Bless My Growth, Lord

May 7, 2021

You water its ridges abundantly, You settle its furrows; You make it soft with showers, You bless its growth.

~Psalms 65:10~

I was called to take a week off, to learn how to balance myself for my own body, my family and His Body. It took a lot for me; one who loves to serve others more then anything, to stop and take time to serve myself. I have to admit there were moments of tears shed, questions asked and eventually a complete surrender to what He is teaching me about how to truely whole heartedly obey. Sometimes when we are used to working with our hands, we have a tendancy to beat ourselves up when we are just resting in silence. Today as I sat in the sunlight in which I had prayed for over the last three days, I heard the Lord remind me of these words He spoke to me a month ago that finally made sense to me. As the wind blew over me while in deep prayer of submission to what He needed of me, even if that meant taking time off here and there to just be home, I smiled and felt His presence of love in the wind and there the words I heard again, "There is a stillness even the silence cannot bear. A rushing mighty wind still blowing, I am there." It finally clicked! The tears of joy came over me. Even silence cannot bear the stillness at times but God is always there in the midst of that silence. He never goes away; "teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen." (Matthew 28:20)

He was right there with me the last two days as it went completely silent and I was left to truely search myself with what I was still allowing to control me. I am relieved to say I prayed through anything holding me back from total submission to balancing my life and gave it all to Him. I felt Him sit beside me and grab my hand. Even as we feel like we need to do this or that to please Jesus, He wants us to remain in healthy condition spiritually, mentally and physically so that we may grow from glory to glory.

"But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord."

(II Corinthians 3:18)

The only way we can grow from glory to glory is to submit our flesh each day and allow Him to file off all the rough edges. The Lord's beautiful words spoken again, reminded me of the sweetest poetry I had ever heard and yet for a month I had no idea what He was trying to say to me. These words David penned in his poetry reminded me of that same love of God. God will bless our growth. He will give us exactly what we need exactly when we need it. This is the type of intimacy God wants with all of us. Let us rest when our spirit tells us to, let us accept shaping from our Potter and let us truely grow to the image of Christ each day so that we may benefit the Kingdom in the way He intended for each of us. That love I felt blow across my face today is the same love He feels for all of His children, even those that do not want Him.

"But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us."

(Ephesians 2:4)

I am so grateful for these moments of rest in Him, just as He says to each of us; "For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

(Matthew 11:30)

We should stop condemning ourselves and start loving ourselves. We should draw nearer in communion alone with God as He longs for us to be restored. We should accept growth in any form He orders it, for out of it we will show the world just how beautiful our Lord is and how much He cares. For even people do not care so much as to tend to us in each careful way that Jesus does. He waters our ridges, He settles our furrows, He makes us soft with showers as He blesses our growth. He is so good to us my friends! The devil wants to distract us from just how good God is to us with self condemnation, fear, anxieties of things that do not even exist and lies about who we are capable of being in Christ Jesus. Just as I wrote about yesterday, satan is the father of lies and all he wants is to bring us down. Jesus is telling us to look up. Life isn't as bad as it seems; we have a Savior who died to give us relationship and eternal life. Take a focus with me friends on Jesus Christ and the growth and deep inner healing He has for each and everyone of us; "He heals the brokenhearted And binds up their wounds."

(Psalms 147:3)

Being still is obeying. Working is obeying. Accepting chastisement is obeying. Jesus loves us so much that He works all these things out in His perfect time for that perfect blessed growth. Thank you Lord for this perfect love!

Prayer:

Tender Father, thank you for shaping me into the man/woman of God that You intended for me. Thank you for blessing my growing phase. I am forever blessed to know You and feel Your divine Presence rush over me so gracefully, reminding me that we are in this together. Continue to guide me Lord, i surrender all of myself to Your plans. Let me remain balanced in Your will. I pray to always take care of myself, which is Your Holy temple, minister and spend time with family in complete peace. I receive the type of joy You have set before me and never let it go. The devil cannot have me or my family in Jesus Name. We are covered by the precious Blood of the Lamb. It is in His Name that I declare growth and power into my life, Jesus Christ. Amen.