Weighted Glory • Daily Devo 100
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Today’s Devotional Scripture: 16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. - 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 KJV
The Message For Today (July 1, 2024):
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Life can get heavy. If we're honest, it can get downright exhausting. There's so much that God desires to do through you. There's so much that you want in your own life to accomplish and to walk into. This scripture is all about the journey of walking with God. While it can get extremely exhausting, life can be overwhelming.
The delay can make your heart grow tired. Nevertheless, the inward man is renewed day by day. The scripture very clearly goes on to focus on the “light affliction”, working far more glory for our benefit, that we may be able to walk with Christ eternally.
Yes, life is life.
Yes, there is so much for you to do.
Yes, you have a lot of responsibilities.
However, you have a God that is walking with you. You have a God that created the universe working on your behalf. You are not alone. Every battle and every circumstance you've walked through is equipping you. Everything that you've dealt with has added to you. The weighted glory of God is working through life's afflictions and situations.
You are getting better. You are growing stronger. You are weighted in glory.
Your walk with God won't always be light and beautiful. There will be times when you just want to let go and to stop doing it all. This scripture is an encouragement from the Lord to know that this is only temporary. Despite the heaviness and the overwhelm that comes sometimes with you walking with God and being responsible for your life, God is still walking with you and it is still worth it to walk with him too.
This is a relationship. As you grow closer to God, he draws closer to you. In this hour, be mindful not to give up and not to grow weary in doing what is right and what is good.
9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. - Galatians 6:9 KJV
The glory of the Lord is rising in every circumstance and situation. Being rooted in this moment is the way to walk out that glory in the earth. Knowing that you can't change the past and you can't control the future is the key. Knowing is the key and accepting it will bring you liberty.
You can only rest in this moment.
You can only be present in this moment.
You only have control over your reactions in this moment.
Everything else is up to God. There are things that you cannot change that are done. Those are the things that the Bible tells us to forget. It says, forgetting what is behind, I press towards the mark.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. - Philippians 3:13-14 KJV
In this moment, forgetting what is behind, pressing towards the mark and trusting in God will help you tremendously to walk in the weighted glory that is already on your life. God has given you something unique and special. This walk that you walked, with Him, through all of your life experiences, through the ups and the downs has made you something different.
God says in scripture that he places his treasures in earthen vessels, that's you and me. Because he places his treasures in you, the ability to hold those treasures and the weighted glory to walk in those treasures is necessary. So as the apostle said in scripture, glory in your infirmities, celebrate those weaknesses, for God's grace is sufficient and his strength is made perfect.
9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. - 2 Corinthians 12:9 KJV
When you feel like you don't have it all together, when you feel like you can't possibly go on, and when you're downright tired and want to let go, remember that this is but a temporal thing. The things in this world will fade away, but God's love remains. The weighted glory and the anointing of God are a keeper. It will solidify you, strengthen you, and place your feet on solid ground.
Nothing can replace the glory of the Lord. You are weighted. You are covered and you have been set free. Slowly but surely, every situation that has caused you to wonder how you're going to make it has been a pathway to the woman you are right now. It is a part of you. These trials and these fiery circumstances have helped develop you and you have been forged in the fire. Nothing can stop that. Nothing can block that. It's already finished.
You're already weighted in glory. You are already anointed. You already have the oil. It is yours and it cannot be taken from you. Remember the Lord your God. It is He that gives you the ability to create wealth.
18 But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. - Deuteronomy 8:18 KJV
It is He who shifts you. It is He who lifts you up. It is God who has kept you. Remember him, trust in him, walk with him, and thank God that you are weighted.
Closing Devotional Prayer
My prayer for you: Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you. I thank you, God, that even now, despite the afflictions, sometimes feeling like she doesn't have it all together, and the feeling of just not getting it right, you are still her God and you love her just the same.
I thank you, God, for equipping the mighty woman of God in ways that makes her a valuable asset in your kingdom, oh God. She is important and her life matters. Every experience and everything that she's walked through has given her something tangible, something that is needful in your kingdom. I thank you, Lord, God, for her various gifts, for the outpouring of the spirit, oh God, for the manifestations of the gifts of the spirit in her life.
The gift of, my God, intercession, the gift, God, of teaching, the gift of the apostolic, the gift of the prophetic, the gift of mercy and prayer. Lord, whatever gifts you've given her, I thank you, Lord, that these gifts through her life will have a singular impact that can never be replicated in the earth because no one can be her.
No one can have this unique journey with you that she has had. I thank you, Lord, God, that the mighty woman of God is weighted on the bottom. I thank you, oh God, that there are things in her and there's things through her, oh God, that will never change. She has grown. It'll never break, oh God.
Lord, you are her God. You are literally a part of her very DNA. You are her father, oh God. You are a keeper, God. You're moving mountains, God. And so I thank you that the mighty woman of God is receiving the gift of the Lord over her life. I thank you that she's receiving that you are her God. I thank you, Lord, God, that she receives that you are Jireh, that you are the divine provider, and that there is more than enough. Hallelujah!
I thank you right now that whatever has tried to come against her would break in the name of Jesus and that she's going to begin to progress and move forward knowing, encouraged in this very thing: that He who began a good work in her, oh God, is faithful to finish it. I thank you, oh God, and I pray in Jesus' mighty name, Amen.