Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits; He pardons all your iniquities, He heals all your diseases; He redeems your life from the pit. Psalm 103:2-4.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
In Jesus I have redeemed you from the curse of the law and led you into the glorious freedom of My children. Walk with the redeemed, and that is a prosperous walk. Why? Because in Christ Jesus I have created you anew as a masterpiece of My grace and I have prepared a path for you of good deeds, and I prepared it before you were ever born. Ephesians 2:10; Psalm 139:16.
It is prepared in advance. And on that path are all the good things (healing, provision, instruction, deliverance, protection, direction, and perfection) you need to perform the deeds I have assigned to you. It is a path of abundance. The abundant life Jesus came to give you. Adam lost it, but Jesus bought it back for you by His blood. He is your kinsman redeemer and your jubilee. All you lost He has redeemed back for you. And for you, it is on the path that I planned for you.
And I have written My plans for you in the book of your life, the days that I have ordained for you in advance that you would walk them out with joy, all the days are there when as yet there was not one of them. Psalm 139:16.
And if you were to try to count the sum of the vast plans I have for you, they would outnumber the sand on the seashores and the stars of the sky. Psalm 139:17-18. How is that? They are for now and eternity. For once you are born your assignments never cease. You are born in time but I formed you for eternity, for the Kingdom I prepared for YOU from the foundation of the world. Matthew 25:34.
I have made everything to be beautiful in its time and I have put eternity in your hearts. Ecclesiastes 3:11. Now you see as in a mirror dimly but later you shall see face-to-face and know even as you are known. For now, however, you are to follow the path. It gets brighter and brighter until you reach the perfect day. My Spirit leads My children in the path. He guides you to all truth. Your life should be one of ascent as you get closer and closer to Me. Like Enoch. Genesis 5:21-24.
O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the secret place of the steep ascending path, let Me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely. Song of Songs 2:14.
When I spoke with Moses about redeeming My people out of slavery, I told Moses that I had heard the groaning of the sons of Israel because the Egyptians were holding them in bondage, and I remembered the covenant I made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give them the land of Canaan. It is good to call out to Me and remind Me of My Covenant with you. Put Me in remembrance, let us argue our case together; state your cause, that you may be proved right. Isaiah 43:25-26.
And I told Moses to thus say to the sons of Israel, “I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage. I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. Then I will take you for My people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you for a possession; I am the LORD.” Exodus 6:6-8.
And it is the same for you. You who are in Jesus are in Covenant with Me and all My promises are “yes” to you in Him. All My benefits are yours in Him. In Him, I have blessed you with every blessing in Heaven. And My blessing makes rich and adds no sorrowful toil with it.
And the steps of redemption I showed Moses foreshadowed what I have done in a much vaster way in Christ. So let us consider them.
First, I bring you out from under the burdens of sin and death, and I deliver you from their bondage, that is, from the curse of the law of sin and death. I also redeem you with an outstretched arm,. Jesus is My arm reaching down to your humanity. Isaiah 53:1. And with great judgments. Satan has been condemned and cast down to earth, having lost the throne of the son of man that Adam abdicated to Satan. Jesus has restored it to man in Himself, God and Man in one seamless nature.
“Then I take you for My people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you for a possession; I am the LORD.”
In Jesus, you are My people and more, you are My children, and I am your God and Father, your Abba. And you shall all know Me, from the least to the greatest by My Spirit dwelling in you. And I give you eternal life. And even now I give you the Kingdom. I bring you to your promised land as your abundant place. And ultimately I give you back all the Kingdoms of the world under My Kingdom where you reign with Me forever.
I have redeemed you from death and ransomed you from the power of the grave. Hosea 13:14. I have done it to bring your dry bones back to life and give you a life of good days. And for this I have given you a good Shepherd to lead you in right paths for My Name’s sake to your place where you will prosper and shine for all the world to see.
I am the LORD who looks ahead and provides. Yahweh Yireh. And I am the LORD your shepherd, Yahweh Roi. And as we discussed, Jesus fulfills My Covenant Names, which are promises signed in My Name, for you.
