I'm sitting ín the back garden reading a book on one of the revivalists and cross referencing somethings in my bible. Mmmm I can hear my husband Lionel in the kitchen and he has switched off the washing machine so that he can switch on the kettle for a cup of coffee which he will take back to the computer with him, where he is working away at another paper or article.
The coffee is made and I hear his footsteps going down the passage to take up his place in front of the computer monitor for him to continue what he loves best and that is to write, but alas the washing machine has been forgotten and stands in silence no longer being useful and completing its cycle to produce clean and freshly laundered bedding.
It makes me think so much about the cycle of life and how in a given season we feel can feel so useful and fulfilled and in charge of our lives and circumstances, our internal motor is running and passion is producing a God filled life when suddenly it feels like someone came past and switched the off the switch and you feel like God has forgotten you and all is lost...
I don't know if Lionel will remember that he switched off the washing machine or if he will come back into the kitchen for a second cup of coffee to switch the machine back on any time soon.
Praise God that we are not mechanical machines that are switched on and off randomly or at a whim of some higher power.
Our God is a relational Father who has inscribed our names on the palm of His hand. He is selfless and sent His only Son to die for our lives, past, present and future. He has come to give us life and that is life in abundance.
Don't fight the season you are in but surrender to God who will cause you to triumph in all things.
I once heard a prophetic preacher talk on the 2 ways God displays Himself, its either in hiddness or in manifestation.
Hideness is just that....its when God seems to be hiding away and you think He has forgotten you with your vision, passion and pursuit of Him and life. Its a time to draw closer to God, to seek Him until you find Him. As you are in hot pursuit of Him He turns the tables and starts pursuing you...once again you feel like the lights have gone on and life is in a near gear and the darkness of delayed dreams are pushed aside and you run with the Father. The 2nd display is Manifestion.... This is when God seems to be all over you nd arokund you everything you do or say has His blessing. Just know that these two seasons or displays of God work together. There is a time for everything under the sun. A time to laugh and a time to cry.
Keep the faith ì dear friends. Don't cut sort. Your faith, patienceand perseverance in God will produce the rewards of a life hidden in Him and you will be effective in all things.
Stand strong, hold onto faith and watch the salvation of your God.l
B
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Personal Adjustment.
During 2009 I heard the Lord say in my spirit that 2010 was going to be a gateway year into the supernatural and the choices we make in this next season will determine where we are heading and positioned for the future.
2010 is nearly spent and just last month I was once again enquiring of the Lord why it seemed so dark and difficult with many of His children feeling discouraged and the Lord impressed on me that this is a short period of personal adjustment in the lives of His people to prepare us for His shift and outpouring.
So if you have felt like you have lost the plot you havent. All that God has promised you is still to come. He will not forsake His children or delay what He has declared over your life and written about your life in the book of days.
Read Ps139 and Jer 29 and you will see that He has promised us that He has given us a hope and a future, a plan to bless us and not to harm us. Yes my friends if God be for us who can be against us. Nothing can ever seperate us from the love of God. Not life nor death, not powers or principalities, not what has happened in the past nor what is ahead in the future. God has stored up good things for those who love Him and are called by His name. We children of the living God so fear not. Press in and look full into His wonderful
face and the things of the earth will grow strangely dim in light of His glory and grace.
Yes, there are some adjustments but the future is glorious. 2011 will see us being placed perfectly into the call and purposes of God and we will experience His supernatural presence as the glory of the Lord covers the earth as the waters even cover the sea.
So do not faint and do not give up but instead gird up your loins and allow the Almighty and Powerful God who is the lover of your soul to connect you once again with your original mandate.
Remember the fervent and effectual prayers of the saints avail much.
We are called by God and He has full confidence in us so press on and access the doors of God for this new season.
Remember Ps 23 says Goodness and Mercy will follow you ALL the days of your life.
Untill next time.
Rose..
2010 is nearly spent and just last month I was once again enquiring of the Lord why it seemed so dark and difficult with many of His children feeling discouraged and the Lord impressed on me that this is a short period of personal adjustment in the lives of His people to prepare us for His shift and outpouring.
So if you have felt like you have lost the plot you havent. All that God has promised you is still to come. He will not forsake His children or delay what He has declared over your life and written about your life in the book of days.
Read Ps139 and Jer 29 and you will see that He has promised us that He has given us a hope and a future, a plan to bless us and not to harm us. Yes my friends if God be for us who can be against us. Nothing can ever seperate us from the love of God. Not life nor death, not powers or principalities, not what has happened in the past nor what is ahead in the future. God has stored up good things for those who love Him and are called by His name. We children of the living God so fear not. Press in and look full into His wonderful
face and the things of the earth will grow strangely dim in light of His glory and grace.
Yes, there are some adjustments but the future is glorious. 2011 will see us being placed perfectly into the call and purposes of God and we will experience His supernatural presence as the glory of the Lord covers the earth as the waters even cover the sea.
So do not faint and do not give up but instead gird up your loins and allow the Almighty and Powerful God who is the lover of your soul to connect you once again with your original mandate.
Remember the fervent and effectual prayers of the saints avail much.
We are called by God and He has full confidence in us so press on and access the doors of God for this new season.
Remember Ps 23 says Goodness and Mercy will follow you ALL the days of your life.
Untill next time.
Rose..
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