Word of the Day
The best way to walk in hope and confidence in who you are in Me is to remember My mercies are new every morning or should I say every moment. I live in your present. Do not see Me as someone who has come or will come but is come. Come live in the present with Me and be amazed for I am truly the one and only. I am the “Now God.”
By living in the present with Me…in knowing you are new in Me and drinking from the wells of salvation with joy. Your fountain of living water will not and cannot be stopped.
Beloved, agree with Me and let the past go. Stand in the present moment with excitement and expectation of the future I have already given you. I am the future and the hope you need to embrace in the little and big things of life.
Never discount My interest in even the smallest thing you take pleasure in or struggle in….from parking lot spaces to matters of life and death…from tears cried in joy or sadness to your delight as you participate in your favorite hobby…from the very beginning of your life to its very end and all things in between…all, yes, all are of great importance to Me…
Fountains will flow from you effortlessly as you rest in Me…as you rest in Me accepting what I have done for you through the gift of My life I have given you. Make things easier on yourself and remember, it is as important to forgive yourself as it is to forgive others.
As you accept and embrace My word and opinion of you, you will burst forth the fountain of My heart. Embrace who I say you are. Waters of life are bubbling with delight as they make their way to the surface of your life. Can you hear them? I can.
Not that I have now attained [this ideal], or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of (grasp) and make my own, that for which Christ Jesus (the Messiah) has laid hold of me and made me His own. I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own [yet]; but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward. Philippians 3:12-14 Amplified)
Prayer
Lord, today I choose to acknowledge that Your mercies are new every morning and they are new for me. You show no partiality to any person, however; you are partial to me because of Your great love. How You love me. I leave the past behind and live in the present moment with You, even if it is just to say Your name. Help me to keep my relationship with You simple by experiencing every moment with the realization You are there. I embrace the life You have given me with and expectation of a future and a hope. All things are forever being made new when I am in You.
Teach me to breathe You in and at the same time breathe out wrong attitudes, unforgiveness toward you, others and my own self. I am a fountain full of Your living water and this day I burst forth with delight and adoration for You and this life You have given me. I can hear You bubbling up within me. Yes and amen.
Reflect and Journal
- Reflect on and define what it means for God to live in your present?
- How can you better take advantage of your “NOW” relationship with Him?
- What mundane or even enjoyable things you are involved in (hobbies and such) that you somehow keep separate from Him without the realization He longs make fun or join in on the fun? Do you think the Lord likes to have fun with you…to join in on the fun you experience? If so, why and if not, why?
- Spend some time with Him and listen for His heart to bubble in you like and underground spring. What is the saying?