VOLUME XXXVI NUMBER I Fullness II

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1 VOLUME XXXVI NUMBER I Fullness II FRIDAY, JANUARY 1 Scripture: Genesis 12:1-3 HAPPY NEW YEAR! In Genesis 12:1-3 God established His covenant with Abraham when He said, Get out of your country, From your family And from your father s house, To a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. The Abrahamic covenant forms the foundation for all biblical justice and judgment. How the world treats the covenant church is how God treats the world. If they bless the church, they receive blessing. If they curse the church, they get cursed. To rule is a Kingdom assignment. Once we understand that, we know exactly how to pray for unrelenting enemies. God gave an assignment to the church to enforce His covenant and establish His Kingdom. That assignment gets very strong in the New Testament. We the church are under an assignment from God to establish His Kingdom. And establishing His Kingdom demands certain spiritual actions based on how people or even governments treat the church. When government comes against the church, God demands the church pray judgment on the government. Anything less makes us like Eli or Saul. Saul was sent to execute justice and he decided his standard was better than God's. That is the current condition of the church because of tradition. Tradition can make the Word of no effect and the judicial assignment that God has given the church is currently having little effect because tradition has us acting like Eli rather than modeling the early church. Will we say yes to the fullness of Christ or will we continue to turn-the-other-cheek enabling evil. That choice has to be made and it has to be made soon. SATURDAY, JANUARY 2 Scripture: Genesis 15:1-3 Genesis 15:1-3 says, After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward. But Abram said, Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus? Then Abram said, Look, You have given me no offspring; indeed one born in my house is my heir! God gave Abraham a promise and years later He repeated that promise and Abram offered an objection. And that objection was that God promised him something 20 years prior and He still had not delivered. He asked God for progress and performance on His promise. Abram was stuck because he saw no progress on God's promise. What do we do when we see no progress on God's promises? We continue! That is where faith comes in. Faith is calling those things that be not as though they were. That is what Abraham had to learn to do according to Romans 4. Abraham is the father of all them that believe. He had to learn how to walk with God whenever there was no progress on a promise. Do we see the kind of progress that we would like to see on turning America around? We do not. So this is a season to embrace and cling to faith for the church, for the nation and for every believer. Let us make sure we walk in faith until the season changes! 1

2 SUNDAY, JANUARY 3 Scripture: Genesis 15:4-8 Genesis 15:4-8 says, And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir. Then He brought him outside and said, Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them. And He said to him, So shall your descendants be. And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness. Then He said to him, I am the Lord, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it. And he said, Lord God, how shall I know that I will inherit it? Abraham complained about no progress on the promise. And he ended his complaint in verse 8 with this question, Lord God, how shall I know that I will inherit it? If we think about it, what that is really saying is Abraham knew God had made the promise two or three times, and he wanted something better than just God's promise. He wanted to know he wanted a rock-solid foundation for God's covenant promise. Abraham s question was, How shall I know? It is interesting to note that God responded in a manner that was familiar to Abraham s culture. God responded with a Blood Covenant. It was not God who initiated the demand for a Blood Covenant. The father of faith needed a foundation for his faith. He put a demand on God for assurance. A Blood Covenant provided that. Blood Covenant is a two-way street. But, if Abraham fulfilled God's demand, oh what a promise! This is a year for faith in God's promises. It is a year for a whole new faith movement. And it is a year where an anointing for nations is being poured out and is available for all who will say yes to the preparational price that goes with it. This has the potential for being one of the greatest years we have ever seen in Christ because we are facing the greatest adversity we have ever seen. What an amazing opportunity for the power of God to be in manifestation through the church. This is the season where we are beginning to see the signs of the fullness of Christ rise on the church. It has been worth waiting for years just to see what God is doing now! The Judicial Christ is rising! MONDAY, JANUARY 4 Scripture: Genesis 15:9-14, 1 Samuel 7 Verses 9-13 says, So He said to him, Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a threeyear-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon. Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds in two. And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away. Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him. Then He said to Abram: Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. Abram asked God to give him something so he would know he would inherit it. God's answer was a Blood Covenant where both of them walked between the pieces of separated animals, declared their assets, declared their allegiance to each other and declared a curse which stated Do to me what was done to this animal if I do not fulfill what I agree to do today. And in verse 13,14 God gave Abraham what he asked for: Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. Do we know the God Who covenants to judge an enemy who tries to afflict us? We should! It is the whole foundation for the Blood Covenant that God made with Abraham. And if we are Christ s, we are Abraham s seed, heirs according to the promise. In many nations, government is afflicting the church as never before. Islam is afflicting the church as never before. Our covenant gives us the right to pray and put a demand on God for a response. We can ask that He step in between us and our enemies to weigh to them what they are weighing to us. That is a biblical prayer that appears throughout the New Testament. Are we finding the courage to pray it right now over our Supreme Court, our senators, our president and over every Islamic extremist who are persecuting the church? Sometimes we do not have because we do not ask. This season is erupting with all the fireworks that surround Jesus the Judge when He swings into action. Either we know how to move His Hand or we do not. The prophet Samuel did! 1 Samuel 7 says, And the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel. Are we willing to pay the price that Samuel paid? Are we willing to overcome the spirit of mammon, walk in sexual purity and walk in righteousness? Samuel drew a line of distinction between the previous priesthood of Eli and his priesthood. That line he did not cross his whole life. As a result, he moved the Hand of God judicially his whole life. And the Philistines were subdued under Samuel and Israel because one man chose to live a life of righteousness. What 2

3 would happen today if the church were to choose to live a life of righteousness? Our prayer would move God's Hand and our enemies in our state capitals, in DC and around the globe would bow their knee or they would depart under the weight of God's affliction. Judgment is brewing and God is waiting for His church to move His Hand to subdue the enemies of His Kingdom. TUESDAY, JANUARY 5 Scripture: Isaiah 9:6,7 Isaiah 9:6,7 says, For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. It is obvious from Isaiah that God's Kingdom has to be established. Christ increases His government and peace continually with no end. He sits on the Throne of David and spiritually speaking, over the Throne of David to order and establish it with judgment and righteousness. If we do not learn to pray judgment prayers from a platform of righteousness, then we forfeit Kingdom authority to establish the covenant of God. The Kingdom of God is only established by judgment. If we cannot bring judgment, we cannot establish the Kingdom. And tradition has for decades taught the church we cannot judge. By taking Matthew 7:1 out of context, tradition has taken away a biblical, scriptural weapon that we are called to use. A major purpose of the way of the Lord is to do judgment and tradition has sidelined the church and made the Word of none effect. We have to overcome tradition to establish the Kingdom by praying judgment and do it now! WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6 Scripture: Jeremiah 34:18-20, Psalm 55:15 Jeremiah 34:18-20 says, And I will give the men who have transgressed My covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before Me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts of it the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead bodies shall be for meat for the birds of the heaven and the beasts of the earth. We know from Jeremiah 34:18-20 exactly what God did with Abraham. He made a Blood Covenant. Here we see the leaders and people of Israel making a Blood Covenant with God. The princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests and all the people of the land made a Blood Covenant and they were breaking that Blood Covenant and what did God say He would do to them? He said, I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead bodies shall be for meat for the birds of the heaven and the beasts of the earth. We have the covenant authority to ask God to silence or destroy all those who come against the church! Those who want to silence us get silenced. Is it any wonder that in Psalm 55:15 King David prayed, Let death seize them and take them alive into hell. That is a Godly covenantal biblical prayer for an enemy that is trying to silence our voice and we need to pray it. When it fits and the Spirit leads us, those of us walking from a platform of righteousness should pray it. David had no problem praying it and Jesus says in Revelation 22, I am the root and the offspring of David. The root and offspring literally means the root and fruit. Jesus gave David that prayer and He answered it for him. And death did seize his enemies and they did go alive into hell. When Supreme Court justices, senators, representatives and presidents set themselves as enemies of the church, when the Spirit leads, we can pray David's prayer. The Kingdom of God will be established far more slowly if we fail to pray judgment. We need to learn the Word, meditate on it, understand it and begin doing our job as believers! Let us establish the Kingdom of God and move His Hand for our harvest! THURSDAY, JANUARY 7 Scripture: Hebrews 6:13-20 Hebrews 6:13-20 says, For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you. And so, after he had 3

