Today’s Reading:
Hebrews 12
2 Corinthians 6
And have you forgotten his encouraging words spoken to you as his children? He said, “My child, don’t underestimate the value of the discipline and training of the Lord God, or get depressed when he has to correct you. For the Lord’s training of your life is the evidence of his faithful love. And when he draws you to himself, it proves you are his delightful child.
Hebrews 12:5-6 TPT
The Spirit of the Living God Who Has Healing In His Wings says,
Grace is dropping from above for change. It’s dropping for refreshing. It’s dropping for inspiration. It’s dropping to bring something new. This drip, drip, drip of My grace from above onto you, into your heart, into your mind, into your situation, onto your hands is to change your scene. It’s to change the way you see things. It’s to open up your vision, open up your expectation, open up your heart, open up the landscape in front of you.
And isn’t it true that we respect our earthly fathers even though they corrected and disciplined us? Then we should demonstrate an even greater respect for God, our spiritual Father, as we submit to his life-giving discipline. Our parents corrected us for the short time of our childhood as it seemed good to them. But God corrects us throughout our lives for our own good, giving us an invitation to share his holiness. Now all discipline seems to be painful at the time, yet later it will produce a transformation of character, bringing a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who yield to it.
Hebrews 12:9-11 TPT
Where you have felt closed in, boxed in and bound, this grace that I Am dripping out onto you from above is to literally open the door of your mind and your situation. It is swinging wide the gates, and it is setting you free from your own constraints — the ones put there by circumstance, lack of vision or just the weight of the world load. Like a saturated dog, I want you to shake off all of those old expectations, all of those old restrictions, all of those thoughts that held you firmly doing things in a certain way while holding a tight grip. I Am, through My abundant grace, busting the doors of your confinement wide open.
Dear, dear Corinthians, I can’t tell you how much I long for you to enter this wide-open, spacious life. We didn’t fence you in. The smallness you feel comes from within you. Your lives aren’t small, but you’re living them in a small way. I’m speaking as plainly as I can and with great affection. Open up your lives. Live openly and expansively!
2 Corinthians 6:11-13 MSG
It is not a downpour. It is a drip, drip, drip, so you can catch one change, one thought, make one change, shift this thing and then the next. This is incremental change that happens progressively, but it will also amount to progressive revelations of freedom. Each change will loosen the chains. Each drop will bring refreshing and cause a pivot, cause a decision, cause a move. And soon you will find yourself in a new posture, in a new mode, in a new place — far removed from the box into which you’d squeezed. You will find yourself in a wide open spacious field whose gates remain open. Through the drip, drip, drip of My abundant very specific grace, I Am bringing you to new freedom.
How to Respond
- Allow the Lord’s drops of grace to nudge you to make needed changes. Though some will be uncomfortable and others painful, these changes will bring greater freedom.
- Pray, Lord, thank You that You never change. Thank You that You don’t allow us to stay the same. Thank You that You are moving through Your deliberate, gentle drips of grace — nudging changes and encouraging pivots and shifts that will bring me to greater freedom in my life — personally and professionally.
- Declare, where the Spirit of the Lord reigns, there is freedom.
- Decree, I will not remain the same. I will yield to and move with the impulses of the Spirit as directed and inspired and introduced by the Lord’s sweet grace in my life. I will remain teachable, correctable and flexible; and I will walk in increasing freedom as I go.
For more encouragement from Glory & the New Wine, check out the post from this day in years past:
2023: America Is Rising from the Ashes
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