You shall learn how my kingdom operates, says the Lord
Learn from me and I will pour out blessing upon blessing
You will be amazed at my deeds
I move you to do my will, says the Lord.
Amen
So that day Moses solemnly promised me, ‘The land of Canaan on which you were just walking will be your grant of land and that of your descendants forever, because you wholeheartedly followed the Lord my God.’ Joshua 14:9 NLT https://bible.com/bible/116/jos.14.9.NLT
I am the Lord who sees your need
I have watched over you since the days of your youth
For you are my beloved child and I have seen your need
I am Jehovah Jireh
I am the Almighty the one who saves
See I have opened heavens gates
I shall redeem the land you have walked on
You shall be victorious
You shall inherit the land
Amen
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Genesis 1:1-2 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/gen.1.1-2.NLT
I am the lord almighty
Redemption has always been my plan
I have always loved my creation
I formed the earth out of nothing
There is none like me
I created time and space and matter
I know all things
It is my plan to prosper you
Be amazed at my provision
I redeemed creation at the beginning
The redeemer came to earth and lived among us
He purchased your soul with his own blood
He died and and yet lives forever
He lives inside you
he has given authority to shape and steward the world to all his children
My child use the authority God has given you.
When man's authority works hand in glove with God's power then all things are possible
Amen
© 2023 David Nicholas Slater
Be Still and Know me says the Lord
I created you from the dust of the earth
I cannot make a mistake
You have divine purpose
I know you for I formed you in your mother's womb
I know every hair of your head
You are my Beloved Child
From before the foundation of the earth I have loved you
For I chose to redeem you from the very beginning
It was in my plan all along
Be amazed at my might and power
My name is Faithful and True
Come to me and I will restore you
I am your provider Jehovah Jireh
My name is above every name
The enemy of your soul wants to destroy you
But he has already been defeated
You are on the winning team
And I call your name victory and power
Amen
© 2023 David Nicholas Slater
I am the God who sees all things
I will grant you sight and vision
You were born to see through my eyes and hear through my ears
You shall feel my feelings and think my thoughts
I am the God who heals all your diseases and comforts you in your sorrow.
Take me at my word and trust me
for my name is faithful and true
I have never ceased to love you for I am your Father.
Remember you are on the winning team
and that you are my beloved child.
I created you with purpose and identity
Do not be dismayed for I am with you.
I have a plan and a purpose for you
Plans to bless you and keep you
For I tell you I created all things to sing songs of praise
It is my desire that none should perish for my table is for available to all.
Amen
Awesome God
Our God has riches stored up for you
Beyond your understanding
They are incomparably great
Much more than anything you could hope for
More than you dream or imagine
I declare in Gods sight with all humility
That He delights in granting the full measure of His great riches to you in good order and proper time according to His plan for you.
Ask Him for release and revelation.
Ask Him for fire
Let Him ignite the flame
Let shame be done away with
Let glory come and blessing be released
Let Him reveal all things to you according to His riches stored up for you.
Amen
Your unfailing love, O Lord, is as vast as the heavens; your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds. Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the ocean depths. You care for people and animals alike, O Lord.
Psalms 36:5-6 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/psa.36.5-6.NLT
See how the lord loves mankind
Since before the foundation of the earth
He is mighty
Creator of all things
Consider his love vast unmeasured boundless free
His love and compassion know no limits
He is slow to anger and abounding in love
He has a special place in his heart for those who seek to know his will
Be blessed as you continue to seek him
He will show grace and favour to you
His children shall know his secret plans for he shall reveal mysteries and conundrums
Amen
For the Lord your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.”
Zephaniah 3:17 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/zep.3.17.NLT
Have you not seen the lord?
His presence is all around you!
He is mighty savior
He delights in you and is glad
He calms trouble with his love
Your fears will be transformed by his Everlasting love
He sings for joy over you
Open your mind and heart and listen
Do you hear his song of love?
He is always singing joyful songs over you
Amen
Look, I have given you authority over all the power of the enemy, and you can walk among snakes and scorpions and crush them. Nothing will injure you.
Luke 10:19 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/luk.10.19.NLT
My child I have given you Divine authority over all the power of the enemy
Snakes and scorpions have no power over you
You are safe
Have faith when you plunder the enemies ground
Take back what the enemy has stolen
It's time to declare war and take the fight to the enemy
Authority belongs to you for I have bestowed it to you.
But the power belongs to me
When authority and power work hand In glove then all things are possible
Amen
“I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish that you were one or the other! But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth! You say, ‘I am rich. I have everything I want. I don’t need a thing!’ And you don’t realize that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.
Revelation 3:15-17 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/rev.3.15-17.NLT
So I advise you to buy gold from me—gold that has been purified by fire. Then you will be rich. Also buy white garments from me so you will not be shamed by your nakedness, and ointment for your eyes so you will be able to see.
Revelation 3:18 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/rev.3.18.NLT
“Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends. Those who are victorious will sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat with my Father on his throne.
Revelation 3:20-21 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/rev.3.20-21.NLT
Have you become indifferent?
