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Reconnected Life

During study time with our Lord very recently, He revealed to me that we’re moving into an appointed time of great, widespread redemption. 

Therefore, watch for pivotal moments and markers that’ll shift every facet of your life. 

God will work blessings into your life, especially through family, to rebuild Godly legacy and all that this means. It’ll happen in His way and not by our simple logic. 

Some will come through immediate family, some through God’s family-at-large and some through reconnected and new family members.

It’s right before us. So, remain on course with fierce focus.

Shake off the depression, the discouragement, the disappointments and distractions. They’re dead and gone and have no place forward. 

Bring your mind and determination into submission to God and let Him renew it all. Do not be grieved or be deceived. Instead, be strong in Him and be ready. 

God’s mega pivots will happen in single days over short periods of time, and they’ll be life-changing. 

We’ll actually have to release some things to regain better things, since God is disconnecting us from what has served its divine purposes. He’ll also reconnect us in new assignments to fulfill His purpose of expanse. 

The latter will be greater (Ha 2:9). It’ll be in season and, therefore, sweet. It’ll be better than what we’ve known before.

God is in this shift. He has it and He has you. You can do it with Him. So, be steadfast and go when the time comes, leaving all else to Him. 

He has empowered and equipped you to be a beacon, so you have what it takes. He has enabled you to exercise the great faith of Abraham that He has instilled in you for this newness before you. 

God will make it work on your behalf for legacy purposes. He has commissioned you, according to His plan.

It’ll look unique for each person, but all are called and assigned to bring new life wherever He directs. 

There’ll be an appropriate provision of resources to fulfill life-long, God-given dreams and desires of the heart for all of God’s sent ones. 

For some, it’ll include houses they didn’t build and are assigned to rebuild and restore physically, as well as spiritually for generations to come. 

Like Nehemiah, God will give these sent and assigned ones a heart to see it to completion. There’ll be a deep restoration of heart as they do the work, and they’ll experience His supernatural power to carry out the mission. 

For God’s generous ones, there’ll be open-door opportunities to give to their heart’s greatest desires. Holy Spirit will show them the way through the process to fulfill their life-long promises from Him, to Him and with Him. 

For the neglected ones, there’ll be a lifting and a restoration of family. But it’ll happen God’s way and include family members of His choosing. 

It’ll be different than in previous seasons. There’ll be a God-ordained repositioning of people. There’ll also be outward healings and creative miracles of restoration to facilitate this. So, it’s important to go with the will of God, even if it doesn’t look like what you thought. 

There’ll be promotion after promotion that’ll happen in uncommon ways. So, be wise to set your mind on God and not on your own understanding. It’s critical to depend entirely on Him and not on anyone else, because God is doing a new thing that’ll rest on every area of life. 

And we must depend on Him for it all. 

As you’ve drawn near to God, there’ll be a drawing together of the fragments of life into a more complete whole; and you’ll not only be a witness to it, you’ll have a role in it. Where God has been working “it” for good, the good will come into place and flow like a river from a supernatural confluence.

And it’ll be enjoyable. 

There’ll be rejoice amid the work to do. It’ll be a joy and not a heavy burden, because this is what you’ve waited for and have been prepared for.

Even amid the work, you’ll unpack and exhale. You’ll experience progress that’ll spur you onward. It’ll bring a smile to your face again to be released to work with God like this. It’ll be a joy and bring healing to the soul. 

A key component is contentment right now, today, because this is what God will honor forward. And you want to be in the ready position to experience the good, better and more whole life that He offers.

So, leave any and all lesser things behind, no matter what they are and how they came about. They cannot compare to where God is sending you. 

All of what seemed foolish from the past will fall away in the new spaces and places at God’s table. And any affliction, handled God’s way, will only advance His purposes.

To Him be all glory, honor and praise. Amen.

This devo was graciously re-posted by the Salem Web Network, which includes iBelieve.com.

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Reel Life Saving Grace

God can save us, even from ourselves. 

When life sends us reeling, He’s there to catch us, re-set us, renew and restore us and even re-establish us. There’s so much redemption available to us right now and forward. 

But, at some point, to reach our God-given destinies, we must choose to process life God’s way. Because, when we try to do it our way, we leave out the grace Jesus died to give us. 

And that’s huge. 

This lack of grace, as favor and power, is what causes our frustration and bitterness; and the enemy can use our ungodly striving to wear us out.

If we aren’t wise to this truth, we can live life feeling powerless and blaming others, thinking they’re the source of our problems. We can lose our focus, get off course and get stuck in the enemy’s vortex, as we watch others get ahead. We could even retaliate and bring more destruction on ourselves.

Maybe you know someone like this or, perhaps, you’ve been there. I know I have. 

