Allowing ourselves to live life

Hello again it seems that life is beginning to calm down for me. It is amazing to see the wonderful journey I have been on in the last few months. I have been travelling extensively and growing in such freedom. Life has changed from pursuing prayer as a way to get an answer to things rather than walking out of being a much loved child. Let me tell it the difference is like day and night. I work 5 days out of 10 often my weeks and days are melted into one big 10 day shift. God has been showing me how normal people are in the Bible. Abraham was a family man who raised up servants to defeat kings. David was an outcast by his family and given the job off alone on the hillsides. Enoch was someone who raised a family and yet was taken to heaven not facing death. Normal people with probably worst resumes then each of us. Murderers, Adulterers, but still able to be used by God. They saw supernatural things in there daily lives while just doing "life". As a Christian when the spirit comes into us we are spiritual beings. We are made in the image of a God who is a King, a Judge, a Restorer, a Redeemer, a Reconciler, and so many other titles. All of these we have access to by learning in relationship. Even those who are not believers have titles and spiritual authority. Rulers, Government officials, Prime Ministers, Presidents, and all of these areas in are earth have authority. They are targeted by the enemy and hopefully not your mouths. These people are placed there by God who has given them the wisdom, education and drive to be in those places. They are not there by accident or by some other plan or design. We need to support these people with prayers, hope and love. They are fighting a battle many don't even realize. The devil wants to influence these areas by using manipulation, money, sex whatever he can to get us to throw arrows of curses out of our mouths.

God has put a few things on my heart within all of this. I want to teach people how to do life well. I want revival but I want to know how to do life well. This takes times and wisdom but with so many great teachers and spiritual insight, prophetic teaching and pastoral ministry we have often forgotten about the daily lives of each one of us. We come together for corporate worship with our church family and draw away back to our homes. We often blame the  church for the things going on in our world when it was Family in the beginning that was to raise up there children in the thoughts and ways of God. Revival will come but how long will we be able to hold onto it. What happens if one of the leader is found committing adultery? Does there works exclude them from the work of the Kingdom when there works wasn't what got them into the kingdom? Within all of this there is a great message that we still need to learn how to do life well and how to know who we are. I believe that one thing we have done is separated life from "spiritual things" such as church, , Prophetic Conferences when yes this is all spiritually uplifting but it has come at the cost that we need to attend these things to feel redeemed or honored by God. Our lives are spiritual, everything we do is spiritual. It is just as spiritual as eating a meal with your family than it is being in prayer. God is apart of you wherever you go. He is not with you only when you seek him in prayer, he is always apart of you. He has attached himself to you in union that you can't do anything without him. The moment you purchase something at the grocery store he is seeing how you provide for your family, your integrity of a Father a Mother. Every moment his spirit is residing in you. The thoughts of God are going through your mind because as 1 Corinthians says you have the mind of Christ. 

 Did not God reconcile the world to himself? (Romans 5:20, 2 Cor 5:18) He has given us the same ministry it is even stated. The earth, everything in it is brought close now to God for his benefit and for ours through him. Now if that is the case how far off is that "sinner" or "back slider". Jesus came to be with those people who were yet far off and he loved them for who they were. Sin was not the issue it was the value that he saw not living to the conformed image he has intended for them. We are set apart from sin the moment we were baptized with him. Romans 6:7 For anyone who has died has been set free from sin. 

Opening up our eyes to the nations

Hello again from the wonderful country of Canada. I want to bring to you a few things that the Lord has highlighted the last few weeks. A little update on things first. I have found a job in the oilfield of Canada once again where I never thought I would be going back to. God has an amazing way of tying things in when you least expect it. I have always had a real longing in my heart to help others financially and to be one who can provide and beyond for my family and myself. I believe that God has given me a grace on my life to be wealthy. I also believe business is a desire in my heart.

