The Alpha of the Overflow

3103/10000 The Alpha of Overflow
Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
Zechariah 1 v 17
The Lord has chosen us before the foundation of the earth. We have not chosen Him but He has chosen us. He has seen us, known us, understood us long before we have known, understood or acknowledged Him. He has chosen us to dwell with Him in the eternal city, the heavenly Jerusalem. Having chosen us, He has turned our mourning into rejoicing. He has turned our sorrows into pure joy. He comforts us in our suffering. He re-builds the things and places in our lives that have been laid waste or spoiled by the enemy of our souls. When the enemy takes a part of us for the soul is spiritual territory belonging to the Lord, the Lord takes back the territory. Like rulers guard territory and would do anything to wrest it back, the Lord looks upon us as His precious belongings, His possessions that He will redeem and take back from the grasp of the enemy of our souls.
The Lord restores the ruins of our hope and of our lives. He causes these ruined places to overflow with new hope of prosperity, health and well being. We are not to allow our minds to be in a “fight or flight” mode as psychologists say but we are in an “overflow” mode- an overflow of joy, hope, love, goodness and all of the fruit of the spirit. The prosperity that scripture or the uni-verse speaks of is not a narrow, materialistic or monetary prosperity but a wholesome and holistic experience of the abundant life Jesus came to give us.
Instead of being silent about the goodness and grace of the Lord overflowing in our lives, we are to be vocal and proclaim His kingdom. He is the Lord of hosts or the Lord of the armies of angels of heaven. There is nothing that He says He will do which is too difficult for Him to perform. If He says that our lives will overflow, it will overflow though we do not see any physical evidence or signs at the moment. We are to be thankful in anticipation and acknowledge the goodness of the Lord to us. We are to amplify the soft whisper of witness of the Spirit of God in our hearts and minds.