The Age Of Maturity

This is a Bar Mitzvah year for My modern day church.  It is a “coming of age” season when the sons of God will be revealed.  It is also a season when the sons of God will be required to begin to take responsibility for their words, attitudes, actions, behaviors, and choices.

I, as your Heavenly Father, have covered your weaknesses in the past as a parent covers and protects a very young child.  I have used this covering time as a time of training you to know how to refuse the evil and to choose the good.  Now is the time of maturity when you are required to own your weaknesses, bringing them to Me in faith and believing that I AM able to work in you both to will and to do what is good and right.

Through Christ, I AM with you in your weakness to help you work out your own salvation...even when it is with fear and trembling.  My grace is sufficient for you and My strength is made perfect in weakness.  Do not rely on human wisdom, but rather on the power of My Holy Spirit within you.  You will bear witness of the Kingdom and the power of God for salvation.  Your faith and obedience bring Me great pleasure.  Even when you don’t see or sense My protective covering, know that My presence is with you in power.  My pleasure smiles over you as mature sons of the Living God!

Romans 8:19; Isaiah 7:15; Philippians 2:12-13; 2 Corinthians 12:9

2013 A Baker's Dozen Year of Increased Measure

2013 is a year of the “baker’s dozen”, a year of the increased measure of what the heart has ordered.  For those whose hearts are turned toward Christ, it is a season of unprecedented boldness for increased fruit of righteousness and power of the Spirit.  For those whose hearts are turned from Christ, it is a season of unprecedented fruit of unrighteousness and power of sin.

There will be liberty and liberality for all; the releasing of the captives into the liberty of Christ.  This “liberty of Christ” is the freedom to be all that you choose to be.  For some, there will be the breaking off of the chains of the flesh and sin as they choose to embrace Christ not only as
“Savior”, but also as “Lord”.  For others, there will be the breaking off of the chains of pretense and religious hypocrisy as they choose to embrace the desires of the flesh and sin.  Those who are of the world will live in such as way as to openly resist the government, rule, and authority of My Kingdom in their hearts; while those who are Mine will live in such a way as to openly resist the government, rule, and authority of worldliness in their hearts.

There will continue to be an increase of My government and My peace to order and establish My Kingdom with righteous judgment and justice.  My zeal is being stirred up and increased in the earth to make a clear distinction between righteousness and unrighteousness, between good and evil.  I AM raising up an army of those whose senses have been trained to refuse the evil and to choose the good.

It is for freedom that Christ came to make you free.  You have been called to liberty and liberality; only do not use your liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another with liberality.

Jeremiah 29:11-14; Isaiah 7:15, 9:7, 61:1-7; Galatians 5:1   

PROGRESS OR PRESENCE?

OH PILGRIM, WHEN PROGRESS IS BOUND

BY DISAPPOINTMENTS YOU HAVE FOUND

WITH COURAGE WANT AND FAITH DEPLETE

EVERY DAY SMACKS BITTERSWEET

HARSH MORSELS OF THE CONSTANT PAIN

THAT HINDER WALK AND STYMIE GAIN

AND BRINGS IN EBB AND FLOW OF GRIEF

THAT CAUSES HOPE TO EVER CEASE

THE WONDERS OF HIS LOVE ERASE

DISMISSING CRIMSON BLOTCH WITH GRACE

AND MAKING SMOOTH THE CREASE OF SCAR

YOU’LL FIND THE PATH OF JOY NOT FAR

SO JOURNEY ONWARD WITHOUT FAIL

HIS PRESENCE GOES BEHIND THE VEIL

THE DARKNESS THAT ONCE SEEMED SO BLEAK

BREAKS DAWN WITH MORNING AT HIS FEET

NO DARK NIGHT OF SOUL WILL WIN

FOR GREATER IS HE WHO IS WITHIN

NOW, SET A WATCH AND KNOW HE’S NEAR

WITH ARMS TO HOLD AND EAR TO HEAR

HIS GENTLE WHISPER IN YOUR HEART

REMINDS THAT HE WILL NEVER PART

HIS LOVE IS STEADFAST, STRONG, AND TRUE

THE HOPE OF GLORY, CHRIST IN YOU!