The Holy One calls to me this morning. It has been a very busy week in my earthly life. I haven't been able to settle down and retreat into my "Sacred Romance" for a few days.
Life is surely fast paced and unless I make a deliberate decision to sit at My Lord's feet, I can get into the fast moving current of life and be carried downstream without even realizing it.
When life is hard, desperation takes me naturally into my place of retreat, looking for resolutions that can only come from my Beloved. But when the answers come and the pressures lift, and celebration is in the camp, we can forget to honor the One who supplies all the victories.
Today I am called by the Holy One to fellowship with Him in the celebration of a wonderful miraculous victory in life.
The Children of Israel were told to build altars of remembrance and worship to the One who carried them out of Egypt so we can and must do the same. Today I am building an altar of Worship and I praise Jesus for what He has brought forth and completed in my family nation today.
As I come in worship and thanksgiving, my Lord reminds me that there are still lots of things that He hasn't yet tied up in a bow. There are still issues of life that need the touch of the Master's Hand. There is always going to be a human need that requires the Divine Hand of the Sovereign God to touch and heal. But when victories come, we must stop and celebrate His miraculous interventions for these are His "Glory" moments.
We are hard wired for dependency on our Creator. We may fight for our own independence and try to prove our capability to handle life on our own, but in the end we simply cannot live this life
victoriously without the one who arranges for our next breath.
Today He wants me to celebrate the "legacy of miracles" He has given each one of us to live.
I have been given the privileged place of seeing His miraculous interventions in my life journey, since I was 18 years young. Before I knew much about life or the One who rescued me for all eternity, He was very busy revealing Himself through circumstances that might have otherwise been disastrous.
As I face the rigors and trials of life on planet earth, I am in awe of how many times He has lifted me out of fearsome, "death defying" situations. The things that seem impossible to me are flawlessly execute by The One who has called Me to just watch Him work. Human nerves may become frayed, but His peace is available while He brings things under his Divine control.
Just as the Nation of Israel was brought out of Egypt, I have experienced the "Red Sea" parting over and over again. I believe each and every generation needs that form of miraculous intervention and each individual needs to have a Red Sea parting experience in their lives to truly get to know the One who died for them personally.
Jesus came to show us God the Father. Through God the Son, Jesus, He touched lives and executed miracles on the earth. Jesus came to give this world, not only the personal experiences of miraculous intervention, but also to give His followers a legacy whereby we are to become conduits of His powerful and miraculous intervention on earth.
In John 14:11, Jesus says, "Believe Me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me, or at least believe in the evidence of the miracles themselves, I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in Me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in My Name, so that the Son may bring Glory to the Father".
I confess to my Savior that I want my kids and the next generation to experience the miracles like the ones I have experienced, that have made Him a complete "reality" to me. The Holy One speaks a sobering truth, "If you want them to see miracles they have to be put at risk, is that what you want?"
I surely see His point and looking back over my life and the legacy of miracles I have lived, I see that each one had the element of potential disaster or impossibility in the natural associated with it. Each had the drama and need of rescue. Each had a desperate desire for the impossible that human ingenuity and control could not deliver.
While my journey with Jesus has not been just one crisis after another, my pathway has been marked with mountains leveled and valleys raised up by the power of My Lord. I know that as we journey with Jesus, we live on the razor's edge of "risk vs rescue", and that is where the "legacy of miracles" unfolds.
It is in the danger zones of living that we take possession of our inheritance of the miraculous. Life with Jesus is no ordinary existence and I see that it takes faith and courage to accept and live the "legacy of miracles". Risk for ourselves and others will happen. The question is, "are we brave enough to venture there?"
In answer to His question, I say, "yes, yes,yes". Let us all be put at risk if that is the way to know Him better. If that is the only way to experience our "Legacy of Miracles", the pain is surely worth the gain.
The Spirit is calling. Can you hear Him?
Life is surely fast paced and unless I make a deliberate decision to sit at My Lord's feet, I can get into the fast moving current of life and be carried downstream without even realizing it.
When life is hard, desperation takes me naturally into my place of retreat, looking for resolutions that can only come from my Beloved. But when the answers come and the pressures lift, and celebration is in the camp, we can forget to honor the One who supplies all the victories.
Today I am called by the Holy One to fellowship with Him in the celebration of a wonderful miraculous victory in life.
The Children of Israel were told to build altars of remembrance and worship to the One who carried them out of Egypt so we can and must do the same. Today I am building an altar of Worship and I praise Jesus for what He has brought forth and completed in my family nation today.
As I come in worship and thanksgiving, my Lord reminds me that there are still lots of things that He hasn't yet tied up in a bow. There are still issues of life that need the touch of the Master's Hand. There is always going to be a human need that requires the Divine Hand of the Sovereign God to touch and heal. But when victories come, we must stop and celebrate His miraculous interventions for these are His "Glory" moments.
We are hard wired for dependency on our Creator. We may fight for our own independence and try to prove our capability to handle life on our own, but in the end we simply cannot live this life
victoriously without the one who arranges for our next breath.
Today He wants me to celebrate the "legacy of miracles" He has given each one of us to live.
I have been given the privileged place of seeing His miraculous interventions in my life journey, since I was 18 years young. Before I knew much about life or the One who rescued me for all eternity, He was very busy revealing Himself through circumstances that might have otherwise been disastrous.
As I face the rigors and trials of life on planet earth, I am in awe of how many times He has lifted me out of fearsome, "death defying" situations. The things that seem impossible to me are flawlessly execute by The One who has called Me to just watch Him work. Human nerves may become frayed, but His peace is available while He brings things under his Divine control.
Just as the Nation of Israel was brought out of Egypt, I have experienced the "Red Sea" parting over and over again. I believe each and every generation needs that form of miraculous intervention and each individual needs to have a Red Sea parting experience in their lives to truly get to know the One who died for them personally.
Jesus came to show us God the Father. Through God the Son, Jesus, He touched lives and executed miracles on the earth. Jesus came to give this world, not only the personal experiences of miraculous intervention, but also to give His followers a legacy whereby we are to become conduits of His powerful and miraculous intervention on earth.
In John 14:11, Jesus says, "Believe Me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me, or at least believe in the evidence of the miracles themselves, I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in Me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in My Name, so that the Son may bring Glory to the Father".
I confess to my Savior that I want my kids and the next generation to experience the miracles like the ones I have experienced, that have made Him a complete "reality" to me. The Holy One speaks a sobering truth, "If you want them to see miracles they have to be put at risk, is that what you want?"
I surely see His point and looking back over my life and the legacy of miracles I have lived, I see that each one had the element of potential disaster or impossibility in the natural associated with it. Each had the drama and need of rescue. Each had a desperate desire for the impossible that human ingenuity and control could not deliver.
While my journey with Jesus has not been just one crisis after another, my pathway has been marked with mountains leveled and valleys raised up by the power of My Lord. I know that as we journey with Jesus, we live on the razor's edge of "risk vs rescue", and that is where the "legacy of miracles" unfolds.
It is in the danger zones of living that we take possession of our inheritance of the miraculous. Life with Jesus is no ordinary existence and I see that it takes faith and courage to accept and live the "legacy of miracles". Risk for ourselves and others will happen. The question is, "are we brave enough to venture there?"
In answer to His question, I say, "yes, yes,yes". Let us all be put at risk if that is the way to know Him better. If that is the only way to experience our "Legacy of Miracles", the pain is surely worth the gain.
The Spirit is calling. Can you hear Him?
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