Friday, January 1, 2016

Fri.'s Devo - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! "Mark This Year"

If you have followed me for a while, you know that every year I ask God for a word for that year. You can go back and read what I said about last year. It proved so right in my life. My word for this year is “mark”. This year I’m going to use the New Living Translation and as I was reading through today’s reading that word leapt off the page. “And evening passed and morning came, marking the ____ day.” I don’t know about you, but this year was to be the year of “turn around” for the body of Christ. It was a long year of waiting for God to do what He promised He would do. It was a year of growing in patience and faith. I feel like next year is going to be a year we are going to mark in our mental calendar as a year we come out of the night into the day. People are going to see their destiny unfold and things that have been hidden in God’s will are going to be manifested on the earth. Faith is going to be made sight. People that have walked in darkness are going to come into the light and those God has marked as His are going to come into the kingdom.
In Genesis 1:14, God said, “let there be signs to mark the seasons, days, and years.” We are going to see more signs and prophesies fulfilled that will mark the season we are in. We are definitely in the last day…but the last day will last one thousand years so let’s live like we are going to be here for a long time keeping our eyes toward heaven. I also believe that the book of Mark is going to be highlighted this year.
Thank you for all of you who are joining me in another year through the Word. I’m going to be using the One Year Chronological Bible NLT. I would suggest buying one because the passages switch around so much it would make it much easier to just be able to read it from a book. I look forward to seeing what the Holy Spirit has to teach us. Feel free to comment.
Thurs.’s Devo - Creation
Read: Gen. 1:1-3:24
A book could be written about what we just read so I will try to highlight what stood out to me. The first thing God did was to turn the light on in a place where darkness had ruled. Then he separated the waters of the heavens from the waters of the earth. Waters represent spirit and the separation was the skies. The earth has three levels the seas (below the earth), the earth, and the skies. The seas represent the demonic kingdom under the earth. Revelation 21:1 says that when God creates the new heaven and new earth the seas will be no more. God will one day do away with that demonic kingdom. The next kingdom is the earthly kingdom which is where we walk and live. It is the place where seeds are planted and grow into plants and trees. We are to rule the other two kingdoms from the earth. It is the place of life and salvation. The skies are a picture of the heavenly kingdom where God determines when things will happen. God rules from here like the sun that is always present even though we can’t always see it. That is where the moon reigns which is a picture of the church. It is always there but we only see it when it reflects the sun. The church is only evident on the earth when we reflect God’s glory. The stars are the saints that shine when they reflect the glory of God.
Notice, when it talks about the seeds and the fish they can only produce after their kind. If we are chosen we will always be chosen. We which are good should produce good and those that are evil will only produce evil.
The days correspond with their millennium. We are in the 6th day, the 6,000th years so we can look at day six and see what it says about our millennium. On the 6th day, man was made in God’s image and was given dominion over everything God had made: the fish in the sea (every demon), the birds in the sky (every angel), and all the animals that scurry along the ground. Animals are living attributes of good and evil. For example, you can see love personified in a family golden retriever and you can see fierce hatred in a rabid wild dog. We are to reign over all of these things. This is what our generation is what we have to learn to do.
I’ve run out of time and we didn’t even get to Adam and Eve so I have a question for you to ponder…Why did God create the earth?
Lord, thank you for a new year to walk closer to you and your purpose.

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