Count

Count it all…

What are you counting on?

What are you counting?

Counting the failures or counting the successes?

Counting the past or the present?

Counting the present or the future?

Counting the pain or the gain?

Counting what you have lost or what you have gained?

You can count on me.

Let me say that again, you can count on me!

Count me in.

Count the devil out.

Say “I am going to count to 3!”

Say “1, 2, 3….”

For the one shall be counted out, the other shall be counted in.

Count me in.

Count on me.

Rely on me.

Trust in me.

Give me your trust.

Let me have your trust, in exchange for your fear.

For fear has no business being here.

Tell fear, “It is none of your business.”

Tell fear, “Mind your own business.”

Tell fear, “you have no business being here.”

Tell your business that fear has no hold of you. For you are not owned by fear. For this is my business. Say to yourself “I am about my fathers business”

Just as your beloved son, says to you, demonstrates to you that he is about his fathers business.

Is he not my walking and talking demonstration?

He remains committed despite the challenges of the market, or the market conditions.

“I need to see you here, I need to know that you are in control, though my heart is torn wide open, I will trust, I will remember.”

For I am holding you to account.

I am holding your account.

I am your accountant.

I am in charge of your finances.

I am your balance.

I am your profit. I am am your surplus. I am your investor. I am your source. I am your defender. I am your provider.

Let me do the counting.

Let me balance the books.

Let me take care of that which taxes you.

Appoint me as your chief officer of finances.

Pass all these things to me. Allow me to manage it for you.

For I know what I am doing.

Count on me, and leave me to do the counting.

The only thing I want you to count is this….

Here count this up.

Take account of this..

JOY!

Yes keep a record of the joy.

Take account of all the joy.

Let me get you started.

What was the name of the first girl you ever thought was interesting?

For this was no coincidence, this was no random act.

For you know her name in an instant, her name is immediately upon your tongue.

For your first taste of my love was wrapped in my joy.

For I have presented my love with joy.

I have wrapped my love in my joy.

For when my love smiles at you, is this not the greatest joy.

For your very self bursts forth when she smiles at you.

When she winks at you, your whole world broke open, yes broke open.

A momentous moment of momentum.

Let me say that again, a momentous moment of momentum.

For you knew from that point on, everything was changed.

For it was a rubicon moment, a watershed moment, an everlasting moment engraved upon your heart and soul.

Was this not in response to your request?

Was this not a demonstration of the precision of my love and concern. An unexpected moment, but a moment that was in response to your request.

For you hate the notion of the vending machine, for you demand nothing from me, you care more for our relationship than what it is I can give you.

Yet the outcome is preplanned, the outcome is a given.

For the vending machine is engineered to give you only what you ask for. You put in your request, you input the required funds, and it is inevitable that you receive what it is that you asked for.

You asked me to blow your mind, and was not your mind blown!

For I am not half hearted in my response to you.

I am all in.

I gave my very self for you.

I could not be talked out of it.

I was committed to this relationship, before you had even heard my name.

She committed to you, before you even new she existed.

You gloss over this part.

But think of this for a moment.

I sent her all the way to where you lived to make a proclamation of love.

I pointed you out to her and from her mouth she uttered “One day I am going to marry that man”

For I know the plans I have for you.

I am not the author of the random act, but the one who holds your hand, the author of your story.

Am I not the author of your romance?

Have I not provided to you that which matters to you the most.

In fact, a fact not lost to you, her very initials stand for “Note well” or “Very Important” or “Take note”.

Her very design demands attention, commands attention, commands your attention, causes you to stand at attention, to give her attention.

So as you say often to your children, I say unto you…

“So what question do you want to ask me?”

For you can count on me to answer…

John 15:16 You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed you I have planted you, that you might go and bear fruit and keep on bearing, and that your fruit may be lasting that it may remain, abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in My Name as presenting all that I AM, He may give it to you.

For I know what it is that you want to ask me…

John 16:19-24 Jesus knew that they wanted to ask Him, so He said to them, Are you wondering and inquiring among yourselves what I meant when I said, In a little while you will no longer see Me, and again after a short while you will see Me? I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that you shall weep and grieve, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. A woman, when she gives birth to a child, has grief (anguish, agony) because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she no longer remembers her pain (trouble, anguish) because she is so glad that a man (a child, a human being) has been born into the world. So for the present you are also in sorrow (in distress and depressed); but I will see you again and then your hearts will rejoice, and no one can take from you your joy (gladness, delight). And when that time comes, you will ask nothing of Me you will need to ask Me no questions. I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that My Father will grant you whatever you ask in My Name aspresenting all that I AM. Up to this time you have not asked a single thing in My Name aspresenting all that I AM; but now ask and keep on asking and you will receive, so that your joy (gladness, delight) may be full and complete.