My child, I have chosen you for a specific purpose, evident by the desires of your heart. Your adversary is constantly firing darts of prevention at you like insecurity, ridicule, doubt, intimidation, depression, fatigue, fear, etc. I understand this warfare can become very overwhelming, causing you to question yourself. In these wavering moments, I ask:
What if Moses ran from the burning bush?
What if Noah didn’t build the ark?
What if Gideon didn’t push past doubt?
What if David didn’t slay the giant?
What if Esther didn’t approach the king?
What if Elijah backed out of the showdown?
What if Abraham didn’t have any sons?
What if Mary rejected the Holy Spirit?
What if John didn’t prepare the people’s hearts through baptism?
Do you see that each person could have retreated, but they chose not to? And do you see that each person’s victory helped prepare the way for Christ?
Now, My chosen one, your victories are needed to prepare the way for Christ’s return.
I am still writing history. If you choose to overcome, I will add your accomplishments to the most incredible manuscript of all time. I will lead you in achieving more than you ever dreamed possible. You too will do great things like lead people into the promised land, build, command armies, hold scepters, influence kings, manifest My great power, bear good fruit and make disciples of many nations.
Push past that old serpent! For there are no “what if’s” in My Kingdom. Only victory, and with Me, it is already yours.
Activation: Acknowledge that you are chosen, and God wants to use you to prepare the way of the Lord. Ask God where your areas of influence are and how He wants to use you each and every day. Identify any darts of prevention that have fired against you. Overcome each one by standing on Truth and using your power and authority to destroy it. Then, go and walk out your purpose in victory as God has called you to
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, a [special] people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies [the wonderful deeds and virtues and perfections] of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
1 Peter 2:9 (AMP)
Jesus, the Example
1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of [a]witnesses [who by faith have testified to the truth of God’s absolute faithfulness], stripping off every unnecessary weight and the sin which so easily and cleverly entangles us, let us run with endurance and active persistence the race that is set before us,
2 [looking away from all that will distract us and] focusing our eyes on Jesus, who is the Author and Perfecter of faith [the first incentive for our belief and the One who brings our faith to maturity], who for the joy [of accomplishing the goal] set before Him endured the cross, [b]disregarding the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God [revealing His deity, His authority, and the completion of His work].
3 Just consider and meditate on Him who endured from sinners such bitter hostility against Himself [consider it all in comparison with your trials], so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
Hebrews 12:1-3 (AMP)
Footnotes
[a] Hebrews 12:1 I.e. the people commended for their faith in ch 11. See 11:2, 39.
[b] Hebrews 12:2 Sometimes the public shame of the cross is overlooked when one thinks of the pain and agony inflicted by it, but in the Roman Empire crucifixion was a shameful and disgraceful way to die, a form of capital punishment from which Roman citizens were exempt; and in Roman comedy it was used in a curse: “Go to a bad cross!”
#lionbites
Unapologetically Marcia 