Tag: authenticity

The Cinderella Hour

In the weeks leading upto this season, I have had the Lord connect to me at precisely 00:00 in the night. This encounter was initiated each night for three consecutive days in a row as I was in worship. I prayed for revelation, friends; and the Lord finally took me to the Cinderella story on the third night.

Awe struck at the King of glory speaking through not just the pages of Scripture, but even a fairy tale; I couldn’t possibly have kept this secret to myself. So here I am, spilling the beans.

What are You saying, Lord?

I found myself seeking Him. Obviously, I was both amused and curious.

The Lord soon after started showing me different aspects of the Cinderella story through Heaven’s perspective. And what has really been etched out in me as a result is the stunning revelation that the Church has crossed over into ‘The Cinderella Hour.’

The midnight hour.

What do I mean?

Let me give this a fair shot, friends.

The Transition and Transformation

Going over the Cinderella story, I realised that it was precisely at the midnight hour -the stroke of midnight – that she was compelled to leave behind the pretense and the facade of the counterfeit reality where she had morphed from the cinders’ girl that she really was into a beautiful princess to appear attractive to the Prince at the city ball. It was a reality that was fake because it was not her true reality.

Evaluating the sense of purification and refinement that the Church as the family of God has been going through, I knew the Lord had me onto something.

We dig. We discover.

So as I dove into the revelation that the Lord was leading me into, what dawned on me was the truth of our own journey of growth and metamorphosis in the seasons past.

What we have had to navigate our way through in the past 18 months or so has been anything but a cake walk. On the contrary, it has felt more like a steep incline, with dangers and toils strategically placed for us on every nook and cranny.

We have all as a result, found ourselves seeking and discovering God for ourselves. The sense of the pre-eminence of Christ in all things has escalated, and anything that would stand in the way has been torn down.

What sought to threaten us has time and time again, been thwarted by the intervening hand of God, and we have through it all, continued to see Him work all things together for our good and His great glory.

In a time where the sense of isolation has been pervasive, we have managed to find our sense of completion, wholeness and security in Christ only – our true home, our firm anchor and our safe refuge.

False constructs of identity imposed upon us by society, culture and the world have been demolished, thereby setting us free to enter into our truest identity as children of God.

Consequently, we have found ourselves transformed into the knowledge of what it really means to be sons and daughters of the King of glory. We have been compelled to trust Him at a whole new level, and He has not disappointed us.

Hope never will – Christ in us, the Hope of glory.

I write all this to say that what I believe the Lord is lovingly revealing is – us.

Yes.

The Revealing 

I believe what God is doing is revealing His sons and daughters who having been through hell, fire and storm; have been found not only ‘still standing,’ but successfully having emerged as the ‘shining ones,’ taking on the likeness of their Father more and more, with each passing challenge.

Forgiveness, trust, surrender, humility, wisdom and love have all been tempered and forged into us and we have now hit ‘The Cinderella Hour.’

‘The Cinderella Hour’ is when we begin to truly behold and become the Lion and the Lamb. We know what the battle really is, and we fight accordingly. The Word of God informs us that we do not wrestle against flesh and blood. Our family, friends, co-workers and siblings are notour enemy. The Enemy is our enemy, and therefore we are fighting for our brethren, not against them.

If anything at all, our loved ones are our mission.

The Mission 

Our mission is to reach, to love and serve, and to impact our world with the passion of Christ and the love of God. And as Children of God being made into the likeness of His image, this revelation beckons yet another question.

How did the Lord love and serve when He walked the earth in the Person of Jesus?

Like I said earlier –  we dig, we discover.

Digging deeper with a shovel in hand, I unearthed some beautiful truth about how He did it. Led into the passage of Scripture where Jesus washes his disciples’ feet, I was deeply touched by the tenderness of the Lord’s compassion and the source of his motivation.

“Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God;
so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.”

(John 13:3-5)

A revelation about the Truth of his identity as the Son of God whose Father had put all things under his power, and that he was returning to the realm of glory to be seated at the right hand of God, provoked but one response from Jesus –

He bent down to wash His disciples’ feet.

He washed them all, despite the knowledge that one would betray Him (Judas) and yet another would deny Him (Peter). He went the distance to show them the full extent of His love for them, and did not consider washing their feet too menial or lowly a task. Rather, I believe that Jesus saw it as His mission – to love and serve all whom He was sent to, and therefore, lead with the heart of a servant-king.

