Word of the Day
Beautiful One, take some time and come into the secret place. Put down the cares of this life for a moment or two. A moment to Me can be like a thousand days. A moment with Me can change a thousand of your other days…a thousand of your other moments. Come into the tabernacle of My heart…come into tabernacled grace.
Sometimes it is easy to always look at Me as being one on the outside…to look for Me off in some distant place. I do say, “Look to the Lord”; but, don’t get hung up on semantics for I dwell in you. I am the beating of your heart and the breath of your life. Your life is hidden in Mine (Colossians 3:3)
Beloved, once you were part of the world and now you are a whole new race…a whole new being…a whole new creation( 2 Corinthians 5:17). You are not of this world but are a citizen of Heaven. Your true abode…your true home is Heaven. Don’t look for Me as somewhere out there afar off when I dwell in you. You contain the fullness of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and have been set apart for Me (Colossians 1:6 Amplified; Ephesians 2:19).
Therefore, cast all your cares on Me and come into My Presence. Yes My Beloved, take some time to be with Me and envision your cares floating away like feathers in the breeze. Give them to Me and in exchange, I will give you all the necessary well-tailored help I have created and ordained just for you. When you do this, the cares of this life will shed like a snake sheds its skin in order to grow.
Beloved I am calling the new you…the new creature…the new citizen created at your salvation to emerge in this hour and time. I am calling you forth into the light with a fresh freedom that dances in the never-ending graces of My heart. Know this, mercy cloaks you…covers you. Heaviness, burdens and the tendency to perform are being removed and replaced with the revelations of tabernacled grace.
They are not of the world (worldly, belonging to the world), [just] as I am not of the world. (John 17:16 Amplified)
Therefore you are no longer outsiders (exiles, migrants, and aliens, excluded from the rights of citizens), but you now share citizenship with the saints (God’s own people, consecrated and set apart for Himself); and you belong to God’s [own] household. (Ephesians 2:19 Amplified)
IF THEN you have been raised with Christ [to a new life, thus sharing His resurrection from the dead], aim at and seek the [rich, eternal treasures] that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. And set your minds and keep them set on what is above (the higher things), not on the things that are on the earth. For [as far as this world is concerned] you have died, and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God (Colossians 3:1-3 Amplified)
Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come! (2 Corinthians 5:17 Amplified)
Prayer
Lord, I am indeed your beautiful one and the desire of Your heart. Sometimes when I look at the things I do and ponder the things I think, it seems so hard to agree with Your assessment of me. I choose to take You at Your Word for I am a new creation in Christ. I do not belong of this world. I may live here; but, I am not of here. My citizenship is in Heaven. I am a whole new creature…a whole new species. My life is hidden in Christ and I am new.
Help me to shift my ways of thinking about You. Help me to realize how close You really are. You are not just far off in some distant place. There is no distance between us for You abide in the depths of me…in my spirit. My soul is being sanctified…is being purified and made whole, healed and delivered. The fullness of the Godhead dwells in me; therefore, the very heart and full potential of all You are is in me. I lack no good thing for I have all of You.
Therefore, I cast all my cares…all my performance based mentality…all my hopes and dreams on You. I give you everything and I come into Your Presence and experience grace…experience the gentle breezes of Your overwhelming love. I come to listen…to hear the beating of Your heart for my life. I come to receive wisdom, knowledge, revelation and understanding into the plans You ordained for my life. I come to receive well-timed help. I shed the troubles of this life…the cares of this life like a snake sheds its skin and I grow into the person You say I already am. Amen.
Reflect and Journal
- What does it mean to you personally to be a tabernacle for the Lord…to be tabernacled in grace?
- Do you find yourself thinking about God or talking to the Lord as if He is someone off at a great distance…only in Heaven or somewhere out there? What do you think might happen in your relationship if you came to the revelation of His ever-present abiding in you according to Colossians 1:6…of being continually hidden in Him according to Colossians 3:3?
- Make a list of cares, worries, doubts, unforgiveness, fears, lies, or unbelief and vocally give them to the Lord. Imagine yourself hidden in a secret place with Him. Hand Him the list and receive in return; Grace.
- What does it mean to you personally to see yourself as a whole new creation…an alien in this world or a whole new species?