My faithful servant, don’t be surprised by the season of hard work that is ahead of you. Moments of blood, sweat and tears are inevitable. At times the labour will feel dull and monotonous, as if you were on a production line without seeing the end product. But know that there is joy waiting at the end of the day. I am right behind you, cheering you on. Roll up your sleeves, stay put, and get it done. Don’t give up!
Get into the rhythm that I set before you. Listen out for My beat and sense My pace. Keeping in pace with Me is vital at this time. If you step outside of My rhythm, the work will become even harder.
As King Solomon’s temple was being built, the bricks were laid one at a time. The end result was magnificent. Look at the bigger picture and know that you are not just laying bricks. It has Kingdom purpose! Render your service to Me with a joyful heart and I will sustain you and back you up with physical and emotional capacity.
Activation:
1. Spend some time reflecting on if you have procrastinated in a certain area. Ask the Lord for original ideas and fresh vision if you find that you lack motivation.
2. Are there any practical goals to be accomplished in the next few weeks? Ask God if you are in sync with His timeline, or if anything needs re-adjusting.
23 Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
Colossians 3:23-24 (ESV)
For you will eat the fruit of your hands. You will be happy and it will be well with you.
Psalm 128:2 (NLV)
Commit your works to the Lord [submit and trust them to Him], And your plans will succeed [if you respond to His will and guidance].
I see that you are striving for answers and solutions for your business and finances, but where are you looking for these answers? Wisdom is being gained that is not mine.
True wisdom comes from Me, I am The One who provides you with the wisdom for new ideas and innovations. I am The One who provides the wisdom and solutions for those who have no answers. I reveal the secrets and mysteries to you, which will cause you to move forward. But you must earnestly and diligently seek Me for My wisdom. If you call to Me, I will answer you and reveal great, marvellous, and wonderful things that you cannot achieve on your own.
Just like the widow woman who cried out to the Prophet Elisha for help because she knew that he would have an answer from Me, you too must cry out to Me, and I will provide you with the strategies that will cause you to increase and live in My overflow.
Activation: God is a master strategist who provides wisdom and insight to navigate the new. It is by the Lord that wisdom to build sustainably comes. Take some time to sit with the Holy Spirit and ask Him to reveal to you the new innovations that He has for you in your sphere of influence. Be sure to ask Him for the steps that are required to bring these ideas forward. Be bold and most of all, be obedient to His commands.
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord your God, Who teaches you to profit, Who leads you in the way that you should go.
Isaiah 48:17 (AMPC)
But you shall [earnestly] remember the Lord your God, for it is He Who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
There has been a battle waging with fear and intimidation these past months, and each day that you have not given in, you have grown in stature, strength, and understanding. When you wage a battle, you come to understand your enemy’s tactics. You learn their methods and default settings.
I have been allowing you to feel this pressure not so that you will be crushed, but so that you might learn how to swiftly defeat this enemy each and every time.
You stand before a series of opening doorways.
Fear and intimidation would try to creep in, seeking to stop you from walking through by stealing away your hope and expectancy.
Tell fear to go.
Tell intimidation it is a liar.
Rise up in this battle, learning how to fully silence these enemies.
For you know that, “I am the way and the truth and the life” (John 14:6, NIV). Face fear and intimidation head-on, knowing that they will crumble as you rise up in faith and expectancy.
Activation: Ask Holy Spirit to show you the threshold you are standing before in the spirit and with his leading, enter into a time of thanksgiving and prayer for where you have seen victory in your life over fear and intimidation. With those reminders of successful past victories in mind, transition into a time of intercession against fear and intimidation not only for yourself but for the entire body of Christ.
The fear of man brings a snare, But whoever trusts in and puts his confidence in the Lord will be exalted and safe.
Proverbs 29:25 (AMP)
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity or cowardice or fear, but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of sound judgment and personal discipline [abilities that result in a calm, well-balanced mind and self-control].
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
1Therefore, 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!”
My presence is heavy but My burden is light. Do you want to know what it means to carry My heavy glory? Trust My process. Every challenge and trial is an invitation into greater reliance on Me. Every situational submission is an invitation for Me to overwhelm and consume you into My likeness and purpose.
Why is the mantle heavy but the burden light?
To fully walk with Me is to know the fullness and the rich weight of My presence. To live and function in it is to submit fully to letting go of everything and relinquishing it to Me. If every thought and action is an easy instinctive reaction to My prompting, you can do anything I lead you to do. Do not think you are promoted because of your worthiness. You are promoted because of your reliance on Me. Every trial and challenge is an invitation into greater reliance on Me.
Every yes to Me is an opportunity for Me to increase the weight of presence that envelops and consumes you. To you it is lightness and freedom and ease, to the world around you it will be the presence of My heavy glory.
Activation: Bring to mind the struggle you are presently experiencing. How can you say yes to the Lord in it? How can it be used to greater lead you into reliance on Him. Thank Him for the honour of being trained in paths of righteousness and being chosen to be called into even greater reliance in order to display His strength.
9 but He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you [My lovingkindness and My mercy are more than enough—always available—regardless of the situation]; for [My] power is being perfected [and is completed and shows itself most effectively] in [your] weakness.” Therefore, I will all the more gladly boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ [may completely enfold me and] may dwell in me.
