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1 Samuel 16:1 ~ The Lord said to Samuel, ‘How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons to be king.”

Have you ever been discouraged before? Samuel was one upset man, and God asked him, “How long will you mourn for Saul?” How long will you mourn for that which did not work out the way you thought it was going to work out?

God gave you mourning as an outlet to process your pain, but it’s not the place for you to take up permanent residence. Samuel had exceeded the “expiration date” of mourning over Saul, and it was time for him to live again. I’m telling you that you have exceeded the expiration date, it’s time for you to live again! I know that you have had things in your life that has not worked out the way that you thought they would family, finances, jobs, relationships and ministry, Today I say to you and to myself, “How long will we mourn this?”

I was at a funeral on Saturday and the MOG said how the people that seem the least likely are the most likely to be blessed! How many times have you seen God use those people in the Bible, I get so encouraged by who God used in the Bible. There are many people God used who I would have not used if I was God, and this should give you hope!  This great man of God, Samuel, battled fear and disappointment, but our Heavenly Father still empowered him to move forward into new things and He is doing the same thing for you too!

God gave Samuel some specific instructions to follow, He told him to Arise! Today, God is saying arise, forget about what happened yesterday, and move forward! The Word says, “One thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13-14! As you arise and move forward, you are moving out of disappointment and despair!

Next God told him to fill his horn, you have to feed your spirit man with spiritual food! Fill up on God’s Ways, Wisdom, and Word and His Holy Spirit will give you Power from on high! Ask God, what is it that He is calling you to do in this hour? Now that you have risen and filled your horn, you can step forward and give God you and get you into your what you were called, assigned and purpose to do in your new season!

Now you can expect the unexpected as you let go of your preconceived ideas of how it has to look. Ask God to give you new eyes to see the morning, because in this movement, you will be moving from mourning to morning! You will have to be like Samuel, you will not be able to use your human reasoning in this new season! (1 Samuel 16:6-7)! Man is always looking on the outside, but God looks at the heart! Stop looking for God in the old things, He is doing something new. What does your new day look like? You see when you go into situations with your mind on who God is, what He can do, and what it will look like, you open yourself up to the possibilities to what the Lord can do through you! But first you have to move past the mourning!

I know that you can relate to Samuel and what he was experiencing; put your name where Samuel name is and what you are mourning in Saul’s place and ask yourself this question, what are you mourning over, what do you need to move past? You see we all have experienced disappointments in life, but you can’t just stay in the mourning stage! At some point and you have to level up and arise and get your hope up and fill your horn with oil! Now you will be influenced by God and what He is doing! And you will experience and embrace the unexpected. As you move from mourning to morning God will usher you into a new season of blessing and joy.

Today, God is saying, how long will you mourn in this place? It’s time to fill your horn and be on your way! God has something new for you! And you can’t get the new until you rid yourself of the old, (this includes your thinking)! For Samuel, God had a new king for him to anoint and to become part of his future, but he couldn’t do that while he was still mourning Saul! The new king was waiting! What new thing is the Lord asking of you? Is there anything old or cold you’re still giving your thoughts, emotions or energies to? Do you need to let go of something in the past so you can embrace the present? I want you to know that your “New” is waiting on you in the fields to relinquish what had been so that you can be a part of what is to be! The New You is Waiting!

May you hear the beautiful and unwavering words of the Lord this morning, arise, be on your way, fill your horn and any way in which the Lord is leading you promises to be a good way, indeed. It’s morning time!

Let’s Pray:
Father, thank You! Thank You for a brand-new day, a new morning, for Your Word says that joy comes in the morning, so I’m going to Thank You again for a new morning. Father I’m so tired of mourning those that have hurt me and disappointed me and today I choose that I will not mourn them another day. I’m putting all of my trust in You to guide me through the process of forgiveness, and I choose to leave reconciliation in Your hands. Father forgive me for making anyone or anything an idol in my life, where my mind stayed on them in the good and the bad, I have to let go! Father, wash my mind and my thoughts, that I may think on good things that will bring You Glory. Father, please teach me how to pray for those that have hurt me, and I know that I can only do that through You God and the Holy Spirit. Father, Thank You for loving me and filling the gap with Your love and peace. Father l, Thank You for teaching and helping me to let go, even when it’s hard, but I know that I have to let go in order to move forward. Father, Thank You for Your patience, kindness, compassion and love, for me in spite of me. Father, I need You like never before in my life and I know that I can’t make it without Your love, for You are everything that I need, You are the very air that I breathe! Father, let me know when it’s time to move on and let go graciously that my heart won’t hurt or be hard, but that I will do right by others simply because I love them and that is all I want to owe someone, love! Father, Thank You for easing my pain as only You can and giving me a brand-new morning to praise and worship You. In Jesus Christ Name! Amen!

Blessings…
Love, Minister Jean

Hebrews 13:8 NKJV ~ “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.”

I normally don’t do repeat devotionals but today I’m led to do just that. As I read it and re-read it, I could not change one Word. In the Word of God, it never changes, it is the same day in and day out! As you read and re-read the Bible, it does not change but you change, and you grow from level to level. So, when you read this in 2021, you were a different person, I’m sure that you have grown; that you have matured in the things of God, how you use to see is not the same as you see today. I pray that you receive that it is time for your Shift to Change for His Glory and for your good!

