#326

 

I have seen the victorious life of Christ and his blood. I now know of a truth, that my life can be a life of victory and success because of my new bloodline. I will not become any greater than the life preserved for me as one with the bloodline of Christ. God is my Father, and I have his blood. An enemy desires to sever this relationship by lying promises of liberty, which lead to death and a breaking of the royal bloodline that I have inherited. False promises authored by the prince of the power of the air are not liberty. Satan is a servant of corruption. He cannot promise me liberty when he is destined for a lake of fire.

My death in Christ Jesus did not destroy me and bring me into bondage. My death in Christ by baptism freed me from sin. The Lord has circumcised my heart and filled me with the spirit of the resurrection. Now the resurrection carries me to the bed of rest and healing. The arms of the resurrection are here to comfort me. The Lord has taken up those wounded on the fences of grace, which are many times the fences of grief and sorrow. I will lie in his strong arms, and he will carry me to the bed of healing and deliverance.

From the beginning of the church, the enemy has sought to destroy the bloodline of righteousness. He cannot destroy this bloodline, for the gates of hell shall not destroy, nor keep out his body. My death shall not prevent his purpose. My willing retirement from his body shall not prevent another from stepping in to be used by God to propagate this royalty to others. The enemy shall not kill or destroy those who are to fulfill the promises of the propagation of the royal bloodline. They seek for a way, but they shall find none, for there is no way to destroy the body of the resurrection. The spirit that dwelt in Christ is in me, and this spirit shall continually quicken me as I encounter the sure hands of defeat and death.

 

 

#327

 

The spirit of pursuing enemies shall not destroy me; therefore, I do not worry. The arms of love have brought me to a safe place and a large room. The enemy thinks that finally he has cornered me and secured my defeat. When he pulls back the curtain of secrecy, he will find me healed and set free. God has confounded the enemy. He is confused and deceived. The trap of the enemy is empty of his prey. The Lord has bound up the wounds of many, and now he desires to carry me to the bed of rest and bind up my wounds. He has come to bind up the broken hearted. He has come to loose every captive. He has come to bring out every prisoner out of the prison house and bring them to the bed of peace and deliverance. I will rest in the bed when I arrive there. I cease to fear this conspiring enemy. The rules of love shall hold my broken places while they heal. The bandages of comfort shall secure my weaknesses while they are being strengthened.

I do not worry about the prize in the distance. God is interested in my recovery, not in my participation and contest for the prize of the high calling. There is no profit in a pursuit of a prize if my destiny is sealed in the valley of those who perish. God has called me here to heal me. There is no enemy that can keep me from this healing if I will run to him and not to the arms of human reasoning. The arms of human reasoning are not places of safety. These arms of humanity are weak hands used by the enemy to pass me on to the bloodline of those who already have a fallen nature. I will not be passed from life back to death by my own confidence in self and human philosophy. The price of love is greater than the gain promised by the enemy. I look at the price of love that is now offered me, and I accept the benefits purchased by this great love. I rise, and I am delivered. I rise, and I am healed. The hands of compassion reach to untangle me and to deliver me.

 

 

#328

 

If God were a man, then he would lie but he is God, and it is impossible for him to lie. He has not dealt with me after my sins. If he had dealt with me after my transgressions, then I would not be standing today. He has given me the sure mercies of David. David believed on the Lord, and he found mercy in his sight. The Lord has given me the same mercies. I now believe on the Lord as the scriptures have declared of him. He is David's rock. In this time of struggle, I need this rock that is higher than I am.

The things that are striking hands with me are things from spiritual wickedness in high places. They know who I am, for I have come to the gates of hell in my warfare. I trust God to do battle for me now. I cannot wage war against these foes and win without total trust in God. He is everything that I need him to be in this hour of raging war in the spirit. The enemy is not giving up because I have come to the gates of hell. The enemy has attempted to win against the apostles and the prophets. They think that in this age of violence and lawlessness that I will lose to worldliness and ignorance. God has come to empower me with more grace that I might truly know him in the power of the resurrection. The power of the resurrection shall not fade in this hour of trouble in high places.

