Heavenly River

"... and everything shall live wherever the river goes." Ezekiel 47:9b AMP

God's Whisper ...

Where does a river flow? Where does it go? It goes to the path of least resistance. My river is released in the earth. Where is the resistance in your soul?

Because of My grace upon your life, My river keeps rushing towards you and past you and around you, seeking to create an erosion of sin and bondage in your soul. The erosion is occurring today ... yes the floodgates have been opened and My river is rising in the earth.

Turn from resistance and let the fears fall into My hand. Where the River can come, there's life, there's refreshing, there's healing. For the healing of the Lord can happen in a quick second ... as you release yourself to it. What can take years and years in the counselor's office will take a moment, as My rushing river comes to you and brings that erosion in your flesh.

I'm calling you to death. Death, my Lord?? Yes! A daily death to what you want ... to what you think should happen ... to your response of what has happened to you.

For unless you die, you will not live. Unless you die, My river can't touch you. The moment you die, is the moment of supernatural happenings in your heart of hearts. The moment you lay down what you want is the moment I can sharpen the forming of Christ in you.

Oh yes, there are parts of you that are very alive and well ... yet there are parts of you that you have not given Me yet! My river is coming! It's brushing against you today! Can you feel it?? Can you feel it??

Begin to absorb its wetness into new places of pain and discouragement. Let My River form you and shape you. Give in and resist no more.

New freedoms await you.

 

Spiritual Posture

For He inflicts pain, and gives relief;

He wounds, and His hands also heal.

Job 5:18

 

A few months ago I began an eight month corrective treatment plan with my chiropractor. The initial x-rays showed curvature in directions there shouldn't be. My back was continually aching and my posture was a bit slumped. I am now in my sixth month of treatment and feeling the wonderful results of repeated trips to the office for an adjustment. My back pain has disappeared and my posture feels great. As I walk, there is a new ease in walking straight and tall. My spine has reluctantly, but finally, given in to it's new place of correctness. At the end of each treatment, my favorite part is laying on the hydrotherapy table as warm, pulsating water moves up and down my body. It's the soothing end, for the sudden jolt and jerk I just received at the hands of my chiropractor.

 

Recently as I lay on the hydrotherapy bed, the Holy Spirit began to talk to me about this physical process I was going through and how there is a mirrored spiritual application.

 

I see now, that at times, He calls me into seasons of His divine corrective treatment.

 

My spiritual carriage is in need of constant attention. My Christian stance is top priority to my Father. Are others being drawn in because of my walk? Or, is my spiritual gait reflecting pain that won't be healed, showing curves and twists that expose the need for holy adjustment? Is there anyone watching that desires the posture I am walking with? Am I exemplifying true spiritual transformation?

 

If you are troubled on all sides, facing pain and loneliness like never before, being tested and challenged like it was the end of the world, be careful you haven't just entered into a season of corrective treatment with the One who is the Author and Finisher of your faith.

 

Stop and ponder something.

 

You may be thinking you are fighting your adversary when in all honesty, you may be rebelling against the One who is saying it's time for a season of corrective treatment. Your thoughts and focus are twisted and curved in places that do not satisfy heaven. Your ability to stand straight and tall in the Spirit has been compromised and you are in need of His loving hands to take hold of you in places that will feel like a swift jerk and jolt to your spiritual senses.

 

As a true child of God you will not ever be exempt from regular, heavenly re-alignment. As the image of Christ is slowly, but steadily being formed in you, there will be an ever increasing interruption to your poor spiritual posture. He will put His hands upon your weary and tired, crooked consecrated back and bring what may seem like a momentary painful jolt backward, yet when you find yourself upon His table of rest afterwards, a new freedom to live and move will invade your life.

 

You will stand straighter and taller than ever before!

 

 

 

Voice in the Wind:

 

Child, you and I are traveling now upon ground that is new to you. All the adjustments I have given to you thus far have given you the ability to walk where we are now. Yet there are still spiritual thoughts and attitudes, forms and reactions, that need altered in your life. I know you can feel the need for My hand of alignment. Lie down now upon My table and relax in my adjusting care. Even though My hand may inflict pain, it is necessary to bring you into new health and recovery. I only wound to repair. Your adversary only wounds to destroy. Breathe in My breath. Relax in what I need to do. Understand My heart. Allow My hands to touch you where it hurts. Yes you may feel a jolt and jerk, yet only for a moment and then the corrective path begins. 

 

Come to My table often. Come into My care and you will see how I will cause you to stand straight and tall. It will be less tiring for you and you will be amazed at the ease in which your new found alignment will cause you to travel. Where you were bent over, there will be a fresh tightness in your backbone to more effectively discern the adversary of your soul and your vision will be clearer as your head will be lifted up and the view will open up in greater width and expanse.

