DELIGHT

You live in a culture where there is so much to think about.  I know when you were a child, there was not a lot to think about. You did not have all the technology and inventions that may need repair.

I want you to focus on Me in the morning.  Be faithful to do this because if you do not, your thoughts will cloud your mind and Satan also will have a chance to give you his thoughts.

David wrote: "In the multitude of my thoughts within me Your comforts delight my soul." I want to comfort and delight your soul every day.  I will see  you in the morning.

PSALM 94:19 

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WORTHY

My psalmist David said, "I will call upon the LORD, Who is worthy to be praised so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

You are in the world, but you are not of world.  Because you are in the world, you will experience many trials and hard times. Israel is surrounded by many enemies right now.  

Pray that many in My land will cry out to Me and recognize that I am worthy to be praised and that I can save them from all of their enemies. I can also save you from all your enemies. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

PSALM 18:3

MIDST

Keep praying for the peace of Jerusalem.  When you pray for the peace of Jerusalem, you are praying for My return.

There will be no lasting peace in Jerusalem until My return.  However, I have done battle and My angel Michael who is My angel over Israel have won a great battle to bring a season of peace in Israel.

I have sent the rod of My strength out of Zion: to rule in the midst of Israel's enemies.  Praise Me for this time of peace and take every opportunity to share the gospel of My kingdom with others.

PSALM 110:2

EVIDENCE

You face trials every day.  Many trials are allowed by Me to test your faith.  In worldly trials, evidence is presented. However, no evidence is presented in the tests of faith I give you in a trial.

You will go through every trial victoriously if you persistently pray with thanksgiving and belief that I hear your prayers. Shut your eyes to the evidence you see in the circumstances around you.

Open your eyes to My Word and hear My Word. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by My Word.

Faith is not built by having many trials.  Faith is built through hearing and obeying My Word.

HEBREWS 11:1

DELIVERED

All things are delivered to Me of My Father, and no man knows Me, but the Father; neither  does any man know the Father, save Me, and to whoever I will reveal Him.

I cam to earth to show mankind who My Father is.  As you read My Word, pray for continual revelation knowledge so that you will grow closer and closer to My Father as I reveal Him to you.

Give thanks to Me daily for My Spirit Who was given to you to guide you into all truth.  As you listen to His guidance and instructions daily, you will draw closer and closer to both Me and My Father.

MATTHEW 11:27.

CORRECTION

Few people like to be corrected.  However, My Father desires to correct His children before they get into trouble. He has chosen two ways that He can correct those who believe in Him.

My Father wants to first correct us through His Word.  Paul wrote, "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:"

If we do not obey God's Word, then God will allow circumstances to come that will cause us to obey His Word. My Word is given as a rod of correction.  Choose to receive that rod, so you will stay out of trouble.

2 TIMOTHY 3:16

APPEAR

The day will come when every believer will appear before My judgment seat.  You will be judged there for the things done in your body, whether good or bad.

That judgment will be for reward.  I desire for you to accomplish every work that I have prepared for you from the foundation of the earth.

Every day ask My Holy Spirit to help you not to miss any work I prepared for you that day.  Listen carefully for the Comforter to guide and help you accomplish the works for that day.

2 CORINTHIANS 5:10

FRIENDS

Solomon wrote "A man who has friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother." I am that friend because a brother protects, loves, and provides

Many elder brothers inherit their father's business and also are executor's of their father's will.  Solomon wrote these words centuries before I was born. I am your elder brother who never leaves or forsakes you.

I have been given a great inheritance and you are a joint heir with Me. My Father's business is to save mankind from sin.  Be about your Father's business today and every day and enjoy being in My family.

PROVERBS 18:24

FIGHT

Many in the age you are living are fighting for survival.  I prophesied that there would be wars and rumors of wars in the last days.

I also said, "I must work the works of Him who sent me while it is day: the night comes, when no man can work."

Listen to the exhortation Paul gave to Timothy. "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal live, where you are called...." It is your prayer of faith that can bring peace in the middle of war.

MATTHEW 14:6; JOHN 9:4;1 TIMOTHY 6:12; 

ASIDE

Peter wrote that there were certain things that we should lay aside. We should lay aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking.