God is the King of my life. Now I submit myself totally to him, and he will show me the magnificence of the resurrection. He is the resurrection and the life. I look to this great power in me. It has been made available to those who believe. The Lord has brought the power that raised Christ from the dead and placed it inside of me. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. Life shall not fall in the face of death, and victory shall not succumb to defeat.

I look to God, and I behold the efforts of his wisdom. The efforts of wisdom are a natural expression that the enemy cannot understand. His thoughts are higher than the thoughts of the enemy. His ways and strategies are superb, and there is no counsel against him; therefore, I look to the victory, which overcomes all things. I have it abiding in me in the force of God's right hand. I behold the right hand of God working on my behalf.

 

 

#329

 

The enemy knows of the effect of the right hand of God's power; therefore, he has sent forth distracting things into my life to turn me from the purpose of God and Christ. He knows that if I follow the Lord, then the Lord's right hand is against him. I will not lean to the distractions vented against me. These distractions have not come as revealed weapons, but they have come in the power of all deceivableness. The enemy desires to see my effect against him crystallized by my double-mindedness. I remember Lot's wife. She looked back.

I cannot continue a journey of faith while beholding the loves of the past, and I cannot walk in a path of righteousness for the Lord's name's sake while loving the pleasures of this life. I cannot walk a sanctified walk while drawn by the lust of the eyes, the flesh, and the pride of life. Where my heart is, there will my treasure be also. I will give my heart to God, and he will give me an exchange of currency that will not fall in the wake of the gravitational forces of lust and pride. If I give myself to the gravity of lust and pride, then I will enter into a war with the Lord.

Friendship with the world is enmity against God, and all that is in the world is the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. He that is the friend of the world is the enemy of God. I will not defy God's love and his word. If I do, I will be drawn into the hands of the Living God for judgment. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God. I fall at the feet of Jesus, and I am subdued by grace. I will now be lifted by the resurrection and its power. If I continue in the path of lawlessness without submission to God's will, then I will come to the end of my mercy. God's mercy endures forever, but those who do not keep the covenant of grace forsake their own mercy.

 

 

#330

 

I listen to God's voice, and I hear the sound of grace in my ears. Grace has sounded in my ears and brought waves of victory. If I forsake victory, I will not abide in the light of peace. The Lord has not designed defeat for me, but I may choose it. I will be selective according to my love for God and then victory will be my destination. I enter the gates of victory, and I wear the garment of praise without the discord of pride and covetousness. I wear the garment of praise and cast off the accessories of unbelief and doubt. Jesus has come and brought me life and that more abundantly. I now experience this abundant life without the confusing effects of lack and poverty.

I have come to God, and I know him as the giver of all things. He is the prosperity bringer, the Lord of all. He will never forsake me; therefore, I lift my voice of faith and prophesy according to the proportion of faith in me. He has lifted me from the depths of worry and despair. God is not looking at me in a dilemma, but he is lifting me and bringing me to a new experience in him, the only Lord God. In Christ, I am more than a conqueror through him. He has loved me, and he continues to love me.

I cast down worry and lift up holy hands without wrath and doubting. The Lord is Joseph's confidence. He is Moses' voice and Daniel's stone. He is Jeremiah's fire and the great I AM. I look to him, and I behold what he will do in the face of all the things that have come to confront me. What has confronted me has also confronted him; therefore, I behold the war nature of the Lord on my behalf.

 

 

#331

 

God is my Father, and I am not a bastard. He has brought me into this marvelous light by the incorruptible Word of God. His word is pure. His word is the Everlasting Word of the Everlasting Father. I will continue in the path of this light of revelation that has come to me. I shall see things about him that have not been revealed.

An enemy has come to turn me from the light of revelation and back to the darkness of my traditions. I give the Lord my heart, and he will lead me past the enemy who has the power to cause blindness to come over me. Jesus is the Light of the world, and in him, there is no darkness. I abide in him and allow his word to abide in me; therefore, I remain hidden from this sorcerer of darkness. Not only will I remain hidden but also I may ask what I will, and it will be done unto me.

