Today’s Reading:
Revelation 2
Matthew 6
Psalm 17
Hebrews 4
“The eyes of your spirit allow revelation-light to enter into your being. If your heart is unclouded, the light floods in! But if your eyes are focused on money, the light cannot penetrate and darkness takes its place. How profound will be the darkness within you if the light of truth cannot enter!”
Matthew 6:22-23 TPT
I heard the Sprit of the Living God say,
Let freedom ring. Let it ring through the halls of eternity, and let it ring loudly and unceasingly in your heart. Don’t stop the flow. The wells of freedom are being re-dug, are being unstopped. So don’t stop the flow. It’s your inheritance. Liberty and truth are your righteous inheritance. Justice and equality under the law are your righteous inheritance. And I will reestablish them. I will work with the people to reestablish them.
“But I have this against you: you have abandoned the passionate love you had for me at the beginning.”
Revelation 2:4 TPT
Return to your first love. Don’t wander to the right or to the left. Don’t perk your ears with interest in to what others say. Do what it is I have put in your heart to do, and let all of those other words and perspectives fall to the ground. They are of no consequence to My direction, and they will serve only to get you off-track from destiny.
Keep your eye single. Keep your eye and your heart attuned to Me. Make Me your first and only love, and I will prosper your life. I will prosper you in your field. I will prosper you in the hidden vineyard that we have planted and are cultivating. Don’t open these up to public display, to public comment or give ear to unsolicited comments or criticism. They will set your mind in unfruitful directions. They will set your heart to concerns that are not for you.
“For in a visitation of the night you inspected my heart and refined my soul in fire until nothing vile was found in me. I will not sin with my words. Following your word has kept me from wrong. Your ways have molded my footsteps, keeping me from going down the paths of the violent. My steps follow in the tracks of your chariot wheels, always staying in their path, never straying from your way.”
Psalms 17:3-5 TPT
This is your instruction — keep your eyes and your heart attuned to Me, and stay on track with Me. And I will lead you unerringly through and to where I want you to go, to the place I want you to get, to be, to see and to thrive. Close your eyes and ears to voices that do not resonate with the word and the sounds of Heaven. Of course I will use people to speak into your life and to help you along the way. But don’t allow yourself to get drawn off-track by excessive external opinions and voices that don’t ring in alignment with Mine. This is a trust and obey season. All seasons are. But I Am calling you up to a higher standard of trust and obey, to a higher perspective with Me on trust and obey. The instructions may be fewer here. The explanations may be shorter or totally missing here. But I’m calling you to a higher standard of trust and obey. So do the simple thing, and that is to simply do as I say.
How to Respond
- Worship the Lord in spirit and in truth.
- Celebrate the freedom and the righteous inheritances that we have as Americans.
- Pray, Holy Spirit help me to keep my eyes and ears and heart attuned to You. Help me to not invite or allow in external voices that are not aligned with what You are saying and doing in my life. Help me to be in childlike faith, so it is easy for me to simply trust and obey Your Word and instruction.
- Declare, “For we have the living Word of God, which is full of energy, like a two-mouthed sword. It will even penetrate to the very core of our being where soul and spirit, bone and marrow meet! It interprets and reveals the true thoughts and secret motives of our hearts. There is not one person who can hide their thoughts from God, for nothing that we do remains a secret, and nothing created is concealed, but everything is exposed and defenseless before his eyes, to whom we must render an account.”
— Hebrews 4:12-13 TPT - Decree, I will follow the instruction of the Lord. I will not get drawn off-track or be pulled off-purpose by the inputs, ideas or opinions of others. The Lord is the one whose voice I will follow. I will only heed insights from those whose voices are aligned with His and who resonate in my spirit as true. I will keep my feet, eyes and heart in alignment with the Lord, and I will trust Him and simply obey.
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