He exhorted the new believers to desire the sincere milk of God's Word because it is only the Word of God that will help believers grow.

Many are being born again in this last great harvest.  Pray that these new born babes will find places where they and be discipled so that they can grow in My Word and share My Word with others.

1 PETER 2:1-2

EXTEND

The prophet Isaiah centuries ago shared what I will extend to both Jews and Gentiles. Memorize this scripture and you will receive both hope and faith every time you speak it out loud.

Isaiah 66:12: "For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her (Jerusalem) like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall you suck, you shall be born upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees."

The question I asked before I spoke these prophetic words through Isaiah was, "Can a nation be born in a day?" I was referencing the birth of Israel when My chosen at last received their promised land forever.

ISAIAH 66:8, 12

UNDERSTANDING

My Holy Spirit has the power to give My beloved understanding of My Word and to give unbelievers understanding in their hearts.

Many of those who do not yet understand why I came or who I really am have had their hearts blinded. Pray for the hearts of the unsaved.  

Bind the spirits of darkness and blindness and loose the power of My Spirit Who can open the eyes of their understanding.

EPHESIANS 4:18

EXALT

I am exalted above the heavens.  This means that I am above all things that I have created.  I created you and I am above you.  However, I have seated you next to Me in the heavens.

Just as I am with you, you are with Me in the Spirit. It thrills Me when you lift up your voice to Me to exalt Me through your praise and worship.

I look forward to this every morning. 

PSALM 97:9

RECOMPENSE

I am a God of recompense.  I  am a righteous God Who always recompenses tribulation on all those who trouble the righteous.

As you see the wars that are caused by evil people, understand that their evil will be delivered back to them.  Those unrighteous, haughty makers of war will be destroyed at the end day.

You can have hope now that I defend the righteous and I avenge any evil that has been done to them. Have no fear, I see all and I know all.  I have hosts of angels that are ready to defend the righteous.

2 THESSALONIANS 1:6

ADMIRED

My servant Paul talked about the day when I will return and how all My saints will admire Me. I know that you and all of My beloved are looking forward to that day when they will see Me face to face.

Paul continued to talk about that day and then he prayed that on that day, God would count the saints worthy of their calling.

He continued and prayed that they would fulfill all the good pleasure of My goodness, and finish the work of faith with power so that My name would be glorified in them all. I am praying this for you also.

2 THESSALONIANS 1:10-12

BETWEEN

My servant Paul wrote to Timothy these words: "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus(1 Timothy 2;5)."

I had to become a man.  I am both God and man.  I am both divine and human.  I had to come to earth and live and die as a human.  In order to be the perfect sacrifice I had to have a body.

Because of My sacrifice, I can now reconcile people to My Father. I died for the remission of their sins. All who believe in Me can receive My gift of salvation.  You can now call My Father "your Father."  

1 TIMOTHY 2:5

EXPECTATION

My servant Paul's earnest expectation was that when he saw Me face to fact that he would not be ashamed about anything. His hope was that I would be magnified in his body as long as he lived on earth.

Paul exhorted every believer to offer their bodies daily as living sacrifices.  When My beloved do this every morning, I rejoice.

Paul fulfilled his mission on earth, and I was magnified in his life on earth.  I know your prayer also and the prayer of many of My beloved is that they also will magnify Me daily until I call them home.

PHILIPPIANS 1:20

REFINE

When I return, I will be a refiner's fire to purify and to cleanse.  Every man will have to give an account for the things they did in their bodies.

I want all My beloved to daily allow Me by the power of My Holy Spirit to refine their souls.  Those who believe in Me and My atonement are already refined in their spirit because they have My Spirit within.

The soul is what needs refining.  Every day I want you to surrender your mind, will, and emotions to Me and ask My Holy Spirit to refine those areas that need to be refined.  I am conforming you to My image.

MALACHI 3:2

RENEW

Only My Word has the power to renew your mind and change your heart.  Paul wrote: "Be not conformed to this world: but be you transformed by the renewing of your mind...."

