#301

 

God is strengthening my heart this morning. I will wait on him, and I will be of good courage. I will not be afraid of these spirits. He is the Lord, my God, and he is with me. He will not fail me, and he will not forsake me. I determine to be strong and of a good courage. My inheritance will not be stolen or taken away. He has gone before me. He is with me; therefore, I will not be dismayed. I do not turn from this narrow way of HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD. I do not turn from it, to the right hand or to the left, and I will surely prosper everywhere that I go. I do not fear the princes of this world; neither do I fear the prince of the air. Christ has subdued him and spoiled the principalities and powers of the air. I will place my feet of peace upon the necks of these powers, and I fear not, neither will I be dismayed. I will be strong and of good courage.

He has placed all of my enemies under his feet. I look to his cross, and I behold the display of his power there. He blotted out the handwriting of ordinances and spoiled the principalities and powers. He made an open show of them as he triumphed over them. I rejoice. There is no enemy that can be against me, for he is for me. I place all my hope in God, and I will be of good courage. He will strengthen my heart and uphold me with the right hand of his righteousness. He has declared his righteousness for the remission of my sins. No one will lay any charge to me. No one will keep the Lord from giving me all things. The Lord's delivered the ultimate sacrifice for me. No one will prevent the Lord from giving me the ultimate promise. I will rejoice and be glad in the presence of these despiteful spirits. I purpose to serve him with this gladness, and I come before his presence with singing. He will surely continue to strengthen my heart.

 

 

#302

 

I wait on the Lord with a cheerful heart. I serve him with great gladness and show forth praise with all my strength. I am not reserved when I worship him, but I allow the fruit of my might to be expressed with great joy. I do not allow my emotions to be restrained by disappointment and uncertainty. I build up myself on my holy faith by praying in the Holy Ghost.

God has exceeding, great power hidden inside of me. It is waiting to be expressed for my edification in this time of slumbering feelings in my body. I refuse to act according to this weariness in my body. I act according to his faith, the faith of Jesus Christ. I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me. Christ is living in me..... He lives.... He lives.

There is no feeling that can restrain him. He broke the shackles of death; therefore, these human feelings cannot shackle me. I cast off these things and worship in spirit and in truth. I arise from my seat and offer unrestrained praise.

 

 

#303

 

I behold the blood of Jesus. It is fresh and innocent. It has cleansed me. No sin remains, for he has washed me. His blood does not lose its power as time marches onward. This blood is the blood of the covenant, which was shed for many for the remission of sins. He offered his body, the Son of God, as a lamb for my sins. In that body, the temple of God, he took away sin. No one took his life from him. He laid it down willingly and took it up again. With great power, he took up the temple of God and set it on high. From the clutches of hell and the potent custody of the grave, he elevated life above darkness and its prince. With unquestionable freedom, he casts off sin's power and dominance. Though he swallowed death and allowed its journey through life's digestive tract of righteousness, in victory, he sprouted out of death and grave's filth. By the hands of the resurrection, the temple of God was fashioned with life. From the mouth of divinity, the temple of God received the breath of eternal life. The Word of life lifted its unrestrained power and put off sin, death, and the grave. Unto the Lord, the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. He has sent forth a pattern for the reality of life everlasting. I am glad and assured that unparalleled power works in me unto total victory in this life and hereafter unto everlasting peace. I rejoice. I have heard an expression by the Faithful Witness that lives inside of me. I worship. The light of salvation shines in all who believe. The power of this light is granting me all of its victory.

 

 

#304

I show reverence unto God with the first fruits of my strength, and I shall eat and drink from the source of divine inspiration. He has given me a relationship with him. Wise and prudent men have sought what I have been given. I submit myself totally unto the Lord, and I will be given a mighty resisting hand against the evil one. He has given me power over serpents, scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. My name is written in heaven. Now I rejoice. It is good in his sight to reveal the Father unto me. I am blessed, for my eyes see and my ears hear; therefore, I rejoice.

I should have been trampled under the feet of wicked warriors of the darkness. My funeral should have been held and my head and name ornamented in the corridors of hell. I have been sought as a trophy, but the mercy of the Lord hid me from the searchers of precious life. I called upon him with a faint voice, and he heard me. He inclined his ear unto me, and he heard my speech. He has shown me his marvelous lovingkindness, and he saved me by the right hand of his power. I placed my trust in him, and he saved me from the counsel of evil that had risen up against me. He has kept me as the apple of his eye and hid me under the shadow of his wings. There were deadly enemies liken unto treacherous serpents that oppressed me. Under the shadow of his wings, they were confounded and spoiled in their own trickery. When they came as a lion that is greedy of his prey lurking in secret places, God delivered me and disappointed my enemy and cast him down.

