Today’s Reading:
Isaiah 26
A day is coming when this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “The city is a stronghold for us! The Lord’s salvation, like inner and outer walls, makes it secure. Open the gates and let a righteous, faith-filled people enter in. Perfect, absolute peace surrounds those whose imaginations are consumed with you; they confidently trust in you.
Isaiah 26:1-3 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
You can be at total peace in the resurgence and resurrection. Those are warring realities. Resurgence requires war. Resurrection requires war. Both are your destiny. Even as you war, even as you push and the momentum of My Spirit wind is at your back, be at perfect peace. Even as you war and the earth rattles beneath you where the dry dead bones of dreams and promises lie on the ground, be at perfect peace. Operate and live in full joy. As you war against Satan’s death decree over your destiny, as you war against the onslaught of the enemy at the gate — you are to remain tender on the inside, gentle on the inside with the expectation and trust, with easy trust of a child. Trust that I Am moving on your behalf. Trust that My Spirit wind is driving you forward against every odd and over every obstacle.
Yes, trust in the Lord Yahweh forever and ever! For Yah, the Lord God, is your Rock of Ages! He knocks down the high and mighty, and the lofty city he humbles and levels down to the dust, to be trampled down by the feet of the poor and exploited.” The path of the righteous is smooth and level; God, the Just One, you make a clear path for them. Yes, we will follow your ways, Lord Yahweh, and entwine our hearts with yours, for the fame of your name is all that we desire. At night I yearn for you with all my heart; in the morning my spirit reaches out to you. When you display your judgments on the earth, people learn the ways of righteousness.
Isaiah 26:4-9 TPT
These are days of warring, but you are to be a happy and joyful warrior. You are not a prisoner, captive to old mindsets and unsettled, wavering beliefs. You are a child of the King who rules and reigns forever. Your portion is settled. Your position is sure. Whom or what shall you fear? War for the scrolls of your destiny with a roar, knowing the full backing of Heaven is behind you. Roar and command life in delighted expectation over the dry dead bones of dreams and promises that lie in the dust at your feet. These are days that will shock those around you because of the power of My Spirit, because of the might of My turnraround and the great favor I have poured out in your life. War from the place of decided victory. War from the inner posture of a delightfully loved child. And watch as the warring of your words and song, the warring of your thanksgiving and great expectation from a place of gentleness in spirit but fierceness in opposition to the decrees of the enemy — watch as they overturn the enemy’s decree.
Lord Yahweh, we were like a pregnant woman going into labor pains— writhing, screaming, and ready to deliver, all because of you. We were full term. We pushed and strained, but we gave birth only to wind! We accomplished nothing and have not brought deliverance into the world, nor its inhabitants new life. But your dead will live again! Their bodies will rise from the dead! It’s time to awaken and sing for joy, you dwellers in the dust! As the glistening, radiant dew refreshes the earth, so the Lord will awaken those dwelling among the dead.
Isaiah 26:18-19 TPT
The tipping point is so near. Keep pushing from your place of perfect peace and unshakeable joy. And sing those songs of victory and life over the dry bones at your feet. Yes, they will live. They will live, and they will rise as a mighty army. And the enemy will regret having tread in your camp. This mighty army of resurrected dreams and promises will chase those demons to the very ends of the earth. These are not days of your defeat. These are days of the whopping comebacks that stun, defy and humiliate the enemy with resounding defeat.
The victory is Mine. War along with Me for your promises. War along with Me for your scrolls of destiny. Peace, joy, songs of worship and thanksgiving, and decrees that cancel out the decrees of the enemy will bring victory on every side. Live as My warrior and well loved child, and I will bring you the great turnaround. I will overthrow your defeat.
How to Respond
- Posture yourself as child. Clear out all of the beliefs, lies and negative thoughts that are holding you back from trusting the Lord fully.
- Pray, Holy Spirit thank You that Your wind is at my back and Your Ruach breath of life is in my lungs. Show me how to war alongside you, at Your direction, in perfect peace and full joy. Thank You that victory and life more abundant are my portion. With You and in You, resurgence and resurrection are mine.
- Declare, I will be thankful in all things, because it is the will of the God for me in Christ Jesus. These dry bones will live. Every victory belongs to the Lord of Hosts.
- Decree, I will war in perfect peace alongside the Lord my God. With Him at and His direction, I will remain gentle in spirit and fierce in opposition to the decrees of the enemy over my life. I will live in full joy and thanksgiving as the Lord brings my turnaround and shows me how to breathe resurrection life to the dry dead bones of my dreams and promises. The enemy will be defeated, humiliated and chased to the ends of the earth by the mighty army of my dreams and promises that arise in the resurrection power of Holy Spirit who lives in me.
For more encouragement from The Glory & the New Wine, check out the post from this day in years past:
2023: We Will Emerge As Conquering Kings
2022: Take Refuge in the Lord — He Will Bring You Safely to Shore
2021: Cultivate a Lifestyle of Thanksgiving
