Today’s Reading:
Song of Songs 2
Psalm 23
Psalm 91
The season has changed, the bondage of your barren winter has ended, and the season of hiding is over and gone. The rains have soaked the earth and left it bright with blossoming flowers. The season for singing and pruning the vines has arrived. I hear the cooing of doves in our land, filling the air with songs to awaken you and guide you forth. 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 2:11-13 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
I Am restoring childlike wonder. The season you have walked through has been a harsh winter. It has been abrasive and unforgiving. It has been relentless and hard. The season we have entered is new. It is still a war season, but it’s different here. The shield of your faith has grown larger and covers you now with greater coverage and less effort. And it provides cover in this place so you can live in the light, in the gentler, kinder conditions. You can live openly and vulnerably in a way that was not possible or feasible in the season we just left. Now that you are here, it is the easiest thing in the world, the most reflexive thing in the world to take off those protective outer garments so you can delight in and face the sun.
Yahweh is my best friend and my shepherd. I always have more than enough. He offers a resting place for me in his luxurious love. His tracks take me to an oasis of peace near the quiet brook of bliss. That’s where he restores and revives my life. He opens before me the right path and leads me along in his footsteps of righteousness so that I can bring honor to his name.
Psalms 23:1-3 TPT
The war wages in front of you, but this greatly grown shield of faith is there shielding you from the chaos and dangers of the war. You can even turn your back on the war without fear and turn and face the sun who has risen upon you. You can live openly and expansively, purely as you have your back turned to the war and your face turned to King Jesus.
This is a time of respite, renewal, refreshing and recharging. It does not deny that a war is still raging around us. But this expanded great shield of faith now protects you in greater measure and gives you great relief, longer relief from the battles that rage and the ones which lie ahead. This time of respite is resolving internal issues and is calming matters that raged in your own heart and mind. The war ahead is real, and the war has not ceased. But I have pulled you back from the battle for a period of time to bring recovery, renewal, healing and fresh vision. This is the place of clarity. This is the place where you can hear My voice, and the sounds of war are muffled and far in the distance.
His massive arms are wrapped around you, protecting you. You can run under his covering of majesty and hide. His arms of faithfulness are a shield keeping you from harm. You will never worry about an attack of demonic forces at night nor have to fear a spirit of darkness coming against you. Don’t fear a thing! Whether by night or by day, demonic danger will not trouble you, nor will the powers of evil be launched against you. Even in a time of disaster, with thousands and thousands being killed, you will remain unscathed and unharmed.
Psalms 91:4-7 TPT
Come into this inner chamber, this tent of renewal and regrouping. Work and war lie ahead for you, but the way you fight and your mindset in the fight will be much different once you emerge from this place. You will come out of this place as a precision warrior, as a sharp shooter, as an assassin of evil. You will have very clear targets, and you will be laser-focused and hit your marks. The way forward is not in the scrum of hand-to-hand combat in ground warfare. It will be from an up-higher place with assignments for specific targets. Rest up. Commune with Me. Get refreshed and recharged with Me. The war ahead will be much different.
How to Respond
- Don’t resist the Lord’s prompting for you to shift into a period of rest, reflection, regrouping & refreshing. Embrace it. The season has changed.
- Pray, Lord thank You for bringing me out of that harsh winter season of war. Help me to recognize the season You have me in now, so I don’t operate out of the old in the new season. Help me to take off those protective outer garments, turn my back on the war for a period of time and receive the refreshing you have for me in the light of King Jesus. Help me to get quiet and adjust to hearing Your voice much more easily and readily. Help me to draw a clear line between my human reasoning and the wisdom that You give. Help me to embrace the clarity that You bring and when You give my new assignment, help me to move forward in bold confidence with no hesitation.
- Declare, the Lord is my best friend and shepherd. I always have more than enough. He offers a resting place for me in his luxurious love. His tracks take me to an oasis of peace, the quiet brook of bliss. That’s where he restores and revives my life. He opens before me pathways to God’s pleasure and leads me along in his footsteps of righteousness so that I can bring honor to his name. (Psalm 23:1-3)
- Decree, the season of my barren winter is over. The sunshine of the Lord’s light and favor are now shining on me. I will remove the protective outer garments that are not suitable for this new season. I will enjoy the protection that the greatly enlarged shield of my faith is now providing. I will take the time to get recharged, refreshed, healed and revived by the Lord. I can hear His voice more clearly here, and I will rest and wait for my new assignment in this protected place of His favor and love. I will embrace and boldly take on the much more specific, targeted assignment the Lord gives me for the next phase of the war.
For more encouragement from The Glory & the New Wine, check out the post from this day in years past:
2023: These Are Days for Conquering & Reclamation
2022: These Are Days of Truth Explosions
2021: Choose Purity and the Continual Renewal of Your Mind
