OUR GREAT GOD

King David in Psalm 21:1-7,13, in the Amplified Bible makes a wonderful declaration concerning His God, Who is our God as well.  He speaks to the Lord and tells Him how wonderful He is.  Well, you and I as kings unto the Lord should be making the same declaration.  This can be our prayer and declaration also.

I shall joy in Your strength, O Lord; and in Your salvation how greatly shall I rejoice!

You have given me my heart’s desire and have not withheld the request of my lips.

For You send blessings of good things to meet me; You set a crown of pure gold on my head.

I asked life of You, and You gave it to me—-long life forever and evermore.

My glory is great because of Your aid; splendor and majesty You bestow upon me.

For You make me to be blessed and a blessing forever; You make me exceedingly glad with the joy of Your presence.

For I trust, rely on and am confident in You Lord, and through your mercy and steadfast love, Most High God, I will never be moved.

Be exalted, Lord, in Your strength; I will sing and praise Your power.

EXCEL CONFESSION

Yesterday we talked about 3 John 2.  Today let’s make some confessions, based on that scripture.

I am God’s Beloved child.  He loves me dearly.  My dear Heavenly Father loves me.

I am prospering.  I am excelling.  I am going to the highest level in God.  I am dwelling in excellence.

It is time for me to excel, increase, exceed, surpass, eclipse, do extremely well.

I am advancing.  I am enlarging.

I am doing exceeding, extraordinary things in my life.

I will do all God has called me to be and do and come to new heights.

I am in health and whole.  I am complete in Him.  My body is a healthy body.  Every cell, tissue, organ and system responds to the health of God, prospering in every way.  I dwell in wholeness in my life in every area.

My soul is prospering.  My mind is the mind of Christ and I hold His purposes, thoughts and actions.  My will is conformed to His will in thought, purpose and deed.  My emotions are stabilized in His fruit and soaring to the new heights of His love and joy and peace in the fruitfulness of Him.

I am complete in the fullness of Christ, The Anointed One and His anointing.

I am my Beloved’s and He is mine.

EXCEL

The Holy Spirit, through the Apostle John in 3 John 2, had this to say to us as God’s dear children.  It is such a familiar scripture I believe we have not truly had a revelation of it.  Let’s look at this scripture verse today.

BELOVED, I DESIRE (OR PRAY) THAT YOU PROSPER AND BE IN HEALTH EVEN AS YOUR SOUL PROSPERS.

Let’s start with that first word—-BELOVED.  You are loved by the Lord.  I am going to make a statement that will probably shock some of you.  His very life is tied up in you.  He lives for you and your happiness and well being.  He delights in your success.  It gives Him great pleasure for you to be the healthiest, richest, most prosperous person on the face of the earth.  You are His whole focus of attention.

It is His DESIRE that you PROSPER and BE IN HEALTH.  His greatest desire is to see you prosperous.

To PROSPER means to excel, to achieve the highest excellence.  Does that mean money, as so many people have narrowly defined it?  No, it means your entire life.  You are to excel in health.  You are to excel in relationships.  You are to excel in love and joy and peace and all the fruit of the spirit.  You are to excel in walking in the fullness of His provisions.  And, yes, you are to excel in wealth.  Every one of God’s children were born again to excel.  Excellence is our byword.

BE IN HEALTH—sometimes for some people that seems to be so unreachable because everywhere you and I turn, we hear that there is this sickness out there and that infirmity and this possibility of catching something deadly.  What you hear and focus on is what you become.  We are bombarded on TV, even on the commercials now—-drug companies are spending big bucks to capture your attention with their commercials because there is big business in drugs.  We live in a society which is sickness conscious.  Our society, however, the Kingdom of God society, is a society which is health conscious.  The only way to maintain that health is given us in the last part of that verse.

AS YOUR SOUL PROSPERS—-your soul consists of your thinking ability (your reasoning), your ability to make decisions and your reaction to stimuli.  In other words, your soul is your mind, your will and your emotions.  How do we get them to excel?  What we focus on determines how they operate?  Our focus is to be on God.  How do we do that?  His Word!  His Word is the expression of Himself.  As we dwell in His Word, we are dwelling in Him, in His Presence, and we become like Him.  Look upon Him and be whole today.  Delight yourself in Him; enjoy His Presence.

EXCEL IN GOD!

ENJOY ALL THINGS

God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit enjoy you just as you are.  You are the joy of their life.  Yes, You!  Before the creation of the earth, of the world, God made a choice to love and enjoy everybody created on this earth.  He didn’t put a requirement on His love for you.  He chose to love and enjoy you.  Yes, of course, there is something you have to do in response to His love.  But it is so easy, so simple.  All you have to do is accept Him and His love and His sacrifice for you on the cross in order to enjoy the full benefits of His love and joy.  Now hard is that!

I have been meditating two scriptures that I want to share with you that God dropped in my heart in the shower the other day.  They are both related to the word “richly” and they came about as a result of the word “enjoy.”  I have personalized them for my own meditation.

In the King James Bible, 1 Timothy 6:17b, we are told that …the living God gives us richly all things to enjoy.  In the Amplified Bible we are told that God richly and ceaselessly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.

Colossians 3:16,15 tells us to let the word of Christ dwell in us (have its home in our hearts and minds) richly in all wisdom.  We are to let the peace of God rule in our hearts.

Rule:  Act as umpire continually, deciding and settling with finality all questions that arise in my mind.

The Greek word for richly in the Strong’s Concordance means copiously, abundantly.  It comes from the word that means wealthy; figuratively, it means abounding with.  It comes from the root word which means wealth as fullness, money, possessions; figuratively it means abundance, richness, specifically it can mean valuable, bestowments, riches.

Today settle it with finality that God gives you richly, abundantly ALL THINGS TO ENJOY.  He ceaselessly provides you with everything for your enjoyment.  My dear reader, that does include earthly stuff such as money and possessions.  Wealth is no big deal to God as long as it does not become a big deal to you.  It is simply a tool that God uses to bring His good news to everyone and at the same time to make provision for our enjoyment.

ENJOY ALL THINGS!

MY FRIEND, THE HOLY SPIRIT

In John 14:26 and 16:13-15 Jesus spoke some powerful statements about the Holy Spirit.  One of the most important statements that Jesus made is for us especially in today’s world.  The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth.  We need Truth more than we have ever needed it before.  The Truth will keep us from being deceived.  The Holy Spirit of Truth will expose lying spirits and those who tell lies.  We must be aware at all times of the Truth of God so that we can offset the lies of the enemy.

Here are declarations you can make about the Holy Spirit from these Bible verses.

Holy Spirit, You are the Spirit of Truth.  You give me the Truth of God’s Kingdom.

You are my       COMFORTER

COUNSELOR

HELPER

INTERCESSOR

ADVOCATE

STRENGTHENER

STANDBY

TEACHER

ENCOURAGER

FRIEND

You teach me all things.

You bring all things to my remembrance.

Holy Spirit of Truth, the Truth-giving Spirit,  You will guide me into all Truth, the whole, full Truth.

You will give the message given to You by the Father.

You will announce and declare to me things that are to come, that will happen in the future.

You will honor and glorify Jesus.

You will receive or take of what is Jesus’ and reveal, declare, disclose, and transmit it to me.

Focus on God’s Word of Truth and His Spirit of Truth.  That is our keeping power