Word of the Day
Beloved, you are indeed made of the earth…made of natural elements according to the ancestry of Adam, yet you are infused with Me…filled by Me…made into an entirely new creature by Me. You have been made into a completely new creature…a new creation…a new race. It is time to move from dust to glory. It is time to be what I already know you are. You have truly gone from dust to glory.
In the natural, wind comes and stirs the dust…stirs the earth with its presence in order to move it around, to reshape it, or to distribute it all for the purpose of meeting a need elsewhere.
Likewise, My Spirit…My wind comes to blow through both the natural and spiritual aspects of your life to reshape and position you for My purposes. You are in a time of great shifting as all of Creation longs for the revealing of the sons of men. My wind…My Presence is indeed shifting and sifting in both subtle and recognizable ways.
Mighty rivers reshape the land and deposit rich soil in necessary places. Therefore do not be complacent or apathetic about what I am doing. I do not desire for any aspect of your life to be sedentary, immovable, or unbending. Bended reeds do not break but give way to the movement of the wind. Rigid things break.
Know this without a doubt, My living water flows in and through you to reshape your land…to reshape your way of thinking. I reshape all things until they line up with My intended design and purpose. How much easier it would be for Me if you just agreed regardless of what you see or feel. Many times you do and many times you don’t. Don’t forget the eternal conversations we have had and come into agreement with all I have told you. Eternity begins now.
Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being. And the Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden [delight]; and there He put the man whom He had formed (framed, constituted). (Genesis 2:7-8 Amplified)
Prayer
Father, I choose to agree with you right now. I choose to not live in the past but live in the moment with You. Eternity is not a future thing. It is not a pie in the sky someday kind of thing. Eternity begins right now. I move from the past into the moment where all things are possible and make a choice to always agree with You.
I am one who willingly lines up with Your Word and Your will. I am chosen by You, infused with You and filled with Your Presence for all eternity. My mind cannot comprehend all that entails, yet I praise You for the reality of it all.
I am a new race. I am a new creation in Christ Jesus. I am moving from dust to Glory as I learn to be who You already know and say I am. Thank You for reshaping me to be conformed into Your image all the while positioning me to fulfill the purpose You created me to fulfill. As I experience the shifting and sifting I will keep my mind on You and praise You for all that You are doing. I trust You Lord. I will not be rigid and break, but I will bend as a reed and give way to the movements You desire in my life. Thank You Father for the Living Water of Jesus flowing in and through me for I have been transformed from dust to glory through the Cross. Amen.
Reflection and Journal
- As you get into agreement with the Lord, what might He be requiring of you to let go of in order to more readily shape you into His image?
- Describe what a time of great shifting may look like in your life right now. What major siftings and shifting have you experienced? What glories have come out of the dust of your sifting and shifting?
- What difference has God’s shifting and sifting, whether subtle or recognizable, made in your life? What has it deposited in your heart and life you did not have before? For instance, do you have more patience, more understanding, more tolerance, more faith…and so on? Bring it down to the practical level and don’t over spiritualize. Make it real no matter how small the advancement seems to be. Remember, we all move from glory to glory and each step is worth rejoicing over. Process can be beautiful when we dwell on the positive.
- What is your perception of how God wants you to be compared to what He already knows you are? In other words; are you aligned with His perception of you or are you agreeing with what you see and feel? Do you give more credence to Him or your own misperceptions about your true identity?