#276

God has circumcised my heart to love him with all my heart and with all my soul so that I may live. The love that I have for him is not because of my goodness. He circumcised my heart to love him. I am a new creature, and now faith works by love. I am born again of incorruptible seed by the word of God that lives and abides forever. I obeyed the truth. By the truth, my soul is purified. I am redeemed with the precious blood of Christ, and now my faith and hope is in God. The Lord can do all things. I lift up my circumcised heart from these things that have attempted to corrupt my faith. I behold the power of eternal life that works in me. The word of the Lord is alive in me. I now allow this eternal word to speak, and the gospel shall be preached by this word in a manner that I have never heard.

I do not resist God's Holy Spirit within me. I am full of the Holy Ghost, and I will be led by it. I am not afraid of the new dimensions ahead of me. The Lord is not a respecter of persons. He has made me a child of Abraham by what he has done inwardly. He has circumcised me in my heart and in the spirit. I have the same power with him that Abraham received. I am a child of God by faith. Faith works by love. God has shed the love of God in my heart by the Holy Ghost. The light of love is waiting to shine the bright light of its power unto those round about me. I will allow the finger of God to turn my lights on, and I will see that I am called unto liberty to love. I will go and love my neighbors as I love myself. Through this door, a new walk in the Spirit will begin, and the yokes of bondage shall be broken of me and others.

 

 

#277

By the blood of the covenant, I have access to the throne of grace. I will not overlook the grace and mercy here at the throne. I have grace and mercy working on my behalf; therefore, I offer myself as an instrument for them. Grace has come to me. Now I will give grace to others. Mercy has come to me; therefore, I will be merciful to others, for blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Freely I have received grace, now freely will I give it. I have found grace in the Lord's sight. I will not lose this grace, neither will I frustrate it. Grace has brought me salvation and lifted me out of the horrible pit of sin. There are other things that accompany salvation. I will now allow grace to teach me. Some turn the grace of God unto lasciviousness and deny the Lord. His grace brought me salvation and has appeared to all men. I will beware of false grace. There is another Jesus that teaches another grace. God's grace teaches me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts. His grace teaches me that I should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world. It teaches to look for Jesus, our blessed hope. The Lord's grace teaches to look for the glorious appearing of our great God. He gave himself for us. He redeemed us from all iniquity and purified us unto himself and made us a peculiar people that are zealous of good works. Though I have zealousness, I must balance my zeal of God according to knowledge. If I do not balance the two, I will go about to establish my own righteousness. I must be continually submitted to the Lord's righteousness.

 

 

#278

Faith without works is dead. However, I can be contaminated with dead works and frustrate the works of grace. By the blood of Christ, I purge my conscience from dead works and serve Jesus, the Living God, according to knowledge. His kindness and love toward me appeared not by works of righteousness, which I have done, but according to his mercy, he saved me by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost. It has been shed on me abundantly. I am justified by grace, and now I am an heir according to the glorious hope of eternal life. I rise up with great joy and cease frustrating his grace. Grace is doing an awesome thing in my life as the master teacher. I will not hinder it. It will achieve things in my life that cannot be obtained another way. Many have nullified the achievements of grace and have been retained in the valley of defeat. I will not be retained in this valley that I am passing through.

Frustration has come to short-circuit the flow of the answers of grace. I allow God to override this short-circuit by the increase of faith. Faith shall confound frustration. Faith shall not fail. I cease looking at the possibility of failure. Failure is only possible through my own efforts. It is the failure of my own efforts that has left me frustrated in the past; therefore, I look to the directions of grace that have sent faith through a bypass of frustration's short-circuit. The flow of grace travels through faith. Frustration inserted a disruption and offered me unbelief as a low resistance, alternate path for the current of grace. The Lord has made unbelief ineffective and superimposed the might of faith for the flow of the abundance of grace. By grace, through faith, I am saved. This disruption has not short-circuited the moving plans of grace. God has detained frustration. I will now go on with my plans to serve the Living God.