As the Sovereign King, He came as the Servant-King.

Pastor Bill Johnson says something that resonates very deeply with the sentiment hidden within this revelation,

“True significance in Christ is never tarnished by servanthood. Rather, it is revealed through servanthood.”

And somewhere I learn the same from Cinderella.

Diving into her story brought forth much gold, friends.

The Reward of the Faithful 

Cinderella truly personifies a heart of servanthood during her stay with her evil step mother and step sisters. She remained submitted to the call of God on her life with a pure heart and a clean conscience.

As a result, Cinderella’s humility + obedience + endurance was richly rewarded by God who not only delivered her post the Cinderella hour, causing the Prince from the city ball to find her, locate her and marry her; but also exalted her to a position where Cinderella, on the other side of forgiveness,  was instrumental in finding suitable grooms and partners for her step-sisters.

“Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

(Matthew 23:12)

There is so much revelation here, friends. But one thing that really stood out to me was this:

The destiny of Cinderella was never thwarted because of seasons of hardship in her life. The opposite is true rather. For in the hands of God, her persecution only served as a platform for her promotion.

In fact, what the enemy meant to disqualify her became the very thing that God used to not only qualify her, but also promote her and enable her to enjoy the fruition of a hope-filled future.

How much more is that true for us then?

Reflecting back on the past 18 months and simultaneously preparing our hearts for what the Lord will do next is an interesting intersection indeed.

Though we may have been through more than we thought we even had the capacity to endure, we made it. God has brought us safely through. We are still standing and going farther with the Lord than we had originally aspired for. That’s Good News!

We have not come this far for nothing. Some of the greatest moves of God, I believe, are right out ahead of us. The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, and we who are the Light of the world cannot be hidden –  we must be revealed.

And this is where the story gets good.

For the unveiling of Jesus Christ will never be complete without the revealing of His Sons & Daughters. It’s what it means to be the family of God and the household of God. It’s what speaks to our legitimacy as His children. It’s what happens when both, the Bridegroom and the Bride are partnering and preparing together.

Clothed in the glory-garments of righteousness and fully immersed in the consciousness of our truest identity as Sons & Daughters of the King of glory with Heaven as our home, I believe, we have been positioned to be released into the earth to effectively love and serve those that we have been called to.

For such a time as this.

P.S:

I have been writing for nearly 2 years now friends, and this has been the first Prophetic Word that the Lord has given me to share. It is not only a personal revelation for me this season and beyond, but I do believe that it carries some very weighty revelations and truths for all of us  as the Body of Christ. I do hope and pray that the Holy Spirit will give you insight as you journey on and not only light up your path, but also light up your world.

For you are the Light of the world and a city on a hill cannot be hidden.

We must be revealed.

Selah.

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Break every chain

For it is the anointing that breaks the yoke.

With the advent of social media, I have noticed that comparison seems to be quite a game of the enemy to rob us not only of our joy, but also of our power.

We look at the look of one another’s lives, and seem to believe the lie that everyone has it better off than us. They are more talented, more gifted, more resourced, more qualified. Therefore, God can use them.

Nothing could be further from the Truth.

For Scripture tells us that who God calls, God qualifies.
It is His responsibility to give us everything we need to fulfill our destiny – the right opportunities, connections and resources. And He is not only responsible, He is Faithful.

So what’s the issue?

I think it has to do with us having the right heart.

Broken vessels

God isn’t necessarily looking for the most skilled or qualified people to use for His glory. He can and does use all, but just because we feel that we don’t have all our ducks in a row, God can’t use us –  is a lie.

For the Truth is that God works with broken vessels so that whatever is done in them, through them and around them testifies to the power of God at work in their lives, and therefore, brings Him all the glory.

“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.”

(2 Corinthians 4:7)

So what I am learing is that our power is not in our gift mix or our skill set. It is in fact, in the anointing of the Spirit of God on our lives.

For it is the anointing that breaks the yoke.

It is NOT our gifting or talent that breaks the yoke. It is NOT the size of our platform or the number of our followers that breaks the yoke. It is NOT the processing or the packaging of our resources that breaks the yoke.

