December 12th
The Harvest Is Plentiful
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Opening · Section 1 of 11
“Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!”
Psalm 34:8Read full chapter →
Salvation belongs to our God. December traces the whole rescue — from the promise in Eden to the cross, from the empty tomb to the new birth. Christ came to seek and to save the lost, and that includes you.
The cross is where justice and mercy kissed. There the debt was paid in full and the door of heaven swung open. Salvation is not earned; it is received, and receiving it changes everything.
Scripture was never written in a vacuum. Every promise you read today was first given to somebody with dust on their feet, bills to pay, enemies at the gate and questions they could not answer. That is why the word still lands: it was forged in real weather. When you read it, you are not being handed a slogan — you are being handed the testimony of a God who has already proved Himself in circumstances harder than yours.
So take this into the ordinary hours. Let it change how you answer the message you have been avoiding, how you speak to the person who irritates you, how you handle the hour when nobody is watching. Devotion that never reaches the kitchen, the commute and the workplace is not devotion — it is decoration.
The Prayer
Pray it slowly, out loud, movement by movement
1. Adoration
Father, before I ask You for anything, let me simply behold You. You are holy, eternal, unsearchable in wisdom and tender in mercy. You were God before this year began and You will be God long after it ends. I bless You for who You are, and not merely for what You do.
2. Confession
I come honestly. I have let lesser fires warm me. I have been busy where I should have been still, and silent where I should have been bold. I bring the apathy, the pride, the fear, the hidden compromise — and I do not defend it. Wash me in the blood of Jesus and make my heart clean again.
3. Petition
Now, Lord, do in me what only You can do. Set my heart on fire again. Burn off the dust of routine. Give me hunger where I have grown numb, courage where I have grown cautious, and love where I have grown hard. Fill every empty room in me with Your Spirit.
4. Consecration
I give You this day before it is spent — my words, my work, my thoughts, my body, my time and my affections. Let this day be an altar and not an accident. Have Your way in me, and let the fire You light on me warm everyone I meet. In the Mighty Name of Jesus! Amen.
Daily Declarations
Speak these over your life today
- I am loved by God with an everlasting love, and nothing in creation can separate me from it.Jeremiah 31:3; Romans 8:38-39
- I am completely forgiven — my sin is removed as far as the east is from the west.Psalm 103:12
- I carry the Spirit of the living God, and where His Spirit is, there is freedom.2 Corinthians 3:17
- I refuse every accusation the enemy speaks over my past; there is now no condemnation for me in Christ.Romans 8:1
- My identity is settled before my day begins: chosen, holy and dearly loved.Colossians 3:12
- I am God's workmanship, created for good works He prepared in advance for me to walk in.Ephesians 2:10
- Today I live loved, not for love — and out of that love I will love others well.1 John 4:19
Prophetic Decrees
- I decree that every altar speaking against my destiny is silenced by the blood of Jesus.
- I decree that the fire of God consumes every root of fear, shame and generational bondage in my life.
- I decree open doors that no man can shut, and shut doors that no enemy can force.
- I decree divine acceleration where there has been delay, in the Mighty Name of Jesus.
Dig Deeper
- 1.What does today's passage reveal about the character of God that you had not considered before?
- 2.Where in your life are you living as if that were not true?
- 3.What is one specific fear this scripture confronts?
- 4.Who could you share this passage with today?
Further Passages
- Joel 2:28 →
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy.”
- John 1:14 →
“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
- Romans 8:38-39 →
“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.”
Today's Assignment
Give something away today — money, time, or a possession — quietly and without credit.
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