Come Away With Me Prophetic Word

4-13-19 

Come away with me and sit awhile.  Let me take you and show you a glimpse of my hand of love at work.  I am planting you by streams of living water.  Rest while you drink in my presence.  I have brought you out of the dry desert that was a valley of dry barren bones.  I am planting you firmly as a plan of redemption will continue to unfold before your eyes.  Those weeds of losses were necessary and painful, but I allowed everything that happened for a greater purpose that is yet to unfold.  What the cankerworm has stolen I am beginning to replace with things that are so much greater that only I could do. 

I have waited and pursued you with an unconditional dying love and patience.  I take great delight in all the ways you are beginning to see my love at work.  I am doing a new thing that is far greater than you can imagine.  I am rewriting your story and creating a new beautiful masterpiece from the brokenness.  This is a process that will transform over time.  I am working and removing all that will hinder my plan for your life; those things that get in my way to make room for the better I will give and replace.  I will take you through times of cleansing the impurities that have entered in and give you times of complete rest in my presence. 

The more you rest in my presence and trust my plan the better.   It will be difficult to continue to work on letting go and letting me have all the control, but my promises and plans are greater.  Don’t get discouraged and don’t look back.  Everything will be lessons and refinement to the beauty that I am working in your life.  So come rest by the water edge and see the great and mighty things I will continue to do.

Victory From The Victor

In brief, there is the story of Daniel in the lion's den, the fiery furnace with Shadrach Meshach, and Abednego, and a New Testament Story of Paul in prison.  In all three of these accounts, it would seem the work of God was defeated or they themselves were defeated by the enemy.    But God allowed the hurricane of defeat but not destruction.  He came in victorious disrupting the hurricane of the enemy.  He stirred things up showing that the enemy could not be defeated and He was who He was and is.  He allowed what would appear to be the end of the work of those he called to show greater power and victory.

We all have our furnaces that at times we feel burned or singed by, the lions' pit with raging lions about to devour our very souls and emotions, our prisons that seem to captivate us from what we are called to do merely paralyzing us from moving forward in our relationship with Christ and the work he is calling us to do.  I am not merely talking that everyone is called to some great work but each of us is called to do something.  We are called to serve to whatever he may ask us to do be it little or great.

 
Feeling led to pray or visit someone or clean up trash and debris is just as great when followed by God’s calling and obedience as that of a great pastor or teacher.   As a mom, I often feel imprisoned by the demands and furnace of the trials that life may bring.  However, God is there waiting for me to allow him and trust in His victory.  He cannot step in our circumstances in a victorious way without full submission and faith trusting in His divine will.  He wants us to stand on the victory He is going to perform.  I was reminded how so easily we tend to go on day-to-day learning to fully trust in Him, yet completely forgetting the fact that He claims victory overall.

 
He claimed victory over Daniel; victory over Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; and victory over Paul.  He never once allowed nor did they allow the work of God to be stopped by their circumstance or defeat.  My prayer for today is that as the furnace may sometimes appear to get hotter, the lions' mouths get bigger, and the prison cell colder and darker I do not forget that God is victorious and bigger than all the things of life that storm around us.

God Is Bigger

January 18, 2014

In brief, there is the story of Daniel in the lion's den, the fiery furnace with Shadrach Meshach, and Abednego, and a New Testament Story of Paul in prison.  In all three of these accounts, it would seem the work of God was defeated or they themselves were defeated by the enemy.    But God allowed the hurricane of defeat but not destruction.  He came in victorious disrupting the hurricane of the enemy.  He stirred things up showing that the enemy could not be defeated and He was who He was and is.  He allowed what would appear to be the end of the work of those he called to show greater power and victory.

We all have our furnaces that at times we feel burned or singed by, the lion's pit with raging lions about to devour our very souls and emotions, our prisons that seem to captivate us from what we are called to do merely paralyzing us from moving forward in our relationship with Christ and the work he is calling us to do.  I am not merely talking that everyone is called to some great work but each of us is called to do something.  We are called to serve whatever he may ask us to do be it little or great.
Feeling led to pray or visit someone or cleaning up trash and debris is just as great when followed by God’s calling and obedience as that of a great pastor or teacher.   As a mom, I often feel imprisoned by the demands and furnace of the trials that life may bring.  However, God is there waiting for me to allow him and trust in His victory.  He cannot step in our circumstances in a victorious way without full submission and faith trusting in His divine will.  He wants us to stand on the victory He is going to perform.  I was reminded how so easily we tend to go on day-to-day learning to fully trust in Him but yet completely forgetting the fact that He claims victory overall. 

