Good morning, good day everyone. It is day 25 and this one is entitled
Generational Covenant of Life and Peace. Restful one, listen with your spirit to
God's Word for you. My covenant was with Levi, a covenant of life and peace, and I
gave them to him. This called for reverence and he revered me and stood in
awe of my name. True instruction was in his mouth and nothing false was found on
his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness and turned many from sin.
Malachi 2 5 through 6. God's original intent was that all twelve tribes would
be priestly tribes, that there would be a nation of priests to the nations of the
world. Due to sin in the camp, many of them lost that privilege and Levi as a
tribe was chosen to be the priestly tribe to represent the nation. God
created a covenant of life and peace with that tribe. He gave them life and
peace to give to others. Malachi says this called for reverence. God is
inviting you to come into a covenant of life and peace with him. When you enter
into that covenant you receive a richer title than that of Levi. You become a
member of the royal priesthood. You have received peace from God and you are
learning to walk in that peace and to bring others into that peace. This is
foundational. The next step is to have a reverential awe of God who reconciled
you to himself and gave you such a covenant of life and peace. Ponder the
marvel and the privilege of his covenant of life and peace with you and God will
place true instruction in your mouth. God's intent is that you will come to
know him more deeply as you celebrate the majesty of what he has done for you
in giving you this covenant of life and peace. It will unlock deeper and more
profound truths from the Word of God so that your lips will have an anointing
for true instruction. The last step is that Levi turned many from sin as he
walked with God in peace and personal uprightness. I bless you, restful one, with
this same anointing. Although you walk in a different priesthood, I bless you with
entering into a covenant of life and peace. I bless you with knowing your
father and speaking of him and bringing many others to know him. I bless you with
an anointing of revering God that produces wisdom so that true instruction
comes from your mouth, being fruitful, life-giving, and transformational. I bless
you with turning many from their sin and bringing many into the same reverence
that you have of the Most High God. The hardness and profound lack of reverence
of your culture is an invitation for God to do bigger things for you than he has
ever done in other generations. It has nothing to do with the hardness of the
culture or everything and everything to do with the anointing of God and his
revelation. I bless you, restful one, with not taking for granted the anointing of
reverence that you have in the covenant of life and peace. I bless you with
waking up each morning with awe that God would choose to be in covenant with you
because out of that blessing of awe of God will come instruction, wisdom, and
words of truth from your lips. I bless you with words of truth that are
piercing, encouraging, and clarifying. I bless those words of instruction to be
articulated in many ways. I bless you with the blessings that Samuel had
that none of his words fell to the ground. 1 Samuel 3 19. I bless you with
words of instruction so that anointing with the wisdom instruction so anointed
with the wisdom and reverence of God that you turn many from sin. I bless you,
restful one, with a profound generational anointing of peace on your life that
will bring reverence and wisdom to generations after you. I bless you that
the family line you established may be known as a family of peace, a family that
imparts peace, a family of wisdom, of reverence, of holiness. I bless you with
bringing many in the next generation into reverence of God so that they have
the wisdom of God. They in turn may turn many to a covenant of life and peace
with God so that the next generation would revert, would reveal God and have
words of wisdom for the next generation after that. I bless you with
laying the foundation for many godly generations
through being in a covenant of life and peace
with Most High God.
I bless you with all these blessings of peace
in the name of the Prince of Peace,
in the name of the God who makes peace,
who instructs you and mentors you in peace,
so that all your children and children's children
will have great peace.
I bless you in the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Oh Lord, that we would really understand the fear of the Lord.
Lord, there's a misunderstanding, I think, for many
about what living in the fear of the Lord is.
As a part of transparency, Lord,
I knew what it was to know what an angry father is.
And I really balked at the idea of the fear of the Lord
because I didn't, I think for many,
they have a misunderstanding of who the father is to begin with,
and I didn't, I assumed of the fear of the Lord
as being afraid of God.
And I'll just say that some of my generational lineage
comes from streams, or a stream,
in which the being afraid of God is the motivator to obey God,
is the permanent thing.
There are great roots in the very early parts of what that is,
but what grew over generation and generation
was just lots of baggage and religion
and all of those types of things.
And the point is that, Lord, I pray that we not just have a legacy
and a lineage to be afraid of God,
but, Lord, that we have a fuller anticipation and understanding
of what the fear of God is, which is all in wonder.
It is a fearful thing to be put in the hands
of an almighty and all-powerful God, for sure.
But, Lord, I pray for the majesty of God,
the magnificence, the enormity, the endlessness,
just like it is hard for any brain to really conceive of the fact
that space is limited, is unlimited, there is no end,
or what eternity really is, just to sit and meditate
on there being no end, or that there be no beginning and no end.
There's no far left and far east.
There's no end to outer space as far as we understand it.
Just like that is impossible to really understand,
just like for there to be a God that there is no end and beginning to
just blows our mind, so there be some encapsulation,
some opening, some revelatory drop, Lord, today
about coming to grips with all that you really are
and all that you, the unlimited God, have paved the way
and given into us, including the covenant of life and peace.
Lord, for so many, I believe that when we get to heaven,
we will be held accountable for every idle word.