 

 

#279

God has magnified his grace and shown everlasting kindness to his people. He is honorable and faithful. His word is forever settled in heaven. It will not pass away. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but his word will remain. I lay hold on the word of life, and I am confident in its value. The value of his word never changes. I allow the word to dwell richly in me, and I will have the unfailing currency that is unshakeable. I open my mouth and speak of the Lord's power. I open my mouth and talk of his glory. I open my mouth and give thanks for the goodness of God in my life. He has drawn me before his presence and greeted me with grace. His scepter of righteousness was stretched unto me as I walked unto the throne of grace and acceptance. The voice of redemption has spoken peace in my ears. The voice of redemption has assured me of light in this evening time. I rejoice in the presence of redemption's voice in my ears. I testify of the favor that I have found in the times of weakness and total helplessness. Redemption did not leave me to be devoured by the hungry mouth of sickness and disease. Redemption did not abandon me in the chambers of unconcern. Redemption's plan has been carefully laid out for my total victory and peace. In the time of all trouble, I am assured that there is no strategy of the enemy that will prevail. God has designed a perfect salvation and provided, in advance, for all of my needs. I am hidden in a secret place. In the secret of the Lord's pavilion, I am hidden. I am in his body, the body of Christ. He has built it upon the rock of revelation. I will hide myself in the rock of revelation, and I will not come out of this truth. Principalities and powers of the air cannot retract the freedom that is in the truth. My freedom is not measured by outside forces, neither is it negotiated by governors and rulers of the kingdom of darkness. Jesus is the Lord, and he rule over all. I am bought with a price, the precious blood of Christ. I will now worship in the sanctuary of the truth.

 

 

#280

Mercy has made its statement. Its voice and actions have declared the worthlessness of dead works. There is no good work that I can point to as a reason for deliverance from the cold hands of death's grip. My body turned cold as ice. Poison flowed through me and painted its graffiti along my system's walls. Strength departed from me, and weakness magnified its bed. Unbelief sent me its invitations from other saviors. My mind drifted on courses from earth to heaven. Thoughts of perishing leaked through my ceiling of dead works, but God's word covered me with a giant umbrella of love and shut up the storm of sickness. The Lord silenced the voices of distraction and diversion. All these things have been bound. They have been sent back to their pits with their bellies hungry for my life. Another testimony has been written in an earthen vessel. Helpless dust arises to praise and magnify God's mercy again. The threat of the enemy has been foiled again. Self-righteousness and dead works have been laid to rest in their grave of lust and pride. I will not resurrect these things again. They have no power to deliver me from anything. I awaken unto the power of faith in the Lord's faithfulness and the completed work of the cross, which is the hub of all things.

 

 

#281

The cross, the cross, the cross; I take up the true cross. My cross is not the true cross that God desires me to take up. Now I will take up the true cross and prepare to lose my life for Christ's sake, then will I find true life. I have followed from afar while being drawn nigh by precious blood. The Lord came in a human body and was accursed for me. In the flesh, he was made a curse for me so that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ. I have received the promise of the Spirit through faith. Now through faith, I will take up the true cross of a redeemed disciple zealous of good works.

The joy of the Lord must be set before me. It must be greater in my life than the shame of my cross that I despise. I would not be weary if I did not despise my cross, neither would I be nearly fainting in my mind. I am called unto sufferings. Everyone that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecutions. God has committed the word of reconciliation unto me. I will not minister the gospel of reconciliation without the true cross. Disciples bearing the cross of men have approached many people in the world. Their crosses are instruments to conceal their true intents. The cross of redemption shall not be their hiding post. They shall be exposed as enemies of the cross of Christ. The Lord came and suffered in the flesh to make peace through the blood of his cross and to reconcile all things unto himself. He came to present me holy, unblameable, and unreproveable in his sight. I will take up my cross and follow him. I will continue in the true faith, grounded and settled, and I will not be moved away from the hope of the gospel. By Jesus' cross, he has abolished in his flesh the enmity and made in himself of twain one new man and made peace. He has created one body by the cross as the enmity was slain.

Men have come with their false cross and fashioned many bodies to distract from the true body. I take up the true cross and the true gospel. I will go and preach the offensive power of the Lord's death. He is in me to preach the gospel by the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven. Unless I preach by the Holy Ghost, I will make the cross of Christ of none effect. If I preach with the wisdom of words, a false Christ will be the result of my ministry. I must preach Christ crucified. I must preach Christ, the power and the wisdom of God.

 

 

#282

Enticing spirits roam the earth inspiring people to preach another Jesus. I will submit myself unto God, deny myself, pick up my cross, and follow him daily then shall the offense of the cross escalate in my life. I reckon myself crucified with Christ, yet living because Christ lives in me. I reckon myself crucified with Christ, yet living in the flesh by the faith of the Christ who loved me and gave himself for me. I cannot decrease if I live by human faith and not the faith of the Son of God. The Lord said, "Many have increased instead of decreasing." I will decrease so that Jesus might increase in my life. I count all things loss for the excellency of the knowledge of the Lord. I count all things dung, and I will win Christ. Many have won the praises of men instead of him. I will cease counting the praises of men, and count all things dung then will I stand before God clothed in the righteousness of God instead of my own righteousness. The Lord has invited me to receive a renewed knowledge of him. I come and know him again in the power of his cross and the power of his resurrection. I am baptized into Jesus Christ; therefore, I am baptized into his death. I am buried with Christ by baptism into death. I have been planted together in the likeness of his death so that I may live in the likeness of his resurrection. My old man is crucified with Christ, and the body of sin is destroyed. By the power of this great gospel, I am dead with Christ and freed from sin. I will now cease serving the sin of self-righteousness so that I might preach the effectual gospel of his kingdom with the unlimited power of the resurrected Christ in me. I go preach in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. I am dead unto sin but alive unto him through Jesus Christ, the Lord. I go and yield unto the flow of a renewed ministry within me.