I remember his mercy forever. I magnify his name. It is a tower of strength and safety. I go and proclaim Jesus unto the people. He is the beginning and ending. I preach Jesus from Genesis through Revelation. I preach Jesus in eternity past, present, and eternity to come. Though he is the beginning, he is before time. Time shall be no more, and God shall remain. He has always been. He is the Everlasting God, the Father of spirits. His name is an everlasting name, and there is no name higher than his name. I will go and preach Jesus.

 

 

#305

 

Grace has been freely given unto me. Freely I have received, now I freely give what I have received. I flee the temptation to preach condemnation. The world is already condemned. I cannot improve upon what the world already has. Those who believe on Jesus are not condemned. He who believes on him is not condemned, but he who believes not is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. I will go and declare the power that is in that name. I will go and preach the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ. He has many people that are ready to receive the word of God.

I rejoice in this hour. This is the day that the Lord has made. I rejoice, and I am glad in it. He has heard my prayers and preserved my life from fear of the enemy. I am hidden from the secret counsel of the wicked and from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity. Though their tongues are like swords and their bows are bent to shoot their arrows and bitter words, I am hidden in a secret place. He has shot them with his arrows. They are wounded. Their own tongues have made them fall upon themselves. They shall be ashamed, and even their friends shall flee away. I am glad, and I rejoice in him. All who trust in the Lord shall be preserved from evil.

I heard the voice of his lovingkindness. I ran unto him to hide me. He caused me to walk in the path of righteousness, and I found the land of uprightness. He has quickened me for his name's sake. For his righteousness' sake, he brought my soul out of trouble, and his mercy cut off my enemies. I will go and comfort, edify, exhort his people, and declare the great doings of the Lord among them. He has words that I have not heard. I open my mouth wide. He will give me wisdom that the gainsayers cannot resist.

 

 

#306

I express praise unto Jesus, my king. He has not locked me out of his presence. His blood fashioned a door of access here. There are no passwords and no locks. I come boldly before his throne with thanksgiving and praise. I did not summon him. He summoned me. He removed sleep from my eyes and caused me to desire communion and fellowship with him. He works in me both to will and to do of his own good pleasure. His hand has given me a heart to do good works by the word of God. He forgave me and prepared my heart to seek him. I am not pure of myself. He cleansed me by his blood and with the washing of regeneration and a renewing of the Holy Ghost. He healed my mind and accepted me into his presence. I will keep this fellowship and communion with him with great gladness. I will come each day and praise him day by day, singing, speaking words of peace, and making good confessions unto the Lord, my God.

My voice has been heard. My prayer has come up to his holy dwelling place even unto heaven. God has ordained peace for me; therefore, by him, I make mention of the holy name of Jesus. He has placed his law in my inward parts. He has written his law in my heart. He is my God, and I am his child. He has offered me the opportunity to know him. Even the least can know him. He desires that the least unto the greatest of the people know him. I will tell them to come. He will forgive their iniquity, and he will remember their sins no more.

The everlasting covenant has been made. God is here to do me good. He will put his fear in my heart that I shall not depart from him. He is bringing good upon me as he has promised. He promised, and he will perform. I can receive nothing except it is given to me from heaven. I am not sufficient of myself. My sufficiency is of him. He has made me an able minister of the New Testament, not of the letter but of the spirit. The letter kills, but the spirit gives life. The Lord is making me the way that I should be in every good work to do his will. He is working in me that which is well pleasing in his sight. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Lord, the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. He is the God, and there is none else. He will be with me as he was with the Jewish fathers. He will not leave me, nor forsake me. He will allow my words to be nigh unto him day and night. He will maintain my cause that others may know that he is the Lord and that he is God. I will open my mouth and declare that there is none else.

