Why Wait?

Why Wait?

I was in the midst of a battle in flesh recently and I heard The Lord speak in my heart and say, "Why wait until the last minute or just before a battle to build up a stronghold? You can build and fight at the same time." As I thought about what he had said I remembered Nehemiah and his efforts to rebuild the walls around Jerusalem (the city of peace). The enemies to his project were using all their cunning and strategies to stop the work at hand and Nehemiah set men to building and men to guarding the work. Half of them were carrying weapons and the other half had tools to build with. So I set myself to create a "stronghold journal".

I'm a journal keeper from way back. I have hundreds if not more that I've written from my youth. I have journals with healing scriptures, journals with love verses, and journals with teachings on just about ever subject one can think of. Now I've begun compiling scriptures about things that help me build a wall of protection around myself, my husband and those I love. Each and every time I find a verse that makes me feel protected and strong I write it down. I've also started sharing with others and encouraging them to do the same. We live in perilous times and while we are pulling down the enemy's strongholds in our lives we need to building up the walls of God's protection as well. Why wait?

I will share my two favorites with you here. The entire 91st Psalm is a good one as well as Psalm 5:12 "For thou, Lord will bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield." Psalm 91 speaks of us hidden in Messiah Yeshua/Jesus. In HIM we are hidden and Moses spoke of what being hidden in the secret place means!

Yeshua/Jesus is the High Priest of our confession. We need to be using the power of life and death that comes in our mouths to defeat the garbage of the adversary. Every time the enemy attacked The Lord with junk he either said, "It is written" or "It is spoken". He told us in Mark 11 that we could have what we say! If we don't say anything we get nothing. If we line our lives up with the word and SPEAK it we create what God has said! So instead of running to God when attacked in finances, flesh or in your mind be ready with your own stronghold! You can build up walls of defense against the enemy WHILE you tear down his walls made of smoke and mirrors.

Selah


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Possessing Your Life

Just as Joshua had to go into the Promised Land and possess it, so must we. The difference being we must possess the dirt we occupy better known as our bodies. We are dirtbags with dominion.

1 Thessalonians 4:4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour.

The first place Joshua took was Jericho. He knew the land was full of enemies and giants. He knew he would need God's help to take the land. After he got God's direction he and his people followed it to the letter. They went in and took it, but Jericho was only the first of many strongholds they would take. They weren't always successful the first time. After Jericho they got a little cocky and had a dismal failure at Ai.

God loves us, His children, with all our flaws and failures, but He doesn't want us to stay that way. He has great and precious promises that He wants us to be partakers of. We must go in and possess the land we live in, and then go help our brothers and sisters to do the same. We are supposed to be overcoming the world, the flesh and the adversary. We are supposed to be walking in the love of God for those we come across each day. The ONLY way that will happen is if we put God's written word in our hearts. When we do this and begin to act upon what we "SEE" in the word, God will manifest Himself to us and we will hear His voice! Yeshua/Jesus died so we could hear the Father's voice for ourselves. He died so we could, as Adam, walk in the cool of the day with God in His garden.

Over the next weeks and months I want to share with you the things God is sharing with me to prepare us to go in and possess our vessels with sanctification and honor. One of those things is the healing of our bodies He promised in 1 Peter 2:24!

Walk with me as I walk with Abba Father in the garden. We will learn of His glorious love for us!

Selah (Hebrew for "chew on that" or meditate on these words)

Cerise




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