When I brought My people out of the slavery of Egypt, I brought them out with great wealth and healed. It is still the same for you who have been redeemed by the blood of My Son. But it is attained in the same way I told them back then. I give you the grace and the place, but you have to walk out the plan. You have to gather it on your path by faith.
But faith without works, without putting My Words into action, is dead. And that is why the first generation redeemed out of Egypt took wealth as they left Egypt, for by faith they followed how I told them to gather it, and it was more than enough for the good work of constructing the tabernacle as My dwelling among them and an abundance for them to keep. But they never took their abundant place of the promised land. They did not mix faith with My Word and they never did the works I instructed them to do to take what I had given them as the goal. They left the path I had written in each one’s book of life.
Do not cheat yourself out of your destiny by getting off your path. But even if you have, do not worry, repent, and I have a path to get you back on the plan, and not behind where you should have been, but right where you belong at that time. Like Jonah.
Now let Me show you from My Word, for I teach you to profit and the way you should go.
But you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. Deuteronomy 8:18.
But to understand this instruction you must get the background to know what I am showing you.
You remember that I led the Israelites through the desert to get to the promised land and I made them wait at Mt. Sinai while I gave the Law to Moses, gave him the first five books of the Bible to write, which became known as the Torah (instructions that make you successful), and not only gave him the plans for the tabernacle but had the Israelites construct it before proceeding forward. It took nine months to build.
Why? They had just come out from the bondage of slaves for over 400 years and had no clue how to behave as people with dominion authority and make right decisions on their own. They did not know Me or My Word, had no idea how to prosper other than eat off their masters’ leftovers in Egypt. In the wilderness they were with Me, away from the empires of the world, and were learning to live life as My people and My treasure who would cherish, honor, and do My Word which would make them a great and prosperous nation.
In that desert they had to learn to trust Me for provision and to meet all their needs. And I did. But I taught them humility and tested them to know what was in their hearts. I fed them with manna which they did not know, nor did their fathers know, that I might make them understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by Word that proceeds out of My mouth. I was disciplining them and training them in the way they should go just as a man disciplines his son. I was bringing them into a good land and I wanted them to know how to prosper and hold on to their prosperity when they got there. Deuteronomy 8:1-10.
So I led them through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, and I brought forth water out of the rock of flint in their sight and I fed them manna that I might humble them and test them to do good for them in the end. Deuteronomy 8:15-16. They needed to learn how to tap into Me as their source to receive what they needed when they needed it. So that they would constantly remember Me the LORD their God, for it is I who give you power to make wealth, that I may confirm My covenant with you as it is this day. Deuteronomy 8:18.
But I want to take you a step further, from their experience came the ability to make wealth and prosper. There were lessons in the way I funded the building of the tabernacle with the wealth they had gathered at My instruction and then used in My Covenant plans to dwell among them.
And today, in your wilderness experiences in you life, I teach you how to make wealth with the
the manna and water I give you. Out of your time of trial and testing in the wilderness comes the very material and training that you use to make wealth. In what seems to you to be suffering and wandering, in that time I am giving you the material for your prosperity. Treasures out of darkness if you will just cling to Me and look to Me for answers.
You made men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water, yet You brought us out into overflow—a place of great abundance. Psalm 66:12
Let Me show you what I am telling you.
Joseph had dreams but it looked like he lost them when his brothers planned evil against him. But I stopped them from killing him by sending the traders by, which they took as bait in their greed. They sold him to be a slave in Egypt and thought that was the end. But it was not, it was only the beginning.
Joseph went into the wilderness for thirteen years, it seemed a place of wandering, but in the years as a slave in Potiphar’s house he learned how to run a large agricultural enterprise and made it fruitful with harvests Potiphar had never had the like of before. And he rewarded Joseph richly, but I did not want Joseph to stop there as a prosperous slave. So out of that comfort zone he went into the wilderness of prison. And there he had favor as well for Joseph was a man of integrity and diligence no matter where he was because he kept his eyes on Me, not to complain and blame but to work things out for good.
And in that prison I taught him how to rely on Me to interpret dreams.
