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I slept later last night because Mom still wanted to talk to me about whatever has gone through in the past, and I gladly listened because we don't talk that much and I like her being a friend. Waking up today, I decided to read last night's reading while still in bed because even though I fell asleep listening to it, I felt there was something I needed to read and cling to, while I am awake and the prompting of the HOLY SPIRIT was right:
Zechariah 9
English Standard Version
The Coming King of Zion
9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River[c] to the ends of the earth. 11 As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. 12 Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double. 13 For I have bent Judah as my bow; I have made Ephraim its arrow.I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and wield you like a warrior's sword.
Genesis 15
God's Covenant with Abram
1 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” 2 But Abram said, “O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue[b] childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.” 4 And behold, the word of the Lord came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son[c] shall be your heir.” 5 And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” 6 And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
Zechariah 4-5
English Standard Version
A Vision of a Golden Lampstand
1 And the angel who talked with me came again and woke me, like a man who is awakened out of his sleep. 2 And he said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it, and seven lamps on it, with seven lips on each of the lamps that are on the top of it. 3 And there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.” 4 And I said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?” 5 Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.” 6 Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. 7 Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain. And he shall bring forward the top stone amid shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”
8 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 9 “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also complete it. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you. 10 For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.
“These seven are the eyes of the Lord, which range through the whole earth.” 11 Then I said to him, “What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the lampstand?” 12 And a second time I answered and said to him, “What are these two branches of the olive trees, which are beside the two golden pipes from which the golden oil[a] is poured out?” 13 He said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.” 14 Then he said, “These are the two anointed ones[b] who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”
Revelations 3ESV
10 Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth. 11 I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown. 12 The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name. 13 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’
Observation
This early morning I awaken to read last night's reading that I missed and I decided to read out of nowhere because I thought there was something I ought to know or repeat in my Spirit - a message or word from GOD to my weary Spirit. And indeed GOD is commanding me to rejoice! To have hope because HE is richly rewarding me for the patient endurance that I had to bear waiting for HIS Promise! My king, lowly and humble riding on a silver altis just like JESUS rode the donkey's colt, is coming to me, yes he is indeed coming on Friday but is he my king??? Does he want to be??? Regardless of my thoughts, GOD will restore a double portion to me for every trouble and every loss. HE will restore and redeem!
Application
GOD has reminded me today to rejoice, to have hope!!! because indeed I am a prisoner of hope! In my human state, I still want to give up when I see the way he responds to me, but GOD says no! RETURN to YOUR STRONGHOLD, and that stronghold is like a Prison to me that I cannot get out of because I want to lose hope and forget but GOD is saying NO! Stay imprisoned to the HOPE that I put in YOUR Heart and Spirit because I will do it! I want to be free from this pain of hoping because of the fear that every belief, faith, hope and trusting in GOD will come to nothing in the end. What if HE is just testing me again, I am tired to hope, but HIS WORD everyday forces me to stay imprisoned in hope inspite of my hopeless heart.
Prayers
Dear AVI,
HOLY HOLY HOLY are YOU O LORD My GOD and KING of the Universe! I do not know what is going to happen but all I have is YOUR WORD, that assures me everyday to endure and keep hoping and not just that but to greatly rejoice because YOU are about to do what YOU have always promised to do. YOU are sending me the human husbandking that I have been asking for, and he will be a blessing to me and my family. I am seeing how fear is beginning to paralyze me and making my heart grow cold. But I will hope against all the odds that I see, I will hope because YOU are great O GOD, Greater in Me than all the evil of this world. YOU have bombarded me with Promise after Promise day after day, I am so grateful for them, I live by them, I exists, I hope, I live because of them, and YOU are the WORD and so I cling to YOU with all of me. I pray continually for the salvation of Stephen and Benita, please encounter them, heal them, speak to them, let them hunger and thirst for YOUR WORD O GOD My GOD and KING! Please have YOUR Way in them. I pray that YOU save and deliver Jannie Rose, Jenifer, Sandro, Carlo, Jonathan and Rosielyn, because they are captivated by the evil one and YOU alone can set them free and give them a new life. O LORD My GOD have YOUR Way in me in all that I do and in everything that I say. I pray that YOU speak and move in Dad's heart to give generously to the oppressed and needy. I pray that YOU will touch his heart with Mom to do what is right at the right time. I pray that Dad will be healed from all his stingyness. I ask YOU LORD, please break the heart of the wickedness in Lyn and Jonathan so that they will find salvation in YOU. I pray that YOU provide for Joseph and his family and teach him to faithfully manage his finances. I pray that YOU speak to Stephen and instruct him how to protect and help me help Joseph so that we will both be victorious, when YOU bless Joseph, I will also be blessed. I pray O GOD that YOU move in Stephen's heart and make me wiser to understand this man YOU have been showing me. Please O GOD, forgive us our sins as we forgive every wrong done to us and do not give us more trials or temptations because we are frail and weak but deliver us from all evil for YOU O LORD GOD is enthroned in heaven and in my life, and be KING over Stephen O GOD for YOU deserve all our heart, our love, our lives, our worship and service, YOU deserve the best from us.
In the Name of YESHUA Amen!
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