Word - Rust and Dust

I believe God is saying today, "I am taking away the rust and the dust of your life.  I am removing the rust that has accumulated in your life so that your true self can come to the front and shine.  All the dust that has shadowed your life I am cleaning away, for underneath the rust and the dust is the real you, the real new creation life that has been covered and hidden by the dust of life and the rust of the world."

"My Holy Spirit is working in you removing everything that covers up your life so you can shine in me. All those choices that were made from a basis of fear, doubt, anxiety and unbelief I am removing and clearing away. They have hidden the real you, and it is now time for you to come forth and shine.  It is now time for you to be who I have created you to be."

"You are victorious in me, you are forgiven,  set free, holy, blameless, and you have been released from your captivity.  You are a child of God, a joint-heir with Christ and it is your time to shine."

"Let me remove the rust and the dust, it is my delight to bring forth the bright, shining new creation life that is you. It is my desire that the gold that is in you is brought forth for all to see."

"This is a day to leave behind the dust of life and the rust of the world and shine in the golden glory of Christ alive in you and let the Holy Spirit radiate in everything you are and do."

Word - 1st May 2020

I feel God is saying, "Keep your focus on Jesus, you have not come this way before."

Out of the blue, I felt God was directing me to Joshua 3:3-4. In this passage God directs the Children of Isreal to keep their eyes on the Ark of the Covenant as they cross the Jordan to enter the Promised Land. The reason God does this is because He knows that they are entering alien territory and they had not come that way before. Before them would be great challenges, various distractions and numerous opportunities to doubt the promises of God. So God instructs them to focus their eyes and their attention on the presence of God manifest in the Ark of the Covanent which will go before them, leading and showing them the way.

I felt God was saying that it is important at this time to focus our attention and our spiritual eyes on Christ. Focus and look to the power of the Holy Spirit in us. We are entering a time that we have not experienced before and it is so easy for us to be fearful of the challenges, daunted by the distractions around us and for us to doubt the promises of God. The world would have us focus on the circumstances, God would have us focus on Christ and his life alive within us.

God is encouraging us to focus on him in the uncertainty, focus on him in the new day of life. There is always a dawn that follows the night. That dawn is the new day of endless possibilities in Christ. That dawn is the realisation that the Holy Spirit lives in you. That dawn is that all the promises of God are YES and AMEN in Christ Jesus.

We may not have come this way before, but God holds us, Christ lives with us and the Holy Spirit is the power that lives in us, directing us and leading us. It is time to focus our eyes on Christ and he will lead us in greater depths of grace upon grace. Christ will lead us in greater realms of freedom and release us into greater realms of glory.