Today’s Reading:
Ephesians 2
James 4
Hebrews 10
Mark 12
“We have become his poetry, a re-created people that will fulfill the destiny he has given each of us, for we are joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. Even before we were born, God planned in advance our destiny and the good works we would do to fulfill it!”
Ephesians 2:10 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
Cherish My words. Cherish My Presence, and recognize My grace. Recognize My enabling power that is strengthening and equipping you to carry and to do the good works I’ve prepared for you in advance. Knowledge is great. Knowing without doing is meaningless. If I have given you knowing and understanding and placed a burden on your heart, your right response is “Lord, what am I to do?” Faith without works is dead. Knowledge without action is like beautiful flower petals being blown in the wind.
“So if you know of an opportunity to do the right thing today, yet you refrain from doing it, you’re guilty of sin.”
James (Jacob) 4:17 TPT
Now is a time for action. Now is a time for movement. Now is a time to arise and conquer. I haven’t set you here just to look pretty. The platform I have given you is set and equipped and enabled to advance in power. Delight and be in full, overflowing joy with the work I have put in your hands and the words that are bubbling forth from your heart. Now is not the time to shy away from conviction, from purpose, from speaking or from acting. Now is the time to advance on all fronts in full joy and confidence, in boldness, knowing that all of Heaven backs you, because you are called in purity by My Name.
“You need the strength of endurance to reveal the poetry of God’s will and then you receive the promise in full. For soon and very soon, “The One who is appearing will come without delay!” And he also says, “My righteous ones will live from my faith. But if fear holds them back, my soul is not content with them!” But we are certainly not those who are held back by fear and perish; we are among those who have faith and experience true life!”
Hebrews 10:36-39 TPT
The time for action is now. The time for speaking forth the truth with boldness is now, and victories will fall like dominoes. You will see one after another after another just fall — as you lean on Me and speak the truth, move in truth, advance in truth and do the work I have sent you to do.
Don’t cut short the work I have given you. Bring it to completion, and operate with honor and excellence until the time for the handoff comes. Then I will move your hands to work in a new way, on a new assignment. Until that day and that handoff comes, keep your hands on the plow, and be faithful every moment. I’ve given you everything you need. Success is yours. It’s at hand. It’s time is now.
How to Respond
- Pray, Lord thank You for equipping me and for putting knowledge, skill and purpose in my mind and heart. Help me to move forward in lockstep with You, at Your leading — so I boldly do and say all that You have called me to do. Help me to remain faithful in this assignment until You bring the handoff to the next one.
- Declare, Jesus answered him, “The most important of all the commandments is this: ‘The Lord Yahweh, our God, is one!’ You are to love the Lord Yahweh, your God, with a passionate heart, from the depths of your soul, with your every thought, and with all your strength. This is the great and supreme commandment. And the second is this: ‘You must love your neighbor in the same way you love yourself.’ You will never find a greater commandment than these.”
Mark 12:29-31 TPT - Decree, The time of the Lord’s favor, grace and domino effect of victories is now. I will move forward in bold confidence as He leads me to fulfill the work and plans and purposes He has placed in my heart and on my path. I will not shrink back or cower. I will confidently advance with Him in truth, honor and excellence — in full joy.
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