Everything in your life will change except Jesus Christ, He will remain the same, yesterday, today, tomorrow and forever more! God is the Standard and the Standard is the Word of God!

You are the one that has to change! No one can do this for you, but you. I received this word in March 2021 and shared it with my prayer partner and tonight I heard it again, “it’s time for a Shift Change!” Those of you that have worked in companies where there are multiple shifts that change you will understand the natural nature of this. As some work on the day shift, mid-day shift to early night and then the night shift to early day, and the cycle continues day in and day out. And spiritually you are to be changing every day, moving from level to level and glory to glory!

These two words, “Shift” and “Change” go together like your pulse and your heartbeat, you can’t have one without the other!

To Shift means: to change a place, position, or direction to another place, to MOVE!

To Change means: to make a shift from one place to another, to make radically change, to TRANSFORM!

You see you can’t make a Shift (Move) without making a Change (Transform) something has to happen; you cannot remain the same when you truly come into contact with Jesus Christ and it’s because Jesus Christ never changes that you can change!

I have some questions for you, and I want you to take your time and think about it, write them down and answer them earnestly. What has manifested in your life because of a Shift Change? Are you still the same person that you were this time five years ago, what about this time last year? What has changed in you or changed you? What are you waiting for? Are you still saying that you are a baby in Christ? When will the shift change take place? Or do you think you have more time to decide, Matthew 24:36? Aren’t you ready to move from your old ways and be transformed into the new creature that God designed you to be? Are you ready to walk into your God ordained purpose? Guess what, nobody else can answer these questions for you and nobody else can do what God created you to do!

I have this old antique typewriter and in order to move to the next line you have to press down on the “Shift Key” to move forward, otherwise you will stay on the line that you are on, but what is awesome about this typewriter, is it makes a clicking sound when you press the Shift Key, and this is when the “Change” takes place you hear the sound of the click and then you knew that you had moved to the next line (place)! Listen for the sound in the Spirit, and when you “Shift” from the old you and “Change” to the new you, there will be a sound from Heaven, God rejoices when His Children move to Him and are transformed and renewed into His likeness!

Today, I know that you may be going through some transitions, but just be reassured in your Faith in Jesus Christ, that He is close to you and He hears your hearts cry, Psalm 34:17-18! Some of what you are walking through is to strengthen and stretch you for His use, and in your stretching, He’s refining you in the Fire to remove stuff out and off of you! He gives His strongest soldiers the toughest battles, for He knows that you trust Him and that you will not waiver, because you are more than a conqueror, you are a Child of God! In this place of Shift Change you have to walk by faith and not sight, 2 Corinthians 5:7! In this moment when it doesn’t feel like anything is happening, God is Transforming you in the Move for His Glory!

This weekend be prepared for your Shift Change, it’s coming!

Let’s Pray:
Father, Abba Father, I cry out to You and say Thank You! Thank You for remaining the same, yesterday, today, tomorrow and forever more! Father, Thank You for making it possible for me to change, for I know that in me it’s impossible but in You everything is possible! Father, Thank You for Your Shift Change in my life, I chose You as my Lord and Savior! Father, create in me a clean heart and as You transform me, please remove everything from my life that is not like You, move anything and anyone that would keep me in a stuck or stagnated place. Father, I’m ready to be and do more for You! In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen!

Blessings…
Love, Minister Jean

Daniel 2:20-21 ~ “Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are his. He changes times and seasons; he sets up kings and deposes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.”

God has ordained all the seasons of this world that we experience, fall, winter, spring and summer. He has also ordained the seasons of your life, “The Now Season” and “The Dry Season” and “The Dew Season” and “The Off Season” and this is our devotion for today, The Off Season! 

When I think about the Off Season, I think about sports and what the coach, team and supporters! It’s in the off season that they and you should be preparing for your next season. It’s in these seasons that we can that you learn to trust God! It’s God’s choice of timing, but none of it is by chance or error! As a coach, I’m sure that it is hard to make athletes understand that it is in the off-season where growth and improvement takes place.  It’s in this season that you will put in the work, and this work is always better off in the end! This is a big deal to your coach! 

In June at Hello Gorgeous, Lady Whitney Holland spoke about the seasons of a coach, what you carry, who you coach and how you cover! I’m still feeding on this word! As a coach they have to carry in season and off-season, it’s in this season that not only are they carrying what they have to deal with, but they have to carry those that God has assigned them. It’s in your office-season that you will learn how to pray, how to fast, how to watch, how to wait, how to walk and bend, how to worship and how to work on behalf of somebody else all while you are trusting God with your own off-season! It is in this season that God uses you to coach and cover others! 

So, stop denying the obvious and trying to outrun the unavoidable, you cannot stop the breezes that carry away your best moments. But you can learn to live more wisely in the wind as you coach and cover someone else! You are living your best life now! For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven,” Ecclesiastes 3:1, and God is the one who has made it so. God gives seasons of joy and gladness, seasons for holding and laughing. But on this side of heaven, God gives none of these seasons forever, you must pass through each one, and you must prepare yourself for the next season that you are going through. 

I know that there will be some things that try to distract you in your off-season, to stop you from paying attention, but you must stay focused and deny the enemy for this season will be of the utmost importance, so you must work hard now! I know that you may see others relaxing, but this is not your season to retreat, but it’s time to work, time to do, it’s not the time to just sit inside, it’s time for you to get out and outside of the four walls! As wise as Solomon was, he said that it will take effort on your part to work, to do the work that God called you too! 

