The Double Portion

This morning in my meditation time with the Lord as I was being driven to work I looked up from a bowed head to see a vehicle passing by with a sign on it that read “double happiness”. Suddenly the Lord quickened me and I heard in my spirit ‘the double portion’.

Zechariah 9:11-12 (AMP) As for you also, because of and for the sake of the [covenant of the Lord with His people, which was sealed with sprinkled] covenant blood, I have released and sent forth your imprisoned people out of the waterless pit. Return to the stronghold [of security and prosperity], you prisoners of hope; even today do I declare that I will restore double your former prosperity to you.

And the Lord says, “Because you are Mine and because I have called you and because you have been blood bought and blood washed, saved and sanctified by My Precious Son, your Savior I have commanded the double portion to come upon you. I declare that because of the covenant blessing you are now the inheritors and benefactors of the double portion. I Am releasing to you a of the anointing, a double portion of peace, a double portion of joy, a double portion of happiness, a double portion of grace, a double portion of My favor and a double portion of My Presence. I have released you out of your pit of despair and have transposed you out of darkness into light, out of fear into faith, out of doubt and into trust. You do not have to linger in your past for fear of what you have lost or left behind. That which I have planned for you will be double that of what you formerly possessed. This very day I'm declaring a double bonus; everything you have lost shall be returned twice over. I decree that you shall rise up in hope of your glorious future and fear and doubt will no longer keep you stagnate. You shall hear, you shall see and you shall know that I Am the God of Hope for your todays and your tomorrows. There are glorious things ordained for you in the days ahead. So turn and return to Me, lift up your head toward the Source of your Salvation for I have set all you who were captives free by My Blood and I will uphold you with that same power; you need not be afraid.

1Peter 1:18-20 (AMP)”You must know (recognize) that you were redeemed (ransomed) from the useless (fruitless) way of living inherited by tradition from [your] forefathers, not with corruptible things [such as] silver and gold, 19But [you were purchased] with the precious blood of Christ (the Messiah), like that of a [sacrificial] lamb without blemish or spot. 20It is true that He was chosen and foreordained (destined and foreknown for it) before the foundation of the world, but He was brought out to public view (made manifest) in these last days (at the end of the times) for the sake of you.”