So, what’s important to realize is that God’s grace is for life here and now on earth, not solely for getting us to Heaven when life here is over. Grace is what helps us in practical, everyday matters. 

We can choose to believe in the grace of Jesus to help us at all times and have an attitude of abundant life. We can choose to never listen to the voice of lack.

This is freedom that positions us to receive God’s provision. 

All we have to do is believe and remind ourselves that His grace is already here and call on the Name of Jesus. Have you ever prayed, “Lord, release Your grace upon grace to me?”

I call forth grace and mercy over my own life and other people’s situations a lot.

I recall a time when I worked hard on what seemed like a never-ending project. I knew I was doing what Holy Spirit directed me to do. But I felt I had to constantly push against spiritual resistance, literally for years. I often felt like I wasn’t moving forward fast enough. 

Well, it wasn’t until I threw up my hands and said to God, “I’m done” that I felt a greater measure of His grace release to me for this project.

To be honest, I was upset with God for not doing it sooner! I mean, it would’ve made my job a lot easier! But when I reminded myself that He’s never the problem and always the solution, I owned it and I realized that God cares more about me knowing Him and submitting to Him and His ways in the project than trying to meet a deadline out of fear.

God’s truth is that His grace is much kinder than fear, and He desires we know His gracious nature and rejoice in it with Him. This was the first time I came to know His grace as divine intimacy in my work assignment.

Having worked in the field of journalism over the years, being deadline driven had become my second nature. Of course, once I received an assignment from my editor, I would pray first and ask Holy Spirit to lead me to His best resources for my stories. But then, I would run lightning fast with it until it was finished . . . again out of fear.

But this time, God was bringing an end to that fear. He was doing something new in me. And isn’t that how our race goes? Just when something becomes familiar, God does something new that causes us to reach higher for Him out of desperation. 

He doesn’t leave us where we are. And He will, in fact, bring us to the end of ourselves. 

I’ve learned, as I hope you have, too, that this is growth in His grace because we need it. We need more of Him. Always. In every area of our lives. And He knows it.

If we aren’t very familiar with His grace, we can ask Holy Spirit for a revelation of it.

In this regard, I’m inclined to think of King Solomon. At the outset of his reign, he knew he didn’t know enough. Even with King David as his father and mentor, Solomon still needed more (2 Ch 1:5-13).

So, Solomon humbled himself before God, sought Him and made a generous offering. God, in turn, met him with a private invitation to provision, instructing him to “Ask what I shall give you.”

King Solomon ultimately received God’s grace for wisdom and knowledge that affected his nation and beyond. We’re still talking about it today. 

Likewise, let’s honor God and remember Psalm 67:1-2 ESV, which says, “May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.”

And the next time life sends you reeling, I encourage you to not chug along by yourself in your own strength. Instead, beseech God for His grace-power to save you from yourself and your circumstances in your new assignments. 

Believe that His ways are higher; and just humble yourself and ask for His help, like King Solomon. We can do it when we trust Him enough to receive it. 

So, “Do you believe in God’s grace to rescue you from your heaviness today?” And, if so, are you willing to ask Him for it? 

Pray with me . . . 

Dear Heavenly Father, 

We rejoice in Your gracious nature to help us. We ask for a greater revelation of Your grace for each of us in our divine assignments. Help us to know You more in Your God speed.

To You be all glory, honor and praise.

In Jesus’ Mighty Name,

Amen.

This devo was graciously re-posted by the Salem Web Network, which includes iBelieve.com.

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Close Out

During quiet time recently, Holy Spirit revealed to me that we’re coming into a time of “judgment” and “settlement.” The gavel of God is falling, and He’s so kind to warn us.

There are going to be releases and reinstatements. Relocations and redemptive relationships. And everyone must rise.

God is bringing a close to resistance and strongholds for many who have struggled for a long time. Where the enemy tried to close in on His beloved like a shark, God is shutting him out. 

God is a closer.

I was reminded of a popular baseball closer, named Craig Kimbrel, who was once with the Atlanta Braves. Craig threw so fast and hard, he was nicknamed Flamethrower and was credited with a high number of saves.

Fans knew that when Flamethrower was announced at the ballpark, it was game over. Crowds went wild. Lights blazed and sirens sounded as Craig walked onto the field. 

He would take his position on the mound, throw a few fastballs and strike out the opposition. Craig, the flamethrower, made it look easy. And he didn’t even get dirty.

Similarly, God has been warming up to save His people from long-term opposition. We’re upon a time now when God will reverse the flame right back to the enemy’s camp, shutting out the gas-lighting spirit and fast-tracking His people forward into greater good.

The key is to be found faithful, and Holy Spirit reminded me that faithfulness comes after repentance.

Therefore, now would be a good time to make an intentional effort to invite Him to search our hearts and repent of any wrongdoing He convicts us of. 

