Lamentations 3:22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end.
Joshua 1:9 [The Lord said to Joshua,] “Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
1 John 4:16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love.
Isaiah 54:10 Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
John 10:27 My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
Deuteronomy 30:19-20 So choose life in order that you may live… 20 by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him.
May you know that the rejection you encounter in God’s work is not about you, but about the Lord Who sent you and Whose work you are doing; He has known rejection before, is able to handle it, and is willing to experience it, even again, for the sake of those to whom He sends you. He is willing to be vulnerable to those He loves; His armor is against His enemy, never His people, even though the enemy attacks through the ones He seeks. 1 Samuel 8
May you hear God’s Word and follow His ways, yielding your will to His, lest He oppose you in His loving-kindness, and may you not insist on your own desires, lest He gratify you in His displeasure. 1 Samuel 8
May you follow the law of God’s love in your relationship to others, giving without restraint and accepting without judgment, and obey the rule of man in your expectation from others. 1 Samuel 8
May you be willing to wait on God for the gratification of your desires for worldly things, trusting His providence for the time and manner of their granting, knowing that He will not treat you so ill as to give you what you are not yet ready for. 1 Samuel 8
May you give preference to knowing your duty over learning your fortune, and rather seek God for meeting the needs of others over gaining a blessing for yourself. 1 Samuel 9
My child, release your will to Me that I may bring you into My work as you have said you wanted.
Release your preconceived notions and imaginings of how I will use you, for the carnal mind does not know how to be abased. My kingdom’s work is a work of servitude, not of titles and offices.
As long as you have a position you are striving for, you are walking in the fleshly appetites and pride of life. As long as you strive to defend your reputation or have a personal interest in your own character, you have no part you can play in building My kingdom, for you are building your own.
In My loving care, I will strip you of those things through which you identify yourself in the world, those things that you look with pride upon as your achievements, those names that you name with pride to others to show the road you have traveled and the distance you have come, and I will leave you bare before Me.
I will give you your identity, My beloved one, and you will be known as one of Mine, for My honor and My power are known and recognized and obeyed among the powers and principalities of eternity. Of what benefit is man’s honor in doing My work? Whose knee will quake and bend before any man’s glory?
Shed those trappings, My seeking one, and be known as one who follows the risen Christ and trusts in the providence of the glorious Father Who is able to bring all opposition to an end and reverse all injustice. His judgments are true and righteous, and His will shall be established in earth as it is in heaven, and shall stand for eternity.
Stand in My name, My love, not your own.
May the focus and purpose of your daily work and service be to gain the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for God the Father has placed His seal of approval upon this very One. John 6
May your constant work and service to God be this: that you continually believe and persistently trust, through thought, intent, word, and deed, in the One Whom God has sent, for He is the bread of life. John 6
May the Lord save you and gather you from afar that you may give thanks to His holy name and boast in the triumph of His praiseworthy deeds for He is the Lord our God from everlasting to everlasting. Psalm 106
Just as righteousness, godliness, and justice will lift up and exalt a nation which walks in those paths, and sin will condemn, diminish, disgracefully reproach and make miserable any society which allows, practices, and embraces it, so will it be in the life of an individual; may you choose well. Proverbs 14:34
May you be as a servant who acts and deals wisely so that you gain the delight, approval, and favor of the king, for by the wisdom of his soul evil is overthrown. Proverbs 14:35
