The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you but will rejoice over you with singing. Zephaniah 3:17.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God says:
My delight is to be among the children of men. Proverbs 8:31. Specifically, to be with you. Do not fear for I am with you. Isaiah 43:5.
I have taken away your punishment, I have turned back your enemy. I am with you; never again will you fear any harm. Zephaniah 3:15. I am love and I have loved you with an everlasting love. Jesus is My gift to you of My love so that you can come to Me confident, blameless, and free. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. You can be confident of My love for you. It does not change or turn away.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything make your requests known to Me with thanksgiving. I did not give you a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind. Fear is torment and oppression. When you do not fear, you are far from oppression. Isaiah 54:14. Your answer to fear is faith in My promises, which include My promise of forgiveness, My promise of protection, My promise of healing, My promise of deliverance, My promise of provision, My promise of prosperity, and, above all, My promise of Salvation, both now and for eternity.
I am your glory and the lifter of your head. Hold your head high. You are redeemed. You are welcome. You are loved. You belong to the greatest Kingdom of all. And all this is eternal. You have the finest and the best. There is nothing higher, nothing better, and nothing more blessed.
When Adam and Eve sinned against My Word, they hid in fear of their sin being exposed. Sin consciousness left them devoid of glory and afraid of punishment. They tried to cover themselves with leaves, but I covered them in the with the skins of animals. For their sin, blood was shed. But the blood of a creature and the fleece of off its back did not take away their sin but only covered it, but when I sent the true Lamb with pure blood He not only took away your sin but He then clothed you in His garments of salvation and His robe of righteousness. I sealed you in Him by the Holy Spirit.
Not by man’s power or might but by My Spirit. By the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit whom I have poured out upon you richly through Jesus Christ your Savior and Lord. Titus 3:5-7. And the Spirit you received does not make you slaves so that you live in fear again, rather the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to Sonship and by Him you cry out “Abba, Papa, Father!” Romans 8:15. And He testifies to you of Jesus and that your sins and offenses I remember NO MORE. John 15:26-27.
Jesus is the cornerstone on which all is built that is eternal. I sent Him to rescue you from the hand of your enemies, and to enable you to serve Me without fear in holiness and righteousness before Me all your days. Luke 1:74. Do not fear, I have redeemed you, I have called you by name, you are Mine. Isaiah 43:1. I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake and I will not remember your sins. Isaiah 43:25. Why? I wiped them out by the Blood of Jesus.
Because of Jesus, you have nothing to fear. He took it all away. Adam sinned and feared punishment. You no longer, who are in Christ, fear punishment because Jesus already took it. This He did once for all when He offered up Himself. Hebrews 7:27.
If you are having a battle with fear, do not give up. Fight. The answer is simple: OPEN THE DOOR. You may ask, “what door?” And, “How do I open it?”
I am quite clear in My Word what the door to all blessing is, that door is Jesus. He is the way, the truth, and the life. There is no other way to Me than the way of Jesus because there is no other way to have your sins taken from you and punished justly to satisfy your debt to divine judgment. Only the Blood of Jesus is sufficient atonement and payment for all you owe divine justice. You have found a ransom provided for you by the one to whom you owed the debt.
Jesus told you, “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.” John 10:1-5.
This figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them. You may not completely either and it is important you do so you can apply them in your life. So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.” John 10:7. He is the door to all My promises and to the BLESSING.
And Jesus continued the explanation, “I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.” John 10:9. He is the only door by which you can enter into the Kingdom. Unless you are born again, you cannot enter or see My Kingdom. John 3:3-7. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; but Jesus came that you may have life, and have it abundantly. John 10:10. Do not let anyone rob you of your prize by trying to make you enter by some other door or means. There is none. Only one door. Jesus.
But did you notice Jesus told you there is a doorkeeper who opens the door? Who is the doorkeeper that opens the door of Jesus to you? I think you know already. How are you saved and sealed in Christ, that is, enter into the door of Christ so that you are secure in the realm of salvation unto life eternal? By confessing with your mouth that “JESUS IS LORD.” Romans 10:10. With the mouth once confesses, resulting in salvation. This is the password that opens all. And no one can say, “JESUS IS LORD,” except by the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 12:3. The doorkeeper is the Holy Spirit who regenerates and renews you in Jesus. Titus 3:5-7. And He testifies to you about Jesus, witnesses with your Spirit that you are my child and a joint heir with Christ, and that your sins and offenses I remember no more once you are in Jesus. John 15:26-27, Romans 8:14-15, Hebrews 10:15-17. And when after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having believed, I sealed you in Christ Jesus with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of your inheritance, with a view to the redemption of My own possession, to the praise of My goodness, grace, and power to you who believe in My Son as Lord and that I raised Him from the dead with your sins gone, paid for entirely. That is to the praise of My glory, which is in and on you in Jesus, the Light of the world and the Light of Life. He is the resurrection and the life. John 11:25. He is the good shepherd who laid down His life for the sheep. John 10:11.
At all times in your life, not just once, you open the door to every good thing and every perfect gift and find “yes” to every one of My magnificent promises by saying, “JESUS IS LORD.” He is Lord over every storm, every evil thing, every good thing, everything. Salvation in every situation is summed up in those three words. Make it your confession in good times, in bad times, in season, and out of season. When the enemy strikes you have the password to open deliverance and salvation in every situation: “JESUS IS LORD.” And then every knee must bow, no matter where, whom, or what. You have opened the door to divine intervention. You have let in the great Shepherd of the sheep to call your name and lead you out to green pastures.
So as your enemies growl and howl about you, Psalm 59:14-15, sing to Me with David, “But as for me, I shall sing of Your strength; yes, I shall joyfully sing of Your lovingkindness in the morning, for You have been my stronghold and a refuge in the day of my distress. O my strength, I will sing praises to You; for God is my stronghold, the God who shows me lovingkindness.” Psalm 59:16-17. And shout with the victory cry, “JESUS IS LORD!”
And I respond by surrounding you with songs of deliverance. For as I told you through My prophet Zephaniah, “The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you but will rejoice over you with singing.” Zephaniah 3:17. Yes, call on Me and I am honored. My delight is to be with you and to shower you with blessings in Jesus, who makes it as if sin had never been.
I love you. You do not even begin to understand My delight in you, but you get a glimpse of it in Jesus. For seeing Him, you see Me, your Shepherd, Savior, Deliverer, Guide, Provider, and lifter of your head. I take you from the ash heap of your sins to seat you with the Prince of Peace. Shalom, shalom, shalom.