God is caring for me as a Father cares for his children, only his care, his love, his provision, and his wisdom are much higher than that of an earthly father. He is the Heavenly Father. I look to him and behold the awesomeness of his love. He is love, and he is light. I have found a refuge in love and light. I will not choose another place to abide, for all places outside of him are darkness. He is the Father of spirits, the Father of lights. He is the Eternal Spirit, the one true Living God. I behold the effects of his love in my life.

God's name is above all other names. Though his name is higher than all names, he has exalted his word above his name. His name is called the Word of God; therefore, I reverence this high-exalted name. I am welcomed in its strong tower of safety. His name is holy and consecrated. I acknowledge the power of his name, and I am blessed. I will not use his name as the ungodly, blasphemous names are used lest I lose the grace that I have found.

 

 

#332

 

The Lord's kingdom has come, and now it abides in me. Men attempt to conquer kingdoms, but God has placed an unconquerable kingdom within me. This kingdom is invincible and unyielding to the kingdoms of this world. The Lord will take all the kingdoms of the world from the prince of the power of the air. I am the heir to all things now; therefore, it would be foolish to seek kingdoms that will be the Lord's and not seek the Lord himself. I know that the kingdoms of this world shall become the property of the Lord and his Christ. I have read the truth. Now I will forsake my waywardness, for God will come quickly, and his rewards are with him. I do not look to the kingdoms of this world for rewards, for after they have used me, they will cast me aside. He will not cast away those who come to him. I will seek him in brokenness and contriteness and then I will please the Lord with my sacrifices. I discontinue my efforts to get my will in heaven and in his kingdom, but I allow his will to be done in me. When I have discontinued seeking my will because of the pride of my own heart, then I will find God. Many have sought him out of impure motives and found the god of sorcery instead. I go and preach the kingdom of God and his righteousness lest those who prophesy out of their own hearts become the children of sorcery and witchcraft instead of children of the kingdom.

 

 

#333

 

Many will despise the bread of correction. I will not worry about those who reject instruction. Their rejection of instruction is the hand that removes the ungodly and their chaff from among the holy. God has not given me a word of empty values or a word of expression that tickles the ear. He has given me a word for the due season that shall prepare his reapers for the harvest. I will not worry about the rejecters of prophetic truth, for the Lord has ordained their removal by the magnet of disobedience within them.

Men and women prophesy out of their own hearts to get their way. I will not hear them. God has given me the spirit of discernment that I might know the difference between the spirit of truth and the spirit of error and the difference between that which comes out of the heart of man and that which comes from the mind of Christ. I try every spirit to see if it is of God. Those who are real and true shall obey and humble themselves, but the false and the counterfeit shall disobey and claim to know more than me while they invoke the Lord's name and declare that God has spoken to them. I beware of the proud with the proud look, for they are an abomination unto the Lord and so are the sowers of discord.

God is leading me in a plain path because of my enemies; therefore, I regret not the time frame that God allocates for my arrival to the door of destination. In the vehicle of patience, the Lord has seated me. I will keep my seat in this vehicle, and I shall arrive on time. If I transfer to another vehicle, I shall become a well without water and a wandering star whose judgment is reserved in the dimensions of darkness.

I hear these words that are spoken in my ears, and when I obey them, then will I be delivered from the evil one and evil. I pray without ceasing. I pray always, and my prayers shall close the door of temptation. Prayer is the devotion that hides the entranceway into temptation. Prayer acknowledges my need of God; therefore, I will pray, and I will express my honor and dependence on the Lord, the Living God.

 

 

#334

 

As a light shining into the darkness, so has God's spirit entered into my life to bring the reality of the truth that is within me. Without a true recognition of the truth that is within me, deception would lure me farther and further into the dark corners of tradition and darkness. The world is filled with spiritual ditches and pits for those who love not the truth. I will allow his light to shine into my heart, and I do not turn from this light of revelation.

