Good day everyone. So we are on 29. Day 29 of our journey. And this one is entitled Used
by God to Turn the Enemy's Plans Upside Down. Amen to that. Restful one, listen with your
spirit to the word of God for you. Mordecai recorded these events and he sent letters
to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Xerxes near and far to have them celebrate
annually the 14th and 15th day of the month of Adar as the time when the Jews got relief
from their enemies. And as the month when their sorrow was turned into joy and their
mourning into a day of celebration, he wrote them to observe the days as days of feasting
and joy and giving presents of food to one another and gifts to the poor. Esther 9, 20-22.
And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them triumphing
over them by the cross. Colossians 2.15. When the Jews were in captivity, an evil man named
Haman tried to destroy the nation of the Jews. He got the authority of the king by deception.
He passed laws directing the killing of the Jews. God moved in a powerful way to save
the Jews and to secure their peace and prosperity within an enemy people. Mordecai ordained
two days of celebration after their sorrow was turned into joy. When Jesus was on the
cross, he appeared to be losing everything. Yet his death on the cross paid the penalty
for your sins and mine. Therefore Satan has no more legal right over us once we confess
our sins and claim the salvation and protection that our Father offers us through Jesus. So
the death of Jesus on the cross was not to the end of something, but rather the beginning.
It was not a tragedy, but a triumph. Not a time when Satan won, but a time when he became
public spectacle. The righteous death of one holy man, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, released
salvation for every person in the world who will acknowledge their sin and embrace the
truth of his saving power. Restful one, I bless you with full understanding of the gift
of complete forgiveness that Jesus Christ offers. I bless you with the desire to surrender
control of your life to Jesus as your Lord, allowing him to be your master, governing
you, protecting you, and allowing all other blessings to come become a reality for you
as you trust him completely with every part of your being. I bless you with the joy of
regularly seeing Satan's plans to destroy people turned upside down and seeing God bring
good out of potentially painful life circumstances. I bless you with the joy of partnering with
your Father to take many situations that Satan intends for harm and defeating the enemy's
plan for evil and turning bad situations into beauty as you experience your Father's presence
with you. I bless you as a normal course of life to see the problems that Satan brings
into the world used by God to reveal new wisdom, new grace, new strength, and new freedom as
God makes a public spectacle of his enemy and yours through you. I bless you with God's
perspective on the pain and suffering in the world that it will be an opportunity for you
to rise to your calling and live up to a fuller potential than you have ever known.
I bless you with partnering with God for his purposes, using problems as a platform to
see him work in ways that are unmistakably him. I bless you with these blessings of victory
and bringing the victory of the cross forward to the present. I bless you in the name of
Jesus of Nazareth, your Lord.
Oh Lord, it is so interesting to think of you having such a finality in the victory.
I mean, I think most of us know it, but such a tremendous, earth-shattering, heaven-shaking,
disruptive force that completely disarmed and you made a public spectacle of your enemies.
That it's done. That it's done.
It's happened and it's playing itself out in everyone's lives.
That moment, kind of like the moment where they think the big bang happened, where all
life began, that something catalytic happened, reconciling the past and working its way out
to the future, all of which to culminate in your return and whatever it is that it is
to truly look like, no matter what the preconceived ideas are going to be, that there's an outworking
of this taking place in our lives.
And Lord, that we would see, witness, and then even be given the privilege to be a part
of the turning the enemy's plans upside down.
So many times, Lord, that you've allowed me the privilege to know great people, but also
to be a part of the process of healing, of reconciling, and watching your work in the
redeeming of lives.
There are the instantaneous, like lightning bolt moments, where someone is set free, or
healed of something, or some great thorn is removed from their flesh.
But often times, I've seen a process take place.
There's a process that you'll walk people through.
And in that walking through of a process, of which many of us are in a process right
now, there's something that is imparted, some level of authority, something that happens
in that place, some level of impartation, or transference, or osmosis, or matriculation
of who you are, and who we know you to be, and what we learn in that process, that also
gains us a proximity to you, the ultimate authority, but a place where we start to walk
in a level of authority of the things that we've overcome with you, and through you,
and you, through us.
And this, in a place, I've seen so, so many times, that my words of saying it are that
God's vengeance looks different than our own.
That your vengeance, Lord, looks different than our idea of vengeance, and that sometimes,
you take the things that were done to us, things that were designed to destroy us, things
that were meant for evil, and we want them to be turned to good, that, you know, like
sour turns into sweet, but oftentimes, the very thing that was being used against us,
that was supposed to destroy us, you, in your process, heal us and deliver us, but Lord,
that you lead us into this place where now we have authority, and we become the instruments
of your vengeance, where we now are the ones that are going forth and destroying the enemies.
