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Topic: "Trusting in God When Life seems Impossible"
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Mary Lindow
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Posted: 03/17/2009 at 2:33am
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"Trusting in God When Life seems Impossible"
Mary Lindow
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THERE ARE TIMES WHEN TO LEAD US INTO A STRONGER AUTHORITY
and greater blessings, God must literally, "set us free" from the storage
shed of our previous experiences!
"As for you, because of the blood of My covenant with you, I will free your
prisoners. (disappointments of the soul) from the waterless pit.
The place
of severe dryness)
" Return to your FORTRESS, oh prisoners of hope!
Even
now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you.
" Zechariah 9:11 -12
As we see the pressures and the warfare of this age continue to escalate,
we will soon discover that yesterday's anointing won't work for the
battles we face today! The Lord is in every real sense of the word
"demanding" us to look at our lives! Many have become entrapped by the
"Old" and ingrained structures that were at one time the "current" wave of
how God does things in His Kingdom!
HOWEVER! GOD IS. PROGRESSIVE!
He always moves ahead with His vision and His plan for the Bride and
never returns to a place we often call "PLAN B."
Many at this time have been handed a new type of tool with a "wild"
instruction booklet that seems terribly difficult and will take tremendous
patience to build with. If this "tool" is adjusted to, and accepted as the
"power tool" of the new spiritual century, it can do twice the amount of
building with about half of the effort the old one took.
The problem is, many feel secure in the way they did things in the past
with the old tool, saying, "After all! It got us where we are today!" If we
remain in that self-focused and "one man/one woman" show, we will
sadly find that the strength we had to wield that tool has left, and we are
not able to muster up enough energy to use it anymore!
FOR ALL OF OUR VISIONS AND PLANS AND PROGRAMS, GOD'S WILL
CANNOT BE ACCOMPLISHED WITHOUT HIS STRENGTH!
We need the strength that comes only from Him to use the updated
version of the "Power Tools" that God has placed into our hand.
THE LORD IS REALLY ASKING US ONE THING AT THIS TIME.
"How did your service and ministry to me get so dry and "waterless?”
How did you get into that pit in the first place?"
IF WE ARE TO BE HONEST...
We got use to doing things that seemed to be systematic and that got the
church onto a conveyor belt and kept things trotting merrily along!
Ahhhhh..! The convenience of "AUTOMATION!" And so...spiritually, we can
get into AUTOMATED Christianity and never stop the machine and listen
to the QUIET!
GET BACK UP TO THE HIDDEN PLACE IN THE STRONG TOWER OF GOD'S
PRESENCE!
Yes! It can be very scary and risky! You WILL face opposition,
resistance, and persecution! Especially from those who refuse to give up
their places of "Guaranteed Benefits" for working the assembly line!
GOD IS SHAKING EVERYTHING UP!
He is positioning those who are willing to allow him to reveal himself in
greater levels of authority and power!
So! How do you know if you are an anointed vessel for the assignments
god is beginning to hand out?
Have you been in a season of "desolation?" A place that seemed at times
barren and forbidding? No one else could answer your questions let
alone, the ache in your heart? Both Moses and Elijah had to go to the
literal mountain of desolation! Mt. Horeb. That is what the word means!
God reduced HIS SERVANTS to have only one place or thought or focus of
intense burning! Desolation can do that to you! No one else around to talk
to, wait on you, or strategize with you!
THE MOUNTAIN OF DESOLATION, MT. HOREB WAS A PLACE OF
DESPERATION.
It was here that Moses crawled up into the cleft of a rock, probably wiped
out and depressed, struggling with how to get the people to run with the
vision, and he just collapsed! He wept and cried out in desperation to God
saying,
" If I have done anything that you see as favorable or of use to You Oh
God!
Let me know MORE of the way you do things!
SHOW ME!
HELP ME!
VISIT ME SO I MIGHT KNOW YOU!”
(Exodus 33:13)
THE WORK OF GOD CALLED DESOLATION MEANS,
"GOD ALONE."
He is setting us free from old ruts! Our time of desolation, brokenness,
and disappointment, becomes a power tool in HIS hand where He works
within us, a deeper dependency upon HIS strength! The New things we
are learning to do with the much more efficient tools of the Kingdom will
only function efficiently if God is the power source we draw from.
Duplication and sharing of this writing is welcomed provided that
complete source and website information for Mary Lindow is included.
Thank You
Copyright © 2009 " THE MESSENGER " ~ Mary Lindow
www.marylindow.com
Edited by Mary Lindow on 03/17/2009 at 2:43am
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