You Will Win. You will get through this

A word of encouragement from Lord

“You will win. You will get through this. You will endure. You will come through this and out the other side victorious. The battle cannot be judged from your earthly view. Only from My position can the outcome be determined. That is because I alone, the God of all grace, have determined the outcome. Remember My words to you. Remember My promises. Remember My commitment, My covenant to you. Remember that I will never leave you. I will never forsake you. Remember that in this world you will have affliction. But be of good courage for I have overcome the world. No weapon forged against you will prosper. The enemy, your enemy has forged a weapon. That weapon has been designed to wear you out. That weapon’s purpose has been to cause you to forget. That weapon has been waging against you unrelentingly for over three years. The only way to survive this onslaught has been and will continue to be by My grace alone. It is only by remaining in My grace that you will be victorious.”

Return to the basics

We are coming out of a challenging and difficult season which has left many worn, weary and depleted. It’s almost as if parts of ourselves has been erased. Some are so fractured from what I’m going to call warfare, of the past two and half years, that it’s hard to imagine ever being yourself again. Some are just so exhausted they don’t even know how they are getting through the day. Yet, somehow, some way we are still here. It might feel like we are losing the battle but the Lord says,

Yes, this is a time to return to the basics

That might sound easy for some of you. But for those who have been hardest hit during this current warfare season, returning to the basics seems like an insurmountable task. I can say this not as some off the cuff prophetic word, but because I am one of those people. The basics seem out of reach.

I have been crying out to the Lord for relief, for help of any kind. And frankly, at times, it seems as if I’m not being heard. The only thing that keeps me going is grace. It’s today’s grace. Because grace exists in the here and now. Grace is a lot like the manna that was provided to sustain the Israelites in the wilderness. It was just for today. When you tried to use leftover grace, like the leftover manna, it’s gone off. Unlike our Thanksgiving leftovers that are better the second day, grace is meant to be consumed in the moment. It’s just for today. That’s how grace works.

The Basics is God’s Sustaining Grace

I’m talking about the sustaining grace, the empowering grace. There’s the grace to receive salvation but that isn’t the end of grace. That’s just the beginning. Grace is so much more. Grace is a power given by God. It is an enabling power. It can be the ability to fulfill the Lord’s will, or commissioning. It can be the ability to do what one may not be able to do in their own strength, or capacity. It is a divine empowerment. To remain in God’s grace rather than resorting to trying to accomplish something by our own means and devises can be a challenge. After all, we’re human. And it is human nature to do things by using our human capacity. Grace goes beyond that. Grace is bigger than that. Grace is supernatural. And it has taken this supernatural ability embedded within grace to get us through.

A Reminder

I want to take you back to something the Lord spoke to me at the onset of 5782 [the fall of 2021]. It was at that time that the Lord was showing me something coming that was going to be much like what was described in Daniel 7:25 “And he will … and wear down the saints of the Highest One…”. Holy Spirit kept repeating this phrase to me after I posted my book discussing what the Lord had given me for the Hebraic year 5782. (link to book)

As I continued to inquire of the Lord for insight, He began to show me the warfare that was coming. In it I saw a tactic of the enemy to wear down humanity in an effort to render the saints of God ineffective.

How do we fight this battle?

When I inquired as to how to combat this enemy the Lord spoke very clearly to me that this was a battle that could only be one by remaining in His grace. He reminded me of the words of the apostle Paul when he was being tormented by a messenger of Satan.

2 Corinthians 12:7–9 (NASB) Because of the extraordinary greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself! Concerning this I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might leave me. And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

Holy Spirit also reminded me of the verses He had impressed upon me for the year 5782. They were 1 Peter 5:10 and Isaiah 43:19.

1 Peter 5:10 BSB – And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.

Isaiah 43:19 NLT For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.

I have to honest. When the Lord gave me the same two verses for 5783 (fall of 2022) I was a bit disheartened. Then, when we got to 5784 (fall of 2023) I began to see that God was in fact going to get us through by His grace. I started to see a progression of recovery. I expected 5784 to a time to see full recovery. I was wrong in that respect. However, as we approached the end of 5784 I was started seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. I will admit, at times it is difficult to decipher what God is speaking to me for my personal life and what is intended for a broader audience.

Hold On

I want to encourage all those who felt like they are lagging behind or out of the race completely. Hold on. Help is on the way. Restoration has already been promised. Strength will be coming back. I know it doesn’t feel like it right now. I know it seems like it will never happen. But it will. At the same time, it isn’t going to be by human endeavor that we get there. It is only by grace. Grace is what has carried us through. It will be by God’s grace that strength begins to return. It will be by grace that the weariness will begin to fall away. It will be by grace alone that we will feel like ourselves again.

