God's Commanded Blessing

"When the enemy comes in like a flood,

the Spirit of the Lord will lift up
a standard against him."

Isahiah 59:19

I see the King rising from His throne in heaven, rebuking the devour and commanding a blessing upon His house and His family. I hear Him saying, "I am Lord and I am King. My family IS BLESSED! My house IS BLESSED!    
I rebuke the devour for My name's sake and I COMMAND a blessing upon My house and upon My family! I command a blessing upon my son! I command a blessing upon my daughter! I command a blessing upon My household, and I command it to rest on them this day and for favor to surround them as a shield. I declare and decree that they are BLESSED to be a blessing, and I release and command this blessing to manifest and be multiplied in their lives from this day forth in the mighty name of JESUS CHRIST."

Praise the Lord.  We receive it, Lord.
Let us see and receive Your blessing and the power of Your love and mercy upon our lives this day. Amen

God's Powerball of Blessing

2000 years ago Jesus did it all. He laid it all down, giving His life as a sacrifice and payment on the cross for our sins, redeeming us back to the Father, back into our covenant and kingdom position to receive all that is ours as children of God and joint heirs with Christ. Now every day we each have the opportunity and privilege to receive that gift personally, to embrace it as truth and to receive all that comes with that gift. It takes faith. It takes eyes to see, ears to hear and a heart to understand, a heart that says "yes".  And for that heart that says "yes", there will be challenges that try your faith, challenges that define and redefine who you are and where you stand in your Kingdom position. But IN Christ you will find all that you need to stay the course, to remain strong in your faith and to walk this walk of faith here on earth. So the Spirit of God wants to encourage you today. Stay the course. Run the race. Keep your eyes on Jesus the Author and Finisher of your faith. Don't give up and don't give in. What Your heavenly Father says and what He has placed in your heart He WILL do. He WILL BE glorified in His children.

"By faith we understand that the worlds were

framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen

were not made of things which are visible."

Hebrew 11: 3

With this exhortation the Lord is prompting me to speak or write some things that He has shown me in the Spirit, declaring and calling "those things that be not as though they were".

As I meditate on the fact that 2000 years ago Jesus disarmed the enemy and made a public display out of him, and that He did it all, paying the price and rising back into His Kingdom position as He watched His enemies bow their knee,  I see in the Spirit the Lord punctuating that act in this hour and pouring out His gift of the Holy Spirit, releasing supernatural gifts of healing, power and blessing. On top of these gifts of healing and divine power that He's pouring out through His children, I see God blessing His family by throwing "powerballs" into His house where the enemy of lack, debt and poverty bow it's knee.I see "powerballs" of His blessing, mercy, and generosity, "powerballs" of His greatness and goodness. 

"Say to God, 'How awesome are Your works!

Through the greatness of Your power

Your enemy shall submit themselves to You." 
Ps 66:3

And I see God opening up the windows of heaven and pouring out a mega-blessing with mega-millions into His house, because He's a mega-God and He has mega-plans for us, and we have mega-work to do for the Kingdom. I see His house and family being abundantly blessed by the provision of His hand, blessed so that they may be a blessing, blessed so that they will be a testimony of His goodness and faithfulness, blessed so that the whole world will see and know that HE is God, that He is in His house, and that He is living  and moving through His children.  And I see God revealing Himself through His house and family that He has matured, disciplined, tested, and taught, and shown them that "man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God."

Brothers and sisters, we are in for a new season of the revealing of God. He is going to show and manifest Himself in magnificent and tangible ways in this hour so that ALL the world will see and know that JESUS is Lord and that HE is king. They will know that HIS Kingdom has come here on earth, and that it is being manifested and lived out through the lives of His Body and Bride, and that His Kingdom rules here on earth even as it does in heaven.

Thank You, Lord, that You are coming with vengeance and power and causing Your enemies to bow their knee. You are Lord and You are King, and it's at Your name, Jesus, that every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that YOU are Lord.

(John15:13; Heb11:1; Heb12:1,2; Col 2:15; Ps 66:3; Deut 8:2,3; Rom14:11)

Our Ministry of the New Covenant

"Now all these things are from God,

who reconciled us to Himself through Christ,

and gave us the ministry of reconciliation."

2 Corinthians 5:18

     We have been given the ministry of reconciliation, the ministry of the new covenant.  Through the blood of Jesus we have been reconciled to God, our Father. He has made a new covenant with us through His Son. All that is His and that is in His kingdom is now ours. We have access to it through the blood of Jesus.

