WHIRLWIND by Candi MacAlpine 12/3 on: Today at 06:02:29am
Monday Manna
Whirlwind
by Candi MacAlpine
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Dec 3, 2007
There are days my child when it seems like there is a whirlwind moving around you and confusion comes knocking at the door, and you struggle with even every day things of life. I tell you and promised you and continue to promise you that there will always be times when things around you will vie for your attention and want to overwhelm you and take control of you, but I say that I am there to put things in perspective and as you walk by my spirit you will get the proper perspective of any and all things that vie for my place of attention and the attention of my Kingdom followers. Even now during this season keep your eyes on Jesus and know that it is not only this season to focus on Him but you are to put all things into His care for He cares for
you, and you will see those things just not have any affect. They may not stop and they may not change but you can see with different eyes and respond with different responses so that as a kingdom dweller you are the one in charge with my Spirit guiding you each and every day and in each and every circumstance.
2 PROPHECY: / Praise and Devotionals / WORKING TO REST 12/3 on: Today at 05:55:59am
Miracle Drought Strikes USA
Larry R Taylor
Dec 3 2007 06:40AM
Teaching
WORKING TO REST
Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. Hebrews 4:11
I often find myself in discussions as to why miracles, signs and wonders seem to be more prevalent outside of the United States. I usually answer with one of two responses, both related. My most common explanation is hunger. God shows up in power where people genuinely desire to see that power demonstrated. However, this alone doesn’t quite cover it because there are many in the USA who are fervently seeking His power. My other response is "expectation". Perhaps this gets closer to the issue, because there is a undeniable link between what people expect to happen and what actually takes place. However, both these responses still fall short of the whole picture.
I believe that there is faulty teaching and doctrinal misunderstanding at work. For years much teaching in the popular Church culture in the USA has correctly moved away from a "works" emphasis to "grace". I, along with a host of others, have placed an emphasis on receiving and impartation. This truth has allowed many to move from the burdensome requirements of man made tradition to the liberating understanding that our covenant is based upon believing the promises and receiving the inheritance rather than keeping laws and earning rewards.
But the erroneous idea that there is no effort required in this process on the part of the believer has led many to a state of ambivalent passivity. Coupled with an equally erroneous understanding of "destiny" (predestination and sovereignty) many are mired in a stoic attitude expressed in cliches like, "if He wants me, He knows my address..." The effect of this belief system is that while desiring to believe and receive all that God has promised, many are coming up short due to a failure to "press in".
For years I have sought a way to express what seems to be two contradictory Biblical principles. Do we press in to obtain our birthright or do we rest and simply receive by faith our covenant promise of the miracle working power? The answer is a resounding YES! Hebrews 4:11 contains the answer to the question. According to this passage, we are to strive to enter into the place where God is doing the work not us. We are to work, one translation says "strive", to enter into rest. If you are not too confused to continue, let me give you the scriptural example that I think clears up the fog.
The original "presser inner" was the woman with the issue of blood who was healed when she touched the hem of Jesus’ garment. (Mark 5:24-34) She received her healing miracle when she pressed through the press and touched Jesus. This was a woman who was highly motivated by her need to overcome any obstacle to get to the miracle working power that was her only hope. Several key revelations are found in this incident that lead to a fruit producing understanding of how the miracle working power of God is released.
First, the healing power of God was resident and operating in Jesus. There was nothing this woman or anyone else could do to make a miracle happen of their own strength. God had sovereignly sent Jesus to demonstrate and validate his mission with healing. Everywhere Jesus went, people were healed. It was, and is, His mandate. Jesus is our covenant healer. If we want to see miracles we must get to Jesus. Whatever stands in the way of His manifested presence in our lives must be overcome if we are to see His healing virtue flow.
It is critical to understand that it was not God who was placing obstacles in the path of this woman to make her quest more difficult. Jesus was ready, willing and able to heal all who were sick. Symbolically and literally, all that stood between this woman and the miracle she so desperately needed were man made obstacles.
What has to be pressed through to receive the miracle working power of God is not an obstacle course of theological correctness or moral perfection. It is simply the stuff of life that get’s in our way. The time required to get to Him, the prioritizing that must happen to expend the effort, the opinions of others that would hinder our pursuit; all these factors and more must be worked through to get to the place where we are in a position to receive what is freely given by God.