God has not come to me in the manner of men, but he has come as the God that he is. The Lord has not violated my privacy, neither has he forced me to enter into this throne room of grace. I sought God, and I found him. He has given me salvation and made me his own. I relinquish all that he bought lest I am found a spiritual beggar in these last days. I cannot continue into the darkness of the future without a relationship with the Lord. Men seek the relationship fashioned after their own thinking, but the Lord has said, "The relationships that men seek will not satisfy, neither will they suffice in the darkness of the future." I must have the relationship that God has designed, or I will falter with the people who wander as stars of the air and as people who have become empty wells that have no real water.

I come to God, and I seek a relationship with him. I have found that my performances have not pleased the Lord. Performances simply lead to the ditches of the hour, but humility is the path of honor, riches, and life. I choose the life of Jesus and the faith of Christ lest I go down the path of dishonor, poverty, and death.

 

 

#335

 

I look into the future, and I behold the direction of God's light. Now I will behold the path of holiness and the highway without the vultures and lions of the hour. The vultures and lions that have waited on the blind and the ignorant are consuming many. I will go and show forth the truth of the Lord's name. His name is a bright light at evening time, and his identity is a road marker to prevent me from journeying in the paths of unrighteousness. I show forth the identity of Christ in my preaching and my witnessing, and now will the people see the light of freedom and liberty.

I set my face as a flint toward the end of times, and know that only those who bear their cross shall survive the loneliness of the future. Friends shall forsake me, and many that I thought I could trust shall betray me, yet all this is part of the journey to the launching pad of departure. There is no continuance of this lonely journey with God without the marks of suffering from within. Everyone must have his or her own inward struggles to reach the pad of departure. If I do not allow self to be crucified and mortified, then I will be found hiding among the god of the world's religious gatherings of the hour. I will go and show forth the determination of the spirit within me. The flesh is weak, but the spirit is willing. I seek not to understand the flesh and its weakness. I simply die daily, and I mortify the deeds of the body. When I have truly picked up my own cross and denied myself then following the Lord will be a joy. There is no joyful journey with God without self-denial and a cross.

 

 

#336

 

Jesus deliberately journeyed into the midst of my enemies to offer himself for me. I will not seek to find another way to offer myself for him. Enemies are all about me, but grace is the inner circle of sufficiency and power that surrounds me always. I do not worry about the voices that come from the enemies employed by evil, but I behold the hedge of grace that cannot be penetrated by evil and its forces.

I allow God to change me within, and now will I march with the redeemed into the closing hours of the glory of the church. The Lord is waiting to do a work in me, but I must lift my eyes from the impossibilities and the trouble of the hour. All these things are mere distractions from the event that God is focusing on in this hour. He has made my heart his focus. He has come to change me within that I might be free inside of myself. When I am free within, then will I be effective without. All the forces of evil that encamped round about cannot prevent the work that the Lord desires to do within me. I am the only one who can prevent this work, for God will only change those who are willing to be changed. I will go and offer myself as a sacrifice well pleasing to the Lord. Now will he pass over these impossibilities and show me his glory. I want to give him things, but he desires me. I will go and offer myself, and my praises will be acceptable praises in his presence.

 

 

#337

 

God has not forgotten me on the day that he has made. I do not worry about the outcome of the services today. The Lord has already finished them, and I cannot change them. I simply go and preach what God has already placed in my heart. He has finished the message already. He has saved those who shall be saved already. He has sent forth the fire of love and brought out those who were bound by fetters of iron and brass. I look to the Lord, the Author and the Finisher of this faith that I preach and stop fretting because of my insufficiencies. He is my sufficiency. He is my refuge. He is the Word being preached. I go and preach Jesus.

