You have answered the call to purity. You have allowed Me to expose and burn away the parts of you that did not honour Me. You have understood what it means to fear Me – to acknowledge My greatness and the weight of My glory. You have counted the cost.
And now….
Now is the time for reverence.
To put Me in My rightful place above all.
As we enter a season of uncertainty in the structures that men have built in the nations, I am requiring of you to throw off your old affiliations and to place Me above all.
For I am above ALL nations, kingdoms, thrones, powers and dominions.
Elevate Me above your own thinking, elevate Me above your own agenda, elevate Me above generational ties and tradition. Speak My name over your home, your region and your nation. Recognise My authority over all of these things. Revere Me, and Me alone.
For when I am above all, when I rule and reign from My rightful place, you are removing your own agendas and are creating the space for Me to establish My Kingdom upon the earth in power.
Activation: Ask the Lord to draw your attention to any areas of your thinking or belief system where He is not above all. Repent, and speak the words of the Lord’s prayer out loud – declaring that the kingdom, power and glory belong to Him. Establish His reign in your life, that He is above all.
25 So David, with the elders of Israel and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-edom with joy.
26 Because God was helping the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD [to do it carefully and safely], they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.
27 David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who carried the ark, and the singers and Chenaniah, director of the music of the singers. David also wore an ephod (a priestly upper garment) of linen.
28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the horn, with trumpets, with loud-sounding cymbals, with harps and lyres.
29 It happened that as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the City of David, Michal [David’s wife] the daughter of Saul, looking down through a window, saw King David leaping and dancing [in celebration]; and [a]she despised him in her heart.
1 Chronicles 15:25-30 (AMP)
Footnotes
[a] 1 Chronicles 15:29 Michal strongly disapproved of David’s undignified entry into the city wearing the ephod instead of his royal robes (see note 2 Sam 6:20).
9 “Pray, then, [a]in this way:
‘Our Father, who is in heaven,
[b]Hallowed be Your name.10 ‘[c]Your kingdom come,
Your [d]will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.11 ‘Give us this day our [e]daily bread.
12 ‘And forgive us our [f]debts, as we have forgiven our debtors [letting go of both the wrong and the resentment].
13 ‘And do not [g]lead us into temptation, but deliver us from [h]evil. [i][For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.]’
Matthew 6:9-13 (AMP)
Footnotes
[a] Matthew 6:9 i.e. as a model or pattern.
[b] Matthew 6:9 i.e. set apart, keep and treat as holy, revere.
[c] Matthew 6:10 A plea for God’s kingdom to be inaugurated on earth.
[d] Matthew 6:10 Including what God wishes to be done by the individual believer—His commands and precepts.
[e] Matthew 6:11 i.e. life’s essentials.
[f] Matthew 6:12 i.e. sins, moral failures.
[g] Matthew 6:13 i.e. lead us away from situations where we are vulnerable and have the opportunity to sin. God does not tempt man (see James 1:13) but does allow man to be tested.
[h] Matthew 6:13 Or the evil one.
[i] Matthew 6:13 This clause is not found in early mss.
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