In this Off-Season spend time working on the things you struggle with as a disciple so that when your season rolls around, God will see you working and not wasting the time that He has given you! As a Christian you must constantly strive to grow closer to God. I read a quote from a promising high school quarterback he said, “If kids our age would spend as much time reading the Bible as they do on video games, what kind of world would we have today?” Interesting thought. I will ask the same question to you adults, if you would spend more time in the Word of God and praying, what would you seasons look like? You see God in all His tender and merciful timing, the giver of “every good gift” takes back the treasures he lent, reminding us that they never truly belonged to us” James 1:17.  It’s like the beams from the sun, your seasons are not your own, they belong to God and so do you! 

In this Off-Season you are being commissioned by God to Consecrate yourself, to pray, too fast and to worship! You are to be slow to speak, yet’ quick to hear what the Holy Spirit is saying to you! For in this Off-Season there is going to be a cataclysmic shift in heaven to deliver revelation and wisdom from God and you will see tangible manifestations of what happens when you labored in prayer during the off-season in every sphere of your life! Don’t despise your off-season, embrace it, for it will make you better for your next season, no matter what it may be! Just remember every season of your life is ordained by God! 

Let’s Pray:

Father, Thank You! Thank You for every season of my life. Father, continue to grow and groom me in whatever season that I am in! Father, help me to grow, to be disciplined, to have wisdom and to increase my faith. Father, please forgive me for being lazy. Help me identify areas in which I need to be better in my spiritual walk and the work that You have called me to do in season and out of season. For I know that I cannot do anything without You, but in You and through You I can do all things. For everything is for You and Your Glory! In Jesus Christ, Name. Amen!

Blessings…

Love, Minister Jean

Romans 5:6 NIV ~ “You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.”

Galatians 4:4-5 NIV ~ “But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, [5] to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.”

Today, I am thinking about the precision of God’s timing. There is a door I believed would have opened up for me, but it has remained closed. This has thrown me off s little and couldn’t believe that God didn’t guide me where I had previously expected. However, I had to remind myself about the precision of God’s timing. Everything is done in God’s timing, so many times we try to go ahead of God and do it like we want and every time we do that we get into trouble. Sometimes, you may be in the right season, but it still may not be the right time for something to materialize for you. While your timing is off, God’s timing is always Perfect!

How often do you think about God’s timing being off? Have you ever felt like you were in need, and you needed God to come right away because you could not help yourself out in anyway. You said to yourself God, “I need You to come and act quickly and decisively on my behalf!” I’m sure this is how Mary and Martha felt, they thought that Jesus was late, after all He waited two days to begin His journey after receiving word that their brother, Lazarus, was sick. They thought He would come immediately to Bethany, but He intentionally delayed His trip for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it (John 11:4). God’s timing is perfect, even when you are not sure about it! 1 Peter 5:6, “Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper
time.”

In prayer on December 4, 2023, Apostle Comery ministered this about “Time and Chance!” He said that there are important variables in a believer’s life; it’s where the trajectory of your life can change, and that timing is perfected by God, and it will propel and prepare you for life that you are meant to live.
He said these 4 things happen when time and chance connect:
1. When they meet, it interrupts everything that you have going on and that you need to follow Jesus as He will intervene your comfort zone.
2. The perfect timing of God is Kairos and Chronos timing. It makes the impossible, possible. Kairos is measured by seasons and not days. The natural will say no, the spirit will say yes.
3. God puts a halt to all of your hinderances when time and chance comes together. Everything that was blocking you has been stopped! This becomes the perfect timing of God!
4. When time and chance meets, He releases favor in unfavorable conditions. You need God when you have run out of all of possibilities. You will say, I need thee oh God and mean it! Ecclesiastes 9:11-12!

In this season, God is inviting us to take steps of faith that will bring powerful breakthroughs and reevaluate what you spend your time on and what you think about. During this time in your life, God is offering you an invitation to cultivate your faithfulness. Show up even when it seems like nothing is happening. Take time to dream and imagine the promises God has given you instead of fears and doubts. Right now, it’s time to take steps of faith towards what God has called you to do.

You must learn to wait on His timing! God’s hand delayed leads to God’s glory displayed! God’s timing sets everything in order in just the right time for you! God is never late. He is never early. He is always, perfectly on time! Today, I want you to try this, instead of trying to manipulate time, trust God and know that He is working in perfect rhythm with His Glory and that at just the right time, He will act in accordance with His Sovereign Will! Declare the perfect timing of God! Get ready for this time. The time is now to be at the feet of God, and you will need to have great discernment. You need to become so sensitive to the Holy Spirit, that you know where to be and when to be there, the Precise Timing of God!

I want to leave you with this question? What is your spiritual clock saying to you this morning? Is it set to God’s standard or to your own?

Let’s Pray:
Thank You Father for this beautiful day that I have never seen before! I will rejoice and be glad in it! Father, I come to You today seeking Your guidance and wisdom. I know that You have a plan for my life and that everything will happen in Your perfect timing. Father, help me to remain patient and faithful in my times of waiting, even when I don’t understand Your plan! Father, give me discernment to recognize the opportunities and doors that you are opening for me and for those that are staying closed. Father, give me the courage and faith to step through those doors, even when it means leaving my comfort zone. Father, Thank You for being the God of Perfect Timing!  I have put all of trust that in You, and I surrender my life and my timing to you. Father, remind me throughout Your day to trust your timing and to know that everything will happen according to Your plan. Father, I know that waiting on Your timing doesn’t mean that I can just sit by idly and do nothing, but I must take action and pursue the desires and passions that You put on the inside of me and to remain open to the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the leading of Your plan for my life and to know that the right time and the set time in my life is orchestrated by You! In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen!

