Today’s Reading:
Song of Songs 4
Song of Songs 5
My darling bride, my private paradise, fastened to my heart. A secret spring that no one else can have are you— my bubbling fountain hidden from public view. What a perfect partner to me now that I have you. Your inward life is now sprouting, bringing forth fruit. What a beautiful paradise unfolds within you. When I’m near you, I smell aromas of the finest spice, for many clusters of my exquisite fruit now grow within your inner garden. Here are the nine: pomegranates of passion, henna from heaven, spikenard so sweet, saffron shining, fragrant calamus from the cross, sacred cinnamon, branches of scented woods, myrrh, like tears from a tree, and aloe as eagles ascending. You are a fountain of gardens. A well of living water springs up from within you, like a mountain brook flowing into my heart!
Song of Songs 4:12-15 TPT
I felt a pressure in my chest as I sat with the Lord. I asked Him what it was, then I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
It’s the blossoming and the pressure of something new bursting forth from your heart. The seeds have been there germinating all along, but today is the day that the pressure of birth is apparent and gives way to new life. My love for you, and your love for Me is birthing something completely new from your heart. It hasn’t been seen before. The fragrance of it has not been released before. It is unfamiliar, but it is beautiful and it is a memorial of our love.
Awake, O north wind! Awake, O south wind! Breathe on my garden with your Spirit-Wind. Stir up the sweet spice of your life within me. Spare nothing as you make me your fruitful garden. Hold nothing back until I release your fragrance. Come walk with me as you walked with Adam in your paradise garden. Come taste the fruits of your life in me.
Song of Songs 4:16 TPT
From this bloom, an unfamiliar fragrance will arise. It is a particular blend of the fragrance of Lord, divine revelation, prophecy, communion with the Lord, love and purity — and it will catch in the wind. It will ride on the breeze, and it will arrest those whom the fragrance hits. It will stun them, and they will say, “I’ve been hit. And it’s as if I have been with the Lord. Who is this Lord, strong and mighty? Who is this King of Glory? I have never seen Him or known Him, but the fragrance has arrested me, and now I know He’s real. Now I must find the source of this fragrance. I must meet this one who has been with the Lord, so I can meet the Lord too.”
Your prayers come up to Me as incense, but your love for Me and My love for you births something. It births something tangible that draws many to My table. It awakens desire in many, because the fragrance of this mutual love is evidence of My realness, is evidence that I Am knowable and that I Am love itself.
I have gathered from your heart, my equal, my bride, I have gathered from my garden all my sacred spices—even my myrrh. I have tasted and enjoyed my wine within you. I have tasted with pleasure my pure milk, my honeycomb, which you yield to me. I delight in gathering my sacred spice, all the fruits of my life I have gathered from within you, my paradise garden. Come, all my friends— feast upon my bride, all you revelers of my palace. Feast on her, my lovers! Drink and drink, and drink again, until you can take no more. Drink the wine of her love. Take all you desire, you priests. My life within her will become your feast.
Song of Songs 5:1 TPT
Watch as I birth something new from you, straight from your heart. It will be born of mutual love. It will be born from communion, divine revelation, purity and prophecy. Pay attention to those prophetic words and prophetic dreams, they may be birthing forth from your heart in the shape of this very new thing right now. It’s all to draw men unto Myself. It’s to delight and amaze you. It’s to bring great joy and satisfaction to you. This is a facet and a manifestation of your divine purpose. It’s coming into being now. It’s being birthed right now.
How to Respond
- Live in the awe, wonder and pleasure of the presence of the Lord. Expect Him to delight you, because you love Him.
- Pray, Holy Spirit thank You that You are birthing something new in me and from me right now. This is not something I need to work to birth. It is coming forth because of love. Help me recognize it and to enjoy it. Help me to know how to steward it once it arrives.
- Declare, the Lord Jesus is the sprouting vine, and I am a branch. As I live in union with Him as my source, fruitfulness will stream from within me. (John 15:5)
- Decree, my love for the Lord and His love for me are birthing something new from my heart right now. It will release a fragrance that draws men to the Lord and convinces them that He is real, He is knowable, and He is love. I will listen for the instruction of the Lord on how to care for and steward this new thing that He is birthing in me and through me.
For more encouragement from The Glory & the New Wine, check out the post from this day in years past:
2023: We Are Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
2022: Resurrection, Revival & Refreshing
2021: Purify and Protect Your Land
