Divine Direction Mindset From Our God

I must Be Remade

 

 

O God, help me see that I am at grips with the raw materials of human living. Out of them I must fashion the important quality of diligence. Help me never to forget that the rewards are much more than the cost. In Jesus' Name. Amen.

 

Remain Open to receive

 

 

Jesus schooled naysayers on a fundamental principle: you can’t legislate a move of God.

When God is ready to deliver, heal and work miracles, He doesn’t stop and ask others how they feel about it. He is sovereign. He does what He wants to do, when He wants to do it.

The Lord doesn’t need permission to grant a breakthrough. He doesn’t check man’s schedule to see if it’s convenient. God does not confirm man-made protocols before implementing His plan.

Friend, those who will receive what God is releasing in this season must remain open.

He is loosing chains, breaking down strongholds, releasing harvests, working miracles, opening doors, destroying yolks and doing a new thing.

Here’s what you have to know: what you’re waiting for won’t happen the way you’re expecting it to. God’s will rarely falls in line with our way.

If you can prepare your mind and open your heart to accept God’s will, you will be perfectly positioned to reap the next harvest coming your way.

To remind you to submit to God’s sovereignty, I’m stirring Romans 11:34 NLT into your cup of inspiration, which says, “For who can know the LORD's thoughts? Who knows enough to give him advice?”

As you drink down the contents of your cup, know that your destiny is in the hands of an all-wise, all-knowing God who never makes a mistake.  

In His perfect timing, your divine release will come. But you must remain open to receive it.

Now please join me in praying for the following individuals on our “Thoughtful Thursdays” intercessory prayer list. As you believe God for their breakthrough, know that yours is on the way.

 

Stretch your hand forth

 

 

Friend, wherever your “xéros,” or dry place may be, God will restore it. No matter how long you have been deprived of what you need, change is coming your way.

Stretch your faith. Believe God as never before. Expect to see change happen. God is calling you to stretch!

Do you remember when God told Moses to stretch out his rod over the Red Sea in Exodus 14:26-27?

Well, the children of Israel had an expansive body of water in front of them and Pharaoh and his army chasing them from behind. It didn't look good. It seemed that they were trapped.

But Moses obeyed God. He stretched out his rod and that’s when God stretched out His hand, and parted the Red Sea. Moses, just like the man with the withered hand, had to do something first.

In Genesis 22:10, after God commanded Abraham to offer up his only son Isaac as a sacrifice, the Bible says Abraham stretched out his hand to slay Isaac. As agonizing as this must have been, Abraham still stretched out his hand and his faith.

At that moment, the angel of the Lord called out to Abraham from heaven and revealed that there was a ram caught in the thicket that would be used for the sacrifice instead.

Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh, which means, The Lord Will Provide.

Not only did God provide, but in verses 17-18, He pronounced a blessing over Abraham's life. The Lord told him, "That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice."

Listen, the same God who provided for Abraham and blessed Him, is alive and at work in your life today.

God is still Jehovah-jireh. He still provides. He still makes ways. He still heals. He still restores. He still sets free!

If you want to see Him work, stretch your faith. Stretch beyond limited thinking. Stretch beyond fear. Stretch beyond worry. Stretch beyond the walls those negative voices have erected in your mind.

How do you stretch? You simply put your confidence in the Lord. When you do that, in His way and His timing, He’ll come through for you.

To encourage you to trust Him, I’m stirring Psalm 9:10 NIV into your cup of inspiration, which says, “Those who know your name trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.”

As you drink down the contents of your cup, put your faith in the Lord. Know that He is faithful to deliver.

Expect Him to do the miraculous in your life.

Don't be afraid to stretch.

You Can Be Strong

 

 

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

Proverbs 24:10

 

Adversity means a time of testing or a time of trouble. The writer of Proverbs uses what I often call the biggest word in the Bible-if- to indicate that when you are faced with adversity, the outcome could go more than one way. The onslaught of trials, troubles, and tribulations doesn't mean that you automatically lose. You actually could come out of the problems better off than you were before. You can succeed regardless of the adversity- or you can fail- it depends on how you handle yourself.

  According to this Scripture, failure is the outcome when your strength is small. The Word is not talking about physical strength or mental strength; it's talking about a lack of spiritual strength. If strength can be small, it can also be big. How can you become spiritually strong? The same way that muscles in your body become stronger- through exercise! Spiritual strength can be increased through exercise as well.

  If you've been weak, you can be made strong. If you are strong, you can be stronger still. Exercise your spiritual muscles daily by speaking the Word of God and praying in the Spirit. When you pray in tongues, your spirit gets built up. When you speak the Word, you faith grows, your joy increases, and you become strong in the Lord. Build up your spiritual strength so that you will not faint in the day of adversity!

Call on HIM

 

 

Father, You know the adversities I am facing, and I look to Your Word and Holy Spirit to increase my spiritual strength. Thank You for victory, in Jesus' name.

Family

 

 

 

Few things in life can bring us as much pleasure or pain as our families. When things are working well in the family, it’s great. When things are not going so well, it’s tough. Parents have tension with children. Children have tension with parents. Husbands have tension with wives. Wives have tension with husbands. Then there are the in-laws. Families are complex. But God established the family.

In the Ten Commandments, before a word is said about how we treat one another, God starts with the family: “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you” (Exodus 20:12).

In Genesis we have God bringing Adam and Eve together. He started with the family. He created the family. And He—and He alone—defines the family. God loves the family.

There is only one picture that God gives to a lost world to show His love for the church and the church’s love for Him. That is marriage. He says, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her” (Ephesians 5:25), and “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord” (verse 22).

Effectively, here is what God is saying: “Look at this Christian couple right here. See the way that husband loves his wife? That is how I love this church, My people. See how that wife loves her husband? That is how My church loves Me.”

Because of that, when a Christian family starts to unravel and when Christian people get divorced, that is devastating in many ways to the testimony of believers in a given community.

It has been said that a family can survive without a nation, but a nation cannot survive without the family.

Stay with God

 

 

If you will abide in Me I will abide in you.  I will keep you in safe habitations.  I will bless you when the world is not blessed.  I will give you the opportunities to know Me better.  I will bring you forth as an end-of-days generation into the power that I have reserved for such a time as this.  So, find yourself in the unity of the Spirit.  Find yourself walking with Me.  Find yourself in a position of conversation with Me.  Find yourself one with Me in these very perilous times, says the Lord.

Usual

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I sensed something ominous in the atmosphere.   It was like forces of darkness gathering for an assault.  I saw clouds gathering  above--high up in the atmosphere, and the clouds became one swirling mass like  the beginning of a funnel cloud forming, but not yet touching down.  I could  feel the presence of God as if He was brooding over His people--calling us to a  place of safety in Him.  There was a pleading--almost urgently--for us to be  ready and stay ready. 

2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word! Be ready in  season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and  teaching. 

 

 

You are the Help

 

 

 

Father, I admit that You are smarter and wiser than I am. I want to do things by Your system. Show me how to prioritize Your ways as I move forward, in Jesus' name.

Get Your Priorities Right

 

 

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Matthew 6:33

Successful people know the power of prioritizing. They understand that it is impossible to do everything at once. Something has to be the top priority in your life. Jesus told us in Matthew 6:33 how to prioritize. He said to seek God's kingdom and His righteousness first. The Greek word for righteousness is dikaiosune.  It means equity and the impartial distribution of justice. Righteousness is very important, but Jesus said to seek the kingdom of God, and He wasn't referring only to righteousness. As we have already seen from Romans 14:17, the kingdom of God is also peace and joy.

  The kingdom of God is God's methodologies of looking at things, God's way of speaking about things, and God's way of doing things. The kingdom of God is a system. There are two systems in this world. Each system has its own set of priorities. There is God's system, labeled the kingdom of God in Scripture, and there is the Babylonian system. The difference between the two is that the Babylonian system is man deciding he is smarter than God, and that he can choose his own way. It is man exalting his thoughts, his ways, and his standards above God's. In the kingdom of God, God is the One who is smarter and wiser. He was before any person, and His methods and ways are higher than anything man can create. God's system is always better than man's. God's ways should always be our first priority.

 

A Nation That Was Raised Up For a Specific Purpose Under God

 

 

"I will bring an amount of restoration to this nation and they shall be taken out of their siege that you've been in for seven years and give you one that shall rule, that shall take the finances and bring ease to the debt.

"And then the songs will come from all over this nation from young people who deserve to sing My song that I put into this prophet for four decades not to be wasted, but for them to sing as I let these sing from youth."

Now there is a curse. The curse that is come has been self-imposed in many ways. What prophecy teachers are saying is not incorrect regarding the more wickedness and evil and even a crash, but when is the time? Everybody's jumped on the Shemitah wagon, imposing what was supposed to be on ancient Israel on this nation, and I don't know enough about it and I'm doing as much study as I can, but I know one thing – don't impose upon us that which was imposed upon ancient Israel.

This nation was raised up for a specific purpose under God. They will do wicked; they will trample in doo-doo, but that doesn't mean that God wants to cut His own hand off, because they've made some mess. Yes, you can clap. David imposed a curse on Israel, and you can remain standing just for a minute. King David imposed a curse on Israel when he was so confident that he counted, he numbered Israel

 

a President that Shall Bring Some Ease"

 

 "I will give you a President that shall bring some ease to your debt challenges and I will take the wealth of the wicked and for a season transfer it into the hands of the righteous and those who have given and poured out their blessing into My land and to My people," says the Lord.

Do I think it's right and proper the Supreme Court ruled for same-sex marriage? No, and due punishment will come. Am I happy that abortion was legalized? No, but I know one thing, that His covenant is immutable. His omnipresence, His omnipotence, His omniscience, His immutability and His infallibility have all been combined together for our defense.

 

The defense of this nation could never do what it is supposed to do regarding that which is coming against you for it is not on the outside but from the inside. And God says, "There have been curses sent from one voice and another to say, 'Please let the nation crash!' And you? What of you?" says the Lord, "that have eaten from the fields of this nation? That have enjoyed the prosperity of this nation? What of you? No, hypocrisy is a stench that has come to Me.