     As we establish in our heart and mind our redeemed relationship with our Father through Christ (through the blood and righteousness of Jesus) we now have access to receive by faith, and to declare and proclaim, our inheritance. Our words spoken from our redeemed position create our new world, our new future. Our words are seeds that we sow into our future. They are full of power and fruit, and when we speak them we are planting them, and they will produce the fruit of what was spoken as we water them with our faith and our praise of thanksgiving and expectation.

     "If any man is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone, the new has come!" In Christ we have a fresh new beginning to start over and plant good seed for a good future. Knowing who we are now in Christ and knowing that the blessings of the kingdom are now ours through Him, we speak our world into existance just as our Father did when He created the world. We will be challenged with our faith as circumstances will surely speak loud against our faith seeds that we're been planting, but be strong in the Lord. Keep planting, keep speaking His Word, and keep watering them with the Spirit of His love. You will reap a harvest if you do not faint.

     Our God is a covenant-keeping God. When we are faithless, He remains faithful. He never moves from His position and promise.  Our blessings and life are found IN Him. As we surrender, turn and embrace Him, He lavishes His love, grace, peace, protection and abundant provision upon us.

Father God, we thank You for the covenant that we have with You through the blood of Your Son Jesus. We thank You that You are a covenant-keeping God. We thank You for the promises and power of Your Word, and we plant them in faith, watering them and looking with expectation for the fruit and harvest of our planting. We thank You, Father, that You have given us all that is in You through Your Son, Jesus. And as we step into our place in the kingdom through Him, and we take our position in Him at Your right side, we partner with You to see Your kingdom come here on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.

2 Cor 5:19; 2 Cor 5:17; Gal 6:9; Gen 1:3; 2 Tim 2:13; Eph 1:20

Be Still and Know

"Be still and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth."
Psalm 46:10

There comes a time to just be still, to wait, to rest, and to just trust in God's goodness and faithfulness. There comes a time when you have done all you know to do, and now you just stand, trust, believe, and just love Him for who He is. Jesus IS the author and finisher of your faith. What He started He WILL finish. Just sit under the spout of the river of His love and let the water of His Spirit flow into you and through you, watering all the seeds of prayers and giving that you have planted. Let God and time have it's full course and you will soon see your garden begin to bloom all around you. He will cause your life to be a garden of His delight and glory as you seek, sow and soak in His presence.

Thank You, Jesus, for the peace and rest of Your presence. Thank You that we can come to You and drink of the river of Your delight and find refreshing and strength and peace in our times of trouble. Thank You that in You we live and move and have our being, You ARE our life, Jesus. You ARE our reason for living. And You have come to give us life and give it abundantly. Thank You, Lord, that everything that You have begun in us You will finish and perfect as we walk, rest, and abide in You. Amen

Ps 46:10, Heb 12:2, Ps 36:8; Acts 17:28, John 10:10; Phil 1:6

Faith and Patience Obtains the Promise

"For when God made the promise to Abraham,

since He could swear by no one greater, He

swore by Himself saying,

'I will surely bless you, and I will surely

multiply you.'

And thus, having patiently waited,

he obtained the promise."

Hebrew 6:13-15

God is faithful. Be strong in the Lord. Stand, and having done all to stand, stand. Do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

1 Cor 1:9; Eph 6:10,13,14; Heb 10:35,36

Our Praise Creates a Throne for Him

"Yet You are holy,

O You who are enthroned upon the

praises of Israel."

Psalm 22:3

"And let them make Me a sanctuary,

that I may dwell among them."

Exodus 25:8

God wants to be with us.  He wants to dwell with us.

He says, "Draw close to Me, and I will draw close to You."   When we gather together corporately and enter into a praise, a worship of Him (the deepest part of us touching the deepest part of Him - our hearts touching His heart) it creates a spiritual throne, a place suitable and fitting for Him to come and sit upon, a place of honor and exaltation. In this God receives our heart-felt invitation and comes and sits and enthrones Himself upon our praises. The Spirit of God will come mightily yet in a measure when we individually worship Him in the private seclusion of our own secret place, but He will manifest Himself in an even greater measure in the corporate setting as we corporately join our hearts to praise and worship Him together and come into the sanctuary with an expectation of God coming by His Holy Spirit to sit and enthrone Himself upon our praises. 

When our hearts are in sincere worship, and we are sending our highest praises up to Him, God comes and fills the temple, the sanctuary with Himself, with His manifested presence, and the train of His robe fills the temple with His glory.  And it's in that glory that our spirit eyes may see Him seated upon the throne high and lifted up. And if we'll reach out in faith we can touch the hem of His robe, and His healing virtue will flow down through it and touch our bodies and our hearts or whatever area in our life we have that is hemorraging and needs a touch of the Master.  It's a flow of His anointing, His healing and redemptive grace that flows down through Him, through His robe, through His Holy Spirit and into you when you praise Him in adoration and worship Him in a heart of pure love and exaltation.

