Beloved Ones, those who really KNOW Me know that I AM good; that My mercy is everlasting, and My truth endures forever. Isn’t this reason enough to be thankful and to bless My name? Thanksgiving and praise usher you into My presence, which is where you will find the fullness of joy. There are times when it will be a sacrifice for you to offer to Me thanksgiving. These are the times when you can call upon My name and know that I AM with you to help you.
The heavens declare My glory. The expanse of My creation boasts of the work of My hands. Every day speaks of My goodness and every night reveals My knowledge. There is no place where their voice is not heard telling of who I AM. Shouldn’t the man that I created give praise and thanks that is equal to the least of My creation?
Those who refuse to be thankful, nor praise Me as God become futile in their thinking. They become vain and frivolous, lacking serious value and substance, having no sense of responsibility, and having no practical effect or useful result from their existence. Their hearts become darkened and foolishness becomes their legacy of dishonor.
Thankfulness and gratitude are interchangeable with grace. A heart full of thanks and gratitude is a heart which presents favorable regard of Me and brings Me pleasure and delight. It reflects gracious forbearance and knowledge that I AM close at hand. Focus on whatever things are true, whatever things have excellent moral character, whatever things are fair and right, whatever things are pure and clear, whatever things are lovely, and whatever things are of a good report and good quality. Meditate on anything that is praiseworthy. It is My will that you rejoice always, pray constantly, and have a thankful heart in everything. If you do these things you will have the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding and it will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Psalm 100:4-5; Psalm 19:1-4; Romans 1:21; Philippians 4:4-8; 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
Three Phases of This Season - Part Three - "Drive"
Beloved Ones, it is in Christ that you live and move and have your being (existence, essential nature, and life in the present tense). I have predetermined your appointed times and the boundaries of your life, so that you would seek Me, in the hope that you might grope for Me (clutch Me, cling to Me, and hold fast to Me) and find Me…to know Me as I AM. As you clutch with Me and shift with Me in this season, you will find new freedom to thrust yourself forward into the destiny that I have for you with new zeal and drive. You will know, by My Spirit, the liberty that you have in Christ Jesus and you will move with a freedom that comes from being shifted into the higher gear of the Kingdom.
The freedom for this forward thrust will come from the knowledge that I uphold all things by the word of My power. You are secure in Me. I AM before all things, and in Me all things consist (stand or fall together). Clutch Me, shift with Me, and freely thrust yourself forward in Me…casting off the old and driving forward with the power that comes from knowing that it is in Me that you live and move and have your being.
Acts 17:26-28; 2 Corinthians 3:17; Hebrews 1:3; Colossians 1:17
The freedom for this forward thrust will come from the knowledge that I uphold all things by the word of My power. You are secure in Me. I AM before all things, and in Me all things consist (stand or fall together). Clutch Me, shift with Me, and freely thrust yourself forward in Me…casting off the old and driving forward with the power that comes from knowing that it is in Me that you live and move and have your being.
Acts 17:26-28; 2 Corinthians 3:17; Hebrews 1:3; Colossians 1:17
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Three Phases of This Season - Part Two - "Shift'
Beloved Ones, as you cling to Me as your source of life and remember the testimony of My goodness to you, the release from the bondages of the past will be broken and you will shift into a higher Kingdom gear. You will easily pass through the hardships that have held you back and find ease in this new level of your Kingdom destiny.
This shift will be the result of the One who breaks open the way before you…I AM the Master of Breakthroughs…this is why you must clutch, cling, and hold fast to Me at your head so that you are in position to shift with Me into your breakthrough. As you shift with Me, you will pass through the enemy strongholds and leave your idols behind in the dust. They will no longer have a hold on you and you will find yourself free to move forward with a new strength. You will fear the Lord and My goodness in the days to come which will cause you to tremble at My word. You will find you are strengthened by joy and you will have a drive that will thrust you forward in My power because you know that I AM with you to cause you to pass through to victory in every circumstance.
Clutch with Me, clinging to My testimonies. Shift with Me, passing through with the Master of Breakthroughs and leaving behind the routine ruts of old patterns of idolatry. The best is yet to come!
Deuteronomy 30:20; Micah 2:13; 2 Samuel 5:20-21; Hosea 3:5; Isaiah 43:2-13
This shift will be the result of the One who breaks open the way before you…I AM the Master of Breakthroughs…this is why you must clutch, cling, and hold fast to Me at your head so that you are in position to shift with Me into your breakthrough. As you shift with Me, you will pass through the enemy strongholds and leave your idols behind in the dust. They will no longer have a hold on you and you will find yourself free to move forward with a new strength. You will fear the Lord and My goodness in the days to come which will cause you to tremble at My word. You will find you are strengthened by joy and you will have a drive that will thrust you forward in My power because you know that I AM with you to cause you to pass through to victory in every circumstance.
Clutch with Me, clinging to My testimonies. Shift with Me, passing through with the Master of Breakthroughs and leaving behind the routine ruts of old patterns of idolatry. The best is yet to come!
Deuteronomy 30:20; Micah 2:13; 2 Samuel 5:20-21; Hosea 3:5; Isaiah 43:2-13
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Three Phases of This Season - Part One - "Clutch"
Beloved Ones, there are three distinct phases to this present season and they must happen in the correct order…clutch, shift, and drive.