I do not hesitate to obey him. I move into the arena of my gift. There is inspiration available today that I have never heard. I will not fear to trust him. I simply walk in the spirit, and I will not fulfill the lust of my flesh to doubt the move of his spirit today. God has something to do today that cannot be accomplished by a sermon. I do not go forth to sermonize, but I go forth to be a yielded vessel for his spirit. He will show me things that I have not known. I go and have confidence in Jesus, the Lord God. I go.

 

 

#338

 

The light of the Spirit has shined into my heart and granted me all the vision needed for the moment. I must learn to live by faith. I know how to live by faith, but I have not considered how much faith I have. If I only had the bare necessities of a wanderer, I would not have the same joy. God has not allowed me to journey into the paths of those who walk by true faith. I have things and friends. My walk of faith would not be the same if I had no things and no friends.

I have come to the arena of true faith and beheld the beauty of real trust in God. The Lord has dimensions of understanding that have never been explored. He has dimensions of understanding that man has never walked in. I desire a total victorious life from the Lord. I want the unsearchable riches of Christ. I look to the Spirit of God today, and I behold the awesomeness of the mind of Christ. God is free from all the entanglements of human reasoning because he is God. He desires me to come into this dimension of his reasoning that I might be free from the entanglements that are fostered by human reasoning and the traditions of men. He has an expression that can only be expressed through vessels that are yielded to God's expressions of faithfulness. I believe that God is faithful. He promised, and he will perform.

The spirit of doubt has moved around the walls of salvation. It has taken advantage of my lack of trust in God. I move into the spirit of faith and allow the spirit of faith to become one with me. Now I will be able to operate as one confident of true victory and not as one hoping for victory. I consider the work of the Spirit already accomplished. I consider the work of the Spirit already done.

 

 

#339

 

The sands of time give the appearance of an endless desert of sand. I will not look at the assumed distances across this desert of life and fabricate impossible situations in my life, but I look to the Spirit of God and perceive the reality of my new birth where there are no deserts, no sand dunes, no vultures of the night, and no creatures from the nights of uncertainty.

I look into the spirit and not into the distances in my mind. These things of my mind are not the things that determine what God is going to do. He will cause every desert in my mind to become a fertile place. The Lord will cause every sand dune that has brought me despair to be a place of hope and fertility. I look into the Spirit, and I behold the hope of glory in action for me and for his name's sake.

I behold the things of the spirit and not these things that are temporal. I am not a wanderer. I am a creature with purpose. I am a creature that has never existed before. God has fashioned me after his own likeness and in his own image. The things created cannot master me, but I will master the things of the creation. I rise up from my own concepts of things, and I behold the Lord's concept of things. I behold these things as sands of time with little hope of finding the fulfillment of my dreams, but God beholds the fulfilled dreams at the end of my sands.

I have come for a journey with the Lord, and he will show me the creation of God at the end of these imaginations. I have trusted my mind long enough. I have satisfied myself with the inspiration from my imaginations. Now I turn from imaginations, and I give these things to God so that he might make them captives. If my thoughts are not in captivity to Christ, then they will imprison me in the deserts of this life. I will not live any longer in the prison house of self-created deserts of loneliness, but I will go and live in the realities of the kingdom of God.

 

 

#340

 

The love of many is waxing cold. Many have attempted to build bridges of success across the frozen waters of love not fashioned by God. These lonely places have very few travelers. God has not built these bridges, but I have built them because of the territories that I have journeyed into. If I follow after God, then I will dwell in the hot places of life where the fire of purity burns always. I have chosen these cold places. Now I will allow the Lord to lead my life again, and he will bring me back to the fervent, hot places of life. The spirits that thrive in these cold places, fostered by the design of cold love, have already made their graves for those who will die because of cold love. I return to my first love before they bring me to the graves of lust and pride. I will not die in the way of coldness and indifference, but I will live in the way of holiness and righteousness. I behold the detour signs of life in my path and turn unto the house of my first love.