 

 

#307

 

God has allowed me to come to him this day. No man can come to him except he is drawn. He drew me here to partake of his mercy. He is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he has loved me even when I was dead in sins. He has quickened me with Christ and raised me up and made me sit here in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. He will show in the ages to come the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward me through Christ Jesus. I was saved by grace through faith. I did not save myself. It is the gift of God, not of works lest I should boast. I am his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works. God has ordained that I should walk in good works. I will allow the light of truth to shine in me today. From the beginning, he chose me unto salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. I know the truth. I will keep it, and I will not sell it. Many have prostituted the truth. I will not join the harlots of the day. I have an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for me. I am kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. I rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, and now I will receive the end of my faith even the salvation of my soul. I rejoice with the heaviness of manifold temptations all about me. I am in a great trial. I am in a fight. It is a good fight and a great, precious trial that is much more precious than of gold. Gold will perish though it is tried with fire. I am being tried. I will allow the great trial to be found unto praise, honor, and glory unto God now and at his appearing. By grace, I will love him with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength. God is love. Now I will return unto him what he has freely given me. The Holy Ghost has shed his love abroad in my heart. By the Holy Ghost, I will love him and please him. Now he will say, "This is my son in whom I am well pleased."

 

 

#308

 

God has delivered me from myself and the thoughts that had cut me off from fellowship and communion with him. I had justified my actions and allowed imaginations and disobedient thoughts to send me into exile. On an island of self-justification, I have been isolated in a bed of ease and comfort. Misplaced priorities have been my walls. They have kept me imprisoned inside of a temple of unbelief. The god of the world sought to blind my mind while I was imprisoned there. I was being fed a diet of misplaced priorities and dead works. I justified myself and claimed that I was doing his will. I excused myself because of religious obligations. I used my knowledge and my experience as weapons of war. Because of assumed victories and natural gains, I was led to believe that God was pleased with my bondage to self and the beguiling religious spirits that had captured me.

God's love for me kept my activities monitored from on high. He has chosen to give me grace again and bring me out of the prison house of justifiable actions. I now behold the number of people who reside in this prison house of religious actions. It is a deep pit where many souls are held. They think that they are serving God, yet they are really serving another spirit and themselves. I will go and declare God's desire to free them from the bondage of religious obligations. I will declare them free to serve the Lord, the Living God. I will declare Jesus the Lord of their lives again.

I will not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage to self-serving attitudes designed by the subtle enemy of my soul. This is a very subtle plan of the enemy. His plan is to promote religious activities as the will of God. I will turn from religious activities and come and follow the Lord. He will show me of the divine plan for my life today. God's desires to live his life out through me, not for me to be engaged in religious duties designed by distracting spirits and the philosophies of men. I will come and follow him. There are people to be won to the name of the Lord and to the kingdom of God. I purpose to leave religion behind me. I will come and be led of his Spirit. The Lord must live out his life through me.

 

 

#309

 

God has drawn me back into a focused life. I had focused on myself and the things of others. Now I will be focused on him and him only. He is the focal point of my relationship and experience. I will remain true to him as the focal point of my life, and clarity will return unto me. I am determined not to buy the lies spoken in my ears by the demons that have lost again in their hope to entrap me. They have spoken in my ears and declared that I have lost ground in my relationship with the Lord. They are liars. I will not listen to their lies, for he has never left me. God allowed me to drift into the clutches of prosperity and self-centeredness so that he might teach me of their perils. Many lie in the valleys of spiritual death because of prosperity. When I have no need to pray for things, I purpose not to forsake my prayer devotion and him. The spiritual wealth laid up had caused me to become overconfident in myself. I will not trust in my spiritual wealth of yesterday and yesteryear. I will look unto the Lord and trust in him every day, not in the things that he has given me in times past. I have many words. I have many relationships and experiences to draw from, but I will have no confidence in these things. The wealth of these things is deceitful. God must teach me to walk by faith each day. If I am not careful, I will walk after the inspiration of wealth stored up and not after the freshness of today's love.

 

 

#310

 

There is a fresh word from God each day. He is fresher than the dew upon the grass in the mornings. He is fresher than the sunlight upon a new day. He is everything that I need for today's journey. I come and follow him, and he will make me a fisher of men. He will make me to lie down in pastures that are green and filled with fresh nourishment for the day's journey. He has ordained a path for me to travel; therefore, I do not go in yesterday's path simply because it was a successful day. He has new paths and new territories for me to journey into. Many have become wasted in their experience because they followed the same paths of yesterday and were not led of God's Spirit for this present day. He has a new thing and a new experience for me. Freshness and newness are in his plans for my life, not the dead, boring things of yesterday and yesteryear. There are new places to fish in. New souls await my entrance into new doors along life's journey. He is already on the journey. If I am going to succeed, I must be totally led of the Lord's Spirit and not by the spirit of another. I must learn to follow him. I give him my hand and allow him to lead me today. I behold the pastures of peace and tranquility ahead. I will go and lead the sheep into these green pastures where the will of God is accomplished day and night.

