"Cause you make mountains move....you make giants fall..." This has become a song I listen to at least once a day if not more than that. Let's face it when the days are long and when the stress seems to come at you like a flood, music is that place that can refocus us. I don't know if it's just me, but the distractions have been plentiful lately...in fact, that's a blog on it's own coming I'm sure at some point this week. Distractions steal our focus and that in itself should clue us in to where they are coming from. The enemy only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I have had a whisper here and a whisper there over the last couple of weeks because well the distractions have seemed louder than the whispers. The more I press in, it's because there is a word coming and the enemy knows it...hence the distractions, but I digress.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, we have to stir it up some days what we know is on the inside of us. I saw this picture a week or so ago, and it didn't make exact sense but it's starting to come into view. There is a shift that happens in all of our journeys at some point. We have those moments where we are following behind and seeing how He's gone before us on our journey and the light that leads each step. Then we hit a place where we start to see the light from a different view and notice that it's coming from around us and beside us. Broken places, those places we pray against, may very well be the place God uses to shine from within. It's that moment we look up from walking along our journey and see how the journey has shifted and following has turned into a friendship.
God finishes what He starts, and the same faith He displayed then He plans to continue to displaying now. We get in the way sometimes, kind of like picking up a hose and squeezing it. Water still comes out but not in the way it could if there wasn't anything holding it back. Take time this week to reflect and see what may be holding you back, what is God asking you to let go of so that He can take you to the next He has planned. There are some things that we get free from and the enemy slides the chains back at our feet and if we aren't careful, we can find ourselves picking them back up again. Hear my heart....it's just a distraction, keep moving forward and don't pick up anything that He doesn't hand to you. Let that visual sink in....God's a giver of good gifts and He doesn't put something to where we have to look down to pick it up, He hands them down to where we can look up to receive it.
There is a season of expectation, I've seen it, I've heard it....and can now see how the enemy has done everything he can to distract from it. Thankful for a reset break and for reflection some this week. Elijah had moments where he sat under the tree and had a borderline pity party, but then he got up and had an encounter with God that propelled Him back to purpose. God's said more than once already this week that's He's whispering......praying you to hear exactly what He's saying to you in this season.
More blogs to come this week.....
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