 

 

#341

 

The sunsets of life have painted numerous memories in my mind. I have looked at the sunsets of life and concluded that all my sunsets must be the same. God is sending forth a new sunset into my life that is as fresh as the manna that came every day for Israel. I will lift my eyes to the Lord and behold the ability of the Spirit of God. He is not confined to man's limitations. He is from everlasting to everlasting; therefore, I allow the everlasting God to determine what this sunset will be. It does not have to be the same as yesterday's sunset. It can be different, and it will be different. If I look to yesterday's sunset, I will leave the boat of faith anchored on the shores of man's concepts. I look to God's vision, and I allow the boat of faith to move upon the waters where I have cast my bread.

I look into the distance, and I behold the things that are not clearly distinguished by the human eyes. It is not a city. It is not a forest. I have looked in the natural and have not seen clearly. I will not determine the future things and their outcomes with human eyes. Only in the Spirit will I behold the things that only God can perceive. He is the one omnipresent God. I will allow his vision to be imparted unto me then will I understand why the sun sets on the horizon. Behold, God shows me a spiritual mystery. It is the mystery of a spiritual sunset.

 

 

#342

 

God is shining through the earth. Though the tall trees of the day have overshadowed the small things on the earth, all of these spiritual trees shall give an account to him. Men have made names for themselves and used the Lord's word to exalt themselves above others, yet I know of a truth, that these things shall not continue always.

I have looked at the false prophets and the false teachers as tall trees overshadowing all that God is doing, but the foolish things of the hour are being used to confound the things that appear to be so wise. They have lifted up their souls to a god, and the Lord's sunshine has shined upon their unjust lives. God will now send forth the judgment of truth and move these trees of unrighteousness. Everything that was not planted of the Lord shall be plucked up. I now behold the small trees called by the name of the Lord rising out of obscurity to glorify him, the Father in the earth. I lift up my voice and declare the glory of God. I lift up my voice and declare his power. The power of the Sun of Righteousness also shines on the just; therefore, I lift my voice and sing of God's glory and of his power.

The light is not shining in vain. This glorious light of the Sun of Righteousness has shined into the darkness and left it without any strategy against the righteous and the just. Where the feet of men have trodden, there arises the glory of the kingdom of God. As from the grave of Lazarus, there came the manifestation of God's love so there comes the manifestation of love on my behalf. I lift my hands and heart as the limbs and branches of budding trees, and I receive of the spiritual sunlight for my spiritual health. I lift up my hands and my heart. Now I receive of that which is good and nourishing for my soul.

 

 

#343

 

Many walk the lonely trails of life, for they forget that God lives inside of them. I walk no longer looking for the Lord among the things of life, but I look within my temple, and I behold the one who has taken up residence within me. God has lifted me from the graves of lust and darkness and brought me to this trail of peace. I have not called the absence of lions a lonely place. I have not called the absence of vultures and spiritual bears a lonely place. God has brought me to the quiet realm of his spirit, yet I have looked away from the God of the quiet place. I look again for the Lord, and I search with all my heart. God is awaiting my search that he might fellowship with me along this quiet place away from all evil. I do not despise the seemly lonely time, for it is the quiet realm prepared for me that has given me the impression of loneliness. I look to the mind of Christ, and I behold the beauty of this realm. I walk along the paths of quietness, and now will I lose my fears.

 

 

 

#344

 

Jesus is my light, the light of the lighthouse. He is the same in a storm and the same when there is no storm. He is the Everlasting Father. His love has not faded because of my storms. He has turned the light my way and lifted my hope from despair. I have looked at the rocks all about me and only envisioned trouble. He has lifted my hope and caused me to look into the mind of the hope of glory. I see the construction of the resurrection, not ruin and defeat. I look unto the Church, and I behold the light within the body of Christ. I have looked to the rocks of trouble long enough. I am looking to the lighthouse. God has built this refuge upon a rock higher than my storms. I have come into this house, and I rest with the inhabitants of righteousness. They will sing the songs of the redeemed and not the songs of sinners. I give the Lord my old songs, and he will give me his new songs. I rest in the midst of those who have been given peace that passes all understanding.