4 patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute. Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. This passage tells us how strong our covenant is with God because God made a covenant promise with Abraham. He did it through Blood Covenant. verse 17 says to demonstrate the, the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us. What is the hope that is set before us? That God is a Covenant-Keeper. You could not be an enemy of David and live when he prayed Spirit-led judicial prayers. And you cannot be our enemies and live if we will enter into the Holy of Holies and we will pray Spirit-led prayers against our enemies and their plots against the church and the nation. We have the right to ask God to visit them and reward them according to their works. But our prayers have to be Spirit-led and we have to be standing on a foundation of righteousness. The Kingdom gets established when judgment is prayed and executed. We had better wake up and start walking with God in His fullness. FRIDAY, JANUARY 8 Scripture: Hebrews 8:7-12 Hebrews 8:7-12 says, For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. Because finding fault with them, He says: Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more. It is interesting that our New Covenant has a primary purpose revealed in Hebrews 8. That primary purpose according to verse 11 is that, None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. Now the promise of the New Covenant is that we will all know the Lord. Do we know the Lord? There are several different Greek words for Lord. There is koo-re-os and chris-tos. Koo-re-os means, the Judge of all the earth. Kris-tos means the Savior of all the Earth. Right now, we could say that the church in America very much knows chris-tos. But that is not the word used in verse 11, Know the Lord for all shall know Me. Here, Lord is the word koo-ree-os, the God of judgment, Judge of all the earth. At this time the church seems to focus only on chris-tos. If we are going to have a New Testament church, it must lead us into the fullness of walking with Who Christ is, both Savior of all the Earth and Judge of all the earth. The promise of the New Covenant is All shall know Me. God is saying He will personally guide, direct, lead and instruct us in how to move His Hand in judgment. That is the only way we will fully receive the harvest of nations in the last days. Samuel prayed and the Philistines were subdued. Eli prayed and the Philistines subdued Israel. It is time to wake up and recognize tradition for what it is and Scripture for what it is. We need to learn who Jesus the Judge is and walk with Him. We have to turn from tradition and walk out of it to see the Hand of God subdue His enemies through our prayers. The most exciting time in a Christian s existence seems to be just ahead of us, if we choose to get to know koo-re-os and not simply retreat into a relationship with half of Who Christ is. Isn t it time we say, Lord, I want to know all of You and I want Your fullness. Fullness is the key and gives us both the Savior and the Judge together and promises to show us when to move in both. SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 Scripture: Acts 2:34-36 Acts 2:34-36 says, For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says himself: The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool. Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God 4

5 has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ. We are told that David proclaimed a covenant promise made by God to the church I will make your enemies your footstool. Then this passage says, Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly Now the idiom, know assuredly is for the intimacy that produces children. Know assuredly/be intimate with whom? United with the Jesus Who is both Judge of all the earth and Savior of all the earth. Our intimacy with Him should produce the spiritual fruit of spiritual children. Are we going to get to know the Judge of all the earth? When He manifests judgment, one effect is that people run to get saved. Can we manifest judgment? Can we represent the Judge of all the earth? Peter learned how, he proclaimed justice over Ananias and Sapphira. The early church learned how. They prayed over the murder of James and potential assassination of Peter. And the angel went to the prison, freed Peter from jail, visited the assassin, King Herod, and put him in the grave in the most painful death known to man in those days. That is a Holy Spirit exclamation point! When Herod brought death to God's church, God brought death to Herod and the worms ate him from the inside out. The angel of the Lord struck him and he was eaten by worms. There is the judgment of God in action! A fitting judgment, fully earned. What will God do to deserving evil leaders? SUNDAY, JANUARY 10 Scripture: Hebrews 8:12-13 Hebrews 8:12-13, For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more. In that He says, A new covenant, He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. We have a New Covenant where God promises to be merciful to our unrighteousness, sin and lawless deeds and not remember them. This promise means we can establish His Kingdom by praying judgment and possess nations for an end-time harvest. Do we really know koo-re-os? Do we know Him as the Judge of all the earth? The early church had to learn to walk with koo-re-os. They had to learn to judge and go through a school of the Spirit where they learned not to judge by the seeing of the eye or decide by the hearing of the ear. This