God says he will vomit you out of his mouth
Is your faith wishy washy?
Is hell a real place for you?
So you've given mental assent to everything you've been taught
But does it move your heart and fill your heart with compassion
Is God's word mere information to you?
Clothe yourself with compassion and open the eyes of your hearts 💕
He wants to talk with you over a meal and set you on the path to victory
And when you are victorious he will share his throne with you
Amen
The man looked around. “Yes,” he said, “I see people, but I can’t see them very clearly. They look like trees walking around.” Then Jesus placed his hands on the man’s eyes again, and his eyes were opened. His sight was completely restored, and he could see everything clearly.
Mark 8:24-25 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/mrk.8.24-25.NLT
Just like our natural eyes can have cataracts or tunnel vision or gloucoma
Our spiritual sight can be equally compromised
I see God removing spiritual cataracts and correcting tunnel vision and all manner of spiritual ailments
Satan delights in clouding your vision he wants nothing more than to have you see darkly when God wants you to see clearly and fully
Just as natural cataracts can compromise our ability to drive
So damaged spiritual sight can compromise our choices and hence lead us into walking the wrong path
Please God give clear vision so I can choose the right path let me see clearly so I can live my life in your will
Amen
God has placed something within you
You have carried it a long time
God wants to birth in you something radical
Something that will change the world around you
Don't you dare give up now
He wants to move you from the circumstances that ensnare you
To freedom and joy in the Holy Ghost
For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
2 Corinthians 3:17 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/2co.3.17.NLT
Amen
I am the Alpha and Omega
I am the first and the last
I died but I am alive for evermore
I know all things
I formed you in your mothers womb
I knit you together from the dust of the earth
Listen and take heed I shall pour out blessing upon blessing to those that know me and keep my commands
But curse upon curse upon those who's names are not written in the lambs book of life.
Those with ears to hear let them understand
I'm a jealous God
I desire that all creation worships me for I am from everlasting to everlasting
I have loved mankind since before the foundation of the earth
Does not a father desire that his children love him of their own free will
Yet am patient with my children who have turned away from me
It is my desire that all of creation turns to me
Let none of my children perish where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth
Amen
And I saw another angel flying through the sky, carrying the eternal Good News to proclaim to the people who belong to this world—to every nation, tribe, language, and people. “Fear God,” he shouted. “Give glory to him. For the time has come when he will sit as judge. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and all the springs of water.”
Revelation 14:6-7 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/rev.14.6-7.NLT
Look to the skies people of the world
No one knows the day or the hour
When I shall judge all men
Be watchful and vigilant people of God
For I shall come like thief in the night
Be ready to give account for your deeds
I am the righteous judge who knows all things
My name is faithful and true
I am patient with all people
I shall pour out my wrath upon the wicked
But the righteous will inherit the earth
Those written in the lambs book of life shall know eternal rest
They shall sit with me entroned on high
Then the Lord gave me this message: “O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand. If I announce that a certain nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed, but then that nation renounces its evil ways, I will not destroy it as I had planned. And if I announce that I will plant and build up a certain nation or kingdom, but then that nation turns to evil and refuses to obey me, I will not bless it as I said I would.
Jeremiah 18:5-10 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/jer.18.5-10.NLT
I am the master weaver. I weave man's choices into my sovereign will
I am the ever living one
I am the Alpha and the Omega
I know your thoughts before you do
I see your deeds and respond with kindness to the righteous and wrath to the wicked
Read the scriptures
Consider my dealings with men throughout time
Show your faith by your deeds
And I will respond in kind
Amen
Many will follow their evil teaching and shameful immorality. And because of these teachers, the way of truth will be slandered. In their greed they will make up clever lies to get hold of your money. But God condemned them long ago, and their destruction will not be delayed.
2 Peter 2:2-3 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/2pe.2.2-3.NLT
I am the Lord Almighty
You evil teachers and false prophets listen to me
Stop perverting my truth and corrupting my word.
You have deceived many
You have become rich and powerful
I know your evil thoughts and they offend me
I have watched you since the day you were born
Your thoughts are evil and corrupt all the time
I shall strip you of your riches
And cast you into darkness
Amen
So you see, the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials, even while keeping the wicked under punishment until the day of final judgment.
2 Peter 2:9 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/2pe.2.9.NLT
I am the ever living one. I died but behold I am alive for evermore
Trust in me and I shall rescue you
I shall rescue my children from their trials
Not so the wicked for I shall punish them
I shall keep them in bondage till the day of judgement
They will have to give an account for their deeds
The righteous shall abide with me
Not so the wicked they shall be cast where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth
Amen
Let's start here
The scapegoat and the sacrificial lamb are not the same. I know ones a goat and the other a lamb. But besides that they represent two different ideas
A sacrificial lamb is a metaphor for an animal or person sacrificed for the common good
Jesus the sacrificial lamb
He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet he never said a word. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth.