 

 

#345

 

I have come to a valley, but I remember that the valleys of life are not horrible places of trouble. The valleys of life are the rich places in life where the rich experiences that produce growth are found. I journey along this path of valleys. God will show me fresh still waters and fresh green grass. I have desired the mountaintop experiences that I might boast of my spiritual accomplishments, but I look again to those who have lived on mountaintop experiences, and I behold how cold they are. I cannot survive on mountaintop experiences, for they are only for a moment. I give God my heart, and he will remove me from the pride of my standing. In my heart, I envision myself standing on the mountaintop of everything, but now I allow him to show me the beauty of the valley. The Lord is not only the God of the mountain but he is also the God of the valley. My God shall now show me of the fresh living things in the valleys of life. When I climb my next mountain, I will not faint because of small strength, but I shall climb the mountains of the future with ease. It is the valley experiences that prepare me to climb the mountains of life. I go unto the Lord and prepare for climbing while in the valley.

 

 

#346

 

As sheep gathered along the hillside, so has God gathered us together for grazing in a green living place. I prepare to eat of freshness that I have never eaten. I prepare to drink of freshness that I have never been offered. The Lord is serving the freshness of the Living God. He is the Good Shepherd, and he has not forgotten my needs. He has prepared a table, a place where life is served and not death. I have come to this table, and I eat of life today. I have eaten from the stale places of the past, but now God has spread the table of the last days before me. In the time of famine, I have been served plenty. Now I grant God my praises, and he will show me of the benefits of the table of plenty. The benefits from this diet shall ensure strength for revival. I will eat and be full, for the hour comes that strength must be exercised.

The enemy has designed shelters for me to live in. They are mere shacks and traps for my feet. They are blinders for my mind. They are shields that prevent me from seeing the beauty of my salvation. I come from these shelters that are designed by the prince of the power of the air, and I abide in the wide open places of light instead of constructions by my enemy. Inside these constructions, I only receive little light. I look to the end of human reasoning, and I behold the light outside of my man-made shelters. These places are not places of security, but they are designs that prevent the light of victory from enhancing my vision. I worship the Living God, and I come from the shelters that were offered as a gift of ease. I have come to the places of hardness and fire; now will I experience safety and security without human walls and human plans. I have come to the table of the Lord, and I experience the shelters of the Lord.

 

 

#347

 

God speaks to the wanderers of the hour. He speaks to those who have drifted far from the shores of victory. I have come back to my first love. I take down my sail of unbelief. The sail of unbelief is only cast to catch the winds of cold love. I have drifted long enough. Now I pull down this sail of unbelief and raise the sail of prayer and praise. When prayer has been raised in my life again, then will I receive the warm winds of God's love, which shall direct me to the shores of victory again.

On the strange waters of the wanderer, there are many fogs and many creatures of torment. I can live in the security of love; therefore, there is no need to wander into these strange places and suffer the torment of a sinner. In times past, I allowed selfishness to lure me into these strange areas of frustration. I do not enjoy troubling myself; neither do I enjoy having complex, self-inflicted hardships for my daily conversations.

My life is empty of real praises because I have ventured to the strange lands of self where I am now in exile with those who do not love God. There is no peace in this land where self plans a haven without a true love for the Lord. There is no victory in this land where self plans a haven without the love of the truth. I will not live in exile until the catching away of the Lord's bride so that I might go to hell from there. I will come from my choice of habitation and be caught away from the launching pad of faithfulness and sincerity.

I have come back to the shores of faith. Now I will add the virtues that God hands to me, and I do not refuse them any longer. Unless I receive the experiences that the Lord hands me, I will only build another small island in the land of strangers.

 

 

#348

 

I have turned the waters of life with old traditions that make the Word of God of no effect. If I continue to take these fresh waters and make old things with the power generated from these fresh waters, then I will live in experiences not designed for my times. Many have created things outdated and not appealing to the people of my time. I purpose to use the generator of the Spirit, and I allow this fresh prophetic power to produce new things and new experiences for the times. I have the gospel, but in times past, I have placed it in the wrong vehicles. I lay aside these vehicles of traditions, which make the Word of God of no effect, and I pick up the vehicles of faith and will go prophesy according to the proportion of faith transmitted by the vehicles supplied by God's word.

