Today’s Reading:
Joshua 5
Psalm 147
Psalm 16
“While the people of Israel were encamped at Gilgal, they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening on the plains of Jericho. And the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain. And the manna ceased the day after they ate of the produce of the land. And there was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.”
Joshua 5:10-12 ESV
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
The way I provide in one season may not be the same way I provide in the next. Look at the children of Israel. In the wilderness, there was manna. In the Promised Land, there was the produce of the ground. One built faith and required faith and less physical work. The other required faith to enter into the place — but once there, the fruit was abundant. The produce was abundant, and more work was required to receive it — to pick it, to prepare it and cook it. You are in a new season now. The way I provide here will not be the way I provided back there. Before, the instruction was “take just enough.” Here, the purpose is abundance. Before the point was reliance on Me. Here the point is partnership and multiplication with Me. See the difference? We are in a new day. You will have to pivot and change your mindset and expectations from receiving and focused budgeting to cultivating, producing, stewarding and multiplying in abundance.
“He covers the heavens with clouds; he prepares rain for the earth; he makes grass grow on the hills. He gives to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens that cry. His delight is not in the strength of the horse, nor his pleasure in the legs of a man, but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love.”
Psalm 147:8-11 ESV
Know the boundary lines of your favor — of My favor in your life. They extend to the corners of your calling, but not beyond. So long as you stay in purpose and heed the call I have put on your life, so long as you stay on assignment and don’t wander out beyond the boundary lines of your appointed service to Me, favor will hem you in. Favor will surround you. Beyond the boundary lines of your calling, of your assignment, you lose your connection to My favor. It does not extend there unless and until I instruct, I call, I place a burden on your heart. Wandering off to do good works of your own will and design will fall outside the bounds of My favor. This is a time appointed to focus, to purpose, to exercise great restraint and to limit yourself, so you can hone in like a laser on the call I have placed on you. Other work — no matter how nice or noble, will draw you off-track and will weaken the strength of your gates, will loosen the joints of your boundary lines and make you more vulnerable to attack.
“Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion! For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your children within you. He makes peace in your borders; he fills you with the finest of the wheat.”
Psalm 147:12-14 ESV
The word for this time is pivot from your accustomed way of receiving provision and handling and managing provision in this time. It will look and taste different here. And that’s a good thing. That’s an appointed thing. Focus with laser precision on your calling, and work inside those bounds. That is where My favor will hem you in, protect you and cause you to rise even higher. This is the day of My favor. This is the place of My favor. Don’t break your own boundary lines down by not focusing exclusively on the call.
How to Respond
- Pray, Lord, thank You for bringing me beyond the Jordan, out of the wilderness into the foothills of the Promised Land. Help me to fiercely guard the boundary lines of my calling, so I can operate in Your favor. Help me to change my mindset from the time of receiving just enough to a time of partnership with You for cultivation, growth and multiplication. I want to do well in this new time, and I want to remain growing in strength inside of the bounds of my calling.
- Declare, “The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot. The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. I bless the Lord who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me. I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure.”
Psalm 16:5-9 ESV - Decree, The Lord has changed the season I am in from wilderness and sustenance to the lush hill country of fruitfulness and abundance. I will change my mindset and way of operating accordingly. I will use the faith built in the wilderness now to partner with the Lord, to cultivate the land, to multiply and to steward abundance. I will not run off in other directions to do things that seem good in my heart. I will remain laser-focused on the call and the burden the Lord has placed on my heart, so I can live inside the bounds of His favor.
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