Today’s Reading:
2 Corinthians 6
Hebrews 10
Hebrews 12
Psalm 23
‘Dear, dear Corinthians, I can’t tell you how much I long for you to enter this wide-open, spacious life. We didn’t fence you in. The smallness you feel comes from within you. Your lives aren’t small, but you’re living them in a small way. I’m speaking as plainly as I can and with great affection. Open up your lives. Live openly and expansively! * * * ‘
2 Corinthians 6:11-13
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
I’m infusing fresh purpose into hearts. I’m bringing clarity and focus that’s causing people to zero in on their call. This is a time where the unnecessary, the unhelpful, the burdens and even the nice-to-dos are rolling off of people’s shoulders — so they can hone in and as they hone in on My call for their life at this time. This is a season where I Am bringing a broad clarity. It’s a clarity that allows My people to see the field and the vision in a spacious and sprawling way like they have not seen it before. Instead of the narrow view, instead of the small boxed-in mindset of their call, they are now able to view it expansively. They are now beginning to see how it connects in with other nodes of effort to create a network and tapestry of My purposes being worked out and fulfilled in the Earth.
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne.”
Hebrews 12:1-2 NLT
This is a time where My people are casting off unholy restraints and the fear of man to pursue My heart, My will, My purposes, and they are shining like never before. They are living in fullness and in My grace like never before. The love of Jesus shines forth from them like beams of light. As they walk and live in My purposes, they are at their fullest and best. The sweet communion of the brethren is here among those who are walking and living and relishing in the life of purpose they have apprehended. It never needs to be about competition if you know your call and the One who called you. This is a time for all ships to rise in My Kingdom. This is a time where the network — the nodes, the lines of effort and the purposes I have released and commissioned in the Earth — all rise in strength and power together. This is to greatest effect. This will set the world on fire, and this will set hell running in retreat.
“You need the strength of endurance to reveal the poetry of God’s will and then you receive the promise in full. For soon and very soon, “The One who is appearing will come without delay!” And he also says, “My righteous ones will live from my faith. But if fear holds them back, my soul is not content with them!””
Hebrews 10:36-38 TPT
Rise up. Don’t apologize for, minimize or shrink back from the call and the purpose I have put on your life. As you rise and shine, as you see the broad vistas I have given you to conquer, as you partner with those who are of a like mind and heart, you will set this world on fire for My Name, and you will cause demons and hell to flee. I have given you grace and truth. Start there. Start there.
How to Respond
- Seek the Lord for a greater impartation and greater clarity of the purposes He has designed for you to pursue in this time.
- Read Psalm 23.
- Pray, Lord You are so worthy, so good and so true. Thank You for designing me with a plan and a purpose. Thank You for the call You have on my life for right now. Help me to grab a hold of it fully. Help me to shake off the expectations and criticisms of others and run the race You have marked out for me. Help me to do it in full joy, so I experience true life. I want to be a blazing representation of You, and I want to cause hell to run in retreat.
- Declare, “But we are certainly not those who are held back by fear and perish; we are among those who have faith and experience true life!”
— Hebrews 10:39 TPT - Decree, I will rise and shine. I will live, operate and excel in the purposes the Lord has for me in this time. The Lord is giving me clarity and a broader vision for His purposes for me, and I will shift my thinking and methods accordingly. I will not shrink back. I will not apologize for pursuing the will of the Lord for my life. I will speak boldly and declare the truth. And I will see hell and demons flee as they run in retreat from the operational power of God at work in and through my life.
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