#148 – Pass the Baton (Part 2)

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There is a baton passed from season to season, a baton passed from generation to generation and a baton passed from the spirit realms to the earthly realms. Before it was Moses’s staff, then Israel’s Ark and now the Cross of Christ.

In life’s race there will be straightaways, uphills, downhills and curves. The straightaways are optimal conditions, requiring minimal focus. The uphills are the times of struggle and require perseverance and a focus.

The downhills are the times of prosperity and require restraint and humility. The curves are different, they can be times of trouble or great shifting. The curves are best handled by leaning into them, trust ME in the curves.

Submitting to the curve is assuming a posture of surrender, allowing inertia to dictate your velocity. Keeping momentum, is in knowing when to focus, persevere, be humble, use restraint or to surrender 100% to the process.

2 Corinthians 5:14-17
Either way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them. So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now! This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

#147 – Pass the Baton (Part 1)

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The old you must pass the baton to the new you. The former self must make way for the future self. Yesterday is done and much has transpired: the blessings, the miracles, the pain and the shame all reside in that passing season.

As you move into a new environment, from the old environment, be sure to maintain your momentum. The baton symbolizes the accomplishments, the promise, the hope and the legacy. The goal is to move from yesterday, to today and to tomorrow, without losing stride.

As you run into what is next, make the transitions and the needed adjustments, based on your new assignments. The race depends on speed, timing and strategy, but the baton is equally important and must complete the race.

If the baton is dropped or fails to make it to the finish line, in anyway, you are disqualified. This is the crucial part, to complete your assigns and answer each of life’s calls, in a way, that opens a path into MY rest, being well and done.

2 Corinthians 5:1-5
For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands. We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing. For we will put on heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies. While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it’s not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life. God himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee he has given us his Holy Spirit.

#146 – An Earthly Deficit

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You are a reflection of the light, connected to, the true and living light. It was ME that said, let there Be. I Am the source of all illumination and becoming the light is not your role. We are a team, MY dominion is Heaven and your dominion is earth.

Becoming too heavenly minded will lead to an earthly deficit. It is difficult, even impossible to be offended and anointed at the same time. The enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy, through sin, you have taken on the enemy’s identities: becoming a thief, a murderer and a destroyer.

You are replacing your purpose, your calling and your gifting for a sinful disposition. It is time for ownership: things you have said, things you have done and things you are thinking. The results have been disastrous and people have been hurt.

The day of calling wrong, right and right, wrong are over. I need you, to get to a place where the actions and words of men, against you, do not matter. The only thing that matters is what I command you to do and who you are to become.

2 Timothy 2:24-26
Again I say, don’t get involved in foolish, ignorant arguments that only start fights. A servant of the Lord must not quarrel but must be kind to everyone, be able to teach, and be patient with difficult people. Gently instruct those who oppose the truth. Perhaps God will change those people’s hearts, and they will learn the truth. Then they will come to their senses and escape from the devil’s trap. For they have been held captive by him to do whatever he wants.

#145 – The Enemy of Purpose

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The opinions of men make fools and enemies of God. Men will celebrate you into a shallow grave, by tolerating your ignobility, without resistance. Compliance does not equal love and resistance is love, in its unconditional form.

Success can be the enemy of purpose and winning a battle can produce a confidence, that loses the war. Watch what you place your hope in. The appearance of better is not equivalent to becoming better.

The unvarnished truth can be shared, except by, hearts knitted in love. The truth is like a surgeon’s scalpel and it can only be wielded with the precision perfected in love and a skill found in discipline.

Affirmations are plentiful when those speaking see a benefit in your behaviors. The integrity of a heart is hidden until stress is applied and under the pressure of conflict its true contents are revealed.

Proverbs 27:5-8
A spoken reprimand is better than approval that’s never expressed. The wounds from a lover are worth it; kisses from an enemy do you in. When you’ve stuffed yourself, you refuse dessert; when you’re starved, you could eat a horse.

#144 – A Prayer for a new Heart and Mind

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I surrender my will Father, all that I am and all that I can be, to you Lord. In you is my beginning and my end. I have missed the mark many times and I know, I will miss it again. I am thankful for your grace and your ample supply of forgiveness.

I am a broken vessel before you God. Heal my heart Father, heal me in my secret places. I want to operate from a place of hurt and compensate with ego, no more. Thank you for accepting your prodigal son, time and time again.

God I thank you for making the crooked places straight. Forgive me for speaking death and not life, and for holding your creations to a higher standard, than I hold myself. I repent for my unholy thoughts and for my disobedience.

I desire to see people through your spirit, God. I need a new heart and a new mind, guided by love. Give me a heart of flesh O’ Prince of Peace. I desperately need you to help me, with my true enemy, the enemy residing inside me.