 

 

#283

Jesus is the Light of the world. He has made his people the light of this world. I am not hidden any longer, for the world must know of the saving grace of the Lord. I rise up, and proclaim the freedom of the redeemed. I am not subjected to the bondage of the frustrating things of the hour. The Lord has lifted me up into heavenly places in Christ Jesus. As Christ has been set far above all things, all principalities, all powers, and every name that is named, so has he lifted me above these frustrating things. They have no power over you; therefore, I will not give them a place in my presence. I cease responding to their voices and their presence. They are under my feet and subjected to me.

I lift up the feet of praise, and rejoice in the victory of the cross. I sound the might of praise in the presence of God, and behold the weapons of my warfare released to fight for me. I will show forth the fruit of what hearing has brought me. Faith has come by hearing and hearing by the word of God. The word of the Lord has thundered in my presence and struck a destroying blow to the head of frustration. I behold the casting down of the imaginations that have temporarily reigned as significant images and voices of hindrance. The right hand of the Lord has cast these things out of my sight. Now, I lift up my eyes unto the brightness of the Lord's glory and the pulling down of these strongholds. I behold the falling of rulers whose kingdoms attempted to plant soldiers of unbelief in my presence.

My mind has been targeted as a battlefield. I return to an armed mind of love and obedience, and now will my thoughts be in obedience to God. I refuse not the captivity of my thoughts by Christ Jesus. Every bondservant of Christ is given the mind of Christ; therefore, I rejoice in the dominion of the stable mind of the Lord in my life. This new mind fosters a new desire, a new intent, and new vision for today and the future. I behold the frustrating things bow at the name of Jesus. I behold the ruling authority of the Savior in my life.

 

 

#284

The Lord has come for the first fruit of my life. The fellowship that he offers me is part of the covenant. In the flesh of the man Christ Jesus, God offered a holy sacrifice so that I could be reconciled unto him. I heard the voice of the ministry say, "Be reconciled unto God." Now that I am reconciled, I will allow my reasonable services to be rendered unto him early, and the Lord will show me a new dimension of fellowship and communion. I boast not against those who do not rise early. I simply come as a partaker of the strength of grace. Grace brought me here this morning. Now I speak of his glory and talk of his power in my body, the temple of the Holy Ghost. The Father of lights and the Father of spirits summoned me today. He removed sleep from my eyes and drew me to the throne of grace. A scepter of righteousness is granted me by imputation, and a hand of mercy is granted to me because of God's love. The innocent blood of Jesus has covered me, and the renewing of the Holy Ghost has graced me with a sanctified presence. I lift up my voice in praise unto the King Eternal and shout for joy that my eyes see and my ears hear the voice of God. God has not allowed his grace to retreat from my life. Grace continues to shine bright as it shows me the kingdom of God. I will continue to live in the Spirit, and I will not be desirous of vain glory. I have nothing to glory about. Righteousness belongs to God. Many are in confusion of faces today because they have sinned by pride and self-righteousness. Mercy belongs to the Lord. Forgiveness belongs to him. I will grant him glory and honor for what he has done. I determine to cast aside the filthy rags of vain works.

 

 

#285

God helped me in my time of need. He granted mercy instead of judgment. I was cast under the feet of my enemies. Their shoes of wrath compelled me to mourn. The spirit of sorcery prepared to rejoice as it anticipated my defeat. Witchcraft gathered its counsel and prepared a celebration of my doom. Hatred lifted its cup of wrath and prepared to serve bitterness in the presence of joy. The Lord heard my cry in the morning of my helplessness. Wounded by evil, I struggled for the horns of the altar. I was without strength, and hope was fading into the night, but grace came leaping above the waves of damning, fleshly undercurrents of frustration. Grace shouted with a frequency not heard by my ears and commanded an end to my trial before spiritual death. Love stretched its strong arms of mercy and goodness. Love's arms embraced me and drew me nigh the lips of grace again. While my heart was near fainting's reach, love's embrace brought peace to a mind lost in the whirlwind of a spiritual attack. Now with a mind of peace that was granted by grace, my mourning was turned into dancing. The rags of a spiritual pauper are no longer my attire, for I am now girded with gladness. I will sing praises to God and not be silent in this life. By grace, I will forever give thanks unto the Eternal Spirit that saved me.

