Are you needing guidance from God? Perhaps a word of encouragement, hope, or comfort? Sunday Johnnie Morris preached an encouraging message from Leviticus. (Yes, encouraging. Yes, Leviticus.) One point was ~
God leads us into a dessert to re-introduce us to Himself before he leads us to our promised land.
I asked God for a word for 2016. Then I asked for confirmation. I sincerely wanted his reassurance that I’d heard right.
Well, over the next days he flooded me with signs of reassurance. It was as astonishing and powerful as encountering a Niagara Falls in the dessert. So many Scriptures, ideas, stories, people, information that on Sunday evening I actually whispered, “I have to unplug. My brain is jangled trying to grasp it all.”
[Can’t help smiling as I write this next bit.] On Monday morning as I was working on this blog post ~ a gigantic wrecking ball flew out of nowhere and smashed through our family. The devastation is severe and will be long lasting.
It’s taken a couple of days to get back to writing this post. And though there are likely more consequences of our wrecking ball to be revealed, we are at peace. Also incredibly grateful.
Grateful that as each of us learned the hard news, the first thing we did was call to God, “Help!” And he did. Many of those lessons and words and Scriptures he’d poured over me on Saturday and Sunday were just what was needed on Monday. Amazing.
Grateful that, as bad as the situation is, we all see it could have been much worse.
And I’m so grateful that God flooded us on Sunday knowing Monday was coming.
Silly, childish me, fearing that the God who answered my request so wondrously might drown me with blessing!
My word for 2016 is vision. God certainly gave me a glimpse of life through his eyes. I aim to remember it as we walk through this dessert. I fall into “Be Thou My Vision.” Here’s a link to a lovely version.
Our words matter to God. I hope you can take encouragement from this experience of ours. I pray you see God’s flood of provision over you and your family. Please, let me know if you have a need I can pray for.
Thank you for sharing, Mary Kay. It is encouraging to see how close you are to the Lord. It is comforting to hear from the Lord in the midst of, or before the storm, feeling His peace and knowing He doesn’t leave us, but keeps giving affirmation. I enjoyed Selah’s song~so pretty!
Oh, God is the loving, relentless pursuer, yes? So grateful for your words, sister, and his Presence. I believe I’ll be returning to Selah’s song many times. Perhaps I’ll “see” you there.