He claimed victory over Daniel; victory over Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; and victory over Paul.  He never wants allowed nor did they allow the work of God to be stopped by their circumstance or defeat.  My prayer for today that as the furnace may sometimes appear to get hotter, the lions' mouths get bigger, and the prison cell colder and darker I do not forget that God is victorious and bigger than all the things of life that storm around us.

Parting the Sea

7-7-20

Lean on me.  Cling to me.  Your strength is found in what seems to be the weakest moments.  It is when you let go and no longer lean on the pillar of my strength that you become the weakest.  The harder you lean and the tighter you cling the more I release and build the strength you need.  When you seem to be your weakest it is then that I can continue to show my strength through your weakness and I make you strong.

Remember faith is clinging to the promises of what you cannot see.  Remember that I am a God who never sleeps, never changes, and is ever-present in every circumstance within your life.  Remember I am the "I Am" not the who I was or who I will be.  "I am" means I will always continue to be consistent and true to my word and promises.  Though the world and your circumstances may change what seems like second to second at times I never change.

Just as I brought Moses to the Red Sea and parted the waters and built walls of my waters of peace and protection, I am parting what seems to be an enormous sea in front of you.  I have formed my walls of peace and protection around you.  My love and plans for your life do not change.  You only need to let me do my work.  When you are at the sea remember even the grain of sand underneath your feet and offer it to me as a sacrifice of faith is what I ask for and can grow to part the sea and move the mountain in front of you.  

Though the armies may seem to be coming at a fast past behind you or appear to be in front of you blocking your way, remember I never change and what I did for Moses and many others I am doing for you.  So cling tight to my rod of strength.  Realize my power lies in what you choose to hold tightly in your hand.  Release what is not yours to my hand and cling tightly to my never-changing promises for your life.

The Groom Is Waiting

7-5-20

My quiet devotional time with Jesus did not occur until much later on in the day, like afternoon time.  The day just seemed to be off to a rather unusual start of the day full of distractions.  Today was different once I sat down with him.  I got caught in this captivated moment as I realized I am learning how to express heartfelt love, humbleness before God.  The aspect of learning how to tell him I love him and the admiration of him that brought me to my knees with streams of tears flowing out my eyes and down my cheeks before him.  The place that just takes you into that secret place with him.

As I was sitting thinking about it, thoughts come into my mind as I found myself in this aspect of satan giving me this thought of finding frustration at the people in my life.  Those people who will say something that will never follow through.  The ones who say something because they think it will make you feel better or give you a false hope to hold onto for just a little longer.  A promise that will never be fulfilled and you just know as you watch the patterns repeat themselves.  Then there is another aspect of excuse after excuse.

Then I quickly got caught in the moment of telling God I did not like this place in my heart and the feelings it stirs and the frustrations.  Clear as anything he says back to me, "Have you ever stopped to think that is what you do to me?"   Make excuses, make promises, and maybe have half good intentions of yea I will do it.  Do I really do it, or get serious about it?

Up until lately as he is taking me into this deeper spot and intimacy with him, I have been realizing the importance of that secret place and deeper intimacy with him.  I realized God doesn't get agitated when I make excuses for why I don't spend time with him.  He just sits there and waits.  I am sure he gets disappointed, but he doesn't make promises he won't keep.  He doesn't make a promise just because he thinks it will make me happy and make me shut up.  Then I turn and do the same thing to him.  I think we all can if we are completely honest with ourselves.  I was so humbled and could only say, "God, I am so sorry."  Let me just be aware.  As I just sit in his presence completely aware, I could only just say thank you over and over.  I just sat there taking it all in with the worship music in the background.  I found myself putting my own words in the worship songs playing as a way of personal expression to him.

As I continued to sit in worship with him and my eyes closed I got this vision of a little girl who was playing out in the field in the dirt.  She was all dirty and soiled in her pretty white dress.  As she got up she decided she was going to start dancing and frolicking through the field.  As she was, she was just singing and praising.  I could not tell what she was saying, singing, or praising.  She was so happy, grateful, and joyful just singing her praises of joyful songs.  As she was dancing and frolicking about her dress became whiter and the dirt just disappeared.  

