Today’s Reading:
Psalm 91
John 15
Psalm 84
When you abide under the shadow of Shaddai, you are hidden in the strength of God Most High. He’s the hope that holds me and the stronghold to shelter me, the only God for me, and my great confidence.
Psalms 91:1-2 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
I marked you in the wilderness. I marked you with the wilderness. But now is the hour of My great grace, My multiplied grace. Ask Me, and I will give you wisdom and strategy and skill and understanding for everything you need to do — every conquest, every conversation, all of it. Rest in Me. I Am your Source. Don’t live as your own source. That’s exhausting and defeating. Learn to rest in Me and count on Me as your Source for all things. That’s how you move in the rhythms of My grace. That’s how you avoid burnout and live in the elegance and beauty and lightness and joy of the Spirit. It’s time to bounce. It’s time to be buoyant with joy. My Spirit is your Source for everything you need.
“I am the sprouting vine and you’re my branches. As you live in union with me as your source, fruitfulness will stream from within you—but when you live separated from me you are powerless. If a person is separated from me, he is discarded; such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire to be burned. But if you live in life-union with me and if my words live powerfully within you—then you can ask whatever you desire and it will be done. When your lives bear abundant fruit, you demonstrate that you are my mature disciples who glorify my Father! “I love each of you with the same love that the Father loves me. You must continually let my love nourish your hearts.”
John 15:5-9 TPT
Trust in Me. Rest in Me. Take joy and soak in the great, deep pleasure of Me — of My Presence, of My nearness, of My voice. I have not brought you this far to drop you. I have not gotten you here to leave you to your own devices. This is a call to return to abiding. Don’t compartmentalize your work life and your prayer life, your active live and your spiritual life. They are one. Integrate them, and you can rest and abide in Me. You can be nourished as your remain plugged into Me as your Source for life, for wisdom, for joy that is your strength, for fruitfulness, for success and life more abundant. Ask Me, and I’ll give the nations to you. The world is Mine and the fullness thereof. What shall I withhold from you? What shall I withhold from those who love me and diligently seek Me? Nothing. Not a single thing. I gave My life. What wouldn’t I give? All I have is yours. All you must do is ask, seek, knock and believe, and I will give the nations to you. I will give the wealth of the nations to you in great abundance. And I will give you rest.
If you keep my commands, you will live in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands, for I continually live nourished and empowered by his love. My purpose for telling you these things is so that the joy that I experience will fill your hearts with overflowing gladness!
John 15:10-11 TPT
Integrate your life into a beautiful song, into poetry that dances from one facet to the next. Ensure that they are like links in a chain, all connected together as one, and as you do so, abide in Me. I will give you strength. I will be your strength. And I will give you everything you need. This is the year of My favor and My great, exceptional, super-abundant, multiplied grace. Abide in Me.
How to Respond
- Pray, Lord thank You for the year of Your favor and super-abundant, multiplied grace. Show me how to integrate the different aspects of my life into one chain, into one song of worship to You. Help me to abide in You with all aspects of my life, to rely on You as my Source for all things — physical and spiritual, technical and relational. All things. Teach me how to move in the rhythms of Your grace and abide in You, trust in You and ask and believe for everything I need and desire.
- Declare, For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside. I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness. For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord gives grace and glory; No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly. O Lord of hosts, How blessed is the man who trusts in You! — Psalms 84:10-12 NASB1995
- Decree, I will pursue the full integration of my life into a song of worship to the Lord. As I ask Him to show me how to do this, He will. He will supply my every need and desire according to His riches in glory. No good thing will He withhold from those who love Him and diligently seek Him. I will abide in the Lord for my professional life, family life, public life and spiritual life. I will not leave any aspect of my life out of the umbrella of His care. He will give me the wisdom and skill I need to appropriately manage it all in His grace. This is the year of the Lord’s favor and super-abundant, multiplied grace, and I choose to step into both.
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