Having said that, it doesn’t mean that we don’t have our part. What is our part? Our part is to partner with Holy Spirit. You see, Holy Spirit is right now praying.

Romans 8:26–28 (NASB ) -Now in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

I like how the Message Bible conveys these verses.

Romans 8:26–28 (MSG) Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.

Jesus ever lives to make intercession for the salvation of mankind.

Hebrews 7:24–25 (NASB) Jesus, on the other hand, because He continues forever, holds His priesthood permanently. Therefore He is also able to save forever those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

Once we receive salvation through Jesus Christ, we become the dwelling place of God. Now, being born from above {John 3:3] the indwelling Holy Spirit intercedes on our behalf, praying the will of God. Prayer goes up like a pleasing aroma unto God, like the smoke of incense rising. [Rev. 5:8, 8:3, 8:4]

Picture This.

We are the temple of the Holy Spirit [1 Cor. 6:19] the temple of the Living God [2 Cor. 6:16]. As the earthly temple of God, internally we become similar to the tabernacle and the temple in design.

Within the sanctuary there is the holy place and the Holy of holies. In the holy place is the table of showbread, the menorah and the altar of incense. As a nation of priests unto God [Rev. 1:6; 5:10] our role is in service to God. Like the priests of the Old Testament, we perform this service in the sanctuary. That equates to our inner life with God.

Here’s what that looks like. We have the Holy Spirit, the Lord Jesus Christ and the Father living on the inside of us.

Galatians 2:20 (NASB) I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

John 14:23 (AMP) Jesus answered, If a person [really] loves Me, he will keep My word [obey My teaching]; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home (abode, special dwelling place) with him.

John 14:16–17 (AMP) And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever— The Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and recognize Him. But you know and recognize Him, for He lives with you [constantly] and will be in you.

John 14:26 (AMP) But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Standby), the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name [in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf], He will teach you all things. And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you.

Holy Spirit is not only sending up prayers like smoke signals, He is also teaching us, comforting us, and strengthening us. So, even when it feels like there is nothing going on in there, we can be assured that God is still there. The Father has established His throne in us, like the mercy seat in the Holy of holies. He sits upon the throne. He has not abdicated His monarchy. He resides forever. The Lord Jesus ever lives to make intercession. His blood was applied to the mercy seat in heaven. [Heb. 9:24-25] Jesus’ blood still speaks.

Hebrews 12:22–24 (NASB) But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.

We are the Sanctuary of God

Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiach, resides within us. He and the Father have turned our inner life, their sanctuary, their dwelling place. Holy Spirit lives there, right inside of us. God leads us. God guides us. God comforts us. God never leaves us. He never abandons us. And as the apostle Paul said, it is in our weakness that God’s strength is revealed.

2 Corinthians 12:9–10 (AMP) But He said to me, My grace (My favor and loving-kindness and mercy) is enough for you [sufficient against any danger and enables you to bear the trouble manfully]; for My strength and power are made perfect (fulfilled and completed) and show themselves most effective in [your] weakness. Therefore, I will all the more gladly glory in my weaknesses and infirmities, that the strength and power of Christ (the Messiah) may rest (yes, may pitch a tent over and dwell) upon me! So for the sake of Christ, I am well pleased and take pleasure in infirmities, insults, hardships, persecutions, perplexities and distresses; for when I am weak [in human strength], then am I [truly] strong (able, powerful in divine strength).

Remember the verse given as a promise from God for this difficult season, 1 Peter 5:10. — “And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.”

God is going to do it.

He is going to restore what has been drained from you. He is going to restore your strength. He is going to restore your finances. He is going to restore your hope and your peace. He is going to restore your faith. He is going to restore everything that has been taken from you. Stay in grace.

John 15:4–5 (NASB) Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself but must remain in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches; the one who remains in Me, and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

STRENGTH IS RETURNING

Prayer

Heavenly Father, I ask that you extend your grace to each and every individual who is suffering in weakness right now. Extend your grace and restore. Impart your strength where strength has been drained. Undergird each one with your lovingkindness. Renew, restore and bring a fresh empowerment of your amazing grace. Thank you for your faithfulness. Thank you for never leaving us. Thank you for living in us. Thank you for always leading and guiding us in the way that we should go. Thank you for your great love and tender mercies.