The experience of being panicked beyond control is real. Physical sweating and a rapid heart rate with a sense of terror result when fear of what cannot be controlled reaches the human brain. Fear and terror produce chemical changes in the body and there are scientific names for chemicals released and the imbalance produced. The experience can be devastating.

Panic is not from God. There is no fear in Him. The fear base of panic comes from various sources—torments that are based in an accumulation of every fear recorded in your character, occurring all at the same time!  Satan—the source of extreme and uncontrollable fear, the source of all torment, is usually the culprit.

The mind clears itself by giving information we allow to be stored there, back over to us; that information then becomes our reality and we respond to two opposites: What we believe about fear’s power to control us and what we disbelieve about God’s love and power to heal the source of every fear.

God’s compassion is heightened for anyone suffering panic, whatever the cause! Allow His compassion to flood your being and cooperate with Him to receive deliverance—spirit, soul and body. Because here’s the truth: In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; And from terror, for it shall not come near you. Indeed they shall surely assemble, but not because of Me. Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake. Isaiah 54:14-15 

Amen.

Romans 10:17 | 2 Timothy 1:7 | Psalm 139:13-15 | Psalm 91

Our world is shaking. We know that. Our lives are affected by all that instability and we live today according to what we allow (past, present and future) into our emotions and heart attitude; literally, we determine our mental state by what we choose to meditate upon.

To walk circumspectly through the shaking we need to ramp up personal discipline to guard what we allow in. Apart from a continuous flow of Spirit values into our spirit center, we tend to come apart on the inside under pressure . . . to scatter until what was created to be His sanctuary within, is not.

This internal breaking affects personal authority, including expressed confidence in God with willingness to represent His authority in the midst of shaking. Without discipline in what we allow, something tragic takes place; we veer away from God’s stability down a path so foreign we would not have chosen it had we been in our “right mind.”

To assess what is really going on and be able to test the spirits, we need a Word perspective and a right spiritual response—we need to exercise God-given authority by speaking what the Lord speaks. With that perspective, remember the tumult is actually favorable. Allow God to settle us down, restore His authority through us, and re-establish our confidence to speak with authority, by faith.

Faith impacts everything. That supernatural element, released in God-inspired words and actions, dominates the crisis, whether a personal one or a far-away global one. With words we invite Redemption, the presence of Almighty God, while taking aim at the spirit-cause of all that is broken: Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him. (1Peter 5:8-11)

Amen.

Matthew 24 | 1Peter 5:8-11 | Isaiah 54:17 | Esther 6:13 | Matthew 16:18 | Luke 21:15

Israel’s deliverance from Egypt is a Bible freedom model: God brings men out to bring them in; He brings them up to take them higher; what men obtain as they begin to journey is not the big picture but rather the beginning of signs

Regarding Israel, 1) the Lord brought them out to bring them in; 2) by His out-stretched arm and strength of His hand 3) He directed the overthrow of their enemies, little by little, to make possible maintaining their new freedoms—the Lord planned greatness for Israel but the nation refused in preference of a different path and pace.

Like Israel, your story is a beginning of signs in Kingdom advance. The beginning is where you start, not where you are to set up camp. As with the beginning of miracles in Jesus’ ministry at the wedding in Cana, your experience at first is a beginning of signs. Be sure not to camp or remain there—frozen there. Discern when what began in the Spirit was stopped, a shrine to man—frozen there.

Declare oneness with the Lord’s direction and pace. Refuse to be shallow; padded-seat religion is reserved for those without passion. Choose the heights of the Lord and keep up the pace. Choose the deliverance examples of Esther (Hadaccah) and of Moses (Mosheh). Choose God’s way—His wisdom, His Spirit, His pace and His placement.

Amen.

Psalm 105:37-45 | John 2:11

Intercessors are great people to know—enthusiastic, caring, compassionate, messengers of hope, always believing for God’s highest and best; they are marksmen with their faith and understand its proper use—faith is confident in what God has said. The intercessor knows how to aim God’s Word at the obstacle or enemy by confidently speaking the Word, with authority, to make a place for what is promised.

Every wise disciple asks for the anointing of a true intercessor, that wonderful “ump” of the Spirit, while laughing despite bad tidings and pulling many forward with courage. Intercession matures, speeds up, hastens, makes better, adds lavish love, always sees Light, and, most of all, becomes one able to lead when needed— a builder of the Kingdom.

Up and out—I pray for you up and out of where you ARE, and right INTO the right place; I pray for Divine appointments to VISIT and move you forward for the Divine plan, a greater plan than all those man-plans. I pray Spirit power come, and mind of the Spirit be done concerning you. Move away from destructive influence! Your pass-over is upon you, with all that it means; all that passing over means this year! I pray Holy inspiration for you as you move about today—for shackles of indecision and anything half-hearted to fall off, and for all spiritual childishness to be discarded. I pray for a transfusion of maturity and knowing who you are in Christ—you represent the Lord Christ, you represent the Lord God. I pray against family lines that corrupt, and declare instead you are established in the family of the Most High: Separate unto Me those I have called to the purpose I called them! I pray for those in every nation and tribe that do hear the Spirit’s call, and do invite the Spirit’s presence. Get up! Get up! Get up to the high place of His presence – inquire of the Lord. Hear the wind behind you like a voice saying, this is the way!

Amen.

