AWAKE, ARISE, AND TRIUMPH
Saturday – November 28, 2020, Kislev 12, 5781
THE PLACE OF SAFETY – PART TWENTY-SEVEN
Greetings dear friends and precious partners of this Ministry and The Three Minute Word blog. I hope that all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and remembered to focus on the Giver of all good things while at the same time thoroughly enjoying family, food, and entertainment. Welcome and thank you for joining us once again for this Saturday Bible Study series titled “The Place of Safety”. Please take a moment to share this teaching as widely as possible to spread the reach of the Truth beyond where we alone can reach. Thank you. God is so good to give us His Word so that we walk not in the dark but in the light. How many of us would venture into the dark, the night, without a light source? Yet Christians cavalierly race down the road of life walking in spiritual darkness and not even looking for the guidance of THE light source (Word of God and Holy Spirit).
Don’t forget our Wednesday evening Bible Study on Zoom at 6 pm eastern time. My teaching schedule includes “The Rising Remnant”, “God’s Original Intent”, “The Kingdom Lost”, “The Kingdom Regained”, and “What is our Mission Now”. The Lord is taking us into wonderful places and quickening our hearts to be more and more like Him. The Word received, believed, and acted upon changes us from the inside out. That is to say it changes our thoughts, our words, and subsequently our world (finances, health, etc.). We individually and as the body of Christ are responsible to bring Heaven into the earth, we should make everywhere we go or live a Garden of Eden. No, this is not a fantasy or fairytale, this is our mandate. It is our mandate now in the earth today not in the “sweet bye and bye”. How will each of us answer the Master on judgment day for our failure to do so? Come filled with expectancy. Expect God to bring answers, expect God to touch whatever in your life needs the Blessing. I for one am feed up with the curse, let us resist the curse and fully embrace the Blessing and invite Him to have a free reign in our life. It is our faith that makes us whole. Faith comes by hearing and (spiritual) hearing by the Word of God. There can be no awakening, no great harvest, without significant heart change among the people of God. God is going to have an end-time people, are you, am I, going to have a part? Each of us individually chose. If you don’t already have the meeting id and password to enter the Zoom Bible Study contact us and we will happily provide it.
Now, let’s move to our 23rd Psalm text. Read it aloud, yes, out loud.
Psalm 23:1-6 (KJV)
1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
I will pick up with verse five today. I hope all of you have figured out that all of our days on the earth will be in the presence of our enemies. My guess is that you have figured out, perhaps long ago, that the attacks of our spiritual enemies are relentless. They cannot be avoided and if you are thinking you have not been attacked in quite some time, you are in the darkest of deceptions, and being controlled by your spiritual enemies. Using the Armor of God and being steady in the good fight of faith is a reality for the believer. We are far above our enemies. Our enemies are not flesh and blood (people) but demonic powers. Sticking close to the Master is the only sure way of safety. Fear is an evil spiritual personality. Fear will come to all but must be resisted and not allowed into our thinking or our mouths. Remember Job. Fear received, believed and acted upon is the belief that God will not do His Word (promises). Meditate the following, hopefully, familiar Scripture.
2 Timothy 1:7 (KJV)
7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
In the presence of our enemies the Lord has prepared and made a table full of all His provisions (promises) for the taking in faith, in love, led of the Spirit. Will we partake of this table or be flooded with fear and flee from the presence of the Lord? When we are thinking, talking, and reacting to fear we have left the Masters side. Dangerous place to be, away from the Masters side. He has given us the anointing oil which is the Holy Spirit. What would you imagine is too big for the Holy Spirit? Hope we all got that right; nothing is too big for the Holy Spirit! Let us rejoice! This fifth verse ends by saying our cup runs over, the cup of God’s provision in our life is running over! It is not half full or any level of lack, and it is not just enough, it is more than enough. God is so good.
Lord willing, I will pick up here next Saturday.
2 Chronicles 20:20b (KJV)
20 … Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
Until our next publication, as a Bible Teacher and Prophetic Voice I speak this blessing over each and every one of you, receive it, believe it, and speak over yourself and your family by faith in Jesus name! Quit asking God to bless you, you are already blessed, you have the Blessing, give Him something to do by the words of your mouth. Once you know the will of God, decree the thing (Job 22:28, Isaiah 45:11, Mark 11:23). (The Blessing is the Holy Spirit) We have left God way to long with nothing to do in our lives.
Numbers 6:24-26 (AMP)
24 The Lord bless you and watch, guard, and keep you;
25 The Lord make His face to shine upon and enlighten you and be gracious (kind, merciful, and giving favor) to you;
26 The Lord lift up His [approving] countenance upon you and give you peace (tranquility of heart and life continually).
By: Dr. David Wood, Author, Bible Teacher, and Prophetic Voice
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