Today’s Reading:
Joshua 24
Proverbs 3
Psalm 37
Zephaniah 3
“Trust in the Lord completely, and do not rely on your own opinions. With all your heart rely on him to guide you, and he will lead you in every decision you make. Become intimate with him in whatever you do, and he will lead you wherever you go.”
Proverbs 3:5-6 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
Trickles of choices will come at first. These trickles will get you accustomed to the kind of decisions you will have to make. It will be a good warm-up and practice for the decisions that lie ahead. Because next, more decisions will roll in, large ones, all at once. And then the choices and decisions will come in like a flood that must be addressed, that must be handled. The decisions and choices you make over the next 60 days will create the path you walk on in the year ahead.
“Keep trusting in the Lord and do what is right in his eyes. Fix your heart on the promises of God, and you will dwell in the land, feasting on his faithfulness. Find your delight and true pleasure in Yahweh, and he will give you what you desire the most. Give God the right to direct your life, and as you trust him along the way, you’ll find he pulled it off perfectly!”
Psalms 37:3-5 TPT
As you are in the midst of these decisions, big and small, keep the delight of Me first. Keep your pursuit of Me and My heart, My pleasure, My will first, and I will make your path straight. If you were to look out upon the vista of your life in the coming days, you would see that it is a vast field sprinkled with choices. What will you choose?
““Now therefore, worship Yahweh with holy awe and serve him in authentic love and loyalty. Remove from your hearts every false god to whom your fathers bowed down beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt and serve Yahweh. If it seems wrong in your eyes to serve Yahweh, then make your decision today which gods you will worship—the gods which your ancestors worshiped in Mesopotamia or the gods which the Amorites worship in the land where you are now living—but I and my family, we will give our lives to worship and serve Yahweh!””
Joshua 24:14-15 TPT
These are the choices of the crossing over and the separation from the past, from the former things. You will choose who you will be, how you will operate and what you will pursue in this new place. This is a time for reinvention. This is a time to shed old ways and old mindsets and be the best version of yourself in every way. This is a time of new beginnings. In this time, every decision you make will set the frame, the tone and the precedent for the days, weeks, months and even years ahead. Choose wisely. Choose from hope, faith and love. Don’t choose from fear. That will lead you backwards. Don’t play it safe — everything will take longer if you do. Be bold and very courageous. These are the news days in the new place, having crossed over.
How to Respond
- Pray, Lord purify my heart. Cleanse my mind, and help me to stir up my most holy faith, so I can take on these decisions from a place of confidence in You, from a place of bold faith and vision, from a place of assured victory. Thank You for bringing me across the Jordan into this new place of promise. Help me to manage myself — my decisions, my mindset, my outlook and my expectations well. Help me to keep You first in it all.
- Declare, “On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: “Fear not, O Zion; let not your hands grow weak. The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.”
Zephaniah 3:16-17 ESV - Decree, The Lord has crossed me over from the former wilderness place, to the new place of promise. In this new place, I will keep my eyes, heart and ears attuned to the Lord God Almighty. I will not make choices and decisions out of fear or out of experiences in the old place. Instead, I will make them from the place of bold faith in partnership with the Spirit of the Living God. I will advance well with the Lord in these next 60 days, and the Lord will set the path in front of me for triumph.
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