The Lord did not allow my foes to rejoice over me. He granted me healing for my mind and subdued my flesh by his Holy Spirit. I came nigh the gates of the grave, but he kept me alive and did not allow me to go down to the pit. He has opened my eyes to see the toll of sin in the earth. Now will I sing unto him and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. The Lord did not allow his anger to judge me. He allowed his favor to grant me life so that my tears in the night would be dried by the presence of morning's joy. By his favor, my mountain stood strong, and he heard my cry for help. There would have been no profit if I had gone down to the grave. I would have returned to dust. God elected to keep my feet from falling and allowed me to declare his truth. Now I make up my mind to dance with grace that leaps higher than iniquity. I make a decision to show forth the flare of gladness as a garment, and I will sing praises unto the King of kings, my redeemer and lover of my soul.

 

 

#286

God has granted me goodness and mercy in times past. He has extended the hands of goodness and mercy again. I deserved destruction, but he gave me grace in my time of folly. The mighty fall every day. I have fallen into the hands of goodness and mercy, and I will not take his love for granted, but I will allow the goodness that was shown unto me to lead me to repentance. Many lie dead in trespasses and sins. Subtle spirits of deception and distraction have captured many. I will not join the masses in the graveyards of ignorance and lust, but I will join the humble at the throne of God for praise and prayer. I determine to lift my voice in thanksgiving and remember the hands that saved me from sin and shame. The reproach of sin could have been my lot, but mercy spoke on my behalf. I come to the throne of grace and fall under the mercy that holds up the throne of God. His mercy has endured while the voices of condemnation and judgment shouted for my death.

The light of mercy has entered the chamber of judgment and shined its rays of hope in the face of the dark shadows of fear. The light of mercy shall not grow dim when I drift away. This light follows me to assure a clear path even when I am weak. When I turned away, God's love followed me. With love, he restores me. His anger was deferred, and the judgment of his right hand was protracted as the light of mercy shoved anger and judgment aside. I come back to his bosom again and see that there is a place for me. The Lord did not choose me because I am good. He chose me because he loves me. His love shall perform what is needed within me to satisfy his demands. He has not called me and not justified me. He has not called me and not qualified me. He has not called me and left me incomplete. I am complete in Christ Jesus. I am complete and blessed in Christ.

 

 

#287

God has not dealt with me according to my transgressions. He has not rewarded me according to my iniquities. As the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy. Surely goodness and mercy found me. They followed me and purposed not to lose me. Goodness and mercy never fail. I rejoice at the table that is spread for me and those who love God and are called according to his purpose.

Jesus is the shepherd of the sheepfold. I will want no more, but I yield unto these hands and lie down in his pastures where still waters reside. My soul was weary. I had troubled my own soul. He came to restore it and bring me back to the paths of his righteousness. Death schemed and sent its shadow as a fearful tormentor in a time of weakness. I will fear no evil. The Lord is with me with his rod and staff of comfort. Though I stumbled in the time of weakness, I was not barred from the table prepared in my sight. The presence of my enemies was made known at the table. They came to see me cast out, yet they saw God anoint my head with oil and fill my cup with abundance. This goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

God did not forsake me when I stumbled. He is the Everlasting Father, the Father of spirits and the Father of lights. He did not forsake those who stumble, but he grants them grace in his sight. He has called me by name and allowed his goodness to pass before me; therefore, I will go and proclaim the name of the Lord before me. I will go and show forth praise, for he has been gracious unto me. He has shown me mercy. He is God, and he will be gracious to whom he will be gracious and will show mercy on whom he will show mercy.

 

 

#288

I purpose to declare God's grace to those who have stumbled instead of declaring judgment. I cannot escape the judgment of God if I am not merciful. I do not despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering. The goodness of God is what leads the people to repentance. The sound of goodness is not often heard among the people. The sound of goodness, which should be in the mouths of the priest, is not heard as often as it should be heard. I will open my mouth and declare his goodness. If God's goodness were cut off from the people, they would not find repentance. I will shove contention far from me and cleave unto obedience of the truth. I will disobey unrighteousness, indignation, wrath, tribulation, and anguish. These things come upon every soul that does evil. I will work good then glory, honor, and peace shall come upon my soul. My flesh has waged war against me. It has leaped as a wild stallion to manifest its works. The spirit has waged war against the flesh and the fruit that is above the law has strengthened me to endure unto the crucifixion of the flesh with its affections and lusts.

