then there is a danger of making an idol out of our earthly father. This message reminds us that our heavenly Father is all together different than our earthly father. Our Father in Heaven is pure, merciful and glorious. Today God the Father is speaking words of restoration and life to you.

Brokenness is trading in something old and receiving something new. When we allow God to break us our lives become a demonstration of His heart. We are to reflect a new value system which is the giving of ourselves in the same way that Christ gave for us. The central core of Christ is that He came to the world not to do His own will but to do the will of the Father. The will of the Father is that none would perish. The cry of your heart in these last days should be LORD BREAK ME!

Are you seeking the life and the blessing of God? The blessing is not something to be consumed among ourselves. Our life is to be an extension of the love and mercy of God and to give of ourselves unselfishly. When we choose to go this way with God we will be lead on a journey into hard places. In these hard places God will visit us. We will find wisdom and compassion for every dreadful place God allows us to go through. Heaven will open to the person who is willing to be poured out for the good and betterment of others.