Words and music by DT (davesali [at] gmail [dot] com)
Proverbs 18:16 KJV — A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.
First you need to use it openly. Let your light shine in front of others do they can see your gift in operation.
Next, place a demand on your gift by thanking God for ordering your steps into rooms of greatness.
The posture isn’t entitlement, even though Jesus paid for you to have this.
Instead, it’s gratitude, excitement and wonder…imagining the fulfilment regardless of your current experience.
Proverbs 18:12 KJV — Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
When you see rain clouds, you suspect that it’s going to rain.
When you see haughtiness, you know that destruction of some sort is on its way.
When you see humility, you know that honour is inevitable.
Humility means submission to what God says about you.
Pride is indulging in what your feelings say about you.
Joel 2:25 KJV — And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
God is a God of restoration.
And He’s promised to restore to you the years that the locust have eaten.
Here, in the old covenant, God promised to restore what His children had lost due to their disobedience to the covenant.
Now, under the new covenant, God’s promise of restoration to you is based on Jesus’ obedience.
Hallelujah!
Hebrews 12:2 KJV — Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Looking means: to turn the eyes away from other things and fix them on something.
Are you looking…or just glancing?
Proverbs 16:9 KJV — A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
Yes, you have free will to devise plans for your life…
And the Lord is directing your steps.
It’s not one or the other.
It’s both.
It’s a “Yes, and…” collaboration between you and the Lord.
Proverbs 16:17 KJV — The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
Guard your way. Watch over your habits. Tend the way you use your time. Guard against the way your time is used, by you or others.
Guard your way and you watch over your soul.
Proverbs 15:9 KJV — The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
God loves those who follow after righteousness.
Through Jesus we have become the righteousness of God.
God loves those who follow after the life of Jesus inside them.
Proverbs 15:2 KJV — The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
Sometimes all that separates the wise and the foolish, is how they make use of the same thing.
Wisdom is the difference maker.
John 21:23 KJV — Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?
And the specifics of what Jesus has said matter.
Every word, every syllable, every inflection.
Because if He said it, then not one word of His will fail to come to pass.
Your part is to simply fellowship with the Lord. And whatever He says to you, do it.
Proverbs 14:23 KJV — In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
Within your work, there is profit.
So the question is: Lord, how do I release the profit that is contained within my work?
Then, whatever the Holy Spirit shows you or brings to mind, act on that by faith and see what happens.