"I commanded you to pray for this nation, not to curse it. And its due judgment will come when Israel comes to Yeshua. When Israel stands alone and nobody, not even this nation, stands with Israel, look to that as the sign of My coming. But to this day now, it is not that time.

"There Shall Be Seven Years Where I Will Take You Out Of Your Besiegement"

 

 

 

 

For many, for many that have cried out, for many that have cried out and said, "God will destroy this nation," the Spirit says, "May I remind you the covenant that I made with this nation is immutable, is unchangeable. Do not forget the antiquity of the covenant that I have made with this nation.

"Yes, they will be judged for the evil that they do, but can I take away a blessing that I have already imposed upon them, that I created and spoke before the world began, that I created and spoke over this nation to feed the world, to heal the earth

God says, "Yes, judgment will come, but it shall not come at this time, in the fashion that they have spoken. They have said, 'There shall be a crash and America shall be crippled.'" God said, "Not at this time! Not at this time! For I have raised you up for a season and there shall be seven years where I will take you out of your besiegement. You have been besieged for seven years, America. You have been surrounded by your internal enemies.

"Haters of America have stood up and then they have said there are those in the Church that are anti-Israel. I say to you that there are many, but there are many more that are in the Church that are anti-America and anti what I am going to do in this nation.

God Has Ordained Human Government

 

 

What does the Word of God have to say about government?  It teaches that God has ordained human government. The prophet Daniel said that God is the one who removes kings and God is the one who sets up kings. And Romans13 teaches that the powers that be are ordained of God.

What about wicked governments? Did God set them up? It may surprise you to learn, yes, He did. That does not mean they are God's will. God would much rather have righteousness. But by and large people get the kind of government they deserve. Wicked leaders are God's reward for a wicked people.

 

A Time of Water and Fire Bringing Breakthrough

 

 In this season, I have felt that many people will be experiencing personal breakthroughs. In my own prayer life, I've been praying breakthrough for others more than any other time, including friends and family. No matter what goes on around us and in our nation(s), the Lord wants us full of His HOPE. Times of struggle are always an opportunity to lead us closer to Him.

This is an excellent word by Kathi Pelton on breakthrough for this season:

July will mark a time of breakthrough for many that will usher them into peace, joy and life. This will be both a spiritual breakthrough as well as a breakthrough in the natural areas that have restricted and confined you. The opposition will be pushed back and you will be able to move forward in natural realms. The areas that you have faced spiritual opposition will also clear and you will go into an accelerated time of growth, revelation and greater intimacy.

Be encouraged by this word and the breakthrough season upon us!

Cleanse Your Heart

I am looking for a people who have purified their hearts and separated  themselves from all corruption to seek My face, says the Lord.  I call you  to be part of that company.  Make a decision.  Allow My Spirit to live  in you.  Refuse to allow worldly concerns to take you away from complete  unity with Me.  Come. 
2 Corinthians 6:17  Therefore "Come  out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is  unclean, and I will receive you."

One Body

 

 

"The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ" (1 Cor 12:12-13).Imagine with me for a moment that you have won a very expensive car. However, in order to receive your prize, you must agree to an unusual requirement. You must agree to remove one major component in that car in order to receive the gift.

Which component will you remove?

Will it be the steering wheel? Perhaps it will be the left front tire or the front seat or the two headlights. My illustration may seem ridiculous, but you get the point. Unless you have the complete car and have the ability to use all of its components, your ability to benefit from that car is going to be severely limited. The Bible says you and I are part of a larger Body - the Body of Christ. We each have our own body, but we are also made up of a larger Body that has a unique function to play. When you are not functioning as God intended, the entire Body suffers because you are not fulfilling your prescribed function.

When you function in a way that is not directly connected to the larger Body, you are only fulfilling a small portion of why the Manufacturer made you. There is a greater mission that you must fulfill. Today, the Body of Christ is fragmented and seeks to do things separated from one another. Our individual church "silos" stand alone - often as monuments to man instead of the greater mission of reaching the city.

Jesus knew the key to fulfilling His mission was getting His larger Body to work as one. "I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me" (John 17:20-21). What is your part in the overall mission? Are you fulfilling your prescribed function as designed by the Manufacturer?

 

 

Boomer rang year

"...I heard the Lord say this would be a Boomerang Year! As we know, a boomerang gets thrown out and then returns to the one that threw it. God is going to cause every curse and every assignment from Hell to be turned right back upon the head of our spiritual enemy! God is turning the curse to a blessing for us, because He loves us! (Deuteronomy 23:5). God is also bringing divine reversals in situations that experienced a downturn. He is bringing a reversal of fortunes, a reversal out of death into life, a reversal out of sickness and pain into healing and wholeness.

Bill Yount's word is all about receiving healing and praying for the healing of others: It's boomerang time. We are now being attacked by healing! Receive yours now... Will you give the Lord a chance to touch others through you?

Be encouraged stepping out in faith, as you pursue what He's put in you!