The Father says today, I am stripping away the false illusions of past misconceptions in your mind and in your life. Many of your dreams and visions were birthed in your heart at a time when this level of intimacy I am bringing you to was foreign to you and I'm about to change all that. I have opened the deeps of My heart, My kingdom and My Spirit to you this day, and now it is time to bring those aspirations and expectations of your spiritual youth out into the clear light of what I'm currently doing and saying in your situation. You honestly don’t think I am that small in scope as to limit you only by what you once dared to believe Me for? Dream a bigger dream! Have a bigger vision! Know this - that "Plan A" is still on the table and I am even at that capable of so much more. I am willing says God. I am willing to do so much more in your life than you have imagined in times past. This is a point of maturity for you, says the Father. This is a moment when I invite you – I personally invite you to step over into a whole new experience of walking with Me that you might inherit fully My more-than-you-could-ask-or-think promise in this very season you are living through.

Prophet Russ - My faith declares that the Almighty God is not limited by my past understanding but is actively revealing His greater plans for my life - Today!

I want to give you heart burn, says the Father. Not the kind you take medication for but the kind that the two on the road to Emmaus experienced as I walked with them in the way. I want to teach you. I want to draw out the line of your personal history and show you how in seasons past you thought I wasn’t present, but in fact, I was present, as close as hands and feet, nearer to you than the very breath of your body. I want to show you that those experiences that were so confusing to you from your past were not actually chaotic, but in reality, it was My hand moving at a depth and according to a scope you weren’t capable of measuring. What I am really saying to you, says the Father, is that you have known My acts and seen My hand, but now I want to show you My ways, and beyond that, I want to teach you My ways. I want to teach you My ways so that you can teach others and lead others out of the malaise of obscurity and insecurity that you have yourself experienced. So, get ready, says the Father – for newness of life has found you this day, and newness of joy beyond all your prior experiences.

The Father says today, do you need a favor? I am here in your life today to do you a favor. I have favors lined up for you all the way to the vanishing point of history! Do you need a favor? Ask, that your joy may be full. Ask and I will astonish you with what happens next. You do understand that with My favor comes a favor? In fact – let Me do you a favor right now and let you know that I have favors daily backed up for you from here to eternity. My intentionality is expressed in My favor and My favor is something connected with My ways and My acts and what I am currently saying and doing in your life right now. Do you need a favor? I’m waiting … go ahead – ask. Ask! You are going to have to ask Me, says the Father. You have hesitated to ask because you fear that you are asking and desiring something I don’t want you to have. How can I EVER correct you if you don’t come OUT WITH IT? Ask Me. Ask broadly. Ask presumptuously.

Prophet Russ - I boldly declare my unwavering faith in the boundless generosity of God! - Today!

I want you to ask so widely that you run right over all the religious ideas and preconditions of performance based mentality. I want you to dare to believe that I am who I say I am in the scriptures. I am dreaming about giving you houses you didn’t build. I am dreaming of you drinking of vineyards you didn’t plant. I am dreaming of you harvesting bounty that you never planted and never watered. I so enjoy blessing you that I am breaking all the rules men have set for Me as a boundary because they can’t stand the idea of just how willing I am to bless you. I am a giver, says the Father. I am far more a giver than the small minded, self-indulgent religious pygmies who want to talk you out of what the cross abundantly talks you into. I am bringing more favor into your life so you know that you have special consideration as a matter of policy from My throne. I am indulging Myself, says the Father, in blessing you so you will become confident, HIGHLY confident in who I am and what I am doing in your life!

The Father says today, I am not obsessed by sin. I am not thinking about your sin. I am thinking about the price that was paid so that your relationship with Me would be about WHO I AM and not what you did. I am not dealing with you in terms of your past. I am dealing with you and interacting with you and walking with you on the basis of who you WILL be as you manifest the fidelity toward Me that My grace makes possible. I am blessing you based on who you are BECOMING IN ME because of the cross. That isn’t what you’ve been taught, but know this – I am not bound by wrong ideas men have about Me and I don’t want you to be bound either. You have My permission to radically believe in My unconditional love. My promises are linked to who you are becoming – based on My promise.

