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Sister Jeannie…
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to morning prayer!
Really? Another battle?
There’s a scene in the Lord of the Rings final movie, “Return of the King.” They are in the final battle and the king of Rohan is fighting and they’ve won the battle. And you can see the look of relief and victory on the face of King Rohan. And then comes in these giant elephants that are armed for battle with savage enemies riding the elephants.
They’ve already won the battle, and it looks like the battle’s over. And then he sees these giant elephants come in and the look on his face is “Really! Really another battle? We just won this battle.”
That’s where a lot of us are right now—“Another battle?”
We know what the end was, that they had already won the battle. But I believe that that’s where a lot of us are right now, where we’ve won a battle right now, but we know the work isn’t finished. We know the work has already begun. We know that the work has just gotten started, and it can be easy to get into kind of a faith fatigue.
Faith Fatigue…
Okay, wait a second. We contended. We won. And now there’s the threat of World War III. We’re so close to America coming back, America being restored. And now we have this. And I have asked God about this. There have been times when I’m strengthened, when I’m ready, and then there are other times when I don’t want to hear that our work has just begun. I’m tired. Okay? I believed you, God, but really… again?
We enter the battle with joy…
And then I’ve gotten into the Word like many of us have, and it hasn’t ministered to me at all. And I’ve said to Him, I’m like, “Holy Spirit, you know how to reach me. I’m your daughter. I know that the work has just begun. I know it. But it is your will and my desire to do it with joy. Because joy brings strength to do it with the confidence of who you are and what you’ve said. But here I am over here with some faith fatigue.”
The church is responsible for the victories today…
And so a few days ago, Mike and I were in the Word and he answered me. And this is where we’re going today. Because the church taking her role, taking her position is responsible for the victories today. And the church keeping her position, continuing to stand is responsible for the ensuing victories right now and moving forward.
2nd Corinthians 1:2—the God of all comfort…
In Second Corinthians, 1:2, “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort.”
Now, listen to how many times the word “comfort” comes up.
“Who comforts us in all of our affliction, so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”
The definition of comfort…
Now, I’m going to read that again, but here’s what came up. The definition of comfort is combining encouragement with the alleviation of grief. So comfort isn’t just, “We’ve won. We can relax.” That’s not comfort. The comfort that comes from God, the comfort that Holy Spirit ministers to you, alleviates you from grief, alleviates you from faith fatigue, alleviates you from the woundedness, from the tiredness. And it encourages you and strengthens you to keep moving forward without the heaviness from the previous battle. His comfort is complete.
What is Holy Ghost comfort?
So we talk about “comfort food” and really all it does is make you need a nap, and then you feel worse later. That is not comfort. That is not Holy Ghost comfort. The comfort He talks about in the Word says, “Okay, sweetheart, here we go. I know it’s been hard. I know it’s been tough. But I’m alleviating you from that and now I’m encouraging you to move forward.” That is what Holy Spirit’s comfort does for us.
So as I read comfort, know the accurate definition of it as I’m reading this now. “Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, the Lord Jesus Christ. Bless be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, who alleviates us of all grief, and encourages us from all of our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are at any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”
His comfort enables us to move forward with no grief…
It’s not a fuzzy blanket! It’s a completely restored healing of grief, being alleviated of the previous battle. So when we see that giant elephant with the savage warrior on it, we can say, “Oh, this battle I’ve just been through. I’ve already been alleviated of any grief of any woundedness from that. Let’s go. Let’s go!” We’re encouraged and exhorted to keep moving forward.
Holy Spirit, you minister comfort to us even right now. You minister comfort to every cell, every grief from sickness, every grief we’ve ever suffered, from any affliction, from anything we’ve ever endured, your comfort alleviates the grief of the previous battle.
Our comfort is abundant through Christ!
“For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance so also our comfort is abundant through Christ.” Come on! “For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance so also is being alleviated of grief and exhorted and encouraged is abundant through Christ.” They come together. Which wins?
Think about that! Sufferings? Healed from the grief of the sufferings and moving forward, abundant in Him.
“But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. Or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.” Has there ever been a time in the history of our country, where each of us, all of us, were sharing in the same sufferings.
“And our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings so also are you sharers of our comfort.”
Father, we just marvel at your brilliance.
