I was driving down the road yesterday and all of a sudden "Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good" Ps. 34:8 popped into my head. Then the word "taste" literally poured-torentially, into my spirit...deeply, saturating my inner most being. Later I looked up some definitions of the word taste and found one that resonated with the feeling that I had for this new revelation of the word..."to recognize the quality of something".... by tasting.
When I ponder that, my spirit takes a deep breath, as if I am breathing in the "quality" of God. That is something I have never done before but it is oh, so good. It is the new things of God that has me standing in awe and wonder lately.
I believe that He allowed me to taste and see something of Him lately that is becoming contagious to those around me. He has allowed me to see a new side of Heaven on Earth, the reality of "signs and wonders shall follow them that believe". The infilling-soaking of Him in me is oozing out..........that is what He desires, that we be so filled with Him that He oozes out. God just gave that idea a thumbs up!!
I want to share one of those "taste and see" sightings-oozings that happened recently. I am blessed to be a part of our auction committee at our great little christian school in Newtown, Ohio and we were working diligently to prepare the event. We did things a little differently this year, we had a huge focus on prayer and focusing on God and not getting wrapped up in the stress of the event and He was faithful to us to keep us focused and not become too stressed or tired. Early on in the process, our director shared with me her financial goal for the event. The Lord had given me a number and let me tell you, the number I had was way higher than her number... it was out of the park for what we normally raise at this event. For a long while I kept it to myself because I knew it was a crazy number. God and I had many conversations about how crazy it was...at the end of our conversation I would just shake my head and say, "Lord, you can do it!!" The committee prayed into the supernatural and uncommon favor but I still did not mention the crazy number in my head.
Closer to the event, we had a meeting with the higher ups at the school and we shared the plan for the evening. Our Head of School asked what our goal was and the director stated her number, which was right in line with what we did in years past. Under my breath, I said, "That's not the number I have in my head". He said, "what is your number?" I told him I was afraid to say because when I did, it would become a reality. He said go ahead, we need to pray into it with you. So, I blurted out my number which was significantly higher....not a word around the table was spoken for a minute, you could almost hear a gasp from our director but in the end, he said, "ok, that's what we are going to pray for." This number was not mentioned again, to anyone, until the night of the event.
We closed all the tables and people collected the items they had won. Soon the guests were all gone and the committee was cleaning up for the night. The woman running the transactions for the event came over and said do you want to hear our first preliminary number? Of course we said YES! She very proudly but somewhat in shock told us the number and Praise God, it was two thousand dollars OVER THE AMAZINGLY CRAZY OFF THE CHARTS NUMBER that God had put in my head. We broke every record that had ever been set by the academy for this fund raiser!! Those of us who had been in the room that day when I blurted out the amazingly crazy off the charts number were in glorious shock. The entire school is still in shock of how good God was that night.
All I can say is, that it was His number and He chose to do that for us and all He wanted us to do was believe. I honestly believe that He was saying to me the other day, "You tasted and saw how good I can be when you believe... go ahead and believe Me to do BIG things!"
That "taste" of Him that I got through all this will forever change me. I also believe that this story is changing everyone who hears it. We are all still in shock and awe of our God. By the way, the number was almost DOUBLE our average...And, the total continued to grow after that night.
Praise God again!
I pray that you have a desire to "taste and see" something great and wonderful in your life. I do believe that God just wants to give "signs and wonders" to follow us so that not only will our faith increase but also so the world will see what a Good God He really is.......
Dear Lord,
I thank you for your goodness and mercy towards us. I thank you that your Holy Spirit is at WORK in us! Bring heaven to earth through our prayers and through our belief that you will because you are!
Increase our faith and increase our prayers. You are nothing less than the biggest miracle we could ever imaging or think. You are able to fix everything in our lives that is broken. You are able to take us over the top or off the charts with big, CRAZY, AMAZING, BLOW YOUR MIND blessings. You will do it because you want the world to TASTE AND SEE THAT YOU ARE GOOD.....
In Jesus name,
Amen
Carla
