Today’s Readings:
Psalm 121
Psalm 125
Isaiah 62
I lift up my eyes to the hills.
Psalm 121:1-4
From where does my help come?
2 My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
3 He will not let your foot be moved;
he who keeps you will not slumber.
4 Behold, he who keeps Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
Lean on The Lord
The Lord says,
Rest in Me. Lean on Me. Find great comfort and strength for today in Me. I Am your champion, your defender, and a mighty strong tower for you to run to. You’re not doing this alone. You don’t need to rely on yourself, your own strength, the force of your own will or your own mind. Lean on Me. I never weary or weaken. I don’t sleep. I’m always working on your behalf. I’m always here for you. Lean into Me. Put your cares and your hopes and your disappointments and all of your trust on Me. I Am strong enough. I Am capable. I Am willing. And I Am more than able to carry these and you through into a new day, into My light, into renewal, refreshing and rebirth.
2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
Psalm 125:2
so the Lord surrounds his people,
from this time forth and forevermore.
Take your worries and your cares, and hand them to Me, even as you lean on Me. I Am here, and I Am not going anywhere. I will not leave your side. I Am the source of all comfort, the Giver of light, life, hope, joy and a future. Rest in Me. Lean on Me. I will get you there. One step and then the next. You will arrive to that bright shining new day.
You build your trust in Me by exercising your faith. You build and strengthen your faith by reading My word out loud, by singing songs of praise, of worship, by declaring and recounting My faithfulness, by sharing and living out loud a lifestyle of thanksgiving. All of this bolsters your trust, exercises and strengthens your faith and enables you to carry the test of today in confidence, without wavering, without giving into doubt, fear or despair. Living in faith causes you to reflect the light of My countenance and My glory. It doesn’t look like hand wringing and and stress related health problems. It looks like a ray of sunshine coming forth from you. Daily reset. Daily rebase your hope, your trust, your faith in Me. This is the way forward. In Me.
12 They will be called His Holy People,
Isaiah 62:12
The Redeemed of Yahweh.
And you will be known as Those Whom God Loves,
A City Not Abandoned.
Marked By the Lord’s Love
The Lord says,
I Am pouring out My great love upon the people. I Am pouring it out generously and without reservation or conservation. I Am pouring out My love upon the people. And they are feeling the touch of My love dripping on them as oil, as paint, as a spring rain. I Am anointing them with My love as with oil. I Am marking them with My love as with brightly colored paints from Heaven. I Am refreshing them with My love as with a spring rain.
Those marked by My love will appear different. They will appear friendly and hospitable and attractive because of the magnetism in My love that is not only living within them, but rests on them and marks them. I Am doing this for the harvest. Those marked by My love with the paint of Heaven are the reapers. They are to be as great magnets for the ones of the harvest. The harvest will be drawn to these ones marked by My love, and their role is to share My love, to be available — not to scurry away or let their to-do list eclipse the opportunity to share love, to show kindness, to plant a seed to pray for healing or to fully reap the ones ripe for harvest. This will happen in common places. This will happen in errand running and your daily life. Make space for engaging the walking harvest.
You are marked by My love, and they will be seeking you out because they are looking for Me.
Live a slower more open life, so you can tend to the harvest. This is a delicate and wild, strange and beautiful time. Just embrace it all. Don’t fear man. Don’t fear offense. Don’t fear misunderstanding. The fields are ripe and the harvest are walking around looking to be plucked up by a reaper who can share My grace — the pure and simple, unadulterated Gospel. Truth is key. Honesty is key. Unvarnished and unrehearsed is key. Because authenticity is key. I have written the truth in your heart. Speak it as you encounter the walking breathing harvest.
How to Respond
- Rest in the Lord.
- Have a daily reset with the Lord to re-anchor yourself and your trust in Him.
- Declare that you are not trusting in yourself. Your hope and trust is in the Lord God Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth.
- Receive the generous outpouring of the Father’s love.
- Rejoice and call forth the harvest.
- Live life a little slower. Make room for strangers who need to receive small and big acts of kindness.
- Live life more open. Welcome those in who are seeking and wandering and looking for hope. Introduce them to the Life Changer and Life Giver, Jesus.
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