 

 

#311

 

With a heart of thanksgiving, I have approached the throne of God. Now with an expression of great peace, he has fulfilled my life with the abundance of his grace. Grace and peace are mine because I have come with a heart filled with gratitude and thankfulness. This kind of heart is the doorway to many blessings. This kind of heart is the entranceway into many doors that have been closed to me. God has opened doors that have been shut. He has opened unto me the new direction for the end times in my life. The time of the end is upon the world. This is God's timing, so I do not become alarmed with time as I know time, but with time as the expresses time, I have become aware that the end is near. I awaken out of sleep, for through this open door of thanksgiving, God has given me new light. A refreshing has come through this open door.

The Lord has taken up residence in my praises and caused me to become different in every way. I will not be the same person after this time of communion and fellowship, for he has changed my heart, my mind, my soul, and everything about me shall be different. I determine to go and express the need for others to be thankful. Many have closed off the doors of blessing by their unthankfulness. The travelers of these paths that have been closed off are empty in their souls. They have found only dryness and sadness. They have not experienced true joy and true power. They are powerless against the enemies of their souls. God has come to the believers today to motivate them to be thankful. He has set a door of hope in their valleys. He has set the benefits of Calvary in their valleys of despair.

 

 

#312

 

Many have looked at their problems and blamed others for their emptiness. I will go and show them the folly of blaming others for their troubles. God has brought them open doors and open windows into future blessings. I will look through these open doors and open windows and behold the great things ahead for those who choose to bring offerings of thanksgiving unto the prison houses of trouble and despair. The Lord has not left them at the gates where many abide. They came to these places willingly because of their ungrateful spirits and attitudes. I behold the joy through the windows of thanksgiving and praise. I behold the gladness on the other side of the windows and doors of gratitude. I determine to always be thankful in every situation. Whether the outcome is good or bad, I will always remain thankful, and the result will always be turned unto joy and victory in the end. I worship with a heart of thanksgiving in the sanctuary. God has tremendous blessings for all who will bring him a sacrifice of praise from hearts of thanksgiving.

 

 

#313

The path of loyalty is a path of humility. Those who have not suffered cannot know this true path of loyalty and submission. As the King of the universe, God chose the path of suffering and submission. A servant is not greater than his master. I will be a partaker of the Lord's nature and of his sufferings and then will I know true loyalty and victory. I have not known victory until I have known victory over self. The blood of the covenant is the ready source of confirmation for me. I drink of the blood of Jesus and eat of his flesh again then I will be revived. The spirit of disloyalty runs rampant in the earth. The spirit of the age drives and works mightily in the disobedient to bring God's people to the bargaining table of betrayal. I humble myself under the mighty hand of the Lord so that I am not taken by the spirit of the prince of the power of the air. I pray that I enter not into temptation. I pray always that I will be counted worthy to escape the things that are coming upon the earth. I am here to seek and to save those who are lost. I am in the world to lose my life, not to save it. The Lord came into the world to give his life a ransom for the sins of the whole world. I will spend myself in these last days that the currency of my life is not worthless at the bargaining table for the souls of men.

 

 

#314

 

God has sent me to spend myself. I will not grieve because of hurts and sufferings, for this is the cause of my existence. I am called to be a partaker of his divine nature and his sufferings. I lift up my eyes unto the heavenly design again, and I see that he called me unto sufferings. The crowd shall mock me for my loyalty to authority. The betrayers shall stand and wonder why I am not taken as they are, but I will not be pressured by their voices or their kisses of betrayal, for I am chosen for this hour. I eat of the bread of life and do not warm by the fire of the enemy. The coldness of the age cannot cause the love within me to "freeze over." I am called out of darkness and into light that is marvelous. I lift up my voice unto my God and cry with the voice of triumph, for Jesus was interrogated for me. The interrogation of the evil accusers surrounds me as a court of judges. I do not rely on charisma, neither knowledge, but I rely on God's faithfulness. He was faithful to the mission that he was on. He did not fail in any point. The accuser of the brethren has no voice that will be heard in the courts of the evil one, for the Lord was accused for me. There is, therefore, now no condemnation to me. I will continue walking after the spirit and not after the flesh. The law of the spirit of life is working for me, and it will continue to work for me. The charges of the evil one will not stand, for God has taken all the charges. I rely on the Lord, and I realize that the power of his imputation erases and declares me justified in the courts of heaven and all the courts of the land. Jesus is the King of all kings. He has wrought a mighty testimony in the courts of the land. He freed me by his life, his death, his burial, and his resurrection. I have peace because of his purchase. I allow this holy blood to wash me and to cleanse me.

