Journals of the Heart

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Arise and obey. Arise and go. Arise and shine. Arise and receive your blessing…your inheritance…your deliverance…your breakthrough. Arise and shift into the new day I have called.

Once again I remind you to quit looking back and start pressing forward. Forgive and let go. Repent and forgive. Forgive your own selves and look to Me. Set your face like flint and be amazed as paradigms shift. The light is coming on in the room of your heart.

Joy says to you this morning, “I am your strength. I am the joy of your salvation, so don’t focus on your lack (Psalms 95:1; Psalms 118:15). Focus with a grateful heart on all the Lord has done in bygone days. Focus on the promises He has given you with a heart of faith.

Sometimes you tend to forget to come and rejoice like a child when all is well…when life is bursting forth like in garden like arrays or when the harvest is abundant. And sometimes you stay away because you feel unworthy in the dark times…in the hard times or when you feel you have somehow missed the mark. Maybe you have missed the mark. All do at some time or another. If given to religion and the law you stay at bay. If given to grace, you run into My arms where mercy triumphs over judgment.

Beloved, I have given a future and a hope to all My children…and that includes you. Don’t tune Me out because you have heard me say this so many times before. The days and times you are living in dictate the necessity to remind those I love of so many things they may have forgotten or somehow think do not apply to them because somehow they have arrived. You will never in the truest sense arrive until you cross over.

Beloved, I have dressed you in robes of righteousness and your life is hidden in Christ. Because of this righteousness, I watch over every thing concerning you. Because you love Me, I work all things in your life together for the ultimate good.

You must never forget how I look beyond the surface to the motive of your heart. Sometimes you do not look deep enough to see what I see and are too quick to judge yourself based on external assumptions. Don’t go digging for what I am not revealing in reference to your own weakness. Trust Me. I always know what to bring to the surface and when to do

Be willing to let Me dig through and route out all hindrances to a perfect flow of My river in and through you. Yes, let the fountain of My presence bring forth fountains of life…bring forth the hidden things of My heart saved just for this day and time…saved just for you (Isaiah 48:6).

Words, thoughts and deeds directed at your parents in past days can affect your life today. Just because you have forgotten doesn’t mean they can’t affect you. My principles never change. They are set in motion by what you sow or don’t sow. Either you swim upstream or flow in the river of My life. Choose life (Deuteronomy 30:18-20, Proverbs 18:21). Take time to think on this. I am right beside you.

Beloved, although I never change and I Am the same yesterday, tomorrow and today, I am constantly doing a new thing in your life (Hebrews 13:8). Nothing remains the same and if you are staying the same you are really going backwards! You need to constantly be discovering and experiencing more of My love for you and the closeness we can have. I love you the same as I love My son, Jesus, and I am changing you into His likeness You can have the same relationship with Me that Jesus has…everything He has is yours. You are joint heirs with Him.

Beloved, My plans for you are for good and not for evil and to give you hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11). You are no longer covered with the ashes of shame and degradation, but instead, you shine with the beauty of a life redeemed. My Glory covers you and your face shines like the face of Moses after He had been in My presence.