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.
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