Living In Abundance Series
You shall no longer be termed Forsaken, nor shall your land [life] any more be termed Desolate; You shall be called Hephzibah [MY DELIGHT IN IS YOU] and your land [life] Beulah [MARRIED]; For the Lord delights in you (Isaiah 62:4). You are married to the Most High God.
Stay excited in the Lord! Covered in your garments of praise, giving and doing good, holiness, and commitment to living in the promises of God, there is no more weeping: no more shame, fear, disappointment, guilt, bitterness, depression, desperation, or feeling useless and unappreciated. The garments you are now wearing reflect the beautiful, bold, brilliant, boisterous, bodacious you—the real you. You bubble over with a joy unspeakable. You just shine! Oh, give glory to God!
Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel [add your name] you shall become a plain! And he shall bring forth the capstone with shouts of “Grace, grace to it!” (Zechariah 4:7).
Read Ezra 3-6 and give glory to God. Zerubbabel and his brethren, the priests, were part of the generation who survived captivity by King Nebuchadnezzar; and were determined to set out to build the temple that was destroyed due to the disobedience of the Israelites before they were taken into captivity in Babylon. When the foundation was laid, shouts of rejoicing by the Jews, old and young, resonated to the far provinces neighboring Judah in Jerusalem.
As it is with doing God’s work, demonic resistance—o great mountain of trouble—met them squarely through false accusations, lies, and evil alliances comprised of false witnesses. Zerubbabel was forced to stop work until the prophets Haggai and Zechariah showed up and gave them the unction of the Lord to press on and finish the building of God’s temple. They obeyed and, by their obedience, God dilapidated (tore down) the mountains and opened previously barred doors to receive the abundance and grace for His committed children to complete the building as their enemies watched!
God is able to do just as He says He will do as written in the Bible—God’s book of promises. You are building the temple of your life; and, as you build, you will meet adversity. But strut your garments, guys and gals, in obedience and commitment; and God will make you the capstone.
May the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you (1 Peter 5:10).
Do not quit in rebuilding your life into the image of God’s reflection. Your life is your soul; your soul is housed in a temple called your body; and both soul (where you feel and think/discern) and body must be covered in God’s godly garments. Then and only then can His Holy Spirit dwell in you and give you divine authority to accomplish all your heart’s desire on earth as it is approved in heaven.
‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts (Zechariah 4:6). Believe that God loves you and wants you to succeed. And never despise small beginnings (Zechariah 4:10) because God can make you great and increase you in an instant: You shall increase my greatness and comfort me on every side (Psalm 71:21).
God will make a way, a path, a plain open to your claiming His abundance and grace, because all you do gives glory to Him. Declare right now: “I am God’s capstone at the top of the building of my life, a temple of testimony to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I walk in divine authority everywhere I go. He perfects me; He establishes me; He strengthens me; and He settles me in Beulah crowning me Hephzibah so that I become a blessing to my own generation and generations after me.”
In the name of the Cornerstone—the solid Rock foundation of my life—Jesus!
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