Fri.’s Devo - Happy New Year Where We Win!

Wow! We made it to 2021! I sense that this year is going to be a turnaround year for us. Last year the virus shut us down in March, so I see March as being a really good month for us of freedom from bondage. I see God’s plan of blessing beginning to unfold with untold abundance and healing. We are going to be brought to Mt. Sinai and given a new law and it will be our choice whether to believe it and restructure or walk around the wilderness for 40 more years. I pray that we have looked at history and don’t want to repeat it. I pray that we walk right into our promised land. We have entered into a time of Great Awakening not only spiritually but in our nation. We are going to be told the truth about so many things that we have been lied to about. I pray that we can take them in and be blessed and not devastated in the process. It will be tempting to focus on the negative but we must be looking forward to the positive because our future is very bright. Our enemies will be “hate” and “greed.” We dealt with “fear” last year. It will be easy to hate those who have done harm to humanity but we have to love our enemies. It will be easy to get greedy in the time of prosperity but we must remain humble and grateful. We are going back too Eden. Read Genesis 1:1-2:25; Matthew 1:1-2:12; Psalm 1:1-6; Proverbs 1:1-6 Genesis maps out the law of God’s earth in pictures. The first thing God teaches is that light is good and darkness had to be separated out of it because it was bad. Another name for light is “Day”in God’s language and another name for the darkness is “night.” “Light” in the Hebrew means illumination which includes happiness and clarity. “Darkness” in the Hebrew means misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow and wickedness. God’s second principle was taught the next day. Waters covered the earth from the melted ice of the Ice Age so God also separated it. Waters represent Spirit. Some of the water went to the heavens and some stayed on the earth. The firmament or expanse separated them which was called Heaven. It is where the celestial bodies revolve like the planets and the stars and the angels and demons. The third day brought the principle of life from the earth. The lack of water on the earth formed the dry ground that is called Earth. Where the waters were was called Seas which means “to roar.” On the dry ground, God planted seed which grew plants that conformed to the seed. This is the principle of what you plant you will reap. The forth principle was of rulership. The lights in the sky represented God and his kingdom. They were to give happiness and clarity to those on earth. The sun or God was to rule the day and the moon or his church was to rule the night. “Night” here isn’t the same word as “night” earlier. This “night” means “a twist away of the light: adversity.” This means that the church shines in adversity and rules during those times of uncertainty. The purpose of both of these lights is to divide light from darkness. The fifth principle was about the way God’s creatures move and serve us on the earth. Creatures were created to move in the heavens and under the earth in the seas. These replicate the spirits of the unseen world. The sixth principle had to do with creatures we do see on the earth. God created animals then man and told man to rule over the unseen and the seen world. God blessed the seventh day and proclaimed it a day of rest. Man was formed of dust of the earth and brought to live by God’s breath of life. He became a living soul. God put man into his garden that was full of all man would need. He showed him two trees in the center of the garden and told him to eat from the tree of life and not from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God told this Adam to name the animals and Adam observed that they all had companions and he didn’t which was exactly the conclusion God wanted him to come to. He put Adam into a deep sleep and took out of Adam the feminine part of him and made it into a Woman. This is what would make the man leave his family to be joined to his other half. They were both naked and had no shame. Matthew’s telling of the story of Jesus was written to the Jews to show them that Jesus was the King of the Jews. In Matthew, we have Jesus’ kingly line which came through Joseph who was Jesus’ earthly father. Both Jesus and Adam began in such innocent ways. Jesus was born of a virgin and Adam was born shameless and naked without sin. Since this is Joseph’s line, we hear Joseph’s story of Jesus. An angel came to him and assured him the baby Mary was carrying was from His Spirit. Since this is the kingly line, Matthew tells of the kings coming with gifts to Jesus. The kings came because they had seen his star in the sky and knew it was the star of the King of the Jews. They came from the east to bow down and worship him. These were astrologers in Babylon that had heard of Daniel’s prophesies of a king that would come and these men had studied the stars in anticipation of this day. They brought gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. They had stopped by Herod’s to ask him about the king which caused a great slaughter of children. Whenever God is about to do something great on the earth, there is always a killing of innocent children. That should be a clue to where we are now. Lord, may this year be your year to shine through your people like never before. Open the eyes of your people both Gentile and Jews and bring your kingdom to earth.