Blog time....and I'll be honest I have felt led to type this one for a while, and have hesitated. I tried to do another one of the other songs or verses tonight and God said now it's this one. This verse was given to me during the second week of my most recent season. It was two days after a prayer time that shifted the course of events I truly believe. When God aligns His people up in prayer......and then when you step into that alignment things happen!! Hear my heart....when you are going through a season, people covering you in prayer is vital. We need those people in our life...but in some seasons you can every one praying for you, but you have to step into agreement with that word. So many times we want other people to pray the storm away, and I've been there....more times than I can count. I'm so thankful though for friends that taught me and encouraged me to learn to intercede for myself. That's a blog to come later all by itself...
This verse has been one that I've read multiple times, but until this last season, I'm not sure I truly understood it. God and I had a heart to heart conversation when I was up in Nashville the first weekend after diagnosis and I was pretty blunt with Him, I mean He knows it anyway right...I was like God if this whole mountain isn't going away, then you can take away certain parts of it. I knew God well enough to know He heals and can do more than I ever asked or imagine. I knew He could take it all away, but I also knew He heals through storms as well. So I stood on it....and as a friend spoke in that weekend, no room for doubt. Trust me doubt came up multiple times during this, with those mountains that I was believing to go into the sea. I went back to my promise notebook and was like no God you said and I spoke the word back. There was a strength rising up during this time.....one that I knew was not of me. I was fighting this on a level that I couldn't see and believing for what I could see. Some may have even thought I was bossy at the time, but I reminded them that God said to come boldly before His throne. He knew what my heart was, so with confidence that's what I went after in prayer. When you are in a storm, make sure your words line up with His. Your words have more power than you may realize, line them up with truth and nothing else.
The parts of the journey I had peace about ended up being the parts of the journey I was to walk. The parts that peace never came, those mountains went into the sea. God did what I asked Him to do and as I pressed into His presence.....wow (That's a blog coming later from Luke 8). I don't know what mountain you are needing to go into the sea right now, but I bet one can come to mind. Spend some time talking to God about it, you'll know when it lines up with His will for your life. Once you know that, stand on what He's promised and believe that He can do exceedingly more than you could ever ask or imagine....more than that, the power inside of you as a Child of His and a joint heir with Him is the same power that He has....Let that sink in. Believe that God wants the very best for you and press into that.
Maybe you read that and are saying yeah but I prayed and believed and still this and this happened. I get it I really do. If you've followed my blog or know me well, you will know I've dealt with enough of the moments that made me want to go, God, what are you doing. Get alone with Him, press into His presence, and lay it all out before Him. We act sometimes like He doesn't understand us and somehow forget He wired us the way He did for a purpose. Find some people around you to agree with you in prayer and to hold you up as you fight your storm. It's how you win battles you can't see I promise. It's how you see mountains that you can see by name go into the sea.
God still longs to answer His children's prayers. Press into Him sweet child of His and take Him at His word. Leave no room for doubt and speak life over yourself!
More to come later ;-)
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