 

 

#315

 

I lean not to my own understanding. I cannot understand the complexity of the things that stand before me. The complex structures of evil that stand as monuments of terror cannot confound the truth that has made me free. I will not allow the complex intimidators to stand in the presence of the truth which is in me, and God shall show me how simple and small these things are. He is the Lord of all, and there is nothing hidden from his eyes. I desire a miracle from him, and I shall see many. For the very desire within, which is motivated by faith, shall produce a multitude of miracles. As one seed is planted and then brings the production of a tree into existence, so shall my act of faith to believe God for this miracle bring into existence a new dimension of miracles.

I purpose not to be filled with dismay because of the interrogating spirits of the air. His blood shall silence their voices. The Lord was accused long ago; therefore, I will allow him to wear the reproach forevermore. He was falsely accused for me. He wore the reproach of the false accusation. He was scourged for me; therefore, I am not intimidated by these voices in my ears. I continue looking to the cross of redemption and know that he has already settled the argument. I will not argue with the intimidator, for he shall merely continue to distract me from purpose.

I look to the sufferings of my Messiah and know that all has been paid for. I will not be antagonized by the sufferings that he endured, for it pleased the Father to bruise him. I determine not to go back to the cross to know him in the flesh. The Lord has said, "Yea though you have known Christ in the flesh, yet now henceforth know ye him no more." All these things have passed and unto my benefit. I am the benefactor of grace that came to me because of his suffering. The Lord has already become my Passover. Now I can pass over these things which are beneath my feet. The things that are from beneath cannot come to this heavenly place of my abode. He journeyed there to the depth of the grave and hell to contend with the spirits of that domain. I will ignore their charges and their calls, for I can pass over by the overcoming blood, which is holy and sanctified.

 

 

#316

 

I have a cross. I determine to carry it all the way. I lift up my voice in praise, and I am strengthened by the virtue of divinity that is in me. Jesus died in my place, and he already let me go. Barabbas was released, and he was a murderer. In the courts of man, a murderer was released, and Jesus was sentenced. I am released from guilt and condemnation, for he carried the weight of all these things. He bore my cross. He was weary, yet he was determined to satisfy my longing to be free. I have beheld the gaze of disbelief as he carried his cross. A king with a cross and a path not designed for him to travel. I will pick up my cross, for there is nothing for me to carry in its stead. My love is within me. There is nothing that I can exchange for that which is real. I cannot discern truth and error if I have not trodden this path of suffering and public proclamation of love for God. Everyone must make his own journey to the hill of commitment. My commitment cannot be finished without this journey. I will weep for my children and for myself if I have not settled my own issues with cross bearing. I will struggle in disbelief at the things that are coming upon the earth if I have not journeyed through my own Gethsemane. I will run to the hills of this world and proclaim myself great if I have not borne my own cross and the afflictions with the righteous.

 

 

#317

 

I do not follow the Lord from afar any longer, but I draw near and learn of his sufferings. I draw near and learn of true denial to self. I will learn not to weep for him, but I will also learn of reverence and respect for authority and him. I hear the words of prophecy, and I do not believe the lies of the enemy. This is real that is happening to me and not a portion of a dream or a drama. God has come to me in the manner of his promise and given me this inspiration. I believe on the power of his life, his suffering, his death, his burial, and his resurrection. As Jesus was lifted up, so were those drawn to him by the power of that lifting. He forgave his accusers and his judges. I look through the eyes of the thief on the cross and see what he saw. He saw the glory of the day when Jesus would come into his kingdom. I behold the glory of the kingdom that is in me and not the shame of his reproach that is upon all who live godly in this world. I do not despise the path of holiness and righteousness, but I will be joyful that I was called to be a partaker of this way. I walk on with my head lifted above these things, for he has stared in the face of all these things. His human eyes have beheld the violence of death's rage, and his brow has felt the piercing of its thorns. His cheeks have known the saliva of the serpent's venom, and his mouth has tasted the bitterness of death's diet. He opened his mouth and swallowed everything that was served him for this joy that I have right now. This joy that I will sing about and dance about is what he ate sadness for.