Hopefully some lights are already coming on for you. The "pressing in" that is required to enter into that place where God is freely giving His miracle working power consists of our working through the man made obstacles. These man made hindrances are both internal and external, physical and spiritual, in ourselves and created by others. But whatever the obstacle, the inheritance comes to those who press in and press on. By perseverance we obtain the promise. We don’t stop until we get what is ours.
3 PROPHECY: / Daily Prophecy Corner / A WASH by Priscilla Van Sutphin 12/3 on: Today at 05:50:18am
A Wash
Priscilla Van Sutphin
Dec 3 2007 08:14AM
A Wash
Dec 3rd, 2007
Beloveds, there is nothing that my heart doesn’t want to do for you. But I am washing my church. I am like a fuller’s soap, and I will WASH, and WASH and WASH, till the stench of pride, apostasy and intolerance, performance, and pretense , wickedness and avarice is cleansed from My threshing floors.
You needn’t be surprised at the news. You needn’t be calling the work of the devil either. For He does MY BIDDING in this matter of exposing and allowing the prideful to fall. Did I not say in My word, PRIDE COMES BEFORE A FALL ? Have you not heard Me over and over warning those who haven’t gotten healed to come to My side, so I can cleanse them, and heal them of all that has encompassed them ? I have given warning after warning, but now the time for warning is past. The time for action on My part is necessary because of escalating things in the world according to what is written. So do not be shocked by the exposure of lies and pretense.
Do not berate one another, but keep in prayer that your own folly would not be exposed ! Keep in prayer for those who fall, that they might be turned back to righteousness lest they fall into hell. I AM FAITHFUL. And I am the ONLY FAITHFUL ONE ! All are falling short of the glory of God it is written. I’m not surprised, nor dismayed, for I have had those in training that will take the place of those who fall, and they will be a different breed in their hearts. They have made all the mistakes. They have been fine tuned like instruments, so that they would move in harmony together as the bones come together.
You may look at the church as I do with dismay and sadness, but in the end, it will be resuscitated to be all that I want it to be. So rest assured in your hearts that I have it in control. Pray that those who are blind may have their eyes opened, and scales of the enemy removed, that they also might be saved from deception they have sat under.
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Many will fall away by the time it escalates more. Keep a humble attitude. But don’t be dismayed by the public exposure, for those falling have done their sins in public arenas, and must repent publically if they want to be free. The teacher MUST be more accountable for all of them lead the sheep like lemmings to the cliff of destruction, who deny the truth ! Thus their exposure comes LONG after I have warned them through many, many times. Pray that you may be kept by My hand, for it is only by MY GRACE that anyone can stand.
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4 PROPHECY: / Praise and Devotionals / PRAY IN THE HOLY SPIRIT by Tommy Hays 12/3 on: Today at 05:48:36am
"Pray in the Holy Spirit"
Tommy Hays
Dec 3 2007 08:28AM
Morning by Morning, Monday 12-03-07 -- "Pray in the Holy Spirit"
Good morning, Lord Jesus. I seek You first. ...
"But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit; keep yourselves in the love of God; look forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life" (Jude 20-21).
Lord, teach me to pray in the Holy Spirit -- not in my flesh, not in my will, but in Your Spirit. Whether with words of earthly language or heavenly language, let them be Your words released through Your vessel to accomplish Your purposes. Build me up in faith, keep me close in love, guide me forward in mercy, as I learn to draw deeply from You in the Spirit of prayer. Use my mind, but don't let my mind get in the way of Your thoughts; use my tongue but don't let my words get in the way of Your Word (1 Corinthians 14:15). Send forth Your Word by Your Spirit through my prayers in submission to Your will and according to Your purpose (Romans 8:26-27). In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
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5 PROPHECY: / Daily Prophecy Corner / THE GOD OF INCREASE by Ron Horner 12/2 on: December 02, 2007, 07:39:46 PM
The God of Increase - Ron Horner
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Dec 2 2007 08:24PM
One of the most replete (abundant and overflowing) verses in the entire Bible is found in Isaiah 40:29. It absolutely explodes with the promises of God! A cursory reading of this verse, however, often comes off as a "ho-hum…that's nice…" type of verse, but I challenge you in the next few moments to take a look at a verse that has power to utterly revolutionize your life. Let's take a look.