10 So I am well pleased with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, and with difficulties, for the sake of Christ; for when I am weak [in human strength], then I am strong [truly able, truly powerful, truly drawing from God’s strength].
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 (AMP)
For our momentary, light distress [this passing trouble] is producing for us an eternal weight of glory [a fullness] beyond all measure [surpassing all comparisons, a transcendent splendor and an endless blessedness]!
2 Corinthians 4:17 (AMP)
He refreshes and restores my soul (life);He leads me in the paths of righteousnessfor His name’s sake.
Rest assured, I have made you to carry this weight.
I am placing on you a mantle and it is a mantle that is heavy in its richness. You are to carry and display the weight of My glory.
That mantle is My love.
It is heavy in the richness of its finery. It is a garment of praise for the displaying of My splendour. No longer is it appropriate for you to be hidden. I am displaying you in spiritual clothes that dictate the nature of your calling and purpose. I am calling you into visibility!
In this season, as I call you into greater unity with Me and greater likeness, I am clothing you in My priestly garments that you may declare the praises of Him who called you. Just like Israel made Joseph a coat of many colours to publicly display His favour and affection, so too I am dressing you in vibrant colour to display My affection and favour for you!
Stand up priest! Declare My praises! Those who hate Me will hate you. Those who love Me will love you. Let your light shine before men that they may glorify Me.
Activation: Close your eyes. Visualise and drink in the reality that the Lord has clothed you in priestly garments, garments of praise, garments that display His affection for you. Choose to agree with His desire to publicly display you that it may give glory to Him.
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)
I will rejoice greatly in the Lord, My soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation,He has covered me with a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom puts on a [a]turban, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Isaiah 61:10 (AMP) Footnotes [a] Isaiah 61:10 Or head wrap.
14 “You are the light of [Christ to] the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden;
15 nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.
Is your heart full of Me? Or do worldly things creep in, stealthily filling the valleys of your heart with pain and loathing and offence? It’s time for a heart check with Me as your Guide. Walk with Me through the valleys of your heart, as we search hand-in-hand together. Allow Me to wash the deep places clean and fill them with My love.
For love overcomes offence. Love is the battlecry into becoming unoffendable. Let love be your guiding light as you walk out of offence into the generous, outrageous, wall-busting, heart-trembling, wildly triumphant love of God.
Don’t let the world set the culture of your heart. It’s time to get rid of the old – old wounds, old grievances, old chains that no longer are yours to carry. Make the conscious choice to take them off and run joyfully into My freedom.
Learn to use love as a shield to repel that which the enemy would have you hold as offences, and release peace instead. Where there is hate, show love. Where there is hurt, release forgiveness. Become unoffendable and confound those around you by sharing My love in all things.
A prayer to say over yourself today: “Father, thank you for Your wildly magnificent love of Me. Teach me how to love others the way You love them. Show me how to be unoffendable and hold onto Your peace in all things and all situations. Amen.”
Do not be overcome and conquered by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:21 (AMP)
A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle.
In this season of new beginnings, come meet Me in the valley to hear what you need for this time. Meet Me in the quiet place and take refuge under My wing. Come with paper and pen to capture the dreams and visions I have waiting for you. For this is the birthing of new things.
For those called to business, I will bless you with new ideas. For those called into creative arts, I will bless you with new ways of creation. For those called into industry, I will give you new strategies and new wisdom and new thoughts. For these are the days of invention!
Come to Me and take part in creation, for the One who created you is giving you divine creation abilities in this moment. Be deliberate and put appointments in your calendar to sit and create with Me. For this is the moment where obedience to God-given dreams will meet the glory of God.
22 And the hand of the Lord was upon me there. And he said to me, “Arise, go out into the valley,[a] and there I will speak with you.”
23 So I arose and went out into the valley, and behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, like the glory that I had seen by the Chebar canal, and I fell on my face.
Ezekiel 3:22-23 (ESV) Footnotes [a] Ezekiel 3:22 Or plain; also verse 23
Fear brings torment, dread, and uncertainty. You no longer need that friend. It has been a dependency long enough and it is time to let it go. Send it packing!
See fear as a person that is speaking to you, as someone that has been invited to your dinner table and is sitting next to you in your car. Its voice you are too familiar with. When you stop allowing it a place in your life, it will no longer be there. Peace is a gift that belongs to you freely at any time. Invite Me to your dinner table and communicate with Me in your car, allow Me to be the friend you depend on. I am loyal and kind and ready to replace what fear has brought with My love, peace, and joy.
Activation:
Speak this out loud:
Fear I am no longer partnering with you, and you no longer have a seat at any table I sit at. You are not my friend, and I will not depend on, lean on, or allow you access to any part of my life. Lord, I repent for listening to the voice of the enemy and depending on anything other than you. Father help me hear You more clearly. Thank You for giving me authority over the enemy and for the gift of Peace. I receive Your love and joy You long to give me.
Amen.
There is no fear in love [dread does not exist]. But perfect (complete, full-grown) love drives out fear, because fear involves [the expectation of divine] punishment, so the one who is afraid [of God’s judgment] is not perfected in love [has not grown into a sufficient understanding of God’s love].
1 John 4:18 (AMP)
I am overwhelmed with joy in the Lord my God!For He has dressed me with the clothing of salvation and draped me in a robe of righteousness.I am like a bridegroom dressed for His weddingor a bride with her jewels.
Unapologetically Marcia 