Good Morning,
"What then shall we say to all this? If God is for us, who can be against us? Who can be our foe, if God is on our side? He who did not withhold or spare (even) His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will he not also with Him freely and graciously give us all other things?" (Romans 8:31-32) This is a sure promise from God to us. We have Father God, Jesus, our Lord, and Holy Spirit, as well as a whole host of angels to assist. "We have the prophetic word (made) firmer still. You will do well to pay attention to it as to a lamp shining in a dismal (squalid and dark) place until the day breaks through the gloom and the Morning Star rises (comes into being) in your hearts." (2 Peter 1:19) Pay attention to the Word of God for it shines through the darkest days, even if it glows like a lamp. The Morning Star will arise in a little while, that means more than only when the Lord one day rapturing us away. Notice that the last part of that verse says, when the Morning Star rises in your heart. When the revelation of the Word shining through the dismal, dark places comes to your heart, it will cause you to get up from where you are, giving you assistance to move. "Arise [from the depression and prostration from which circumstances have kept you – rise to a new life]! Shine (be radiant with the glory of the Lord ), for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you!" (Is. 60.1) The depression and prostration of circumstances makes all things look more dismal and gloomy than they really are. Allow the light of the Word to illuminate the gloominess of the circumstances in your life. Little by little the lamp of the Word will grow brighter and brighter as you stay under the light of it and you will begin to arise and move. Arise is to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise; to awaken; wake up, to move upward; mount; ascend. Remember, circumstances may cause you to bend or lie down, but God, Who is on your side will see to it that you have the ability to get up.
"But no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall show to be in the wrong. This [peace, righteousness, security, triumph over opposition] is the heritage of the servants of the Lord [those in whom the ideal Servant of the Lord is reproduced]; this is the righteousness or the vindication which they obtain from Me [this is that which I impart to them as their justification], says the Lord." (Is. 54:17) This is our heritage [portion, share, inheritance]. That means that whatever device, strategy, scheme, assignment, plans, etc. that the enemy tries to come up against us with it will not prosper [succeed, to advance, make profitable, or to be successful] that is our heritage. The enemy can never win. Sometimes the fight may endure awhile thereby giving off the illusion that the enemy has won, {he is a deceiver} but it's not over until God is done. He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. Remember that God is working in you; "Not in your own strength, for it is God Who is all the while effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and the desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight, (Phil. 2:13) Power and desire, both to do His will and His work, it comes from God working in us. We could never pull this off on our own, we need all the help that God has made available. Daddy wants to help us, let's just receive. God knows how to rescue the godly out of temptations and trials..(2 Peter 2:9)
Love,
Pastor D.
Daughters of Z 