Some have chosen to live in the caves that were supplied for a season. God has given caves as a shelter from the things which chased me in the past, but now I must come out of my caves of temporal dwelling places. I will not wait on the Lord to dry up the waters nearby to create a new thirst for righteousness in me. If I remain inside of the caves of past secret places where I hid from my enemies, then I will only view the work of the Spirit from afar. God has beckoned me to come out of my seemingly secure places, which were only temporary dwelling places. I will come out of these places before the drought of security brings me to the stature of another fugitive.

 

 

#349

 

The enemy has cast his coldness over the earth. He has sought me to live under the blanket of his coldness. I must choose to live in the house of my first love to escape the casting of the blanket of coldness and indifference. My heart cannot become the place of covetousness. If my heart is inhabited by covetousness, then I will worship the idols of the age. Night shall fall and find me in the places of idolatry if I continue my journey along the paths of unrighteousness and carnality. I look to the path of righteousness that has come to me today. I turn from my seemingly right path, and I walk with the Lord along the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. He has beckoned with the finger of love. Now I walk with him, and I avoid the destiny of a fool. I purpose not to walk according to the lust of my own flesh and my pride of this life; therefore, I will not inherit the reward reserved for fools.

God has set a light in the midst of the earth. The consuming fire of his love is waiting on my arrival to the door of my first love. I have come to the Lord. It is near and not very far from any who will feel after the door of my first love. I have given God my hand, and now he will lead me to the door of life again. I live in the light as he is in the light; now the blood of Jesus will continually cleanse me from all sin.

I walk no longer along the empty desert places in life. These paths do not end. They are endless paths in the sands of time. He has placed the highway of holiness in the desert of time. I have come to the highway of life. I will not simply observe the peculiar construction in the sands of time. I will hear the call from this peculiar place and join the priesthood of the holy in the royal place built in my path. Many have come by this holy place and observed these peculiar people and their strange worship, which is in spirit and in truth. I will enter in and join the holy, or I will pass on into my deserts of dryness and death.

 

 

#350

 

Night has not captured me in my vacuums of this life. Though I have faltered and failed many times, God has helped me and kept me from the destroyer. He has not allowed my flesh to be destroyed or my soul to become destitute. He has kept me as he has promised. I believe the truth of the gospel and the Lord's promises. He has promised, and he will perform.

I lift my head up as a gate, and now I am as an everlasting door. God will come into the lifted heads and lifted doors. He is my king, my Everlasting Father. The princes of the world are no match for the love that he is. God is love. He is light. He is my righteousness, and he has justified me. I believe on him as the scriptures have declared of him, and now the rivers of living water will flow in me and through me.

I allow true faith to work. True faith is in me. True faith has not come to the threshold of revival and turned back. True faith has no reverse, for true faith overcomes all things. If I believe, then all things are possible if I truly believe. With men, things are impossible, but with God, all things are possible. Nothing is too hard for the Lord.

I look to the miracle worker inside, and I trust in the manifestation of God's faithfulness. He has not promised and forgotten his promises. He has not opened his mouth and lied. He has opened his mouth and settled his word forever. God's word is forever settled in heaven. His word has gone out of his mouth and will not return to him void or empty. He has expressed the love of God unto me. He showed the world that the love of God has no barriers. I believe that the love of God shall bring down all the barriers in my life. He is expressing the power of love in me so that I might be an overcomer and not bound by the traditions that have sought to enslave me.

I lift my head unto the victory of the cross and the victory of the resurrection. God has made a way. I now walk through these open doors that the Lord has brought me to. The open doors of the day are for me to walk through. I now walk with the redeemed, knowing that the blood of Jesus is the way of access and the expression of truth on my behalf. I walk in faith for the way is made for me, and I do not doubt.

 

 

 

 

 

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.