He gives power to the faint and weary, and to him who has no might He increases strength [causing it to multiply and making it to abound]. [AMP]
or
He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength. [NKJV]
The word power has a variety of meanings such as: vigor, firmness, capacity, means, ability, force, fruits, might, strength, substance, wealth.
So you could translate this portion of the verse as follows:
He gives vigor, capacity, means, force, strength, substance, wealth to the weak….
Power…
Do you need physical strength? Do you need emotional strength? Do you need spiritual strength? Do you need financial strength? How many ministries have been unable to fulfill their destiny because of lack in the financial arena. How many people have been unable to fulfill destiny because they lacked the courage – the inner strength, the emotional strength to perform the tasks at hand? Can you see how broad the applications of this verse are?
No arena of your life is left out. Suppose you've gone through a tough time emotionally. You need strength in your soul realm. God can provide it. He is not just interested in your spirit man, he is also interested in your emotional, physical, and personal health, not excluding the arena of finance or provision in order to fulfill what lies before you.
Another aspect of this word that we cannot afford to miss is this—the word power also speaks of the example of a lizard who is hardy and able to make the most of his surroundings, or of a chameleon which has the ability to adapt to the surroundings. For example, if the surrounding require strength physically, then physical strength you have. If they require substance in a material way, then substance you have. When Paul penned the oft quoted verse "…my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus…(Philippians 4:19", he must have understood the truth of this passage of Scripture.
Weak…
Let's go to the next major word in the verse, the word translated "weak". This word is rather straightforward speaking of one who is fatigued, exhausted, or faint. All the strength is gone. All the supply is gone. The reserves are gone. Like the long distance runner, you cannot muster another step and you are ready to collapse to the ground in exhaustion. You are at the end of the proverbial "rope". Jesus, no doubt, felt such exhaustion due to the severe beating he suffered at the hands of the Roman soldiers. He typified this exhaustion as he collapsed on the way to Golgotha carrying the cross upon his back, but just as he was at his physical end, a man named Simon from Cyrene was selected to help him carry his load. This man Simon had journeyed quite a distance from his home in Cyrene which is in Libya. It was quite a distance to have traveled, yet this man, though compelled to help Jesus carry the cross became not just an eyewitness to history, but a participant in it. You never know when you might be called upon to carry someone else's cross.
Might…
The next major word is "might" which implies effort, ability, power, wealth, force, goods, strength, and substance. We often limit the provision of the LORD concerning strength to the physical arena, but if you have ever been in a situation where financial needs beyond your personal ability to meet, were pressing in upon you, then you understand how that can take a toll on your physically. You may find your sleep being affected whereby you fall asleep simply from exhaustion, but if you awaken in the night and are somewhat refreshed, you find those financial needs rising to the forefront of your mind. That type of situation can impact your strength, your health, your emotional well-being and can end up spilling over to those around you. It is not unreasonable to assume that the Lord, in his matchless concern for the needs of his people, will respond to their heart cry of faith for release and relief. Just as when a nursing mother hears the cry of her baby and her body releases provision for the infant, so it is with the LORD known also as "the many breasted One".
Have you been in a situation where you needed courage to accomplish a task. This verse also acknowledges that he provides "force"…fortitude, if you will to accomplish the job.
Perhaps you need goods – material supply to accomplish the task He has given you, then the promise is for that to be supplied as well. Have you said, "I'm supposed to do such and such, but I don't have the ability." Well…you can't use that excuse any longer. This verse tells us that if you have no "ability" he will supply the "ability" to do what you are responsible to do.
Increase…
How do we know he meets the need? The next word in the verse tells us. That verse says that he "increases" strength. What, however, does "increases" mean? Let's look: increases means to increase, to bring in abundance, to be in authority, to bring up, to enlarge, to continue, to excel, to be full, to make great/greater, to grow up, to heap, to be long (have endurance), to be many, to be give, to be more in number, to ask, to gather, to be over.
