Thou shall arise and have mercy upon Zion, for the time to favor her, yeah, the set time has come.
DAILY READING – Matthew 8:1-13; Exodus 39:1-40:38; Proverbs 18
In 1949 in China, after 150 years of missionary labor that cost many missionaries their lives, it was estimated that there were just only about 1 million Chinese Christians existing in China. But only 60 years later, in 2009, the number of Christians in China exploded to about 120 million. Also in Africa after about 100 years of faithful missionary work by people like Dr. David Livingstone, and many others, by 1900, just about a million Christians existed in the whole continent of Africa. But a century later, in 2009, it was estimated that there were over 500 million Christians in Africa. In fact, there are more Churches in Nigeria alone than there are in the whole of England from whence missionaries once came to evangelize Africa. Christianity today is exploding in amazing numbers all over the world. The Bible has now been translated into 3,850 languages, covering 98% of every one of the major world’s languages.
What is happening? There has been a change of season. The season of dominion has come for the Church. And because we are part of the Church, our season of dominion has also come. This is the time in God’s agenda for the Church to dominate and overcome, because Christ is coming for a glorious Church, an overcoming Church.
Israel suffered for many years, in Egypt. But God has already told Abraham in Genesis 15:13-14, ‘Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.’ God already planned their deliverance before their bondage. And at the set time and season, He sent a deliverer. The tables were turned in favor of Israel. God backed them up with His power, and brought His people out victoriously. Why? Because the set season of their deliverance had come.
Today, victory is God’s end time agenda for the Church. Psalm 102:13 says ‘Thou shall arise and have mercy upon Zion, for the time to favor her, yeah, the set time has come.’ We are now in the set time and season for God to favor the Church. When it is the season of anything, there is no struggle to get results. When it is rainy season you do not struggle for things in your garden to grow, they just grow naturally because the rainy season has come.
Now in God’s plan and purpose, this is the set season of your victory. And everything that has been fighting you must bow now, because the season of victory has come in Jesus’ name. Psalm 110:1-3 says, ‘The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou at My right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of Thy strength out of Zion: rule Thou in the midst of Thine enemies. Thy people shall be willing in the day of Thy power.’ Christ is seated at the right hand of God, waiting for His enemies to be made His footstool, before He returns for the Church. In God’s agenda, it is therefore the time for His people to terrorize the camp of the wicked. Defeating your enemies at this time should be very easy, because God is backing you up. God is backing up the Church now for victory because this is the season of our dominion.
PRAYER Lord help me to be a partaker of the goodness You have stored up for Your people in this season, may I never miss my portion in Jesus’ name.
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God is preparing you for the season He prepared for your breakthrough. WORDBITE 222.
[ADAPTED FROM THE BOOK OPEN HEAVENS]