Be Still

The Lord  has been taking me through a deep season of cleansing and healing.  I have  found myself praying thru hard situations and relationships again that I thought were dealt with already.  He has shown me that there is a depth and a detail of things that He is after so that I am completely free and ready to step fully into the future that He has created me for. 

 He gave me a visual of a fountain that had gunk and strings clogging it up as a way to understand that if we really want to be vessels and conduits of His grace then we have to allow this cleansing and restoration process to be done by His hand.  Even as the pot cannot mold or repair itself but must hold still in the potter's hand, we must Be Still and allow Him to do what only He can do.    The individual details of my relationships and the depths that I have had to revisit and reprocess them from a kingdom perspective has kind of amazed me!  Just like an oasis in the natural, if the well or cistern is polluted and or clogged up, all the junk has to come out for the pure water to flow!

I visualized an oasis that is parched and dry, muck and scum making the water rank and stale, palm trees twisted and broken, like our hearts. Even as I have been in a desert season, my heart is that polluted oasis that must be cleaned out, from top to bottom.

  If we want to be everything we need and can be to those we are in relationship with, then it is time to have Him complete the process. We need the strands of relationships to be pulled out that are not in His perfect will.  There are many of us that relational strands that affect our lives greatly.  The adult daughter, the 14yr old son that just started high school, the siblings and all those interesting details, many of those need to be untangled and touched with the Lord's cleansing and healing touch.  We all have relationships that are hard, are challenging and just more than we can sort out.  We have relationships that we just do not know what to do with.  We even have good reltaionships that just need to be put on hold for awhile. We are tangled and we are mucked up and left to ourselves, things could decidedly get worse.  We have to allow the Lord to set us free and untangle us!

There is a scripture that means alot to me, He who the son sets free is free indeed.  This describes the common old practice of the son of the household.  When the Master, his Father, dies, he would set free completely the slaves of the household.  They were freemen with no bondage attached to them in any way.  And so, when the Son of our heavenly Father did all He did for our salvation, He made us completely free.  The cleansing process is the way to be able to step into this life and that more abundantly. 

For many years I have operated thru an orphan spirit.  I have strived and worked hard, all to earn the love and acceptance that is already mine.  Fear of man and people pleasing were my portion and I did not know how to just be.  And now, even with much healing, I am still learning to handle things differently.    And, even though I am an orphan in the natural, in the spiritual realm, the keys to the kingdom are mine.  I am learning that I do have a heavenly Father that loves me unconditionally.  He is not like my earthly Father, who, bless him, had never been parented himself.  He is not full of anger and rage.  He is love and that in unlimited measure and I am His!

I believe that we have stepped into a shift, a kairos moment in time where we will finally leave all the pain, sorrow and suffering that is our PAST behind and be fully free to step into our present and future.  There is a window of grace opening that we will have to leap thru and we must do that unencumbered by the strings of the past.  It is time to pray thru all relationships and situations that the Lord brings to mind.  To repent of our part of these things that hinder us and forgive any and all that have played a part in any of these events the Lord is now highlighting.  To do so does  not say that it was acceptable what they did, merely that you leave them in the Lord's  hands and release them from your life and heart.

If not us, who, if not now, when, if not freedom and joy, then what will we settle for?

thank  you Lord for your Healing touch, we receive it gladly, amen