This may include any flesh reactions to afflictions, such as bad attitudes, sharp words, inappropriate judgments, unforgiveness and the self-justification of it all.

For those who have knowingly and willingly afflicted others, Holy Spirit revealed to me that He’s turning His “nope” into “hope” when they lay down their resistance and repent. 

Holy Spirit was especially referring to the masked ones, who have “a form of godliness but deny its power” (2 Ti 3:5). And lukewarm believers with divided hearts, who are holding onto their own ways, while attempting relationship with Him and others. 

Revelation 3:16 reminds us that God will spit them out of His mouth. Remember, too, that “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble,” according to James 4:6. 

He has been looking at our hearts to rightly judge along His full spectrum of justice. He’s looking for those to bless and determining where they need to be and with whom (2 Ch 16:9).

Very soon, those who do not walk closely with God may be surprised, or even shocked, at their outcomes. 

It’s time to lay down the false gods, including the god of self, and remember that the only way we can please God is by authentic faith in Him. 

Jesus wasn’t selfish. His attitude was to save a world of other people at His expense. His heart was dedicated to our Heavenly Father and His purposes.

Holy Spirit also impressed my heart that there are some Jacobs, who will finally receive more of their outward blessings of Abraham. Their wrestle has come to an end and it will be no more. God is flaming out their spirit of defeat. 

In general, where the opposition may have tried to preclude God’s people, which was to make life impossible through consequences and rule-out blessings in advance, God has overruled and overturned the impossible.

Where the opposition may have tried to exclude God’s people in the past, which was to bar them from participation, consideration or inclusion, Holy Spirit is inviting them closer to receive even better than what they had before. 

Where the opposition may have tried to close in, which was to oppress and isolate God’s people, Holy Spirit has turned their experience into incubation for transformation and is now bringing them into new arenas for outward expressions of exponential blessing.

God doesn’t want to leave anyone out.

He has already been working to establish new boundaries. He’s even about to bring some properties to close and settle some long-awaited promises. Already, He’s opening the eyes of decision-makers to His truth that’ll cause them to make new decisions in favor of His beloved.

A key strategy in all of this, in addition to coming closer to God and getting our hearts right with Him, is to let Him work it out His way and in His time. 

It won’t be long now.

Pretty soon, many will realize that God has, indeed, heard their cries during their patient wait in affliction (Ps 40:1).

To Him be all glory, honor and praise. Amen.

This devo was graciously re-posted by the Salem Web Network, which includes iBelieve.com.

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A New Path

Very recently, in the late afternoon, I walked up to my kitchen window and an unusual movement caught my eye. It was a large owl struggling to reach for something beneath a thick layer of ground cover. When the owl saw me, it flew up into a tall tree next door. 

I sensed in my spirit that our Lord was using this symbol of nature to reveal something more to me. So, I asked Him what He desired I know. 

He led me to a key scripture, which was Ecclesiastes 7:11. It says, “Wisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing and benefits those who see the sun” (NIV). 

A few days later, Holy Spirit awakened me early in the morning. As I stood looking out the same window, I saw the light of dawn stream through the trees—beyond where the owl had been—highlighting a new path in the most peaceful, inviting way (Ja 5:11).

With this, our Lord spoke a message to my heart for whosoever:

There is a new path of righteousness opening up for you as you continue to work with Me to bring new order right where you are. The way there is insight and diligence in this order. 

Can you see the light streaming through the edge of the wilderness, showing you the new way to go? Inviting you to join Me there and explore it with Me? 

I AM giving you an entrance onto your new path to righteous fruit. 

Until now, you have seen this in your imagination as I have revealed it to you. But going forward, you will experience more of the outworking of My awesome wonders.

The work I have done in your heart to enable you to see as I see is, in itself, an awesome wonder of light and life. And now, My light in you is drawn to this new path.

It’ll be better than you know now, because I’ll reveal more to you as you join Me. And it’ll happen in ways that once seemed far-reaching and even impossible for so long. 

I have required of you to lay down the limits of value and vision you’ve lived under for a long time that will be no more. To you, they seemed small and unimportant to Me. But I can make small things great in My Kingdom, and I have greatness for you.

As you continue to lay down that which I require of you, I’ll open new doors for much better and much bigger. For I AM continuing to grow you and causing you to build with Me. And I AM also causing that which never should have been to fall away completely. 

What hindered you in the past will not go with you. 

As you have sought My face, I AM giving you a new face, a new countenance of assuredness, a new posture with which to face the new world you are coming increasingly into. Nothing can dis-pose you as you walk with Me.

Just as I have turned darkness to light for you, I have new appointments for you forward. The time is very near for you to enter into new partnerships that will produce righteous fruit. So, continue to lay down all the dis-appointments of your past and step into your re-appointments for My glory. 

