What has the Lord been showing?
My dreams have been indicating that I am scaling rocks and jumping from one cliff to another with skill. At first I was scared, but my inner-man (Ephesians 3:16) had confidence and told my mind that I can do it with ease. So the second dream, I was scaling smoothly. In my awake life, I did a little research and found that I am under the shelter of Christ. I'm in hiding and the perfect example of this is from my favorite passage of scripture - Moses and God in the crevice of the rock and God's glory passes. "Look, stand near Me on this rock. As My glorious presence passes by, I will hide you in the crevice of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by. Exodus 33:18-23.
The closer that I draw near to Him through getting to know Him, the more I am getting to know His heart. His love for me and His heart for others. He truly loves us and to be able to experience that in His presence has been significant in my faith.
Lately, He has been revealing the significance of fall and the beauty of it. Recently He told me to repent of coming into alignment with any type of Halloween things that I have done in the past. So I obediently did. What a relief that came off of my shoulders! He is doing something new in me and I'm getting such an excitement and peace that is like no other. Nothing the world could ever offer!
I started marathon training again. I am going to walk in faith and believe that I will be going to Nashville to run the marathon in April. I don't know how, but He does and I'm going to believe. I have a stroller, thanks to my beautiful sister, that seats two. So I have been pushing the hug-a-dug around to get some miles in. I call it my resistance and it's helping me build endurance. I ran the 3.23 today and it felt great. There were parts that I had to stop to help my daughters, but other then that, I wasn't having any issues.
However, I never thought I would be back to working out, let alone running! I thought those days were long gone because I had made it into an idol! God has done such a work on me from the inside out that I am giving Him the glory. It was super nice taking 8 years off of no working out at all. It did turn a touch into laziness towards the end there, but nothing like putting your flesh into discipline again. I thrive off of pushing my body and achieving some pretty major big goals. One of them is running a marathon again. I'd like to some day in my life, run the full nation! Crazy I know, but if you set your mind to it, you can do it through Christ! (Philippians 4:17).
The verse from Mark 12:30 has been taking on a new revelation for me, thank you Lord. "And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength." When I have been worshiping, I have noticed that my mouth is speaking my tongue, my heart is worshiping the Lord, my mind is singing, and my strength is raising my hands; all of this is One. When I ask the Lord for help to ease my mind on Him, open my heart for Him to demolition walls I've put up and clean out the stink, and awake my soul to His presence, the worship is at another level. Similar to when Jesus tells the Samaritan woman about worshiping God in Spirit and in truth. Try it out sometime! You'll never go back! Promise you. I had to discipline my mind to focus on Jesus and allow Him to penetrate my heart with His love to get to this point, but it is totally worth it!
There was a dream that I would have in cycles. It was a different scene but the same subject - deep jealousy and resistance to love. I didn't want to talk to the Lord about that so I would rebuke it, take it captive and move on. The Lord kept knocking on that part of my heart. I didn't want Him to see that part of me because it hurt. Last Sunday, I had another dream with these issues. I ended up going down to my desk and typing it up at 4am because it was deeply concerning me and I was ready for Him to move in on that part of my heart and heal me. That morning, I sat in His presence. Nothing happened, or so I thought. When I went for a run alone in the dark with Him, that's when He moved. There was such deep connection with Him that it felt freeing to allow Him that close to me.
My prayer is that you will allow God to sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be cleaned. Your filth will be washed away, and you will no longer worship idols. I pray that He will give you a new heart, and He will put a new Spirit in you. And that He will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart. I declare that He will put His Spirit in you so that you will follow His decrees and be careful to obey His regulations. (Ezekiel 36:25-27) May the Lord bless you and protect you. May the Lord smile on you and be gracious to you. May the Lord show you His favor and give you His peace. (Numbers 6:24-26). In Jesus' name. Amen
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