Do you see how replete this verse is? The potential is unlimited. He will cause you to enlarge. What you couldn't handle last week, He has enlarged you to handle now! What you didn't have in sufficient measure two days ago, you have now with more coming! What you lacked in spiritual authority a few days ago, you no longer lack! He has increased and enlarged you. He has enlarged your capacity to obtain. He has enlarged your capacity to believe. He has enlarged your capacity to handle. You are not the same as you were before. Like most promised of God, you must lay hold of them for them to become activated in your life. The promise, the blank check, if you will, can be sitting on the table, but unless you get up, fill it out and cash it, you will still be without, even though the provision has been prepared for you. As believers, we don't often realize that fact.
The word "increase" also implies that he will cause us to "grow up". He will bring you to a new level in God. Your maturity in the things of the Spirit will shift from one level to the next.
This word also speaks of increasing your endurance. My daughter was a cross country runner. She, and the others on the team would be quick to tell you that she was in cross country, not in track and field. The distinction…endurance. Cross country runners may not be the swiftest off the starting line, but they have been trained to go the distance. As Americans we will stand in front of the microwave telling it to hurry up. We are so accustomed to instant everything. We eat instant meals, drink instant drinks, have instant desserts, and because of this immediate gratification we have been conditioned for, we have little in the way of endurance. We complain if we pray and don't see the result in fifteen minutes. If we have to wait even a few days for the manifestation of a promised word, we get antsy and impatient with the LORD complaining to the God of the universe that something is taking too long. We are spoiled! We don't need "everything" instantly. Some things we need to wait on. We need to learn to appreciate things more thoroughly instead of complaining because "our schedule" got messed up by something. Our selfishness in these arenas needs to be repented of in this day so we may fully understand the blessings of the verse we have been studying.
The word "increases" also implies that he will multiply to us, nourish us, cause us to yield more, just as a farmer who has planted a field, God will cause the yield to be greater. The ears of corn will be fuller. The bean plants will be fuller. The tomato plants will be hanging full of delicious tomatoes. He will cause your stuff to do better! The supply of God will "overtake" us as we wait upon Him!
Strength…
The last major word in this verse is the word "strength". This word means abundance, strength, powerfulness, or numerousness. Suppose you have need of a certain number of co-laborers to fulfill the mandate God has given you. This verse expresses the promise of God to cause your "numerousness" to increase. Where you had two you will have ten. Where you hand ten, you will have one hundred. Where you had one hundred, you will have thousands.
Your powerfulness will increase. Your impact will increase. Your abundance will be changed into greater abundance.
God is a God of increase. He is a God of plenty. His nature is increase and plenty. We often think and act as if God is a "broke" as we are, or as needy as we are. Well, my friends, he is not. He has an endless supply of whatever is needed for the tasks at hand. He did not give you a job, then look over at Jesus and say, "Well son, I hope we have enough to finish this job. It looks kind of tight." No. God isn't concerned about that in the least. He is wanting to get us into a position where we will let Him be God. Evangelist R.W. Shambach sang the song for years entitled, "Let God be God!" We need to do exactly that…let God be God.
Hear what the LORD is saying with this verse:
If you are in need of physical strength, you have it available
If you are in need of courage to handle a situation, you have it for us.
It is not merely available, but it is supplied in order for you to fulfill the tasks at hand.
Gideon was an example of someone who experienced the truth of this verse, even though it had not yet been written.
The LORD is telling us that if we are in need of an increase in abundance, He is saying that He will increase us financially.
If you are in need of an increase of laborers to fulfill the mandate given to you, the Word tells us right here, that the LORD grants that increase of laborers. The implication of this verse is that the increase is in correlation to the need at hand…without lack, but rather abundance. This verse declares that the LORD will enlarge you, enlarge your purpose, enlarge your vision, enlarge your strength. The LORD will enlarge whatever you need for the tasks at hand and enlarge you for the tasks at hand. When the LORD chose you for an assignment, you were not, at that moment, large enough in yourself for that assignment. However, since you were given the assignment you are now qualified for the enlargement of you because of the largeness of the need you are to meet.
