Until Now
By Margaret D. Mitchell
Week of June 4, 2023
Three times, very recently, Holy Spirit highlighted the title of this devotion to me. We know that "until now" implies a continuance of something up to a point and that a shift is present or imminent.
According to Strong's (#5704, #6258), “until now” can mean at "this time." And it can also reference a limit of quantity and measure, even in the area of "no more" suffering.
This is what I believe God is saying in this hour:
The completion of your assignment has begun, and it's not just for you. Some I AM calling home to Heaven. Some I AM reassigning on earth. And in all cases, I AM calling my beloved higher.
Official documents, that you may have to file, are your certificates of completion, as well as the evidence of what I have been leading you out of. Also, there are additional steps of closure I will bring you through in the days and months ahead.
Until now, you have seen gradual change. But I am bringing you into a fast-approaching close. Therefore, focus your time and energy on Me and what I instruct you to do, so you can keep pace with Me with the least amount of stress.
What I have instructed you not to do is equally for your benefit. It isn’t that I AM against your activities. It’s that, if you work your own list, you won’t have time for Mine.
You have patiently endured persecution (1 Corinthians 4:12-13). And now, I AM completing your mission impossible with a good ending. Your suffering, as you have known it, is over.
Because you have prioritized Me as your First Love, I AM blessing you in My “beautiful and appropriate” time, where you will experience greater measure of my divine purpose (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
I AM releasing that which has been held up, including, but not limited to, finances. You will finally encounter the expanse of your dreams and the embrace of approval.
I will give you a short rest before I open up your next assignments, where you will experience a whole new freedom of rejoice.
Just as Boaz gained insight to Ruth and offered direction for My newness during Harvest time, so, too, am I giving you insight, direction and clarity forward (Ruth 2).
As you move increasingly toward your new assignments with Me, know that what is in front of you has a new heart, as I have renewed yours. It will not be like before, for I have made all things new. I have been working in others’ hearts to facilitate new covenant connections that are waiting for their moments in time, as well.
I will deliver you into your new assignments by My redeeming love, and I will not stop with the heart. You will see manifest miracles in soul and body for those whom I have given you a heart and identified to you. For I AM bringing you into more of My power and what delights Me.
I AM bringing the Kingdom breakthrough you have longed for, and, as it was for Ruth, there is a fullness of harvest for you there. I will not stop short. It will be all that I have revealed to you and more. It will be light and legacy for My Glory.
So, continue in My ways, and you will be victorious, as I cause your efforts to prosper.
I AM with you all the way. And you will not be alone.
Your new time and place await you. You are almost fully there.
Friends, whatever your story, God will get you where He desires you to be. I encourage you to take His hand, follow Him wherever He leads. Trust Him and rest in Him. He will get you to your destiny and will not fail you. He loves you with an everlasting love and delights to surprise you in the best way.
So, pray with me if you will . . .
Dear Lord,
Thank You for the power of Your gracious salvation operating in my life. Thank You for breaking the enemy’s death grip to free me from confinement and bring me into Your expanse. I trust You to show me Your way, to help me to rest in You and stay the course.
Thank You for forgiving me for much (Luke 7:47), for bringing much-needed change and for protecting me all along the way (Psalms 3:3). Thank You for giving me an undeniable identity in Your Son, Jesus, and for helping me walk it out.
In His Mighty Name I pray,
Amen.
Margaret D. Mitchell is the Founder of God's Love at Work, a marketplace outreach purposed to share God's greatest power source - the love of Christ.
