What in your life has come crashing down? Like the twin towers that fell in NY, September 2001, what has felt like that in your personal life? Something has gone wrong, someone has hurt you, events have unfolded that went out of control and fell like ruin at your feet. In the trauma of the situation you have cried out for help. Tears streaming down your cheeks and your voice only a whisper. You groan and plead for the ache to stop, the nightmare to be over, you may even question, "Why?"
The Bible promises us that there will be hardship in this life but He also ends that statement of doom and gloom with this, "But take heart! I have overcome the world." John 16:33 He tells us this so that in Him we will have peace. Peace when the bills can't get paid, peace when the spouse is unfaithful, peace when a love one dies, HIS PEACE. It surpasses our understanding. But IN HIM we can walk in peace and watch the ruin at our feet be turned for good. God takes those pieces of our history that seem devastating to reshape us, mold us into more of His image and then extend that same peace to others.
Lord, I ask that you search all of our hearts and find the wastelands. Things we have experienced or tucked so deep inside that no one can find, but You know each of them. Help us to draw them out and place them at Your feet. May we never have to be burdened with them again for your stripes took that burden. Help us to walk in a peace that the world can't understand and that even we don't comprehend. We just know it is You and You love us so much. Amen
So as I knelt praying on this mountain, about my past especially my parent wounds, I also found other things begin to bubble to the surface. I'm in His presence and this is time for the healing to begin for some things, continue forward for other things and for Him to speak direction for the purpose and plans for my "stuff." It is time to "be done with this stuff." No looking back, no letting the enemy play in my head. My mind, will and emotions (my soul) is consecrated to God. I'll leave this stump, this altar, when I am certain that I have purged completely and then been refilled by the Holy Spirit. Let peace begin to flow like a river in my life.
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