Fri.’s Devo - Hope

Read: Isaiah 54:1-57:13; Ephesians 6:1-24; Psalm 70:1-5; Proverbs 24:8
Today is a day of hope for us. This is what God is saying right now to the Body of Christ. He is calling out to all who have felt unfruitful in their efforts or insignificant and he says to expand your vision and your dreams because he is about to change everything. God is about to build his body up with so much strength and provision that they are going to see that the enemy can’t make a weapon that can hurt us. All his lies are going to fall to the ground and God’s plans and God’s thoughts are going to be put on the earth. Everything the Lord has promised would happen will happen. Everyone who feels there is no hope for them or it is too late, God is going to give them a memorial and a name and they will be filled with joy. It is a good day for the Body of Christ!
To the enemies of God who trust in sorcery and their own way, they will not succeed and their secret deeds of darkness will be judged. They will be exposed and brought down. It will be the righteous that will possess the land.
In Ephesians, God gives us ways to prosper. One of them is by obeying our parents. Our parents are not just our natural parents but the ones God has given us as spiritual and ancestral parents. Abraham, Moses, Daniel, David just to name a few are all our spiritual fathers. Our pastors and teachers are also spiritual parents. If we honor them then God will give us prosperous and many days on the earth to be affective for him.
Paul also tells us that if we are leaders or spiritual parents or physical parents then we need to be examples to them of godliness and honor. We are the picture of God to them and that is a big responsibility.
We can be everything Jesus was on earth but we need to be clothed with the armor of God. Our struggle is never with people, but with spiritual powers that are in the heavenly realms. Our weapons are truth, righteousness, peace, faith, salvation, the Word of God and spirit-led prayer.
We join in Paul in praying that when we open our mouths our words would make known the mystery of the gospel.