Today’s Reading:
Psalm 37
Keep trusting in the Lord and do what is right in his eyes. Fix your heart on the promises of God, and you will dwell in the land, feasting on his faithfulness.
Psalms 37:3 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living God of endless love say,
This is a year of submission. This is a year of laying all things down, of spreading all that you have and all that you are before me in love, in surrender and in trust — trust that I have not led you this far to fail you, trust that it has not all been for nothing, trust that the lessons, the skills and the pieces have purpose and meaning, and they will have a place in your future. This is a year where My abundant, overwhelming grace is poured out to enable your greater measure, your fullest measure of surrender. Lay your life before me as in an open field. Hold tightly to nothing, and fix your eyes on Me. I will make your path straight.
Find your delight and true pleasure in Yahweh, and he will give you what you desire the most. Give God the right to direct your life, and as you trust him along the way, you’ll find he pulled it off perfectly!
Psalms 37:4-5 TPT
I will braid and weave the pieces of your life together in a way you could have never fathomed, in a way that even as I start to pull them together you will say, “Lord, that doesn’t make sense.” And I will say, watch and wait. I am twining together pieces of your life you thought were fragments, unusable or happenstance. Nothing has been by chance, and nothing will go to waste. I can use it all, and I do. You will see the underside of the tapestry. You will see the beginning connections and twining that seem to not make any sense. But as I continue to create and weave the pieces of your life together anew, you will find that I pulled it off perfectly. You will find that I made something so beautiful, so astonishing, so tightly knit and unexpectedly tailor-made for you, that you will be in amazement. You will say, “look what the hands of the Lord have done in my life! It is astonishing how well He knows every moment, every trial, every test, every joy and every delight of my life. He has woven them together now with such purpose and meaning that I could not have put these pieces together in a million years on my own if I tried! But the Lord has done it, because He loves me, because He knows me, because He made me just like this, just for this.”
When Yahweh delights in how you live your life, he establishes your every step.
Psalms 37:23 TPT
I will accomplish My purposes through you this year in a new and fresh way. And you will feel it in the moment. You will understand that you are in fact walking in the destiny and purposes of God. You will know that your feet are in the wheel tracks of My chariot, and you will feel the joy and elation of one whose heart’s cries have been answered.
As you walk, as you obey, as you love, as you serve, as you give, as you go, you will see the fingerprints of My design all over your life, all over your days, and you will see how these fingerprints of Mine connect to the deepest places of your heart with strings that are being plucked by use, by activation. The things that I do in your life this year will cause a new melody of joy and rapt fulfillment, of astonished wonder, gratitude and love to spill forth right from your heart. The weaving, braiding, twining I Am doing in your life as you lay it all down, as you submit it all willingly as a beautiful sacrifice before me is pulling something together that will astonish you and that will cause a new song, a new melody a whole new sound to come forth joyously and gratefully form your heart. My grace is sufficient for your surrender.
How to Respond
- Choose to trust and obey the Lord fully. Lay all of the pieces of your life before Him.
- Pray, Holy Spirit come and breathe on all of the pieces of my life. You are the God who makes all things beautiful in their time. You are the Master Builder, the Author and Perfecter of my faith. Have Your way with my life. I trust you to do something astonishingly wonderful and good with it that moves me into destiny and accomplishes Your purposes.
- Declare, Trust in the Lord with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight. – Proverbs 3:5-6
- Decree, The Lord is moving me into purpose and destiny through the place of surrender that is enabled by His abundant grace. As I lay out all of the pieces of my life before the Lord in surrender and trust, I will see that He creates something new and beautiful and infinitely meaningful to me from it.
For more encouragement from The Glory & the New Wine, check out the post from this day in years past:
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