Although things may appear to be in a “neutral” gear in the natural and there doesn’t appear to be any forward motion, know that this is a necessary step in the process. This is the time to “clutch”, cling, and hold tightly to Me, your God. Set your focus to love Me, to obey My voice, and to cling to Me because I AM your life and your length of days. Do not allow your present circumstances to distract you from choosing the way of truth. Cling to My testimonies…the remembrance of what I have done in the past and know that I AM working on your behalf even in this time of apparent inactivity. This is a time when I AM putting devices into action that will enable you to be disconnected from what has become to you the custom and tradition of what lies behind so that you can be smoothly connected to what lies ahead and move forward into the next level of your destiny with power.
Clutch Me, Beloved Ones…hold tightly to Me, alone…and cling to the truths that you know. I AM enlarging your heart to take you to another level of Kingdom experience. There is life and blessing yet to come.
Deuteronomy 30:19-20; Psalm 119:30-32
Although things may appear to be in a “neutral” gear in the natural and there doesn’t appear to be any forward motion, know that this is a necessary step in the process. This is the time to “clutch”, cling, and hold tightly to Me, your God. Set your focus to love Me, to obey My voice, and to cling to Me because I AM your life and your length of days. Do not allow your present circumstances to distract you from choosing the way of truth. Cling to My testimonies…the remembrance of what I have done in the past and know that I AM working on your behalf even in this time of apparent inactivity. This is a time when I AM putting devices into action that will enable you to be disconnected from what has become to you the custom and tradition of what lies behind so that you can be smoothly connected to what lies ahead and move forward into the next level of your destiny with power.
Clutch Me, Beloved Ones…hold tightly to Me, alone…and cling to the truths that you know. I AM enlarging your heart to take you to another level of Kingdom experience. There is life and blessing yet to come.
Deuteronomy 30:19-20; Psalm 119:30-32
Monday, November 8, 2010
Freedom For Righteousness
Beloved Ones, My grace is more than adequate for you to reign in life through Jesus Christ. I have given you the gift of Christ’s righteousness so that you can be filled with the fruit of it. Possess (procure, acquire, obtain, acknowledge) your own vessel in holiness and honor. Know what is yours by faith so that you may fully occupy and own all that is rightfully yours.
You have been freed from the enslavement to sin that has been customary to man. It no longer owns you. It has no rights to you or rule over you. The Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made you free from the custom and constraint of sin. Be firmly steadfast in your freedom from its grip and don’t allow yourself to become twisted together with its strangling effects anymore. Stand fast in the Lord and His righteousness being filled with the fruit of it...being at liberty to reign in life through Jesus Christ over all the schemes of the enemy.
Romans 5:17, 8:2; Philippians 1:11, 4:1; 1 Thessalonians 4:4; Galatians 5:1
You have been freed from the enslavement to sin that has been customary to man. It no longer owns you. It has no rights to you or rule over you. The Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made you free from the custom and constraint of sin. Be firmly steadfast in your freedom from its grip and don’t allow yourself to become twisted together with its strangling effects anymore. Stand fast in the Lord and His righteousness being filled with the fruit of it...being at liberty to reign in life through Jesus Christ over all the schemes of the enemy.
Romans 5:17, 8:2; Philippians 1:11, 4:1; 1 Thessalonians 4:4; Galatians 5:1
Saturday, November 6, 2010
The Righteousness of Christ
Beloved Ones, You are not who you once were. Yet, many of you continue to think of yourselves as what you were when you were called. But God chose the foolish, weak, lowly, and despised things of the world…the things that are not…to shame the wise, strong, and proud…to nullify them, so that no one may boast. You are in Christ Jesus, who has become for you wisdom from God – your righteousness, holiness, and redemption. You, who are in Christ, are a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! God made Him who had no sin, to be sin for you, so that in Him you might become the righteousness of God. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.
Through the good news of the Gospel, a righteousness from God has been revealed to you, a righteousness that comes from faith…from the first to the last. The righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith. Continue in the faith of the completed work of Jesus on the cross. The righteous will live by faith. Resist the temptation to shrink back into trying to establish your own righteousness, which is by the law. Be submitted to the righteousness of God. Christ in you, the hope of glory! Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes…to everyone who puts their trust in the truth of the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross. Be filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ! Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you!
1 Corinthians 1:27-31; 2 Corinthians 5:17, 21; Romans 1:17, 3:22; 10:3-4; Colossians 1:27; Philippians 1:11; Isaiah 60:1
Through the good news of the Gospel, a righteousness from God has been revealed to you, a righteousness that comes from faith…from the first to the last. The righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith. Continue in the faith of the completed work of Jesus on the cross. The righteous will live by faith. Resist the temptation to shrink back into trying to establish your own righteousness, which is by the law. Be submitted to the righteousness of God. Christ in you, the hope of glory! Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes…to everyone who puts their trust in the truth of the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross. Be filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ! Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you!
1 Corinthians 1:27-31; 2 Corinthians 5:17, 21; Romans 1:17, 3:22; 10:3-4; Colossians 1:27; Philippians 1:11; Isaiah 60:1
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