Psalms 71:20 is a prophetic scripture about the ressurection of Christ. The niv says, "Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up." God made Jesus see many bitter troubles on the cross and in hell as He suffered for our sins. But God didn't leave Him in that condition. He raised Him up and restored His life.
We must understand that the death and ressurection of Jesus was just a demonstration of what God will do in our lives. He can take those areas that are not as good as the used to be and resotre them again. I know in my life in the area of finances I'm not in as good a place as I used to be. So I'm standing on this scripture and I'm believing that If God brought Jesus back from hell and the cross, He will bring back my finances.
If there's an area of your life that's not what it used to be stand on this scripture and believe for a turn around. God's in the restoration buisness and He will restore your life again!
The children of Israel were at the Red Sea with the Egyptians coming up hard behind them. Spiritually this represents a place where the things we've been delivered from are trying to bring us back into bondage. This often happens because demons like to return to their house (Mathew 12:43-45). Therefore you must understand that once you've been delivered that's not the end of it. You must now be on your spiritual guard like never before as the spirits that had you bound will try to get their place back in your life. But God told the children of Israel something that I believe can help us today. Number one, He told them this enemy you see today you will see them no more forever. Our God is someone that will cause our enemies to be no more forever. I do not believe it's God's will for you to fight the same demons all of your christian existance on earth. It's His will to give you complete deliverance from them once and for all. Number two, He told them to go forward. This was a key to their complete deliverance. When the children of Israel went forward accross the Red Sea the Egyptians followed after them. Then when Israel got safely on the other side and the egyptians where still between the walls of water God closed the sea upon the Egyptians drowning Israel's enemy. By going forward Israel went to place that their enemy could not go. When you get delivered, if you will make up in your mind from that moment on that I'm going forward no matter what, you will get to a place that your enemies cannot go. I encourage you today, get delivered and go forward!
Usually when your paycheck comes in at the end of the week you go to the bank and make a deposit. Then you begin to withdrawl the same money you deposited to pay bills, buy groceries, go out and eat, etc. This is what God does with you and I. Before we were born in our mothers womb God made a deposit of gifts into our lives that were meant to be used for the edifying of His kingdom. Now what He wants to do is begin to make a withdrawl on those gifts. I believe that God is about to use the church like never before. It's going to be the unseen part of the church, the no names. Nobody is meant to set on a pew and go through religious motions. We are meant to present ourselves to God and allow Him to make a withdrawl on what He has deposited on the inside of us. God is about to make a withdrawl out of the people that's just been setting in the pew and we're going to see things like we've never seen before.
It wasn't unusual that David was a shepherd when God called Him through Samuel. This is what God was going to use him to be conerning Isreal. David didn't just choose to be a shepherd. He came out of his mothers womb a shepherd. God deposited this gift on the inside of Him when He knew him as a spirit. God knew that one day He would withdrawl this gift for the Jews. But this wasn't the only deposit God made. When God sent Samuel to anoint David to be king God made a deposit of His power into David. The bibles says that the spirit of the Lord came upon him from tha day forward. David got a deposit of the supernatural anointing of the Holy Ghost. God wants nothing more than to take what He deposited in you before you where born and deposit the nointing right on top of it and then draw it all out of you for His glory. Understand the gift is not the anointing. You can operate in a God given gift and have great success. But the anointing destroys yokes. When you use your gift without the anointing you're just performing a service. But when you use your gift along with the anointing you are changing lives.
One day Jessie sent David to check on His brothers who were off fighting in a battle for Isreal against the Phillistines. But God had something else in mind. God was going to use this moment to begin to make a withdrawl on what He deposited in David. When David showed up and found out that a giant had been taunting Isreal for forty days something begin to rise up inside of him. God had put David in a moment that was pulling on the things He had deposited inside of him. The Shepherd in him was being pulled on as this Phillistine dog was threatening and terrorising the flock of Isreal. The boldness of the anointing was being pulled on as this giant was defying God Himself. When God is about to make a withdrawl on your life He will put you in moments that begin to pull out of you what He has put in you. When you get in these moments that you are gifted and anointed for stuff begins to rise up in you that you didn't know was there. You begin to say and do things you never thought you would say or do. But this is what you where created for. This is why you've given yourself to God. Let Him use you in these moments to bring out of you your destiny. The church needs to get ready because your moment is at hand. The moment that's going to begin to reveal what you are purposed to do and what God's going to have pleasure in.