Discipling Nations

I want to look at Joseph in Genesis who brought the wealth of the nations to his doorstep. He knew the ways of God and he had the counsel of God to bring that country into prosperity when the world was in famine. Joseph was discipling a nation in the ways of God that brought prosperity and an abundance in the hardest of times. We are to disciple nations. The nations all have arts and entertainment, business, education, family, government, media and religion. We need to disciple the nations in all these aspects of culture. The one thing we strive to do is bring people into the realm of religion culture. This is one sphere where yes we have the truth we know that we are the ultimatum in this area. What about the others. Look at the bible we have Joseph who was in the government of Egypt. Solomon a King who all looked upon and could not imagine the wealth and the wisdom he had. David a King, Husband, Psalmist, Musician, and I could go on and on but you get the picture. Paul the Apostle and Jesus went out to the Tax collectors, went out into the world to bring the nations under the discipleship of Christ. God has called us to build his kingdom with us. God is a lover of our desires. So often I hear people praying about moving and praying about businesses and which job to take when God is saying "My Kingdom goes with you wherever you are establish it where your desire is." God wants us to have the desires of our heart what loving Father doesn't look down on his children and not want to give them what they want. When we pray and petition what are we praying? We are praying out of our heart, we are praying the things he has whispered to us in our sleep and in our minds and in our hearts. I have so many testimonies of God meeting my desires in my heart. I often think about something I want and lo and be hold someone brings by what I was desiring. When we understand this truth watch how God meets your desires in different ways. One way I realize what my desires really are is by asking him. Sure I can say I want a million dollars who doesn't but is it really in my heart. Perhaps you can say yes, perhaps I can say yes if that is it then I would ask the Holy Spirit to help me bring this desire to pass. God has so many different ways of doing it. I have desired this job that I got awhile back I thought of the exact things I would want and basically named them in my head. I never prayed about them or asked God about them but when I got the job I thanked God for it. Later that day the Holy Spirit brought to my remembrance that day I desired those things. I immediately realized that God had listened to the desires out of my heart that were going on in my mind and he answered them. He is a good father and he is always listening to the desires of our heart. I was thankful and joyful because he is faithful and loving like the Father he truly is. 

God is with us wherever we go.

 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vine dresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit he takes away and every branch that bears fruit he prunes that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him bears much fruit; for without me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered, and they gather them and throw them into the fire and they are burned. If you abide in me and my words abide in you will as what you desire and it shall be done for you. By this My father is glorified that you bear much fruit so you will be my disciples." John 15:1-8 (NKJV)

We don't have to go and clean ourselves up, or make us sin free because we are sin free as believers. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. When you believed the word that went out and received him at your point of conception (Salvation) God made a binding covenant contract with you that he became one with you. It is not in his nature to break his covenant with someone he has become one with, meaning we can never lose our salvation and two we can not do anything without him. For without me you can do nothing is another misconception that people have regarding this verse, they think that we need to pray and invite God with us wherever were going for him to bless us. He made a temple out of us the holies of holies is within us. We can't do anything without God, because he is within us it was his good pleasure to do that ! The vine dresser, the Father continually dresses us fitting for fruit. We don't have to do anything but abide in his love. His love and his abiding presence is where our desires our born and birthed. We see the vision in heaven within our heart and we birth it by doing things according to his counsel. Faith requires action and when we move like Abraham did on account of his family and his promise we see Gods promises come into alignment with our lives. We cannot just stop abiding in him, God will never cut us off and throw us out. The ones who do not abide in him are the ones who never took the word which was spoken to them. God starts relationship by his word, just like we do when we start relationship we talk and get to know them. We have a choice to respond to the word which is Jesus. 

