(Be strong and courageous for I am with you wherever you go) to me before I left for my outreach in Fiji and multiple times through people when I had come home. As I sat down to study I began to feel refreshed and filled with life. And I felt like God was loudly saying I am raising you up like I did Joshua to lead a people into a promise land. I paused and looked outside and was filled with a sense of delight and I heard him whisper "I am fulfilling promises over you and over this region." On that particular day it was sunny and for those of you that don't know, where I live its rainy most of the time. I felt like God was saying I am lifting the clouds and I will change the atmosphere. This was also the week of the super bowl and ok I enjoy sports but I am not an avid sports fan which makes this part all the more humorous. The morning of the super bowl, it was a gorgeous sunny day and I felt the spirit of the Lord was saying the Seahawks are going to win but its a win for the region as a prophetic declaration as the beginning of fulfilling promises over this region. And as I watched that game and how they dominated! I think it just screamed GODS VICTORY! IT did change the atmosphere here. Everywhere you looked people were stoked and excited about life and how WE actually WON! No long faces, crouched shoulders, keep to yourself, everyone made sure that they went to that victory parade to party! Soon after I was asked to speak at this church gathering and I knew I had to share what God had just told me. It was funny to me, just because I enjoy sports but I am not a avid sports watcher or know all the stats and such... and here I was speaking to people about football and this prophetic promise. He is just funny. So, he's filling people with Hope again. He's filling me with Hope again.. He is fulfilling promises. I have had this song on repeat.... knowing God has me in this season and journeying into the promise land.
Soon after I had begun the study of Joshua, I went to a church and the very subject was about Joshua leading into the promise land. The thing that strikes me about that story is that they had to go into areas and completely wipe out the whole population, Woman and children. Joshua was an intense warrior, but everywhere he set foot God had promised he would give over into his hand. The victory had already been given over all he needed to do was be obedient and go forth. So, every where I turn God repeats Promise land, Promise, I am fulfilling promises. I listened just last night to a podcast by Melissa Hesler the one singing the song above, had just posted last night about the Fathers goodness in the wilderness and the promise land. It was just what I needed to hear and immediately after that I listened to the weekly podcast from Bethel in Redding. The first 10 mins or so Bill Johnson spoke about birthing impossibilities and the promises of God. God never ceases to amaze me. I love that he repeats him self to me over and over and over. Through so many different things. I don't know exactly what the promise land will look like but I do know I am headed there despite the things going on around me. I have had my moments of freak out but when I start to look at his face again. It all just fades away and all comes back into alignment. Oh yeah, Abba you are who you say you are. You do what you say you will do. It has been a long season in the wilderness and I am so thankful for the people that have been there for me in the midst of it. The ones now that have come around me to support me. His goodness is good and I want to drink deep of it. He is going to pour it out over this region. As much as I didn't want to be here, I have been for a reason. This thing that God is doing is unfolding and I cant see the end but whatever it is I want to be willing and waiting. As more time goes by and the more understanding and confirmation of what God has been speaking to me, I have been more willing to plow where I am. I went home for a baby shower and I was sharing with a relative about what God had been saying to me as well as what He said about the super bowl. She then encouraged me to tell my aunt. So, as I started to tell her what God was saying, she would say Do you know about what happened with me and the super bowl? I had no idea. She began to tell me that God had told her the same and that the Seahawks were going to win and it would be a blowout as a sign of what God is doing in this region! I am so blown away. I love that we can catch what the Spirit is saying and his children will always repeat it back to him. I am expectant to see what God is going to do in me and in this region. Even though I can't see what it looks like, as in the time when a woman finds out she is pregnant but she has no belly to show for it and doesn't know what gender it is. All she knows is that she is expecting. In due time it will show and be birthed.
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promises is faithful Hebrews 10:23
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