Luke 12:8 Jesus said, “I tell you, whoever publicly acknowledges Me before others, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before the angels of God.”
Matthew 5:16 Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
Colossians 3:16 Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
Ephesians 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Psalm 27:1 The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?
Matthew 25:13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
May you be encouraged in your heart and rise from where circumstances and events have pressed you down as the Light of the World, your Creator and Redeemer, lifts you by the hand and the glory of His presence surrounds and engulfs you, for then you can shine forth the praises and worship of your King into the darkness which still covers those around you, drawing them to the cross and showing them the way to the kingdom. Isaiah 60
May your heart swell with joy as the Spirit reveals the riches and treasures of God’s love to you from His Word, allowing you to lift your eyes with confidence and see those He has brought to you, those with whom you can break and share the Bread of Life, offering true satisfaction and honest joy from the abundance that you have been given by the Lord, so they will bring their offerings of praise to God and they will honor the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, the Splendor of your life. Isaiah 60
May you know that the chastening of the Lord will be replaced by the favor of His compassion when His work has its way in your life and you have accepted His shaping of your heart in humility of spirit. Isaiah 60
May you understand that though you have felt forsaken and hated by the world with no one to stand by you or bring comfort to you, the Lord Himself has always been beside you, drawing you with cords of love. He will make you an eternal excellency and the joy of all generations, bringing you the victory of the over-comer to replace the struggle of battle and the joy of His redemption in place of the bars of captivity. He will cover you with His armor rather than you relying on your own power, giving you strength to flex under attack lest you shatter under the blows of the world. Isaiah 60
May you rejoice in the favor of the Lord, for peace will be your governor and righteousness your ruler, violence will have no place in your soul, nor ruin or destruction within your life, but you will have refuge in the salvation of God as you enter into His presence through praise, finding the Lord is your everlasting light and your God will be Who you take pride in and in Whom you make your boast. Isaiah 60
May you receive the Spirit of the Lord as He brings you that anointing, day after day, which He provides for the work He has assigned you, to use the abundance of His compassion, grace and mercy on behalf of those you are given divine appointments with, meeting their needs with words of encouraging life and strengthening blessings, the healing balm of God’s forgiveness and the liberating truth of freedom from fear of death and the grave through Christ, comforting those who mourn as you mourn with them and bringing the knowledge of the beauty God sees in them to those who have heard the enemy’s lies, clothing them with the garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair, to the display of the splendor of the Lord. Isaiah 61
May you follow the way of the Lord, Who loves justice and hates robbery and iniquity, for in His faithfulness, He will reward you with an everlasting covenant and cause those who come from you to be known by others as people blessed by the Lord, whose shame has been removed and whose portion is everlasting joy as they rejoice in their inheritance, the double-portion of the First-Born. Isaiah 61
May you rejoice in God and delight greatly in the Lord, for He has clothed you with garments of salvation and arrayed you in a robe of righteousness, with the joy of a bridegroom bearing the priestly authority of his family and the beauty of the bride adorned with the treasure of the jewels she has received, for His blessings of righteousness and praise shall spring forth constantly before all the nations as the fruit of the earth continually renews itself. Isaiah 61
My child, I desire unity among My people; functional, spiritual unity in faith and in love, in word and in deed, that the world will know that I live in My people and work through My Body.
To come to Me is to receive salvation and partake of My divine life, but to be sent into My work is to be trained, refined, indwelt, and submitted.
Gold dust panned from a stream, or nuggets dug from the rock, have value but are of no use. While each individual particle is definitely gold, impurities still exist in them. They remain separate, discrete pieces that can fall to the ground or be blown away in the wind.
Only after passing through the refiner’s fire will the separate pieces of gold be able to release the particles of rock they contain, coming out pure and joining to one another as they become a single, stable whole presence, solid, unmovable, not swayed by storm or swept by flood,
Only through the pressure of the goldsmith’s hammer will the united, single block of gold be shaped into a useful, functional vessel of honor capable of performing the work it is designed for, even as it demonstrates through its beauty the artistry and skill of the Master who shaped it.
Allow the work of the Spirit in your life, My precious one, even though it is hard. It is for your refining and shaping, not for your destruction. Just as gold does not always remain in the furnace, so this is not your designated lot in life.
Yield and submit to Me in the blows of life, My love. When a hardened portion of your heart resists the shaping of My will, the fire comes in again to melt and remove the impurities, just as the purest silver is refined seven times.
My plan is to do you good at the end, My dear one. Therefore I purify you to qualify and equip you for life throughout eternity in My presence, so that there need be no shame before Me as you look into My face of love with joy.
May you not keep quiet nor remain silent until the Body of Christ shows forth the righteousness of God shining out like the rising sun before kings and the glory of the salvation of the Lord appears like a blazing torch in the night before the nations of the world. Isaiah 62
May you no longer be called Forsaken or Abandoned as you turn to and find delight in obedience and humble service for the Lord your Redeemer and Sanctifier, for He will call you by a new name, The Delight of God, and Joined in Marriage, and you will be a crown of beauty and a diadem of royalty in the hand of Jehovah your God. Isaiah 62
May you conduct yourself, in all situations, in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ so that you can stand firm in one spirit with God’s beloved, contending as one for the faith of the gospel without being frightened in any way by the spiritual forces who oppose you, for this is a sign to them that they will be destroyed, but that you will be saved, and that by God, since it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him , but also to suffer for Him. Philippians 1
May you receive encouragement from being united with Christ, comforted from His love, enjoying the fellowship of His Spirit, finding through Him tenderness and compassion, with complete joy by being one in spirit and purpose with each other in the Body of Christ, doing nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourself, looking not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Philippians 2
May you continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God Who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose, so do everything without complaining or arguing so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life. Philippians 2
May you serve the King with obedience, willingly in humility, to bring His justice to His afflicted ones, and saving the children of the needy as He has crushed the oppressor, allowing Him to use you to deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no one to help as He takes pity on the weak and needy, rescuing them from oppression, violence, and death, so that He might receive the glory and all honor will be given to Him and His splendor and renown will fill all the earth, with His name on every tongue, confessing Him worthy to rule and to reign. Psalm 72
May you rescue those being led away to death and hold back those staggering toward slaughter, for if you say that you knew nothing about it, does not He Who weighs the heart perceive it, and does not He Who guards your life know it, and will He not repay each person according to what he has done? Proverbs 24:11-12
