Thursday, October 24, 2013

PROMISE 56 POLISHED CORNERSTONES

PROMISE 56 POLISHED CORNERSTONES

Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouths speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood: that our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace. – Psalm 144:11-12

The King James Version of Psalm 144:12 describes the daughters of God’s people as cornerstones, not pillars.  A cornerstone is the beginning of a structure to which the rest of the building conforms in style, size, slant, and shape.  I believe this symbol speaks especially of those who are used of God to initiate His unique purposes in the earth.

The most dominant example is the Lord Jesus Himself, referred tyo as the “chief cornerstone”  in Ephesians 2:20.  He was the initial stone of a spiritual building that God began erecting in the earth nearly two thousand years ago in order to inhabit it with His glory.  The “construction” of this living cathedral, spanning two millennia, was definitely a new approach, a new revelation-something the Bible calls a “new covenant” (Jer. 31:31).

If Jesus was the chief cornerstone—and His sons and daughters bear His image—believers should all fill the role of lesser cornerstones.  We are called to be initiators, innovators, visionaries, history makers, and world changers—purpose-driven people used of God to start new trends so His divine designs can be fulfilled.  It is not presumptious or preposterous for me to say these things, because we are all “His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them” (Eph 2:10). We all have a purpose.  We can all begin something of great value, even if on a small scale.  

PRAYER DECLARATION

Lord God, I pray that You will give my children the courage to be individuals, to stand for what is right, and to be creative in serving You day by day.  I confess that You will initiate something of great value through Joshua and Mikayla so that the world might be a better place.  Empower them to be cornerstones, trendsetters, establishing divinely inspired plans and purposes in the earth.  Give me grace to prepare my children, not for the “shack” of mediocrity but for the “palace” of excellence, polishing Josh and Mikayla so their gifts and callings are fully manifested.  In the name of Jesus, amen (let it be so)!

 

 

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