These skills which I had given to him in the time of his wilderness wanderings became the very skills that made him prosper in his wealthy place – farming and discerning dreams—and these catapulted him to greatness and made him a wealthy man of stature in the nation where he had been taken into exile from his home as a slave and then as a prisoner. But he ended up second to Pharaoh in command shepherding a nation through a time of plenty and a time of famine. He invented new ways and dug canals that made the harvest even greater in the time of plenty so that what he stored for the famine could not be counted there was so much grain piled up in storage. It fed not only Egypt but the middle east as well and saved My people Israel.
And He called for a famine upon the land; He broke the whole staff of bread. He sent a man before them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave. They afflicted his feet with fetters, he himself was laid in irons; until the time that his word came to pass, the Word of the LORD tested him. The king sent and released him, the ruler of peoples, and set him free. He made him lord of his house and ruler over all his possessions. Psalm 105:16-21,
Now consider My servant David, the one I anointed to be shepherd and king of My people Israel. He, like Joseph, spent thirteen years in what seemed to be a wandering in the wilderness, but in those years he learned to take 400 outlaws depressed, distressed, and in debt and turn them into his mighty men. He learned how to govern and lead. And in that time he learned how to follow My direction for victory in warfare, like in Ziklag, and out of that wilderness came a worshipper. He taught the same to those who joined him and they came through in victory. And once he was established in Zion, he brought up My ark and stationed singers and musicians around it 24/7 to sing My songs in prophecy, praise, and thanksgiving in the tabernacle of David. The result was a nation that no enemy could conquer who respected and followed My Word.
And think of Joshua and Caleb. They spent 40 years wandering in the wilderness with their disobedient brethren but they did not waste their time or lose their vision. They learned the skills of conquerors. I gave Joshua the secrets of success so that he was ready to be a commander in warfare by looking to Me for the battle plans. I showed him to speak, meditate upon, and do My Word and never let it leave his mouth or mind. In the wanderings in the desert, Joshua learned to know Me well and developed the skills to deal with a multitude of diverse mindsets in those he was to lead to victory. And he learned well, for until everyone died who had known Joshua, My people remained faithful to My Word in the Promised Land.
My apostle Paul was intensely schooled in My Word as a “Pharisee of pharisees.” And he sued that great wealth of knowledge of Scripture to prove Jesus is the Messiah. But before he began his mission that I had given him, I led him into the desert of Arabia to receive all revelation he later taught from Me.
“For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. For you have heard of my former manner of life in Judaism, how I used to persecute the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it; and I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my countrymen, being more extremely zealous for my ancestral traditions. But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, was pleased to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away to Arabia, and returned once more to Damascus.” Galatians 1:11-17.
And Jesus My beloved Son went through the wilderness where He received the instruction from My Spirit of how to fight and win over Satan every time. I tell you that My Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted by Satan and there the Spirit taught Him how to prosper in this matter. He learned to answer the devil’s every move with the truth of My Word and then cast him out and worship. And Jesus continued to walk in that all through His ministry. He came to undo the works of the devil and He was very skillful in stopping the devil in his tracks and taking away from him the keys to death and the netherworld.
But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone. For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings. For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one Father; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, “I will proclaim Your name to My brethren, in the midst of the congregation I will sing Your praise.” And again, “I will put My trust in Him.” And again, “Behold, I and the children whom God has given Me.” Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives. For assuredly He does not give help to angels, but He gives help to the seed of Abraham. Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted. Hebrews 2:9-18.
In your suffering, wandering, and wilderness experience do not despair, I am giving you the material for your prosperity. It is in My Word you will find your prosperity. Never give up on My Word. Joseph did not. My Word tested him and found him to be solid gold.
I love you. Know that every season is a good season if you walk it out with Me and it will promote you to your wealthy place that I made for you to shine for all the world to see. An arrow from My quiver, now well polished and ready for Me to shoot out into the world at the appointed time.
The LORD called me from the womb; from the body of my mother He named me. He has made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shadow of His hand He has concealed me; and He has also made me a sharpened, polished arrow, He has hidden me in His quiver. Isaiah 49:1-2.