I am abiding at the table prepared before me. I will eat the fruit of the Spirit and gaze upon judgment and its justifiable fist. I will eat love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance and show mercy unto others then will I behold mercy rejoice against judgment. I was a miserable wretch. I was wicked and unclean. I was guilty before the Lord. He forgave me although I was not of the household of faith. He withheld punishment and kept me from bondage and hell. He has also granted me more mercy to help me with the circumstances beyond my control. He is compassionate and merciful. I will go and be as he is unto me.

 

 

#289

The peace of man rests in the divinity of God Almighty. God will not allow any man to glory in his presence. The hour that was spoken of in time past has approached me. The bloodletting of the innocent has already come. Now shall the judgment for unrighteousness come as a cloudy day. In the presence of the judgment cloud, there comes a fresh wind of grace to usher in the last times of refreshing from his presence for those who are appointed unto his bride. I will assimilate myself into the bride of Christ so that Jacob's trouble will not be my hiding place. If I hide myself in the time period of Jacob's trouble, then I will find few avenues of escape. The footmen of this age shall no longer run with legs bearing good news on every corner, but the sounds of horses shall bring the terror of the consequence of rejecting the truth. I will not be a fool and leave the place of rest and peace, for this is the only peace upon the earth. Jesus came to bring peace to those who would accept the message of reconciliation. The handshakes of men cannot reconcile man unto God. Many have attended religious ceremonies and have shaken a preacher's hand, yet were not reconciled to the Lord by the firmness of a handshake. I shake off my traditions and come to God for the direction of his Spirit in this hour. He moves across the earth with the wind of the feast of Pentecost. I hear the sound of the wind, and I know the direction of its journey. It is not traveling in the pathway of traditions. It travels into the harvest fields that are ripe and ready for harvest.

 

 

#290

The night has peered through the clouds of the evening and now awaits its turn to come forth with its terror of wrath. The great day of God's wrath must come, for time is running out. The sands of time are no longer up to the middle of the hour glass, but the sands of time are few in its eternal container. The time container of this age holds very little sand. I will now prepare for the last of the grains of sand to drop into the bottom half of the age. The Lord's hand reaches to turn over the hour glass to begin the age of wrath.

I have asked, "Is this grace?"

God has said, "Grace has taught with love while showing forth mercy and longsuffering and patience with man." Now is the last moment of the school of grace and its teachings, then shall disgrace come in to do its teachings on the consequences of rejection of the voice, which has spoken from the mountain of grace. Jesus is the Lord, my God, the lifter of the heads, which have hung down. I lift up my voice to him, and he shall fill me with the fresh bread of heaven. God is giving me the daily bread for the children of the last days. I lift up my head from the frustrating effects of helplessness and know that the timing of the Lord is at hand. He is not hindered so that he cannot bring these things to the place they are destined to go. I will rest and relax in him, for he shall do the work in the appointed time. I lift up my voice on high and know that the work of the Lord is more than at hand, but it is being expressed in the temples of the Lord. They are hiding places of treasures in earthen vessels. I allow the treasure to be seen now, for he must go on to the purpose for which cause he came unto me. I lift up my head and see that he does smite the hands of false peace and push back the glory seekers of the age. I will go and follow him, and he will show me great and mighty things.

 

 

#291

I will not be desirous of vain glory, neither will I be tempted by the things that surround my mind to pull me away from God's grace. There lies a subtle trap before my feet to draw me away from his will. The Lord has forewarned me and brought to my knowledge the subtle trap. I purpose not to be deceived by that which seems to be good, for there are those things that seem to be good which are not good. Just as there are people who seem to be, yet who are not so are there things.

God has come to me by the spirit of wisdom and of revelation and forewarned me of the subtle trap of Satan. He has loved me with an everlasting love. His love has marched between me and the trap door again. He has stretched forth his hand to restrain and constrain me so that I do not miss that which he has foreordained for me. His will is in me. I make up my mind to not cast out his will for that which is reserved for the dogs and those who do not believe in his grace. The Lord has given me pastors after his own heart, yet there are spirits that try to lure me away after the hirelings and the butchers of the hour.

I come with God into the arena of grace, and he will show me the exceeding riches of Christ. The unsearchable riches that he has placed in the grace of Christ await me to discover them. I determine not to be detoured by the things of this life, neither by the promises of people. People cannot satisfy me. Only God can. He is the Lord, my God. He has given me the truth, and the things that I seek after shall pursue me after I have done the will of God. I will not cast away my confidence, for my confidence is the container that he will pay a great recompense of reward for. He will come looking for my confidence shortly. It is in that confidence that he will place his reward for my trust and my faithfulness.

