That’s why forsaking all is so important: it leaves you with nothing but Me, and when I’m all you’ve got, then you’re really free to just let Me use you and do it through you!(I:157)
Forsaking all – everyday! – That’s one of the slogans of a true disciple to keep in mind if you want to start off each day clean slated in order to get the most you can do out of it. Forsaking all in order to put Me first, that’s the goal.(I:250)
Though you may have to forsake your heart's desires for My sake, and for My work's sake for a time of "sowing in tears,"
"joy cometh in the morning", and there will be a day of great rejoicing when you will reap, if ye faint not, and when you will see that it has been worth it all.
Though now you may be tempted to see Me as cruel to give you something and then ask you to return it and give it back to Me, to give it up for Me, one day you'll see that this test of your first love was utterly necessary.(I:523)
It's only when you're driven to the end of yourself that you're willing to give up everything in order to gain the new, the unknown, that which I have to offer.(II:68)
You have to forsake all and die to your old man every day.
Receiving My help in this daily, through My instructions of what it is I want you to forsake and what area I want you to yield more and progress in, is vital.(II:132)
I want you to be able to truly forsake all at a moment's notice, if need be.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose, and you can only be truly free when all the things you stand to lose truly mean nothing to you, so that you can just forsake them and let go of them at a moment's notice. (II:254)
It's forsaking all, all over again, and letting go. Letting go of all your ambitions, selfish desires and motivations... anything that would stop or hinder you from giving and surrendering all to Me. (II:423)
Your desires for carnal and physical things had to go and be let go of, first, before there was room, a place and space in you for Me to fill, that's what letting go and forsaking all is all about and what it means and amounts to. (II:590)
In forsaking all, you will find that I will give you My all. (III:53)
Keep forsaking all! Keep forsaking what needs to be let go of and keep forging ahead in a new direction, making progress and conquering new territories!
Sometimes, in order to make it easy for My followers to begin their path for Me, I make it sound simple, like, “Come, follow Me!”
But only after a while are they ready to hear some more of the details and all that it entails to follow Me: taking up their cross, forsaking all they have and becoming an enemy to this world, because all they really care about is Me and My Cause. (IV:6)
To what extent are you really forsaking all each day? (IV:92)
My path is just going to lead in the opposite direction of where most want to go, which is up the ladder of success toward fame and fortune, when Mine is the road of forsaking all, denying yourself and taking up your cross… (IV:159)
Luke 14:33 is still a requirement for My disciples that hasn’t changed. (IV:218)
Forsaking all is just what it means and what it’s talking about: a-l-l. Sooner or later everyone is going to have to let it all go, even if it’s tough, and the sooner and the earlier you learn that, the better.
It’s not something you should see as a bad thing, but as a door that is going to take you to better, greater things. (IV:308) I made it a requirement for My disciples to forsake all and drag as few personal possessions around through life as possible, since those whose lives are already full have less space left for Me to fill it. (IV:477)
Maybe there’s more to the truth of forsaking all and why that is necessary to be My disciple than meets the eye…
Maybe you haven’t yet begun to experience the wonder-working magic of forsaking all… the magic and miracles in your life that occur when you really trust Me for your happiness, more than any other things you could possibly make that dependent on…
The forsaking all factor is one of the principal requirements for true discipleship today just as much as ever. (11:15)
There is such a thing as loss, and it has to be dealt with. Perhaps one of the reasons why I instituted forsaking all as a basic requirement for discipleship was to spare them the regret over any losses they were yet to encounter in their lives, even the very loss of their lives, since that’s what often was required of early believers, who often died as martyrs… (11:84) You never lose by giving up anything for Me. (2012:7)
In the long run you'll only benefit from your readiness to let go and forsake what you held dear. (2012:11)
If you had to forsake what you so dearly loved, can’t you fully embrace the new thing, the new opportunity I’ve given you?
(2012:127)
Truly outstanding people are remembered and noticed for their ability and quality to give up something of their own for the sake of others, which is basically what I said in that verse about “Greater love hath no man…”(Jn.15:13). (2012:141)
You have to be willing to let go of the things that mess up your life.
I’m willing to give you a hand and My support by giving you the strength you need.
But when I don’t, then you might have to consider that maybe it’s My will for you to let go of some of that stuff and it’s time to get rid of some of it and forsake it.
