Today’s Reading:
Jeremiah 29
Isaiah 55
Psalm 91
Here’s what Yahweh says to you: “I know all about the marvelous destiny I have in store for you, a future planned out in detail. My intention is not to harm you but to surround you with peace and prosperity and to give you a beautiful future, glistening with hope.
Jeremiah 29:11 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
Get a Heavenly view. Come up here and look again from My perspective. You know how when you look up at the sky on a breezy day, you can see the clouds quickly moving by? So it is from this perspective — from up higher. This is the way you can see rulers, authorities, times and seasons passing by. We are in a shifting season. Even what has just changed is continuing to move, to shift, to change and to even dissipate and disappear. Don’t get too accustomed to what you see right now, because each snapshot reality is passing through, is being blown through and out by the wind of My Spirit.
“For my thoughts about mercy are not like your thoughts, and my ways are different from yours. As high as the heavens are above the earth, so my ways and my thoughts are higher than yours. “As the snow and rain that fall from heaven do not return until they have accomplished their purpose, soaking the earth and causing it to sprout with new life, providing seed to sow and bread to eat. So also will be the word that I speak; it does not return to me unfulfilled. My word performs my purpose and fulfills the mission I sent it out to accomplish.”
Isaiah 55:8-11 TPT
Great winds are coming. If you thought the shifts and the jolts were big until now, just wait. Massive shifts and jolts are appointed. But My perfect peace is for you. This is why I want you co-located in this time. You live and perceive and exist in the reality on Earth, but I want you to view it, analyze it and respond to it from the greater perspective of Heaven. This is the eternal perspective. This is the perspective where all things get used, and nothing is lost, wasted or forgotten. This is the perspective from which things that seem to have been forgotten about or seem to have moved into periods of dormancy come back into utility with power and with might. I Am using all of your skills. They may have a different application from a previous season, but we are using them.
For you will leave your exile with joy and be led home wrapped in peace. The mountains and hills in front of you will burst into singing and the trees of the field will applaud! Cypress trees will flourish where there were only thorns and myrtle trees instead of briars. These will stand as a testimony to Yahweh’s renown, everlasting signs that will not be cut off.
Isaiah 55:12-13 TPT
Don’t idealize the former days. They served constructive purposes, and they got you here. We are building on that foundation, and this is a glory to glory season — personally and corporately. The old is passing away quickly like clouds in the wind. And the new is blowing in forcefully on a gale. On the ground level it can be disorienting — this speed and uncertainty of change. So come up higher. Sit and commune with Me, and you will see that it is not random but highly orchestrated for beauty, in love, with power that is transformational, and it is shifting the world as you know it forever.
How to Respond
- Worship the Lord and commune with Him, so you can get into that up-higher perspective.
- Trust that He is doing a greater work in you now and in the world now than when He first began.
- Pray, Holy Spirit thank You for Your Presence, for Your fresh mercies every morning, for the beauty of Your creation and for shifting things in my life and the world around me for Your purposes and for the better. Help me to not cling tightly to the past. And help me to live in unbroken communion with You in the up-higher place where I can see from Your perspective and perceive the powerful and tremendous purposes behind the changes the wind of Your Spirit is driving. Help me to keep my peace and a sense of humor through it all.
- Declare, For here is what the Lord has spoken to me: “Because you have delighted in me as my great lover, I will greatly protect you. I will set you in a high place, safe and secure before my face. I will answer your cry for help every time you pray, and you will find and feel my presence in your time of pressure and trouble. I will be your glorious hero and give you a feast. You will be satisfied with a full life and with all that I do for you. For you will enjoy the fullness of my salvation!”
— Psalms 91:14-16 TPT - Decree, The Lord is driving change at a rapid pace. I don’t have to live in reactive mode and uncertainty here on the ground. I will get into that up-higher place with the Lord, and I will see things from His perspective. I will not fear the change or cling to the past. I will delight in the new things the Lord is doing — for my good, for my prosperity and to give me a future filled with glistening hope.
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