Daily Bread - August 4, 2004

But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs. And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

You were at a point of doubt, but I have renewed your confidence. The confidence in you is mighty, for it is of me. Cast not away your confidence. I am paying a great reward for confidence in this hour. Because of the weariness of the trial, you looked into the mouth of doubt. Doubt opened his mouth, and you found that he was a deep pit. I have not given you a deep pit to walk into. I have given you a highway to walk upon. It is a way, the highway of holiness. There are no lions here, neither are there any beasts here. Only the redeemed are walking here. Gird up the loins of your garments, and run to the end. I will show you the end of this trial today.

I have made you a prince in the earth. You are a prince that has power with me and with men. I gave this gift to you, and none can take this gift away from you. From the excellency of my power and my dignity, is this reward given to you. I have raised you up to show in you my power and that my name may be declared in the earth. By my right hand, I will be glorious in power for you. I will bring you out with my great power and with a mighty hand. I will show my great power on your behalf according as I have spoken. Remember, I am longsuffering, of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means, clearing the guilty. Those who oppose righteousness shall find that I am a terrible foe.

Lift up your voice, and cry out for mercy unto for them, for I will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. I have sent them messengers. Now they rejoice in their iniquities and in the fall of their brethren. What they have desired for others will return upon their own heads. Many have become lifted up in their hearts and have forgotten the Lord, thy God. I will show them that it was I that blessed them and that they did not get the things that they have because of their own power and the might of their own hand. It is I that gave them power to get wealth that I may establish my covenant, which I swear unto the Jewish fathers.

I am no respecter of persons. All shall perish that stop here and begin to glory in their own works. I brought them out by my mighty power and by my stretched out arm. I am your lamp, and I have lightened your darkness. Come now, and run through this troop. By me, you may leap over this wall. My way is perfect. The word of the Lord is tried. I am a buckler to all them that trust in me. You have trusted in my word and have recorded these sayings spoken in your ears. Trust in them, for they are from that which is forever settled in heaven. They will not fail, neither will they return to me empty. They will go forth and do that which I have intended it to do.

I am your strength and your power. I make your way perfect. It is I that makes your feet like hinds' feet and setteth you upon your high places. Look before you, and see that I have enlarged your steps under you so that your feet do not slip. I am pursuing your enemies and destroying them; therefore, lift up your head as a gate, and be lifted up as an everlasting door. I have entered into your gates of praise this day. Lift up your head, and fight the good fight of faith. Your enemies have sought counsel one with another. I have smitten them, and they cannot rise up from the blow of my hand. I have subdued them under you. I have given you the necks of your enemies. I have delivered you from the strivings of the people. I am your God that avengeth you. I am the tower of salvation for you. I have showed mercy unto my anointed. Rise up, and offer praise, for I have truly brought you out with my outstretched arm.

Amos 3: 7 - 8

Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. The lion hath roared, who will not fear? The Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?