My children, today, I want to begin on mending the relationships in your home. It is time that joy, laughter, and happiness returns to your homes. I am a God of love and I want My love to be shown in your homes. It is time to get the affections and compassion back into your homes for one another and quit just doing your own separate things.

I have given you the family you have for a reason. I have given you the children you have for a reason. It is to bring them up in My ways and to have one another to lean on and rely on to stay on the paths that I have given you to walk on. In your family is where you should be able to find strength, peace, and safety. The enemy has perverted these things and has caused the focus to be on everything else except being a family.
I want to bring your family into the ways that they are to be. I want to begin to mend the wounds and to clear up all the dirt and filth that the enemy has brought into your homes. It begins with you. It begins with allowing My joy, My happiness, My laughter, My compassion, and My affection to be returned to your homes through you.

The enemy has brought many things into your homes and has caused much damage to those in the home where no real happiness, real love, or real security can be found. Everyone has decided to do many things individually and have become selfish because their focus has been on the wrong things. It is time to start coming together and being a unit and not a solo. It is time to put your foot down and remove the enemy from your home and to tell him that he is no longer going to do these things in your home.

If you home does not show Me and your home is not a safety area where joy, happiness, laughter, and love is found then those who live in the home will try to find it elsewhere. I am ready to use you and your families as examples to the world of what I am like, but I cannot do it the way that your families are right now.

I am ready to begin this process. I am ready to restore all that the enemy has stolen and make your family stronger than ever. This will require you to quit allowing outside interference to come between you and your family. You need to focus on the ones who I have placed in your home first and worry about those outside the home when it comes time. This does not include those who I am bring into your home, back to the place where they belong. But I do want to get your homes prepared to be a place where they will receive the love and joy that they need to help them get through all that they have endured.

The enemy is after your loved ones, My children. Your loved ones are looking for the love, happiness, joy, peace, and affection as everyone else is. I want to restore this in the home because you have allowed these things to be destroyed in your home, they are looking for it out in the world. This is not how I want it to be. I want your home to be saturated in My love and I want to use your vessel to show My love, My true love not the love that this world portrays.

So today, I want you to open your homes to Me and allow Me to do much restoration that needs to be done in your home. I want you to open your home to receive all the love, joy, happiness, and peace that I want to put in your home. I want you to be the open and willing vessel that I can work through to get this back into your home.

This will not be an easy task. You will have to love and continue to love no matter how much you are rejected. This is going to be a process that I am beginning and it will take work to accomplish it. All I desire is for you to be willing to begin it with Me. All I desire is for you to let Me use you to bring back your home the way it ought to be and let it be the living testimony that it should be. I want to use your home as examples to the world, but you must be willing to go the distance.

Today, I want you to make this commitment to allow Me to return to your homes and make them the way they are to be. I want you to let Me make them a haven of rest and a nest of love. I want you to allow Me to begin the healing and restoration process. I want you to begin to allow the joy, love, laughter, and affection to be returned back into your homes the way that they should be. Your homes should be the prime example of Me and not another example of the world. Make this commitment today and allow Me to begin the works and watch how much different your life will become as the process proceeds.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NIV)
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

1 John 3:18 (NIV)
18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.

Proverbs 10:12 (NIV)
12 Hatred stirs up conflict,
but love covers over all wrongs.

John 15:12 (NIV)
12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.

Matthew 5:43-45 (NIV)
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighborand hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

1 Peter 1:22 (NIV)
22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.

Philippians 2:3-5 (NIV)
3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

Psalm 5:11-12 (NIV)
11 But let all who take refuge in you be glad;
let them ever sing for joy.
Spread your protection over them,
that those who love your name may rejoice in you.
12 Surely, Lord, you bless the righteous;
you surround them with your favor as with a shield.

John 16:21 (NIV)
21 A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.

Philemon 1:7 (NIV)
7 Your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the Lord’s people.

Romans 15:13 (NIV)
13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

2 Samuel 7:28-29 (NIV)
28 Sovereign Lord, you are God! Your covenant is trustworthy, and you have promised these good things to your servant. 29 Now be pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever in your sight; for you, Sovereign Lord, have spoken, and with your blessing the house of your servant will be blessed forever.”

Psalm 122:7 (NIV)
7 May there be peace within your walls
and security within your citadels.”

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 (NIV)
4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.