Daily Bread - September 18, 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.

This is the day that I have made. Rejoice and be glad in this day. Allow the gladness that I have placed in you to be expressed, for I have created you to worship me with such gladness. This is the manner in which I am to be served; therefore, articulate this expression in adoration toward me. There is power in your expression toward me. Your faith is loosed when you express love toward me. I have shed my love in your heart. It is abroad your heart now. Allow the contents of your heart to be emptied out to me as a pail of water is poured out, and I will show you new dimensions of worship that you have not known. There are undiscovered dimensions within you. The kingdom of God does not come by observation. The kingdom of God is within you.

I have flooded your innermost being with love even a love that caused you to pray for your enemies. This is the love of God, the same love that caused me to go to Calvary for man. My love is working the faith within you, for faith works by love. Your motives shall now be pure, and the outcome of your efforts shall be unto my glory and not your own. With great grace, I have come to you. The same grace that saved you is abounding toward you to labor in you to perform an effectual work. I am able to make all grace abound toward you that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. My righteousness remains forever. I have dispersed abroad and have given to the poor. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

I am the God of all grace, who has called you unto my own eternal glory by Christ Jesus. Arm yourself with the mind that I was armed with. Be armed with a mind to suffer. After that ye have suffered a while, I will make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, and settle you. Think it not strange concerning the fiery trial, which is to try you as though some strange thing happened unto you, but rejoice, inasmuch as you are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that when my glory is revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy. You were reproached for my name and my word. The spirit of prophecy is my testimony. Be glad. Be happy, for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part, I am evil spoken of, but on your part, I am glorified. The grace given you is how you are ministering. Continue to minister the way you are, and you shall continue to minister the glory of the same Lord. Minister as a good steward of the manifold grace of God. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God. If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability, which God gives that I will be glorified in all things. You are giving praise unto me. Continue to minister in this fashion.

It is I, the Lord Jesus, that is speaking within you. Be not turned away from this relationship. In this relationship, you are laboring together with me. You are my husbandry. You are my building. According to the grace of God that I have given you, be a wise masterbuilder. Lay the foundation so that another may build thereon. No other foundation can no man lay that is laid, which is Christ Jesus.

There are diversities of operations, but it is the same God, which works all in all. I have given you the spirit of prophecy. It works by the selfsame Spirit that the other gifts work by. Let no man despise your gift. By the grace of God, you are who you are, and my grace has been bestowed upon you richly. You labor, yet not you, but the grace of God that is with you, labors. Worship.

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?