Today’s Reading:
Habakkuk 2
Zechariah 9
Psalm 18
I will wait at my watchpost and station myself on the tower. I’ll keep watching to see what he’ll say to me and consider the reply when he answers my argument.
Habakkuk 2:1 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
Great grace abounds for change. You are living in My abounding grace. My grace has you in a protected zone of peace. There’s no need for you to stray from here or to wander outside where the war is waging. Stay in this zone of My grace and perfect peace. This is a strategy room. This is a concealed place, an elevated place and one where war plans are made and from which they are executed. You have no need to step out into the fray. I have positioned you in this strategy room, in this war tower. And it is from here that you will gain insights, perspective and strategy for waging effective warfare, for developing battle plans and for understanding the equipment that is needed, the gear and even outfitting that is needed for resilience in the fight.
Then Yahweh replied: “Write down the revelation; write it legibly on clay tablets so that whoever reads it may run and explain it to others.”
Habakkuk 2:2 TPT
The battle is fierce, and the war is waging furiously. Battles are all around. But your portion and your place is in the zone of My great abounding grace, of My perfect peace where the table is set for receiving strategy. Write it down. Draw it out. Make it plain. Fashion your weapons here. There is room for developing and honing and assembling new weapons of warfare here. I Am equipping you to pierce the darkness, to do great damage to darkness, to rip a gaping hole in darkness and to expose it for what it is. Ready yourself. This is not conventional warfare. These are not the war tactics you have known or seen before. I have you in a protected place where a great vantage point and perspective are provided. So do what I have put you here to do.
“Come running back home to your fortress, you hope-filled prisoners! This very day, I vow I will restore to you double blessing for your trouble. My people will be my weapons, for I have bent Judah as my bow and made Ephraim my arrow. I will awaken and stir up your sons, Zion, against the sons of Greece. I will use you like a warrior’s sword.”
Zechariah 9:12-13 TPT
Transcribe the strategy. Make the blueprints plain. Pick up the new weapon and fashion it for purpose, because I Am readying you to do great damage to darkness. Yours is a war of holy hope. You are destroying the covering of darkness and the activity and presence of darkness by waging a war of holy hope with the weapons I have place in your hands and the strategy and blueprints I have placed in your heart. Do all I have put in your mind and heart to do. And do not leave this zone of grace and peace. You can wage the war from here.
How to Respond
- Get in the strategy room with the Lord. He will give you plans and very specific insights there.
- Pray, Holy Spirit help me to recognize this place of great grace and peace You have provided for me. Help me to protect this place and remain in it, even as I seek You for the strategies and blueprints You have for me — for warring and for building. Help me to hone new weapons of warfare here, and to follow Your guiding to pierce through the darkness by waging a war of holy hope.
- Declare, I love you, Yahweh, and I’m bonded to you, my strength! Yahweh, you’re the bedrock beneath my feet, my faith-fortress, my wonderful deliverer, my God, my rock of rescue where none can reach me. You’re the shield around me, the mighty power that saves me, and my high place. All I need to do is to call on you, Yahweh, the praiseworthy God. When I do, I’m safe and sound in you— delivered from my foes!
— Psalms 18:1-3 TPT - Decree, The Lord has put me in a protected zone of His abounding grace and perfect peace. I will not fear, nor will I stick my head out of here and get caught in the crossfire happening right outside. I will do what He has placed me here to do — receive strategy and write it down, receive blueprints and draw them out, hone new weapons of warfare and use them to piece through the darkness and expose the darkness by waging war with valiant, brilliant, inextinguishable hope.
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