 

 

#292

I will look again to the horizon that God has pointed me to, and I will not be moved away from the thought of my arriving redemption. I remember that ahead of me there are the arenas of sorrow that are reserved for the children of the bondwoman. I determine not to go back to the bondwoman's house lest I eat the bread of the hypocrites. The Lord has brought unto me the bread of victory and the bread of life. I eat of this bread and know of the victory, which contains all that I need.

Jesus is the Lord, my God. I make a decision not to be filled with contempt. I will be filled with faith. He is the Lord who made all things. I open my arms of faith and receive of that which I need. He is stretching forth his hands of provision that I might reach into his arms and get that which I need. I step out on the land of faith and get what I want, for it is reserved for me. There are no hindering things to keep me back, for the Lord has paved a highway without any beasts or vultures to prevent me. I walk out and see that God is with me to assist and to help me in every way. I will prove him now and know how real he is. The hour is late, but first he does bring to my fingertips that which he has promised. I believe in miracles. I prepare for the wave of his miracle working hand and know that he placed a miracle in my hands. I have been chosen, and now he will show me of the grace that has come to my life. I stand in this grace now. There are no spirits that can wade through this grace and find me to defeat me. The grace that I stand in is the place of hiding, and now there are no lions, nor beasts that can make the journey through his wilderness of grace. To the beasts, it is a wilderness, but to me, it is a paradise.

 

 

#293

God's kingdom shall not be destroyed. It is an everlasting kingdom. Of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no end. I look within me, and behold how rich he has made me. The kingdom of God is within me. It did not come by observation. It came by grace. It is not meat and drink. It is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

The Lord is granting peace where the glory of the latter house is manifested. I behold the glory of this latter house. He has spoken peace unto me. I rejoice greatly and shout. The Lord has brought peace unto me in this time of war. There are earthquakes all over the world. I will not allow the sorrows in the earth to alarm me, neither will I allow these things to seize my faith. God has brought me out of the pit of fear by the blood of the covenant. The pits of fear have no water. Spiritual prisoners reside in pits of fear. I determine to proclaim the truth unto the prisoners of hope, and they will turn to the strong hold of peace.

Emmanuel has come. The Governor and ruler of Israel has come. He has sent me forth as a sheep among wolves. He will cause the blind to receive their sight among the wolves. Among the wolves, he will cause the lame to walk, the deaf to hear, and the dead to be raised. Among the wolves, the poor have the gospel preached unto them. I purpose not to be offended in God, and I will be blessed. I will not be shaken as a reed in the wind. The enemy has observed me and looked for reasons to discount my testimony. I clothe myself with the garment of righteousness and the garment of praise. He has revealed truth unto me and has hidden his secrets from the wise and prudent. He has delivered deep things unto me and revealed himself unto me. I come and receive of the rest that he is giving. I will take his yoke upon me and learn of him, for he is meek and lowly in heart. He has laid up rest for our souls. His yoke is easy and his burden is light.

I will not sit at the gate of peace and stare at the frustrating performances of the hour. He is not the author of these confusing things. An enemy has sent these distractions. I will offer praise and cast my cares upon him. I determine to shout for joy and bring all my thoughts into his obedience. I decide not to allow my thoughts to become scapegoats in the wilderness of mental idleness, and I will not allow my imaginations to dance to the tunes of the enemy's voices. I cast down the imaginations of unbelief. They are strongholds from the past. An enemy has attempted to rebuild bunkers from past defeats. The weapons of my warfare are mighty. The Lord has sent his weapons and destroyed the strongholds in my memory. He is washing me in his blood and refreshing me in the Holy Ghost. I am renewed and spring forth with a focused mind that thinks on the things of God.

 

 

#294

I will not be defeated. My King lives inside of me. He is greater than the one in the world. I give all glory unto him. There is peace inside of me. I rejoice in the way of holiness. I am a child of God. I will go and be a peacemaker. The Lord has given me peace. I will not allow my heart to be troubled, neither will I let it be afraid. I am justified by faith. I have peace with God through Jesus. He has spoken peace unto me and the people. I will not turn again unto folly. Salvation is inside of me. The enemy desires to make me faint. He has worn out many. I look to the works of Messiah and know that truth has freed me and offered its hand to mercy. Righteousness no longer seeks my judgment, but it has granted peace a kiss. The truth was buried after dying for a moment. It sprung forth out of the earth and leaped as the first fruit of the resurrection. Righteousness looked down from heaven and gave me that which is good. Righteousness was sent ahead and now sets all who believe in the way of the Lord's steps. I will struggle no longer to live for him. I simply realize that I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. The life I live in the flesh, I live it by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. I open the gates of praise. The Prince of peace is marching through my gates. He will subdue all the frustrations of the hour.