Isaiah 53:7 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/isa.53.7.NLt
The sacrificial lamb at Passover
The animal you select must be a one-year-old male, either a sheep or a goat, with no defects.
Exodus 12:5 NLT
The Passover lamb was either a sheep or a goat and had to be male and without defect
What is a scapegoat?
scape·goat ˈskāp-ˌgōt. : a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur.
and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the people of Israel, and all their transgressions, all their sins; and he shall put them upon the head of the goat, and send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.
Leviticus 16:21 RSV
https://bible.com/bible/2020/lev.16.21.RSV
Consider this text
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53:6 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/isa.53.6.KJV
More proof that God the father laid on God the son the sins of us all but notice that 'him' has a lowercase capital alluding to Jesus the man on the cross and 'LORD' is capitalised and alludes to God the Father.
Jesus is both the sacrificial lamb and the scapegoat
If Jesus is the scapegoat then to fulfill the definition he must then be sent into the wilderness
Jesus was sent to the wilderness by the spirit after his was baptized in water
Consider Christ in the wilderness
And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: and there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness. And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.
Mark 1:10-13 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/mrk.1.10-13.KJv
Jesus was sent to the wilderness but to be tempted by Satan not to carry our sins
Consider these words
“When Aaron has finished purifying the Most Holy Place and the Tabernacle and the altar, he must present the live goat. He will lay both of his hands on the goat’s head and confess over it all the wickedness, rebellion, and sins of the people of Israel. In this way, he will transfer the people’s sins to the head of the goat. Then a man specially chosen for the task will drive the goat into the wilderness. As the goat goes into the wilderness, it will carry all the people’s sins upon itself into a desolate land.Leviticus 16:20-22 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/lev.16.20-22.NLT
Also consider
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as if I were dead. But he laid his right hand on me and said, “Don’t be afraid! I am the First and the Last. I am the living one. I died, but look—I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and the grave.
Revelation 1:17-18 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/rev.1.17-18.NLT
Death and the grave are gates to some other place and Jesus has the keys
Consider
“Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what he is saying to the churches. Whoever is victorious will not be harmed by the second death.Revelation 2:11 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/rev.2.11.NLT
What does it mean to be victorious
Consider the following
For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith. And who can win this battle against the world? Only those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God.
1 John 5:4-5 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/1jn.5.4-5.NLT
Only through faith in Christ can you avoid the 2nd death and your name be written in the lambs book of life
Amen
I shall be a wall of fire around the inhabitants of Zion
I shall be the glory of the city
Everyone will come under my protection
My people shall become one.
United in the bond of peace
The systems of this earthly realm shall not know peace until I come
When I will draw all men to myself
I shall make myself known to all people
They shall be my people and I shall be their God
I shall move my people they will see me as I truly am and they will delight in me
For I am protector and provider
Amen
God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another. Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen.
1 Peter 4:10-11 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/1pe.4.10-11.NLT
My dear friend God has seen fit to grant you a wonderful gift from his bountiful store
Use it for the benefit of the body of believers
God gives both the gift and the power and opportunity to use it
Be amazed at the response as you use your gift
God will certainly advance his message of peace and goodwill through you as you use your gift in all humility for his purposes shall be fulfilled in due course
Keep the good faith as you have been taught
Remember that all things shall be done according to the way of the Lord
In his good time his good purposes shall be completed
Amen
So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time he will lift you up in honor. Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.
1 Peter 5:6-7 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/1pe.5.6-7.NLT
The day when God will honor you draws near
Do you not sense it?
You are my child and I delight in caring for you
Just a little while longer and I will lift you up
So I tell you do not lose heart now
This next season of your life
Will see Gods plans fulfilled
He shall not delay in drawing near to you .
Listen to my voice and sense my leading
You are my beloved child and I shall make my plans known to you
You shall receive an inheritance from my hand
Everything I have for you is available from my open hand
Amen
Intelligent people are always ready to learn. Their ears are open for knowledge.
Proverbs 18:15 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/pro.18.15.NLT
Be attentive to my voice and listen to my words says the lord
Quiet your mind and I will speak to you
Sit down open the scriptures
Do you not hear my voice and sense my spirit
It is I that speak to you
I never cease to speak to you says the lord
Let deaf ears be unstopped
Let the voice of God come through crystal clear just like the river of life flows crystal clear from the altar of Gods throne.
Learn from me says the lord
Oh how blessed we are
We are the chosen ones of God
God chooses you to carry his holiness into a broken world
You are his representative
Wherever you are
Whoever you are
Through you the kingdom of God is manifest to the people around you.
I am moving says the lord
My spirit shall advance like never before the world has never seen the like of what I'm about to do
Amen
In this new life, it doesn’t matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized, slave, or free. Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.
Colossians 3:11 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/col.3.11.NLT
Put to death all manner of sin and evil from your former life and put on the new self which is in the likeness of the character of Christ
This is the common struggle which unifies us into one family
There no difference which excludes you from this community of believers
Both rich and poor both high and low are called to renew their minds in the spirit of Christ
For he desires that all peoples are transformed into his likeness
Amen