My Word is living and has the "power to divide your soul and spirit...." It is your soul (mind, will, and emotions) that desires worldliness rather than godliness.

My Word can give you godly thoughts instead of worldly thoughts.  My Word can give you godly desires rather than willful desires, and My Word can anchor your emotions with My hope.

ROMANS 12:1-2; HEBREWS 4:12 

ACCEPTED

 It is such a blessing to be accepted by others.  Most everyone want to be accepted.  Those who have experienced much rejection long for acceptance.

The good news is that you are accepted by Me. According to My will, you were predestined to be adopted as My Father's child by Me.  Sadly many do not know this good news.

I want you to share My gospel with those who have never received My gift of salvation.  Once they believe in Me and receive Me as their Savior, they are immediately accepted in My beloved family.

EPHESIANS 1:5-6

KEEP

My servant David made a promise to Me that I desire for you and all My beloved to promise.  He said, "I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me."

Death and life are in the power of the tongue.  What you speak daily can edify others or harm them. There is no way that you can train your tongue to say the words that are acceptable to Me.

The words you speak come from your heart. I want you to daily pray this prayer:  "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight." I will then be able to keep your mouth.

PSALM 139:1, 19:14

REMISSION

At My last Passover with My disciples after dinner, I lifted the cup of wine and said, "This is the blood of the new covenant shed for many for the remission of their sins."

The word, "remission," in English means forgiveness, a pardon of sins and crimes, and a a release from debt. When I shed My blood and forgave your sins at My crucifixion, I paid the debt that you owed.

At last, you could choose to walk out of the prison of unforgiveness by receiving My gift of salvation offered to you because of the remission of your sins. 

MATTHEW 26:28 

OFTEN

I want you to take communion often.  Many churches only do this once every three months.  However, it delights Me when people daily have their own private communion with Me.

I told My disciples at my last Passover with them that as often as they eat the bread and drink the cup, they remember My death until I come.

When I shed My blood, I atoned for the sins of the world.  That atonement was also for healing. When I died, I took your infirmities and bore your sicknesses.  Honor Me by remembering My sacrifice often.

1 CORINTHIANS 11:26; MATTHEW 8:17

VALUE

You are worth to Me more than many sparrows, and I place a high value on sparrows.  In fact, I see when a sparrow falls. I attend the funeral of every sparrow, and I even number the hairs on your head.

I am the One Who created you, and I was present at your conception.  It was at your conception that My light shined upon you.  I am the One Who lights every man who comes into the world.

Pray for those who do not yet know Me. I know each one of them, and I desire to fellowship with them. See every person as I see them. I see every person as My valuable treasures.

LUKE 12:7; JOHN 1:9

PASSED

You are a new creature in Me.  The old things are passed away and all things are new. I was the perfect sacrifice that made it possible for you to be reconciled to My Father.

You are now an ambassador for Me, and I have also given you the ministry of reconciliation.  The people who believe that I died, was buried, and was raised from the dead can have their sins forgiven.

This is the good news that I want you to share. Those who receive Me as their Savior and LORD can also become new creatures in Me. Look for opportunities to share this ministry of reconciliation with others.

2 CORINTHIANS 5:17

HIGH

My servant Paul warned believers to not mind high things.  He encourage them to be  of one mind toward each other.

We are not to be wise in our own conceits. This is pride.  I invited all who believe in Me to come to Me and learn meekness and lowliness of  heart.  Meekness is strength under control.

Pray for those believers you know to have godly wisdom, and to not set their affections on high earthly things, but the high things that are eternal. Paul exhorted believers to set their affections on things above.

ROMANS 12:16

PRIZE

You are My prized possession.  I paid to possess you with My own shed blood when I became the perfect sacrifice that My Father accepted.  You are now reconciled to My Father by the blood I shed on the tree.

I knew you before you were born.  You are mine and I am yours.  I dwell within you by My Spirit and with My strength I know you are going to run the race of life well.

Paul wrote that he pressed toward the mark for the prize of the high calling that I gave him. As you trust in Me, you will fulfill the high calling I have given you and you will receive your prize.

PHILIPPIANS 3:14