So glad to have made it through this week. I
thought I had posted this before but just remembered I'd saved it, as it is so
beautiful. Especially the first paragraph has struck me and I've read it every
day this week.
From a Streams in the Desert Devotional:
They were living to themselves; self
with its hopes, and promises and dreams, still had hold of them; but the Lord
began to fulfill their prayers. They had asked for contrition, and had
surrendered for it to be given them at any cost, and He sent them sorrow; they
had asked for purity, and He sent them thrilling anguish; they had asked to be
meek, and He had broken their hearts; they had asked to be dead to the world,
and He slew all their living hopes; they had asked to be made like unto Him,
and He placed them in the furnace, sitting by "as a refiner and purifier
of silver," until they should reflect His image; they had asked to lay
hold of His cross, and when He had reached it to them it lacerated their hands.
They had asked they knew not what, nor
how, but He had taken them at their word, and granted them all their petitions.
Grateful to the Lord that I got to go to Winning Women for Christ of FL retreat in St. Simon's GA recently. Here's how I ended my mini-session, Holding on While You're on Hold:
“Do not gloat over me, my enemy!
Though I have fallen, I will rise.
Though I sit in darkness,
the LORD will be my light.” Micah 7:8
This is my main declaration today:
No Weapon formed against us will prosper, we will
be the head and not the tail, all of our children and grandchildren will be
taught of the Lord, He will be sought by those who did not call our for Him and
found by those who did not seek Him. We will not labor in vain, nor bring forth
children for trouble, for they will be the descendants of the blessed of the
Lord and their offspring with them. It shall come to pass that before we call
He shall answer; and while we are yet speaking He will hear. The wolf and the
lamb shall feed together, (what the Lord showed me in this I'm inserting my
version: families divided will eat together)
Let it be known O enemy of our soul that we PLEAD
THE BLOOD OF JESUS OVER OUR FAMILIES/ YOU WILL NOT WIN, CONTROL OR DESTROY WHAT
THE LORD OUR GOD HAS STARTED.
Yes, it is frustrating to be “on hold,” but the
Lord will never forget you and never disconnect you. Accept God’s timing as
perfect and “hold on!”