As I am watching her go, she keeps going and going along in a progression of this little girl into this young bride.  As she is this young adult ends up finding this path, that leads to this grand cathedral with doors open and finely dressed guards on both sides as that of what you would see at a royal wedding.  

As she approaches and realizes she slows down her frolic and realizes she is this young adult.  It is almost as if she realizes she can't contain herself.  She approaches and they swing open the doors, and she goes in and she spots her groom at the end and it is Jesus.  She is standing there in white and both their arms are wide open and she just bolts and runs towards him.  There was this huge embrace as a celebration just erupted.  Then the thought crossed my mind of I have found the one who I waited so long for.  I later realize that in Song of Solomon 3:4 it says, "I have found the one who my soul loves."

I find myself in this position of God help me to trust you, but trust means I have to let go.  Trust means I have to be willing to say I am sorry.   I have to have faith in what I can't see until that is revealed, knowing that it is going to be something so much grander than what I can even imagine.  The love of this groom and the embrace was not something I could say I could ever connect with or have experienced before.  

I still find myself caught up in how do I express or adequately describe the experience of such a revelation in the midst of what can seem like utter chaos.  I find myself getting caught up in these moments of frustrations and disappointments.  It merely starts with this thought of disappointment and if I continue to dwell on disappointment then it turns to frustration, then frustration leads to the next thing, and the next, and the next thing.  Before you know it you're angry and have unforgiveness in your heart.  God was so quick to say here is this thought, but let's also turn it around and look at it from his perspective.  I was so humbled.  I realized it was Satan who was trying to plant the thought there.  It goes back to the saying what Satan means for evil God will use for good.  It can start with just those thoughts.  There was something about the fact that when it tried to enter, it couldn't stand or stay in God's presence.    It was being stirred, but it could not stand or stay because of being in his presence.  In his name, Satan wasn't able to remain.  Satan wasn't able to take hold.  There is such revelation, power, and truth when we come and dwell in the secret place of the most high.  Our groom.  Our beloved.

Faith of a Mustard Seed

Faith of a Mustard Seed

7-4-20

This morning I seemed to really wrestle to enter into a time of intimacy with the Father.  I struggled to find worship music to fit my wrestling mode of mind.  As I finally settled on something, simply tired of searching, I would settle on one of my favorites.  The theme of the music set choice was based on fear.  My recovery Bible readings would lead me to a passage in Luke 15:11-24 in the story of the Parable of the Lost Son, the forgiveness, and restoration demonstrated in this parable.  My next reading would lead me to a passage in Psalms 103:1-22 where it talked about Forgiveness.  As I meditated on this for a while and let it stir my thoughts, there was a theme to where God was bringing me and yet he would not stop here.  I eventually decided to move on with my day and prepare to get a shower.  There in the shower a door of release and exposure before the Father occurred.  

As I let the warmth of the shower sprinkle and pour over me, I was once again reminded of the vision he had given me of how when I enter transparently and completely exposed before him in surrender and thanksgiving his water and blood wash away the stains, frustrations, and disappointment of my sin before him.  

In the shower, he gave me one word and one word only that would humble before him, and that word was FAITH.  Where is your faith for restoration you long for your children?  Where is your faith, that you are forgiven before me, and must maintain forgiveness for others?   When you let fear override your faith, then the unforgiveness finds its way in.  As I stood there in thanksgiving for what he was showing me, I simply asked and yet said, but God my faith doesn't even seem to be that of a mustard seed for restoration.  He ever so gently said, do you have faith as a grain of sand which is smaller?  Yes, Father, I do.  He says, then give me what you have.  I can work and grow with what you have when you give it to me.  So with my grain of sand and my arms lifted in the air as the shower continued to pour over me, I released what faith I had, and watched that grain of sand size faith begins to grow in my heart.

That grain of sand, began to move another boulder inside the mountain blocking my way and his light he was trying to shine on my heart.  When we give him what we feel we have, no matter how little or how large of faith it may be, he can use it.  It is in this minute amount, he says I give you the assurance and the knowing for what you cannot see.  It is that seed, the builds the bridge of intercession to me that will break through and move your mountain that seems unmovable.  All I ask is that no matter how little or big you give me what you have and hold tight to my promise of restoration for a finished work that I have begun, that you yet may not see.

Matthew 17:20 says "You don't have enough faith," Jesus told them.  "I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it would move.  Nothing would be impossible."

Hebrews 11:1 says Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.