You guys!
God healed my mom's friend of cancer! That's right! Melanoma, biopsy, and now: absolutely no cancer! Quizzical doctors with heads askew and eyebrows knit together, trying to explain a miracle! Beautiful. Praise God. Direct answer to prayer.
Awesome thing number 2: I joined some brothers and sisters yesterday to pray for the campus and I received an image of a large tent whose ceiling was sagging, engulfing a person inside the tent who attempted to toss the cloth up, standing underneath the portion so that at least it would be their height. After this, a sister named Megan hopped over to me and shared that she had a picture of the women in Thursday Night Women's leadership each holding tent pegs, spread out as if to erect a very large tent--but the tent pegs were still in their hands. And THEN God put Ephesians 2:21 (aside: this is part of the increasing gifts He has given to me, by giving me the perfect word when it is needed after asking for it. 99% of the time I do not know what the verse says before I read it. In fact, a good number of times I ask and then think, okay, sweet. Colossians 7 it is. Oops. There is not Colossians 7. So He often reminds me that He is not a genie and I am not the one who knows what I need or even where to find it. I need Him. When words are from Him, they are right on. The Spirit testifies within me or with the other person, and it is beautiful!). So Ephesians 2:21 came, the first scripture--check this out!
In Him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the LORD
Yeah Jesus! I was so pumped. Direct correlation. I have read the Bible all the way through 7 years ago, and it always amazes me how I cannot absorb or understand unless I receive through the Spirit. I honestly don't think I've ever heard this verse before. It just sparkled in the cathedral of my mind like a new chandelier with the Light of God.
So now, the preceding paragraphs were just a warm-up to what God is trying to teach me in this current season-right this second, actually. If you have read other posts of mine, I have attempted to explain the seemingly inexplicable undercurrent of discontentment that has marked most of this semester. A friend named Max was bringing me before the Lord in prayer, and he felt like God gave him a riddle to give to me. The "riddle" is scripture. Ecclesiastes 7:12-17:
For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money (NIV reads the shelter of wisdom, shelter of money), and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it. Consider the work of God: who can make straight what He has made crooked? In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man ay not find out anything that will be after him. In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing. Be not overly righteous (Hebrew=righteous in your own eyes), and do not make yourself too wise ("think yourself wise"). Why should you destroy yourself? Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before you time?
Unfortunately, I must leave you here. I will continue with Ecclesiastes and the Slaying in the next post. Grace and Peace.
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