Good morning,
As we have been waking up and arising to the realization that signs and wonders follow the believers. (Mark 16:15-18) "ARISE [from the depression and prostration in 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!" This is the next level for God's children, we are refusing to live and walk in the low living, it is time that we stretch towards the higher ground, to live our lives boldly for the Kingdom and the purposes of God. As we meditate on this we must keep in our hearts and mind that this too is a gradual process. "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image [of God] from [one degree] of glory to glory." (2 Corin. 3:18) God's weightiness, His glory is being given to us degree upon degree. So no matter where we are we are growing into another level. God is encouraging us forward to where we walk and live in the realm of the heavenlies. Our part is to keep a habitual fellowship with God, so that we that are ordinary, become extraordinary.
Right where you are in your relationship with God, know that God is causing you to come up higher. As we draw near to Him, we are being made perfect, or, mature. "Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace." (Ps.37:37) Upright means straight; just; most righteous; equity' conforming your life to God's law and justice without acting like it is undue hardship and without being a fraud. We are in the time frame where everything is being brought to a closing in order to open up the door to the next level. It is being sped up in order to bring His coming. We are in the preparation time and being upright is the generation that He is coming for. God is bringing the upright man to the future end which is for hope and good. Whether the 'end' for you is the 'end' of the paragraph, or the the 'end' of the chapter, or the 'end' of the story. It is all going to be good, trust Him! Peace means 'shalom' which carries the idea of safety; wellness and wholeness and soundness [nothing missing and nothing broken]; happy, health, and prosperity. Read Psalm 14:2-5; verse 5 says; "There they shall be in great fear [literally- dreading a dread], for God is with the generation of the [uncompromisingly] righteous (those upright and in right standing with Him)."
Love,
Pastor D.
Daughters of Z 