… Cain & Abel

Choose today whom you will let have rule over yourself & your life: My unselfish, humble, giving, yielded & truly sacrificial Spirit that expects nothing in return, or the carnal attitude of, "I deserve this for what I am & what I've done." One is the spirit of Cain, the other is Abel's. Are you ready & willing to be a martyr, which means witness, or are you going to kill others with feelings of envy, jealousy & selfish wants, because you just think you deserve more than that?

Cain & Abel were brothers. There will always be those brothers who go the way of Cain, the way of the flesh..., the way of showing how strong they are in themselves & what they can accomplish... not like that wuss, Abel, with his Lord... Pah! They're gonna show the world what strong is! Not those pitiful weaklings who are constantly ranting on about spirituality & stuff. The flesh, man, the flesh is what rules! Just look at those mighty cool people on TV, man, that's where it's at...

It's time you decide who's your hero: Abel or Cain?

To begrudge someone else their every little bit of recognition, appreciation or commendation from Me or someone else? That's the way of Cain, the killing way.

It's the spirit of false obedience. It's pretending to want to serve Me, but only wants to do it their own way. Like Cain. And the last thing it will understand is why in the World I can be so stupid and unfair & prefer people like Abel and their dumb little sacrifices...

I've had to make it a challenge. I've made it thus that this "treasure hunt" of life wouldn't be all too easy. I'm not telling everybody: "Hey, everybody; the treasure's over here! Come and grab your rewards!"
That is, I often do tell them, but they won't believe! They won't believe, because they've already been conditioned by the Enemy, the great "party pooper" and his lies that "there is no treasure!"
"There's only this dull life, and the only reward you'll ever get is the money you'll get in exchange for the work you do, and that's it!" "The only reward you'll ever get is that which you earn with your sweat!"
Well, that's his variation of the game, and since it appeals to a lot of people - ever since Cain - I let them have their "fun" and let them find out which is better: the Enemy's rules or Mine.

Do not be plagued by envy and comparing... don't look at what one has got that maybe you haven't got; don't look at who is more deserving in your eyes! That Cain & Abel jealousy & envy is being created like this, listening to the Enemy's lies of who's really more "deserving." That's a very dangerous tune, the very tune of pride and the Devil himself: the song of Judas!
Why not be grateful for what you have, instead, trusting in My righteousness, that I will give you a just reward for whatever you deserve, in your time, and why not simply be happy for those one who are being blessed, and rejoice with them, instead of falling into the trap of envy?

Can you see it now? The purpose in it all? The difference between Cain and Abel? The vanity & senselessness of the striving for carnal perfection and of lack of trust in Me?

The brotherly jealousy that Cain fell victim to, and comes straight from the Enemy is the opposite of brotherly love, which rejoices in whatever your brother has got, even if you don't have it yourself... It's the selfishness of thinking you should be the one endowed with that blessing, which unfairly was given to others and withheld from you.

One of the first steps to become a true believer is to find the real meaning of the word "to believe," which comes from the greek word "pistevo," which means to "drink in." It's the act of receiving and drinking in that makes a true believer out of you, an act way too difficult for someone too full of themselves to sit still and listen, to want to receive any advice or wisdom from anybody else. It's a task too hard for someone too self-sufficient to be needing anybody's advice or help.
They're the type of believers like Cain, who get angry at anyone insinuating that they can't do it on their own. They've got to do it their way. They make their sacrifices to Me in their own way, they sacrifice what they deem worthy of being a sacrifice: not that which I would really like, but some self-created effort of their own hand, some product of their hands and sweat they can pride in and show off before Me and the whole world: "behold what I have accomplished!"
For anyone to insinuate that they're not on the truest of truest ways, and that by any chance they might be mistaken about anything infuriorates them. It's better to let them go their own way. There's not much you can do for them.
Isn't it sad when somebody is too full to receive?

Cain and Abel were both believers. One loved Me and the other one didn't. He only did whatever he deemed right in his own mind, and demanded that I should be pleased with it. He was too full of himself to care about what I wanted.

Yes, it is sad. It was sad that Cain killed Abel. It looked like a terrible defeat, right there, at the dawn of the history of mankind. It broke their parents' hearts. It shattered and shook everyone - their whole family, and all of Heaven. It looked as if I had failed and made a mistake somewhere. "No, this can't be it, Lord!" "How much hatred there is between humans... what lack of love." Isn't that what you're saying, too? "What a lack of love! This can't  possibly be it, Lord! Surely You must be making a mistake in saying that this Family is the best You've got..."
And the descendants of Cain continued to wreak havoc on earth until I had to extinguish them all... Another seeming defeat: All of creation drowned and destroyed... never to be the same again. Another seeming mistake. It's almost as if I had to admit that I had made a mistake. The mistake of granting humans the liberty and majesty of free choice. Isn't that what unbelievers hold against Me all the time? "If God would really be just and righteous, He wouldn't allow all that, He'd put an end to this! It almost looks as if He's siding with the bad guys by tolerating what they do. Why, it's almost as if He's one of them!"
And so, all those self-righteous critics of Mine think they'd all do a so much better job of running this world, if they were in My position. But all the while, they're not even realizing that I am letting them run the world. What they're really saying is, "You should give the power to me, not them."
The only problem about that is that it's usually the bad people in this world, with all their ambitions and burning zeal to be its rulers, who also come up with all the zest and the drive to do something about their goals, their ambitions and plans, however selfish or ill-motivated they may be, while all those other, oh-so-righteous people usually just stand by passively shaking their heads, and hardly ever do anything to change things!

People have the chance to either be like Cain or Abel. Some still seek to impress Me by the amount of fruit they bring to My altar. But I am so much more pleased by the offering of the sacrifice of what's most precious to you. To most people, that's their time.

Cain was always upset with Me, constantly on the Enemy's channel, thinking he knew better than Me... It's dangerous to be on that kind of channel; to be harboring that sort of familiarity toward Me where you can't respect Me anymore, nor anyone else, for that matter, because your own ideas differ from Mine, and you think things ought to be handled and done differently.
Flesh-people have different criteria. What's important for them is not My way of doing things, My standards and criteria, not the slow plodding of building a man's character. They're always looking for fast, visible fruits and results of their own muscle or wit, so that they can pat themselves on the back and show how much they deserve whatever it is they desire - much more so than their younger brothers or sisters, the weaker ones... the sort of folks who don't get things rigged up in their own strength but have to rely on My grace.
Most people nowadays can relate to Cain's way somehow, and the Abel-types have become more and more rare... the meek, who shall inherit the earth. Most religious or saved people nowadays don't rely on Me and My grace as much as they rely on their own wisdom, knowledge or abilities. After all, man considers himself so able and so knowing in this day and age.
Self-righteousness led Cain to believe that he was more worthy of My honoring him, and that he deserved it more than Abel. He was judging things by his own criteria, not by Mine, and he refused to accept Mine.

Pride stands in the way for so many to ever find the truth. Why should you have something better, something greater, something more real than they? After all, aren't they doing all these things that should entitle them to the blessing, the truth, or whatever - the anointing - much more than you?
That's the way Cain thought, and the memory of his righteous brother plagued him for the rest of his life. You may kill the prophet, but you can't kill his truth. The simple and silent truth that his righteousness exceeded yours, for all your vain striving... For it requires humility to receive it, and obedience to enact it - simple yieldedness to Me, and quite simply, once again, love.

It's very, very sad when there's war between brethren, but as you can tell from history, it's what the Devil has been up to since the beginning. There will always be repetitions of the story of the fate of Abel and Cain, in different forms, as long as the Devil is around...