Brighter Days
Many of you have been marked through these past days by my process of refinement and I assure you that brighter days are ahead. While my hand has been upon you in this process, I am not ignorant to where the enemy has attempted to come in like a flood, stealing your fruit and your joy through the process. He has not bested you!
While there will be turmoil and darkness in the days ahead, rest easy, for you have been moulded for such a time as this. For those who surrendered to my purposes, casting their agendas aside and preferring the one I placed before them, you will find that you are ready to be commissioned.
In this place of being prepared you will find that you can look at the days ahead of you not with fear and trembling but with joy and delight. For when you come prepared you arrive with an expectation of victory. There are brighter days ahead because you have been through the fire and you are now postured in expectation.
Prayer:
Father, the journey you have me on is not always clear but I know that in the waiting I find more of you. Thank-you for loving me so well that you would ensure my preparedness for this new season. I repent for where I have knowingly and unknowingly fought your process. Today, I freshly surrender my agenda to you, choosing to instead prefer your agenda. Thank-you that there are brighter days ahead of me!
Job 8:5-7 (ESV)
If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy, if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation. And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.
1 Peter 3:13-16 (MSG)
If with heart and soul you’re doing good, do you think you can be stopped? Even if you suffer for it, you’re still better off. Don’t give the opposition a second thought. Through thick and thin, keep your hearts at attention, in adoration before Christ, your Master. Be ready to speak up and tell anyone who asks why you’re living the way you are, and always with the utmost courtesy.