 

 

#318

 

Jesus has tasted sadness, grief, and betrayal. He has tasted discouragement and loneliness. He has tasted the agony of my uncertainties. He has uttered with his voice the powerful proclamation of a completed work. Into the hands of Divinity, his spirit soared. Into the presence of love, his soul journeyed. Into the presence of judgment, he traveled. In humiliation, he did go, but with grace, he journeyed. I come down from my self-imposed towers of judgments, for the Lord did not place me there. I believe, and I know that faith in these mighty works of my Christ is more than enough for my justification and my acquittal before the accusers. He has already been placed in the tomb of impossibility. Where no escape could be manifested, was he laid, yet with the miraculous power of the resurrection, he opened up the tomb of the invisible and brought into the visible realm a body high and lifted up. He has lifted me from the tombs of this world and brought me to the garden of fellowship and communion. I will leave my grave clothes of tradition in the tombs of discouragement and doubt. I come to the table of David and know of the love that he found. I will not be as the Mephibosheths of the hour. I will not come hobbling into the banqueting room of new wine and fresh bread with the "crippling disease of condemnation," but I come boldly into this banqueting room of preparation. I will sit down and eat the freshness of the Lord's provision. I have come into a throne room of mercy and grace. I receive of this that is freely offered, and I do not draw back. I continue in his goodness, and I do not observe the finger of accusation that has pointed to the judgment that he has taken. I take it not, for he has destroyed it and given me grace, which has consumed this threat of judgment. I am freed in my mind, my soul, my body, and my spirit. I worship with all that is within me. I worship the Lord, my God.

 

 

#319

 

Except by the grace of God, I would have been anyone of the perverts in our society. My deeds and transgressions had gone over my head and judgment awaited me. The sentence of death hung over my head for years. When the force of death's sentence came toward my throat, God stepped in and rescued me. The pride of this life had made a fool of me. Though I enjoyed many of the pleasures of sin, my heart grew weary of the many heartbreaks. The illusions of pride waved before my face many promises, but all of them were empty. My dream of big cars, fancy homes, money, and women caused me to become more perverted. The idols of the world and agents of the princes of this world spun many webs for my foolish heart. I walked into many of the webs of evil not knowing that the chief spiders of darkness waited on my death to rejoice at my doom. I became aware of death and the reality of its nearness as it chased me to destroy me and leave my mother with a broken heart. The many images possessed of princes of darkness were in my presence, yet I did not know it. Because of my ignorance to the war for the souls of men, I was ready for the payday for ignorance and sin. At any point in my life, death could have been my reward, but mercy pleaded for me. Long-suffering waited on me to be drawn to repentance. The folly of ignorance is no excuse accepted by the sentence of death. Though ignorance laughs in the face of death, death is not smiling. Ignorance is blind, yet by God's grace, he allowed discouragement to work on my behalf.

The forces of evil turned on themselves in a war for my soul. An angelic host watched the plan for my life. My funeral was already being enacted by the spirits of wickedness, but God's love chose to rescue me before the foundation of the world. He has rescued me. By grace, I will not return to the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of this life. The Lord has rescued me from the power of darkness. He turned me unto this marvelous light. The princes of this world will not allow me to enter back into this world and allow me to live, but sudden death shall be my reward. If I knew how many times God has kept me from the wrath of death and the agents of damnation; if I knew how many times his long-suffering waited to lift me from the byways of sin; if I knew how many times love saved me from the muggers of this society; if I knew how many times mercy followed me into the traps of the enemy and brought me out untouched; if I only knew how many times the lights of the world sought me as a star, but goodness turned me to repentance. If I only knew how grace turned me from pride's chambers of temporal success, then I would rejoice forevermore.

 

 

#320

 

The songs of death thrilled my soul. The images of death presented dramatic shows for my planned funeral. The company in the chambers with me watched along with me, not knowing that it was their death songs they listened to. Princes and rulers of the darkness of this world hold my world captive. He has brought me to the kingdom for such a time as this. Many have been called, yet few are chosen. There is not much time left. The actors of this world are living out the designs of the rulers of the darkness. Those held captive do not know that they are held captive. Only the gospel will reveal that they are held in the prisons of darkness. I will go and shine the light to make them aware that they are in bondage and not free. I have said, "How can I do this?"

