As I was praying this morning (1/2/2023), I was reminded of the blacksmith, creating a sword…the fire; the heat of the fire; and the forming of the metals; blended metals to make it stronger; the pounding that occurs to strengthen the metals together; and through that process, more fire, more pounding, more shaping, more molding and forming…more fire and water. Isn’t that exciting? This is how He is forming and shaping His people.
Visualize the forming of the sword and what it takes to shape that sword. What does it look like? Now see the tremendous heat involved, to mold it, shape it, and pound it into the perfect sword. It takes different types of metals to make it stronger. Now think about the people around you spiritually, (even non-spiritual) teams of people that help in this process, different metals, different substances, shaping the perfect sword. Different types of pressure required to form and shape the perfect sword).
God is Removing the Dross – Waste or Foreign matter. He knows just how much Fire and Water, cooling we need to be strengthened for the task ahead. The building and shaping of His Kingdom. His people, His Bride…Have you been in the fire lately? Have you felt the heat? This past year, when dealing with people, situations, circumstances, did you find some of the ugliness, waste or foreign substance, rising to the surface? Hopefully, being removed…Right?
God allows this, to bring about His purpose in us and through us, that is, if we have surrendered our lives to Him and yielded to this process. Dying to self and yielding to Him. Surrender, give it all over to God. He knows what He’s doing. For us to take that new and perfect form, we must cast off the old. To truly become an unbreakable team, the metals must be blended, crushed, broken, and pounded, feeling the heat of the fire, to be shaped and molded into His image. We are being poured into the mold of Jesus, and Jesus into us.
2022 had been a year of God, preparing His people. The process continues bringing out the result that God has already prepared from the very beginning, for each and every one of us. Here we are, growing stronger, and still in the process.
Some are ready to be sharpened, some are ready to polish, and to shine. Some are ready to be activated and be positioned. A weapon for war! An instrument for His Kingdom purpose. What does your weapons look like? What is the shape of your sword? Have you been sharpened this past year? Are you in the pounding stage?
Surrender all…for this is a year to shine!
God is shaping his people, his children, his warriors, for the final battle outcome, even though we are still in the process, the final outcome will be beautiful, where light overcomes darkness. Our weapons are not carnal, fleshy, but mighty and powerful! Our voice (His Word), sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing the souls of men, and the spiritual realm. We have shouts of victory and triumph in our veins! Shouts of war, silencing the enemy, and bringing war upon the darkness as we shine forth His light. This is why we must yield to the purifying fire.
We are creating portals, Gods people of prayer, war, and worship. Declarations, proclamations and exhortation…opening the portals of heaven, speaking from positions of heaven to Earth. A position of victory as sons and daughters of God. The bride of Christ, the army of God, warriors of the Lord. We are the ones arising in the times of darkness and chaos, where No weapon formed against us will prosper. We shall arise and overcome the dark places in the earth and heavens, making the paths straight.
God is making us ready. It’s a time to decree, declare, and proclaim. It’s a time to be sharpened in the Word and Spirit. When we are adept in the Word and Spirit, we become swords in His hand. It’s a time to be strengthened in Him, for battle. “The battle belongs to the Lord”. We belong to the Lord.
- Clothed in the whole armor of God! It’s a time to speak the word and make the path straight. We are preparing the way. Declaring the coming of the King. And for the church to Arise and shine. The groom is calling, we are to be ready. A Time to Shine! A Time for war!
- God showed me in a session of deliverance when I was wearing his armor, and I thought to myself, I’m not worthy to wear your armor. He said, that’s ok, I will wear You as my armor. He was saying that I was more than enough to fulfill his purpose, and to be clothed in his armor, and that he trusted me, to be His warrior on the earth. You are more than enough! Declare this for yourself!
- My deliverance came from that declaration. He said I Am worthy! No longer an orphan, but a son!
We are His righteous people. (I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus).
He is in me (His Spirit), and therefore I am Righteous. *(Declare this)
2 Corinthians 5:21 For our sake He made Christ to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness]. Amp
Isaiah 54:14-17 “You shall establish yourself in righteousness (rightness, in conformity with God’s will and order): you shall be far from even the thought of oppression or destruction, for you shall not fear, and from terror, for it shall not come near you. Behold, they may gather together and stir up strife, but it is not from Me. Whoever stirs up strife against you shall fall and surrender to you. Behold, I have created the smith who blows on the fire of coals and who produces a weapon for its purpose; and I have created the devastator to destroy. But no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall show to be in the wrong. This [peace, righteousness, security, triumph over opposition] is the heritage of the servants of the Lord [those in whom the ideal Servant of the Lord is reproduced]; this is the righteousness or the vindication which they obtain from Me [this is that which I impart to them as their justification], says the Lord”.
We are his vessels. We are his instruments. We are his tools and armor. When we feel unworthy, He says, “I will wear you, for I have created and prepared you for my purpose. You are My Righteousness in the earth. You are My Image on the earth. My sons and daughters! I have given you my Ring of inheritance, My Robe of Righteousness. Walk in my Peace, for this dark world needs (you) me. Wear Me, “I Am” your Armor! Do Not Fear, for “I Am” with you! I will never leave or forsake you! I will not separate Myself from you. I have given you My Spirit, therefore it is I who lives in you”.
- We are His Righteousness! His Authority! And His Justice in the land. We must see ourselves as He sees. Worthy!
- He shall activate us as He has prepared us. He has made our paths straight, and now we are to make the paths straight for others. It all belongs to the Lord!
2 Corinthians 5:21 “For our sake He made Christ to be sin who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness]”.
Romans 3:21 “But now the righteousness of God has been revealed independently and altogether apart from the Law, although actually it is attested by the Law and the Prophets”.
Romans 3:22-26 “Namely, the righteousness of God which comes by believing with personal trust and confident reliance on Jesus Christ (the Messiah). [And it is meant] for all who believe. For there is no distinction Since all have sinned and are falling short of the honor and glory which God bestows and receives. [All] are justified and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His grace (His unmerited favor and mercy), through the redemption which is [provided] in Christ Jesus,
Whom God put forward [before the eyes of all] as a mercy seat and propitiation by His blood [the cleansing and life-giving sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation, to be received] through faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in His divine forbearance He had passed over and ignored former sins without punishment. It was to demonstrate and prove at the present time (in the now season) that He Himself is righteous and that He justifies and accepts as righteous, him who has [true] faith in Jesus”.
Romans 1:17 “For in the Gospel a righteousness which God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith [disclosed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith]. As it is written, ‘The man who through faith is just and upright shall live and shall live by faith’”. [Hab. 2:4.]
2 Corinthians 10:4 (NASB1995) “… for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses”.
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