school of the Spirit is the only way praying judgment will ever produce results. Being schooled by the Spirit so we can hear His voice and feel His push is the only way judicial prayer will move God's Hand for Kingdom purposes. That school is open and available. The question is, will we pay the admission price and enroll? God is asking and the Holy Spirit is knocking on the door. Will we say yes? MONDAY, JANUARY 11 Scripture: Luke 24:13-27 Luke 24:13-27 says, Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem. And they talked together of all these things which had happened. So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him. And He said to them, What kind of conversation is this that you have with one another as you walk and are sad? Then the one whose name was Cleopas answered and said to Him, Are You the only stranger in Jerusalem, and have You not known the things which happened there in these days? And He said to them, What things? So they said to Him, The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to be condemned to death, and crucified Him. But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened. Yes, and certain women of our company, who arrived at the tomb early, astonished us. When they did not find His body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said He was alive. And certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said; but Him they did not see. Then He said to them, O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory? And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. Jesus did something for the church that gave them the platform to walk in the New Covenant. Verse 27 says, And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. I was on an airplane returning from Charleston, SC and the Lord said to me, Go to Luke 24, I want to show you something you have never seen. And when I got to verse 27, the Spirit of the Lord said to me, Why did I start with Moses? I said, Lord, I don t know. And He said, Find out! I asked myself which book 5

6 or books explain Moses bringing Israel out of Egypt. The first is Exodus. In an attempt to answer God's question, I turned back to the beginning of Exodus and started reading on that airplane. To my great surprise, when I got to Exodus 6, there was the answer and that answer was how Jesus taught the early church the foundation of walking with the Judicial Christ. The early church had to get it and we have to get it. And God showed it on that plane. TUESDAY, JANUARY 12 Scripture: Exodus 6:1-6 Exodus 6:1-6 says, Then the Lord said to Moses, Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh. For with a strong hand he will let them go, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land. And God spoke to Moses and said to him: I am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name Lord I was not known to them. I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were strangers. And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant. Therefore say to the children of Israel: I am the Lord; I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. Verse 2 makes it clear that God revealed Himself to Moses and said, I am the Lord/Jehovah. The next verse says He appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty/El-shaddi. But by His name Jehovah, He was not known to them. Verse 6 makes it clear to the children of Israel I am the Lord/Jehovah; I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. Jehovah is the covenant-keeping God Who, when He sees people in bondage, promises to bring them out of bondage into freedom with great judgments. The first one to get to know Jesus the Judge in the Old Testament was Moses. And on the road to Emmaus, Jesus spent around 3 ½ hours expounding to the Twelve Who He is in Scripture as the Judge of all the earth. He taught them and revealed Himself as Judge! It is no wonder that Peter could represent Him and announce the departure of Ananias and Sapphira. It is no wonder that Paul could teach the church at Jerusalem how to pray judgment on King Herod. It is no wonder the Apostle Paul could pray the judgment of blindness on the false prophet. Jesus taught the early church on the road to Emmaus Who He was as Judge. He taught Paul by revelation Who He was as Judge. And the early church did not hesitate to pray the judgment and display it whenever they needed to. Tradition has the effect of making us hesitate today. Let us get to know the Jesus the disciples knew on the road to Emmaus and the Jesus Moses met in Exodus 6. When we know Jesus the Judge, we can pray His judgments so His Kingdom gets established. It is time we stood up in the fullness of Who Christ is! WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13 Scripture: Acts 13:19-23 Acts 13:19-23 says, And when He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He distributed their land to them by allotment. After that He gave them judges for about four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet. And afterward they asked for a king; so God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. And when He had removed him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will. From this man s seed, according to the promise, God raised up for Israel a Savior Jesus Saul did not obey his primary judicial assignment. He was sent to destroy all the Amalekites and he did not do it. God removed him and brought in King David who would do all His will. Demonstrating the distinction between Saul and David is saying to the church that we need to walk with Jesus the Judge. Jesus the Judge will establish the Kingdom through judgment. To say, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will is to say that the difference between Saul and David is that David never hesitated in judgment. He walked with the Eternal Judge and established God's Kingdom. Saul did not establish the Kingdom because he refused to fully walk with the Judge. Either we will continue walking in tradition and be like Saul or we will we step up to walk like David. There is great victory in the air for all who step up to walk like David! 6

