The enemy would love to abort the promises of God in His people right now by baiting us into discouragement, disillusion, faint-heartedness, offense, apathy, and selfish ambition. Any of these can lead us down a path to miscarry the promises of God.

When a woman goes into labor she is taught to breathe. We can do this spiritually by meditating on Christ. We fill our lungs with His breath by focusing our thoughts on Him and following the lead of the Holy Spirit.

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Now is the time to realize that the Lord desires to empower us to move from our current ability to a new level of power strength, or a greater ability of potential in the Lord. This increase is not a one-time touch but a constant and ever-increasing flow of the spirit of might. It will empower us to press through any and all obstacles, limitations, and fears to advance with a perseverance of progressive breakthrough in order to progress to new levels in God's PURPOSE for our life.

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Time once again for our Thought For The Day. Where will this excursion take us to now?

Perhaps it's to a place where you have your eyes on something. Maybe it's a someone. How do you view that person or thing? Is it attractive? Is it pleasing? Now, of course, this is highly subjective, as what one finds beautiful might wind up as something different to another. All of which brings us to this, our Thought For The Day:

Beauty is in the...

'You were made queen for just such a time as this?" Esther 4:14

It takes much effort, faith, and courage to worship when you feel like crying -- to walk around your home declaring victory over things that have been the same for years -- to speak life into those dead relationships, into your body, into your finances, into your business -- to speak the opposite of what you see and feel -- to go against everything the world says.

No one in scripture ever accomplished...

God's desire is that we fully understand our Christ identity and the extent of the calling on the lives of His saints. The call is immense – full of His "kabod" glory, and it is vital to our covenant DESTINY in Christ that we have His revelation on the fullness of the call in this incredible hour we are chosen to serve Him in.

"...according to the power of God, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose...