Word of the Day
Beloved, as the chains of wrong words given or received melt like wax in a flame, barriers dissipate in your heart and the hearts of others. As smoke is driven away and the wicked perish so do your troubles when surrendered to Me.
Like a beautiful bloom unfolding at the height of a stunning spring day, your life will present itself for all to see with like grandeur. Beauty displayed softens hearts and disperses distasteful thoughts like fog at the rising of the sun. All unprofitable things fall to the wayside and intoxicating fragrances arise from your surrendered heart of love.
My armor worn in love puts you in the offensive position, not a defensive one. It is a position of great strength. I made you a victor, giving you the sword of the spirit to cut asunder the schemes and devices of the enemy. Put off destructive words and habits; regain your standing and faint not. Walk with Me in the garden of My Word and discover secret places hidden from you until now.
Beloved, please remember you cannot hold a bag of stones and the sword of the Spirit at the same time, or like a divided house, you will fall. They are contrary one to another. Remove the log from your eye that you might have a clear vision to see the garden I have placed you in.
I am your defender and contend with those who contend with you. You are a loved overcomer, therefore, direct all your energies toward the destruction of the true enemy. Clothe yourself in the armor I have provided. Array yourself in the garments of purple and fine linen I have already given you. See yourself seated in heavenly places with ears attuned to the conversations of heaven. Listen; I am speaking.
There are thoughts about you and others I wish to express verbally, creating order out of chaos. I hover over you with a greenhouse-like effect to bring forth the oasis, the watered garden I have called you to be and to enable you to speak these transforming Words (Isaiah 58:11). Faint not. Do not grow weary, My beloved. I am here to once again make all things new. I am here to walk among the garden you are in, in the cool of the day. Selah
GOD IS [already] beginning to arise, and His enemies to scatter; let them also who hate Him flee before Him! As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish before the presence of God. But let the [uncompromisingly] righteous be glad; let them be in high spirits and glory before God, yes, let them [jubilantly] rejoice! (Psalms 68:1-3 Amplified)
Prayer
Lord, all that concerns me melts like wax in Your presence for in Your presence there is fullness of joy beyond compare. In the day of trouble You hide me, keep me and defend me. Therefore, I surrender all my troubles one by one into Your capable hands. And while You are doing what You do best I am unfolding in waves of beauty formed in me before the foundations of the world. All the beautiful colors knit in my mother’s womb are coming into view to create a garden for You to walk among in the cool of the day.
My love for You enables me to see others the way You see me, to direct all my energies in a positive life-giving way. My arsenal no longer consists of stones but is supplied by the Word of God, sharper than any two-edged sword. I refuse to look at the speck in my brother’s eye and my heart is submitted to the removal of the log in my own eye. I am regaining my standing and do not grow faint or weary. I am seated in heavenly places and have the mind of Christ in all things and toward all people. Amen
Reflect and Journal
- Today is the day to regain a complete standing of victory and walk in an overcoming attitude. What does this mean to you and what destructive thought processes or habits do you have to let go of, even if it is just giving up on negative ways of thinking about yourself or someone else?
- What does “clothing yourself in purple and fine linen” mean to you personally?
- He calls you a beautiful garden and is there, present to walk among the pathways of your heart? Reflect on this and write what He says to you as He strolls through the cool of your day.
This is what the Master Gardner said to me:
My son, you are one of the most beautiful gardens I’ve ever been in. It’s a joy to be here! Your soil is better than you know and believe because I’ve placed it here. You have allowed the enemy to sow seeds of pain and lies in your garden and you have built fences around these weeds as if they were cherished. That shouldn’t be so! Clinging to weeds brings death! If you let me, I’ll pull down those fences and pull up all the weeds of the lies and deceptions and hurt and wrong mindsets. I am the Master Gardner and am well able to pull up the weeds and the entire root, leaving nothing to spring up again. Those weeds are draining much needed resources from the soil; resources that the good and beautiful plants of love, peace, joy, rest, forgiveness and abundant living need in order to flourish and bear good fruit. These weeds must go NOW, beloved! Allow me…I am pulling up the weeds one by one. As I do, the colors of the good plants deepen. The buds open fully and fruit is being produced right before my eyes. I will now cause the good plant of love to germinate other gardens near you so others in your life may bear good fruit as well. They will sow seeds of love back into your garden and in others. I am doing and will continue to do a good work in you until the day when we will see each other face to face. Until then, rest!