It's a New Season

As I stood in church yesterday getting lost in the worship, I felt God come down and hold my hands very still and He whispered into my spirit, "I'm giving you a transfer of your DNA.  You are completely changed from this moment on."    I could not move.  I stood transfixed in my saviors' embrace, His love washing over me.....through me to my very core.   

I need to sit a moment even now and let the washing continue!  (if I could write in tongues right now, I could communicate with you ;-) but......

Ok, I'm composed and ready to hopefully communicate now.... 
This was not a miraculous, God just came down and performed something out of the blue awesome.....this was and is a long journey that is in no way over.   For months now I have been pursuing God like nobodies business!!   In May I stepped down from every position of leadership I held at my church.  I took a month off from everything else and just simply prayed.   I met God in every way that I could.  I have been asking Him to change me, re-arrange me, make me upside down, inside out, whatever I could think of that meant a new me, Do it Lord!!     (there is a back story to those events in May that went on for a year, just so you know).     

Coming into a New Season is not easy.  Think about winter and all the preparation that the earth and it's living inhabitants go through just to prepare.   Leaves change colors, leaves fall to the ground, trees and bushes hunker down -sit dormant.   The sun's hours start diminishing, coolness starts letting the leaves know it's about time,  nutrients running through the branches slow down, the leaves start dying .......The earth gets still and quiet....waits.    Slowly, one by one, as the wind blows through the branches, the leaves let go,  fall to the ground.   After a time,  all that is left is the structure that has held those leaves for the previous season.   The tree sits bare while the harshness of winter surrounds it.  It sits all alone.  Maybe one bird comes and lands on it's branches but doesn't stay.  Busy squirrels run from tree to tree; never staying too long in one place.  If there is a nice hole in the tree, the squirrel will make a home but it is too empty for most inhabitants to want to stay through the cold snowy season.    No, this season change is a hard and lonely one.  Dependent on very little except one source of light to make it through.   

Part of me wants to stop here because I think you get the picture.     I really want to stop and go cry in a corner but God wants to finish this page so we can go on to the next one :-)
God is always the one that wants you to keep going on to the next one....   He is the one that brings you through the season changes.    He is the one that wants you to want to go through the seasons so He can change your DNA!   Oh how wonderful it is to have the Heavenly Father wash over you with His love!  Oh how wonderful it is to know that you have gone through a season and are about ready to sprout new beautiful leaves ...and even some beautiful flowers!!    

I can tell you that the pre-season change was absolutely painful.  Those leaves were not just lightly attached.  NO, they were sown into my previous DNA.    The atmospheric changes around me started causing a twinge of awareness that something was about to happen.  God started stirring my spirit, causing me to know...it was TIME.   For what, I did not know.   No matter what everyone else around me felt, I knew that my atmospheric bubble was different.   God started dangling a new vision before me like a spiritual carrot. I took the bait!!!  I started reaching for that carrot with a passionate plea to have it no matter the cost.  Pursue, pursue, pursue...    Music started playing in my head day and night; pursue, pursue, pursue......  Prayer in tongues would pop out of my mouth in a crowd of people (closed my mouth to keep it to myself) pursue, pursue, pursue.....   
My oh my how the atmosphere was changing!     Multiple carrots started clouding my vision.  pursue,  grab one,   pursue ,  pursue,   grab another, pursue....     oh and I need to mention that along the way, multiple sown in leaves were being ripped from my branches.   But as the ripping took place, my comfort came from more pursue, pursue, pursue..... 

And now, I sit here this morning and smile.  God has changed me and rearranged me.  I know we are not done but I know that I can make it through a season change.   I am in new places and He is showing himself  in amazing ways.  He is flowing again.  My leaves are coming in and I am even seeing a flower here and there!  and Boy oh boy are they beautiful!!

My time at church yesterday is just an example of how Jesus and I spend everyday!!  He grabs my hands and whispers to me more than I ever thought possible.  

I know that this season change is not for me alone....He wants to change all of His children.  We are entering into a season change on earth!!   Angels are being seen by many, hearts are being opened, families are being reconciled, He is calling His children to come home and sit in His house... a house of healing, restoration, deliverance  freedom!!  

Renewal of mind, body and spirit.   That's a mighty season change.  "Come home" He cries! 
"I'm coming Lord"  she cries.....  

Dear Lord,
Change us all!   Move on our hearts and dangle some carrots in front of my brothers and sisters!   Let them start to smell heaven.  Come in,  washing over us in wave after wave of your glorious love!    Heal our hearts and make us whole.  I thank you for changing me so that I can see and feel like you see and feel.  Change the atmosphere so that we all can be ready for the season you are calling forth!

In Jesus Name,
Amen.


   

Will You Hold Please....

I had a great revelation from the Lord the other day that just made my spirit sigh a sigh of relief.  It made my insides smile too :-)     I've been on this painful journey the past year and a half.....I could almost say it has been 2 1/2  but whose counting at this point;  once you hit the downside of the mountain, you get to that point of "who cares how long it's been".     I realized that I am secure in my calling and my anointing with God no matter how far off I am from that reality at this moment.  He has a "place card" in my slot of destiny and I am just on a detour while He re-arranges me a little so that I will be awesome when I get where He wants me to be!  That, was my Ah-Ha moment of knowing He will finish what He started in me.  He knew me before I was formed in my mother's womb and He predestined me and will complete me.   That is always comforting scripture but it just hit me in a new way and through all of the pain of those 2 1/2 years, I was getting better at being who He wants me to be!   There is such a change in me over these years that I have to just say, Thank You God, You Do Love Me. It was all for my own good.

Let's unpack that a little more in hopes that the depth of that revelation comes to you.
When someone says, "Will you hold please?"  your waiting is a test of your patience but at the same time, it is good because....
        You are waiting to address your purpose.    Selah that in the spirit!    The purpose of your call didn't change.
 
 A typical wait on hold gives you time to do the following;
-You can fine tune your message.
-You can contemplate what you wanted to say and see if you really need to say all 'that'.
-You have time to change your mind about how to handle the situation.
-You can add more to your message.
-You can re-adjust your attitude if necessary  (that is a big one)
-You can even put your make up on and fix your hair (just put on speaker).

With God, Being asked to Wait to address your purpose just produces a better you.  

God has put a 'place card'  (definition of place card- "a card with your name on it to hold or mark your seat at a table") ..... your seat at His table. 

Wow!!    How true that is of our Good Good Father!!   He holds our place at His table no matter where we are or where we should be. No matter how long it takes us to get there;  He saves us a seat, waiting for us to show up and sit beside Him. Waiting for us to shine with His presence on us for all to see!     So, while we wander through the sometimes mess of life, trying to figure all of the junk out, He has our seat saved and no one can sit there but us.  

That was such a relief to me...it made me smile and love Him even more!!  And to know that while He waits on me, the Holy Spirit is teaching me to be a better me!

I love you Lord and thank you for loving me enough to always hold my seat!  You are the best friend I could ever have and the best Daddy ever!!  You love me enough to not leave me like I am.  You love me enough to make it a little tough on me so I can grow!   Use me Lord, for your glory and fill me up so full of you that you pour out of me to all those around me!  Make them jealous for you!  

I love you and pray for all of my brothers and sisters, that they know you are holding their place no matter how long it takes for them to find their seat!    Break us open with your love...... 

In Jesus name,
Amen

Carla