Often times our lives effect how well we can receive the love of God. We don't "feel" like this is possible, we feel we have to go and do this pray for so many hours a day read our Bible, we have to go to work how spiritual is that. Everything we do is spiritual because we are spiritual beings. We cannot just say I am going to stop sowing, we can't God sows where he pleases by using his vessels us. Even when we don't think he is he is always up to something! What greater love is this thought that we team up with our Father to understand and know his ways on how to do things. This is how we birth discipleship in these areas of life by breaking paradigms in our thinking and realize that our desires matter to him. Their is nothing wrong with prosperity or money. Money is a vehicle in which we interact with others in life. Abraham was using his resources at the start of time at one time Abraham had the wealth of 9 nations. It is the love of money that is the root of all evil not money itself lets not forget that. I pray that God would give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation and understanding of his ways to bring prosperity in to every aspect of your life! God bless you!

a bit of my story

I wrote this today and I hope to continue in it somemore. I feel and I pray that my story and what I have here will lead others into freedom and being able to express themselves and to receive love. We are created to know and to be known. When our hearts are sick inside of us we make choices that fill our needs in an unhealthy way. This is part of my story and I pray that God would help you discover freedom and love. 

I want to tell you some of my story and some of how God revealed himself to me in an experiential way. I grew up as an adopted son, one who was born to parents who could not control their intake of drugs and alcohol. Hearts that were hurting and filling those needs with things that would numb the pain of past experiences. By the time I was 2 I had undergone surgery to extract gangrene from my small intestine. I was still alive by a miracle many doctors still exclaim what a miracle I am. I had a weak immune system and had a list a mile long of things I would never be able to eat in my life. I had high fevers and battled my body. My knees wouldn't allow me to walk properly and I was in a tough situation. My adoptive parents were loving and kind and my mothers stubbornness to see me well helped me persevere through many of my sicknesses. God continued to heal me from a weak immune system by the time I was 10 I was healthy and running like a normal child. However on the inside of me their was still separation and traumatic experiences that I would see years down the road.

Growing up in a Christian home and involved in church from the time I could remember helped my walk with God but their was still a heart disconnect from who God was and who he was in my mind. I read the bible and continued to grow hungry for the things of God. I often heard and read about Smith Wigglesworth. I asked for his books from my parents for Christmas and I received them. I read them and their was something that seemed to come on me when I read them. I would have chills and just something inside of me woke up when I read how an individual from Yorkshire England could lay his hands on the sick and they would be healed. I often read how he prayed, be eeealed with his accent and wondered if it was the prayer that made them well. I had no foundation for healing the small little church I went to would often invite those up to be prayed for but I never saw with my own eyes if they were healed. To this day I don't know if they were healed or not. I continued to read about Smith Wigglesworth and asked others about healing but their was nothing really said about it.

I often would be in my room alone and pray and ask God to come in power like that when I prayed for people a desire in my heart purged through me with great delight. Often times I would feel something inside of me or a tingly sensation when I thought about the things of God. I had no idea at that time that God was preparing for me to encounter me years down the road. I always listened to the preacher on Sundays and often was interested in what he was saying but somehow it didn't seem to always apply to my life in a way that provoke me to something. The same stories of Daniel and David continued to be heard and church just became a routine in some ways. My attitude towards it was if I missed it I wasn't doing very good spiritually that week. I was told to read my bible and to pray everyday and I would grow spiritually. Their was one thing that kept me coming back for more and more their were those feelings that I had that I couldn't express with my own words even to this day. It was his presence though. That is the one thing that I could remember ever since I was a boy was how sweet it felt when I prayed or often would be laying on the floor as a young boy asking God questions being overcome into tears of joy often doubting my experience in my mind. These times I would remember for years to come.

