October 17 - Daily Message - Isaiah 29:3

I believe this is a message to us from God, written from His perspective – Sherri 

Isaiah 29:3 NLT “I will be your enemy, surrounding Jerusalem and attacking its walls. I will build siege towers and destroy it.”
 
What are the things in your life that are getting in the way of our relationship and of the incredibly abundant life that I have promised?
 
I will be their enemy, attacking its “walls” and I will do all that I can to destroy it.
 
So many people experience really hard things in their life and as they can see more clearly, they say it is the hardest and worst thing that ever happened to them and also the best. This is Me working. I don’t always work this way. I don’t always attack. I start with a still small voice and then it moves from there, but I am relentless at reaching My children and bringing them home to Me.
 
Know this is true for you also. If you feel like I am attacking you with something terrible consider this…is there any chance that it is something that is not good for you and is limiting your life and the abundance (John 10:10) I want for you? If so, let’s partner together in getting rid of it and then I will not have to do something so challenging to destroy it.
 
Yes, there are times that you can see this in the Bible also. Hardship, difficulty, pain, suffering. Some of it stems from sin, some of it stems from holding onto what is getting in the way of your life, and some of it is satan. Discerning which it is can help you figure out what to do with it.
 
If it is Me – lean in and find out what I am trying to tell you and give Me permission to remove anything that harms you. Let Me change the trajectory of your life. Ask people who hear Me well to help you figure out what I am saying. Often these things have been around for so long that it is hard to see them on your own and you will need help. This is where the church can help but it can also do a lot of damage if it is also broken and holding onto things that are not good for it so choose your advisors and counselors wisely. I will show you the way. You don’t have to be stuck or paralyzed by having to choose wisely, but you do need to know that many people in the church say really hurtful things because they don’t really know Me very well and they refuse to listen to Me also. Be careful.
 
If it is sin – ask Me to help you not sin and then let’s work on where the sin comes from. What is at the root of it? What is preventing it from leaving? Again, it can be helpful to find someone who hears Me well and who can speak with truth and love to help you discover what I am telling you and to reveal how I want you to let go of the sin. It brings great healing and recovery from all that has held you back. Yes, it can be hard. Sinning usually requires asking for forgiveness but also forgiving those who purposefully or inadvertently caused the root issues that led to the sin. It can be hard work, but it is very rewarding and worth doing. Seek out trusted, truthful, and loving advisors and forgive them when they also make mistakes as they are human too.
 
If it is satan – rebuke him and bind him and send him away to Me to deal with. Fill the “space” with something good like the Holy Spirit or joy, or love. Often the opposite of what just left is a good thing to fill space with. If you are dealing with a spirit of slavery, then bind it in the name of Jesus Christ (and with His power and authority that defeated all sin and death at the cross), send it to Jesus to deal with and then fill the “space” with the Spirit of Adoption (as sons by whom you cry Abba Father (Romans 8:15)).
 
A couple of other quick tricks and tips:

1. Thank Me for everything…even the bad stuff (1 Thessalonians 5:18). It is not because you like what is happening or what is happening is good, it is out of obedience. I tell you to thank Me for everything because it shifts the situation completely and show how much you trust Me to bring something good out of every single situation (Romans 8:28). Again, this is hard to do but it releases you from bad things enveloping you in the bad and opens it up for good things to come from it.
2. Forgiveness – this is a powerful thing. Think of the person who is the absolute hardest to forgive – someone who it is almost unthinkable to forgive – and then ask Me to help you forgive them. You don’t have to walk this path alone. Forgiveness does not mean that you put them in harm’s way with them again, that you trust them before they earn your trust again, or that what they did was acceptable. It simply means that you no longer want to carry the burden of what happened and what it has become within you. You want to hand it over to Me and let Me take care of it instead of holding onto it yourself. Forgiveness often opens up your eyesight so that you can see so much more clearly what happened and what caused the sin they did against you. This is also healing and yet, I know it is not something you can do on your own or quickly so come to Me and I will help.
3. If something isn’t good, I am not done with it yet. Know this and live your life from it and it will transform many things.
4. I have sent many people into the world right now who hear Me very well. They are marked with truth and compassion. They are people you can talk to and who can listen. They are people who clearly are connected to Me in a special and unique way. They cannot not seek Me out and they cannot not follow Me even though it is a very challenging and difficult path for them because they see the world so differently. Seek out these people and listen to them. Ask them for help hearing Me and ask them to use their gifts to help you heal. And be generous back to them as they share with you their giftings that have probably cost them a great deal, be generous with them in whatever way that you can. Just because I command them to freely give as it was given freely to them, this does not mean that you should take advantage of their generosity. Find out what they need and give it to them. Pass on the generosity from the years and years and decades of putting their own lives on hold in order to train to hear Me clearly so that they can truly change the world with Me. Find them and hold onto them. They are extremely valuable in this world and then…if you are so called…become one of them (1 Corinthians 14:1)

There is so much more to be said on this subject but that is enough for right now. Please know that I bring hardship sometimes in order to bring true and abundant life. It is not My first choice. I gave the Israelites so many opportunities to turn back to Me before implementing the verse of today….but eventually, when they became My “enemy” because of the things they did, I went up against them and destroyed the very things taking them away from Me so that they could come back into My protection and provision. This is what I am doing with you also.  


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