The natural human inclination is to cling, to hang on to things, but I’ll usually encourage folks to let go, as you can tell from My example with My disciples. (2012:151)
You have to be willing to let go of the things that keep you too occupied for Me. That’s basically what forsaking all was and is all about: letting go of the things that keep you apart from Me and too busy for Me and My will for you. (2013:64)
The reason it says, “Seekest thou great things for thyself? – Seek them not!” (Jer.45:5) is that most people are usually better off without “greater things for themselves.” That’s also what forsaking all is all about. (2013:122)
…Fun, Pleasure, Entertain- & Enjoyment
Just be you, and enjoy it! There's nothing wrong with it. Enjoy it and help others to do the same! The serious side of life is important, too, but "a just weight" - a proper balance - is My delight.
The more you enjoy yourself, the more people will be able to enjoy your company, the more enjoyable you'll be, and thus you'll help them enjoy themselves, and their own lives more, too, as long as you "enjoy yourself" in My Spirit and in the way I am teaching and leading you. (II:413)
You don't have to cheat yourself out of enjoying yourself. To enjoy yourself means precisely what it says: you can enjoy just being yourself, you can enjoy the body I've given you, the spirit I've given you, the life I've given you, it's nothing to be ashamed of or to constantly deny or to beat down. (II:555)
The sitcom mentality has seeped in so deeply into people that they think something is wrong if there's no fun and no jest involved.
Fun is not the A and O, the all-in-all. It's important and it has its place, but it's not supposed to be your god. (III:57) You'll find out that there's no fun, no satisfaction, if I'm not in it, if you didn't include Me and didn't take Me with you.
I may let you get away with it for a little while and allow you to experience a little fun and diversion on your own, until sooner or later you'll realize that there's no fun, no true pleasure at all without the true Source of all godly pleasure. (III:152) I don't mind you having fun, but I do mind you making a god out of it... (III:239)
Satan's really a dictator at heart, and all his "goodie-goodie" show that he's pulling off right now, of being a promoter of democracy and "let the kids have some fun," is just that: pure show. As soon as they're all in the trap, he's going to pull the plug, and the fun will be over, once and for all.
It's not going to be called the "Great Tribulation" for nothing: the fun will be over, period. (III:309)
Ask yourself, "What am I really here for? Just to enjoy the ride? Or is there a greater purpose for my being here?" (III:355) Sometimes a sense of humor can help you take yourself less seriously. That's why it's said that the greatest requirement for a missionary is a sense of humor. Approaching strangers in a humorous sort of way takes the seriousness out of the issue, which sometimes scares people away. (III:360)
You're supposed to enjoy life so that you can advertise the Source of joy you've found. (III:363) It’s not a time anymore for entertainment and leisure. It’s a call to arms.
This generation, brought up into believing that the meaning of life is to have as much fun as possible, is going to have a hard awakening, soon, to the seriousness of the true core of the sense of life, which has been hidden from them, and blessed will be those with a beacon of light and pillar of truth to hold on to and to guide them in the right direction… in My direction. (III:387)
The search and quest for pleasure and satisfaction just has to leave you high and dry at some point, because it’s destined and programmed to do just that. It’s not the way to happiness. (III:414)
It’s not like I don’t want you to have fun in your work. Forget about whether you’re going to be a winner or a loser for some time, and just enjoy the fun of it!
Once you get the hang of the fun of it, you start becoming good at it, and that’s when you start becoming good at life itself.
You’ve got to enjoy the thing you do and have a glory in it, and not just dread it or think about whether you’re going to be the winner and take away the trophy or not… (III:435)
I want you to enjoy life and enjoy your service for Me and what you’re doing for Me: I want you to do what you enjoy!
Merely going through a humdrum of performing duties you don’t particularly enjoy isn’t going to enhance your quality of life, thus your health, your happiness, and thus also not your sample and testimony for Me, which equals your efficiency for Me. So I might as well let you do what you enjoy! (III:448)
Learning to communicate with Me is going to be so extremely vital and expedient for your survival in the near future, that I can’t let up on you and let you enjoy a carefree life. (III:469)
Trust Me that there’s something better awaiting you at the end of this life that’s going to make up for any lack of fun and enjoyment you had in this one, and that there are other things way more urgent that have priority over just “having fun”
right now. The world is simply too evil to just live in it with the purpose of having fun.
Soon there will simply be more important, urgent and pressing matters on your mind than pleasure, and the same will apply to many others for whom right now, pleasure is a priority. (III:500)
I never said, “Come on, boys and girls, let’s try to have as much fun as we all possibly can!” That was never My message.
I can have fun, and I don’t mind you having it, but it has never been My major prerogative. (III:543) Everything can be loads of fun if you just change your attitude about it! (III:570)
By offering entertainment and amusement you just lead them “away from thinking” again, contributing to the entertainment overload that already exists. If there’s one thing the world doesn’t need, it’s more entertainment and more distraction from the essential things that they usually ignore. (IV:1)
I truly need you to invest your efforts in the spreading of the truth, and not in merely entertaining people. (IV:46) Don’t stare at the empty half of the glass, or the hole in the donut, but at what’s there to enjoy!
