IN US
"...Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!" (Luke 1:28b)
There's favor that only comes from God. Mary was called "highly favored one." She was blessed among women. We are spiritually pregnant with promise and we will give birth in the spirit to all that the Lord desires when we yield to Him and hear His voice. We are highly favored of the Lord. Mary didn't deserve to carry our Savior. None of us would have. And none of us deserve salvation and the promise of the Holy Spirit. None of us deserve to be carrying inside of us what HE has placed there. We are carriers of His glory. We HOUSE the glory of the Lord! Prepare yourself to give birth to what He has promised!
THROUGH US
"The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, TO PROCLAIM THE YEAR OF THE LORD'S FAVOR AND THE DAY OF VENGEANCE OF OUR GOD, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion---to bestow beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations. Aliens will shephered your flocks; foreigners will work in your fields and vineyards. And you will be called priests of the Lord, you will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast. Instead of their shame my people will receive a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs..." (Isaiah 61:1-7)
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord came upon Jesus when He was on this earth and He preached the gospel and healed many people. We are empowered to do greater works than what Jesus did! The same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives in us! (Romans 8:10-12) (John 14:12)(Acts 1:8)
“And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days. And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance, as the LORD has said, among the remnant whom the LORD calls." (Joel 2:28-32)
These are the last days. God is pouring out His Holy Spirit and empowering His people to further His Kingdom. The promise IS His Kingdom. His Kingdom is advancing on this earth and we are called to further it until He returns! His Kingdom is now and we are also impregnated with the promise of furthering it until His return on the earth and we enter the Kingdom of heaven. Everyone has their own "pregnancy" but it is part of a WHOLE BODY, the body of Christ, with ONE purpose. And when we birth it, we become impregnated again! Always growing, always changing... new seasons, winds of change, different stories but the same nature---His Kingdom. The year of the Lord's favor and the day of His wrath is coming upon His enemies. They will be crushed once and for all, never to return...NEVER TO RETURN.
All nations are reaching for God and He is returning and answering their cries. He has said in Hosea, "Return to me"!! (Hosea 6:1-3) Let us return to the Lord today and seek His face. His hand is not too short to deliver and to heal. Birthing is coming! His Kingdom is HERE and is COMING!
We are blessed and highly favored of the Lord!
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