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Jesus in Center Place — Graces you and me
With Greater Glory!
(Source: Richard Croft) |
Pastor Joseph Prince of New Creation Church spoke over the year 2013 a year of great provision and victory. Citing unprecedented rain and snowfall in Israel, he declared a year of open doors for the Body of Christ.
In prior sermons, he shared that every Psalm speaks of a year, from Psalm One which corresponds to 1901.
Psalm 113 corresponds, then, with 2013.
In that Psalm, the singer speaks of the great graciousness and goodness of God, who takes the poor out of the dust, the needy out of the dunghill, to set them with princes, even the princes of His people.
This wonderful declaration speaks to every person who believes on the Lord Jesus Christ, who takes us from dead in our trespasses to alive and seated in heavenly places.
To be seated with princes? We are seated with the King of Kings, Jesus Christ, our Prince of Peace!
The last verse of Psalm 113 speaks of a barren woman keeping house, becoming a merry mother of children.
This wonderful miracle corresponds to these prophesied wonders:
"1Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD." (Isaiah 54: 1)
Paul references this wonderful promise to the Galatians:
"27For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
"28Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
29But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him
that was born after the Spirit, even so
it is now." (Galatians 4: 27-29)
When we realize the fullness of our new standing in Christ, that we receive His righteousness, that we receive His perfect standing before God the Father, we find that His grace can flow fully in our lives.
I submit that in my life, the year 2013 was the year of being established in righteousness, learning that my true identity is in Christ, with Christ, not with myself, and certainly having nothing to do with what I do or say or have. Everything that we have, we have because of Jesus.
When we know who we are, or rather whose we are, then we can look forward to Christ causing us to triumph in all things (2 Corinthians 2: 14), that in Christ we are more than conquerors in all things (Romans 8: 37), that concerning all things we can prosper and be in health (3 John 2).
We are Christ's, and Christ is God's (1 Corinthians 3: 23)
With this powerful revelation established for us, let us look to 2014, and the banner Psalm for this year of Greater Glory: Psalm 114!
1When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
2Judah was his sanctuary,
and Israel his dominion.
3The sea saw
it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
4The mountains skipped like rams,
and the little hills like lambs.
5What
ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan,
that thou wast driven back?
6Ye mountains,
that ye skipped like rams;
and ye little hills, like lambs?
7Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
8Which turned the rock
into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
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