Reaping may sound a lot more like fun than sowing, I know. But the work has got to come before pleasure. (IV:114) There are more important, more urgent matters than having fun.
Time is short, and in order to get the job done, sacrifices have to be made sometimes, and you cannot always indulge and yield to every little opportunity of pleasure that presents itself.
It takes some effort to shift your focus away from that “fun-mentality,” where pleasure and enjoyment are your primary incentive. (IV:126)
The only way you’re going to be full of the Holy Spirit is by remembering that you are there to win their souls, and not just to tickle their ears. (IV:135)
There is greater satisfaction for you to be had than just seeking pleasure for yourself.
Even if you’re not to experience the Tribulation yourself, you’ll be grateful for every moment you invest in the eternal instead of wasting time on trivial, earthly matters and personal entertainment.
There is a time for everything, and I don’t mind your times of fun, but I’m trying to reduce the preeminent position that fun and diversion are having in your life to one of lesser importance, and establish a better one for Me and My affairs in your mindset of priorities. (IV:147)
Too much fun makes you feel “at peace” in this world, when there is no peace for My warriors in this world and age. (IV:151) Focus on, and dedicate yourself wholeheartedly to My Cause without any distraction, without the stress of having to please and entertain people! (IV:153)
This world’s pursuits of enjoyment and pleasure are not really where true happiness is found. (IV:180)
What do you think your attitude should be when you’re going through a lean stretch? Shouldn’t you be rejoicing and enjoying life just the same as when you’re going through the good times? (IV:187)
Refrain from feeding yourself questionable input simply for the sake of consumption or entertainment, otherwise you’ll be too full for My input, and accordingly, your faith, your level of inspiration, and thus, whatever you have to give to others, will suffer from it! (IV:277)
Everybody seems to have party time while you are suffering, and you feel left out and like that’s not fair.
But imagine that a big calamity is going to put a drastic stop to all their partying soon. Would you rather be one of the shocked and surprised participants in the party, or would you rather be prepared for what is happening?
Perhaps your place really isn’t there, at the party with them, but with Me, as one of My aids to help them when their party goes bust.
Maybe there’s something more important going on and to be done than to worry how on Earth you’re going to be able to join the party! (IV:364)
It’s good to prepare for the times of trouble, and not get tripped off on the rut of seeking to have fun.
Besides… wasn’t there enough fun throughout the previous decades?
But... sorry: the days of fun are unfortunately over and have to be swapped into serious times of preparation for the roughest times to come!
Besides… as long as there’s only fun that’s being looked and craved for, you can see in kids that it doesn’t exactly make the best out of them…
Some rough times make the better ones of people… more so than the purely easy and largely fun times. (16:23) Chasing your own pleasures is what everyone else does in the commercial world, and it cannot be rewarded. (16:77) Teaching is something that comes in more handy than entertainment for My followers. (16:87)
To help others to make it through the darkest times coming, I’m afraid will take getting them off their addictions to having fun all the time!
Life isn’t a piece of cake anymore, nor a lot of fun, but something to learn to cope with! (16:91)
Faith, hope, love, these three, seem to be a lot worthier ones to invest your time and energy in than current pleasure, fun and easy living, don’t you think? (16:102)
Better stay on guard, even if that urge for vacation time’s still there… I’ve been admonishing you to get out of that groove and mindset!
To realize how tough it can be to have kids addicted to having fun should make you realize what it makes the Father feel like. Especially when He knows that fun-time down there will be over soon, and it would be much better to prepare for what’s to come. (16:104)
Let Me and My daily input be your source of fun, or at least some positive sentiments, and eventually you might transfer that gift to others, when circumstances will have become negative enough to affect them, too… and if they still see you cheerful after your time with Me, they might finally get interested in experiencing that, too; and not make it dependent on fun activities throughout their days… (16:107)
See that desire for pleasant times alone as something of the flesh! (16:117)
It’s tougher for those who’ve had a fairly pleasant life to learn to deal with troubles.
My disciples’ job: not to make the best and most enjoyable parts possible out of their earthly lives, but make sure to bring as many along to Heaven as they can. (16:129)
Think about the job that’s there for you, and don’t let the enemy get you off the track with desires for pleasure and enjoyment!
Carnal desires and pleasures are not necessarily a positive!
Being a follower of Mine definitely requires the readiness to be prepared for hard times, not just seek enjoyment, as quite a
Being a follower of Mine definitely requires the readiness to be prepared for hard times, not just seek enjoyment, as quite a