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Friday, May 30, 2025

Your Secret Identity is the Cure for Guilt

 




Many of My children say they are just sinners saved by grace. Untrue. You were a sinner; you are now saved by grace. And because of that, you are quintessentially good.

Are you overwhelmed with guilt? My apostle, Paul, agonized over his own sin. In Romans 7:24, he cries out: "Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?"

But the identity of sin in Romans 7 is no longer yours. The moment you received Me, everything changed—you now live in My victory and freedom.

In fact, Paul goes even further: He says that when he sins, it is no longer him! "So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it." (Romans 7:17) "But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it." (Romans 7:20)

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Be Held: Resting in the Love of the One Who Names the Stars



There are 1 septillion stars (which is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars) in the observable universe. It is a number so vast the human mind cannot grasp it. And even more profound is the fact that I have given each star its own name (Isaiah 40:26). Each star. A different name for each of 200 septillion stars.

I name the stars, each one, as a reflection of My boundless attention. If I care for inanimate objects this way, how much more do I know your heart, your struggles, and your joys?” How much more valuable are you, my child, than 1 septillion stars.

I love every created thing, living and not living. Everything in My creation is good and excellent, including you (Genesis 1:31). You are not just part of a vast universe, but you are personally known and cherished by Me, the Creator.

So you can understand that I hold you and keep track of every molecule in your body. You are safe in My heart – all of you, mind, body, and soul.

The message is this: Be Held. Lean in and be held. Feel my arms around you and rest in My divine love rather than striving to be worthy of it. Absorb my love. Remember you are safe and beloved. Always.

Think back to a time My love gently shifted your path—how did you feel? What changed in you?

With love beyond measure,

Jesus


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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Sunday, May 25, 2025

Finding God in the Beauty of the Now


Find God in the now. He is the "I AM"—present within you and around you. Open your heart, breathe, and seek Him in life's beauty today.

With love beyond measure,

Jesus


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Thursday, May 22, 2025

Love: The Flame of the Soul

 

A WWII soldier in a foxhole, with a look of intense compassion, trying to nurse a newborn kitten with a dropper full of milk

Faith is not so much believing as receiving. When you put your faith in Me, My love and My beauty get inside you and shake up your thinking and your perspectives, for the better. When you receive My love, you begin to be able to love those around you—even those EGR souls (Extra Grace Required) who are so difficult to love. My infinite love will flow through you to them.

Just as love can makeover an unlovely soul when one human being loves another. How much exponentially greater can My love transform your soul, you’re very self. In the same way, as Sleeping Beauty was awakened by the kiss of the Prince, so too does My love awaken the sleeping soul—transforming you from darkness into life and love.

Monday, May 19, 2025

A Shadow No More: Stepping into Your Identity in Christ


Step out of darkness and into Light. Discover God’s transforming love and embrace your new identity in Christ—fully forgiven, fully renewed

With love beyond measure,

Jesus


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Saturday, May 17, 2025

Christ's Consuming Love


My love for you is a consuming fire, burning brightly for your soul. It is not just a theological fact—it  is passionate and alive. I delight in you

With love beyond measure,

Jesus


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Monday, May 12, 2025

Will I See My Pet in Heaven?


A boy with his arm around his dog, leaning together in the late afternoon sun, sitting on a dock, looking out onto the water

My dear child,

You have lost your beloved pet and your heart is aching. Your grief is real, and I do not take it lightly. Others have told you there is no biblical proof that animals have souls which makes your pain even worse. Your heart tells you there must be more but you don’t know what to think. Be encouraged; there is evidence in the Bible that you will see your pet in heaven.

Before the world was fractured by sin, animals lived in peace. They were not food and they were not hunted or feared. Animals did not even eat each other. Only the evil of humans brought an end to the Garden of Eden and death into the world. In the Garden of Eden, animals existed alongside mankind in harmony Could it be that this was a glimpse of eternity?

Thursday, May 8, 2025

God loves to say yes!

 Image of delighted father giving a gift to his daughter who is thrilled. It has the text: Your heavenly Father loves to give good gifts to those who ask Him!  (paraphrase of Matthew 7:11)

I hear you cry out to Me with your heart-wrenching need. I embrace your desperation. But you doubt My intentions and My desire to say yes. I am like any other parent—I love to say yes to anything you ask, and I will if I possibly can.

But do you think I sit behind a huge desk as a judge, preferring to refuse if I can? Do you think of Me as a divine slot machine? You insert your prayer like a token and cross your fingers, hoping upon hope that somehow I might agree and grant your request?

Do you say, “Your will, not mine, be done,” not as a surrender to My love, but with defeat—thinking I could not possibly want, with a father’s love, to give you your heart’s desire?

Sunday, May 4, 2025

Spiritual Imagination: Praying in Pictures

A beaujtiful luxurious tropical waterfall with the text: Dear child, When your anxiety seems overwhelming, remember I am there, closer than the air you breathe and the tears you cry. I am pouring My comforts abundantly down upon you. Imagine My Holy Spirit rushing down, surrounding you and filling you, like a divine waterfall. Spiritual imagination is simply praying in pictures. You don’t always have to use words for Me to hear and understand you. Sometimes your deepest needs are beyond human language  (Romans 8:26; Psalm 94:19)



Psalm 94:19 NKJV
"In the multitude of my anxieties within me, Your comforts delight my soul."

Romans 8:26 AMPC
"So too the Holy Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance."

With love beyond measure,

Jesus


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Thursday, May 1, 2025

Cease Striving and Swim Free



Consider this: If you truly believed that 
resting in Me was the most powerful act of obedience, 
how would your life transform?


With love beyond measure,

Jesus


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About the Author

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Cyndi is a Christian writer with a heart for grace and freedom in Christ. Through fresh reflections and scripture‑rooted devotionals, she invites readers into rest and relationship. She longs for those who see themselves only as “sinners saved by grace” to know they are truly good in Christ, and for those who strive and battle, to hear that the fight is finished. Her writing is shaped by the promise from Isaiah 40:1–2 — God’s call to “Comfort, comfort My people with gentle, compassionate words. Speak tenderly from the heart to revive those in shame, and proclaim that their warfare is over. Their debt of sin is paid for, and they will not be treated as guilty. Prophesy to them that they have received from the hand of God twice as many blessings as all their sins” (paraphrase from TPT). She lives in Florida with her husband of 37 years and their dog, Smudge.