But as Bob Jones once said, the prophets are known on earth for what they say,
and on heaven, they're known for what they don't say.
I believe, Lord, that it's, when you say you judge a person by their words,
you judge a person by their actions.
I believe, Lord, that it's, when you say you judge a person by their heart,
that there are whole things that have nothing to do with what we
ever publicly say that we're going to be held accountable to
and that we will be known for.
That there are incidental things where, just like the children that are always watching
and imitating their parents, that there are people all around us all the time that are noticing things
and that we're going to have impact
in, on, good or bad that we have no
intentional or conscious knowledge of.
Lord, open up for a moment, even just this moment, an expansion of our imagination of
you.
And if you promise, if you say in your word that it's beyond anything that we could ever
hope or imagine, there's an ever increasing aspect of us having an idea, a knowledge of
you, imagining something bigger, and then realizing that beyond our imagination lies
a greater reality of who you are, of what's available, of in a sense, who we are because
of you.
I pray, Lord, that we grab the invitation, a real greater appreciation of what we already
have in you, and that, Lord, that our culture, which is really your culture, that your culture,
our heavenly home, that we are aliens to this world, that your culture, our home culture
of heaven, to be imputed in some fashion to us today, that there be some communal thing,
just like, you know, you are in us, we are in you, we are one in a sense, just like marriage
is like a picture of our relationship with you, that there's some aspect in which we
are seated with you in heavenly places and we're here at the same time, that there be
some common union, a communion today with you, and that place to open up for us to have
some grander encapsulation, experience, comprehension, or sense of a reality that we know of but
we may not know.
In Spanish, Lord, there are two words that say, I know.
There's ser and conocer, ser would be to say, yo se, is I know.
I know of.
So when someone would ask you, do you know, do you know Ashley?
Or do you know Bill Johnson?
They're asking, you know, depending on which word they're using, they're asking if you
know them personally, or if you know about them.
Do you know where this person lives?
Are you saying that you know where, as in you know their address, or have you actually
been to their home?
So it'd be like, you know, you'll say, you know, you'll say Bill Johnson, like I know
about him, but I've never met him.
I don't know him.
Pero yo conozco Ashley.
I personally know her.
And that same thing, just like there are many words for love, three words of love in the
Greek language, that there are things, I think there's a color in all of the languages that
have ever been created since the Tower of Babel that somehow could give a fuller expression
of concepts and ideas that our language does not have context for.
And that, Lord, that we want to know you in that fashion of, you know, I think that's
what you're asking.
You ask the disciples, who do people say that I am?
Some say you're a prophet.
Some say you're Moses.
Some say you're Elijah.
And he says, well, but who do you say I am?
And you're asking the same question today.
Who do you say that I am?
That's the only question that really matters.
You're none other than the Son of the Living God.
Flesh and blood is not revealed as to you, Peter, but my Father in heaven only.
And upon this rock, we will build the church.
Upon this revelation, we're going to build the church.
Lord, let it be today that there's something that we know.
Konosco.
There's something that we know today, intimately know, that we know.
never knew before. Some aspect, some facet of you would expand.
And that Lord, that there be something in our lives established, founded, that is handed
down through the generations like a DNA, but it's not religion.
It isn't just looking back on a time or a list of do's and don'ts, but there be a relationship,
there be a culture that is established that sets a new record, a new way of being, a new
path forward that is infectious, that captures everyone else around us, that puts a sheen
on our lives, a scent, an aroma that people are like, what is that? What is that ingredient?
What is that flavor? I just have to have whatever that thing is, that Lord, there be something
like that that is imputed from heaven into us, into what we're establishing and creating,
whether it's in our own family, where physical children or spiritual children are in our
businesses or in any aspect of our lives, and that there be, as a generational lineage,
that there be something transcendent that will last, a legacy for lack of a better term,
that is founded and originated, the origins of which are from you and from heaven.
They would overwrite anything here, that they would last.
Of course, Ashley says that it would be from the eternal, the things that are birth of
the spirit are eternal, everything else is wood, hay, and stubble. Lord, we are tired
of the wood, hay, and stubble, and in a way, I remember saying, Lord, I don't want any
more opinions. I'm not going to use that euphemism, but basically, everybody's got one, and most
of the opinions stink, right? I don't want any more opinions. I want to know the truth.
I want to know what you say. I want to know what my father is saying. I want to be about
my father's business. Lord, I want to do as you did, to do only see what I do, my father
doing, where they ask if I need food, and it's like, I have food of another type that
you know not of. It's to do the will of my father. Lord, for us all, but I pray especially
for these ones that I am praying for now, God, that there be an expansiveness like there
has never been. Open up for them today, and I pray, God, for an alignment, an awareness,
an attunement, a positioning, an opening, a softness of heart for us to be able to receive
that there be a greater capacity than there ever has been, and it will completely create,
change our culture, not just improve it. It's like when we die and we are resurrected into
new life, we are a new creation, that there be something in our DNA that literally changed
today, but is really born out of our perspective to change of who you are, and all that you've
done for us, and all that is available, Lord, that the majesty of God unfold before us,
and that we never be the same. We bless you and love you, in Jesus' name.