Those things are of value, but only with the right perspective. For without the anointing of the Spirit of God, even those things would be void of power.

For the Truth is that it is only and only the ANOINTING of the Spirit of God that can break the yokes off of peoples’ lives and set the captives free. For wherever the Spiritof the Living God is, there is liberty.

(2 Corinthians 3:17)

There is therefore, no need for us to compare or contrast ourselves with others. No need to want what others have and in so doing, not only devalue ourselves, what our Father is able to do with our lives, but also dilute the anointing on our lives – the potency and the power of that which is being cultivated on the inside of us.

Comparison and presenting the counterfeit have always been a snare of the enemy to distract us from the Truth of our real worth, value and mission.

TRUTH: We are of matchless worth.

The Great Deception

Creating a counterfeit version of ourselves, when God is mad about us just the way we are can perhaps be best described as The Great  Deception. It started way back in the Garden of Eden, and it still carries on.

Allow me to recount the events.
The enemy of our souls found a way to deceive Eve into eating the forbidden fruit because she really did not have a sound enough revelation of who she was as an image bearer of God, in the first place.
Tempting her to eat the forbidden fruit, the enemy’s dialogue with Eve is something I strongly encourage you to take note of.

“‘You will not certainly die,’ the serpent said to the woman. ‘For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.'”

(Genesis 3:4, emphasis added)

Notice what he says.

He tries to convince Eve to eat the forbidden fruit so that her eyes would be opened and she would become like God.

But wait a minute.

Didn’t she know that she was made in the image of God and therefore, was already like God?

“So God created mankind in his own image,
    in the image of God he created them;
    male and female he created them.”

(Genesis 1:27)

There was no need for Eve to eat the forbidden fruit in order to become like God because as His image bearer in the earth, she already was.

She had nothing to prove to anyone.

She was free.

God had designed her to be free, but she chose to relinquish that freedom by attaching the affections of her heart to the inferior.

The Great Deception – is what I call it.

The Good News

But the Good News for us is that we can learn from this so that we do not have to fall prey to his schemes and tactics.

Will he try to tempt us, deceive us and distract us into things like comparison and performance?

Absolutely.

Do we have authority over him though? Can we choose better?

Absolutely.

Friends, I am learning that God cannot bless a pretend version of who we are, but only  the authentic, the original, the masterpiece of His design and make.

That is something He can work with, something He can anoint, something He can endorse, something He can sanctify, something He can wield for His glory.

This is where I believe God desires a right heart – one where the posture of the heart is surrendered before the Lord and the affections of the heart are anchored in the Lord.

We are not talking here of perfection or performance, but rather of the power and beauty of an authentic, submitted and intimate connection with the Father. We are talking of what God can and will do with a life that is whole-heartedly yielded to His will. He is not looking for our perfection, but rather for our availability.

He is longing for us to come to Him just the way we are and trust Him with our broken pieces. He invites us to move past the point of our pain and dare to believe Him to do what only He can do.

There is power in authenticity.

Whatever is authentic, will be anointed.

For when we embrace our authenticity and dare vulnerability, power is released through our lives because it carries the sound of freedom. And the Gospel says that it is for freedom that Christ has set us free and he whom the Son sets free?

Is Free indeed.

Unlocking our authenticity is unlocking our anointing as there is power in our freedom.

And the Good News is that we have permission to embrace it.

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A Good Team

“The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”

(James 5:16, NKJV)

I have slowly allowed myself, friends to develop the habit of praying instead of fretting.

My natural bent, I admit,  would be to worry. But having walked with the Lord thus far has enabled me to realise that because He is with me, I have no reason to worry or be anxious anymore. 

No legit reason whatesoever.

Now does that mean that I don’t get anxious?

Absolutely not.
Of course, I do.

But I have no reason anymore to stay that way.

I can instead, pray.

Prayer, quite simply, is close connection and communion with God. It is a chance to engage in a relational dialogue with the Father and get real with Him. It is an opportunity to express my truest feelings and let myself flow in the beauty and the authenticity of the freedom that my relationship with Jesus inspires.

It is also a place where I am shaped and forged. For it is in the secret place where I get to yield my will to His and exchange His thoughts for mine. It is here that I know I can lay down the burden of the ‘performance anxiety’ that I am feeling and instead, let myself grow into the gift of the full acceptance of the Father. It is here that I am able to embrace my imperfections and my vulnerabilities simply because His strength is made perfect in my weakness.