We now are taking the very things that were supposed to be, you know, leading us into
captivity, and we are leading people out into freedom, that we now become those.
And so that there's hope in every situation that has come and transpired in our life,
that there is a place of overcoming in you and with you, and that the very things that
were used against us are the very things that catalyze and become great places of victory
and authority in our own lives.
And in that place, we're rescuing, we're destroying the kingdom, we're bringing your kingdom into
all these types of places, you're now using us, and the things that the enemy meant for
evil now become good.
And that we then become the thing, not only that has been, in a sense, turned upside down,
but that we become instruments where the enemy's plans are now turned upside down, and God's
ultimate plan can come into play.
So Lord, I don't pray in my humanity for any of us to have to endure any more than we already
have, and I have no doubt that the people that are listening to my voice, I can tell
right now, I can see some of it, have been through things that they don't ever even want
to speak about, and I'm so sorry for each and every person that has endured things that
they shouldn't have, have seen things that they should never have seen, that have been
betrayed, stabbed in the back, abused by people of authority, physically, spiritually, emotionally.
Where our parents, try as they might, just fell short of who you are and who you are
wanting them to be in our lives.
And Lord, I pray Lord that that one stone go unturned.
Just like I've prayed that like Samuel, that not one word fall to the ground.
But that Lord that the fields of promise, all that you've set for at the table or across
the span of the lives of the people that are under the hearing of my voice, that not one
kernel, not one nugget be wasted.
And that Lord you would turn the enemy's plans upside down into every area of their life.
That Lord that your victory spans from end to end, coast to coast, that Lord there is
no end, that it is always going out, that as your creation is expanding so is your victory,
that it is so complete that we can't even seem to be able to fathom its truth and reality.
Lord today that we would grab hold of a greater truth, that today Lord we would somehow come
into a greater understanding, a greater encapsulation, a greater revelation, a greater encounter
Lord with the finality and the grandiosity of who you are and what has already been done
and that Lord that that create a shaking within us and our soul that not one structure or
system that the enemy has tried to set up over us can stand.
That today Lord that the earth would shake, the heavens would roar, the seas would roar,
that there be a collision in the spirit where your kingdom that is already done and finished.
So much of the work that Lord that there be a cascading effect today.
Through us the redeeming of our bloodlines Lord forward through the future and the generations
that are on the earth and that are still to come.
And that Lord that we would not just see your hand move but Lord that we would be part of
the extension of your hand to see it take place.
Lord it is something to experience a miracle, it is something to hear about a miracle or
see a miracle but there is something that changes you when you become part of that miracle
taking place.
It is the kindest thing, the most humbling thing that you have ever allowed me to experience
me personally and I have never forgotten it and I always knew that Lord you could have
chosen someone else to do it.
It was always the greatest honor to serve you Lord.
Lord I pray everybody here have fresh encounters and fresh access that you would remind them
of every time and make them aware of every time that you have done this in our lives
and all that we have been able to see because we are creatures that have seemed to be very
short sighted or have short term memories but Lord there would be fresh opportunity
of freshness over and a hunger Lord and a fervor Lord to see the destruction.
It is one of the main reasons that we are here to destroy the works of the enemy.
That Lord that the plans of the enemy to be turned upside down and there is an active
place that we play in it and there is also a place where we sit and rest in you knowing
in the core of our being every day more and more it settles in of who we are, who you
are and these things manifesting before us.
That it is a truth not a it is a truth that is I don't know how to say what I am seeing
it is something that is not to be aspired to but something that is already transpired
that it is a truth not something that is going to become true or that we hope is true
but it is something that is truth.
The Lord that we can release that we can receive this deep within us Lord so that it can release
powerfully from us.
And Lord, today the plans of the enemy and the works of the enemy to be destroyed and
the plans to be turned upside down.
And Lord, whether it's in our own personal life or the lives of those around us, Lord
will we get to participate in it or witness it, or whether we're as a Mordecai where
many, many are affected.
And I pray too, Lord, that for all of us that seem to have small minds, small
perspectives on who we are or our plans, which is really just minimizing who you are, that
there be a new grandiosity of what is possible for what you want to achieve, release and
be done, including the overturning and the turning upside down of the enemy's plans
and the domino effect of what anything that we do or touch can ignite.
And today, Lord, let something in this be released today, that there be more things
to be turned upside down, more awareness of these types of things, Lord, and that there
is times when we're supposed to act, there are things that we need to work on, and there
are things that you're going to do.
And Lord, that there be a settling of these things within us, Lord, and we see this released
and manifest today, Lord, in Jesus' holy name.