7 THURSDAY, JANUARY 14 Scripture: 1 Samuel 15:1-3 1 Samuel 15:1-3 makes it abundantly clear what the distinction between Saul and David looks like. Verses 1-3 says, Samuel also said to Saul, The Lord sent me to anoint you king over His people, over Israel. Now therefore, heed the voice of the words of the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts: I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt. Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey. Saul was given a mission. God remembered what the Amalekites did to Israel and it was cowardly and it was criminal. They waited until the end of the day and they attacked the end of the column the women, children and elderly. They did not do war honorably. So the reason God hated the Amalekites was because they were terrorists. They shed innocent blood and conducted war exactly like today s radical Muslims conduct war. This gives us insight into how God feels about terrorism. He commanded Saul to, Go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey. God wanted to utterly destroy them. But men like Saul will never reap the kind of harvest that men like David will. Only those of us who learn to pray the judgment of God can bring in that harvest. God is ready are we? FRIDAY, JANUARY 15 Scripture: 1 Samuel 15:8 Verse 8 says, He also took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them. But everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed. Saul and the people made it abundantly clear to God that they did not accept His yardstick for judgment. They likely figured it was a complete waste to destroy what was valuable to them financially. They failed the money test. And what did God do to King Saul? He removed him because he failed the judicial test and forfeited the rule of his house over Israel. How much is being forfeited by the church today? So much that we can hardly describe it all. But once we begin to walk with Jesus the Judge, we will begin to see the fullness of all Christ has. That is the day our harvest begins. Then and only then will the Kingdom start to be established in our nations. And without walking with Jesus the Judge, it is not going to happen. SATURDAY, JANUARY 16 Scripture: Revelation 22:16, 2 Samuel 23:2 Is judgment really New Testament? Revelation 22:16 gives us a straightforward, solid answer. Verse 16 says, I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star. The word Offspring is another word for fruit. If we want to know what Jesus looks like, He is the Root and the Fruit of David. Until we learn to pray like David prayed and think like David thought, we do not know the fullness of Who Christ is. We do not fully know the Savior if we do not know the Judicial Christ that King David saw, knew and prophesied about. He said, The Spirit of the LORD speaks by me; his word is on my tongue. He was the sweet Psalmist of Israel. The Word of the Lord was on his tongue. Are we willing to put David's words and David's prayers on our tongue? Are we willing to pray some of the things that he prayed so we can get some of the victories he got? None of us in the church today can know koo-re-os if we do not know King David. Jesus is the Root and the Fruit of King David. And until we can pray what King David prayed, we do not know the fullness of our koo-re-os/christ. SUNDAY, JANUARY 17 Scripture: Psalm 18:37-42 Psalm 18:37-42 is a very revealing demonstration of how King David thought and how he prayed as a warrior. It says, I have pursued my enemies and overtaken them; Neither did I turn back again till they were destroyed. I have wounded them, So that they could not rise; They have fallen under my feet. For You have armed me with strength for the 7

8 battle; You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. You have also given me the necks of my enemies, So that I destroyed those who hated me. They cried out, but there was none to save; Even to the Lord, but He did not answer them. Then I beat them as fine as the dust before the wind; I cast them out like dirt in the streets. Do we war with that attitude and fight with that mentality? Is that how we think when we pray? Is that the attitude we take when the Spirit leads? That is how the Spirit led David! If we know koo-re-os and are open to the leading of the Spirit that will be our attitude too. It is, if we know King David! MONDAY, JANUARY 18 Scripture: Psalm 110:1-2 Psalm 110:1-2 says, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of Your enemies! Psalm 110:1 is very familiar because it is quoted by Peter to explain the Holy Spirit s coming on the Day of Pentecost. It says, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool. The second verse says, The Lord shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of Your enemies! Now the rod of strength is given to the church to overcome the enemies of harvest when we ask for the nations according to Psalm 2. On the day that Jesus was resurrected, He declared David's covenant to the church so that the church could fulfill David's prophesy in Psalm 2. Psalm 2 is about