Word of the Day
Beloved, I am mindful that you are dust and at the same time mindful of your Sonship (Psalms103:11-14; 1 John2:2 KJV). I can embrace the two with great delight. I love the process of your life and am never dismayed or discouraged. I love the transformation process of seeing dust turn to glory. You are no exception. I am not one who breaks the bruised reeds of your life. I do not blow out or quench smoldering wicks just because they have not become a flaming fire. I heal bruised reeds and breathe life into smoldering fires till justice and victory comes (Matthew 12:20)
With this in mind, now is the time to rest in the comfort of My love for you. Now is the time to experience My Presence as never before. As you practice, and yes I said practice, receiving My promises in My Word, I will show up in creative and incredible ways.
Put away all the distractions and frustrations of life far away from our time together. Spend many wordless moments with Me focused on the ability of who I am and not on your own abilities to make things happen or not happen. Make for open heavens by resting in My promises all the while giving adoration and love voice by lying down in the green pastures of My ever abiding Presence. (good)
I am drawing you into the place of repentance, compelling the release of all failure to forgive others, wrong attitudes and wrong beliefs about Me. Be forgiven, receive the words of wisdom, and adoration I liberate you with in this place of rest. When you have rested, rise up and rejoice in all I have promised you. Rise up and write down all I speak to you. Take the thoughts I have impressed on your heart and write them down! Write them down for they contain keys of understanding. They will give a sense of great peace for your life. I am and will declare My intentions and you must believe and receive them. They are life to your bones and refreshment to your soul. They are a storehouse of treasures needed for coming days.
As a father loves and pities his children, so the Lord loves and pities those who fear Him [with reverence, worship, and awe]. For He knows our frame, He [earnestly] remembers and imprints [on His heart] that we are dust. (Psalms 103:13-14 Amplified)
A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering (dimly burning) wick He will not quench, till He brings justice and a just cause to victory. (Matthew 12:20 Amplified)
Prayer
Father, You are ever mindful that I am made of dust and love me unconditionally. You created Adam and You created me. Just as You declared “It is good” when You created Adam, You declared the same when You formed me in the depths of my mother’s womb. Though I am made of dust, I am a son of God through the shed blood of Christ on the Cross. Christ’s blood took me from dust to glory…from the kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of light and now I am growing in glory, line upon line and precept upon precept.
Thank You for loving me and bestowing sonship upon me through Christ. You know the process of my life, and though I may get discouraged, You never do, for you know the ultimate outcome. I rest in the comfort of Your love for me.
I will practice receiving Your promises, forever believing all that You said is true…believe it is true for me personally and not just for other people. I will practice spending wordless moments with You focusing on Your Word and allowing Your perfect work to take place in me. I look to Your abilities and not my own to accomplish Your will in my life as I rest in Your promises Father. I rest in You. Amen.
Reflect and Journal
- How can you practice receiving God’s promises for your life in a practical way? Find something you have a hard time believing…something small will do. Find the related promise in the Word and write it down in first person. Take time to mediate on it and speak it and it will rise up inside of you and evict the lies of the enemy.
- Are you willing to put away all the distractions and frustrations of life to have time with the Lord? What practical thing can you do on a daily basis…remember, don’t start with such lofty goals that are hard to keep, but do start somewhere.
- Can you enter into the place of repentance, releasing all your failures as well as forgiving others?
- Are you willing to write down all that God has spoken to you using them as keys of the Kingdom in your life? Take time to do so for they surely will be a storehouse of treasures you will need in the future.