It is also in prayer that I can transact and bridge the gap between what Jesus has died for me to receive and my current reality. Here faith is the currency of exchange as I seek to draw from what Jesus has already put in my account, and I need only ask, seek and knock till the door is opened for me.

Prayer is when Heaven touches earth and nothing is going to be the same any more. But isn’t that the reason why the Gospel is called ‘Good News?’

I reckon.

In prayer, I assume the responsibility of partnering effectively with the King of glory as well as tap into the delight of being a much loved Child of God. I rejoice in the Lord who has gone before me and call down things that are not as though they are. I learn what it is to walk by faith and not by sight.

I prophesy so that I can testify. I believe before I see. I trust even when I can’t understand.

Here it is that I meet my Creator face-to-face, skin-to-skin, bone-to-bone as I work out my salvation with awe and wonder.

Ok. Coming back to my tendency to fret.

Let me share a verse from Scripture, friends.

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.  And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

(Philippians 4:6-7, ESV)

The Word of God here is talking of a beautiful barter exchange – an exchange of our yoke with His.

We give Him our yoke which is oh-so heavy and burdensome, and receive His in its place, for His yoke is easy and His burden is light. He offer Him our worries in prayer and cast all our cares on Him because He cares for us. Joyce Meyer says something quite profound,

“Cast your care, but not your responsibility.”

So what is our responsibility?

To pray, to trust and to partner.

To do what He shows us to do, and trust Him with the results. The process is our responsibility, the outcome is His.

And He is Faithful.

Takes the pressure off, doesn’t it?

So as a result, I am honestly doing much better than before, friends. When I find myself even starting to get anxious, I am learning to still myself in His Presence and pray instead.

Suffice to say,

That’s how I fight my battles.

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Showers of Blessings

These two precious snails yesterday taught me to trust the timing of God, friends.

For a few days now on this side of the globe (I live in India!), we have been sitting in the bliss of some very welcome monsoon rains. The trees have been washed and cleansed, the soil rendered moist, and the snails, loose.

So I took a long stroll hand-in-hand with Jesus last evening. A newfound leap in my step betrayed my joy with the kindest intentions. And with each step forward, my eyes started growing wide with wonder.

I began to experience the awe of God in a fresh new way.

In a way that showed me where a few days back, we were primarily held hostage indoors due to the intense heat and humidity, we were now experiencing such joy and bliss alongwith the freedom to be able to truly enjoy the beauty and splendour of creation, and the difference between the two scenarios was, what we call, a shift in seasons.

“He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and establishes them.”

(Daniel 2:21)

Candid confession time, friends.

As a believer, I honestly struggle and wrestle with God to be able to accurately discern the times and seasons that I orbit in and out of. He is faithful, I am happy to testify, and lets me in when I seek Him. So it was this time too.

Transition change.

A season of dryness morphing into showers of blessing.

Naturally.

And I am beginning to suspect even spiritually.

Ok.

Let’s get back to the snails.

With their home on their backs, these two precious snails were positioned right next to one another when I, still within my apartment’s complex, received a gentle nudge of the Holy Spirit.

“Let’s take a few steps out.”

Yes, Sir.

So off I went following His leading. And just a couple of steps through the gate of my building was awaiting me this exquisite sight.

Two precious snails carefully aligned next to one another. Five minutes here and two minutes there – I would have missed it! For one champion was headed up north, while the other downtown. Different destinations assigned to each comrade, yet carefully juxtaposed with one another in this one moment of time.

Divine timing .

Isn’t it amazing friends?

Isn’t it amazing how our Heavenly Father is so intimately involved with us, even in the smallest details of our lives?

Helps me to know that He never misses a thing.

He is present. He is intimate. He cares.

He cares about His Beloved finding these two precious snails forming a yin-yang all their own to let me know that even my seconds are carefully timed so that whatever it is that He has for me, never misses me.

All we need to do is pay attention, friends and there are tiny miracles all around us.

Including what we call, a shift in seasons.

Yes, even spiritually.

With a timely downpour washing clean both, creation and the children of God; I felt a deeper stirring in my soul, and as I continue to write, it nags me all the way into faith for more.

