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Your
Dreams oh
Lord!
Your
Dreams oh
Lord!
The more I learn about God's "hesed" love, the more peace and stillness is coming to my heart. I am learning from David how to position my heart each morning to receive God's plan for my day. Like David, I will "prepare my sacrifice of prayer to you.. and lay out the pieces of my life on the altar and wait for your fire to fall upon my heart." Ps 5:3 (TPT). "Perfect love casts out fear. He who fears is not made perfect in love." 1 John 4:18 (NIV). I continue to recognize "hestitations" and "reservations" in my heart toward what God is wanting me to surrender. I have a willingness but He is showing me the fears and doubts that remain. No one's love is perfect except God. He loves His creation so much that we get to choose allegiance or defiance in each and every area of life each and every day. In fact every minute of every day. Can Jesus be my Savior and not my Lord? His love is big enough for this, yet His love calls me higher. The glimpses of what He has shown me of His future call for me is staggering. I know He must empower me and I must be willing for Holy Spirit to manifest in me the way He chooses.
I was led to jump ahead to the "first mention" of hesed love that was sung to God in this first psalm that mentions God's "hesed" lovingkindness. I have spend several weeks in this psalm captivated by David's rich understanding and dependence on this love in order to be turned from a rejected shepherd boy to a rejected king to a beloved king all the while being a "man after God's own heart". Speaking God's word powerfully transforms us and the world around us. It was God's word that created the world and we are told as God's image-bearers that "life and death are in the power of the tongue." Pr 18:21 (BSB) But when we sing God's word it has a way of softening hardened parts of our hearts so we can receive hard truths more easily. God's word stopped Satan in his tracks when Jesus used it against Satan in his wilderness experience prior to the start of his ministry on earth. Let's do damage to the lies of the enemy that make us doubt God's love. In Psalm 5:7 David writes: "But I know that you will welcome me into your house, for I am covered by your covenant of mercy and love." (TPT) This takes me back to Psalm 23:5b where David writes of his Good Shepherd's blessings as his "cup runs over." (NKJV) In the verses leading up to vs. 7 David admits how he is feeling about his enemies and often through his songs admits that God doesn't always feel very close or helpful in his striving against his enemies. Despite his honest admissions he gets to verse 7 and senses God's welcome, His favor and His blessing. It is God's covenant blessings promised centuries ago that are certainly considered by David in this verse. The KJV's translation of this word used the same translation as they did in Ge. 19:19 for hesed- "magnified mercy and kindness." Yet I believe the Passion translation renders hesed more accurately in this context. The tabernacle's welcoming presence of God had to speak covenant to David. De 4:7 reminds us of the great divide between Israel and every other nation on the earth back then. "“For what great nation is there that has God so near to it, as the LORD our God is to us, for whatever reason we may call upon Him?" (NIV) God's peculiar love for David and his people don't just magnify God's mercy and kindness for David, they speak promises/covenants that are now all "yes" in Jesus according to 2 Corinthians 1:20 and yet they were still quite powerful in David's day. This covenant mercy and love are explained with both old and new testament reference in 2 Corinthians 6:14: "And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? As God has said: “For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.” In David's day the Holy Spirit would come and go but often accompanied him and his might men in battle where Holy Spirit "Kungfu" gave them supernatural powers to overcome the demon-powered Philistines in 1 and 2 Samuel. In those days the only consistent place to experience the literal presence of God was to go to the tabernacle where the very presence of God was ALWAYS there as long as the ark of the covenant was inside and no demonic idols were added inside the "house of the Lord" like in Ezekiel's day when they literally saw God's Shikenah leave the temple and never return. The idolatry had reached it's peak. David felt the difference because for 32 years the ark was not in the tabernacle and he had the privilege of finally bringing it back. Today, since Pentecost, we are the temple of God. The more willing and yielded we are, the more His supernatural power can flow through us to love our enemies, repent of and walk away from stubborn sins of even the worst kind of addictions. We can heal the sick, cast out demons and take back the ground that demons have "legal claim" over because of the fall. Why? Because on the cross the devil was defeated and now we are God's agents of His Kingdom as the body of Christ with Holy Spirit indwelling to equip us with power. Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be His name. He has a heavenly bank account endless in it's provision, full of gifts, giftings, resources to do ALL that is written in our book. We are to take withdrawals often, daily, minute-by-minute an believe Him when Jesus taught us to pray, "Thy kingdom come on earth AS it is in heaven." Not only do we have power, we have covenant promises that are all "YES" in Jesus. We ARE to speak to our mountains of doubt, fear, unbelief and obstacles to His plans for our life and expect them to move. Yet corporately there is a greater presence of the Lord possible when all are surrendered and open to the Holy Spirit amongst a group of believers. In most circles today Holy Spirit is NOT welcome and so little power and glory are experienced or revealed in most church bodies today. I believe our lack of faith in Drs. have led us to a greater faith in the Great Physician. I believe the loss of faith in government have drawn us closer to God's desire for His spiritual kingdom governance to be displayed on the earth. Our inability to reach the hard-hearted unbelievers around us has thrust us into a desire to display God's glory through power evangelism. Preaching the gospel in word and deed, signs, wonders, deliverances and healings to soften hearts hardened because they thought the rejection of others meant God has forgotten or rejected them. We are called to show them He has NOT forgotten them. I know that the governments of the world are on the shoulders of my Savior and whether that will result in only Spiritual reign or a literal one, I haven't a clue. Actually I don't need to know it to advance His kingdom His way. While we may dominate in sheer numbers our influence is nominal. I believe this is contrary to God's heart for the nations. Both Canada and the USA have covenant promises with God made 100's of years ago that God is remembering in our day and God is reminding me that it is not because we "deserve" rescue that we WILL get "rescued." It is because of promises and covenants our forefathers made with God hundreds of years ago. We stand on the shoulders of our "forefathers" by Holy Spirit insight and revelation. I repent as Nehemiah and Daniel repented for their nation. Lord forgive us for how poorly we have been influencing society, legislation, demonic strongholds and lost souls in our land. Forgive us for not taking advantage of ALL that Jesus carried on the cross. He became a curse on the cross so we could reverse every curse on the land, in our communities and world. Most of us know that He carried our sin, but in the original Hebrew according to Strong's concordance Is 53:3 shows that He also carried our sickness, deformitieis, grief, sorrow, abuse, the sins committed against us so we do not have to pick them up, look at them ever again. Teach us how to pray and believe and receive "Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven." As I ponder David's great triumphs on the battlefield, yet great defeats in his home life, I get disappointed at David and at myself. People get to choose how much of their life, they surrender to God. God never forces people to believe him about anything. The areas we don't surrender we leave for our children and grandchildren to fight. So I pray, Holy Spirit, for the sake of my children and grandchildren please reveal any other parts of my heart I have walled off with "no trespassing signs." I am willing for it all to be yours. I trust You to do the necessary surgeries in my heart to expose and remove those reservations I have to Your hesed love.
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