Today’s Reading:
Psalm 69
Psalm 103
But I keep calling out to you, Yahweh! I know you will bend down to listen to me, for now is the season of favor. Because of your faithful love for me, your answer to my prayer will be my sure salvation.
Psalms 69:13 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
My grace is coming to the soft places of your life, the tender places. It’s coming to those untouched, untouchable places. And I will give them strength. The places that have been too tender to touch or acknowledge, I will turn into your places of greatest strength. I Am turning them around, and I Am doing a new thing. Those hidden places, those delicate places that you dance around in conversation, that you keep shut behind closed doors — those are the places My sweet grace is invading to bring strength, health, flourishing and victory. The places that have been very tender and absolutely off limits and even severed or disconnected from your heart strings because of the pain, because of the disappointment, because of the crushing that has happened, I Am now sending My grace into — to revive, to restore, to strengthen and to make the place of shining pride and honor. The places of your greatest defeat will become your crowning victory.
I am burdened and broken by this pain. When your miracle rescue comes to me, it will lift me to the highest place. Then my song will be a burst of praise to you. My glory-shouts will make your fame even more glorious to all who hear my praises! For I know, Yahweh, that my praises mean more to you than all my gifts and sacrifices.
Psalms 69:29-31 TPT
The places that have been crushed like grapes, I will turn into the sweet wine of My favor, of celebration and unending delight. What the enemy meant for evil, what he meant to discourage you, to break you, to take you out, will become the place of your greatest comeback, your greatest point of strength and the place of honor in your life. It will become the cornerstone marker of your life upon which your life and ministry is built. The enemy attacked that place because he could see the direction for My great plan. He could see the potential in that area that I placed in your life for victory and greatness. So he went after it relentlessly — stealing, killing, destroying until you shut the door almost entirely in your heart. But you have left a crack for Me. And My grace is moving, is entering, is hovering and is healing even now.
All who seek you will see God do this for them, and they’ll overflow with gladness. Let this revive your hearts, all you lovers of God! For Yahweh does listen to the poor and needy and will not abandon his prisoners of love. Let all the universe praise him! The high heavens and everyone on earth, praise him! Let the oceans deep, with everything in them, keep it up! God will come to save his Zion-people. God will build up his cities of Judah, for there his people will live in peace. All their children will inherit the land, and the lovers of his name will live there safe and secure.
Psalms 69:32-36 TPT
I will set you free from the chains of defeat. I will strengthen you and bring wholeness where you have felt hollow and empty. Where you have felt helpless and directionless — I Am breathing on that now, and that barren place will become a fruitful garden. That tender place will become the point of your greatest strength. Watch as I do a new thing. Watch as I turn this around. You will dance in celebration upon that old defeat. Yours will be a victory dance, a celebration dance. It will be a funeral and a dirge no longer.
How to Respond
- Open the most tender places of your heart to the Lord, so His grace can come to strengthen, heal and revive you there.
- Pray, Holy Spirit come. Do what only You can do. You see the most tender places in my life. Only You understand the pain, the breaking and the crushing that has taken place. You have seen it all. Restore every part of me. And do as You have said. Turn these places into the places of my greatest strength and victory. Turn them into the cornerstone of my life, future and ministry. Bring me to the place of dancing on defeat and living in victorious celebration.
- Declare, My love for you has my heart on fire! My passion for your house consumes me! Nothing will turn me away, even though I endure all the insults of those who insult you. — Psalms 69:9 TPT
- Declare, You satisfy my every desire with good things. You’ve supercharged my life so that I soar again like a flying eagle in the sky! You’re a God who makes things right, giving justice to the defenseless. The same way a loving father feels toward his children— that’s but a sample of your tender feelings toward us, your beloved children, who live in awe of you. — Psalms 103:5-6, 13 TPT
- Decree, The Lord’s grace is moving in my life — in the most tender and walled off places — to heal, to strengthen and to bring prosperity and flourishing life. He is turning my defeat into victory and my crushing into the sweet wine of celebration. The places where the enemy came to steal, kill and destroy are becoming the places of my greatest victory and strength. They will become the cornerstone and hallmark of my life, my future and my ministry. The enemy is a defeated foe.
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