The Lord says, Trusting and obeying is the way to the new. Trusting and obeying as you walk with Me will bring you out from this former season, out beyond the transition into the new.
The Lord says, Let joy bubble forth. Let joy and hope bubble up and out of your heart. Let it touch others and be contagious. This is a new day. This is a new season. This is a new era. And life is going to be different here. Let your anticipation and your excitement bubble forth.
The Lord says, Don’t you worry about a thing. It will not add one minute to your life, and it will certainly steal enjoyment of the minutes you have. Don’t let the sorrow engulf you. Don’t let the pain penetrate your heart and make a home there.
The Lord says, Love Me well. Worship Me with a full heart. Don’t be half-hearted in the way you live. Live and love fully. Let worship be a full expression of what is in your heart and bubbling out. People who live fully are kinetic. Their enthusiasm and vigor and excitement is infectious. Don’t hide your life, your expression, your being under a bushel. Shine! Live out loud.
The Lord says, Dwell in peace. Dwell with a recognition of My holiness. Stir up joy and expectation in your heart. The days are hard, but you don’t have to be hardened by them. The days are long, but you don’t have to live in defeat and exhaustion. Stir up joy. Stir up hope. Stir up expectation, and live from up higher.
The Lord says, Be grateful. Live a lifestyle of gratitude. This is the season of thanksgiving, but I Am calling you to an unceasing lifestyle of thanksgiving. Gratitude and honor should be marks of your life. Gratitude opens you up to My graces. Gratitude opens your heart and your mind to unexpected gifts in unlikely packages. Gratitude opens your eyes with expectation and fills your heart with hope.
The Lord says, I Am making streams in the desert. I Am causing you to blossom and to bloom in a time of great strain and trials. As you lean on Me, trust in Me and rest in Me, your life is becoming a beautiful and remarkable sign of life in the land that looks forsaken.
The Lord says, I Am holy. I Am the Lord, and I Am One. There is no other god beside me. Dwell in the place of My holiness. Ask for the reverential fear of the Lord. That awe comes by a revelation and a glimpse of My holiness.
The Lord says, We are building something new. The place we are building will be tailor-made and fit for purpose. I have many purposes hidden and established there for you.
The Lord says, Shine in the shaking. Though the earth trembles beneath you. Though every step seems uncertain and the ground beneath you threatens to give way, shine. Shine as you represent Me to a lost and dying world around you. Shine as the attacks come from every angle. Shine.