LOST AND IN THE DARKNESS

This is a series of text replies I shared with a friend this morning

LOST AND IN THE DARKNESS

Has your mistakes, fears and doubts drawn you to the secret place yet?

Enjoy that place friend, no trial is wasted by our Father, every furnace of affliction that He allows He will use it to bring us forth as gold. You are His gold and He loves you :)
Remb - Faith overcomes the world 1John5:4

THERE ARE NO WORDS

Sometimes the pain is so great, the fear so overwhelming, the burden too heavy that there are just no more words that our mouth can pray - As if we are prayed out already.
Spiritually bankrupt, nothing more to offer. This is actually a
good place NOW God alone can become our life.

If we will worship almost the hardest way there is
to worship next to direct physical suffering, which is simply lying prostrate before Him, waiting silently, patiently - He will hear the unspoken prayer of our heart. He will hear your heart crying out loud loud "YOU YOU, I only want YOU", and after a while, when He knows we have surely given and He indeed holds more of our heart than we have ever surrendered to Him before;

THEN - He will reply :) Oh what a reply that will be. His face that has been hidden for how long will be revealed again.
Oh Hallelujah! What peace and joy such surrender invokes. What rest and release from the greatest of trials. Altitudes are attained we could never imagine. A taste of the glory and the life to come that quite simply astonishes us.

How long will that take you ask? Days, weeks, decades?
You decide that my friend, you alone,
Moses took forty years until He was fully ready for God to use him.
Jacob schemed for twenty one years then wrestled for just a night
Joseph was twelve years in his jail
And David twelve years on the run from demonized king Saul
Isaiah was but moments in the presence of God and he surrendered totally.
How long for you to say "Here am I send me"?

Heaven waits and watches to see how long you will be
still and wait - Be still and KNOW that He IS God Ps46:10

GODS PERSPECTIVE ON DARKNESS

And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. -Isaiah 45:3

HOW GOD GETS WHAT HE WANTS

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. -Isaiah 48:10

GOD CAN LEAD US OUT OF THE FURNACE

Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. -Isaiah 48:17

And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house. - And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction. -Genesis 41:51,52

He has not left you alone dear friend, the silence has a purpose, the deep love in our heart for Him is being refined, we are being changed, YOU will be like Him for you are His gold already, and already there is a coming forth:

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; - So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him. -Psalms 45:10,11

NOT DEFINED BY OUR MISTAKES

You are not in any wise defined by your mistakes or your failed best efforts to move your life forward. In your Fathers eyes you are not condemned by your failures.

But, if you are listening to the wrong voices, if you overly examine the failed crop your efforts produced you might quit already.

Instead we can be learning to lean on Him harder so we can fly higher.
There is NOW NO condemnation, Rom 8:1

If then, you will allow, the joy of your salvation will elevate you to your correct place in the spirit and from there you will dream dreams again and receive prophecies for others.

Remember, God has called and appointed you as a champion, you come from a long line of champions. It's not the cave that we fled into that defines us, its not the lighting, the hurricane or the fire that will direct us just as it didn't direct Elijah, its the still small voice in the secret place that we run out of that will cause demons to flee.

So, soon you will run without weight or shadow, soon you will fly again, despise not the chastening of the Lord.. blest day dear one.



Regards
George