GOD’S COUNSEL OF SUCCESS

Psalm 16:7-9,11

I will bless the Lord Who has given me counsel.

Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

I have set the Lord continually before me.

Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Therefore my heart is glad and my glory [my inner self] rejoices.

My body too shall rest and confidently dwell in safety.

You will show me the path of life.

In Your presence is fullness of joy.

At Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

It is the Lord Who gives us counsel, even as we sleep.  When we seek Him first in our lives, He is there to direct us and guides us in all our affairs of life.  Therefore, we do not have to be moved off our stand of faith and trust in Him.

God has everything for us in the palm of His hand.  If He can measure the depth of the oceans with one drop of water in His hand, He can surely carry in the palm of His hand His plans for us.  The only thing that stops the Lord from bringing the fullness of the pleasures to us is our lack of trust in Him.  We become so afraid that it won’t happen for us personally that we are even afraid to trust anymore.  We have all been there.  Our thinking goes something like this:  It didn’t happen when I thought I was believing with all my heart.  Couldn’t He have come through for me!  Why does it have to be so hard?  Why do others receive and I don’t?  What is wrong with me?  Honestly, isn’t that what we think?

Let’s finally put to rest the past failures of unbelief.  Let’s bury that mentality.  So what if you didn’t believe before?  Are you going to let it dictate the rest of your life?  If there weren’t results, get up and go again.  Get on that horse and ride it again.  If you fall off, get up, dust off your britches and try again until you learn to ride that horse.  Stop letting the failure history dictate your future.  Decide to believe, in spite of everything to the contrary.  What have you got to lose?  If you don’t believe, it won’t happen anyway, so why not believe and give God an opportunity to release His Blessing upon you.

We are to rest confidently in Him for He will show us the path of life.  We all know that in His Presence is a fullness of joy and contentment that we can get nowhere else.  With Him we will enjoy our lives throughout all eternity.

Let us make a quality decision today (one from which we do not turn back) that we will trust the Lord to be in charge of our lives and that we will allow Him to give us all the treasures that He has laid up for us who are His children.  There are multitudes of blessings that we have not even begun to receive.  Today and every day is your day of receiving.  Take it now.  Grab hold of it!  And don’t let go!  And don’t let that forward pass of God’s blessing be fumbled from your hand of receiving!

DECLARE

Today we are looking at three scriptures—one is what the Lord declares over us and the other two are what we are to do.  We are to speak of the Glory of God’s Kingdom and talk about His power.  You see, when that is what we speak, we are saturating the atmosphere of the earth and the heavens with the Presence of God, Love Himself, Who is the greatest power in the universe.  There is no greater power than He is.  Decide to speak it and decree it and establish it forever.  God has a future full of hope for all of us.

I challenge each of my readers for the next 30 days to saturate the atmosphere of this nation with continual speaking of the glory of God and the power of God.  Release it into the very atmosphere around your home and your neighborhood and your city and your state and your country.  I am challenging you to join with me.  Then I want to hear from you.  What happened?  If you meet with resistance, double up on your speaking and don’t bow to the enemy.  WATCH GOD MOVE!  He is waiting for you.

Jer. 29:11 from KJV, NKJV, Amplified, NLT, NAS, The Message, Jerusalem Bible, The New English Bible, Complete Jewish Bible, James Moffatt Translation, NIV, Holman Christian Standard Bible, English Standard Version

This is the Lord’s declaration; it is Yahweh Who speaks:

For I know the thoughts I think toward you, says the Lord; they are thoughts of peace.

I know the plans I have in mind for you—-plans for welfare, plans for peace, plans for good, plans for well-being, plans to prosper you, plans for wholeness.

For I keep in mind My purpose for you.

I alone know My purpose for you—-prosperity and a long line of children.

I know what I’m doing.

I have it all planned out—-thoughts and plans to give you a future and a hope in your final outcome, to give you an expected end, reserving a future full of hope for you.

Psalm 145:11, Amplified Bible

They shall speak of the glory of Your Kingdom, and talk of Your Power.

Job 22:28, Amplified Bible

You shall also decide and decree a thing, and it shall be established for you, and the light [of God’s favor] shall shine upon your ways.

SET APART FOR GOD

Hebrews 3:1

I am consecrated and set apart for God.

I am a partaker of the heavenly calling.

I thoughtfully and attentively consider, contemplate Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of my profession or confession.  I have confessed Him as mine.

You and I are set apart for God.  He has a purpose for each of us.  We are to partake of that purpose or calling.  What I find interesting here in this verse is that as we are considering that calling, we are to pay attention to Jesus, Who is the Apostle (sent One) and High Priest (One Who carries the sacrifice or offering of our confession into the Father).

That word “profession” here in this passage of scripture is the word homologia which means covenant; acknowledge; speak the same as; agreement; speak agreeable to; consent to; to say the same thing; give thanks.

As we speak in agreement with God (the Word, He is the Word.), He, the Word, sets us apart unto Himself and causes us to partake in our calling.  It is He Who does it and not we ourselves.  All we do is agree with Him.  We agree with His Word.  There is power in agreement.  When we agree with God, we are agreeing with power Himself.  When we say the same thing as He says, we are releasing His ability in our lives.  We are releasing His Kingdom into our lives.  We are releasing His power on our behalf.

Giving thanks is one of the highest form of agreement.  When we thank someone for something, we are accepting what they have given to us.  When we give thanks to God, we are agreeing with Him and telling Him that we acknowledge what He has given to us.  Let me say it again:  There is power in agreement.  But even more dynamic is this sentence:  There is unlimited power in agreement with God.  It’s time to release His power in our lives.

THE EYES OF THE LORD

The eyes of the Lord are upon us as His righteous ones.  He is ever mindful of our place in His home.  He is our dear Heavenly Father Who loves us with an everlasting love.  He sees us at all times and takes note of our needs and desires and wishes.  He is an awesome daddy God.

1 Peter 3:12

For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers….

Proverbs 5:21, KJV and Amplified Bible

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He ponders (carefully weighs) all man’s goings.

2 Chronicles 16:9

For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him….

Job 31:4; 34:21

Does not He see my ways, and count all my steps?

For His eyes are upon the ways of man, and He sees all his goings.

Proverbs 15:3

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

Jeremiah 16:17

For mine eyes are upon all their ways:  they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

Hebrews 4:13

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight:  but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

God sees all!  He hears all!  There is nothing hidden from Him.  All is open and exposed before Him, both the good and the bad.  He sees us through the eyes of His Son Jesus and he loves us in spite of what we do or don’t do.  His eyes are filtered by the blood of His Son Jesus.  He sees us as His righteous ones.  All we have to do is agree with Him and accept our place because of Jesus.  What a God we serve!  It gives me great comfort to know that He watches over me.  His eyes are upon the righteous to show Himself strong on our behalf.