Series
2.11.12 - #316
November
12, 2004
The
night is coming and then no one will be able to work; therefore,
I choose to work while it is day then will the fruit of my labor
be profitable and satisfying. The laborers are few, but the
harvest is ripe and ready for those who love the purpose of
God and the church. I lift my head from myself and come into
the presence of the Lord God. In his presence, I will find the
fullness of the joy that will grant me strength to go beyond
myself. I am without strength many times because I have exhausted
my energies on myself. I purpose to pour my energies into the
kingdom of God and then will I find myself renewed day by day.
The kingdom of God and his righteousness empowers with sufficiency
and strength. It does not leave me exhausted and listless. I
come from my corner of self-satisfying efforts and enter into
the wide-open spaces of gratifying efforts of the giving of
myself. I look to God's example and behold the attitude of a
servant. Jesus did not come to be served. He came to minister.
He is in me to do a work that I will not believe. I look up
from my plate of emptiness, and I behold the table of living
bread before me on the other side of emptiness. God did not
bring me to this table of emptiness. An enemy seduced me and
brought me to his table to defile me with the leaven of hypocrisy.
I refuse to sit at the table of worthlessness. I refuse to be
honored by the god of the world. I refuse to be comfortable
eating the things that do not satisfy. The Lord has a table
of living bread and living water waiting on me. I will go and
eat of the life that satisfies. Jesus has placed life before
me; therefore, I choose the life that he has offered and refuse
the death plates of hypocrisy.
My
faith is complete because of God's righteousness. I believe
the gospel and the works of the Lamb of God. The Lamb was slain
for me. The Lamb's blood has made a way out of the pit of darkness
by the blood of the covenant. I lift my eyes to his promises
today and walk into tomorrow with new strength and new life.
God has not left me to die at the feet of my enemies, neither
has he brought me to the threshold of revival to turn me unto
the death chambers of idolatry. Jesus has brought me inside
of the door of hope. Now I behold the destruction of the adversaries
that met me at the door. I behold their defeat before my eyes.
I
behold the light of the glorious gospel as it shines on my behalf
and for his name's sake. I behold the goodness of the Lord God
that has led me to repentance. I attach my heart to God's goodness,
and it will cause me to store my treasures above and not below
in the world of cankerworms and moths of destruction. I give
my heart to God again, and he will show me of the beauty of
holiness that I once knew. I give him my heart again, and he
will cleanse me of the filth of carnality. I give him my heart
again and then will love flow from him through me and to others
that await the love of God in me.
I
hear these admonitions today, and I give way to their light.
These words have come to make a way in the darkness that has
covered my life with worry, unbelief, and poor spiritual vision.
I allow these words to enter into my heart and my mind and then
will the light of these words produce a new creation for my
future. The entrance of God's words always gives light. The
entrance of these words of light has spoken upon the face of
the darkness that has troubled me. Now I behold the new things
that the light has made for me. I believe.
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.
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