God loves us and wants to be with us. He's given us His Word and His instruction so that He can come and be with us. That instruction is to build Him a sanctuary that's dedicated to His presence, to Him alone, and for us to come together corporately to praise Him and worship Him, heart to heart. For it's then that God will come, and we will be touched and changed in His presence, miracles will happen, healings will manifest, and He will receive all the glory and honor and praise for the wonderful miracles performed there in His presence.

So Lord, we corporately join our hearts to create an atmosphere, a throne for You to come and rest upon, a throne created by our worship and our praise and devotion to You. We dedicate our hearts to seek You in the secret place of our private worship, but we join our hearts together corporately to seek You in the sanctuary of our churches to create with our heart-felt worship an atmosphere that not only invites Your presence but is worthy of Your presence. It's deep calling unto deep, Lord, the deepest part of us touching the deepest part of You. Come Holy Spirit. Hear our prayer, hear our heart cry. Come and visit our churches. Come and invade the sanctuaries that we have built for You. Forgive us, Jesus, for making them anything less than sanctuaries that have been made for Your presence. Clean the slate of our program-minded motives and purposes. Implant and impart Your pure and perfect will for Your house, Jesus. Help us to make the necessary changes so that our hearts and sanctuaries reflect Your perfect will and desire. Give us worshiping hearts that are hungry for Your presence, hearts that will not be satisfied with business as usual, but hearts that are passionately pursuing Your presence. Let our hearts cry out as David did,

"O God, You are my God,

Early will I seek You;

my soul thirsts for You,

my soul longs for You

in a dry and thirsty land

where there is no water.

So I have looked for You in the sanctuary,

to see Your power and Your glory."

Psalm 63:1,2

Amen

James 4:8, Is 6:1, Matt 9:20-22, Is 66:1

The Power of His Presence

"In Your presence is fullness of joy;
At Your right hand are pleasures evermore."

Psalm 16:11

God wants to invade your circumstances. He wants to come in and invade with His love, His power and His grace. The Spirit is saying, "Turn your heart and attention back to God. Come back to Him in total surrender. Come and sit in His presence, empty and open, and ready to receive. Come as you are. Come with your baggage. Come with the weights of your worries and lay them at His feet. Then open your heart to receive..........His love is supernatural. His love will fill your soul with peace, and  it will rest on you like a blanket."

That is a miracle.
You come in totally weighed down, heavy, worn, broken and waisted, and you leave refreshed, strengthened and renewed in your faith and able to go back into your circumstances as a new man, empowered by God, by His Holy Spirit, with a fresh mindset and a new attitude. It's the attitude of Christ, a heart and mind that's been reshaped and molded by the very power and presence of God Himself. His presence is everything.  His presence works miracles, first in us and then in our circumstances.

We must take time to come to God, to come into His presence. We must take time to put Him first in our lives by coming to Him and waiting on Him, learning to hear His voice and receive His guidance. God is the One that knows all things. He is our Father. He is the One that created us and knows what is best for us. He wants us molded and made into the image of His Son, Jesus. He wants us to learn to live in this world but to live in it through another realm, the realm of His Spirit. He wants to invade this world with His light and love and make a clear definition and contrast of the two kingdoms, the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness, His kingdom here on earth as it is in heaven. It's heaven invading earth through broken vessels healed and made whole in the very presence of God.

We are imperfect vessels, but in His presence, as we sit upon the potters wheel, our Father places His hands upon our lives and He molds and shapes us, pouring the water of His Spirit and love upon us to soften the hardened clay of our stubborn and rebellious hearts and minds. It's supernatural. But it's the way of the Master. It's the way of God. We must surrender and give it all to Him. We must learn the power of His presence, the power of waiting on Him and being yielded to His reshaping and timing. God is making imperfect vessels into vessels of honor for His glory. Only He can do that. Only the hands of the Master and the love of the Father can change us and make us new and make us the vessels of honor that we are created to be. 

The Spirit of God is calling and drawing us today into His presence, to surrender all, to let the Father place His hands upon our lives and shape us into the image of His Son. Won't you hear and answer the call? Won't you respond to the Spirit and make practicing His presence a priority in your day. It's vital in this hour. We MUST have His presence in our lives.

Help us, Lord. Let this word from You go deep into our spirit and cause us to prioritize our time with You everyday. Help us to come to You and sit upon the potters wheel and let You complete Your work in us. Help us yield and surrender all and trust that You truly are working all things together for our good. We want to be like Jesus. We want to be vessels of honor fit for the Master's use. Amen

Phil 2:5; Matt 6:33; Jer 18:1-4; Rom 8:29