The Lord has said, "Commit your ways to me." He has not brought me to the kingdom and paralyzed me so that I am ineffective in his kingdom and against the kingdom of the world. Every child of God can do damage to Satan's kingdom. I will make up my mind that I am committing my entire life to God. I am no longer my own, but I am under the ownership of the Lord of lords. The rulers of this world have no power over me. He has not given me empty promises, neither has he left me in a drunken stupor mesmerized by the inspiration and the wine of the devil's words. He has given me the love of God and a sound mind. I allow the mind of Christ to inspire me continually and to be the source of my leading. The subtle minds of devils have taken up residence in many bodies round about me. I am not surprised at how many people that I meet have princes living in them.

The call to repent went out from the throne of grace. I heard the call but not immediately. If I had ignored its final warnings and final call, then I would be in the audience of the damned. Had I gambled on waiting, then I would have lifted the veil of shame and walked into the chambers of destruction by my own choosing. Many who dance to the music of the piper of darkness only dance according to the nature of sin that works in them, but there are those who are tuned into the master design of evil and desire to destroy all the godly of this world. God has opened my understanding to see the end of time.

I rejoice, and I am glad that I am not in darkness any longer. I remain in this marvelous light. The lure has been cast at my heart. Only my own lust can make a way for my capture. I do not search for the breast of strange women, neither do I allow my love for God to grow cold. I mortify the deeds of my body, and I set my affections out of reach of the casting of Jezebel in the world. Jezebel has adorned the garments of flesh and seeks for ways to entice me to turn unto carnality and sensualness. The momentary pleasures of lust's fulfillment are empty and damning. The devilish pleasures of this world are from the wisdom of Satan. The wisdom of Satan is devilish and sensual and only for a season.

 

 

#321

 

The thrills of damnation's medicine do not soothe the pains of sin's sickness. The bondage of sin will not open its jaws at my command, neither can man walk out at will, for the power of sin is constructed to hold me forever. There is no strategy against the power of sin outside of the Lord's gospel. There is only one choice that leads to freedom. I choose the way, the truth, and the life. Jesus is the light of the world. There is no darkness in him. He is faithful, and I can trust him to be faithful to me unto the end. I cannot trust the princes of this world, neither do I trust their voices or their images. I will be betrayed as Samson was betrayed if I walk after the counsel of the ungodly. I will let the word of God be my guide. I will allow the word of God to shine a light for the path of my feet. There is a hell, and there is a heaven. I will go to one of them. I choose not heaven or hell, but the choice of my God. Though I choose heaven or hell, the choice of obedience or disobedience will determine which one I will go to. Obedience will lead to life. Disobedience leads to sure death. The princes of the world know who I am, but I do not know these spirits. Without God, I am at a tremendous disadvantage. I choose to love the Lord. I return to my first love, and the fire of love will not allow the serpents of the night to come near.

 

 

#322

 

I was a victim of sin, a victim of an inherited fallen nature. God did not discount this, but in lovingkindness, he considered my disadvantage and gave me his advantage. The ministers of Satan do not have an advantage over me. He has raised me from the depth of the pit and made me to sit together with him in these heavenly places. I will not go back to the dust of this earth and exchange this heavenly place for such a low position of death and destruction. I cannot change a life of bondage into a life of liberty of myself. The masters of sin will not let me go once I am in its clutches. I cannot buy my way out. The wages of sin is death and no less. When death comes to collect its wages, only God can postpone the appointment. He has his own calendar. He cancels, and he permits executions. There is no super scheme out of death's trap. Death has many traps and many webs. I will not buy the dramatized lies that advertise schemes out of death's mouth. Only those God ordains to walk out may exit the mouth of death. No charisma, neither appearance can buy my freedom from the mouth of death. Each level of my own manipulation simply carries me higher or lower in the same kingdom. I will not be deceived by the conspiracy of lies to lure me into self-exaltation. I will lose if I choose to lean to my own understanding. Man's mind does not have the way out of this world. Money and the love of it cannot redeem man from his bondage. The roots of evil cannot be a way out of trouble. The love of money is the root of all evil. I will not look to any other love but my first love. If God is my first love, then I will set my affections on him and the things above. He is faithful and will not suffer me to be moved. The church cannot be captured. I will remain in the true faith, and I will not be moved. The gates of hell shall prevail against all other religious beliefs and policies, yet the gates of hell shall not prevail against God's body.