Blessings…
Love, Minister Jean

Psalm 102:13 ERV ~ “You will rise up and comfort Zion. The time has come for you to be kind to Zion.”

In this new season that you are walking into, walk in it doing something for God! And know that what you have or have not done up until this moment will not cancel out your future blessings from God when you choose to obey Him! Repentance has re-routed you back to Him, His Presence and His Glory!

God is pouring His living water into you, and in the pouring out of that same water, you are being changed and moved into your God ordained purpose. This new change will be at a 180-degree turn, there will be no more 360 degree turns for you, for there is no going back to where you were! There is “No Looking Back”, so stop avoiding the process! I know this seems hard, but appreciate what your Father is doing, He has saved you from you! It’s time for you to release and relax and let go and move forward!

Whatever God tells you to do today in this new season, it would be in your best interest to find yourself doing it! There is a servant leader in you waiting to emerge and serve God’s children, so receive the gift of servitude, for it will give you the ability and the endurance to carry out God’s instructions properly this time!

And again, I say come into your new season doing, doing what you have been commissioned, called and chosen to do! All the tools and talents that you need have already gone before you and God is waiting for you to collect them at each junction that He has sent you on as you have journeyed in this land. Did you hear Him, “what you need is already there” (and some of your wants just because He loves you)!

It may seem like it’s not the right time for you to move on to move forward because of where you are and what you are walking through, but God says “It’s Time!”, He’s getting ready to do something off schedule and off season in your life and it is going to require your obedience and willingness to follow Him, this is where your faith needs to kick in and this won’t be done in your time, but in His time, because His time is the perfect time and fit for you!

Let’s Pray:
Father, Thank You! Thank You for loving me so much and reminding me of Your promises to me! Thank You for pouring and re-pouring Your Word and Your Wisdom in me! Father, my heart longs for time with You, time in Your Presence is everything to me today and every day! Father give me the strength to accept and move in this place that I am in, for I know that Your timing is not my time and everything that You do, You do perfectly for my life. Help me trust You in all things knowing that You are working everything out for my God because I was chosen by You and for You. Father, I will walk into my next season doing the work that You have anointed, ordained and appointed me for. In Jesus Christ Wonderful Name. Amen!

Blessings…
Minister Jean

Proverbs 19:2 ERV ~ “Being excited about something is not enough. You must also know what you are doing. Don’t rush into something, or you might do it wrong.”

Hello you! Yes, I’m talking to you, you are reading this devotional right now; Impatience will get you into trouble, don’t rush, take your time!

God has good things planned and prepared for your life; you just have to go through the process! I know your nature is to want it now…not later. And you can find yourself being tempted to ask God when, when it doesn’t happen the way, you want it! God knows that you need to mature in some areas before He gives you certain things, you need to grow in the area of trusting God instead of focusing on the “when” and the “why “question.

I know sometimes it can be frustrating when you’re in a hurry and you think God isn’t moving fast enough for you! I want to let you know what I have learned, God is never, ever in a hurry! The Word of God says a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day to God, 2 Peter 3:8! So, if you’re missing joy and peace, you’re not trusting God. If your mind feels worn out all the time, you’re not trusting God. You can’t force God to move when you want Him to move!

No matter who or what you do, will never cause God to move in your time, so it’s really useless for you to waste your time trying to cause God to speed! You see when you (me) try to take matters into our own hands and help God out, we get in trouble. It’s like when God puts something into your spirit, instead of you waiting on Him, you go into your go mode instead of being patient in God’s in His waiting room, you start trying to figure out ways of doing God’s plan on your own, you are headed for trouble!

The Word says in Psalm 37:7, “Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.” You see there is peace in waiting and resting in God, this is your act of faith. It means you’re waiting on and in God and you are not going to allow the “wait” to “weigh” you down! I know that you remember the story of when the disciples were in the boat with Jesus and a storm arose and Jesus was sleeping, and when they woke Him up, they asked Him, why are you sleeping Lord, save us, because if You don’t, we are going to drown! This is what happens when you try to go ahead of God, you will drown in you! Jesus said, where is your faith, and why are you afraid, Jesus has you, and in just the right moment, He got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm, Matthew 8:25-26! You will not sink as long as you keep Jesus with you!

God says, “Don’t fret. Remember that He is always with you, and you can trust His timing, it’s perfect! Stop worrying, it will make you miserable and make you try to do it in your strength and just to be clear, you have no power, only God has the Power to control time! Don’t worry, trust God to work it out, He knows when you are ready to move to your next moment. Know that God is working in and through you while you are on your way to your destination, the one that He predestined for you from the beginning!

