Word of the Day
Beloved, I, Christ in you the hope of glory, am flooding precept upon precept into every portion of your life. Like a bubbling fountain and an ever-flowing stream I rise up through the annals and hallways of your life to flood you with My life…to flood you with Christ-Life in the midst of life itself.
I am the Way, the Truth and the Life rising up in you by the power of revelation. I am opening the eyes of your heart to deep and intimate things as I strip away the complexity of serving Me. I am removing all tendencies to walk according to the law and not grace.
Religion itself has no value; but, love born of mercy and grace endears a faith that remains and is not wearisome to maintain. Religion is a taskmaster and I am not. Servants serve out of duty and obligation. Friends give out of love. I would rather have one friend than many servants. I no longer call you servant. I call you friend for a servant does not know what his master is doing. This is not true for you. Just ask and I will answer.
Come, give Me your hand, arise and stand in My Presence. Dance with Me among your dreams, hopes and longings. See your very own transformation from all aspects of religion or law into the glorious freedom of grace.
I will expose every plan of the enemy, bringing them to destruction before your very eyes. Soon My Beloved, very soon, you will look around and everything you see will be new and what is yet unchanged will be seen with new eyes of unwavering faith.
All things shall be delivered in every way, and in no way shall they be even remotely reminiscent to what you see and know today. Freedom for you and your loved ones is rising like dawn under our dancing feet as we dance together on injustice. As a result, freedom is permeating, transforming, creating, recreating, breathing, inhaling and exhaling My life contained inside of you to the very atmosphere of your life and the lives around you. You are My friend indeed.
I do not call you servants (slaves) any longer; for the servant does not know what his master is doing (working out). But I have called you My friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from My Father. [I have revealed to you everything that I have learned from Him.] (John 15:15 Amplified)
For it is by free grace (God’s unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God; (Ephesians 2:8 Amplified)
Prayer
Lord, it is so exciting to have a good friend and even more so to have a good friend like You that I can completely trust. I just want You to know how much I love You and see You as my very best friend. No one else would have ever loved me so unconditionally regardless of my actions or attitudes. How patient and kind You are…so patient and kind that I long to be just like You in thought and deed.
Lord, I want You to know how much I consider it an honor and joy to know You. You are the Way, the Truth, and the Life and at the same time my friend. How awesome is that? It is so awesome that joy springs up in my heart in such abundance it is hard to contain. How great a gift to know…to really know You as my friend. Like a perpetually bubbling foundation the joy in my heart is ever flowing and running over.
Today, I arise and stand in Your Presence. Today I make a new affirmation to take Your hand and walk with You wherever You lead…wherever You desire. While others are stuck, I will be one who dances with You among my dreams and hopes, knowing You are with me in the midst of them all.
Today, I truly am walking into the glorious freedom of grace, away from all duty, all religious letters of the law and all rigid thinking. I walk out into grace…into mercy…into a kindness which leads to repentance. I do not walk into grace with an excuse to do as I please but with a desire to do as You have bid me to come and do. I serve You, not with a servant heart, but with a heart of a friend which loves at all times.
Lord, I thank you for exposing every plan of the enemy and bringing them to destruction as You are glorified in my life. I desire to dance with You for eternity in worship and praise my Redeemer and Lord…my friend. Amen
Reflect and Journal
1. As the Lord floods precept upon precept of love, goodness, grace, mercy, and kindness into every portion of your life, take time to journal and meditate on the revelations He reveals to you. Take each adjective mentioned above and meditate on how He has expressed these things in your life in spite of all you have endured. Think on what is pure, lovely and upright. It is a choice…a choice you can make.
2. God will reveal truth to you. He will also help strip away the complexities of serving Him. What may some of those complexities be in your life? How have you been bound to religion verses relationship?
3. Do you shy away when you feel you have done wrong or offended the Lord? If so you have fallen into the very trap of the enemy and forsaken the wooing of the Lord, for He wants you to run to Him and not away. Grace and mercy are in Him not away from Him.
4. Can you see the contrast between love and relationship with the Lord verses religion? Where does your personal walk with the Lord fit? Is it religious or relational?
5. Write your desire to grow and deepen your walk with the Lord, making a fresh commitment to follow where He leads. Enjoy the dance.