Prophet Russ - I believe that God's promises for my life are not held back by my past, but are fully available to me - Today!

I am not hindered and My promises are not hindered by who you WERE yesterday or even 5 minutes ago. I am the God of time and eternity and I am stepping into your now to ameliorate the damage of your past and launch you into the reality of your potential in Me. This is My goodness. This is My favor. My favor toward you is extreme beyond any human metric. When you think about My favor, think about who I am and just how big I am. I created the universe that is so vast it cannot be measured just to give you a suggestion of the containment I have created for the favor that I am showing you. Trust Me, says the Father. My thoughts toward you are more than the stars of the heavens or the sand of the sea and every one of those thoughts flow out of unimaginable favor. When you are cast down – be of good courage. I am standing up. I am standing in the gap between your present and your future making sure that it is My grace that is filtering every negative influence so that the difficulties are falling away and the blessings are mounting up. Trust Me, says the Father, I have everything in hand. Know that there is nothing – no nothing of the enemy that can remain in your life because you have decided to radically and ridiculously put your confidence and your expectation upon Me!

The Father says today, I am forming ranks and bringing My people into formation. You will know your place, and you will be able to trust those around you. The enemy has sought to destroy trust and confidence between My people. There has been contention, strife, and misdirection that has caused many to grind to a halt in the face of an advancing enemy. Voices of unity and strength are emerging. The anointing upon My men and My women is supplanting the alarmist voices of those who shrilly demand that you give them your attention. Listen for My sound. You will hear a sound in the words of those truly anointed and commissioned by My hand. It will be a sound of courage, strength, and deliverance. It will be a sound that will reach into your heart and not just your head. There you will find the rallying point where My army is mustering out to war.

Prophet Russ - I believe God is my refuge and my strength, a very present help in trouble - Today!

I am establishing My people as an army, I say, to accomplish My purposes in the earth and even in your life. Do not think that no one is praying for you. Though many around you seem oblivious to your struggle, I am putting intercessors on the battle line, even on other continents, who wake up in the night and simply hear My voice say "pray," and they are praying for you. There is a prayer movement rising up unparalleled since the days of the early church. My people will turn away from the false initiatives of man's strength that can change nothing. They are turning once again to the Rock that bore them. They are turning once again to My name and running into My name as a high tower in a time of conflict. You will no longer be looking ahead by faith, but you are going to be looking back with thankfulness because I have called you and would that you serve in this great army without distraction. So rejoice and rise up to your destiny.

The Father says today, I am a Father of the fatherless. When mother and father forsake you, and go their own way, I will take you up. I will bring you to Myself and cause you to know that I have loved you and will never leave you or forsake you. I will clean you up and give you a new start. Are you ready for a new start, says the Father? It is not up to you to close the books on the disappointments of the past. Leave that to Me. What you cannot resolve or do differently, I will take care of. I am the God of time and eternity, and there is nothing too hard for Me. I am stepping into the timeline of your life to remediate the things of the past that haunt you and have been difficult to let go of. Relinquish all to Me. Do not look back. It is time to forgive, release, bless, and move on.

Prophet Russ - I declare that God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that I ask or think! - Today!

Forgive yourself and forget the unkind things that others have said – even those who should have been there for you but were not. That is the human experience. Failure is inherent in human nature, so adjust your expectations. They did what they did because of what was in them, and that is the end of it. Forgive. Release. Move on. The open doors before you can only be walked through on unshackled feet. I give you this day the key to the chains of regret and self-recrimination. You could have done things differently. You asked for forgiveness, and I have provided the blood of the cross to ameliorate your guilt. It isn’t possible to make amends fully, says the Father, and you know that. Just humble yourself and move on. Make the adjustment, says the Father. Change is available and it begins now, this moment, as you align your thoughts with My truth in your situation.

