Because so much has happened, I can’t believe it’s
only been two weeks since we last engaged. I spent the first seven days of
these past fourteen, carrying on in normal adoration, thanking God for His
goodness. With only two short letters and the usual request for growth of His
Spirit in me, I dedicated time to the Lord, but still had ample opportunity for
more. I had conversations of our Father, learned more about His Word, and heard
things that brought joy to my spirit. I got to catch up with friends, while
discovering more about others, opening my eyes to the hurt of reality.
In these first seven
days, I asked God to forgive me for my divided attention, to let me experience
more of His involvement, and bring me to a place where I could just be in Him.
A place to be in His kind, gentle, warming, confident, telling, and powerful
love. I asked Him to strengthen existing bonds and create bountiful new ones. I
asked Him for specific space in work because I felt that I needed it, but got a
response to suggest that I don’t. All of these things that I asked of our Lord,
were just a portion of the many on my heart. They are just a glimpse into the
things I talk to God about and a mention to the additional discussed in private
for others and myself. Though those first seven days seem so distant now, this
past week is still a very present reality.
Jesus not only brought
me to a place where I would experience more of His involvement, but He also
made that place just as I requested. He once again showed me how kind and
powerful He is. He showed me how telling He is when we take the time to listen
and in the process I believe He was strengthening bonds. This past week, I
devoted much of my time to prayer. For almost seven days straight, every
thought was given to Jesus as my heart cried out to Him in the storm of a
victory. My mind grew tired as I focused intently on His kingdom and my body
grew faint in the battle of prayer. When I wasn’t asking for His healing
deliverance, I was adoring Him for the mysterious ways He works. The audible
prayers that flowed from my lips were a gift in themselves as I saw just how
alive the Holy Spirit is. Exhaustedly (but thankfully) committed to Christ and
the trust in His conquest, God showered my family in His good graces while
others joined in for support.
The answered prayers we
were gifted with this past week were not done by my petitions alone. They were
not done by a single faith but by the faith of many. May their lives be
blesssed for the time they gave. I’m blown away by the way God wonderfully
places people in our life to call upon in times of need and in this time our
calls were blessed with an army of love. I got to witness a body of people (His
church) come together in aid for their sister in Christ. I saw answered prayers
in just the request for more and even found strangers willing to take time for
intercession. People who had never met me a day in their life prayed for me as
I stopped for gas on the way out of town. We joined hands in circle, right
there in the middle of the station, in front of the passer bys and others
fueling up, giving thanks to Jesus for what we knew He was already going to do.
I didn’t tell them what was going on, I didn’t need to. I believe God sent Jose
and Lisa to me as angels of comfort. Lisa, though extremely nervous, jumped
right into prayer. God’s voice flowed so freely from her mouth and I could tell
by the end of her beautifully timed appeals that even she was amazed at what
God had done through her. Hallelujia indeed!
I am so thankful for those
two and the timing of God. The way He orchestrates a series of events to bring
about a bigger trust in Him. The way He continues to show us just how much He
cares about the individual hearts of His children and the way He stops at
nothing to give Himself to us. He will relentlessly pursue us until we have no
other choice but to recognize the love that He has and the truth of who He is.
The truth of what He’s done. It saddens me to think just how hard some people
fight to resist the abundant joy that is found in Jesus. How many loop holes
they try to find in an explanation for the unexplainable and the
rationalizations they try to provide for His mysterious miracles. God tells us
in His Word that His ways are too big for us to understand and His love is too
great to comprehend, but I don’t need His Word to tell me that. I’ve seen and
felt it first hand.
Some may think I’m
foolish, some may think I’m naïve, but others who share in this Truth encourage
me to stay persistent. The way God moves and the love that He continues to
reveal provides me with a strength to give Him everything He has given me. My
life. One that I know is not my own. Though He created me uniquely for the good
works of His kingdom I still struggle with the works of this world. I am still heartbroken
by the warfare of our cultures and the warfare of our souls. I am grieved by
the lost and sometimes embarassed by the way ‘believers’ go about sharing His
love. However, all this helps me to see to constant need I have for Jesus and
the continuous process of surrender. All this helps me to boast about what I’ve
found in Christ and the reality of Him being the way, the truth, and the life.
All this reassures the promise to give us whatever we need when we seek Him
first and all of this be for His glory. Yes Lord! It’s in these things that I
trust and it’s in these things that I pray. All praise be to You and the will
of Your Salvation. Forever and ever, Amen!
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