But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, that shines brighter and brighter until the full day. Proverbs 4:18.
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. Ephesians 2:10
Today your LORD (יהוה) God says:
In every situation My answer to you is to have faith in Me. Put pressure on My Word to work it out for you. My Words are living and working, sharper than a two-edged sword, going right to the heart of a matter to make all things work together for good for those who love Me and are called according to My purpose (which is THE BLESSING).
It is a lifestyle: the righteous shall live by faith. There should be a huge difference in your response to the situations in your life and the response of those of the world. Faith puts you on the victory side before you see it. You live, pray, work, and respond on the victory side, because that is where you are, that is your position—you are seated with Christ at My right hand and that is the place of authority and power. It is a place of confidence, joy, strength, and peace, and it is always victory. Faith is the victory that overcomes the world, so you who walk by faith and not just by your five senses (sight, flesh) have the victory before the battle even starts, like Jehoshaphat and the people of Judah when faced with three attacking armies. 2 Chronicles 20. My servant Paul lived this out and what did he declare in the face of persecution and seeming defeat? “Thanks be to God, who always causes me to triumph in Christ Jesus my Lord!” And, even though at times it looked like Paul would lose all, he never did, he always came out the winner. Even in a storm, a shipwreck a snake bite, and a loss of all earthly goods, he ended up having all his needs supplied richly, shaking off the snake, working miracles of healing, and converting the entire island of Malta.
Today I want to talk about faith for your future. By faith, you should be excited about your future. I tell you that My plans for you are shalom and not evil, to GIVE YOU a future and a hope. And hope does not disappoint. Faith is the title deed to things hoped for and the proof of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1. You have things ahead of you that, by faith, you can look forward to. Not a life of toil and lack, running after things and never prospering. NO! That is not shalom, that is evil. You are My workmanship, My masterpiece every one of you, created in Christ Jesus for a life of good deeds that I prepared for you in advance that you should enjoy them. Ephesians 2:10.
If you feel that your future looks confusing and dark to you, and you dread what you see coming, then you need to change your perspective. You need to share My vision for your life and join Me in planning, imagining and dreaming your future. Do not live in fear, it has pleased Me to give you the Kingdom, and that is exciting. And do not say you do not know what to do! Consider this as My Word to you and make it your own: “the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn that shines brighter and brighter until the full day.” Proverbs 4:18. Each day I am shining light on the path for you to follow with My Holy Spirit as your guide until you reach the perfect day—the full complete day where you are living the future I give you and the hope—a wide and open place filled with righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. A place called grace in which you now stand by faith having been justified, sanctified and glorified in the Blood of My Son.
I am taking you from glory to glory as you behold My Son—as you meditate upon My Word. Glory, honor and praise will fill your days. And if you are going from glory to glory it manifests in your life—your life becomes one of beauty, goodness and power. A life of joy that no one can take from you. And that life is yours in Christ Jesus, in the anointing, if you have faith to take it and walk in it.
Do not try to be your own source. I have never required that of you. Let Me be your source for everything in your life. Live your life through My Son, I have given Him to you to be your wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption. I have given you every blessing in heaven in Him.
And how do you tap in to the goodness I have in store for those who love Me, for those who trust in My Word? By matching your words with Mine and believing you receive good things all day every day, all night every night, letting nothing put you into panic or fear. Your response should always be, “I am not moved by what I see and feel, I am only moved by the Word of God.” Let My Word set you into action on the path that gets brighter and brighter as you run upon it, for My Word is a light to your path and a lamp to your feet, and you will not stumble. Those who wait upon Me, will soar with eagle’s wings, they will run and not grow weary, walk and not grow faint. Put on the garment of praise—of excitement and thanksgiving in joyful expectancy of the good that is in your future, and it will get rid of that spirit of weakness, defeat, depression, fear and anxiety. Your future is not an “unknown” coming against you, it is a promised land flowing with milk and honey filled with the abundance of the Garden of Eden, it is a place of THE BLESSING.
I promised Abraham that if he would follow Me I would bless him and make him a blessing to every nation on earth and that I would make his name great. This gave him faith and joy, and he walked in that for 175 years and then passed over to the next life satisfied and filled with good years. Do you desire long life filled with good things, satisfying and full? Then walk with Me in trusting faith and you shall have what you declare. I will never leave you or forsake you and I love to perform My Word in your life, but you must speak it for Me to enforce and perform it. Jesus could work no mighty miracles in Nazareth, though He had the power to do so, because of their lack of faith. If you do not mix faith with My promises they will not come to pass in your life. That was what kept the Israelites I had redeemed from Egypt with great signs and wonders out of the Promised Land though I had given it to them already—it was because they did not mix faith with My promises. My promises looked impossible to them so that they had nothing but doubt and unbelief about them, going so far as to say I had tricked them and they would rather die in the desert wilderness, or go back to the slavery of Egypt (which they had hated), than to enter and be defeated to death in the Promised Land. Why they thought they would all be defeated to death there I do not know, I never told them that, I told them I would give them the victory and after the way I took them out of Egypt you would think they would have trusted Me. The problem was tat though they had seen My works they did not understand My ways. They never understood the great love I had for them, just how precious and valuable they were to Me, and that whatever I promised them I would perform. They did not trust in My lovingkindness, My truth, or My faithfulness and this cause them to doubt Me. And yet I had told them I would give them the land and total victory over all its inhabitants from the first day I spoke with Moses about redeeming the people from the slavery of sin and death.
To have the victory and prosperity I have promised you, you will have to mix My promises with your faith. It will be done in accordance with your faith and with the measure you use as to the results you will get. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it. Not only with good things materially but more especially with those of the spirit.
Have faith for your future, I mean for a future filled with greatness. A future that makes a difference in the lives of men and women across the globe as well as here close by you. Be ready to respond. Do whatever I tell you and your life will be sweet.
And I am with you through it all and I will make a way where there is no way. To the Israelites it looked like the Red Sea was on one side and the chariots of Pharaoh on the other and that there was no way of escape. But I had a way. I saw a path no one else saw. I saw a path through the sea. And you may feel that there is no way out of where you are now—whether it be your health, your finances, your job or your lack of a joy—but there is. I never allow you to be tested beyond your strength but I always give you a way out. I can make a path through the sea.
I love you. Know that and all things will fall into place.