Today’s Readings:
Philippians 3
Psalm 68
Isaiah 43
18 “Stop dwelling on the past.
Isaiah 43:18-19
Don’t even remember these former things.
19 I am doing something brand new, something unheard of.
Even now it sprouts and grows and matures.
Don’t you perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
and open up flowing streams in the desert.
The Lord says,
Do you feel My love rising in your heart? Do you feel the hope I’ve deposited inside of you rising? Do you feel the burning in your cheeks because of the wide smile My Presence, My joy, My love is causing to spread across your face?
Do you feel the anticipation rising? The excitement? It’s as if you can peer over this page and look into the new chapter that I Am writing. Can you see it? Can you perceive it? I Am doing a new thing. It is springing up all around you. It’s not visible yet. It’s just below the surface. It’s just on the next page.
3 But let all the righteous be glad!
Psalm 68:3
Yes, let them all rejoice in your presence
and be carried away with gladness.
Let them laugh and be radiant with joy!
I Am causing excitement and energy, anticipation, hope and joy to rise in the hearts of My people. I Am lifting the weariness from their spirits. The battle has been long and often invisible. The fight has been relentless. The fight for your heart, the fight for your mindset and the territory of your mind, the fight for your expectations and your affections, the fight for truth. All of this has been going on in the unseen realm, and you are winning the battle. You have clung to Me. You have held on, and I Am reviving your heart, mind and spirit in this hour. Thank you for holding on. Well done to you for holding on. Can you feel the surge of My power through your veins? Can you feel the hope spreading throughout your body? This is a new day. I Am doing a new thing. If you weren’t here to witness it, if you weren’t here to experience it, you’d never believe it. But here I Am. And here I will. I will accomplish what I’ve determined in My heart to do. I will reign victorious, as I always have. These plans that I have purposed in My heart from the foundation of the world, I will cause to take place now.
15–16 O huge, magnificent mountain,
Psalm 68:15-17
you are the mighty kingdom of God!
All the other peaks, though impressive and imposing,
look with envy on you, Mount Zion!
For Zion is the mountain where God has chosen to live forever.
17 Look! The mighty chariots of God!
Ten thousands upon ten thousands,
more than anyone could ever number.
God is at the front,
leading them all from Mount Sinai into his sanctuary
with the radiance of holiness upon him.
You will see My radiance. You will experience a measure of Me like no other generation has. You will be struck by the brilliance of My Presence and the ever increasing reality of My glory.
Healing happens in the glory. Repentance happens in the glory. Only truth can remain. All lies are burnt up in the presence of My glory. Only the real essence of a person can be in the presence of My glory. No falsehood, no facades, no deceit, nothing but the true, authentic, genuine essence of a person can remain in the presence of My glory. You may bring other baggage and ambitions and personality coverings and identity badges with you. But none of it can remain in the light of My glory.
We are moving to a stripping down to the essentials, to the core, to the true and singular essence of My creation. This stripping away, this burning up of all the things that got added — whether good, bad or neutral — will lead to the most pure form of freedom the Earth has seen outside of Eden. We are going back to a form and a type of Eden – as individuals and as society. This is what you can peer over into the next page and see. It’s not pages away. It is the very next page.
12 I admit that I haven’t yet acquired the absolute fullness that I’m pursuing, but I run with passion into his abundance so that I may reach the purpose for which Christ Jesus laid hold of me to make me his own. 13 I don’t depend on my own strength to accomplish this; however I do have one compelling focus: I forget all of the past as I fasten my heart to the future instead. 14 I run straight for the divine invitation of reaching the heavenly goal and gaining the victory-prize through the anointing of Jesus.
Philippians 3:12-14
Be holy, therefore as I Am holy. Purify yourself, so the purification process is simpler. Humble yourself, so the humbling process is practiced. Much will change and be forgotten or burnt up in the presence of My glory.
7 O Lord, it was you who marched in front of your people,
Psalm 68:7
leading them through the wasteland.
Pause in his presence
We are marching steadily toward this new page, this new chapter, this new era. Do the work I have put in your hands for this moment, this day, this season. Hold loosely to what you view to be your callings, your identity outside/beyond Me and your expectations for what the future might look like. Hold loosely to these, because the world is changing. I Am changing the world, and you need to be agile to adapt to what I Am doing.
Release the strong grip that your mind has on what your future or what the world will look like. I Am telling you now, it will be different. But it will be glorious, and it will be unparalleled. So don’t fear and don’t hesitate to keep marching forward with Me. These are incredible days to be alive. These are uncharted waters.
How to Respond
- Ask the Lord for a glimpse of the next page and chapter for you personally and for the world.
- Ask for a revelation of His Glory.
- Reflect and spend time purposefully releasing those things that you call yourself but are not the essential core of who the Lord made you as a person – not a profession, not a perception. Release all of those auxiliary pieces of identity to the Lord. Release your expectations and ask the Lord to fill your heart and your being with hope and anticipation.
- Ask the Lord to search your heart to highlight any area where you need repentance and purification.
- Choose to walk in humility and to approach situations that arise from a posture of humility. This is a discipline. It requires practice.
- Declare that the Lord is moving in power.
- Declare that the arrival of the Lord’s glory to the Earth has begun and is increasing.
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