Today’s Readings:
Psalm 64
2 Thessalonians 3:16
Romans 8:16-25
Violence will not be heard again in your land, nor devastation or destruction within your borders; but you will call your walls salvation, and your gates praise. No longer will you have the sun for light by day nor for brightness will the moon give you light; but you will have the Lord for an everlasting light, and your God for your glory. Your sun will no longer set, nor will your moon wane; for you will have the Lord for an everlasting light, and the days of your mourning will be over. Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever, the branch of My planting, the work of My hands that I may be glorified.
Isaiah 60:18-21
Healing the Land
The Lord says,
I Am bringing the fields of wickedness down to the ground, and they will no longer stand. They will no longer mock, they will no longer gloat and taunt. They will become as ash heaps. And I will send in My chosen ones to heal the land. They will turn the soil, they will fertilize the soil, they will cultivate and tenderly care for the soil, and it will be revived. And it will be fruitful. It will be prosperous, and it will reflect My Glory. The land will prosper again. The fields once owned and lorded over, ruled by the wicked will be given into faithful hands, into pure hands, into hard working, trustworthy hands, and it will be made new, and it will be made fruitful again.
Hold the Line
The Lord says,
My pleasure is on My people – those who are in the waiting place, the birthing room. Those who have stood, those who have not backed up. Those who still contend for their promises, their futures, their families. Those who have not seen daybreak yet, but whose feet are firmly planted with eyes stayed on Me and have great expectation that I will deliver, that I will move, that I will do what I said I will do. Because I will. I will not disappoint. I will not be made a liar. I will once again prove my faithfulness to you. Your hope is not in vain. The dam is breached. The water is broken. The flood of breakthrough is nearly upon us. The birthing has begun.
Stand strong. Keep holding the line. Stay in faith. Keep your eyes on Me. Keep contending. Keep declaring. March once more around the walls of your Jericho. They are primed to fall.
Sealing the Fates of the Wicked
The Lord says,
I Am sealing the fates of the wicked. They have chosen their path. They have chosen the ways of wickedness. They have not shown remorse, they have not humbled themselves. No, instead they have exalted themselves in haughty and and filthy, adulterous ways. Their acts and their hearts are revolting to Me. I cannot stand the stench of their filth on the earth any longer. With wax poured from the heavens, I am sealing their fates today. They have no recourse, they have no escape. They lifted their eyes to Heaven in disbelief and disdain. They act as if there is no God, that their evil will go unchecked forever. They mock and taunt and press heavy burdens on My people, on all the people. And I say it will stand no more. They will stand no more. It is a grave thing to act with impunity against the Lord God Most High. And it will not go unchecked.
Turning Up the Heat
The Lord says,
I Am heating things up on the earth. You can feel the warmth and the fire spreading. It’s like a dry field that has caught fire. The fire has run away and is uncontained. This is the fire of My fury against the wicked. Everything they have will be razed to the ground. The fires of My fury will not be partially quenched. No, they will find fulfillment in the fullness of My fury, of My wrath, of My judgement against the wicked. Their stench has risen to My nostrils for too long. And the stench has gotten stronger, and the odor of their evil and filth I detest. I desire to smell it no longer.
I Am bringing a cleansing fire to restore the land, to purify the air, and to bring freedom to My people. This fire will burn the restraints that the wicked have had on the people, on the minds and the hearts and the wrists of the people. These restraints have held back the truth, have held back reconciliation, have held back right thinking. And when the smoke from the fire of My fury clears, it will bring clarity to eyes, it will bring right thinking to minds. It will restore right minds, and hearts will again be able to discern right from wrong. Truth from lie. Good from evil.
My heart is deeply grieved by this, that evil has reached such a level, that My fury must come and restore the land. But it will bring in its wake a Great Restoration, a Great Revival, a Great Awakening; and it will be said that I, the Lord God Most High made all things new.
How to Respond
- Spend time today in worship. Ask the Lord to continue to give you the strength to stand, eyes of faith and a heart of hope for his Great Restoration.
- Ask the Lord to to purify your heart, to search you and to show you anything you need to get right with Him or others.
- Ask the Lord to stir up great joy in your heart. As His secure child, you walk in victory and peace. Live in the confidence of that truth and find ways to spread joy to those around you today.
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