In His Likeness w/ AntTBri

Surveying the land and all I see is mounds and mounds of dirt in no particular formation. The land appears to be dry, damaged, desolate, destitute, and dead.   I’m tempted to look away, to pretend not to notice what’s surrounding my purpose, sorrowing my person, and swaying my passion.  Indifference, indignation, and intelligence scrutinize its unattractiveness. Yet it catches my eye, pulls at my heart, and summons my concentration.  It is the focal point of my travels and I can’t help but frequent its viewing. For some reason (that has yet to be revealed) I see an oasis springing up and out of the dry place.  I see possibility, potential, purpose, and the portrait of God’s heart concerning this barren land, concerning me (which in most cases intersect and interconnect).  It’s as if this lands belongs to me and I belong to it although we’re currently living a different reality.   This vision renders me totally defenseless to the on slaughter of mental storms overwhelming me in dreams and capturing me awake. It is thrusting me into the posture of prayer, submission, and surrender to the plan, purpose, and portrait God desires to paint upon my current reality.

I know that all things are working together for my good and that manifestation of all things promised is upon the horizon.  Like Timothy I war for the prophecies spoken over and into my life.  I don’t know all that is unfolding before me but I trust in your infinite wisdom and unfailing love toward me. Like Abram, I’m going to a land that you will show me. So I pray for the ground of the land you’ve promised me. I pray that it is fertile, life giving, irrigated, tilled, and ready to produce from its abundance. I pray for the abundance, the harvest that is purposed for the land you’ve deemed as my there. I pray for the seed that is released into the ground and for the nutrients, nourishing, and natural occurrence of easy flow within its boundaries.  Like the children of Israel, I am entering a presently occupied land. So I pray for the occupants and I pray for the purpose they serve that they are strengthened for the task of preparation/get it ready, keep it thriving, useful and cultivated while God is positioning and bringing all things into his perfect will and timing. May they accomplish what they have been positioned to accomplish and do nothing more/less; may they work within the boundaries set forth and not expand beyond those particulars. Holy Spirit, guide and direct their hands may their touch be beneficial and not harmful or invasive to the development and growth of the land, may there be no lasting damage or repercussions to the psyche that leaves the land altered, undeveloped/malnourished in the wait. I pray for the effectiveness of what they release into the atmosphere.  Holy Spirit move upon, within what is life giving and producing to penetrate and resonate what’s needed for future development. Render ineffective those things meant to deliberately stop progression and plant seeds of disobedience, discourse, and death.

Like Israel I understand that you intentionally set in course opposition and oppressors to bring us back to you and I’m cognitively aware that growth in you happens when I choose to hold on to the WORD you spoke. When that WORD matters and registers more than the pain of the situation, my internal fears, self erected defense mechanisms that will hinder and delay my own preparation and preparedness. So I disrobe the thoughts I choose that counter the mind of Christ that has paralyzed my mobility thus far, and repent for my wasting time, procrastination and avoidance of what you’ve deemed necessary and profitable despite my understanding or comfort ability with it. God I reign in my emotions, my feelings, and I come into alignment with your will right now. Cultivate the ground of my life and make it promise ready [fertile, primed for future growth]; expand my capacity for a deeper, intimate relationship with YOU, MYSELF, and others. I know this is about the glory expressed through my being. I want to image you well. So I fine tune the manner in which I love and do in accordance with that you’ve blessed me to know. Keep me choosing opposite of distractions that appease my fleshly desire and mannerisms. Free me from these devices and release me into the newness of this day, this moment, this season. I decree and declare that you do all things well…that you are working all things together for my good and things are going/happening/working in conjunction with the counsel of your will. So I welcome those things I don’t understand and align my feelings and thoughts with your purposing. I choose not to hate or run away from the process. I choose not to feel intimidated, no ill will or negativity in terms of what is now but will not always be.

The Holy Spirit is my Caleb, standing alongside of my spirit likened unto Joshua and I am declaring we can and will possess the land God has promised. I war for the promise by standing in agreement with the purposes of God. I’m choosing to abandon and resist the temptation to look at the opposition in reverent eyes and be little the gift of my own worth and posture in you. I choose to see myself through your eyes. I’m a giant, more than able. I’m capable, qualified, chosen, handpicked and selected for the task at hand. I play an intricate part in the awesomeness of God’s purpose. I surrender whole heart and submit to the go through. This is your heart toward me, your gift, my inheritance and I choose to treasure it in all its stages.   If not today, then my expectation is in the reality of the possibility of tomorrow. All things are possible with you.  Bringing this forth, birthing this out of the appearance of dry, desolate, damaged, destitute, and dead land is not too hard for you. You can and you will do this. I have faith to believe, faith to conceive it and the faith to stand/wait to receive it.  I pray and speak forth the realities of Isaiah 43:18-19 .So I open my mouth and declare the new thing God is doing, causing to appear, spring forth.  God is making a way in the dessert portions of my life and He is irrigating the dry places with streams of water that are refreshing, replenishing, and rejuvenating my ability to live and love in and with the land of His choosing that has become my choice.  I pray forth the promise and purpose of God, as it is heaven it is so on earth. Holy Spirit I agree and willingly allow you to direct my focus. Thank you for the land that is full of milk and honey, thank you for the abundance and sweetness provided in the largeness of the grapes…thank you for what is built and established, and experienced that is preparing the land for my arrival and attainment. But most of all, thank you for revealing your heart toward me and for giving me the ability to see it when I can not see it. ~AntTBri