"You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup overflows."      Psalm 23:5

+This, my love, is absolutely true. This is not figurative language...not analogy...but Truth. This is the covenant I purchased for you...that no matter what or who (thoughts or situations) are against you...I am FOR you...and this is why you are fed to satisfaction as your enemies are rendered powerless. See this in your mind and spirit. Even when you look for your enemies, you will not find them. The mystery and triumph is that they are present, but you are before them celebrating the fact that they have NO POWER, NO INFLUENCE in your life anymore! You see them, but not as you saw them before. Before, they intimidated you...shut you down...surrounded you with paralyzing lies. Now - the tables have been turned! The banquet table is set. You feast on Truth and Freedom and Love and Joy and your foes are helpless before you. This is the freedom that is your inheritance. It is irrevocable. It is forever. It applies to every situation...every moment of your life. You have been invited to the Banquet of the Lamb. It has already begun. You taste and see that God - your God and Father - your Redeemer and Lord lives. You know that His love is the banquet and that He is the sum and substance of all that is Good! Rejoice and come. Live in celebration and wonder as you enter into all that the Father has prepared for you. Praise Him and live your moments fully in His healing, empowering Love. Indeed, your cup overflows. Let it overflow on all who are in your life. This is how you carry out His plan on earth. Rejoice and love! Give. Give. Give!

 - Lord, I need Your Word in my heart. I so want to let all the clamoring voices that vie for my attention fade into silence.

+ I can silence all the noise in your head. I can push it into nothingness. My love, believe I am with you right now, when you don't feel it and don't think you can believe. You see...My Love is so vast and transforming...it covers over sin ( I never tell you to do something I myself don't do for you. ) Yes...My Love covers over all sin. This starts with you! Right now, a general sense of failure and disappointment in yourself is translating everything you feel and see in your mind's (blind) eye as loss, failure and a general sense of dis-ease. This has your attention. These are the voices that drown out My still small voice. Ah...but the power in My voice can silence any storm and render it calmed. Remember, my love, you belong to the Master of the Universe. I paid the price to set you FREE...to calm your storms .,..to silence all the noise that distracts you. I know that you don't have the power to be still...but just your turning to Me with hope in your heart is enough. I can help you be still. I can send the whirlwind away and leave you luxuriating in the deep peace of My Presence. I never want you to be living your life in interior turmoil. I've taken care of that. Discord and inner turmoil are the enemy's tools to keep you distracted and deaf to My assuring words. Be still My love. I will help you. Pay no heed to the clatter of a fallen, defeated foe. He wants you to feel like he does. He wants you to feel fallen and defeated too. Of course, you are not! Nothing could be further from the Truth...which is your Father's resounding "Yes"...that He wants to ring like a bell deep within you!
   So hear the  chimes ring, my love... the chimes that remind you deep in your heart that the risen Lord lives to redeem every moment of your life. He silences every storm. He calms every wave. You are overshadowed and empowered by Love Himself! Nothing can withstand the mighty force of this Love. Peace is the bell that rings throughout your entire being. My Peace I give you ...and the Holy Spirit helps you have the strength to receive it "that you may be filled with all the measure of all the fullness of God." Don't you feel better now? 

 - Lord - this day is before me. I want to live it in YOU. I don't know how to resist the busyness that seeks my attention. I want to rest in You...live in You...belong completely - moment to moment - to You. Show me how to be still and know that You are God.

+ Your friend, the owl, just started singing his plaintiff song into the day. I had him sing because I know that his song reminds you of Me. His chant, "Who...Who...Who" is a joyous song of praise to the One...the only One Who is worthy of all praise. I had your little friend sing because you, My love, have ears to hear. This makes Me glad. Of course, your beloved Spirit is the One Who gave you those ears to hear! We always work together to give the Father what He wants...and what He wants is You...your love...your attention...your heart of praise. What the enemy of your soul does not want you to know is that there is nothing you can do that can stop this stream of Love coming to you. He wants you to think this favor is dependent on your good behavior...your being worthy. If he can grab your focus off of your Perfect Lover and get you to focus on how you're doing, he can build a wall that makes your Papa seem aloof and withdrawn. He (the enemy) is such a liar and oh...he is so powerless! Everything about you is completely protected. That's because your mind and heart and spirit have been purchased. There is nothing that can separate you...nothing about you...that can prevent the flood of God's winsomeness and faithful care from sweeping over you. You are loved by Love Himself and this is...and always will be....the Greatest Truth of your life. You want to live in Me? My beloved, you already do! You are irretrievably MINE and nothing...nothing will EVER separate you from My protective, empowering arms of Love. I will give you ears to hear My Voice throughout this day and I will give you eyes to see the Father's delight. His smile envelops you and empowers you to be completely His throughout the minutes and hours of this one moment in time...this 1st day of September in the year of the Lord, where there is no time....only the eternal NOW! And so I say to you:

"Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in Him, for He shields him all day long and the one the Lord loves rests between His shoulders"
                                     (Deuteronomy 33:12 ~NIV)    
(You are) God's beloved: God's permanent residence. Encircled by God all day long, within whom God is at home."  (Deuteronomy 33:12 ~The Message)