• Brief Sukkot Background • Rededication • Sukkot, A Prophetic Message This year is the year of double grace and the kings and priests' anointing favor – year 5785. Sukkot, also called Booths (Huts) or Tabernacles, is a commemoration festival of double thanksgiving. During the week of Sukkot, as we reflect on our lives, we need to account for everything we have and, even if we have nothing, be doubly grateful that we have GOD. Therefore, we should be thankful. It is in that thanksgiving that the purpose of Sukkot lies. It is a time to have thankfulness toward a gracious and merciful GOD who has protected and provided for us over the years, just as HE did for the Israelites in the wilderness after their exodus from Egypt. In our gratitude toward HIS goodness, we should spend the celebration of Sukkot meditating on HIS goodness while recommitting our relationship with HIM by repenting for any and every offense we may have caused in our efforts to serve a mighty GOD. REDEDICATION This week’s focus should not be on ourselves, but on the LORD — HIS presence, HIS goodness, HIS love, HIS provisions, HIS ways, and HIS statutes. We should not only desire to keep HIS will but also genuinely live it out in our lives. One way to do this is by keeping ourselves clean and holy by staying away from anything and anyone, especially counterfeit leaders whose desires are only to divide the flock of GOD, lie, steal, cheat, and destroy not only the lives of GOD’s people but also the Kingdom of GOD that HE has prepared for HIS people. We must remember that counterfeit Christians sacrifice to demons, not to GOD. This is why we should not have any fellowship with them (1 Corinthians 10:21). 2 Corinthians 6:17 reads, “So come out from among them (unbelievers) and touch not (any) unclean things….” We need to stop living for talent, likeability, popularity, and what it appears people can do for us. We must see counterfeit leaders for who they truly are: tools Satan uses to separate us from a holy, just, and righteous GOD. Another way we can live out our lives is by recommitting ourselves to the things of GOD, making HIM the utmost, essential priority in our lives. We must learn to do this by understanding how to effectively move and operate in the courts of heaven, elevating our worship, and focusing on HIM, not the activities happening around us during worship. GOD should be our main focus. It’s about the quality time we spend with HIM, not the quantity. Our objective should always be to grow from glory to glory and faith to faith (2 Corinthians 3:18). We cannot achieve this if we are too dedicated to our routines, rituals, traditions, and the people we associate with. We need to examine ourselves to ensure our time with GOD and our time in worship are filled with substance that is pleasing and usable to HIM. We want the accolades of GOD, which are trustworthy, valuable, and truthful, rather than the praise of man, which results in watered-down worship that lacks the power, presence, and glory of GOD. SUKKOT, A PROPHETIC WORD Let’s look closer with Matthew 25:21 (AMP):
That should be the goal of every Christian — to share in the joy of their Master. John 1:16 reads, "For out of His fullness [the superabundance of His grace and truth] we have all received grace upon grace [spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing, favor upon favor, and gift heaped upon gift]." This double portion of spiritual blessing, favor, and gifts is not given to just anyone. It is distributed to a select few whom GOD deems faithful, trustworthy, and true. These individuals are certainly not counterfeits. They have been faithful to the laws, instructions, and directions of the LORD and obedient to all that GOD has commanded them. Their drive, passion, mission, and pleasure are to do the will of their FATHER, while abandoning their own preferred lifestyle, goals, and ambitions. They have willingly made the necessary personal sacrifices and carried their cross well (Matthew 16:24-26). They have laid down everything they possess at the foot of the cross of Christ and declared, “Here I am, send me.” Their hearts are purer than the purest gold, and therefore, unity comes easily to them because their heart’s mission is not self-centered. They have one goal and focus: to do what is in the best interest of the Body of Christ, which will lead to the fulfillment of Ephesians 4:13 in their lives:
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