Let’s Pray:
Thank You Father, for being a God of perfect timing. I trust Your plans for me are far greater than I could ever imagine, and I surrender my life and my timing to You and Your Way. Father, please remind me throughout the day to trust in Your timing and to have faith that everything will happen according to Your plan. Help me be open to the opportunities and doors that You have destined to be open for me, even if they aren’t what I expected or planned for. Father, I know that waiting on your timing doesn’t mean sitting idly by, that I must be about Your business. Father, I will take action and pursue my passions, but I will always remain open to the guidance of Your Holy Spirit and the leading of Your plan for my life. Father, I will put all of my trust in You, even in my seasons of waiting, I will wait patiently for You and I won’t be weighed down by the weight of this world, for I know that Your timing is perfect. Father, fill my heart with faith, peace and joy as I wait, hope and believe in Your perfect time as I watch Your faithful plan unfold just for me, and I know that everything is for Your Glory. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen!

Blessings…
Minister Jean

Leviticus 6:13 ~ “The fire shall be burning continually on the altar; it shall not [be allowed to] go out.”

Hebrews 12:29 ~ “For our God is a consuming fire.”

As we bring this week to an end, let’s really go back and study the Altar and how God is meeting you there and how to never let the Fire go out, it must burn continually! Let’s end with the same scripture that we started our week with!

Let’s really look at this refining process and the purpose for fire, it’s for purification! The Fire of God shows you how God continually works in your life, making you the best version of you and how to live a Holy and Righteous life as a Christian for His Glory! There is a Purpose in the Fire, and if you ever doubted it, spend some true time at the Altar, you will learn. I know what I know now because of the Altar!

You do know that above all else that your heart is deceitful above all things, and it is wicked: who can know it? Nobody but the Lord! Jeremiah 17:9-10! And the Lord is going to reward you according to your heart, (1 Kings 8:39), you cannot escape what’s in your heart, for what’s in you in bound to come out of you! so this why the Altar and the consuming Fire is so important and necessary for you, it cleanses your mind and purifies your heart that you might have right motives and clean hands.

Think about the firing pot, the silver and gold, each one has to be purified by two different pots, but there is only one fire. As you can the silver was tried in the firing pot and the gold in a furnace! Proverbs 17:3 ~ “The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the heart.” But your heart is purified by God through His Fire!  Man can refine silver and gold, but you cannot refine your heart! Nobody can, only God can change your heart, can’t nobody do you like the Lord!

Do you really know what God is a Consuming Fire means? You first need to know what consuming means. It can mean to use up, to destroy or annihilate, or to absorb the attention of someone or something. In the Word it means, plan to cleanse and to purify, to rid sin from your heart and the fire is used as a form of purification and refining. With that being the said, what are the things in your life that you want God to burn off of you and never come back?

What about releasing your fleshly and selfish desires, God wants you to remember who has brought you through your Red Sea! Never ever forget it.  “Be careful not to forget the covenant of the Lord your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the Lord your God has forbidden. For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God” Deuteronomy 4:23-24! This requires that you release any and everything that you have put before God.  As you stay on the Altar, and never let your Fire go out, God’s consuming Fire will burn away everything that is not like Him, and it will keep you from falling into sin and idolatry. You do know that God can’t bless you in your sin. Because to bless you in your sin would violate His Holiness and Righteousness!

God knows you; He knows what you are afraid of and what you boast about, He knows your strengths and weaknesses, your temptations and your secrets, and He knows what sets you off and what shuts you down! So, He refines you of the sins that so easily beset you by burning it away with His consuming fire on the Altar. Humble yourselves before Him, because He will humble you in the furnace of afflictions to test and try your faith in adversity! He will use the firing pot of infirmities to build up your dependence on His Grace!

Another thing, His Consuming Fire is for Him, for His Glory and Majesty. It’s for His Glory and your good. “When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple. The priests could not enter the temple of the Lord because the glory of the Lord filled it. When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the Lord above the temple, they knelt on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, ‘He is good; his love endures forever’” 2 Chronicles 7:1-3! There is nothing else like being in the Presence of an awesome God! For when He shows up, everything that is around you and in you that would hinder a move of God in your life gets consumed, nothing will be left, for nothing else can stand in His Presence and survive! You have been purified on the Altar and you don’t even smell like smoke, because that’s the kind of God you serve!

So today, fan the flames of the fire through reading and studying the Word of God and lay it all on the Altar! You want your heart, right? Then how can your heart be purged, purified and prepared without going through the fire of God, (Psalm 139:23-24). You must surrender all on the Altar, to get rid of all of your impurities, that they may be moved to the top and God can remove the dross, (dross is everything that hinder the true you from being pure and ready for use), that you will be ready and fit for service in the Kingdom of God, in the earth realm! This is a part of the process, to be purged, purified, and prepared by God’s Consuming Fire! 

The process may be is painful, but the outcome is oh so are Glorious! Today, submit your heart to His Consuming Fire and watch what explodes in your life, the Peace of God and the Love of God will be your portion every day as you have spent quality time in the Presence of your Father and the Shekinah Glory is dwelling upon you!

 Don’t despise the Consuming Fire, embrace it!

Let’s Pray:
Thank You, for the truth of Your Word and for this reminder today to keep my fire burning. Lord, I want the fire of my faith to burn bright and hot for everyone to see! Father please continue to be the passion that fuels the fire in my heart. Father, Thank You! Thank You for purging me by the fire of Your Holy Spirit. Thank You Father, for cleaning and cleaning my mind that I may think like You! Father, continue to burn through me and push the dross and impurities to the surface of my life, because the more dross that You remove, the better I will be! Lord.  Father as You allow Your fire to consume my life, I pray that Your Word becomes an inferno in my life and that it will become ablaze for Your Glory to advance Your kingdom on this earth as I do what You have assigned me to do. Father, I pray that Your fire shall always burn in my life and that it never goes out! Father, purify my heart that I may love like You! Father, guide me, that Your purpose and Presence will shine brightly through me! Father, show me today what to do with the fire that You gave me and how I can share some fuel to get someone else’s fire started. Father, I’m going to praise and worship You through this process, for I know that it is for my good and Your Glory! In the Name of Jesus Christ! Amen!

