Chosen

Our personalized confession today will be based on Ephesians 1:3-5,9; 2:6-8,10 in the Amplified Bible.

God my Father, the Father of my Lord Jesus Christ the Messiah, has blessed me in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm, given by the Holy Spirit.  Even in His love He chose me, actually picked me out for Himself as His own, in Christ before the foundation of the world, that I should be holy, consecrated, set apart for Him and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love.

And he raised me up together with Christ and made me sit down together, giving me joint seating with Him in the heavenly sphere in Christ Jesus.

He did this that He might clearly demonstrate through the ages to come the immeasurable, limitless riches of His free grace in His kindness and goodness of heart toward me in Christ Jesus.

For it is by free grace through faith that I am saved.  It is not of myself.  It is a gift of God.

For I am God’s own handiwork, His workmanship, recreated in Christ Jesus, born anew, that I may do those good works which God predestined, planned beforehand for me, taking paths which He prepared ahead of time, that I should walk in them, living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for me to live.

For God foreordained me, destined me, planned in love for me to be adopted, revealed as His own child through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will, because it pleased Him and was His kind intent.

God my Father has made known to me the mystery, secret of His will for His plan, of His purpose.  It is in accordance with His good pleasure, His merciful intention, which He has previously purposed and set forth in Jesus Christ.

Strength

Ephesians 6:10, Amplified Bible

In conclusion, be strong in the Lord [be empowered through your union with Him]; draw your strength from Him [that strength which His boundless might provides].

Philippians 4:13, Amplified Bible

I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me; I am self-sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency].

Personalized Confession:

I am strong in the Lord.  I am empowered through my union with Him.  I am one with Him.  In that oneness I have His power operating through me as I walk in unity with Him and His Kingdom plans and purposes for me and those around me.  I draw my strength from Him.  It is His strength that provides me with unlimited power, His power which is boundless.  I have strength for all things in Christ, the Anointed One and His Anointing.  Through the power of the Holy Spirit I have strength in my inner man.  He saturates me with Himself and His strength and might.  He is all I need.  He is my sufficiency.

Harvest of Righteousness

It’s harvest time and let’s look at God’s Word concerning harvest.  Every farmer wants a good harvest, one that is bountiful, one that is overflowing way beyond normal.  That is the way we should be as sowers of God’s Word.  We must expect a bountiful harvest.

James 3:18, Amplified Bible

And the harvest of righteousness (of conformity to God’s will in thought and deed) is [the fruit of the seed] sown in peace by those who work for and make peace [in themselves and in others, that peace which means concord, agreement and harmony between individuals, with undisturbedness, in a peaceful mind free from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts].

Personalized Confession:

I am sowing the seed of God’s Word in my life and the lives of others.  They are seeds of peace, sown in peace, spoken in an attitude of “all is well.”  As I sow by speaking God’s Word, I sow with an assurance that God’s Word produces what it is sent to do.  I am in agreement with God; I am in harmony with Him; my words of my mouth are in concord with His Word.  My peaceful mind is free from fears and agitation.  I am not disturbed.  I am calm, and the shalom of God is operating in me, through me and around me.  The harvest of the seed of God’s Word sown in peace is righteousness, being right with God and thinking His right thoughts and doing things His way.  My life is in line with, aligned with God and His will in my thoughts and deeds.  Praise God!  I am in alignment with God and His way of thinking and His way of doing things.  I reap a good harvest because it is the harvest of God’s Word (seed).