Your Fire of Yesterday will Yield the Fruit of Tomorrow

Your Fire of Yesterday will Yield the Fruit of Tomorrow

Do not despise the fire in your life, my child, for while the fire has burned away the last season, it has also become the fertilizer for the next. For all you see are the things you have lost and had to let go of, but what you do not see is how much of this is now fertilizer for the new season that is ahead of you.

For just in the natural, as plants that have been burned fall to the ground and become the minerals for the seasons ahead, so also your fire of yesterday will yield the fruit of tomorrow. So do not walk forward while looking back. No my child! Look forward with all joy, rejoicing for every trial, for that trial has produced patience in you and when patience has had its way, it will ensure that you lack for nothing!

So, look up today! Look forward with expectation and all joy. Look forward, while taking hold of my hand and instead of seeing what is wrong or what was lost, you will see instead the harvest that is being prepared just ahead of you. You will see the new plans and patterns coming into place.

You will see the cities being established and the land flourishing. Then your heart will be filled with joy and you will run again with expectation and hope! Look up! Look forward and let my peace fill your heart once again, says the Lord.

Boasting in Infirmities

Boasting in Infirmities “Most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” -2 CORINTHIANS 12:9 If you want to boast, take pride in the things that make you weak, for when you are weak, you are strong – in Him. Be afraid of the praise and acceptance of others, for they are the fertilizer for the self-important and grandiose thoughts that are yours by nature anyway, which spring up in the shallow ground of your carnal mind. Carry about the Death of the Lord so you may have the Life of the Lord. Be ready to suffer with Him, that you may reign with Him. Source: "Letter to a Reluctant Prophet"  by Chip Brogden http://chipbrogden.com/letter-to-a-reluctant-prophet I am your brother, Chip Brogden http://ChipBrogden.com

An Indescribable Christ

An Indescribable Christ “That you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” -EPHESIANS 3:17-19 We ought to meditate on this daily and ask the Lord to open our eyes to see the height, depth, width, length, and breadth of this JESUS Whom we say we serve. May God deliver us from our own idea, concept, perception, and illusion of a small Christ and give us revelation into the preeminence of His Son. When we see Christ as All in All then it will be impossible for us to ever again be reduced to the small, the trivial, the petty things which occupy us and waste so much of our time. Our only hope is seeing a Christ that fills us, a Christ that is greater than us, a Christ that is larger than we can fathom, an indescribable Christ that overshadows, overwhelms, and consumes us through and through! Source: "Lord of All"  by Chip Brogden http://chipbrogden.com/books/lord-of-all I am your brother, Chip Brogden http://ChipBrogden.com

Pick Up Your Sword. It's Time to Fight!

Pick Up Your Sword. It's Time to Fight!

There are seasons to rest and seasons to fight and this is the season for you to pick up your sword, my child. For as you have wandered through the desert and as I have led you by the wayside, I have been preparing you for the way that is ahead of you.

So, realize that although you might not understand all that I have done, that I have indeed trained your hands for war, so that your arms can bend a bow of bronze. For the enemy would like you to keep thinking that you are weak and that you cannot overcome the storms in your life.

He would like you to think that he has won this battle. However, it is time now to stand up, fully armed and to rise up against the lies that he has spoken over you. It is time to counter his blows with words of faith and of hope. It is time to stand against his darkness with the light of love and to do spiritual warfare on a level that will shatter his plans in your life.

For you are not weak. You have me dwelling within you and this battle is already won - if only you would step out in faith. So no longer focus on the impossible and on the difficult, but pick up your sword and fight! Fight on your knees in prayer. Fight on your feet as you stand on my Word. Fight in combat with actions of love!

Do not sit around any longer just waiting for the enemy to leave and the doors to open. Rather stand up, engage the enemy, overcome him and deliberately walk through the open doors that I have set before you, my child. Amen.

You Can Do This!

You Can Do This!

My child, I would never set a race before you that you are unable to run. Rather, I have already prepared you and made sure that you are well able to run and win the prize. So realize that although at times you get weary and the journey seems long, that I have empowered you to run!

There are times when you look at your road and you are convinced that you cannot do it. However realize that although you doubt yourself, that I have faith in you. I believe that you can run it, which is why I set it before you in the first place. So if you cannot have faith in your own abilities to run, this is alright. You can rest instead in my faith that I have in you.

For I set your journey into motion. I made you strong enough to run. I have given you the wisdom to find your way and I have echoed my voice into your life. So, rest on my power. Rest in what I can do. Rest in what I have already done. Then face the journey once again with renewed fervor, knowing that not only are you able to embrace this journey, but you shall indeed obtain the prize as well. Amen.