Ezekiel 36:25-27
“Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. Your filth will be washed away, and you will no longer worship idols. And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart. And I will put my Spirit in you so that you will follow my decrees and be careful to obey my regulations

#143 – Counsel without Context

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You are listening to many opinions and have received much information. Begin to shift now and meditate on ME, because counsel without context is confusion. Find a moment in your day, where you can walk with ME and talk with ME.

The peace you are seeking is in you and requires MY divinity, to be activated. The busyness is a distraction, to impede, on our intimate moments. This intimacy is where and when I infuse MY plans, inside your heart.

Plans, that exclude ME can work, for a time, but if you will conspire with ME. We can create an incorruptible plan and produce an incorruptible result. Together in partnership God and Man can rule righteously forever, both Heaven and Earth.

Like Adam, I want you to create along side ME. I made it and then Adam named it. He was given dominion over life and land, this covenant continues in you. Dominion is yours, all that was made is yet given to Adam’s charge.

Genesis 1:26-30
Then God said, “Let us make human beingsb in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.” Then God said, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food. And I have given every green plant as food for all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—everything that has life.”

#142 – Reach for ME

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In moments of darkness, depression and defeat, reach for me and look for MY loving arms. I Am the ALL sufficient one. Do not reach for your addiction, reach out and praise MY Holy Name. I inhabit the praises of MY people.

Your praise has the power to bring heaven to earth. Prayer is your secret weapon. It is tapping into the ether, a natural means of entering the spiritual realms. This is where My Spirit resides, in wait, for the call of the worthy.

In the air, aerodynamics must be mastered to fly, in the water hydrodynamics must be mastered to navigate the seas and in the supernatural domain, spiritual dynamics must be mastered to wage war in the upper regions.

Do not be naive by focusing too much attention towards the woes of this world. Focus rather on strengthening your spiritual muscles. Intimately knowing both your values and vices gives you a strategic advantage over the enemy.

Philippians 4:6-7
Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.

#141 – MY Solemn Guarantee

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All that has a beginning in ME is promised to the very end. Your final phase is MY first step and your initial phase is MY last. Your start is MY ending, therefore your ending is MY solemn guarantee. When you choose ME, I Am bound to reciprocate.

The evolution in your heart is a recalibration to its original frequency. The noise around you must be quieted, in order, to be reset and retuned to ME. You must relearn how to think, how to feel and how to believe.

What will matter, in the end are MY principles and MY word. Being stuck between the opinions and expectations of men is tiresome. The enemy will always enter through your eyes, your flesh and your pride.

I send the enemy for exposure, to edify and not to embarrass you. An earthly status lost due to repentance is one gained, here in Heaven. I Am adding to you, by subtracting the facades and behaviors assumed, to deflect the pain.

Philippians 1:6
I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.

#140 – Times of Testing

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In the moments of turmoil are where you will find the most sincere peace. Discovering faith in the chaos makes it all worthwhile and these times of testing, ensure a knowing of what a faith is made.

Growth is when you can see the victory and vanquishment in the same light, being aware that both are working together for your good. It is a shift in your prayers from deliverance and to becoming decisive.

Being fully persuaded, that the trouble in your world can be seen as a problem or the process, I Am using, to shape and mold you. It is your decision whether to lament or to be MY life of lamentation.

You are not a victim of circumstances, but are a preselected victor. The obstacles before you are no longer seen as predicaments of punishment, but are the processes of promotion asked for in prayer.

Romans 4:18-22
Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.” Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb. Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised. This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness

#139 – Your Origin vs Your Beginning

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Each person has a competition held within their heart. There are two warring voices, MINE and the world, a battle between the flesh and the spirit. Will you abide in your carnal nature or the nurture of God’s anointing?

Moses was a deliverer, but easily angered. David was a man after God’s heart, but a whoremonger. Jacob was a matriarch of a Holy Nation, but a manipulator. Gideon was a mighty warrior, but saw himself as unworthy.

Like the belly of Rebekah, inside you are two separate worlds and two separate legacies standing in opposition to one another. One that bears the promise and the other bearing the cares of this world.

The confusion is between your origin versus your beginning. You originated with ME, but you began in your mother’s womb. This is the dilemma of the human heart, to be born of the flesh, but to operate in the spirit.

Genesis 25:23-26
And the LORD told her, “The sons in your womb will become two nations. From the very beginning, the two nations will be rivals. One nation will be stronger than the other; and your older son will serve your younger son.” And when the time came to give birth, Rebekah discovered that she did indeed have twins! The first one was very red at birth and covered with thick hair like a fur coat. So they named him Esau. Then the other twin was born with his hand grasping Esau’s heel. So they named him Jacob.