Word of the Day
Beloved, I am here to open the eyes of your heart, to give to you a new way of seeing who I am as I dwell in you. I am truly the Light and you are My abiding place. I am light in the very midst of you. I am the Redeemer and Restorer of your past…I am your present and I am your future. All three aspects of who I am to you past, present and future live in you at the same time.
I restore your past and as a result your present and future are affected. I fill your present with hope and your future unfolds as you abide in intimacy with Me and My Word in the here and now. My desires and dreams for your future abide in Me and I abide in You. Your future is in you and speaks to you through My Word, My still small voice and through those I bring into your life. You see your future is contained within the depths and recesses of your spirit where I am.
I am the Alpha and the Omega. I am the beginning…the end and all in between (Revelation 22:13; Revelation1:8). I was there before you ever were and knew you. I knew your past, present and future before there was a twinkle in your daddy’s eye. I am your future.
Therefore, remember this, you are My temple…My house, My sanctuary…you are a permanent dwelling place and habitation of My presence. All I am is available at your finger tips, so to speak, but all is not always accessed. The enemy of your soul wants to subvert your present and future by using your past against you. He uses your present struggles against you and when you dream with Me about your future the enemy of your soul calls Me a liar. I want you to reject the lies and choose to believe the truth…forsake the tendencies of man to believe the negative over the positive. Believe me. I am always right.
Beloved, this is why it is so important to have the Word not only in you but activated through meditation and verbal agreement. The Word in you is light and where there is light released darkness must flee. The past is restored. The present is infused and saturated and the future is abounding with hope and expectation. Get ready to see in a whole new way.
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, says the Lord God, He Who is and Who was and Who is to come, the Almighty (the Ruler of all) (Revelation 1:8 Amplified)
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last (the Before all and the End of all) (Revelation 22:13)
Do you not discern and understand that you [the whole church at Corinth] are God’s temple (His sanctuary), and that God’s Spirit has His permanent dwelling in you [to be at home in you, collectively as a church and also individually] (1 Corinthians 3:16 Amplified)
Prayer
Lord, my heart is Your home…Your abiding place. Everything I have ever been, everything I am and everything I will ever be and do is known by You. My past, present and future are precious to You. Not one moment of my life has gone unnoticed by You. Everything I need to do, know or be is in You. All my fountains are in You, Lord.
Please forgive me for not recognizing the depth of what You have given me…for not recognizing how You see me as a sanctuary of Your presence…as an abiding place…as your home. I am no longer of this world but I am a new creation…a new species…a temple of your presence and so much more. I have been redeemed from the curse and my past has been forgiven.
Lord, I press on toward my high calling and do not give ear or due to the lies of the enemy. My ears are open to the voice of the Lord and the eyes of my heart are being opened moment by moment that I might know Him in the fullness of His resurrection. I reject the enemy’s lies and I embrace the truth. I declare by faith that my past is restored and made new. I declare my present is a place of abiding in Him and is alive and filled with His presence. I declare my future is abounding with hope and expectation for I walk by faith and not by sight. The Word of God in me is performing all it is meant to do and I am seeing and will see in a whole new way. Amen.
Reflect and Journal
- What does it mean to you personally for the Lord to be the Redeemer and Restorer of your past?
- How is the Lord your present?
- How is the Lord your future?
- Meditate on the Lord being the light in the midst of you? Express your feelings about what this means.
- You are the temple, the sanctuary, the house, the abiding place and the habitation of the Lord. In light of this, what should your response and attitude be about how you walk out life?