The Gift …

James 1:16-17 ~ “Don't be deceived, my dear brothers. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.”?

Abba Father good morning ~ What thoughts are you thinking when you hear the words every good and perfect gift? What emotions are generated within the inner-core of our thriving life? What does it look like within our mind? What emotions are intimately felt within our heart? What stirs life of abundance within our soul? How do you feel when someone hands you a gift? What’s the first thing you do? Do you hold it? Unwrap it? Open it? Embrace it? Do you use it? Hoard it? Share it? Is this gift new, used, recycled? Does its value determine its use? Are you thankful, grateful, appreciative? How does this gift impact our everyday life? A free-gift is rarely free. Everyone has encountered a free-gift with strings attached to someone or something. The ways of this world puts a core-value of importance on everything. The way it appears wrapped with a bow, ribbons, tag. Personalized. Uniquely presented. Fancier it looks the more its worth. All this outside appearance has intimate purpose of drawing our inner-core attention. The free-gift inside might or might not represent what the outside appearance stimulates within our heart, our mind, our soul. Our very inner-core of thriving life. Have you ever looked at the outside and judged what was inside? The ways of this world influenced by satan’s untruthfulness has learned to attract with appearances of fancy lights, neon signs, billboards, balloons, gifts and the word free. Powerful stimulants. All with restrictions attached. All this has intention to deviously draw our life in with strategic delusions, deceptions, untruth; ungodliness presented at its best. If not extremely careful our life can become trapped, confined, consumed by the ways of this world. Slowly overpowering our life with what’s on the inside not the outside. Deception at its very best having delusions with appearances filled with ungodly entrapments. The living bible teaches about a life-changing gift transforming hearts, minds, souls. Renewing, refreshing, redeeming, restoring all life’s brokenness. An anointed gift for our sinfully imperfect life with everlasting hope to sustain, unconditional love to endure, compassionate forgiveness to release, everlasting life in heaven to let go of bondage of the ways of this world. This living bible is an anointed gift wrapped within Godly truthfulness from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21. Godliness intimately and passionately filled with wisdom, discernment, affirmation, faithfulness, promises. This book of life is overflowing with anointed gifts of God’s powerful life-changing undeserved grace absolutely-free; un-earnable, un-purchasable, un-creatable, and un-achievable within the ways of this world. We can hold it tightly. Un-wrap it freely. Open it joyfully. Engage it willingly. The ribbon is the living bible. Wrapping is the word of “The Lord Our God.” Opening is a life of Godly faith. The precious free good and perfect gift is “Our Lord Christ Jesus.” Engaging is willingly believing, accepting, trusting, following within Our Living God, Our Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit. The life-changing gift is a life of undeserved grace breathing everlasting life (Holy Spirit) into life’s brokenness (our sinfulness) within anointed sustainable life (Christ Jesus) from everlasting life in heaven (Abba Father). Every life can breathe God’s powerful cleansing, redeeming, restorational undeserved grace with free-gifts of hope, unconditional love, compassionate forgiveness, everlasting life in heaven. Remember ~ We have a choice, a decision, a way of life to choose. We can un-wrap gifts of the ways of this world opening satan’s delusions, deceptions, ungodliness. Or willingly un-wrap gifts of God the Father ~ God the Son ~ God the Holy Spirit. Opening anointed gifts renewing, refreshing, redeeming, restoring all life’s brokenness. What gift are you un-wrapping? The gift once opened will live abundantly within our inner-core of thriving life: our heart, our mind, our soul. How is this gift impacting our life, family, friends? Reflect with utmost urgency. Be utmost cautious on the ungodly ribbons of the ways of this world drawing attention and pay utmost attentiveness to Godly ribbons wrapped with anointed truthfulness within Our Living God, Our Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit. ?

Father ~ Thank you for always loving me unconditionally. Forgiving me compassionately. Believing in me continuously. Pour anointed, sustainable, protective blessings upon my sinfully imperfect life. Father ~ Open my heart, my mind, my soul to hold tightly, un-wrap freely, open joyfully, engage willingly all gifts of undeserved grace breathing everlasting life into life’s brokenness within anointed sustainable life from everlasting life in heaven within you Abba Father ~ Lord Jesus ~ Holy Spirit.

Michael J Zenner