Constricted.

You spoke to me yesterday* about Your new & living way.  How much I need it – and look forward to its evolving presence in me.  Certainly, already, it has rearranged my ways – but this season holds a new victory ready to emerge.

I have wrestled all my adult days with the feeling of constriction on my days.  Too tight, too short, too busy, and ever the sense of lack of completion.  This is clearly not Your intent for the day, nor for me.  Both have been created to be partners in Your purposes, each being assigned and anointed for fulfilling them.

Called.

This is the ‘new land’ that You are calling me to begin to live in.*  A day that is perfectly designed and fitted for me to complete all You have ordained, without hearing the voice of the enemy calling that it was too little, and incomplete.

This is not a journey to finding a day that has no trouble.  This world*, and each day*, has its own and are a part of the journey.  But, rather, it is walking into a new place with You that allows peace and priorities to rule, rather than the sense of constriction.  I have wrestled with it every day, whether I was truly busy or not.  And here, You have called me.  To engage in battle and begin to live in the new, wide-open spaces* of each day.

The day is not the enemy, but a partner.  We do not wrestle with flesh and blood, but with principalities;* opposed by the unseen to limit my purposes in the kingdom as much as possible.  But You are the Almighty Living God who has created all things, purposes all things and whose sovereign hand empowers the fulfillment of the perfect intents of Your heart.*

The day and I are designed to, each day, receive these wonders and fulfill Your intents.  Both are servants in Your kingdom to bring Your will to pass and to reveal Your glory.

A perpetual sense of constriction of time and defeat from each days unaccomplished tasks is not the fulfillment of living to the fullest.*

Time management, organization and seeking Your wisdom are tools already engaged as much as I today, know how.  Helpful?, yes.  The victory?, no.  ‘Pressed & defeated’ has to go.  They are not intended for this land and this living.

Giants fall.

You remind me of the ‘giant’ story.*  Goliath and his whole army of backup warriors taunted Israel, every day – morning and evening, for forty days.  Israel watched, listened and feared.  They felt pressed and defeated, unable to do what they were called to do.  They were there to fight, but no battles were taking place.  But even more, they were missing ‘living.’

They weren’t tending their flocks or planting their fields.  They weren’t greeting friends in the market place or investing loving truths and touches to their children.  They were simply surviving, and feeling defeated on the battle lines.

And then You showed up.  Your presence and power were available all along, but knowing how to engage it had slipped their minds.  But a young shepherd boy arrives, kills the taunting giant and the whole army of Israel is encouraged to the point of action.  The young man, David, was a vessel.  He wasn’t the hero, but the messenger.*  He believed You were exactly what was needed to end the stand off, have victory over the enemy and resume living – freer than before.

Easter choices.

You inspired me with this story.  I don’t want every day to end in a stand-off.  Whatever You have assigned to each day for me, whether much or little, trying or routine, a battle ground or a season of peace, I want to walk in the power You hold for that occasion and close the day in Your assuring and peaceful presence.  The battle may continue still and tasks be left for tomorrow, but the lying voice that condemns the littleness and lack of the day must be defeated.

And here is the good news – You’ve done it.  Every principality has been disarmed and defeated already.*  This is the Easter story.  The ‘new & living way’ You spoke to me about yesterday is the revelation of Easter – the power of Your resurrection, in the everyday.*

Lying voices have lost their authority and the sense of ‘too little time’ is defeated.  Your plan for me is the revelation, and realization, that this is true.

Speaking truth into the beginning of every day is the declaration of Your victory in it.  That giant that has taunted me is dead.  The day is no longer a stand off of voices shouting across the field that there is not enough time and too little has been done, but is now a vessel for living.

Speaking Your truth, an active step in believing*, is freedom.

Easter.  The power of the resurrection.  Punishment for sin – paid.* *  Power of principalities – disarmed.*  Death – defeated.*  Really living – realized.

Declaring truth, is like Easter everyday – freer than before, and living!

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