A Season To Be Still

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Update:
Yesterday held for me two doctor appointments...they both went very well...many questions answered, more tests performed, more tests scheduled...Hallelujah all the heavy duty meds that I came home from the hospital with were all taken away from me and replaced with much lighter meds...so all reports were positive...lungs clear, Praise the Lord!  Sarcoids love the lungs...so that's a great report!!  Keep the prayers going, they're working!  (Just a little side note…my sister Jana is the best companion for Dr. appointments (sorry, you can’t have her, she’s mine)… you get to go to Tutti- Fruiti to make the day happier!!  Think about it…when we were kids, we got suckers at the dentist office (today our kids get tooth brushes...how exciting is that?!), lollypops at the doctor’s office when we got shots (almost made the shot worth getting) and from mom and dad on the way home to reward us for being so good…we got Ice Cream...YAY!  Baskin Robbins was my dad’s ice cream of choice…Baseball Nut was his favorite…daddy said ice cream made everything better (and somehow it did)…so now Jana and I carry on that tradition with Tutti-Fruiti…Don’t Judge Us!  If anyone needs to know any of their many locations, just ask us, we have them all charted in our smart phones... :0), .­)

The next big appointments will be next Monday and Tuesday...there was some rescheduling to accommodate the doctors being able to read the PET scan that will happen Monday...We're believing for clear pictures...I want to see my spine lesion FREE!  I want a clean report!  Believe with me, I know my Father can do anything, He said ask large that our joys may be fulfilled...this is a LARGE request...Ask With Me!!

This morning, I feel good, waking up, is never my favorite part of the day but I want my life back, I want my full capacity back, I want my recovery...BUT...this morning...this is where the Lord took me...

Be Still...Be Still...Yesterday I had such a sweet conversation with my brother, my sweet Randy...and he shared with me, as a response to some of my concerns, that all throughout the Bible, God's prophets, ministers, leaders, etc...all spent considerable time on "the back-side of the dessert" meaning, in "time-out" if you will.  God took them out of the battle to rest, restore, revive, plant, groom, cure, heal and mature them.  He set them, as Randy put it, on a shelf.  This was a time that God took to pour into them, bring new vision to them, bring healing to their bodies, bring rest to their spirit, mind, body and soul...When He was finished with them, they'd be sent out again with even greater purpose and anointing than before.

When I woke up this morning, the song "Still" was playing in my head...as I began to listen to the words, I realized He was confirming His word from yesterday to me...

Hide me now, under Your wing,
Cover me within Your might hand,
When the oceans rise and thunders roar
I will soar with You above the storm
Father You are King over the flood
I will be still and know You are God

Fine rest my soul, in Christ alone
Know His power, in quietness and trust
I will soar with You above the storm
Father You are King over the flood
I will be still and know You are God
 So today, I tell you, I'm finding rest in my Father, I will be still for this season, I will allow Him to complete His perfect work in my life.  I will allow others to do in this season, what I cannot and I will praise my Father for those He's placed all around me to complete what He's commanded.  He has an army of people who are called to work and further the Kingdom, His plans will always go forth, in that we can find such comfort and assurance...those who are in my little world, you know who you are, I thank you for continuing on in my behalf...I love you and am so thankful for you.  Thankful that He has placed you in my life as friends, prayer partners, warriors and workers you're magnificent and I'm blessed for your friendships.

Set Your Sails to rest in still waters, knowing your God is doing a good work in you.

"Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ..." Philippians 1:6

"God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,  though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. "Selah"   There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.   God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day.   Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts.  The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. "Selah"  Come and see the works of the LORD, the desolations he has brought on the earth. He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear, he burns the shields with fire. "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."  The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. "Selah"   Psalm 46