Joel 2:13 Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the LORD your God, for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and He relents from sending calamity.
Isaiah 12:2 Surely God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid, for the LORD GOD is my strength and my might.
Matthew 22:37-39 Jesus said to the lawyer, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. … 39 You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Isaiah 54:10 “Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet My unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor My covenant of peace be removed,” says the LORD, Who has compassion on you.
Psalm 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet; and a light unto my path.
Proverbs 10:12 Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all transgressions.
May you be encouraged that there are no insignificant tasks or inconsequential work in God’s kingdom as He uses you to shape His tabernacle. All parts, from the golden lamp stand to the bronze altar to the priestly garments to the many tent pegs, are fashioned by the Spirit’s skill, through your obedience, to a purposeful function, and each is holy and dedicated to the Lord for His glory. Exodus 35
May your heart move you to be willing to come and bring an offering to the Lord for the work on the tabernacle God is building today. Exodus 35
May the Lord, having chosen you, fill you with His Spirit, giving you the skill and abilities to do the work He has assigned to you. In humility, may you serve others by caring and encouraging, supporting and strengthening those He has given you to love, esteeming them above yourself, teaching by doing, knitting each other together in the bonds of love and the unity of the Spirit, to come to the maturity of the Body of Christ. Exodus 35
May you be confident in the Lord’s plan and in His order, for He will place you where you need to be and set you by those He chooses, for the coverings of the tabernacle were each made of different substances and fashioned in different ways, each serving a different purpose, which only worked when they followed God’s order. Exodus 36
May you see ever more clearly the love God has for you as you learn of the tabernacle, for the one Moses built was for a place where God would meet with His people, whereas Jesus was the Word made flesh so that God would live among His people, and now the Body and the Bride of Christ is where God chooses to dwell with and inhabit His people. Exodus 36
May you find that the world’s accusation, intended to bring shame, will be turned by the Lord to be His benediction, given in honor. Matthew 27
May you understand the truth of, and find peace in the acceptance of, the fact that we, like Jesus, enter into the kingdom of God through the cross of tribulation in which we lose our earthly identity in order to receive our identity in Christ, which has no worldly value. Matthew 27
Be encouraged, My love, to believe.
Believe in the words I speak, for I am the Word of God made flesh. Believe in who I have said you are, for I have lived as you do and have promised that you will live as I do.
Let the Spirit of God rise up in you, giving you My faith to resist the enemy’s attacks, to stand firm on My Word, to receive the gifts of the Spirit and appropriate the promises of the Father, all in due season.
Trust Me, My dear one, when I speak of those things which are not as though they already are and journey with Me to where they will take substance. Accept the truth of what I say about you, that you are beloved, that you are worth all I have given to redeem you, that you are dear to Me, for though it does not yet appear what you shall be, you know that when I appear, you shall be like Me.
Rely on Me to lead you, and follow the path I walk, the road wherein I emptied Myself, taking the form of a bond-servant, humbling Myself by becoming obedient to the point of death, crucified in weakness, yet living because of the power of God which the Father had promised.
Know that I will not betray your reliance on Me, for the fullness of the Deity dwells in Me, and I do not change nor do I lie, but I inhabit the heavenlies where I am seated at the Father’s right hand, having mastered death, conquered hell, and overcome the grave.
Receive My Word, embrace My promise, trust My Spirit, know My power, enter My rest, for I am doing the work in your heart that you have asked Me to, and I am the Author and the Finisher of your faith.
May you extol the Lord at all times and may His praise always be on your lips, for when your soul boasts in the Lord, the afflicted will hear and rejoice as you glorify the Lord with others. Psalm 34
May you seek the Lord, for He will answer you and deliver you from all your fears. Psalm 34
May you look to Him, for then your face will never be covered with shame, but will be radiant. Psalm 34
May you call to the Lord, for He will hear you and save you out of all your troubles, for the angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, and He delivers them. Psalm 34
May you taste and see that the Lord is good, for the man who takes refuge in Him is blessed. Psalm 34
May you fear the Lord and seek Him, for then you will lack no good thing, though even the lions may grow weak and hungry. Psalm 34