possessing nations in the last days because Jesus died for nations. But in order to do that, the judicial rod has to come out of Zion. Zion was the highest place in Jerusalem and it was the place the temple was built. It was a type-and-shadow temple. Where is Zion today? Where is the temple of the Lord today? It is in the hearts of every believer. So out of the heart of every believer, the Lord says He will bring a Rod of Iron so we can rule in the midst of our enemies. That is the Judicial Christ and that is the promise! The Lord will restore the Tabernacle of David that has fallen down. He will close up his breaches, Acts 15 says. Are we ready for this and do we understand it? We cannot afford to walk away from it because it is Who God is in the last days and it is how we will possess nations. We get the anointing of King David in order to execute the judgment of Christ so we can gather a harvest of nations. Anything less is forfeiting what the Lord bought and paid for. And only tradition can do that to us, and only if we choose to stay in a church where tradition is all that is taught. It is time for the church to wake up and go for victory! TUESDAY, JANUARY 19 Scripture: Psalm 110:3,4 Verses 3,4 says, Your people shall be volunteers In the day of Your power; In the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning, You have the dew of Your youth. The Lord has sworn And will not relent, You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek. When the judicial anointing begins to rise on the church, the whole church will run to that anointing and volunteer. And the fruit of that is the Priestly, Saving Christ gets the harvest of nations He died for. How have we missed the interaction between the Judicial Christ and the Priestly Christ when they are all rolled up into one individual and promised in fullness to the church? What an amazing covenant promise for the last days. It is time we said yes to it. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20 Scripture: Psalm 110:5-7 Look at the promise of the fullness of the harvest when it says, The Lord is at your right hand; He shall execute kings in the day of His wrath. He shall judge among the nations, He shall fill the places with dead bodies, He shall execute the heads of many countries. He shall drink of the brook by the wayside; Therefore He shall lift up the head. One version says, stand with His people. We need to see this Jesus in full manifestation in DC. We need to see Him in the Supreme Court, in the White House and in the Congress. Envision Jesus executing His will. That and only that will reestablish the fear of the Lord in the land and turn the nation back to God. Can we walk in it? Apparently Scripture states that we can. King David walked in it. He prayed it. God performed it. He is set as our example the book of Acts. That seems to make it obvious that God thinks we can walk in it. It is time to sign up! 8

9 THURSDAY, JANUARY 21 Scripture: Acts 2:32-25 Acts 2:32-35 says, This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses. Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear. For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says himself: The LORD said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool. Take careful, prayerful note of how Peter describes receiving the Holy Spirit. Wow! The same anointing that is on King David is now on us to bring in God s harvest. David outlined it. It is here and we can walk in it! That is precisely what the early church began to do. They began to walk with Jesus the Judge, and they began to harvest regions. It is here and it is available. God is no respecter of persons and our generation has the invitation to walk in this. It is time to move forward. FRIDAY, JANUARY 22 Scripture: Acts 13:26-34 Acts 13:26-34 says, Men and brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the word of this salvation has been sent. For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they did not know Him, nor even the voices of the Prophets which are read every Sabbath, have fulfilled them in condemning Him. And though they found no cause for death in Him, they asked Pilate that He should be put to death. Now when they had fulfilled all that was written concerning Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb. But God raised Him from the dead. He was seen for many days by those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are His witnesses to the people. And we declare to you glad tidings that promise which was made to the fathers. God has fulfilled this for us their children, in that He has raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second Psalm: You are My Son. Today I have begotten You. And that He raised Him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, He has spoken thus: I will give you the sure mercies of David. This is a part of the longest recorded message that the Apostle Paul ever preached that is recorded in the New Testament. Notice here the core of his message. God has fulfilled His promises to us. Jesus has been resurrected. We declare to you the best news ever. The promise was made to the fathers and God has fulfilled it for us their children. Here we are promised the sure mercies of David. David according to Acts 4 wrote the quoted passage spoken here by Peter. In order for us to possess the promise of nations out of Psalm 2, He also gave us the same covenant that He gave to King David so that the prophecy of King David could be fulfilled by the church. We have it! Will we use it the way God intended? That is the question. You and I