July
RELAX IN MY PEACEFUL PRESENCE. Do not bring performance
pressures into our sacred space of communion. When you are with
someone you trust completely, you feel free to be yourself. This is one
of the joys of true friendship. Though I am Lord of lords and King of
kings, I also desire to be your intimate Friend. When you are tense or
pretentious in our relationship, I feel hurt. I know the worst about you,
but I also see the best in you. I long for you to trust Me enough to be
fully yourself with Me. When you are real with Me, I am able to bring out
the best in you: the very gifts I have planted in your soul. Relax, and
enjoy our friendship.
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me,
“Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many
waters.”
REVELATION 17 : 14
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You
are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because
a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you
friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
JOHN 15 : 13 – 15