Are you like me and in the midst of a spiritual battle?  Do you feel so overwhelmed that you can’t get your footing?  That’s exactly where I’m at right now in my walk with the Lord.  The enemy is hurling arrows of doubt, and fear, and hopelessness in my direction and I have been tempted many times to give in and start believing some of the lies that are coming at me.

This morning for the first time in a long time, I woke up sensing God’s presence and nearness.  I was reminded by His Spirit of the promises that He has spoken so clearly over my life, my marriage, my children and the story of redeeming love that He is writing into the tablet of my heart.  So I dug out all of the many promises that I have underlined in my Bible over the last 5 years and started looking at them.  As I read the sacred words I remembered the moments that each promise was given to me.  Some of those moments in my life were filled with destruction and ruin, and those sacred promises gave me the hope I needed step my foot upon the sure foundation of my future filled with the abundance of God’s life and love and redemption.

One scripture promise in particular jumped out at me this morning, and wanted to share it here.

“So don’t be impatient for the Lord to act; keep moving forward steadily in his ways, and he will exalt you at the right time. And when he does, you will possess every promise, including your full inheritance. You’ll watch with your own eyes and see the wicked lose everything.

Because of their faith in him, their daily portion will be a Father’s help and deliverance from evil. This is true for all who turn to hide themselves in him!” Psalms 37:34, 40 TPT

His Spirit spoke so clearly to me reminding me that even now in the midst of a waging spiritual battle, God is still at work on my behalf.  His voice whispered to me that I have two choices-I can choose to believe it-or choose to deny it.

Choosing to believe that I will possess every promise-including my FULL inheritance in Jesus Christ requires a few things from me.  It’s kind of any IF you do this…THEN you will see things happen scenario.  Let me show what He is showing me..

1. Stop being impatient and move FORWARD steadily in His ways.

Confession: I have become impatient and stubbornly stopped in the middle of my Jesus journey, sat down (in MY ways) and opened the door to the enemy to allow him to try and rob me of His truth, hope and LIFE.

Declaration:  I am choosing to get up (with endurance and patience) and move FORWARD in His ways.  Want to come with me?

2.  This is going to require FAITH.  When I choose FAITH He Daily becomes my portion and deliverance.

Confession:  I was losing grounding in my FAITH. I have not hidden myself in Him the way I know how to.

Declaration:  I am choosing to make Jesus my daily portion in FAITH.  Need some Jesus today?  I do!

I know that my full inheritance and the promise that I can have a life of abundance is my promise from God’s mouth to my very soul.  It’s yours too.  Jesus is my full inheritance and He has all the answers, all the truth, all the hope and all the power to speak and breath His life into my story and into yours too.

I don’t know about you, but I’m kind of tired of my stubborn, rebellious decisions as of late.  So I choose to stand up and move forward running into the unbelievable hope and tender loving care of a Father who can gently wake us up from our own ways and lovingly and gently call us into His beautiful Way.  He hasn’t gone anywhere!  He’s not mad at us for being stubborn or rebellious.  But His inheritance far outweighs the staying stuck in the muddy yucky pit.

Jesus, I choose this day to get up and run and hide myself into the beautiful, glorious hope of YOU.  I choose to have FAITH in an unwavering God.  You are my promise and your inheritance far outweighs anything this world has to offer.  I choose you daily to be my hope, my truth and my life.  Thank you for being faithful when I am so very weak.