Blessings…
Minister Jean

Romans 12:1 ERV ~ “So I beg you, brothers and sisters, because of the great mercy God has shown us, offer your lives as a living sacrifice to him-an offering that is only for God and pleasing to him. Considering what he has done, it is only right that you should worship him in this way.”

As I reread the devotionals on the Altar from this week, my mind fell on BBQ, and when my dad tried to teach me how, (y’all let me just say, that it was a full-time job, lol.) My dad took this very seriously, he loved it, so much that he built his own grill to perfection just like he wanted it. Grilling was an art form to my dad; he had all the utensils and stuff! But as I thought about the grill and how and what we put on it, I thought about how and what we put on the altar when we go to our Father! 

As for the grill, you had certain steps to follow, first you had to have the right type of coals, then you needed lighter fluid; you had to the soak the coals in the fluid, and they had to be positioned just right on the grill so that everything could cook evenly and perfectly. So, if grilling has all these steps, just think about what you have to do in order for your altar to be just right. First you need to start with your heart, Psalm 51:10, your heart must be right, and you have to be willing to come clean and let go. I love this quote by George Hartwell, he said this perfectly, “I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all, but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.” So, whatever you want to keep it will destroy you and you will lose everything. But whatever you put in God’s Hands on the Altar, God takes care of it, through the continuous burning of the fire. Leviticus 6:13! 

I am in no way comparing God’s Altar to grilling, but just because so many people are at different stages I wanted to use this analogy. Here’s the differences between putting something on the grill and laying it at the altar, on the grill you consume what has been sacrificed.  But on the Altar, God consumes what is sacrificed. Did you get it, the grill you choose what you will give; but on the Altar, you give it all up, you lay it all down! So, what are you putting on the Altar today? What do you need to get rid of? You need to make a conscious decision to live on the Altar, it can’t be a one-time thing. All of us reading this devotional needs to be living on the Altar, embracing the Shekinah Glory! You see you have to make the decision to stay there, and you know that we don’t like to be anywhere for too long, it becomes a problem being a living sacrifice every day, we get tired, and then we just crawl off the altars when we no longer want to be obedient. You need to pray this scripture every day, Romans 12:2 NKJV, “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Learn how to tarry at the Altar!

I want you to hear me clearly, you must stay on the Altar as your life is being refined and presented to God as a living and holy sacrifice! This is what I want you to learn and get it in your spirit about today’s scripture, it matters to God how you live your life! Just because you are saved by grace does not mean you have been given a free pass to live however you want to live. You are called to live Holy and Righteous lives. It is incumbent upon you that you live in a manner that is pleasing to God. It is not enough to God that you are saved. God desires for you to be sanctified and conformed into the image of His Son, Jesus Christ daily!

Today, ask God to cleanse and strip everything off of you that is not like Him! Release, Release, Release! It’s time to release it and what better place, than the Altar! It’s at the Altar that you will find Glory in the cross, it is where you can lay flat on the threshing floor, the place of separating, it is the altar of God; just be still and watch God do a separating in your life, for everything that is not like God, gets consumed by Him at the Altar. It is also in this place that God feels you with everything that you need to blossom in Him. Yes, I know it’s not an easy journey, but I need you know it’s necessary for you to live! Ask God to make you attentive in this place, where your eyes and ears are aligned to His Will, Way and Word! 2 Chronicles 6:40, “Now, my God, may your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.”

I know that you have heard this before but find yourself a sacred place in your home where you can offer up of prayers to your Father who is in Heaven and is listening to every word that comes out of your mouth, and He loves to hear you pray His Word back to Him! Today, pray that the place where you are praying becomes the place where The Lord meets you and answers your prayer and where you see and believe that you serve a prayer answering God! It’s where the Shekinah Glory settles upon you and dwells, there with you! 

It’s in this sacred place and time of prayer that your prayer life is birth and built! It becomes personal right here! This is where you learn what an Altar’s real purpose is and what it’s not. You move from selfish to selfless! Your Altar is not for performing, it’s for worshipping! It’s not a place to compete with anyone else, it’s a place where God completes a thing in you! Your Altar is not for personal applause; it’s for the Glory of God to be seen in you and by you, it is called your audience for One! Your Altar is where you serenade the King of kings and Lord of lords! Your Altar is where every imperfect thing in you is perfected by Him! Your Altar is where you ascend; an where God descends and delivers heaven’s edicts! Your Altar is the place where God has full access and control, it’s where you are renewed and refreshed before your day starts and it’s your cleansing place when your day ends! 

