“When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, And He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain, And brings out the wind from His storehouses.” Jeremiah 10:13 NASB
Good morning, DearOne.
God’s Word uses nature to make His point. We can relate better that way.
What’s on your heart this morn? You know, deep down, that the very heart-thing on your mind is where God’s power is at work, right? Yes. That’s where The Holy is crafting … in His way of diving down further, into the center of your ‘deal’ … diving down, then coming up behind the issue, laying out different perspectives for your understanding – for your healing.
He allows you time in your deal to practice calling unto Him – calling Him in with powerful whirlwind-like attributes – a central force of determination, which … when focused, rather than scattered gives tremendous energy. That is Him. That is your Savior, Beloved.
Powerful beyond measure.
Powerful on your behalf.
The Holy Spirit, moving in you, with His fierce attitude at the ready.
When you choose to empty yourself of all of your human ego, and make eye contact with your Creator, then that ‘deal’, that issue, that place of pain haunting you shivers in weakness. It shutters and its skin ripples across its muscles … and, in inferiority, the enemy becomes the victim to the Power of the winds of the Holy.
You are so much more than you think you are.
Allow Him to rise in you, and let Him come alive in you.
Wake up.
Summons the cleansing rain of the Holy.
Go.
‘But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you. Or speak to the earth, and it will instruct you; let the fish of the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.’ (Job 12:7-10 HCSB)Good morning, DearHeart. Three years ago our Bryan was on a summer internship in Alaska. It was a curious time of loss for all of us. Nothing can compare one for losing a parent, and we had just lost Dale’s dad a few days before Bryan left. We also lost a lifestyle where every daily plan included planning for Poppy, too. We were empty and totally spent. Dale, Dani, and I put Bry on a plane to the Alaskan wilderness where he would have stretches of weeks with zero contact outside of his work crew. Every heart unsettled. Every territory was new. But, God … God heightened our growing season that summer through nature … Isn’t the Most High amazing(?!), to have given the gift of weaving hearts together with nature, no matter the space between us and the wild? In loss and in change emotions can get radical – tempers high, and edgy guards up … even in those places … especially in those places, God Most High makes trails into uncommonly peaceful spaces. I’m listening to my rowdy morning bird tree, just off my front porch – God’s wild nature is all around. I remember noticing it for the first time during the summer Bry was gone. I noticed every creature that summer in a new light … birds, squirrels, coyotes, fish, deer – they are just beyond. They carry an instinct that makes them fully aware, fully all-knowing of our presence. They stand with us, completely grounded, feet on the earth with their Spirit linked into the Holy One. Nature plays with our sense of wonderment, doesn’t it? In its giant-ness, if we get still enough to notice, we spin down into its vast rivers of peace like DNA spirals reaching deep within until we combust with the Creator’s glory like Roman candles. The Lord God Almighty, -always providing,-delivering balance in the extreme,-He filled my soul then, He fills my soul now. I’ve never heard nature the same way since. He provided the peace I needed in a way I could hear Him. Still does. From some seasons and some losses, we never fully recover, we simply learn to rely fully on our Maker. He restores my soul. Wake up. Hear His balance. Restore. Go.
‘Then David said to his son Solomon, “Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Don’t be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord God, my God, is with you. He won’t leave you or forsake you.’ 1 Chronicles 28:20 Good morning, DearOne. When we pull into the drive after being away my heart-agenda shifts. A different kind of calm sets in. And, a different urgency. Here is where my highest calling stays in motion. Is your agenda a calm vs urgency, too? Perhaps they work together – Listen. When your agenda shifts and you’re suddenly pulled into the breath of a windstorm – can you hear calm in the Voice of Holy Thunder in the distance? Three are times the job seems agonizing and the work too huge for someone like you. You do not know why, but you are back again, at that place that calls for your help, your hands, your feet, your heart — for the rest of your life. Your bones whisper with His Spirit. You know how He moves. We’ve learned to take our spiritual understandings with both, a dose of serious and a dose of good humor – that He would assign someone like you or me to such a task. Ha. That He would gift us in such a way as to do this work. Really? Yes, really. He has. He did. He expects. And, strong grace is your gift as you work in light of the guidance of your Creator. Wake up. Notice calm in the urgent. Go.
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