How does all this come about?
In verse 31, we find a familiar verse. However, like many familiar verses, we often think we know all that it means. Suppose however, that more truth exists in this verse than you have been catching. Come see what I mean.
But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for, and hope in Him] shall change and renew their strength and power; they shall lift their wings and mount up [close to God] as eagles [ mount up to the sun]; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint or become tired. Isaiah 40:31 [AMP]
Waiting…
The prerequisite is…waiting.
Then, you tell us how. "…those that wait…. Wait is from the word "qavah" which means to bind together (perhaps by twisting), to collect, to expect, to gather together, to look to patiently tarry or wait for or upon.
To twist or bind together? What is that? Picture if you will taking three strands of cord and twisting them together. As you twist them together they become tighter and subsequently stronger. It is this twisting and binding together, this intertwining with God through Holy Spirit that makes us stronger and increases our capacity. The three individual cords had a limited amount of strength, but the three twisted together have an exponentially greater strength. Ecclessiastes 4:12 tells us that "a threefold cord is not easily broken…." In our lives we need the threefold cord of agreement with the Father. We need the promise found in the Word of God, we need ourselves, and we need the Father. As we intertwine our lives with His promise, our strength is increased and we are able to accomplish what the Father has for us to do.
The word "wait" also implies "to expect, to patiently look, or to tarry before the LORD." Visualize the picture of someone having placed an order and waiting around the receiving dock for the order to be fulfilled much like you do at the electronics retailer Circuit City. At that store, when you make the purchase, you go to the clerks in the receiving area, hand them the receipt or the slip, and they in turn have the product brought from the warehouse. Do we expectantly wait, knowing that the purchase for what we need has already been made by Jesus Christ? Do we have an earnest expectation of its imminent delivery? Attach your faith to the promise in this verse.
Realize that within every promise of God is the faith for its fulfillment. Do you recall the old Jello commercials where the molds shaped as the letters J-E-L-L-O were filled with the differing kinds of Jello? Just as those molds were filled with the substance advertised, so is every promise of God filled with the substance advertised. The ability for its attainment rests within the very promise of it. See your provision being shipped from the warehouse. See yourself expectantly receiving the promised delivery. Just as at the electronics retailer, the object desired or needed has already been paid for, the only thing is its delivery into your hands. Just as you know that if you purchased from that store that the delivery was imminent, so it is with your Heavenly Father. Your faith is the ticket you turn in to exchange for the needed item(s).
Renew…
The word "renew" in the phrase "…shall renew their strength…" is translated in the following ways in the King James Version of the Bible: go on forward, grow up, pass on or pass through), renew, sprout, strike through. The word chalaph also means to "spring up".
Picture if you will a runner that has nearly collapsed from exhaustion but gets a second wind. He is reinvigorated and able to go forward and finish the race. Or, picture someone who has just been revived and "bounces back" as we say. An additional phrase is used in lieu of renew in translation, the phrase "pierce" or "change". Imagine someone trying to break through a veil and they strike at it over and over again until they are able to pierce that veil, or translate that part of the verse as "…shall change their strength…." Do you see the richness of this promise? It is dealing with so much than physical endurance.
Strength…
As we continue looking at verse 31, the next major word is "strength". This is the same word translated "power" in verse 29. Let's review in the context of this verse some of the meanings of the word. The Hebrew word is k ôach (pronounced ko'-akh) and it means to be firm, have vigor, have force. It implies capacity, means, produce. Again as we mentioned earlier about the hardiness of the lizard and the adaptability of the chameleon to be able to adapt to its surroundings. It also implied force, fruits, might, substance and wealth, in addition to power or strength. So as we "wait" upon the LORD we will spring forth in strength, power, adaptability, capacity, substance, wealth, and more! As we wait upon Him we will pierce through to the substance, produce, fruits, wealth, etc. Or, as we wait and bind ourself to him, we will change from a position of weakness and lack to a position of strength and provision. God will cause a shift in our very nature and atmosphere as well as in our lives as we bind ourselves together with Him.