Be glad for the benefits I have for you and don’t reject them out of false guilt. You are forgiven and anointed and appointed. You are about to experience, increasingly, My redemption in your everyday life—a new fullness of joy and multiplicity. 

You have come through the preparation by revelation of My truth. And now, it’s time for you to come into the outward elevation, which is your redeemed future.

You will be able to withstand the new light, as you make Me your first Light. I’ll remain with you, so position yourself with Me. Let there be no dis-position. Continue to resist sin all the way to the finish line of your transition and receive My blessings.

Friends, pray with me if you will . . . 

Dear Lord,

Thank You for who You are, for Your redemptive nature to rescue and bless me. Thank You for inviting me onto your new, righteous path. I choose to join You there, full of light and life, Your beauty and peace (Jn 9:5). Thank You for enabling me, by Your generous grace of wisdom, to experience it all with You (Ja 1:5 TPT).

In Jesus’ Mighty Name, 

Amen. 

This devo was graciously re-posted by the Salem Web Network, which includes iBelieve.com.

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Fighting Away

Have you noticed that your old fights have lessened as you’ve come increasingly into God’s wisdom (Ja 4:1)? 

I’m amazed how God lightens our loads and brings change for the better as our hearts are made more right with Him—when all we feel toward past afflicters is mercy; and He releases us into more of His joy and glory, as we keep our eyes on Him.

Holy Spirit is breaking open His greater glory for those who’ve had to fight through, reminiscent of Jesus on the cross when He realized a glimpse of the joy set before Him, saying, “Forgive them for they know not what they are doing” (Lk 23:34). 

The finish line is where the value of purposed tribulation is broken open and realized. It’s where God releases His greater good exponentially.

He has made us ready for the outward shift into a more glorious realm.

In particular, this is a time where we’ll come to know God as our burden bearer in a new way. There’s a lifting happening, where we’ll experience His faithfulness to meet needs more swiftly in the outworking of His promises. 

It’s a new time and place of awesome wonder, where we can put our trust in Him to prove out what He has done in us behind the scenes.

Even as Jesus asked that the cup be taken from Him and then intentionally submitted to Heavenly Father’s process for the greater glory, Father God has seen our yield to His ways and has firmly decided that it’s enough (Matt 26:39).

God has grown us into His appointed time and place that are in eyeshot before us. Within nine months, many will be fully released from what God has been working for them all along. 

Believe it.

Just as Jesus’ journey began in a humble setting and ended on high, so, too, will Holy Spirit lead us to follow His path to completion for a new beginning. Former assignments will end, leaving us with exponentially more than where we began. To this, God will add even more forward to offer all that’s needed to flourish in new assignments. They will involve a distinct ending and a distinct new beginning at two separate times. 

Regarding our former places and times, I hear The Lord say, “Don’t worry about what was or what could have been or should have been. This is the enemy’s trap. For I have made you wiser, so continue to follow My wisdom and leave all else to Me.”

God is exalting many with a powerful new mantle to see miraculous breakthrough for others forward. What has been hard for them will be made easy as God’s power flows through His anointed ones. 

Those who reach for God will receive their rescue. And it will be mighty.

I hear the Lord say, “I have built you for this and you are ready. You will be in position to help others fight the good fight of faith and experience breakthrough, because I have taught you firsthand how to do it. You will hear My voice and understand what to do next. Your new prayer will be, ‘Lord, in it all, make them stronger in You as You have made me.’ For I AM the One who saves and I shall rescue them.”

I hear The Lord say that He has commissioned you to go forth and do as He would do. He has given you the breaker anointing to see others set free. And it will be a joy to your heart, as it is to His. 

I hear The Lord say that “There is a holy ease to your new assignments. Darkness will tremble when you walk in. It will fall away as you are led by Me and continue to follow Me. Just as I delivered you out of places of darkness, it will have no place in them. You will walk in victory, as I AM victory and have set victory before you. I have made you into My Joshua and you will go forth and win battle after battle, as you continue to obey Me. For there is no lack in My victory.”

I sense God is also forewarning us to be mindful to not step into invitations that are not of Him, like the proposition the Gibeonites made to Joshua. God is under no obligation to fight such entanglements, because He doesn’t honor the idolatry of ways outside of His own. It must be HIS plan with His orders all of the way. So, let’s not endanger ourselves or mislead others by getting off course to “help” in ways that are not specifically of God for us.

He and His ways are enough. He has preserved us for such a time as this, and we can do it with Him. We need only to believe, take courage and step out with Him.

So, Lord, let it all be according to Your will. Lead us and show us the way to go. To You be all glory, honor and praise. Amen.

This devo was graciously re-posted by the Salem Web Network, which includes iBelieve.com.