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LORD GOD ALMIGHTY

Dear Father,

What an incomparable scene this is of the seven angels with the last seven plagues and those who had been victorious over the beast joining together to sing the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb, beginning with: “Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord God Almighty!”

All glory to Jesus, the One Who is Lord and Monarch of all, God in Whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells among us, and the Almighty, as Jesus said of Himself in Revelation 1:8, “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

I join those heavenly beings in singing that “Great and marvelous” are the deeds of Jesus Christ Who alone is the Lord God Almighty. I praise Him with my whole being that His deeds have always been great and marvelous. I am thrilled that the more I know of Him and His greatness, the more I want to know of Him.

I pray that Your Spirit will now awaken the Church of all nations to the vast storehouse of the Lord God Almighty’s great-ness, so that we will fall on our faces in worship of and submission to Him. I pray these things in Christ’s almighty name.

Amen.

Grow your NO and Bless your YES.

If muscles are not worked out, they will not grow stronger. In fact they will become weaker. All of us have a “NO muscle”. It’s the power of choice we exercise whenever we choose what to do or not do.

Humans are not animals that are the end product of an evolutionary chain of events. We are created beings, created on purpose for a purpose. That also means, that unlike animals, we don’t operate by instincts. Animals don’t make choices in general but are governed by their instincts. Hungry? Eat! Scared? Run! Threatened? Fight! Mating season?! Well... you get the point! :)
As humans, we make choices based on our values. The problem occurs when we don’t grow our “NO muscle”. When we don’t learn to say no, we say yes to everything or just to too many things, which weakens our “yes”. In the long run, it makes us unable to fulfil all the commitments we have said yes to and in the worst case, it can destroy us, as we are unable to say no, even to habits and choices that are destructive to our soul, spirit and body.

Jesus said in His Sermon on the Mount, “Let your ‘yes’ be a ‘yes’ and your ‘no’ a ‘no’”. And as you grow your NO, you bless your YES. When we fast, we exercise our “no muscle” and remind ourselves that our feelings and desires are subject to us; we are not subject to our feelings and desires.

Jesus, help me become stronger in saying yes and no to the right things. Give me wisdom to discern between them and the courage to follow through on them. Amen.