For more of the awe of God.

The God who changes times and seasons, translating a dry and arid time into a season of fresh outpouring, blessing and favour; is the One I am wanting the more of.

For being in awe of Him, captivated by His majesty serves to heal my heart and reignite hope.

Hope for a season that brings us into a fuller manifestation of all that He has in His heart for us is what I am beginning to let myself have faith for.

So as I was soaking in the Word today friends, I found myself praying and prophesying some tender and potent truths over myself in a spontaneous outburst of Psalm 89.

I felt it on my heart to share with you too what I believe He has released, so that together we will walk into a bountiful future.

A future that is full of the bounty of heaven, both spiritually and naturally.

Paving the way forward, I am sharing now a benediction for Showers of Blessings based on the Promise of God from Psalm 89, The Passion Translation. I encourage you to personalise Scripture and confess it over your life as the very heart and words of Father God concerning you.

Personally.

Friend, the Lord loves intimacy in a way that is up, close and personal; dares vulnerability and demonstrates trust.

So let’s go.

This is what I believe Father God says to you,

    “I have chosen you, ____________________ ,
Beloved Child of God,

as my loving servant and exalted you.
I have anointed you with the oil of my holiness.
I will be strength to you and I will give you my grace to sustain you no matter what comes.
None of your enemies will get the best of you
nor will the wicked one overpower you.
 For I will crush your every adversary
 and do away with all who hate you.
Because I love you  and treasure you
my faithfulness will always protect you.
I will place my great favor upon you
and I will cause your power and fame to increase.
I will set your hand over the sea
and your right hand over the rivers.
And you will come before me, saying,
    ‘You truly are my Father, my only God, and my strong deliverer!’

…     This covenant will be an unbreakable promise that I have established for all time.”

Says the Lord.

In my experience friends, the best way to respond to God when He gives us a promise from His heart is to pray in alignment so that we can see the manifestation activated and fulfilled.

King David did this, Scripture tells us when God gave him a promise that his son would be the one to build the temple of the Lord at Jerusalem and that David’s dynasty would indeed be established.

I’m guessing we can too.

Join me friend, won’t you?

“Dear Heavenly Father,
I am so thankful that you love me and I want you to know that I love you too. I thank you that you have given me access to some truly precious and great promises concerning my Identity, sustenance, protection, vindication and favour. I receive them with praise and ask that you will activate all that is needed in the unseen realm so that the seasons up ahead will testify to Your Faithfulness in my life as Your beloved child. I thank You that He who promised is Faithful and I wait in confident expectation to watch You move. Keep me close, Father and give me eyes to see and ears to hear so that I may know you deeper still.

In the Beautiful Name of Jesus,
I pray,
Amen.”

Let the seasons change.

Grace

“But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”

(2 Corinthians 12:9)

What I believe I am increasingly learning is the power of living in His Strength. Not struggling in mine, but thriving in His.

Where I am weak, He is strong.

And in Him, I am complete.

Praying for the power of the Most High to overshadow us, family as we tread into a new week!

His Grace is sufficient.

Shalom
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Let Love happen

I’ve noticed one thing about pain. It compels us to misunderstand the nature and character of God.

Much like Eve.

Cut to the chase, here goes.

The Bible tells us that God told Eve she was free to eat from any tree in the Garden of Eden, except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Why did He do that?

I believe that God was actually protecting her freedom and that of man, because we were perhaps never designed to know any evil. Yet, in the face of an inadequate understanding of God’s true nature, Eve sinned.

To me friends, it is not so much the sin that led her to partake of the forbidden fruit that matters, as much as it is what led her to.

“Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?'”

(Genesis 3:1)

For the crafty serpent to come in and sow doubt in Eve’s mind with irrelevant questions like, “Did God really say?” and have her succumb to the temptation of sin so easily, I do feel that somewhere Eve did not know the nature and character of her God well enough to begin with.

Neither did I.

But when you know better, you do better.

I am so glad, friends that we serve a God who forgives, redeems and makes all things new.

Jesus does not sit on the Throne with a stock of all our sin. He already dealt with that on the Cross.

He sits on the Throne and fights for us instead.

Our God is with us. He is for us. And He fights for us.

The Good News here is that He does not fight for victory, He fights from it.

