Faith Over Fear In These Troubling Times
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September 8, 2024 Prophecy for Abundant Life Church
Lift up your head for the Lord is present. He's not far off, nor has he forgotten you. Nor has he forgotten his people who live in this nation and around the world. For the Lord will show himself strong on your behalf in the days, the weeks, the months to come.
Do not be troubled by what you see in the world, by those things that are coming to pass upon the earth. For did I not tell you beforehand that these things would be? Know that even in these days when you live upon the earth, you are my church and as my church you are the salt of the earth, and you are the light of the world.
I will preserve you; I will protect you; I will exalt you; I will anoint you.
Walk in fellowship with me and refuse to let the words of the enemy fill your mind and heart. Do not let fear enter into your spirit, but even when you see things coming to pass upon the earth that are frightful to the world, stand bold and say,
"I am of the Lord's table. I sit at his table, and he makes a feast for me
in the presence of my enemies. I fear no evil.”
For the Lord is your shepherd, and in this day and in this hour, you will see the glorious, powerful, protective and providing nature of your God. Expect the Lord to do greater things than the enemy does. Expect that every time you see darkness, or trouble, or negative things happen. Expect that where sin abounds, grace much more abounds and that I have not appointed for you to suffer wrath but to obtain deliverance and victory through the Lord Jesus Christ.
So, know what's appointed to you, my people. Even as you live in a world that is experiencing the results of abandoning my truth. For you who embrace my truth receive the blessing of the truth and the favor of God is on your life. Rejoice and know that I am present to deliver, set free and anoint you to thrive no matter what happens upon the earth.
So, say it with boldness. Say it with me:
“I'm not afraid.
Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.
The Lord has appointed good things for me.
He prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
He anoints my head with oil.
My cup runs over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me. All the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”
For know this, and see the pattern. Observe this pattern in my word:
When the world was filled with wickedness and judgment came upon the world, I prepared an ark for the righteous. And while the wicked were suffering, the righteous were delivered, raised above the floodwaters, preserved and prospered. Hallelujah.
When judgment came upon Egypt with plagues because of their rebellion and refusal to hear the Lord, when darkness came upon the land, there was a light in Goshen where my people dwelled. The only place where there was light was the place where my people dwelt. I provided for them and blessed them and healed them and brought them out.
And so, as I have done for my people throughout the ages, I will do again in this age.
Expect of me, says the Lord. Expect me to shine a light of favor, provision, blessing and direction - for I will guide you. And even in this hour, you shall come to know that the Lord is not just a theology, not just a thought in your mind, not just a thing you do on Sundays, but the Lord shall be your living companion, your partner, the one who walks with you and the one who will manifest himself and show himself strong on your behalf. Hallelujah.
But here's what the Lord is saying. Here's what the Spirit of the Lord said to me:
He showed me those pictures of Noah and of the children of Israel in Egypt. And the Lord said, it's important that you dwell in the place where his protection lies.
[In the days of Noah] you had to get in the ark to be delivered. [In the days of Moses’] you had to be in the house when the angel of death was going throughout Egypt, because it was in the house under the blood that the people were protected. You've got to be in the house of the Lord. You've got to be in fellowship with the Lord. You got to be walking with the Lord.
And here's the thing. If you stumble, don't stay down. Jump back up and say, though I may fall seven times, I shall rise yet again. Do not let the enemy keep you down or distant or away because when you get far from the house of the Lord, you open yourself up to the enemy's assaults and attacks. But did I not say in my word that my people who are born of God, if they keep themselves, the wicked ones shall not cling to them. Hallelujah.
So, keep yourself in the place of the Lord, in the word of the Lord, in the house of the Lord and know that you'll see the glory and the victory of the Lord. Hallelujah. In this day and in the time that's about to come. Hallelujah.