Therefore with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Let your light burn bright as you dwell in the glory of His Light each day as you wake with a thankful heart.

Isaiah 12:3

When we start our day we need to make sure we get a dose of the Morning Glory of God. That glory there we experience in our times with the Lord goes with us through the day. Everyday we need to be saturated with His Presence. Everyday we need the daily bread from heaven. We need to allow the Lord to make His Word alive in our hearts. It is when we come into His glory that all things, old and new, come alive within our hearts. It is abiding in the resurrection power of Jesus that opens up the doors of revelation and ignites our spirits, opening our eyes to the realities of heaven. We are heavenly creatures living in the earthly realm. Our spirit is “more” real than our fleshly body. Our body will perish and we will get a new one. But our spirit man is eternal. Our spirit is the divine center of all God activity in our being.

He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.

John 7:38

Allow the food for your spirit to take priority over all other things. If we are not experiencing the deep well within it may be clogged with earthly distractions. Pay the price to make sure that the well stays open and functioning at the highest level. There is a maintenance, discipline and focus that keeps the well in your spirit flowing.

Enter His Gates

Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,
And into His courts with praise.
Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.

Psalm 100:4

One of the first things we can do to keep our well functioning is to start our day, every day, with praise and thanksgiving communing with God in the Spirit. It starts with being Holy Spirit sensitive and understanding the reality of getting our spirit connected into the anointing of His Presence. It is true that the anointing is for others, but it is also true that the anointing is for us to know Him and His truth.

But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.

1 John 2:20

That anointing from the Lord teaches us all things. There are anointings for specific purposes, but there is an anointing for our devotional and prayer life. When you begin to develop the habit of opening your day with praise, thoughts can sometimes come to distract us off course. If they are important, quickly write them down. If not, cast them down. Then we can move into deeper worship. Stay on course. God calls us to intimacy in His glory. Abiding in Jesus is all about starting our days right and ending our day’s right. We do this with Him as the beginning and the end. Live a life of thanksgiving, blessing and encouragement and displace complaining, a criticism and accusation. Complaint opens the door to snake bites and the venom of the enemy. Thanksgiving opens the door to the healing and life-giving virtue of the Spirit.

Problem Solvers

This year we will have things to overcome – just as every year. It is important, as always, to have our morning glory time. God is calling us to be problem solvers this year, to be filled with the wisdom of His Spirit. With this we must be a Holy Spirit people. The Holy Spirit is not an option. We cannot be enamored with teachings & people but with Jesus and getting to know Him through the person of the Holy Spirit. All else falls by the wayside. I like good teaching. But the Lord is the focus. If we are intoxicated with His love that will be the only motivation we need to follow Him.

However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you.

John 16:13-15

When we are a people that know the ways of the Spirit and understand His Word we will be filled with the ability to overcome difficulties and solve problems. Some can find problems, create problems and maintain problems but God is looking for those who solve them. That takes a life of faith.

Find Victory In Your Heart

It is important to surround ourselves with people who have an overcoming spirit and are filled with faith or are willing to learn and follow that example. Press in that extra mile with the Lord. Go the distance. Don’t settle for mediocrity. His righteous ones will live by his faith. Find victory in your heart. He is the victory!

…David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.

1 Samuel 30:6

This life is a journey. Each one of us must walk out our own unique path as the Lord leads us. Each of us has choices to make, we must make them wisely. Don’t worship at the altars of yesterday. Don’t stay somewhere just because your relatives lived and died there. Get out of the box and find God’s adventure in your life. You’re only on earth one time. Be connected with God, have a plan, let Him order your steps and find your life in Him. Behold, I will do a new thing… it shall spring forth! God is always into “new things”. Heaven is loaded with new things. Tap into our heavenly resources, get creative and remove all the boundaries of the natural mind believing God for His best!