Today’s Reading:
2 Corinthians 2
Daniel 2
“God always makes his grace visible in Christ, who includes us as partners of his endless triumph. Through our yielded lives he spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of God everywhere we go.”
2 Corinthians 2:14 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
Truth is like a seed that is planted deeply within you, and it is bearing fruit. This is a fruitful season for the truth. Where the truth has been growing quietly, sending out roots and germinating in darkness, in hiddenness — the truth emerged when no one was looking. When distractions abounded from every angle, with noises and sounds and flashes from every corner, truth was emerging into the light of day. It has been there all along, unseen first and then unnoticed.
“We have become the unmistakable aroma of the victory of the Anointed One to God —a perfume of life to those being saved and the odor of death to those who are perishing. The unbelievers smell a deadly stench that leads to death, but believers smell the life-giving aroma that leads to abundant life. And who of us can rise to this challenge?”
2 Corinthians 2:15-16 TPT
While the truth blossomed, those who love its fragrance could smell it on the breeze. “Ah, truth is emerging,” they would say. “Ah, the truth is in bloom and has nearly come to the point of bearing fruit.” Now is that time. This is that day of the tree of truth bearing its first fruit, and it will Lord produce for an extended season. The taste of fruit of the tree of truth depends on the taste buds of the one consuming it. To some it will be sweet though tart — so tart in fact, it may cause your mouth to feel suddenly dry. But to those who hate the taste of truth, it will taste sour, repellant and foreboding. It’s a matter of taste and a matter of heart.
Now is that time. This is that day of the tree of truth bearing its first fruit, and it will Lord produce for an extended season.
“For unlike so many, we are not peddlers of God’s Word who water down the message. We are those sent from God with pure motives, who speak in the sight of God from our union with Christ.”
2 Corinthians 2:17 TPT
The trees of truth are in full bloom. The one growing inside of you has emerged, and people will see and taste of the fruit you produced — no longer hidden, no longer shadow banned, no longer a voice crying out in the wilderness. The trees of truth have emerged and are at fruit bearing stage. Some truth trees have greater yields. Some have greater maturity than others. But those whose source and root is in the One who is all Truth will bear abundant fruit in this season and will no longer be hidden in this season. The fruit of the truth that you produce, that you share, from which the world gleans, will set people free.
How to Respond
- Rejoice — truth is no longer emerging. We now get to taste its fruit.
- Pray, Holy Spirit thank You for involving Yourself in the affairs of men. Thank You for being the One who controls the times and seasons, the One who promotes kings and the One who removes them. Thank You for being the Source of all Truth — the Way, the Truth and the Life. Thank You for Your hand in my life — moving me from obscurity and hiddenness into a place of visible production that brings truth to the world. Guide me in all I say and do, so I am in lockstep with You.
- Declare, “May the blessed name of God be praised forever and ever, for wisdom and might are his alone. He alone controls the changes of times and seasons. He enthrones and dethrones kings, he imparts wisdom to the wise, and he pours out revelation-knowledge to those with understanding. He alone reveals deep secrets and mysteries and knows what lies in darkness, for he radiates glory-light all around him.”
— Daniel 2:20-22 TPT - Decree, This is the time of the fruit of the trees of truth bearing ripe fruit. It is time that we not only smell and see the truth — it’s time that we taste it. God’s grace and sovereignty has moved us into a time where the truth will be seen and tasted by all — those who love and embrace it, and those who despise and shrink back from it. My fruitfulness has left the place of hiddenness. It is now out in the open, in the light. And the truth borne in my life will set people free.
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