The second year after my grace awakening was a year of trials and heartbreak, the most difficult year of my life. The deepest heartbreak of that year was the loss of my mom to cancer. As I lay on the bed with my mom and best friend in her last days on the earth, I learned what it really meant to trust God. Through that year, in a way I have no words to explain, I still had the river of joy unspeakable.
The other devastation of that year was a massive loss of friendship because of persecution from teaching this beautiful message of grace. I cried buckets of tears. It was truly catastrophic for me and my family; however, in that second year, the Lord continued to open my eyes to a deeper understanding of His love for me. It was the most intimate time. I had very few people in my life at that time and spent most of my days completely alone with the Lord. He revealed so much about the finished work of the cross, the realm of heaven in which I live with Him, and who I am in Him.
That year, He truly became my Best Friend. No one will ever take His place. I love people, but no one compares to Him!
So even with deep sadness from my mother’s home-going and great suffering from rejection, I learned to look at that which is UNSEEN and my list of thoughts that brought heavenly ecstasy was growing, not diminishing:
The work is finished.
His work is completely complete and perfectly perfect.
His blood is sprinkled on the Mercy Seat….and I am beginning to understand what that means.
He is the Mercy Seat.
He is my High Priest seated there.
His blood cries forgiveness, justification, acquittal, healing, wholeness, peace for me.
He is completely glorified.
His smile towards me is constant.
At any given moment at any time of day, I can look straight into His face.
His eyes are pools of love for me.
I am a precious jewel in His heart that shimmers and shines with beauty.
He is my Best Friend.
He is my Lover.
He is the One who sticks closer than a brother.
I am His and He is mine.
He feeds on HIS LOVE FOR ME.
I feed on HIS LOVE FOR ME.
I am in Him in the highest heaven.
Nothing can ever separate us again.
We are completely intertwined.
We are one.
Because of His blood, I am holy.
Because of His blood, I am blameless.
Because of His blood, I stand in the presence of God without a single fault.
As He is, so am I in this world.
There are no limits in the Spirit realm of heaven.
All things are possible to Him [Jesus] who believes.
I have the faith of God.
Whatever He did on earth, I can do.
Faith isn’t the bridge. Jesus is the bridge.
I am a new creation in Him. Nothing like the old.
Because He obeyed, I am blessed.
Because He obeyed, everything I touch is blessed.
He is my King of kings. I am a king.
He is my Lord of lords. I am a lord.
He is my High Priest. I am a priest to God.
He is the firstborn among many brethren. I am a daughter of the Most High God.
My name is written in the book of life.
The Good News is better than I thought.
It gets better every day.
(from pages 307-309 of Unveiling Jesus)
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