John 11:40 | Proverbs 8:1-3 | Acts 13:2 | Isaiah 30:21

Then He went out from there and came to His own country, and His disciples followed Him. And when the Sabbath had come, He began to teach in the synagogue. And many hearing Him were astonished, saying, “Where did this Man get these things? And what wisdom is this which is given to Him, that such mighty works are performed by His hands! Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And are not His sisters here with us?” So they were offended at Him. Mark 6:1-3

We sometimes address a situation without considering that the Lord has counsel for that situation, as though we have sufficient power without Him to handle it. We are offended by counsel or warnings and as a result find ourselves in turmoil the Lord never intended. When the fruit of choosing our own way ripens into a crisis we challenge God, asking why He is not answering our prayers; why He is deaf to our pleas for deliverance, and why has He allowed this outcome. We become offended at Him.

Remember that in a spiritual sense nothing just happens. If being offended has become a habit or attitude, change that. Open your heart to hear. Rather than snubbing wisdom needed for day-to-day challenges, offended by counsel offered to you, choose instead to consciously practice the presence of the Almighty; His presence is greater than anything you can possibly consider otherwise. . . His presence impacts everything with dynamics of the supernatural and lays a foundation of expectation for a supernatural break-through!

Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.” And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” Then he said to Him, “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.” So the LORD said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.”  Exodus 33:13-17, NKJV

Amen.

As the Church we check our world view, ensuring a right perspective concerning our nation and all nations of the world. God calls His people to account inwardly, prophetically placing a demand upon the Body of Christ to choose conviction over convenience—a preference for matters of the spirit over the practical or emotional. When the spirit-call is prioritized outward views change, spiritual growth with maturity follows, and genuine spirituality becomes the norm.

Contrast conviction and convenience:
1) Conviction: any unshakable, fixed and strong belief, opinion, view, sentiment, feeling, persuasion;
2) Convenience: a position of least conflict and confrontation, especially for comfort’s sake, comfort’s purposes, comfort’s needs, including personal comfort, benefit and advantage.

World view in the church shifts as the heart of individual believers see the horizon as God sees it. Our convictions carry the day at the expense of “business (and government) as usual.” We are His people – filled with His Spirit, bold, decisive, and wise stewards of our role and courageous to try a different tack to shift the culture and change the world.

Amen.

Isaiah 9:6-7, NKJV

God’s grace means our actions are carried along with divine enablement to accomplish more than we could without it. Even those with little consideration for His working have His grace and, because of grace, move forward in vision, thinking the favor they experience and strength to keep going are of their own doing.

In every nation history accounts for those in earlier times (and we personally witness many today) whose pride ultimately yielded to the realization of divine Grace and turned to face Almighty God as Source, Savior, and Lord.

Men may squander the divine for a season but that can change. Today is the day of salvation: “Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once?”  (Isaiah 66:8)

Amen.

Ephesians 2:4-5 | Ephesians 2:8 | Isaiah 66:8-9 | Ephesians 5:15-16 | 2 Corinthians 6:2

Ref: Movie Amazing Grace

Situations occur that we cannot change. Some, the consequence of earlier actions or choices, the potential of which was not discerned, often happen when hearts become hard and the consequence of a hardened heart of pride looms over the next hill. When minds refuse the Lord’s appeal to change, seeds are planted that are later regretted.

But the Lord moves continually to soften and redirect us away from these choices. As we respond to the comfort of His grace we choose to soften rather than be left to choices that align with sin and bring judgment upon hardness and stubborn-hearted pride and the resulting consequences.

Today His mercy presides over us as fresh as the sun’s rising. Mercy allows judgment upon wrong steps and the voices that drew us, all the while drawing us away from the fallout. The spiritually mature man knows both judgment and mercy: Were it not for the tender mercy of the LORD—new every morning, we definitely would have been consumed long before now! And were it not for certain judgments, we would be doomed to a self-made wilderness, wandering without moisture, obeying voices of our own goodness.

Today, we choose mercy. We move away from the thing we cannot change and all that goes with it, and turn toward the direction of His voice—His leading. Today, we change both mind and heart and receive redemption we otherwise could not have hoped for or ever imagined.

Amen.

Lamentations 3:22-23 | Jeremiah 29:11 | Isaiah 57

Blessed is the man whose strength is in You,
They go from strength to strength;
Each one appears before God in Zion. Psalm 84:5, 7

At the beginning of the day the Lord speaks. His words set the day in order. He moves in our behalf in ways consistent with the peace He gave in that special morning time with Him. The sense we have is that we have been strengthened for what the day holds. All day long we are aware of divine presence flowing into, and through us—from strength to strength!  We are strengthened with wisdom and a prophetic flow—the Kingdom builds up what might otherwise have been missed or lost. The sense we have this morning is of strength released, actually imparted, and all that we face today “appears before the Lord” through us. His strength speaks as it flows through us. We realize there is a supernatural exchange—our prayer is more effective with greater passion and compassion and our faith to receive, greater . . . strengthened!

By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed,
and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she
judged Him faithful who had promised. Hebrews 11:11

Amen.

Influence is directed subtly, can operate without direct or apparent effort, accrues over time somewhat like interest on an investment or debt, and increasingly impacts decisions until suddenly there is the realization: Why am I doing this? When did I make this a priority? When did I change my mind?  

Influence:
Noun 1: a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc; 2: causing something without any direct or apparent effort 3: a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do; 4: the effect of one thing (or person) on another; 5: one having power to influence another; v 1: have and exert influence or effect; [syn: act upon, work] 2: shape or influence; give direction to; [syn: determine, shape, mold, regulate] 3: induce into action by using one’s charm; [syn: charm, tempt] –Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University

Amen.

Romans 12:2 | 2 Corinthians 10:5