Today’s Reading:
Galatians 1
Ephesians 1
Hebrews 3
”I pray that the Father of glory, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, would impart to you the riches of the Spirit of wisdom and the Spirit of revelation to know him through your deepening intimacy with him. I pray that the light of God will illuminate the eyes of your imagination, flooding you with light, until you experience the full revelation of the hope of his calling —that is, the wealth of God’s glorious inheritances that he finds in us, his holy ones!“
Ephesians 1:17-18 TPT
The Spirit of the Living God says,
What was made to be bitter will taste sweet. What was made bitter will taste sweet. These won’t turn out with a bitter end. They will end on a sweet note. What is happening — the transitions, the movements, the operations seem very bitter. They seem very mechanical and inhumane and bitter. Their calculations are off. Their targets will be missed. Their missiles will fall impotently into the sea. The fruit is sweet here with Me in the sunshine. The mechanistic, the cold, the inhuman and the remote are all intended to separate from humanity, to destroy humanity. In Me, even every bitter thing can be made sweet. I will turn it around for good. I Am not fretting. I can see every move being made, and I can thwart every demonic attack.
”May God’s undeserved kindness and total well-being that flow from our Father God and from the Lord Jesus be yours. He’s the Anointed One who offered himself as the sacrifice for our sins! He has rescued us from this evil world system and set us free, just as our Father God desired. May all the glory be to God alone, throughout time and eternity. Amen!“
Galatians 1:3-5 TPT
Don’t fear the mechanistic, the industrial, the inhuman operations. Don’t fear these warlike moves, these wartime moves. My goodness is still here. My sweetness is still here. My protected place in the light of the Son is still here. Come and sit with Me in the secret place, in the sun-lit, gift-filled garden of My goodness, even as these moves are being made. Great grace is upon you for peace. Great grace is upon you to taste and enjoy the great, abundant, sweet fruit that comes with being near to Me. This is the time where I will prepare a table of sweet fruit for you in the presence of very real enemies — of enemies in your midst and on your shores who seek great harm. You will taste and see that I Am good. You will taste and delight in the great sweetness of My Presence and knowing Me.
”And so, dear brothers and sisters, you are now made holy, and each of you is invited to the feast of your heavenly calling. So fasten your thoughts fully onto Jesus, whom we embrace as our Apostle and King-Priest. So search your hearts every day, my brothers and sisters, and make sure that none of you has evil or unbelief hiding within you. For it will lead you astray, and make you unresponsive to the living God. This is the time to encourage each other to never be stubborn or hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. For we are mingled with the Messiah, if we will continue unshaken in this confident assurance from the beginning until the end.“
Hebrews 3:1, 12-14 TPT
Separate yourself from the mechanistic war operations. You can follow them. You can be aware of them, but don’t let them touch your heart with fear. You stand, and stand firmly in my garden, in this protected place of My love and faithfulness. And you will see every bitter thing turn sweet. What the enemy meant for evil, I will obliterate and use it for good. In Me, every bitter thing will be made sweet — to the delight of My lovers and the great torment, embarrassment, failure and shame of My enemies. Look for every bitter thing to be made sweet.
How to Respond
- Rejoice in the Lord. Fill yourself and surround yourself with reminders of His goodness, His faithfulness and His great love.
- Pray, Lord, help me to keep my eyes on You. Help me to be more focused on You than what I see with my eyes. Help me to stir up great gratitude and steep myself in Your Word and Your promises to me, so I can be focused on the sweetness of You, the sweetness of being in Your Son, Christ Jesus. I want to live in that deep, abiding peace come what may.
- Declare, the Lord is not stressed out or fretting as He sees these great wartime moves. He sees everything. He knows everything. He knows the beginning from the end and has set the times and seasons in place according to His will and pleasure and wisdom.
- Decree, I am on the winning team, because I am in Christ Jesus. I will stay in the protected place of communion and delight in the sweetness and the peace of the Lord. I will taste and see that the Lord is good. I will see Him turn every bitter thing sweet. I will experience the Lord setting a beautiful table of sweet fruit and delights for me in the presence of my enemies. I will see Him bring them to shame, torment, great embarrassment and failure.
For more encouragement from Glory & the New Wine, check out the post from this day in years past:
2023: The River of the Lord’s Mercy Will Flood the Land
2022: The Sun Is Rising on the Day of Change
2021: Jesus Loves the Little Children