These things would set something up in my life even to this day. Their were other things that happened when I was a young boy around 11 years old I was abused sexually by a man who was a friend of the families. We would go on fishing trips and things would happen that I was so confused about. One part of me felt violated and another part felt that this was acceptable. It allowed myself to continue being involved in those situations for years to come. Shame crept in when I was older and it was a secret that I held onto for many years of my life. It opened a big wound where the enemy would push his lies into me further. I had a secret that I couldn't allow anyone in further than that. I distanced myself unknowingly or sub-consciously from those around me. My parents the ones who adopted me and loved me as their own became a victim to this event in my life. I couldn't tell anyone about it because to me it felt that I was allowing it to happen to me and I was ashamed at what others would think. The rejection that I faced as a young boy being taken away from his parents and placed in a foster home from time to time confused my heart and this added to the calamity even more. You see their were things I didn't understand as a young boy. Consciously I never knew any difference from how others treated me or acted towards me. It was a small community that I was apart of and people would often bring up the fact that I was adopted as a term of offence on the playground. Sub consciously and in my heart it bothered me, I would often feel the anguish of it when it was spoken but I never wanted to allow it to hurt me.

All of these things in my life never went away no matter how hard I tried. Rejection would rule my heart and push me into submissive encounters. I couldn't speak freely without thinking what others would think of me. My outward appearance I always found offensive and those around me often bugged me about my weight. I was always looking for acceptance much like Joseph in the Bible. Did you know that Josephs mother Rachel was living out what her son would have to endure for his life. Reproach (expressing disapproval or disappointment) governed her life when she could bear no child. In Genesis 30:22 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb and she conceived and bore a son, and said, ``God has taken away my reproach``. So she called his name Joseph, and said, ``The lord shall add to me another son.`` We all know the story of Joseph, Joseph had an amazing dream and encounter with God he explained it to his brothers and father and they threw him in the well to die. He was sold into slavery and endured a famine filled with Gods wisdom and knowledge. I also believe that Joseph was using Potiphars wife to fill his needs. He had faced rejection his whole life and along comes a woman giving him attention. If he truly felt compelled to protect himself he would have never been alone with her. He was the Kings number one man and he was alone with his masters wife! Maybe that gives you a bit of a different view of the story and perhaps you see it differently but maybe you relate to it as well.

The bible is full of stories like these but when we get an understanding not just reading them to read them, but actually see underneath them we see a different picture of things. Joseph still triumphed, God still uses people who are led by wrong motives and still allows them to overcome obstacles. Along the way Joseph knew the promise that God had given him he never gave in despite his circumstances he saw the wealth of the world come to his disposal and he saw his father and those who rejected and outcast him come under his mercy.

Along the way I have found different places in my life where my heart would fill that void for acceptance and it led me into decisions that to this day make me think how could I get into those predicaments. I would allow people into my lives for my needs and to make me feel accepted. When they left I would find others for a time being. My commitment level was low because I could never commit to change or allowing others to completely know who I was on the inside. My heart inside of me was full of pain and despair. As I grew older and in my early twenties it came to a crashing halt. I couldn’t continue living in a life full of hopelessness. My memory faded back from time to time to his presence and how he nurtured me at his feet. The story of the prodigal son, the son who had gone off and partied and lived life and I was ready to come home. My heart had led me to places I didn’t know I could go and my life was a ball of hopelessness. I returned to school to find hope and to find the light once again.

