Jesus: You’re like a volcano, which is why you feel your energy go up, down, up, down. You block yourself up emotionally; then spew it all out. So when you track your energy level, you see peak, dip, peak, dip. I want you to live UNBLOCKED.
Self-control means saying “yes”, not just “no”.
The important thing isn’t for you to maximize your peaks, but to unblock those emotions you were taught were “too much”.
These three emotions were what you most often expressed when you were commanded by authority to “stop”.
- Joy
- Thankfulness
- Sadness
Rather than go “this isn’t the time or place”, you learned “this isn’t the emotion”.
The intended lesson was “don’t scream [indoors]”.
But you learned “don’t be happy”.
The intended lesson was “say thank you”. But you heard “suppress your gratitude into this tiny box”.
The intended lesson was “this thing that you are crying about isn’t good for you”. What you took in was “your sadness is invalid, and a sign of immaturity”. It is okay to grieve the loss of something, even if the loss is better.
The fruit of the [Holy] spirit grows inside you. And compassion is so powerful a force that I let myself make choices based on my own compassion. I am intentional, but for an emotion to be listed as a drive for the creator of the universe MEANS IT WILL SURELY MOVE YOU TOO.
If the fruit of the [Holy] spirit never motivates you, it is meaningless.
In other words, I am growing drives and motivations inside of you, AND THEY ARE MEANT TO DRIVE AND MOTIVATE YOU. If I grow kindness in you, but you are too scared to ever be kind, you are suppressing my fruit. That is quenching the [Holy] spirit.
I don’t say this to shame you; you are free to let me grow my fruit.
I am never going to go “this joy fruit is too much”.
You may have personal leanings, but where those personal leanings are in line with me anyway, I will partner with those personal leanings. If you are naturally a happy person—which you are—how much more with my spirit?
If you are suppressing your joy and sadness, you are not letting me touch either of them.
You are not just suppressing them to other people, but to you, and to me. I desire relationship with you, and part of that is loving you with all my heart, and you feeling free to love me with all yours.
Love me with your joy. Love me with your SADNESS. Love me in the midst of all emotion, and see how I love you. That is true safety. That’s what you want, isn’t it?
Joshua: …Yeah.
Jesus: Yeah?
Joshua: Yeah.
Jesus: Joshua, you are invited to express the fullness of who you are in love to me, and if anything comes from a place of woundedness or brokenness, YOU HAVE MY PROMISE THAT I WILL HEAL YOU. When I said “let the little children come to me”, how many of them do you think were running around screaming? They weren’t quiet little children, “good little boys and girls”, they were children doing children things. Adults don’t like trying to hear me speak above the din of little children screaming, but I didn’t turn the little children away until they were “more mature”. Or until they could “learn to listen”. Becoming like children is becoming totally vulnerable and honest IN MY PRESENCE.
That looks different for different people. Same is true of children: some are quiet, some are loud, but I let them ALL come to me. When you realize how surrounded by me you are, you will feel free to be open.
Because if it were only you against the world, self-protection would be the only option. But I’ve overcome the world, and you’re not alone.
I can heal you and other people, restore things that look impossible to restore, and even when your body is in danger, you are seated in heavenly places with me. The key to unblocking? Living in my kingdom, in my presence, NONSTOP. That is the only way you can live “unblocked”, and in a way that will bring healing as needed.
“Unblocked” without healing is dangerous. “Blocked” with healing is without meaning.
I came that you may have life, and that more abundantly.
Different religions seek for ways to unblock.
But ultimately, you need to know you are fully loved. That is the ultimate key. And I give it. To all the little children.