Talking of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Word of God says:

“Then Jesus made a public spectacle of all the powers and principalities of darkness, stripping away from them every weapon and all their spiritual authority and power to accuse us. And by the power of the cross, Jesus led them around as prisoners in a procession of triumph. He was not their prisoner; they were his!”

(Colossians 2:15, TPT)

In short?

Having defeated and disarmed the powers of darkness, Jesus reigns.

And in Him, we do too.

With absolute victory over sin, sickness and death; we are called to co-reign with Christ.

So in the face of so much adversity, persecution and trauma; I am learning to be very intentional about reminding myself of some truths that though appear basic, are the very cornerstone of our faith.

And what I am realizing is that though in Christ, we do have victory over sin, sickness and death; we are not exempt from pain and suffering.

We are in the world, but not of it.

The world we live in friends, is lost and broken. So are the people that constitute it.

So when God called us to fight the good fight of faith, He made it abundantly clear that we do not fight against flesh and blood, but against the forces of darkness  for which we have absolute triumph through Christ.

“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”

(Ephesians 6:12)

Yes and Amen.

So it naturally follows that our enemy is not our parent, our sibling or our next door neighbour.

Our enemy is the devil, Satan. And the Good News is that he is defeated.

Yes.

The same crafty serpent that once deceived Eve and has continued in his attempts till date, is forever defeated.

How?






"By the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony." 

(Revelation 12:11)





But here is the catch.





The degree to which we seek to know the Lord is the degree to which we will be abe to walk conscious of this reality, on an everyday basis.





Pain and suffering always threaten to numb or dim our consciousness of the victory we have through Christ. So it becomes important that we learn to process it in a healthy way.





In a way that is worthy of us.





For our perspective during such times, is the difference between life and death.





We will either succumb to the despair and hopelessness that our enemy, Satan would love for us.





OR.





Or we can choose to run to Jesus.
Run to Him for the healing we need in our souls and the perspective we need in our thought process.





Co-operating with the reality that God is trying to cultivate in us during such times friends, is key.





Are we trying to avenge ourselves, or are we letting Him avenge us?





Are we wasting precious emotional resources on harbouring bitterness and resentment, or are we learning to forgive, let go and trust God?





Are we walking in anxiety and dread, or in the fullness of the peace and power that the Lord died for us to receive? 





The difference between the two sets of scenarious presented here is the difference between being a victim of our circumstances or rising above them as more than conquerors through Christ.





God often says to us,





Choose life.





Therefore, I choose to intentionally put Christ first. To surrender my will to be aligned with His and I find that the more I do so, the more I get to know the Lord.





Friends, as I am learning to do just what He says, I have found myself face-to-face with one beautiful yet startling reality,





“I may know Jesus fairly well, but I don’t know Him well enough.”





I really don’t.





I may know Him well enough to know that He is fully and completely worthy of my faith and trust, but I don’t know Him well enough to know just how much He does honour child-like trust and mustard-seed faith.





I may know Him well enough to know that He is perfect in love and perfect in wisdom, but I don’t know Him well enough to know the full extent of all that He really is, all that He is capable of doing and all that which He will do.





I may know Him well enough to know that He is my best friend and my glorious king, but I don’t know Him well enough to know His next move on my behalf.





I may know Him well enough to know that He will never leave me nor forsake me, but I don’t know Him well enough to know just how very faithful and relentless His pursuit of me, in reality, is.





I may know Him well enough to know that He is sovereign and has the final say in all matters that concern us, but I don’t know Him well enough to know just how He will bend the rules of the game as we journey on.





I may know Him well enough to know that He is good, He does good and He works all things together for good in conformity with the counsel of His will, but I don’t know Him well enough to know just how He will manifest this Romans 8:28 promise again in my life circumstances.





I know Him fairly well, friends. But I don’t know Him well enough.





Fairly well to know Him as a beloved father, a heavenly saviour and a dreadful champion of my cause; but not well enough to know just what that may mean in its entirety as my destiny unfolds.





But I take heart in what I do know.





For what I do know is that with each day that unfolds, I can seek to know Him more.





Filled with the awe and wonder of His majesty, His mercy and His might.





And somewhere I suspect that the same holds true for you too, my friend.





So together?





Let us press on to know the Lord. His going forth is as certain as the dawn; and He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.





Let Love happen.





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