Christmas & New Years Post

Hello friends and followers I hope that your Christmas has been a good one and your hope for the new year is surpassing all else. I want to update you on a few things that are going on with my website as well as with everything else in my life. I was attending Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry and felt it best that I should return home. I have done that and I am currently back in Canada. I have not updated or really done much with this site for awhile now. My plans are to continue as I can. I think some of my greatest setbacks are that I feel sometimes its not beneficial to others. I know in my own life I find those that speak and teach are put into a category that they are all the same and we here the same messages over and over. I even find myself speaking the same things over and over nonetheless though their is a reason that I speak and teach on the things over and over because God wants his people to be equipped and his people to be taught and nurtured in the way of the Spirit. Without the teaching I have received from others and have spent abundanty on I would not have the same maturity I do now.
I encourage you to help those that are teaching the body of Christ on practical ways and understanding to activate their spiritual senses. It is imperative that we honor them and help them reach the masses. David Reid at Reap by Faith is one that I know is in need. He needs people to partner with to bring the Gospel to the world he is gifted and has the heart and the word of the Lord in his life. Please look him up and considering donating to his cause. 
As for me I am currently involved in a relationship with a wonderful young lady. It has been such a blessing and has taught me more about myself and given me humility beyond humility. I pray that God would grant me wisdom and continued support in our relationship. I believe that God's kingdom is based on family. Abraham was a man who had wealth, a family and inheritance beyond inheritance to continue his seed. Jesus relied on his Father to do the things he did on earth. God is looking for men and woman who can be found faithful with his pattern. My earthly Father was taken from me this past year. As many of you may or may not know I was adopted by loving parents who have filled in the gap. It has led me to many questions and for the most part I didnt know how to react to what happened. I didn't know my earthly Father apart from a short hug this last August, about 3 months before he passed on. Grieving and dealing with inner feelings and connecting with my heart became a priority at Bethel. I then realized that their were other things I had not revealed about my life to my adopted parents. I was sexually abused when I was younger by a close friend of the familiy. It was hard for me to really open up about it but I have allowed others into this area. The light has been shined forth and truth was revealed.
Their were many instances where I didn't see the protective side of my Dad or other characteristics of my parents because I had hid myself away from their nurturing love and care. A lie had deceived me for years after I had revealed to them what happened things changed in our relationship and God has laid his truth their. I am loved by him and by my parents. I am protected and cared for it has brought me to a new place on my own. I am now reaping what I have sown and God has been faithful.
My plans for the new year are to find a job and find a way to take care of some neglected financial mistakes in the past. I want to establish myself as a husband and a provider someday. I also plan on continuing with my website changes may happen and I am still waiting for some to get back to me about perhaps doing a video or two for my website. I am thankful for those that do know me and have inputted into my life online and off. I truly have seen God change me more into his likeness. I continue to ask you for support and prayer for the new year as well. Thank you for your time and patience more to come soon.

Alvin Kaufmann

The joy of the lord

for the joy of the LORD is your strength- Nehemiah 8:9-12

I want to bring to you some thoughts I have had recently on this verse and how God uses Joy to defeat the devils schemes. The kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit (Romans 14:17) What we find when we can enter in to the presence of God and stop looking at the worries and the list of things we have to do in our daily lives we find wholeness. God's joy is our strength he delights in every single individual on this earth. We as believers have access to his presence and knowledge of his presence in our lives. We have been given the keys to give us the joy of the lord daily without measure. It is a matter of lifting the veil of our busy minds and letting his love and peace in to consume us. It may take time laying or focusing on the Lord because those thoughts that would persuade us from seeing who he is are always present it seems. When we can push aside those things while waiting on the Lord we will then start to feel his presence. It may take time to sense or notice a change, but when it does their is nothing like it. It is not that the presence or the Spirit comes at that initial moment we enter in to it. Many think that we need to praise, and worship sing and dance with all our might. Yes God takes delight in his children but when we lay and we come in faith saying I know your presence is wherever I am and acknowledge it we begin "practicing his presence" if you will. It then will only take moments the next time and hardly any moment the next. We then get an awareness for his presence. I can enter into his presence at this moment, I can go in and out. It started out with me, waiting on the lord, giving him what was on my heart and letting my heart be heard by him. Whether it was in my inner mind I was talking to him or my tongue actually confessing and being heard.
Intimacy in any relationships starts with being heard. Our hearts need to be heard, when were mad, sad, glad, happy joyful whatever it may be. Honesty creates intimacy in a marriage or a relationship because trust is formed. Their is no greater need in our lives than to know and to be known. That is what every human is created for. God wants to know us and he wants to know what is going on in our lives. He wants us to be real and open with him. Their are moments in prayer and supplication when we go to God willingly and readily to be used and we often come out with him asking what we want, he is a God that fulfills desires. We need to see the fathers face full of Joy, and we need to see the father delighting in us. When our earthly father or those around us have let us down we must be careful we don't associate the heavenly father as someone who is a father of lack or that will harmfully put you through things.
Keep your eyes on his loving and joyful eyes. Get a picture in your mind of your father laughing over you and delighting over you in joy, let his joy fill your soul until your belly is so full of laughter and let it out. Laughter brings freedom, not only to you but to those around you as well. 
In Judges 6 and 7 Gideon chooses men who will come and fight the battle with him. Those that lapped with their hands to their mouth were chosen to fight the battle of the Lord. Those that were on their knees to drink were not chosen. I believe that God chose those who lapped because they had not a care in the world for the enemy. Those that were on their knees were positioned so that they couldn't be overtaken by anyone still looking around or at the enemy. They were distracted and could not consume the living water of the Lord. In Psalms 2 we get a picture of God laughing at the plans of the enemy. We to should be like him, when something comes are way that is suppose to get in our way as children we should laugh and be full of Joy because God is not worried about the plans of the enemy he is merely joyful at his children learning to know who their father is a warrior ready to bring his presence, and his glory as he has promised. God bless you!

