Today’s Reading:
Jeremiah 51
5 For neither Israel nor Judah has been forsaken
Jeremiah 51:5
By his God, the Lord of hosts,
Although their land is full of guilt
Before the Holy One of Israel.
The Spirit of the Lord says,
Purify yourself before Me. Put aside false gods, false loves that take your heart and your attention from Me. Rekindle your love for Me. Throw out anything you have picked up that does not align with My heart, My will, My Kingdom, My ways. As You set your heart and your face on Me, the other aspects of your life that are gifts from Me — your family, your spouse, your children, your job — they will prosper. Your relationships will prosper. You will get strategies for prosperity in all aspects of life as you throw off all of the entanglements, distractions and false gods that you have picked up.
6 Flee from the midst of Babylon,
Jeremiah 51:6-7
And each of you save his life!
Do not be destroyed in her punishment,
For this is the Lord’s time of vengeance;
He is going to render recompense to her.
Why do you dance with the devil himself? Why do you take risks with your whole life? Why have you put yourself on the precipice of losing everything? WAKE UP! The one who entices you away, the one who whispers sweet lies in your ear is the very one who will cause your destruction. Wake up! Do not delay. Do not say, tomorrow I will sort out this mess, tomorrow I will quit this habit, tomorrow I will tell the truth. I say, no more delay! Get it right now. Put it down now. The line is in the sand, and the red line has been drawn. This is the day of resolve. This is the day that My strength is available, My grace is available for you to drop every false way that enslaves you — every habit, every time waste, every relationship and every soul tie that is not of Me and does not glorify Me. Drop them in such a way that they are not available for you to pick up again. Put them so far out of your own reach, that you cannot and you will not reach for them again. You are injuring your own soul, your own heart, your own future with these cheap imitations of love, of fruitfulness, of building and productivity, of prosperity. Put down the false ways with such force and with such conviction, with such finality that you cannot and you will not pick them up again.
Don’t allow false doctrines and immorality to pollute your mind. Why do you allow them to be aired in your home? Purify what you allow in your home. If you would not behave that way, if you would not condone that behavior in a friend, why do you allow it on your television? Put it away. Refuse these filthy behaviors and demon doctrines. Refuse these lies that such polluted and abhorrent behavior is acceptable to consume. Put them away, and never pick them up again.
7 Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord,
Jeremiah 51:7-9
Intoxicating all the earth.
The nations have drunk of her wine;
Therefore the nations are going mad.
8 Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken;
Wail over her!
Bring balm for her pain;
Perhaps she may be healed.
9 We applied healing to Babylon, but she was not healed;
Forsake her and let us each go to his own country,
For her judgment has reached to heaven
And towers up to the very skies.
I’m calling you to holiness. I Am calling you to focus. I Am calling you back to purpose and original intent. Purify yourself — your heart, your mind, your hands and your lips — so that you are ready for service, ready for prosperity strategies, ready to thrive and build and grow. Shake off these mistresses of your heart. Reject them, and get rid of them. Close every door that allows them entry, so that your heart, your home and your family is secured and protected from those entry points of demonic invasion, tactics and lies. Close every door to that trash. Close every door that is not of Me. I desire a pure bride and a purified friend to build with. Cleanse yourself. Make yourself clean. Get ready to build.
How to Respond
- Spend more time in worship. Worship is a cleansing agent. Worship causes you to put away these lesser things that you would not have identified outside of the Lord’s Presence.
- Confess your sins and shortcomings to someone you trust who loves the Lord. Make yourself accountable.
- Pray, Holy Spirit come. Show me what thought patterns, habits, relationships, tv shows, apps that I need to get out of my life, my routine and my home. Help me to be merciless when it comes to ridding myself of distractions and entanglements of my heart and mind. Purify me Lord. Help me to do the work to clean out the clutter and the false ways and false gods in my life. Make me pure in your sight. Make me clean and ready to build with you.
- Declare, the Lord desires a pure bride and a cleansed friend who is ready to build, who has sealed off every entrance to evil, and whose heart, mind, lips and hands are pure.
- Decree, I am one who is purifying myself before the Lord. I commit to putting away every tv show, every app, every relationship, every habit and every thought pattern that does not align with the Lord. I am and I will do the work required to be that pure bride and cleansed friend who is ready to build with the Lord.
For more encouragement from Glory & the New Wine, check out the post from this day one year ago: Let Joy Burst Out, It’s a New Day.
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