 

 

#323

 

God cares for the animals and makes sure they are provided for. The birds of the air are known of him. He is their creator. It is not a good thing to be cruel to those he cares for. He provides food for them although they do not toil or spin, yet he takes care of them. I am worth more to him than they are. I am assured that he has not forgotten those who are fearfully and wonderfully made. He made me in the likeness and the image of himself. The enemy has been conspiring from the very beginning to destroy those that he has made fearfully and wonderfully. By the transgression of Adam, the bloodline of God's creatures was tainted. Satan has schemed constantly to destroy those whose bloodline has been made impure by sin. A subtle and crafty enemy led Eve away from the will of God. The same angry, crafty, and subtle enemy is attempting to lead the Lord's people away from the will of God. Satan goes to and fro in the earth seeking whom he may devour. He knows that if he could lead me outside the gate of grace, then I would destroy myself in the system of the world. Angels guard the fence of grace, yet God will not prevent those who desire to leave from exiting the gate of favor. Inside the gate of favor, he is perfecting the most excellent creatures in the earth. Locks and keys do not protect me, but I am protected by the grace that saved me. I am kept by the favor of God Almighty.

 

 

#324

 

Each of us is valuable to the Lord. However, an enemy desires to lead me to the world and destroy my relationship with the family of God. I have a royal bloodline in the church of the Living God. The Lord has said, "An enemy desires to lead me to the gate of the world and bring me into a relationship with the god of the world." Inside the gate of the world, the god of the world has placed every captive behind locks and keys. I will not trade my freedom in the body of Christ for bondage in the prison of darkness. Many of the people of God seek a way out of true liberty because they do not know who they really are. Many do not know of the safety inside of the truth. An enemy seeks to lead many out of liberty and into bondage, but God has sent angels to assist these that he loves back to the love of God and a gratitude for salvation.

The angels of the Lord, which are ministering spirits sent forth to minister for me who is an heir of this great salvation, have already seen the plight of the enemy. They are acting right now to save many from destruction. Many run foolishly from angelic protection and from true love because they do not understand spiritual freedom. They think that the rules of the spiritual body of Christ are bondage. The rules of the body of Christ govern this magnificent body and keep out the intruders. These rules are principles by which this superior body is governed and kept on its higher order of efficiency and power. The subtle enemies desire that I perish. They cannot cause me to perish without breaking down my understanding of the principles that make me different and superior. The bloodline of those who are holy is different from the bloodline of the unholy. The principles of those whose bloodline is from the bloodline of Christ are not principles of bondage, but they are principles of liberty and safety.

 

 

#325

 

The enemy cannot destroy God's body from without; therefore, he has sought to destroy his body from within. He has sought to create confusion from within the body of Christ that he might cause it to violate its own righteous principles. God shall spew these confusing things from his body. The blood of life shall not use them. He shall dispel the thieves who have come through other ways and not by the door of life. Some who entered the right way have been spoiled by philosophy, vain deceit, and after the traditions of men and not after Christ. I will not listen to the voices that encourage disobedience. These voices will lead me to the fences of grief and sorrow. There are many unwanted pains and bruises for those who listen not to the voice of the ministry.

Many are entangled on the wire fences of grace because they have sought to go beyond the wired fences of conviction. God has set the wired fences of grace that pain might send its alarm of caution into the minds of those who have misunderstood the purpose of the church. For some, their lust has drawn them to this fence. Many are caught in the fence and lay caught in the clutches of grace and love. I determine to cease my struggle to escape God's love, and he will untangle me and my life then will he heal me as he applies the balm of healing to my life. I am not a wounded animal that is shot because he is wounded. God heals the wounded and does not destroy them. I have cried much because of the pains brought on by my own desire to live outside of the fence of grace.

The enemy of my soul desires me to die because of my severe wounds, but the Lord desires me to be freed and healed, not shot as a wounded animal. Though I am maimed from my wounds, God will love me with the limp of grace. He loves the maimed and the halt. He loves the injured that will never fight on the front line again. I will not commit spiritual suicide because of my many wounds, but I will lie still while he frees me so that I might be a profitable prayer warrior in the prayer closet of the church. I have attempted to figure out the meanings for my deep hurts and pains. These pains were sent to keep me from exchanging the bloodline of a prince for the bloodline of a pauper. He must pass this royal bloodline on to others in the womb of faith. Inside of each of us, there is the promise of this bloodline that is to be passed on to someone in this life. If I exchange this royal bloodline for that of the bloodline of a pauper, then there will be no profit to a pauper desiring to escape his destination of death.

 

 

 

 

 

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.