The Father says today that I have established My paternity on the inside of you. You are not only a child of man, you are My child. I have birthed you by the DNA of who I am on the inside of you. There is a father of your natural flesh that chastened you after their pleasure. I am the Father of your spirit who chooses to bless you and indulge you after My good pleasure. Did I not say in My word that it is My good pleasure to give you the kingdom? It is My good pleasure to give you righteousness, peace and joy. I give you joy this day. I give you peace this day. I am your peace. Peace is who I am on the inside of you. I am peace and I am Lord, therefore PEACE is taking control and exercising dominion over everything happening around you.

Prophet Russ - The DNA of God Courses in My Bones - Today!

I am yours and you are mine – righteousness is your portion. Righteousness is your portion because of who I AM and what I have placed on the inside of you. You cannot fail or falter or fracture because you have yielded and bent the knee to who I am and what I am saying down deep in your spirit. Hear the rumbling of My voice, says the Father, for I am tabernacling on the inside of you and making Myself known to you. Be lifted up from the place of discouragement. You will not be discouraged but will be encouraged – and in the encouragement, you will rise up and take flight into the full height of My blessing and portion and ministry assignment that is yours this very day.

The Father says today, Judah goes first! The staff of My authority rests between the knees of those who are willing to move forward as the front-line shock troops of intercession and worship. As it was in the days of Hezekiah - as the worshippers go forward, so I will set ambushments against the enemy and he will return to his own land. Fear not, says the Father! Believe the good report. Believe the message that I am sending forth in this hour – a message, not of gloom or of darkness, but a message of morning spread upon the Mountains of My Glory, says your God. Trust! Rest! Rely upon Me and move forward. The strategy of the enemy is failing! The forces of darkness are dissipating in the light of My glory that attends all of those who worship Me in spirit and in truth!

Prophet Russ - I Choose to Join the Shock Troops of Intercession and Worship - Today!

You have chosen to worship Me, says the Father, and in your worship the glory will be made manifest that originates not in the glimmering of man’s false representations but in the authentic and genuine visitation that is your portion in this hour. Raise the banner and go forward. Let those gifted in pageantry and dance come forth and be seen. Let the stringed instruments and the battle drums be heard! I have received you in an hour appointed and there is no need to cower before an enemy that I have already defeated 2000 years ago at the cross. Be lifted up you gates! Be flung wide you everlasting doors, for the King of Glory – your Betrothed and your Beloved is making Himself manifest for your deliverance and your salvation, says your God!

The Father says today, I am your wisdom. You do not need to worry and fret, wondering about the next step or the right action when things get tough. I am actively working to bring peace and agreement among those you care deeply about. Remember, where jealousy and fighting exist, all kinds of bad things follow. You are not meant to take sides with anyone else; your allegiance is to Me. When people try to force you to defend their position, speak clearly and say, “I am not for either of you – I am on the Lord’s side!” There is no room for narrow-mindedness or division among My people. Decide firmly in your heart that you do not belong to this group or that group, but that you belong to Me alone. When you do this, it will show growth in you, and you will almost immediately experience blessings and a direct connection to heaven above you.

Prophet Russ - I believe and declare that the Father's word is truth and life in my situation - Today!

The open heaven is yours, I declare. Do not let anything pull your attention away. Keep your focus on My throne in heaven. That is where your authority comes from. Your blessings are there. Your provision is there. The change you have been longing for is there because you are choosing not to get involved in the petty arguments and power struggles within religious circles. You are not meant for such things. You are called to be holy – like an eagle, willing to soar alone if necessary to reach the highest places and sit with Me in heavenly realms. There will be times when others want you to join their disputes, but remember when I walked on earth, I did not commit Myself to human opinions, because I knew what was in them. I have called you not to take sides with people but to love them. Do not let others tell you what loving them means or set the terms for your relationship with them. Those who try to pressure you into their group are claiming an authority over you that belongs only to Me. It is Christ who died for you, Christ who saved you, and Christ who is guiding you – so remain faithful to Me, continue to walk in love, and you will not be stopped from experiencing My glory that will come to you, be seen in you, and do so very soon.