Let’s Pray:

Father Thank You for the gift of prayer. Thank you for making your eyes and ears attentive to my prayers that I’m praying at the Altar! Father, as I come to You now, on the Altar, I’m seeking You and Your Word like never before. I ask that Your grace would be upon me and that You would work through me, purge and prune anything ungodly from me on the Altar, that I may be Your mouthpiece to speak and teach Your Word to a dying nation. Father, I pray that You would go before me to every person that I will meet today and give me wisdom and discernment before I open my mouth. Father, I desire that Your Holy Spirit be at work in the mind and heart of everyone who will read and study this devotional today. Father may Your blessings be upon me this day and turn every ordinary moment into an extraordinary moment because I didn’t go on my own, but I went way of Your Altar, and you changed me. Thank You Father for what happened to me at the Altar, You made me over, afresh and anew, and I met You there and I have never been the same! It was for my good and Your Glory! 

Blessings…

Minister Jean

Exodus 40:34-38 ~ “Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Moses could not enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. In all the travels of the Israelites, whenever the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle, they would set out; but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out—until the day it lifted. So the cloud of the Lord was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the Israelites during all their travels.”

You know as we have been speaking on Altar’s this week and truly experiencing God. I wanted to make sure that I bring this point to the forefront of your mind! You can’t be on the Altar and not have a Shekinah Glory Moment! 

Do you really know what Shekinah means and where it came from? It is a Hebrew word that means for something to dwell or to settle upon. settling. In the Bible it represents the Presence of God is settling or dwelling over you. It’s when you are at your Altar worshiping God and the Presence of God manifest right there with you, you are now exposed to the Shekinah Glory! Oh, what time that you are having right now!  This is what a real experience in the Presence of God looks, feels and sounds like!

In a commentary written by Dr. Tony Garland, he says this about the Shekinah Glory, “it is the majestic presence or manifestation of God in which He descends to dwell among men. Whenever the invisible God becomes visible, and whenever the omnipresence of God is localized.” You see it’s right here in today’s scripture that you see the Presence of God, for His Glory was represented by a cloud in the day and fire in the cloud by night! His Glory was always present, and just as He was there with them, He is here with you, remember God is spirit and His Spirit dwells within you now.

So how do you experience the Shekinah Glory today, since God is not in the cloud by day and the fire by night like He was in the Old Testament? You have to seek Him with all of your heart, while He may be found. Now in order to see the Glory of God, to experience the Shekinah Glory, your heart must be right! You see the Glory of God went from dwelling in tents and temples to dwelling in the hearts of men. 1 Corinthians 6:19, “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?” So now the Shekinah Glory is ever-present with you because the Holy Spirit dwells on the inside of you. 

Now you don’t have to worry about God’s Presence leaving you, He’s with you wherever you go; Psalm 139:7-10 KJV, “Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? [8] If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. [9] If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; [10] Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.” So, as you can see by the Word of God, you can never get away from Him! 

Now as you spend time at the Altar and the Fire of the Holy Ghost comes upon you, you will become more aware of God’s Presence as you are praying and worshipping Him, and no two times will be alike, for you will be moving from level to level, going higher and higher in the things of God! God has given you the greatest gift ever, His Holy Spirit. As you have laid it all on the Altar, you have confessed and repented and God has cleansed your mouth, you are ready! You are ready to embrace the Power of the Shekinah Glory and to experienced it in your life like never before! 

It is at this juncture that you have taken the time to lean into and allow the Holy Spirit to work in your life. For every single thing that you need to live this life has been given to you through the Holy Spirit. It looks different now because you see different, you recognize who God is to you, it’s not about what He does for you, it’s about what He gives that makes all the difference. The great thing about the Shekinah Glory is that it is not just limited to you being in a church setting, you can experience the Presence of God wherever you are; and when you get to the church setting, you are already on fire, you’re not waiting for someone to light your fire! 

My prayer for each one of you is that you will allow the Spirit of God to dwell in you as you spend time on the Altar! This means that God’s Glory, God’s Anointing, His Wisdom, Love and Power goes into you, that when you look at you, you don’t see any parts of you, because the light of His Glory is covering you up! I pray that the Shekinah Glory fills every part of your life and goes wherever you go! You see when you experience the Shekinah Glory, others will see God’s character in you and it becomes clear and evident that you are who you say you are, a child of the Most-High King! The is proof is in the Power of God and His Shekinah Glory at work in you is the true reflection of His Presence! 

Let’s Pray:

Father Thank You! Thank You for establishing this place where I can meet You and You can dwell and settle in on me. Father, Thank You for this place where Your Glory will be seen shining in and around me. Father, Thank you that You know the plans and purposes that You have for those who will come to You, Thank You for Your plans to prosper me, and to give me hope and a future. Father, I bless all those that can see Your Shekinah Glory on me and that my heart for You leads them directly to You! Father, Thank You for Your Word, and showing me how to seek You with all my heart, Philippians 2:13. Father, fill me with Your Shekinah Glory and let me enter into the Holy of Holies. Father, today I bless those who pray and intercede on behalf of others. Father, I Thank You for every prophetic gift that you have given me. Father, make me over so that I can be the watchman that You called me to be in this crucial hour! Father, as You have cleaned my lips and stirred up voice, I pray that I may run and speak Your Word just like You gave it to me! Father, I Thank You for Your Power and how You are dwelling with me, please keep my heart, mind and hands clean that I may be of good use to You. Father, I know that I live in a time where the atmosphere changes daily, but Your Word never changes, and it will never lose its Power! Father, use me to bring Your light into to someone else that they may be delivered and come to know You and experience Your Shekinah Glory. Father. Blessings upon this prayer and all prayers prayed in the Name of Jesus Christ, let Your will be done and let Your Shekinah Glory fall on all those that are obedient to You and Your Word! It’s for Your Glory! In Jesus Christ Mighty Name. Amen! 