are the only ones that can answer it. SATURDAY, JANUARY 23 Scripture: 2 Samuel 7:1-17 Since Jesus gave us the same covenant that the Father gave to King David, the only way we can understand fully what that means is to go back and study the passage where it was given to King David and look at it in its context so we can discover the full measure of what is there and what is available to us. 2 Samuel 7 is where that happens. Verses 8,9 says, Now therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, Thus says the Lord of hosts: I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people, over Israel. And I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a great name, like the name of the great men who are on the earth. God cut off all David's enemies. Every single promise of it belongs to us. It has been bought and paid for by the blood of Christ. When we understand that, it changes how we think. Or, it should change how we think. It will change how we think, if we progressively embrace this passage until we consistently pray it. It will change us if we say yes to it! SUNDAY, JANUARY 24 Scripture: 2 Samuel 7:8 Verse 8 says, Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the sheepfold from following the sheep to be ruler over my people Israel. God declares that He is the One Who promotes and that He did it by His anointing. The reason why 9

10 this is the foundation for Kingdom rule is because the covenant of Sure Mercy gives us the authority to rule. Kingdom authority for every believer is in the covenant of Sure Mercy. It is our foundation to rule. We need to know that. We need to understand that. Jesus shed His blood and died so that you and I could have the covenant of Sure Mercy. That covenant of Sure Mercy gives us the authority to rule. When God leads, I can overrule a wicked leader with my prayer. I can ask God to put His foot on an evil leader. My prayer life will overrule one who is haughty and arrogant in the face of God s plans. Until we began to think like that we are not thinking like King David. Because of his covenant with God no one could be his enemy and live. This is the way we need to think. Because of our covenant with God we have the authority to overrule when God says, pray! If rulers are antichrist in their purpose, their declaration, and their will, they stand to be uprooted, overruled and pulled down. We need to begin to think that way and pray that way. That is a crucial truth! MONDAY, JANUARY 25 Scripture: 2 Samuel 7:9 2 Samuel 7:9 says, And I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a great name, like the name of the great men who are on the earth. The covenant of Sure Mercy gives you and I the right to cut off any enemy who is standing against our purpose and our call. When someone is interfering with God s business for us, we have a covenant right to ask God to cut them off. And He will. David did it and as we are instructed by the Holy Spirit we should launch out in obedience and do it too. We have the same covenant that David had. We cannot establish His Kingdom unless we operate in the authority to cut off the enemy. The enemies have to be cut off, and lose their power and their grip. Once we understand this truth it changes life. It changes the way we think. It changes the way we war. It changes the way we pray! It brings the fullness of Christ on the scene. This is what the church is supposed to look like in the last days. The reason there is no fear of God is because the church does not embrace this truth and walk in it. If we did, the fear of God would be restored. The nation is desperate for the fear of the Lord to be restored. TUESDAY, JANUARY 26 Scripture: 2 Samuel 7:15 The third major aspect of this covenant of Sure Mercy is, we cannot lose mercy if we will acknowledge our sins and repent. If we come in repentance, we will always find mercy. This is the promise God made to King David and all the generations that followed. The Lord will restore! And the Lord did restore King David and He will restore us. God is a Restorer and we need to let Him restore. It is part of our covenant of Sure Mercy. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27 Scripture: 2 Samuel 7:18 King David had a dramatic response to being given this covenant. Until we delve into and study his response, we probably will not have an understanding of the weight of what he sensed came on him in this covenant. 2 Samuel 7:18 says, Then King David went in and sat before the Lord; and he said: Who am I, O Lord God? And what is my house that You have brought me this far? When we think about what that means we sense the weightiness that King David was feeling about this covenant that God had given him. It humbled him. The covenant of Sure Mercy humbled King David to the point that he started questioning his relationship with God saying, Who am I O Lord and what is my house that you have brought me this far. To grasp the fact that Jesus shed His blood, guaranteeing this covenant to each of us in the New Testament, needs to evoke the same response from us. Unless it has this response we are probably not getting a full enough understanding of all that God is offering. The weight of this should humble us as well. We may need to spend a month or two just studying the covenant of Sure Mercy and meditating on the impact that it can have on our lives. We need to be awed by the weight of it otherwise we are probably not letting the living Word work Kingdom purposes in our lives. 10