 

 

#295

God's love for me is not turned on and off like a faucet. He has loved me with an everlasting love. He loves his people, and he has given me and this gift unto them. I will not allow my human concepts of ministry to hinder the gift and its production, which is for his people. I have been discouraged about people's attitude toward me. I will not allow pride to express itself to me. I must learn to be unresponsive and unemotionally attached to the natural responses in my humanity. All these things are byproducts of this ministry. The servant is not greater than his master. Jesus suffered for doing good. Men hate me and have separated me from their company and fellowship. They have spoken evil of me and this ministry. I am blessed, for blessed am I when men shall hate me and when they shall separate me from their company and shall reproach me and cast out my name as evil for his sake. I rejoice and leap for joy. My reward is great in his sight and in heaven. This is the manner in which the prophets of old were treated. I rejoice. God will make me glad, and he will give me rest from their words and their deeds. (Luke 6:22-23) I will not be troubled in my spirit because of these things. I will be troubled when all men speak well of me. Men speak well of false prophets. I come from my island of regret and walk on these waters of misunderstanding. I must journey to the nearby coast of acceptance. Though I am not accepted by some and though some are offended at me, I know of a truth, that I am not without honor.

 

 

#296

I do not allow the unbelief of people to hinder me. It is their loss. I will pray for them and go on. There is work to do. I will not tabernacle these attitudes and allow them to imprison me in houses of dishonor. During the Lord's ministry in the flesh of the Son of God, he could not do any mighty work in the presence of these human spirits of unbelief. I will love them and do good to them. I will be merciful unto them. I will be kind to those who are unthankful. I will not judge them, neither will I condemn them, but I will forgive them and continue the work that God has given me to do. I will refrain from looking at the mote in their eyes. No longer will I discuss their blindness, but I will arise and shine the light of Rhema. This speaking light shall be enough for everything that I will encounter.

The Lord will confirm his word. It is his testimony. The spirit of prophecy is his testimony. He is the Faithful Witness in me giving his own testimony. I will receive his testimony to me, and I shall prosper and be at peace. By the blood of the covenant, God sent me out of the prisoner's pit where there was no water. He has not brought me back to a pit. He has drawn me before the throne of grace. Now mercy has been given and there is grace to help me in this time of need. His word is not bound. It is quick, powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword. It has pierced into every region that he has designed it to pierce. His word has opened up my eyes to see the things that were not revealed. It is now granting me an understanding of the nature of my great high priest that is passed into the heavens. The profession of faith is in my heart. I will retrieve my profession and hold it fast. He is a high priest that is touched with my feelings. He understands what I am going through. I rest in his love and worship in spirit and in truth.

 

 

#297

Jesus has settled every argument that I have with the evil one even his arguments that he has with me over my shortcomings and failures. His cross and his blood are the payment for all that I have done. He did not simply pay for my way out of darkness, but he paid for all my debts, sicknesses, and sins. I will not be a slave to either of these, for he has paid for them. They are paid for. I will now rest in full assurance. The Lord has paid for these things, and they cannot bind me and keep me from the blessings of Abraham. He delivered Israel from Egyptian captivity. All of them had not done well. He delivered them because he loved them, not because they were perfect. I will not allow my failures and my shortcomings to be the bars that keep me in debt and sickness. He has made a way through these things. The Red Sea did not bar the children of Israel from Canaan land. The laws of nature did not stop them from going over on dry land, neither shall the laws of the creditors prevent me from that which he will freely give me. I am assured in the faith of Jesus Christ. He has not rewarded me according to my transgressions and my sins, but according to his lovingkindness, he has rewarded me. I have compared his lovingkindness to my troubles. The two are not equivalents.

 

 

#298

According to God's lovingkindness, he stretched forth the hand of deliverance and brought me out by his mighty hand of redemption and grace. Grace has leaped to my defense. Love has stretched forth the rod of its demand, and the mouth of all power has spoken on my behalf. I lift up my confidence from the bed of tears and sorrows. I lift up my eyes from the voice of the world's judgment. The decrees of the judges of the world do not have the final word on behalf of those who are the Lord's. The river of Jordan roared and extended out of its banks. The word of their impossibility came into the hearts of those who sought a way through its waters. God disallowed the waters and backed them up while his people crossed over on dry land. He is the same Lord and the same God. I refuse to be intimidated by the voices of impossibility's army. They shout and they rage, but their voices do not determine the outcome of things. God is the head of all principalities and all powers. He has spoken to the principalities and the powers. They have bowed before me in times past. Now I will behold them as they bow again at the voice of the Lord's power.

