Tuesday 12th January
Prayer Week
Stand and be counted
Where do you pledge you allegiance?
Where do you look to for help?
What does the Lord ask of you in this season? In this day?
Stand and be counted as his own and he will empower you.
“I have adopted you into my family you are mine. I formed you in the womb you are mine. Stand and be counted, stand and be counted as mine”
If God tells us not to be afraid it’s because we are facing something scary, the threat is real, the normal reaction is fear, but in that moment he has a better alternative on offer. The verses below show what can happen when we choose to stand as his in a difficult situation. He doesn’t promise an immediate cancellation of the circumstances around us but neither does he leave us alone or the situation unaffected.
The first thing he promises us is a shift in how we feel, he rescues us from fear. Fear is paralysing, crippling, consuming, it stops you in your tracks, it’s hard to be strategic or hear the voice of God. Once fear is removed the voice of God is clearer and we can invite God into our circumstances.
It’s not always easy to see what he is doing, we can often see it when we look back and when we remember what he has done in the past, we can combine this with the promises in scripture and we can know that he never leaves us or forsakes us. He fights for us and he gives us strength, authority and strategy to know how to stand, act and fight. He doesn’t just offer us an absence of fear but an inheritance of his promises.
I asked God why did he say to stand and be counted as his? He replied so that we can inherit the promise. When we know whose we are, who are father is, then we can claim the inheritance that he has set aside for us. These promises are true, his words are real, we can believe them today and choose to stand in them. Read the verses below and find other promises in the bible, find out what he has put aside for his chosen people, his royal priesthood, his holy nation, his treasured possession, that’s you!
Father today I choose to stand and be counted as yours.
Thank you for your awesome inheritance for those who believe. I hand over my fear and choose to look to you. Please show me what it means to be your child today. Amen
Exodus 14:13+14 NIV
“Moses answered the people do not be afraid, stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. The Lord will fight for you, you need only to be still.”
Psalm 40:2 NIV
“He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand”
Romans 14:4 NIV
“And he will stand for the Lord is able to make him stand”
Ephesians 6:10 TPT
“ Be supernaturally infused with strength, through your life union with the Lord Jesus. Stand victorious with the force of his explosive power flowing in and through you.”
