Today’s Reading:
Isaiah 43
Song of Songs 2
Zechariah 4
Stop dwelling on the past. Don’t even remember these former things. 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.
Isaiah 43:18-19 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
A big difference — a big difference in hearts, a big difference in lives. I’m charting a new course in the determined paths in people’s hearts. Hearts have been dead set on a particular direction, but I Am coming in and charting a new course in their hearts. It’s a path that they did not see. It’s a road that they never considered. The path of destiny in your heart — the one that set your soul on fire, the path that made your eyes ablaze with passion and excitement and wonder — this path will seem dull and lackluster when compared to the new path I Am charting right here alongside it in your very own heart.
Can you not discern this new day of destiny breaking forth around you? The early signs of my purposes and plans are bursting forth. The budding vines of new life are now blooming everywhere. The fragrance of their flowers whispers, “There is change in the air.” Arise, my love, my beautiful companion, and run with me to the higher place. For now is the time to arise and come away with me.
Song of Songs 2:10-13 TPT
I’m making a way for things you never considered. I’m stirring and budding dreams. Things are even beginning to sprout now for which you had no grid or concept. Some of these aspects of the new destiny path I have carved out in your heart didn’t exist before, and some don’t exist even yet. This is a time of difference, so things will be, must be by definition different.
I’m setting you on a different course than the way your heart thought it should go, on the way your heart had determined to go, and it will be well with your soul. It will ignite new life in you, and this ignition I Am imparting will launch you like a rocket to the moon. These are days so hilariously different. These are days where the work I bring into your hands will astound you, baffle you and cause you to laugh with wonder. But the most amazing part is that the thing that didn’t exist as a possibility before, the moment it touches your hands from Mine, you will know instinctively what to do with it. Others will marvel in wonder and say how did you know that would work? How did you know what to do? It was by My Holy Spirit that you knew. I wove the knowing, the instinct, the skill into the fiber of your being just as I did with Bezalel.
Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel saying, ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts. ‘What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain; and he will bring forth the top stone with shouts of “Grace, grace to it!”
Zechariah 4:6-7 NASB1995
This is a time of difference where new talents will emerge. They have lain dormant because they didn’t have a reason to exist before now. But now they are coming into utility, and they are coming into their moment where dormancy is no longer required. Blossoming is required. Emerging new life and vitality are required. It will baffle the wise. But I Am the secret. I Am the Answer, the Instructor. And My hidden agenda, My hidden plan will now begin to emerge and take shape in your life. What has seemed like a puzzle, what has felt like a hodgepodge of bits of life here and there will begin to emerge as a beautifully, expertly woven tapestry of life marked by grace.
I Am the Master Craftsman, and the masterpiece of your life is beginning to take shape. What I have been building in My underground workshop will begin to make sense to your untrained eye. And they will say grace, grace to it. All who look on will know that My grace has marked your life and gotten you to this moment where you and all can see its shape, its form. And you will begin to understand its purpose. And they will say, grace. Grace to it.
How to Respond
- Pray, Lord, thank You for Your plans for me, and thank You for Your instruction and grace. Help me to walk humbly and closely to You, so I can step onto the new path You are charting for my life. I don’t want to hesitate, to stumble or to miss a thing. Help me to be quickly and fully obedient the moment You speak.
- Declare, the Lord’s plans and ways are perfect. He’s never failed me yet. He is the potter, I am the clay.
- Decree, These are days of difference, where new opportunities, realities, technologies and possibilities exist that have never existed before. I will walk humbly and closely with the Lord my God. He has charted a new path in my heart that I cannot even see yet. But it will move me into a destiny bigger and more impactful than my wildest dreams. I will not shrink back in fear, but I will move forward in bold confidence with the Lord my God who makes all things possible.
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