 

You will become more atune to My touch and soon the treatment will be complete and the season accomplished.

 

Yet, will it be finished? No, only ready for the next season of growth and transformation. When we are finished, My glory will be seen through and through and the sight of you will be stunning, full of grace and glory, ready to be My Bride!

Voice in the Wind:Introduction

 

The wind blows where it wishes

and you hear the sound of it,

but do not know where it comes from

and where it is going;

so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.

John 3:8

 

There is something about the wind that reflects spiritual mystery along the journey.

Wind is invisible to the natural eye. It's effects are not. On a cold windy day, the wind chill factor makes it feel much colder than it is. A gentle breeze can bring refreshing on a hot, scorching day. Wind can erode and cause environmental problems. The speed of wind can destroy via hurricanes and tornadoes. The capture of wind can create electricity and empower. It takes wind to fan the flames of a smoldering fire.

In Genesis 8 God brought a wind that caused the flood waters to go down for Noah and the inhabitants of the ark.

Wind was a very important factor in God's dealings with the Egyptians and His children. In Genesis 41, it was an east wind that brought a seven year drought to Egypt. In Exodus 10 it was that east wind again that brought the plague of locusts upon the Egyptians followed by a west wind that took them away and out to sea. It was the Lord's wind once more in Exodus 10, that opened up the Red Sea so His children could cross on dry ground. In Exodus 15 it tells us that they crossed, and Pharaoh's army pursued, only to be greeted by the wind of God that shut the sea up and drowned them all! Numbers 11 tells us how God's wind brought the quail to His people to satisfy their hunger.

2 Samuel 22 is a very wonderful chapter, but tucked in there at verse 11 it says:

And He rode on a cherub and flew; And He appeared on the wings of the wind.

Wind ... that has wings?? God has escaped my box of logic!!

In Psalms 104, God walks upon the wings of the wind!

In Psalm 135 He brings forth the wind from His treasuries.The Hebrew word for treasuries is the word 'owtsar meaning storehouse, magazine of weapons (fig. of God's armoury). So the wind is a weapon in God's hand.

The stormy wind is simply fulfilling His orders in Psalm 148.

In Ecclesiastes 1, it tells of the circuit of God that the wind is to follow.

God, at times may ask us to call for His wind to bring breath and life to another according to Ezekiel 37.

In the Gospels, Jesus used the stormy wind upon the sea several times to teach His disciples the importance of faith and trust when the winds of trial came upon them with great surprise and fury.

 

In Acts 2 the mighty rushing wind of God came upon those in the Upper Room that day to usher in the Promise of the sweet Holy Spirit. Their lives were turned upside down with the power to witness and testify of the newly risen Lord Jesus!

 

Through some scriptural examples we have clarified that wind, comes straight from God. If I am born of His Spirit then His wind will be a frequent companion in my life. His wind, when allowed, will carry me places I would have never ventured on my own. The wind of God through me, will destroy hell and usher in His glory.

 

Through the breath of my Beloved, I will be challenged, nourished, refreshed, disciplined, protected, fought for, and cloaked in His glory.

 

The wind gust of glory will at times come swooping down on me infusing my heart with sheer joy and ecstasy that only heaven can produce!

 

The wind of God at times will come straight from His mouth to mine and in an instant resuscitate my breathless soul to life again. The airflow coming from the epicenter of His affections towards me swirls around my wounded heart causing miraculous healing and wholeness that years in the counselors office could never imitate.

 

His voice speaks out of His wind and I must ... hear it.

 

His voice speaks out of His wind and I must ... speak it.

 

His voice speaks out of His wind and I must ... write about it.

 

His voice speaks out of His wind and I must ... live it.

 

Welcome to my new blog.

 

The purpose of this "place" is to practice learning what He wishes ... to hear His "sound" and make His "sound" known.

 

In my imperfect attempts to accomplish this, I hope there are bits and pieces that leap off the "page" and grasp your soul with His grip of holy, consuming fire and love. It's my prayer that your life will be launched towards deeper dimensions of loving and knowing the True Lover of your soul.

 

... maybe even an awakening.

 

You might be asleep. He calls. The time is short.

 

Your destiny is yet ahead of you.

 

The Wind is blowing. I don't know the direction it came and I'm not sure where we are headed, but one thing I do know is the One who made the wind tells it where to blow and gives it eternal purpose ... and that's all I really need to know.

 

Father, engulf me in Your wind. Hide me under Your breath. Center me in the air currents of Your Holy Spirit. Harmonize me with Your wind words. Let our life of love together bear fruit in the earth that will be rock solid for eternity.

 

Thank You for this opportunity to know You and make You known.

 

Be glorified here ... at Voice in the Wind.