Blessings…

Minister Jean

Isaiah 6:5-8 NIV ~ “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.” [6] Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. [7] With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.” [8] Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

The more clearly Isaiah saw God the more aware he became that without God he was powerless and unable to do anything of lasting value. You need to acknowledge and accept the truth in your heart that you are going to need what Jesus said you must have. The baptism of Fire must burn within you, the Anointing of the Holy Ghost will make Jesus Christ come alive in your innermost being so that you will not be an imitation of Him, but the likeness of Him will be seen in you. You will have Him on the inside of you, and you will no longer have to strive to work for Him through your own strength and abilities! 

Isaiah watches a vision unfold right before his eyes, he watched in wonder and awe, as this vision was given and directed by God Himself, I mean nobody else could do this scene but God! It was a sacred moment, and it was set a part, it was from God’s lips to Isaiah ears! Have you ever encountered anything like this in your time alone with God, a one-on-one experience? All Isaiah could say was, Lord, Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, he acknowledged that he had fallen short, when is the last time that you truly repented before the Lord, Romans 3:23, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

Isaiah was convicted of being a creature of his culture, he owned the wrongdoing that was truly his, he was on the other end of his own pointing finger. But he remember His Father, yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!” Romans 3:24, “and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.” From the beginning of time, God has been clear about what sin (and that all fall.) God has been clear, crystal clear in His Word about what would happen and what sin would bring. As a matter of fact, God told the first humans that He created what to do and what not to do. For when you trust God, you will heed and obey His Word. But to transgress His instructions, was to die. When you disobey God, you are cutting yourself away from the source of life. 

As you read yesterday, God is calling you to put it on the Altar; that you may be purged of all ungodliness, this is something that you cannot do alone, you need God! God will unfold Himself in your presence when you are going through the experience you must not lose your focus during worship, it’s in this experience that God uses the experience for His purpose in your life and it is going to take heartfelt repentance and confession for God to reach out from the mercy seat with atonement from the altar of sacrifice to cleanse you! 

Do you want your mouth cleaned today? You see you need your purged and cleansed, because sometimes you talk too much and when you do that you don’t always speak right. Your words can ensnare you, (Proverbs 6:2) and you do know that you have to give an account for every single one of them, (Matthew 12:36-37)! So, today I advise you to think before you speak, (Proverbs 16:23)! You see when God touches your lips, it cleanses all of you, your guilt departs, and your sin is blotted out! Do you have a sin that you need to have blotted out? Ask God to touch your lips, with a live coal! It might be hot, but I’m sure that you will prefer that heat over the heat from hell! But the choice is ultimately yours, you choose! 

The cleansing of Isaiah’s lips caused him to see clearly and to connect with God on a higher level! It causes him to go when God said go, without asking where? I’m sure Isaiah’s lips were still on fire, but nevertheless, God had a job for him, and I love how he didn’t ask what the job was first so that he could decide if he wanted to volunteer or not. Can you just follow God, without needing to know the whole plan before you move, and even with that, you still haven’t moved!

When you choose God with your whole heart, it’s easy for you to just move out like Isaiah. He moved because he had an encounter with King. The angels experience led to divine worship unto God, he didn’t notice anything in his surroundings, it was him and God. Think for a moment and ask yourself, have you ever really had a divine worship experience with God like that, that when you left the altar in praise, the smoke from the fire was evidence of where you had been. So now when God says He has a job that needs to be done, your heart cries, pick me Lord, I’ll do anything to serve You. Anything You want done God; I don’t care what the job is. I don’t care where You want me to go, I say yes to You God. 

For this is the hour of the Fiery tongue! Your tongue is meant to be used to be as a witness for the Lord! And yes, it has to happen in this year, 2024, and not because you have had an experience with God, but it is because God knows that you need this experience to fulfill the plan of God in your life. For the time is now for the greatness of the Lord’s Power to be poured out in this final hour over the land! Call on Him in perfect faith, and you who is faithful will see miracle after miracle. The impact of your Anointing will do much to win the souls of the lost in this hour! Isaiah was willing to be God’s spokesman. He gave God a real yes! Where is your true Yes to God? When God calls, will you also say, “Here I am. Send me”? 

Let’s Pray: 

Father thank You! Father, teach me more of Who You are and show me how flawed my I am! Father I repent right now in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ, and I Thank you for cleansing my lips and washing me clean in the Blood of Jesus. Thank You for sending Your Holy Spirit to live in me and for building me up, into the living Temple, with all who are saved by grace, through faith in Jesus Christ. Father, here I am, send me today. Send me today, use me today, wherever and however You want, for I want to spread Gospel of who You are to others, that Your Grace, Mercy and Glory will be seen in the land. Father, I pray every single person who will pray this prayer today. May prayer and praise be the posture of their hearts. Here I am Father, send me today, I give You my Yes! Father, send me share Your love, share Your joy, share Your laughter and Your peace! Father, I pray that wherever you send me today, into the workplace, into the community, into the marketplace, into the city, into the state or into the nation today, Father, I’m not asking where You are sending me, I’m just saying yes, to wherever You want me to go! that I would spread Your Word, for Your Glory! In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen!

Blessings…

Minister Jean