Daily Bread - July 13, 2004

But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs. And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

I am the author of a good work in you. I will finish what I started in you. There will be no closure in your life until I have finished with you. I did not begin a good work to end in a bad work. I will accomplish what I set out to do. I am more than able to fulfill what I started, for I am able to do exceeding abundantly, above all that you are able to ask or think. Do not reckon the finished work a product of your mind or human reasoning. Have faith in my promises. It is impossible for me to lie. Be confident of this fact: I began a good work in you, and I will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. You must rely on my promises or unbelief will snare you and hinder you in becoming what you should be. You must be totally convinced that what I have said is true. If you believe what I have said, then why agree with anything that is contrary to the truth of my promises to you?

Be fully persuaded that what I have promised, I will perform. No one can prevent me from accomplishing what I have determined to do. I am the finisher of your faith. No one can terminate your faith. I am the chief executive who has executed your faith. I am the one who works in you both to will and to do of my own good pleasure. Now look unto me. I am the author and the finisher of your faith. For the joy that was set before me, I endured the cross, despising the shame and have sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. I am the consummator, the completer. I am the captain, the prince of peace. I have made myself known to you. Now do not be ashamed of my gospel or me. Know who you have believed in, and be fully persuaded that I am able to keep that which you have committed unto me against that day.

Do not be discouraged because of hard times or difficulties. Endure hardness as a good soldier of mine. In the end, you will have fought a good fight and finished your course. In the end, you will have kept the faith, and I will give you a crown of righteousness. Do not look unto your own ability or your own sufficiency as a source for arriving at the crowning time and place. Look unto me, the great high priest that is passed into the heavens. I am touched with the feeling of your infirmities; therefore, know of a truth, that I understand how you feel. I was tempted in all points just like you are; therefore, I understand the pressure brought on by temptations. Come boldly unto the throne of grace, and you will be given mercy. You will find grace to help you in this time of need. I am the God of all grace. I am the author of grace. My grace is sufficient for you. Who will terminate the grace that is being freely given you when I am its author and finisher?

No one can dispose of the grace of God. I started out by giving you grace, and I will place the final coat of grace upon your life. You shall be varnished with grace before closure is brought to your life. Your life shall not end, nor reach a conclusion until I have finished what I started. Believe not the limits being expressed by demons. They do not set the boundaries for my plans, neither can they discontinue the fruit of my love unto you. They have no strategy to bar the passage of grace unto you. There is no gate that can block my grace from entering into your life. They have no power to deny grace an access unto you. They cannot suspend the grace of God, for I am the author of this eternal salvation and the finisher of the love that prompted me to grant it. Who will separate you from my love?

I have not contracted the demons of this world as partners in finishing the work of grace in your life. I opened the book of your life, and only I can close it. Your life shall not end until I have closed the book of your life and sealed it with the same grace that I started it with.

Amos 3: 7 - 8

Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. The lion hath roared, who will not fear? The Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?