11 THURSDAY, JANUARY 28 Scripture: 2 Samuel 7:19 Verse 19 is another piece in the puzzle here. It says, And yet this was a small thing in Your sight, O Lord God; and You have also spoken of Your servant s house for a great while to come. Is this the manner of man, O Lord God? David is saying, You set my future course for my whole life in this covenant. This covenant guarantees me that I will reach my destiny. I have to otherwise it cannot be fulfilled. So when Jesus shed His blood and gave us the covenant of Sure Mercy, does it guarantee our destiny? It did for King David so it must for us. How about our house? Our house is involved in this, our kids and grandkids. This passage says, for a great while to come. Is this how men operate? Men cannot do this. Only God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth can guarantee a destiny. Only God can speak concerning our generations and include them in this covenant. Only the Creator of the heavens and the earth could do this! David seems to be saying he is stunned and amazed because God had done something for him that no man could ever do. David is awed and amazed that God has guaranteed his destiny by this covenant. Are we amazed that the covenant of Sure Mercy guarantees our destiny? If we are not, we need to be! FRIDAY, JANUARY 29 Scripture: 2 Samuel 7:20,21 2 Samuel 7:20,21 says, Now what more can David say to You? For You, Lord God, know Your servant. For Your words sake, and according to Your own heart, You have done all these great things, to make Your servant know them. Therefore You are great, O Lord God, For there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears. The covenant of Sure Mercy establishes us in a relationship with God where we can do great things for His purpose. There is nothing mediocre about the covenant of Sure Mercy. It guarantees your foot is on the neck of a leader when he is in rebellion. It guarantees that if you follow His lead in prayer your foot, through prayer, can rest on the neck of hard-hearted evil leaders and be the catalyst for redemptive results. This guarantees that His enemies will be made His footstool. This covenant births destiny greatness in the lives of His obedient warrior-saints! Do we act like it? Do we act like this covenant makes us great? Do we act like this covenant can be applied to the neck of our enemies? We need to understand King David s response. When we do we will start to get a glimpse of what God really did for him and consequently what Christ did for us! SATURDAY, JANUARY 30 Scripture: 2 Samuel 7: Samuel 7:22-24 says, Therefore You are great, O Lord God. For there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears. And who is like Your people, like Israel, the one nation on the earth whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people, to make for Himself a name and to do for Yourself great and awesome deeds for Your land before Your people whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt, the nations, and their gods? For You have made Your people Israel Your very own people forever; and You, Lord, have become their God. Wow, that means we are Israel. We have that relationship with God. He has redeemed us. He has called us to do great and awesome deeds for His purposes. In the nations for an end-time harvest nothing is impossible to me because of this covenant. We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. God, You obviously think more of me than I do of myself. It is time I agreed with You and started doing what You ask me to do! SUNDAY, JANUARY 31 Scripture: 2 Samuel 7: Samuel 7:25-29 says, Now, O Lord God, the word which You have spoken concerning Your servant and concerning his house, establish it forever and do as You have said. So let Your name be magnified forever, saying, The Lord of hosts is the God over Israel. And let the house of Your servant David be established before You. For You, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, have revealed this to Your servant, saying, I will build you a house. Therefore Your servant has found it in his heart to pray this prayer to You. And now, O Lord God, You are God, and Your words are true, and You 11

12 have promised this goodness to Your servant. Now therefore, let it please You to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue before You forever; for You, O Lord God, have spoken it, and with Your blessing let the house of Your servant be blessed forever. David had an awesome position to pray and declare this to the Lord. David was telling the Lord that he was receiving this great goodness that God was offering him. He received it and realized and declared that he was receiving it in order to establish God s Kingdom, to establish a harvest, to populate the New Jerusalem. King David agreed with God that he could do everything God had said he could do and that he would do it for God s Kingdom building purposes. For you and I it is for the populating the eternal kingdom. We need to see this the way David did because we now have his covenant! God has made us great if we will start to act according to the leadership of the Spirit! God s fullness is guaranteed through the covenant of Sure Mercy. Will we accept it? ITINERARY 1/8-1/10 Sterling, AK Ministry of the Living Stones Verissa Walber Fair Game Ave. OFC Sterling AK Celeste Johnson /15-1/17 Cisco, TX Living Water Ministries Pastor Max Evans Fri 7pm, Sat 7pm, Sun 10am /28-1/30 Tigard, OR Call for location and times George LaDue Word at Work Ministries, Inc. Reproduction encouraged to share with others. Houghton, Al. Fullness II. Word At Work Bible Study. Vol Word at Work Ministries, January, PO Box 366, Placentia CA info@wordatwork.org 12