Intimate Knowledge…
A very familiar verse to many believers is Hosea 4:6; "…My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge…." Many also incorrectly believe that the knowledge being spoken of is that which is obtained by educating ourselves and is primarily mental in nature, but that is not the case. The same word translated "knowledge" is the same basic word used when we hear in Genesis that "…Adam 'knew' his wife and she conceived...." It isn't speaking of a "head" knowledge at all, but rather a heart knowledge. We must lean into the LORD and get to know Holy Spirit intimately. As we do, we position ourselves to know what He knows and be able to do what He wants us to do. In James, the promise is given that "if any lack wisdom, let him ask of God and it will be given…". Again, the passage is speaking of wisdom that comes from an intimate "leaning into" the LORD. Remember how the New Testament speaks of John as the disciple that leaned on Jesus breast. John was leaning into the LORD. He was able to hear the whispers of God. To hear the quiet impartations that the son of God was releasing into his life. The intimate knowledge that the LORD wants to share with us require a "leaning into" the LORD. Quietly drawing ourselves close to him to hear him quietly speak into our lives. The binding ourselves together with Him also requires that we become intertwined with Him. That we get as close to Him as we possibly can. As we do, we have the promise of His Word of all these benefits we have been studying together.
Mount up…
The next phrases of verse 31 tell us that those who "bind themselves to the LORD", will mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint."
This phrase is also replete with meaning. The list of alternative words or phrases is quite extensive. As you read these words, insert them in lieu of "mount up" in the phrase, "They shall…." Here goes: to ascend, arise, experience it like the breaking of day. The Lord shall cause you to come up, increase, leap, lift up,, make to pay, perfect, put on…this strength, increase, wealth, abundance, etc., they shall recover, they shall experience restoration, they shall begin to spring up, they shall stir up, they shall work.
All those applications cover a lot of territory. Just as an eagle ascends in the heavens above the fray, so we will ascend by His might and power. Picture if you will, an eagle with strong wings that are able to carry them above the currents, the storms, the disturbances in the atmosphere. We need the ability of God to come upon us to be able to carry us above many of the disturbances in our atmosphere as well. "…they shall mount up with wings as eagles…."
The Runner…
Isaiah then gives us another picture. Not of an eagle, but of a runner. When he says, "they shall run…" he is speaking of the picture of one going hastily, determinedly, toward a goal. A footman making his way to the finish line. Paul spoke of running the race and finishing the course. Perhaps he had this verse in mind as he wrote that.
Isaiah then gives us the flip side of what he spoke of in verse 29. In this verse, "…they shall run and NOT be weary, they shall walk and not faint…." The person in verse 29 was exhausted and at the end of his own strength, but this man…this renewed man is able to run and finish the race. He will not grow weary (out of breath, or be exhausted, tire, or faint. The word for weary is yâ ga' which means, "to gasp". This runner won't even be out of breath. And if they aren't running, but walking, they shall walk and to tire, or become wearisome.
We need to realize how much this one verse implies for us…how much ground it covers. It deals with physical strength, emotional strength, mental strength, spiritual strength even, financial supply, and numerical strength as in increasing the labor force needed for the tasks at hand.
The Father is saying in this one verse –
If you are in need of physical strength, I have it available,
If you are in needed of courage to handle a situation, I have it.
Not merely are these things available, but the Father grants them to us in order for us to fulfill the tasks at hand. Gideon was an example of someone who experienced the truth of this verse, even though it had not yet been written. He greatly needed an enduement of strength and God abundantly provided.
The Father is also saying, "If you are in need of an increase in abundance, He is saying in this verse that He will increase you financially."
If you are in need of an increase of laborers at the ministry to which God has called you or in the work God has called you to, God's Word tells you right here, that He will grant you that increase of laborers. An implication of the verse is that the increase is in correlation to the need at hand…without lack, but rather abundance.
God Will Enlarge…
This verse also declares that God will make larger. He will enlarge you, enlarge your purpose, enlarge your vision, enlarge your strength, enlarge whatever you need for the tasks at hand.
