Today’s Reading:
Psalm 118
Keep on giving your thanks to God, for he is so good! His constant, tender love lasts forever! Let all his princely people sing, “His constant, tender love lasts forever!” Let all his holy priests sing, “His constant, tender love lasts forever!” Let all his lovers who bow low before him sing, “His constant, tender love lasts forever!”
Psalms 118:1-4 TPT
I felt great excitement in my spirit, so I asked the Lord what it was about. Then I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
Be in anticipation for what I Am about to do in your life. Get your hopes up. Live in the place of high, great, wild expectation. Don’t tamp it down. Don’t reason the excitement and anticipation away. Don’t hold your breath or try to brace yourself for something less than. Don’t look for disappointment. Celebration is your portion. Great joy is your portion.
Out of my deep anguish and pain I prayed, and God, you helped me as a father. You came to my rescue and broke open the way into a beautiful and broad place. Now I know, Lord, that you are for me, and I will never fear what man can do to me. For you stand beside me as my hero who rescues me. I’ve seen with my own eyes the defeat of my enemies. I’ve triumphed over them all! Lord, it is so much better to trust in you to save me than to put my confidence in someone else. Yes, it is so much better to trust in the Lord to save me than to put my confidence in celebrities. Once I was hemmed in and surrounded by those who don’t love you. But by Yahweh’s supernatural power I overcame them all!
Psalms 118:5-10 TPT
Embrace the excitement I have breathed into your bones. Allow yourself to dance. Allow your eyes to sparkle with hope and belief. Truth is coming. Justice is coming. Personal recompense and great reward are coming. This is a time to celebrate. Take off your mourning clothes and open your heart wide for the beautiful, astonishing things I Am about to do in your life — for you and through you.
Swing wide, you gates of righteousness, and let me pass through, and I will enter into God’s presence to worship only him. I have found the gateway to God, the pathway to his presence for all his devoted lovers. I will offer all my loving praise to you, and I thank you so much for answering my prayer and bringing me salvation! The very stone the masons rejected as flawed has turned out to be the most important capstone of the arch, holding up the very house of God. The Lord himself is the one who has done this, and it’s so amazing, so marvelous to see! This is the very day of the Lord that brings gladness and joy, filling our hearts with glee. O God, please come and save us again; bring us your breakthrough-victory!
Psalms 118:19-25 TPT
I Am calling you out to dance. I Am calling you out to sing and jump for joy. Personal victory is here. Personal triumph is here. Great and mighty, wonderful things are here for you and your family, and they will have a ripple effect much wider than you can imagine. Delight in these days. Relish and take great joy in these days. Excitement will not disappoint. It will give way to great raucous celebration.
How to Respond
- Don’t temper the excitement that the Lord has put in your spirit. Embrace it, and make it contagious.
- Get your hopes up.
- Pray, Holy Spirit thank You for the excitement that You have stirred in my heart. Help me to buck my protective mechanisms that would try and calm that down. I want to live in excitement and great anticipation — full of sparkling hope for what You are about to do in my life.
- Declare, I know you are about to arise and show your tender love to Zion. Now is the time, Lord, for your compassion and mercy to be poured out — the appointed time has come for your prophetic promises to be fulfilled! (Psalm 102:13)
- Decree, The Lord has breathed excitement into my life, and I will not hide it. I will live in great anticipation, full of hope for what He is bringing and what He is going to do. He will get all of the glory. I am expecting wild and wonderful things — recompense, reconciliation, repayment, divine reversals and reward are my portion.
For more encouragement from The Glory & the New Wine, check out the post from this day in years past:
2023: Be Planted on Christ the Solid Rock, He Is Breaking the Impossible Free
2022: Rise Up, Shake Off the Dust and Live Free
2021: It’s Time to Trust, Plan and Build
