Today’s Reading:
Psalm 24
Isaiah 55
Psalm 138
Psalm 139
Who, then, is allowed to ascend the mountain of Yahweh? And who has the privilege of entering into God’s Holy Place? Those who are clean—whose works and ways are pure, whose hearts are true and sealed by the truth, those who never deceive, whose words are sure. They will receive Yahweh’s blessing and righteousness given by the Savior-God. They will stand before God, for they seek the pleasure of God’s face, the God of Jacob. Pause in his presence
Psalms 24:3-6 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
Truth in the offering. I desire truth in the offering. I desire purity, clean hands and clean lips of those who are called by My Name. Bring a pure sacrifice of praise. Purity, integrity, honesty and truth are what marks My lovers and sets them apart. It’s not religion. It’s not rules. It’s not rigid adherence and hyper discipline. It’s love first. Purity and love are deeply connected.
So wake up, you living gateways! Lift up your heads, you doorways of eternity! Welcome the King of Glory, for he is about to come through you.
Psalms 24:7 TPT
I don’t desire that which is manufactured. I don’t care for a production or a show. What I desire are pure hearts of worship. What I desire is deep abiding love that springs from gratitude and that is the response from a childlike heart of faith. Children love first and ask questions later. That’s what I desire from My lovers. That’s the way it should be with My people. Love should be your unmanufactured, reflexive response to Me and to the world around you — to the people I put in your path. Show them love, and you show them Me. I don’t desire for you to live in the confined space of religious duty and overly rigid discipline. I want you to live too. Have discipline insofar as it makes room for the rest of your life. Have discipline in a way that provides a useful means to a desired and worthy end. But rigid discipline for discipline’s sake is religion.
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
This is a call to simplify. This is a call to shed and let go. This is a call for love, childlike love, purity and truth to be the characteristics that mark and identify My people. Remember, My burden is light. The whole world is not on your shoulders My dearly loved one. It is in the palm of My hand. It’s time to practice letting go, releasing, shedding and getting light in what you carry. It doesn’t have to be so hard. It was never meant to be so hard.
How to Respond
- Ask the Lord for help in simplifying your life.
- Pray, Holy Spirit shine Your perfect light on my life. Help me to see what I am doing and carrying that I need to shed, that for which I need a change of approach and that which I am meant to hold more loosely. I repent Lord for acting like and believing that all of this depends on me. Help me to relax my grip, release my burden and walk in purity, honesty and love with You — filled with childlike faith. Thank You that Your burden is light, and You are the One who holds the whole world in Your hands.
- Declare, God, I invite your searching gaze into my heart. Examine me through and through; find out everything that may be hidden within me. Put me to the test and sift through all my anxious cares. See if there is any path of pain I’m walking on, and lead me back to your glorious, everlasting way— the path that brings me back to you.
Psalms 139:23-24 TPT - Declare, You keep every promise you’ve ever made to me! Since your love for me is constant and endless, I ask you, Lord, to finish every good thing that you’ve begun in me!
Psalms 138:8 TPT - Decree, I am responding to the Lord’s call to simplify, to relax, to release and to shed. I will not go in to 2026 weighted down under the burden of all that I have taken on — purposefully or unknowingly. I will not live in the drudgery of religious duty and discipline for the sake of discipline. I will live freely and lightly before the Lord, in full joy as I simply do what He has called me to do. His grace is sufficient for me to succeed in the purpose and assignment He has given me.
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