Update on things

Greetings and blessings in the name of our Lord. 

I want to bring you up to date on the vision of this website. This will hopefully bring some clarity as to what to expect when coming.
Around one year ago I felt led to start a website dealing with hearing the voice of God, the gifts of the spirit, and ministering to those around the world. It is still in my heart and my dream that I have so far is to have simple, practical understanding teachings that are a foundation to what I want to build upon. It is hard to know where to start as you may know that you are continually learning new things. I am inspired and passionate to teach other people fundamental and sound truths relating to all of the previously mentioned above. I believe that my role is to impart and communicate solid understanding. I have gotten some very positive feedback already on what I have been bringing forth. I want to continue to do this throughout my lifetime. I love to minister to people and ministering to people is the platform in which you learn from. We have been hindered in local congregations because those that are wanting to learn have to go outside of the four walls of their local church. I believe that this should not be the case. Their are setbacks to the internet and using it for teaching and using it as a platform but this is the only vehicle I presently have to bring what I have. I want to start online and continue to grow and expand to all over the world. 
I need your support in patience and understanding that this is not easy for me to do. I am doing this all on my own as led by the Holy Spirit and often times it is what is on my heart I am bringing for now. In the near future I plan on organizing and setting up one time videos that will have a teaching manual and a video, or mp3 that can be categorized. 
Their will be How to hear the voice of God, learning and confirming what he is speaking, as well as keys to continue to grow in revelation. Their we will be getting into common edification and prophetic words. Words of knowledge and we will continue with other gifts, discerning of spirits, prophetic intercession and so on and so forth. We want to cover all the basics but give practical understanding not just biblical truth. I believe that the easier we can make the easier it is for those to grasp it and continue with it. God speaks to everyone it is just a matter of us acknowledging it and putting it into action. If you have any comments questions or concerns please feel free to email me. Please also leave feedback if this ministry has blessed you in the guestbook. Thank you