Are you in need of such an enduement of the might of God that you are able to be revived and get up and finish the race? Have you grown weary? Do you need a recharging of your batteries in order to complete your mission? Do you need to be enlarged? If so, pray this prayer with me:
Father, this passage is replete with promises to me for this day. I need an increase in strength, courage, finances, laborers, and more, but in those particular arenas I need change. I need to be increased. I thank you that your promise to be from that passage is that you increase my strength, my courage, my finances, you grant me laborers, you enlarge me in every way and I thank you, in Jesus' name for doing exactly that this day. I deliver to you the receipt…which is your promise in your Word concerning this and I expectantly wait for the delivery of that promise.
The Eagle
An eagle has the ability to catch the thermals and glide and glide and glide riding the wind currents in the atmosphere and allowing them to take it from one place to the next. They are masters at riding the thermals. They don't struggle when they are riding the thermals, they just simply keep their wings outstretched and glide. We must learn to glide. To ride the thermals…the winds of the Spirit of God and in so doing not be fighting the winds, but allow those winds to lift us and carry us. In riding these thermals our strength can be renewed from the constant flapping of our wings as we contended with our environment. One way an eagle rests in flight is by riding the thermals. He is not constantly flapping his wings, only periodically, if at all. He is allowing the wind to carry him.
We must do the same. We must allow ourselves to be carried by the winds of the Spirit. We must learn to rise up above the storms that are in the lower atmosphere to where there are no storms. You see, it's not that no storms exists, but the eagle positions himself to where the storms have limited impact upon him.
When the eagle is hungry and wants fish, it simply flies down and reaches out its talons, pierces through the surface of the water and grasps the provision…the fish. It has the
ability to spot its next meal from a long distance away. The eagle then adjusts its' flight pattern, and the flapping of the wings to adapt to the needs of the environment it is in. What it needs to do in descending and capturing the prey and then ascending is far different from what it needs to be doing to glide, or to ride the thermals.
May we call upon the LORD to teach us how to ride the thermals and tap into all the marvelous provision and promise that is in His Word. May you, find strength as you lay hold of the promise of God in Isaiah 40:29: He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength. [NKJV]
Let God increase you today…in every way!
Scripture quotations marked "(NKJV)" are taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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6 PROPHECY: / Daily Prophecy Corner / THE BEST IS NOW by Deborah A Gaston 12/2 on: December 02, 2007, 07:37:17 PM
The Best is Now
Deborah A. Gaston
Dec 2 2007 08:49PM
(Then he called the bridegroom aside) and said, "Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now." John 2:9b-10 NIV
My Child, what an incredible journey we have had this year! You have embraced the refiner’s fire; you have confronted the strongholds. You have allowed Me to dig deep. You have dared to look closely at yourself through the lens of My word. Sometimes afraid of what you might see, but you looked anyway. You have dared to ask the difficult questions and purposed to embrace the truth, no matter what. Sometimes afraid of what you might hear, but you asked and listened anyway. And you have emerged more of the jewel I created you to be.
You have come to know Me in fresh, new ways. You have received a fresh revelation of My all–sufficient grace that you never would have known had you not walked this path—through fire, through rain, through difficulties and challenges. You have chosen the path I prepared for you and now you have stepped into a wealthy place.
Know that you enter this next dimension changed by the Word you’ve been willing to be made flesh in your life. You may not see it now, you may not feel it now but know, My Child, that you are not the same!!
I am well-pleased! You are right where I want you. It has been a year of many firsts for you, but rest assured that it has been a year of many lasts! For as you continue to allow Me access to the deep places of your soul, I promise that this is the last time you will face certain giants. This is the last time you will battle certain habits. This is the last time certain thoughts will haunt you. And as you finish out this leg of the course, purposing in an even greater way to leave the old way of seeing, the old way of thinking, the old way of speaking, the old way of being behind, you will see My glory manifested in you in even greater ways.
Many doors opened this year, and many doors closed. Allow what lies behind the closed doors to remain there. Leave those things behind. They serve no purpose in this new place.
No longer say “The best is yet to come!" Know that best is Now. The best is Now!! THE BEST IS NOW!!
I love you so much! I delight in you! Walk daily in the place of My delight. You shall daily, hourly, minute by minute be satisfied with the fullness of My house and I will give you drink from the river of My pleasures (Psalm 36:.