Last Thought For The Day

Last Thought For The Day...

My mind and thoughts today have been not on things here, concerning me and my health...but on higher things...things that will matter for all eternity...

I spoke to an old friend today on the phone, they just happened to call while I was in the office for a couple hours...and while I never found out for sure if they were calling for me or someone else, they decided to talk to me regardless...We began to catch up and when I began telling this person what I was going through, the phone got very quiet and they responded the way so many others do, with the phrase "I believe the devil has had it out for you for a long time, he's had his sights set on destroying you."

As that began to roll around in our conversation, I began feeling my spirit denounce that word..denounce that proclamation of doom.  I realize that the enemy of our souls wants us out of commission so we are hindered from doing what we're called to do by the Father....but at some point, don't we loose the chains and bondages that we've drug around with us that are remnants of our past?!  Don't we walk out of them in freedom, knowing that Christ has set us free, knowing that what's past and under the blood, is just that, under the blood...and if that's true, doesn't it then make sense that we are no longer slaves to that old form, old pattern, old template if you will....we've been given a new one and a new direction.

Later this afternoon my sister and I were visiting and just talking about a lot of things and as I began to tell her this next thing, I began to realize, as the words were coming out of my mouth, that I was speaking NOW truth, that I was proclaiming CURRENT declarations over my life, that the things that had been said to me over the phone, while they were said in all good will I'm sure, they were wrong and it was up to me to either denounce those words and fling them from my heart and spirit or I was going to agree and accept them and ultimately step back into that old mold, that old template of living life as a victim of the past and a victim of the enemy...

I told her that whatever God is doing, building during this season in my life, that I wouldn't trade where I am with the Lord for anything...I'd go through it all over again if it meant I'd arrive at this place again with Jesus.  We never know what great things God has in store for us until we get out of His way....and if that means He has to move us, He will!  God's plan for our lives will go forward...it's just a matter of how long it's going to take for us to wake up, untie ourselves from the train track and get back in the train!  He's going to accomplish all that He has set out to do in our lives. 

There have been several prophetic messages come into my life in during this time and I'm weighing all of them carefully, with fear and trembling before my God...I know there's something coming around the bend and it's big, really big...I can not only feel it in my spirit but it's been confirmed in the mouths of trusted others as well...God will always confirm His word to you, you'll never have to search to validate His word....He'll make that happen, if it's Him...If it's not...silence will be your response...today I heard silence on the phone...my spirit immediately was opposed to what my ears were hearing.

There's a new ministry being birthed inside my heart, it's not clear exactly what it's going to be or look like, all I know is I'm open and I'm a sponge, just waiting to hear, see, smell, taste, experience all that the Lord has for me.  Jeremiah 29:11 says "For I know the thoughts I have toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope."  Some translations say "For I know the "plans" I have for you."  See God has plans for our lives, we don't have to know what the plan is, in fact, He probably prefers us NOT to know till the plan and path is actually unfolding in front of our eyes because, we're pesky kids....we'd either start backing out or pestering him wanting all the details...LOL  His delight is for His children to have total and complete faith and hope in His divine path and plans for their lives.  We don't have to know what's around the corner, just trust that He knows and rest confidently in that knowledge.

My heart is so full tonight with a whirlwind of thoughts and imaginations on where He's spiritually taking me...so tonight before you go to sleep...I challenge you to lay a fleece before the Lord to take you somewhere you've never been, to take you somewhere you never thought you'd go...believe and trust in His willingness to respond...you might be surprised how quickly!

Set Your Sails for a distant shore, a shore you've never seen or been to...take an Adventure with God!