So what does God have in store for us in 2009? Only you know because it will entail what you have decreed to happen! So far this year God has blown my mind in his revelations to me. I can feel him speeding up the activation of his words over me. Things are finally revealing themselves. Things I have been waiting a long time to see manifest has finally come to past! Did I mention that I'M IN COLLEGE NOW!!! He's even put puzzles together from way back that now are a part of my destiny. I am actually starting to see the reason he created me to be on this earth. It almost feels weird. I mean, how are you suppose to act once you truly know what part of your destiny looks like. I can not wait to talk to you ladies. All this is happening at the same time that my husband has lost his job in this economic upheaval. We don't feel discouraged in the least because again we have decreed what will work out for our good in this situation.
I put this picture up here because it demonstrates how I have always felt about the covenant and his inheritance for me. In 2003 God showed me a vision. I was standing at the top of this long and winding road right in front of a gate. Behind the gate was all parts of life. I saw my family, my career, my purpose, and tons and tons of stuff!!! I asked the Lord what do I need to do to enter through the gate? He gave me this scripture, "Go through, Go through the gates! Prepare the way for the people; Build up, Build up the highway! Take out the stones, Lift up a banner for the peoples! Indeed the LORD has proclaimed. To the end of the world: Say to the daughter of Zion, Surely your salvation is coming; Behold, His reward is with Him, and His work before Him." Isa 62:10
I believe what God was saying to me was that my purpose is behind that gate. I will experience the blessing of going through that gate when I declare and proclaim the blessings of God to his people to help them remove the barriers in their life in order for them to receive their reward too. Now, there's so much more to this that you can not even imagine;I can't wait to share. But in a nutshell, I will say this, some of the things you think are preventing you from entering into all that God has for you are really your beliefs. It's what you think that determines how much God can bless you. Not him withholding things from you until you get it right. Trust me, I know ALL about that belief! We are righteous NOW, so therefore we have all of his inheritance available to us NOW. He's not waiting on us to fast more and pray more so we are fit to finally receive what he has in store for us. Tried that one too, didn't work! We should be doing those things to build intimacy with God, and to build up our spirit man anyway.
So what does get us behind the gate? Well, this is another scripture God also gave me on that day of the vision, it reads, "For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”
Gal 2:19-21
Okay, I want us to really discuss this at our next gathering. But for now, this is what I know God started revealing to me in 2003 that has only now come full circle 6 years later. God has been trying to get me to drop my "religious" stuff and live by faith in him every since that time in 2003. But I couldn't latch hold of it right away. I had always worked for my salvation, to the point that I would forget I was already saved!! So how do I leave those thoughts behind? I live by
FAITH and die to the law. I have been lightly grasping this in many areas of my life over the course of the last several years. I've even shared with you guys these concepts when you're discussing some struggles you may have. I am constantly encouraging people that God can do anything and that you are a king and a priest; so declare what you want God to do and it will be done. Have faith, he will never fail you. But what areas did I stop those faith statements from being effective in my life? Areas of the most importance to me and my very existence-- like my children, my hubby, and my body. Things I felt I had to worry over...I've got to lose this weight, I must be more self displined, it's my fault. I've got to raise these children right...it's my fault how they enter the world as adults. I got to always save my marriage, look good, care about his every need....no woman gonna take my man! I'm actually getting tired just rehashing the things I know were in the back of my mind all these years thinking it would help. God has revealed that I was trying to work out my life a little with God and a little with my own efforts. But Galatians is saying that I should have no faith in my flesh, but only have faith in God. Be dead to all my efforts and yield everything over to him. That includes my body, hubby, and kids. Now I know I've said that in some form or another, but now I get it completely!! My job is to truly speak his word where the power is, and then keep my thoughts(flesh) dead, and live by faith until HE manifest it in this realm. So until I see you again, I think I will take a little break and go speak to the flesh around my thighs, and let God finish the work.
Until next time,
Coach Teresa
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