Today’s Reading:
Proverbs 16
Isaiah 41
”Life motivation comes from the deep longings of the heart, and the passion to see them fulfilled urges you onward.“
Proverbs 16:26 TPT
The Spirit of the Living God says,
I Am anointing you with holy pressure. I’m anointing you with the holy pressure to complete that which needs to be completed, to advance that which must be driven forward, to speak that which must be spoken. This is the time of a holy unction that drives my builders, My workers, My partners and My co-laborers to move the ball down the field. My grace is here for advancement. My grace is here for great personal determination and energy to drive things forward into the new day. This is not a time, nor is there ever one, to sit resting on your laurels. I will give you rest along the way, but this is a labor intensive journey. This is a heavy lifting, hard work journey. Find your rest in Me. Find your strength in Me. The joy of the Lord will be your strength if you choose to tap into it. Make it a discipline to daily, routinely, frequently tap into the joy of Me. You will find My wellspring of life courses through your veins and gives you what you need to drive forward.
”I am Yahweh, your mighty God! I grip your right hand and won’t let you go! I whisper to you: ‘Don’t be afraid; I am here to help you!’ “Jacob, although you feel like a grub worm, have no fear! O men of Israel, I am here to help you! I am your Kinsman-Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel! I am making you into a powerful threshing instrument, with teeth new and sharp! You will reduce hills to chaff and crush mountains into dust! You will winnow them, and the stormy wind will blow them away! Then you will spin and dance with rejoicing in Yahweh, boasting with admiration in the Holy One of Israel!“
Isaiah 41:13-16 TPT
This is a time to be on the offensive. This is a time to be seen as hard chargers. Your steady advancement, your relentless advancement is getting the enemy on the back foot, is getting the enemy in reactive mode, is even getting the enemy to high tail it out of your way. Your worship, your thanksgiving, your tapping into My joy, your delighting in Me as you work, as you charge, as you drive sets the enemy to flight. It pushes back against the very gates of hell, and it clears the way for success. It clears the way so you can operate freely. Your own delight, joy, worship, praise and thanksgiving sets the field, creates the conditions, for you to charge with much less resistance, for you to operate unhindered. These are the very things that make you free. They set your soul and your mind and your heart free.
”I will open up refreshing streams on the barren hills and springing fountains in the valleys. I will make the desert a pleasant pool and the dry land springs of water. I will plant in the treeless desert cedars and acacias, myrtle and olive trees. I will set in the wilderness evergreens, together with many elms and cypresses. Everyone will see and know that I, Yahweh, with my mighty hands have done this. They will consider and comprehend that the Holy One of Israel has created it.”
Isaiah 41:18-20 TPT
It’s time to advance. It’s time to keep your foot on the gas and drive hard. Charge and move forward with great force and determination. But do it all from the source of strength you find in the joy of Me — of knowing Me, of communing with Me, of remembering and celebrating the goodness, faithfulness, trustworthiness and love of Me. We are carving your path to freedom.
How to Respond
- Trust the Lord’s promptings, and obey Him fully and completely.
- Pray, Lord help me to stir up my delight in You. Help me to be one who stays refreshed, revived and vibrant because I am entwined as one with You. Help me to be the most joy-filled, delighted, grateful person with life and light and Your Presence spilling out of me onto everyone around me. I want to be one who charges hard, who drives and advances and moves forward powerfully in the work You have called me to do. In You, I have everything I need for success. You have already won every victory.
- Declare, the Lord is my light and my life. I put my trust fully in You Lord, whom or what shall I fear? Even the youth grow weary, but those who entwine themselves as one with the Lord will gain new strength. We will mount up with wings like eagles. We will run and not get tired. We will walk and not become weary.
- Decree, I will trust the Lord my God with my whole heart and my whole life. I will hold nothing back, and I will charge ahead at His instruction, filled with the joy of knowing Him and being the apple of His eye, His delightfully loved child. We will succeed and push back the gates of hell together.
For more encouragement from Glory & the New Wine, check out the post from this day in years past:
2023: Walk With the Lord on the Well Lit Path
2022: The Ancient Path to the New Place
2021: Winds of Change