This brings a whole new light, a whole new revelation on the sufferings of Christ and then comfort. The sufferings of Christ that He makes a show of them and then what’s available to us is the complete alleviation of all of the grief of those sufferings. And not just that. But then you are encouraged and strengthened to take more ground.
On earth as it is in heaven…
The everlasting kingdom that is in you, the kingdom that is in me, the kingdom that is in the church that is now an extension of the kingdom on earth… on earth as it is in heaven. And that is you, the church, that is taking ground right now in those times. Even right now as we pray, the threat of nuclear war is being deescalated and crushed in the name of Jesus. Even as we pray right now, the threat of an evil regime, of a tyrannical regime, is being deescalated and crushed.
We are upon a third Great Awakening…
The Word says in the end times the enemy will try to rush things along. It also says this time has not yet come. We are upon a third Great Awakening being supernaturally freed and alleviated from grief, moving forward without the weightiness of sorrow and encouraged and exhorted to take more ground.
And Father, I thank you for that today.
Let’s just watch over this right now in the Spirit. Revelation like no generation has ever had before. The alleviation of grief coupled with exhortation, coupled with encouragement, coupled with more than a conqueror, from cell to cell, to system to system, from organ to organ, complete and full supernatural acceleration of healing in our bodies in the body. Unity. A force. Where it’s not even a battle for the body anymore, because we have the name that has no opposite.
Light has no opposite…
I think one of the grossest lies is the opposite of light is darkness. Light has no opposite. It always overtakes the darkness. It has no opposite. And that’s what we carry.
We speak to grief today and we say “Be alleviated by Holy Spirit. Be ministered to by Holy Spirit.” We speak to woundedness, we speak to tiredness and we say, “Be alleviated by Holy Spirit.”
Father, we open our hearts right now to receive your ministry that alleviates us from grief, from tiredness, from fatigue. We receive that ministry.
Okay, now just let Him into those areas of fatigue, of tiredness, of being tentative about His promises, of overthinking, of exhaustion, of “Really another battle?” Just let Him minister that to you right now, and as He ministers that to you, stay open to Him. Let Him go deeper. I’m doing it right now.
He wants to give us a few new pairs of shoes…
We have a tendency to do the, “Okay, you tied my shoe. I’m going to keep going.” And He is like, “No, actually, I’d like to give you a few new pairs of shoes.”
You ministered the alleviation of grief, the lifting off of every heavy burden. The brilliance of you, Holy Spirit. We receive that ministry today. We receive it in the middle of a victory, one and another, one in front of us.
Did you hear that?
A victory won and another victory in front of us. That’s really what’s happening.
Another victory is ahead of us…
Holy Spirit, when you minister to us, we see another victory in front of us! We receive more.
Now, just stay in that place while I read this passage. John 14:26 in the Amplified classic. “But the comforter…” So this is when Jesus is leaving and He’s saying, “Okay, but you’re at an advantage because you get Holy Spirit.” Now I get it. So listen to how He describes Holy Spirit. He starts out with the comforter, the one that alleviates grief and exhorts you. You have to really have massive confidence in someone to come.
Number one, you have to really know them to be able to alleviate their grief. You have to completely relate to them on every level, to be able to get in there and say, “I see that. I see that. I see that. I’m going to alleviate all of it.”
He has to know you, which He does know you. And then you have to be very intimately acquainted with them to get into that space, take out all the gunk of the grief and say, “Okay, now here’s what you’re going to do with Me.”
But the comforter, counselor, helper, intercessor, advocate, strengthener, standby… the Holy Spirit whom the Father sends in My name in My place to represent Me and act on My behalf, He will teach you all things. And He will cause you to recall. He will remind you of and bring to your remembrance everything I have told you.”
Holy Spirit knew you when you were in your mother’s womb…
He’s not that good friend that grew up with you and knows everything about you. He’s Holy Spirit who knew you when you were in your mother’s womb. He’s Holy Spirit whom your Father sent to represent the one that went through hell, literally, for your freedom. And remind you of that. And in the process of all of it to alleviate you literally take the weight of grief and sorrow from you. Put it away from you and minister healing to your heart and then thrust you in division, purpose, and the next victory.
But the comforter, the counselor, the helper, the intercessor, the advocate. Who’s your advocate? In the midst of all of it? Holy Spirit. The strengthener. Who’s your strengthener when you experience faith fatigue? Holy Spirit. The standby, who is always there ready!