I cease my struggle to understand the way of the world and its system. Even if I understood it, fright would be the expression of my emotions. I look to Jesus, the God of my salvation, and I behold the hand of peace in the face of this negative report. He is the God of my salvation and the God of all my circumstances. Circumstances are not puzzles without solutions. They are problems to be solved by the God of answers. Nothing is too hard for him. I press through these things and unto praise. My praise shall be my ram in the thicket of the Lord's preparation. I cause my ram to sound the call of its offer. I will not allow the ram of praise to be silent, but I determine to allow it to bellow the victory of its purpose. My praise is my ram. I bring it out of the thicket and offer it upon the altar of worship. I worship from the foundation of my love for the Lord.

 

 

#299

God has strengthened my foundation of love. I stand on this revived foundation of love and offer sacrifices well pleasing unto him. I refuse to worship from the foundation of feelings and emotions. They are temporal. I worship from the revived foundation of love. He has revived love in me. I can now love him as he has commanded, for he has given me the desire, the sufficiency, the ability, and the motivation. I worship the Lord, my God. He is good, and his mercy endures forever.

I worship and praise the King of my life today. By him, I offer the sacrifices of praise continually, that is, the fruit of my lips offering thanks unto the name of Jesus. I magnify his glorious name. I know that the name of Jesus is the name above all names. I know that the name of Jesus is the family name. I magnify the name of the ruling family. His family rules in the earth today. He has set up an everlasting kingdom. The increase of his government and peace has no ending. There is no crisis in his government. There is no accuser who can stand and lay any charge to his elect.

I place my debts in his hands, and the water of redemption shall dissolve them. I place my sins before his throne, and the scepter of righteousness shall exonerate me. I behold the wave of exoneration as it clears me of all charges in the presence of the evil prosecuting attorney of the air, the accuser of the brethren. He has preached his doctrine of condemnation and read his accusations in my ears and God's. Now will the Lord tear up his script and preach the doctrine of holy blood in his ears. I hear the voice of his blood as it speaks better things in his ears and mine. God proclaims a new version of my verdict. The only one who can edit his orders has edited it. Because he can swear by no other, he has sworn by himself. I now behold the orders for my deliverance. These orders come from on high. I have heard the orders of the Lord that said, "Be thou made free." I doubt not, for whom he has made free, is free indeed.

 

 

#300

The night has appeared on the horizon of time. The day is rolling up its bed clothing as it prepares for a new abode. The wise lift up their eyes in search of redemption that is soon to appear. The hands of redemption are being stretched forth to receive its purchased possession. The mystery of God's will has been made known to me. I make sure that I am in his hands and not in the hands of another. In his hands only, have I obtained an inheritance. The gospel of my salvation is preached daily, and he is adding to his body such as should be saved. I am sealed with the holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of my inheritance. By grace, I continually offer praise, and I am thankful that I am counted worthy to escape the things that are coming upon the earth. I pray, and I do not faint.

The devourer has opened his mouth to lick up those who do not endure. I will be bold in the Spirit of Jesus Christ according to the earnest expectation and hope in me and then will the Lord be magnified in me. Whether it is by life or by death, God will be magnified if he is preached. I open my mouth wide and make known the mystery of the Godhead. I purpose to remember that in Christ is hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. He has chosen me to be rich in wisdom and knowledge. I do not refuse this wealth, and I am not beguiled by the enticing words of men. I received Jesus by faith. I now walk in him by faith. I am rooted and built up in Christ. I am stablished in the faith and abound with thanksgiving.

Many are intoxicated on the wine of men's words. I refuse to drink from the wine vats of vanity and pride. The spoiled cisterns of the hour have been left for the blind to drink from. I am hungry and thirsty for righteousness, and I shall be filled with the true Spirit and not the spirit of error.

Grace brought me salvation. It has continued to teach me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts. It has taught me to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world. It has taught me to look for the Lord, the blessed hope, the great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. He gave himself for me and redeemed me from all iniquity. He has purified unto himself a peculiar people that are zealous of good works. I will not let the despiteful spirits of the age trouble me. God is more than enough for them. Ministering spirits are sent forth to minister unto me, for I am an heir of salvation.

 

 

 

Hebrews 10:22 - 23

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

 

 

Ephesians 2:8-9

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.