I was going through my old blogs and wanted to share this one! I wrote it 4 years ago, and all I can Say is that I AM LIVING PROOF of RESURRECTION POWER!
Be encouraged as you read. If it blesses you, drop me a line! I would like to pray for you if you are experiencing the death of a promise.
Monday, April 24, 2006
Current mood: sleepy Category: Life
Have you ever experienced the death of a promise? How could the Lord speak His promise so clearly and allow it to DIE! When I believed for the restoration of my marriage, I was sure that God had spoke it to me. Everything aligned to the word. I heard the word, I had faith, people came in agreement with me-IT HAD TO HAPPEN! Somewhere between my transformation in the Lord, and the birth of my fourth son, Joshua, the plans of God were altered, and this promise was no more. It was stillborn. Maybe I helped it too much (and you know how God does not need your help...Abraham, Sarah, Hagar); maybe I was too passive. Maybe my faith was tested....Well, questions that seemed left unanswered, God is taking care of bringing them to a closure. I was reading this book by Chuck D. Pierce called "God's Now Time for Your Life" and came to chapter 4, where he talked about "Hope Deferred". All of a sudden, it hit me! I am getting divorced, and I have perfect peace. The peace that surpasses all understanding....I am letting go, because I was called to leave in peace! Although I had tried before to 'let go and let God", all other times had failed because I didn't have the revelation of "submission" & understanding "DEATH". I read in the book that "the quicker I submit to God, the quicker I can resist the devil". See God will give you the ability to overcome the enemy( the enemy of loneliness, desperation, frustration, rejection, mourning) so that the DOUBLE PORTION of what has been robbed will be re-stored!
The death of a promise allures another. Even though we don't understand what has happened in our lives, in the midst of our loss and resulting grief, we need to learn to submit quickly to God's greater plans for our life. Once we truly submit our lives to Him, the hard times we go through will become a blessing as the word says in Romans 8:28.
Loss has it's benefits. It is in the time of loss that God shakes us and if we endure the shaking we come out stronger, and with a greater level of maturity. During our time of "mourning" we have a unique opportunity to rise to new levels and come to a deeper understanding of God's awesome grace. His grace is ALWAYS sufficient. Loss produces Joy. There are many joyful things we would never experience had we never experienced the loss. "The deeper the sorrow, the more capacity of joy we seem to have".
I remember when I was pregnant with Joshua I read Psalm 126 over and over, and that word became a Rhema word in my life: "they that sow in tears will reap with Joy". There are many Scriptures in the bible that link loss to joy. John 16:22 says: "therefor you now have sorrow, but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice! And your Joy, NO ONE WILL TAKE FROM YOU!" Losing someone or something, does not have to leave a painful memory, but a memory of a wonderful story, hence the product of my children. A loss can produce change. It can make us take a different turn towards a road that changes our destination. 1 Cor.2:9 speaks about what "no eye has seen, nor ear has heard, nor entered in the heart of man, what God has planned..." Loss produces RESURRECTION: God's response to loss, is always restoration in some form. It doesn't necessarily mean the same thing over, but something different, something BETTER.When death comes, God longs for the Resurrection process.
Just tonight, my pastor was preaching about the APOSTOLIC, and how those who move in the Apostolic have what you call "The Grace To Suffer". Although as believer's we are called to fellowship in Christ's suffering. That type of fellowship leads us to His Resurrection power to be manifested in us!
Oh my GOD! I can go on speaking about of all the things I've learned about this last season; Faith, loss, love, self-pity, faithlessness, injustice, betrayal,submission, favor and prophetic promises, double portion, Joseph, Paul, Romans...covenant.
When covenants are broken, the enemy will target the fruit of that covenant. Divorce is the most prominent form of covenant breaking and it is often said that the victims are the children of the marriage. The enemy will try to use this to strip our favor and try to cause God's plans to be altered in our future generations with misguidance and putting dysfunctional relationships in them. But God will reposition us for prophetic fulfillment. Again, this is a matter of quickly submiting to the hand of God. God has a way, even in the midst of betrayal, and the dessert to bring favor and put us in strategic positions...I strongly believe that things are breaking in the spirit in my life, as we speak...they are turning in my favor. Once the cycle is completely done, there will be an overflow of things that have been held in the spirit, that could not have been released, till this came to a closure.
I cannot allow grief or fear to remove my favor.
"But GOD" is at work in my life.I will not allow favor to be stripped from me. I will keep operating in the gifts He has given me and I will move forward into my destiny because "But GOD" will make a way.I have chosen the garment of praise over the spirit of heaviness.
Loss is simply a painful fact of life, yet as we submit to the hand of God it becomes a tool that escorts us from a season of loss, into a season of joy....and prophetic fulfillment.
I AM EXPECTING TO BE UNEXPECTEDLY BLESSED!
I expect the presence of the Lord to rest on me (Isa. 60;2)
I expect new vision to rise in me(Isa.60:4)
I expect new joy to overwhelm me (Isa.60:5)
I expect that new supply is coming (Isa.60:6-7)
I expect Praise to begin to break loneliness (Isa.60:6)
I expect God to release strength to complete my building project (Isa.60:9-10)
I expect new favor and new doors and connections to be opened (Isa. 60:10)
IN JESUS NAME! AMEN!
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