Today’s Reading:
2 Corinthians 6
John 15
Ephesians 3
Proverbs 3
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 MSG
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
Trust and obey. Lean on My chest. All of the answers you seek are within Me. Rest in Me. Believe in Me. Draw from Me as your life Source. I Am the Source of the Living Waters that give life, energy, joy uncontainable, fullness and fulfillment. I Am the Source. Come, drink freely until you have had your fill. I Am the Source of abundant life. I Am the One who energizes and animates you and gives you wings to fly. You have been living on the ground. You have been pecking around in the ground like a baby chick when I have called you and have intended for you to fly with wings like an eagle. It requires drawing your energy, your life, your instruction, wisdom and understanding from Me. I Am the life Source. I Am your life Source. Apart from Me you can do nothing. So why are you trying? Why are you pushing and pushing and striving to do this on your own, when you can tap into My fountain of life, My Living Waters and drink freely and be energized and filled, so you can take flight?
“I am a true sprouting vine, and the farmer who tends the vine is my Father. He cares for the branches connected to me by lifting and propping up the fruitless branches and pruning every fruitful branch to yield a greater harvest. The words I have spoken over you have already cleansed you. So you must remain in life-union with me, for I remain in life-union with you. For as a branch severed from the vine will not bear fruit, so your life will be fruitless unless you live your life intimately joined to mine.”
John 15:1-4 TPT
You are doing things in your own strength. Rest in Me. Abide in Me. Rely on Me. Draw your energy and your impulses from the flow of My Spirit. Just as your phone makes demands on the wall outlet for power when it is plugged in, so too, when you are plugged in to Me, in dependence and reliance on Me as your Source, your connection to Me automatically makes demands on My Spirit. It makes demands for the nutrients, the instruction, the joy. I Am your all in all. When you are plugged into Me, I become all that you need. Don’t you understand? Can’t you see? The phone gets exactly what it needs when it is plugged into the wall. All it needs is a charge. How much more Am I capable of providing and being the Source of all you need as you connect yourself to Me and abide? Do you put the phone unplugged next to the source and wonder how it is going to get charged? No, that’s ridiculous. So don’t sit apart from Me and fret. Plug in, and receive. I Am, and I have all that you need, hope for and desire. Entwine yourself as one with Me, and I will fulfill your every need, hope, dream and desire. It’s what happens supernaturally when you plug into Me as your Source. Being your own source is a recipe for burnout and failure.
Then, by constantly using your faith, the life of Christ will be released deep inside you, and the resting place of his love will become the very source and root of your life. Then you will be empowered to discover what every holy one experiences—the great magnitude of the astonishing love of Christ in all its dimensions. How deeply intimate and far-reaching is his love! How enduring and inclusive it is! Endless love beyond measurement that transcends our understanding—this extravagant love pours into you until you are filled to overflowing with the fullness of God! Never doubt God’s mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this. He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream, and exceed your wildest imagination! He will outdo them all, for his miraculous power constantly energizes you.
Ephesians 3:17-20 TPT
Let Me be the Source of all that you need. I’m right here. The vastness of Me is fully filled to the brim with more than you could ever ask, think or imagine. Just plug into Me. Make Me your all in all. Make Me your every thought, your every breath. That’s what communion is. Plug into Me. I will supply all of your needs and desires according to My riches in glory, and I will cause you to fly.
How to Respond
- Trust in the Lord. Rest in Him. Make Him your every thought and breath.
- Pray, Holy Spirit help me to plug into You as the Source of all that I need today and every day. Help me to lean not on my own understanding or strength. I want to rest in you as easily as a phone charger rests in the socket. Thank You for Your provision and thank You that your only expectations of me are trust and obedience. Help me to discipline my mind to rest in You and rely on You to be my all in all.
- Declare, I will trust in the Lord completely, and will not rely on my own opinions. With all my heart, I will rely on him to guide me, and he will lead me in every decision I make. I will become intimate with him in whatever I do, and he will lead me wherever I go. I won’t think for a moment that I know it all, for wisdom comes when I adore him with undivided devotion and avoid everything that’s wrong. — adapted from Proverbs 3:5-7 TPT
- Decree, Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. He is the Source of Living Waters. All I could ever need, want, hope or desire can be found in Him. He created all things, and nothing that was made was made apart from Him. I will entwine myself as one with the Lord, drawing strength, energy, wisdom, provision and my every dream and desire right from the stream of His heart, the flow of His Spirit. I will be left wanting for nothing, because He will faithfully supply it all. I will soar on wings like eagles in the freedom and life He gives.
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