Alvin

Taking God at his word

I want to share today about the wonderful thing that God has given us to reveal his truth and to reveal his promises to us. It is called the Bible. The Bible is such a rich book full of many great wonderful things that we cannot know in a lifetime. The Bible has been around for many years and has been translated from language to language. Their is such a deep history in it and many Bible teachers throughout the ages have tried to learn more from its depth by studying and revealing so many aspects of it. When I was younger I always use to read things to see how fast I could read it. I read things to learn more and more things about something or to know more than someone else. My attitude sometimes is still the same of the Bible I look at those who can quote scripture and who can tell me all these wonderful things and I'm like I want that. Little did I know it led me to realize how little I knew about the Bible. The promises of God were thrown out for depth and thrown out for knowing more of the bible and quoting this verse and that verse. My pride has led me to realize how much I have allowed myself to be distracted by those things then rather allow the promises of God into my heart.
I am going through a season of realizing that the promises of God and the understanding he has given me in his word allow me to be free from anything else. The law was fulfilled in Christ Jesus. The law was broken when the law hung him on the cross and he overcame because he was innocent. He died for those he could only see in his heart and for you and me. He fulfilled the law meaning that the requirements were met by him. He was perfect without blame in all of the laws. It allows you and me to enter into the kingdom of God without doing anything but believing in that promise. He died and he rose again to restore us to a perfect place in Christ. Wait!? What, you mean all those times I needed to repent and wail and weep at the altar? Ya that is right you are perfect because you believed in God, that he sent his perfect sacrifice to take our place. You mean that I don't have to follow the law that God gave in the Bible? The law was revealed to us by Moses many moons ago and passed down to reveal sin. Yes that is right they never had the Bible such a great gift to understand all these great benefits we have. BENEFITS!? hold on hold on that sounds like a bad relationship to me, your in it for Benefits!? No, God freely has given us his benefits with the relationship. 
God revealed sin by the law, the Pharisees and Saducees thought that the law was what got them right with God. Wrong, the promise was already in front of them, no man could fulfill the law. The Old Testament was full of those who were waiting on the promises of the coming Messiah but yet took actions and used the benefits of Jesus in the Old Testament. Those who knew God or were after his heart(King David) progressed years beyond his time. His knowledge of God allowed him to understand the full picture. His many prophecies concerning the coming and who he was tell us this story. The Law keepers then were out to lunch in their assumptions of scripture. They were trying to earn their way to heaven on their own works. We grow in societies where we need to go to work to earn. We need to go do this to earn this. We often still want our works to get what we want. Our works are not bad, but they are not required any more. It is the acknowledgment of sin and the understanding that God loves the world that he frees us from trying to fulfill it on our own. We our changed by his goodness because lets face it. A man died for you and me, for man and woman alike. I don't know many who would do that today. It scares me to even think about that. To allow us to be right with God and be like him. Wait, be like him no no no that doesn't come until after. I am like Christ because he is in me. What!? You can't say that!? If Christ lives in me, then the hope of all glory is in me. Colossians 1:27. Well that can't be right!? Your not perfect!? I don't have to be perfect I just have to receive his love and respond and accept it. 
God paid the price so that we are free. His grace surpasses our understanding so often that we can't wrap are minds around it. We don't have to do anything. The truth has set you free but if the truth is just Jesus then you are missing out. He is the word! The living and active word when we believe the word, we believe Jesus and Jesus is looking right at us in the promises. Maybe it sounds to good to be true and hard to grasp and many scripture are saying this can't be right can it. It's that easy!? The work is finished on the cross, he paid for our sins 2000 years ago and he continues to pay the price today, tomorrow and forever more. Nothing will stop it. Repenting is to change your thinking, renew your mind. Confess your sins that is all we need to do and to understand that he loves us the same as he did before. Hebrews 8:12 says he forgives our wickedness and doesn't remember them no more. Wait what!? again, Ya that is right if your reminded of your sins that is not God. Its the act of confessing them is the only requirement he asks. Condemnation is not God, reminding is not God. Ya so what happens when that thought comes. You thank God he has made you pure and you stand on truth. That is how important truth is, and the word is. That we know who we are in Christ that we our the righteousness from God by faith in Jesus Christ in whom we believe (Romans 3:22) If we believe in Christ Jesus we are right with God, no matter what we do. 
When we understand this goodness that we our the image of God and we look at him and understand how he looks at us and how much he values us and loves us then we raise the bar for who we are. Sin cannot hold us down, when we look at what we shouldn't do we become what we don't want to become. When we look at God we become like him because we our looking at him. Don't allow Satan to remind you or look at the law and say I have to do this and that, because it is already fulfilled. Look at the hope of all glory and realize that you our the hope of God's glory. What we fell short of he placed in us so that we would never depart from it again. God bless you


Alvin