Today’s Reading:
Isaiah 40
Jeremiah 29
2 Corinthians 6
Isaiah 40:27-31
Jeremiah 29:11
2 Corinthians 6:11-13
Why, then, O Jacob’s tribes, would you ever complain? And my chosen Israel, why would you say, “Yahweh isn’t paying attention to my situation. He has lost all interest in what happens to me”? Don’t you know? Haven’t you been listening? Yahweh is the one and only everlasting God, the Creator of all you can see and imagine! He never gets weary or worn out. His intelligence is unlimited; he is never puzzled over what to do! He empowers the feeble and infuses the powerless with increasing strength. Even young people faint and get exhausted; athletic ones may stumble and fall. But those who entwine their hearts with Yahweh will experience divine strength. They will rise up on soaring wings and fly like eagles, run their races without growing weary, and walk through life without giving up.
Isaiah 40:27-31 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
I have a place for you in My nest. It is high above the cares of the world. You can rest here with Me. You can see from My perspective. It is also the place from which I expect you to soar. Your vision has gotten too small. Your possibilities have gotten too plain. It’s time to come up here so you can dream bigger, hope higher and expect more than you have been from this grounded place.
Here’s what Yahweh says to you: “I know all about the marvelous destiny I have in store for you, a future planned out in detail. My intention is not to harm you but to surround you with peace and prosperity and to give you a beautiful future, glistening with hope. When you call on me and come to me in prayer, I will listen to your every word. If you reach out to me, you will find me when you search for me with all your heart. I will not disappoint you,” declares Yahweh. “All that you have lost, I will restore, and I will regather you from all the nations where I have scattered you. I will bring you back home to the land from which I exiled you,” declares Yahweh.
Jeremiah 29:11-14 TPT
I have called you and made you to be one whose domain is the heights, whose realm is the heavenlies and the Earth and sea. I’ve made you multidimensional. It’s time to ascend and come up to the great heights, so your vision is reset with the endlessness of the possibilities. It’s time to dream again. It’s time to delight and take great joy in flight again. You have been on the ground for too long. You have been among the grounded ones for too long. It’s time to fly. It’s time to dream. It’s time to soar.
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’s time to cut the fetters that have bound you and kept you low. I’m releasing you to flight. I’m releasing you to soar at the tops of mountains, and you will feel yourself again. You will remember who I made you to be and the domain I made you to occupy. Ho hum days are over. They are only that way if you make them that way. Adventure is your portion. Great grace to soar is your portion. It’s time to rise and fly. Don’t let your heart be weighted down. Don’t let the momentary cares keep you grounded. It’s time to take off all that which hinders. It’s time to take on joy, rise and fly.
How to Respond
- Remove the burdens and concerns that are weighting you down. Give them to the Lord.
- Allow yourself to dream again.
- Pray, Holy Spirit thank You that Your plans for me are good, to give me a future and a hope. Thank You that You have reserved a place for me in Your nest, to see things the way You see them and to open my eyes to vast possibilities and adventure again.
- Declare, great is the Lord and worthy of all glory, honor and praise.
- Decree, I will cut off all that is hindering me from dreaming and seeing from God’s perspective. The Lord has made me to soar, to dream and to live in adventure and unlimited possibilities. I will not be bound by fear or small thinking. I will arise and fly with Him.
For more encouragement from The Glory & the New Wine, check out the post from this day in years past:
2023: Jesus Is the Ancient Foundation and the Only Way Forward
2022: It’s Time to Move & Take the Hill Country
2021: The Lord’s Justice Is Shining & Perfect
