Lord, I did not have much sleep. Feelings of sadness are all around me. Father please be the lifter of my head this day that I may delight in you and find the joy and peace that only you can give. Help me to find forgiveness and love. Lord help me to rise above myself and worship you. Let my spirit man lead me rather than my flesh.
Worship and the word has restored my soul. Bring it Lord. For I am ready to take this day by storm. Lord let it be you that lives within me that speaks. Let your spirit be the keeper of my gates. Open to what is good and closed to what is evil. Lord let the gates of my eye's and ears work as you intended. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Lord cover my thoughts that they would glorify you. For out of the heart a man speaks. May my heart be filled and directed by you.
27 “When you fight against your enemies, I will send my great power before you. I will help you defeat all your enemies. The people who are against you will become confused in battle and run away. 28 I will send the hornet in front of you. He will force your enemies to leave. The Hivites, Canaanites, and Hittites will leave your country. 29 But I will not force all of them out of your land quickly. I will not do this in only one year. The land will be empty if I force the people out too fast. Then all the wild animals would increase and control the land. And they would be much trouble for you. 30 So I will force them out of your land very slowly. I will do this as you grow and eventually take the land to be your own.
[What a rich passage. I would love to break this down among friends. He is going to confuse those in battle against me. Father make it so. Lord who is my enemy this day? Bring on that hornet to go before me and my sisters in Christ. Yet he will not strip the land of my heart quickly of these enemies for the wild animals would increase. Who and what are the wild animals? Lord cause me to grow so that the evil can be evicted from this land where I live.
We must grow in numbers in proportion to those that he is removing from the flock. For not all that are among you were yet called by name. The enemy is among you. Yet as you come closer to me they will feel the heat of my fire and yes the hornet will force them out. Fear not the decrease for just as you must become less for me to fill you. I must weed out the people that are the enemies of the vision I have cast for you. For it is when they have been cast out of the temple courts and where their is much gnashing of teeth they will find their need for me. Coming back weeping, repentant and ready to follow me. For if you keep sheltering them from their own wickedness they will never know me. For without repentance I can not come in. Many Saul's live among your flock that I desire to change their name's to Paul. The whores have found comfort among your men and the drunkards have no shame. Yet these are my people. They need a wave of my Spirit to come over them, bringing them to there knees that they will want to turn from their ways. If you make it easy for them to continue to sin, by holding the Spirit off, there will be dead bones among you. The road to redemption is not easy. I had to die a torturous death but I have risen. My redemption is at hand for all those that will put to death there selfish desires and follow me. Let me say to your congregation what needs to be said that repentance can occur. I beg of you, leader of my flock. I have healing for them, I have hope, I have strength for their weary bones. Hold not back the fire that must burn through this house.]
33 Each branch must have three flowers. Make these flowers like almond flowers with buds and petals.[What joy it fills my heart that the Lord had so many things decorated with flowers. Lord let my flowers adorn his people that we may glorify him.]
Matt 24
42 “So always be ready. You don’t know the day your Lord will come. 43 What would a homeowner do if he knew when a thief was coming? You know he would be ready and not let the thief break in. 44 So you also must be ready. The Son of Man will come at a time when you don’t expect him.
[Lord forgive us as we are sinful people that has found more pleasure at the hand of our sin than in the presence of the Lord. Lord let us run into your presence for covering, for joy for peace and for the pleasure that our soul so deeply longs for. Lord let us experience all that this body would ever need, that no counterfeit would ever satisfy. Forgive us for the lies we have believed about you Lord. That pleasure was the enemies idea. Lord if we need to be thrilled, if we need to be swept away or if we just need to forget. Your presence will supply all our needs. Yet without the bitter regret that sin births within us. Coming out of a love fest in the Lord, bathed in his blood we will be stronger, clearer, bolder, at peace, seeing this world as God sees it. Seeing the lost for the Children of God they are. Yes lord give us times that we may be swept away by you.]
Psalm
11 You have changed my sorrow into dancing.
You have taken away my sackcloth
and clothed me with joy.
12 You wanted me to praise you and not be silent.
Lord my God, I will praise you forever!
[This is my song. Lord I thank you that my situation does not dictate my dancing. Lord that just as your passage above states. You are weeding out the evil in my live slowly that the jackals not overtake my land. Thank you Lord that even in the mist of a sinful generation, in the mist of sinful people I can praise you. I can help lead your people to safety and wholeness while I am also being lead out. My wholeness is not a prerequisite for my joy. As long as I am clothed in you no weapon formed against me will prosper. Lord let the covering you have placed over me extend to my children that they not be temped to sin by all that they see around them. Keep their heart close to you.]
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