Day 49 Counting the Omer Shavuot Feasts of Weeks Harvest First Fruits
“Honey bees flitting Joyfully feed Seed time and harvest Blossoms; Taste and see”
“Listen diligently to Me, and eat what is good, and delight yourself in abundance.” Isaiah 55:2 TLV
It is so close, the excitement mounting, or was it fear of the unknown? What will happen, why has He brought us here? He has protected us, kept us, planned for us to meet. Brought us out with signs and wonders, with the provisions, exactly as He swore to Abraham, true to His word. Why all this fuss? Did they remember? Had the 430 years of slavery and hardship dulled their memories? Had anyone kept the hope alive? Joseph left instructions to take his bones, saying when the Lord “visits” you be sure you take my bones. Did anyone remember? They took Joseph’s bones when they left Egypt, an empty tomb, evidence the children of Israel were not coming back to Egypt. Yes they remembered.
This meeting day planned long before they actually met. We have evidence seasons continue, so do His Feast Days. They are eternal, forever, mo’eds, appointments, to be remembered, rehearsed; rehearsals;
rehearsed, as if…
Tonight at sundown, day 49 begins. Tomorrow at sundown is the memorial of THE BIG DAY, or the first BIG DAY. We know there was another BIGGER DAY! I believe every year amazing covenants are available, His gift! reminding us I have not forgotten. Have you?
The memorial, when a covenant was offered. The Hand of Jehovah offered to a people, to a people He loves and is responsible for. If we knew we had an appointment, for a real encounter with Adonai and heard His heart; would we quickly obey or forget and turn away?
Elderberry Blossoms
Elderberry blossoms True to His word The rain maketh it bud Isaiah prophesied as he heard
“Honey bees flitting Joyfully feed Seed time and harvest Blossoms; Taste and see”
The Lord is good Evidence assures Only believe The heart secures
“For as the rain and snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without having watered the earth,
My first elderberry buds. Planted in the fall of 2019
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to sow and bread to eat,
so My word will be that goes out from My mouth.
It will not return to Me in vain, but will accomplish what I intend, and will succeed in what I sent it for. Instead of the thorn bush, a cypress will come up, and instead of the brier, a myrtle will come up, and it will be a memorial to Adonai, as an everlasting sign that will never be cut off.”” Isaiah 55:10-11, 13 TLV
I feel the excitement, do you?
HIS WORD WILL NOT RETURN VOID, or barren or unfruitful. It did, it is, and it will produce.
First elderberry blossoms.
Behold I do a new thing…
““Do not remember former things, nor consider things of the past. Here I am, doing a new thing; Now it is springing up— do you not know about it? I will surely make a way in the desert, rivers in the wasteland. the people I formed for Myself, so they might declare My praise.” Isaiah 43:18-19, 21 TLV
God bless you and keep you and make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord cause His countenance to rise upon you and give you Shalom.
Until next time, thank you for listening with me. Laurette
I feel excitement in the air. Today something changes. Our halfway mark!
Number 25 Number 25 is considered to manifest “grace upon grace”, being 5*5, it has strong meaning of a holy presence. It intensifies the meaning of number 5.
So much happening, the long awaited journey. Over 400 years of waiting, praying, holding fast to the Word given to Abraham. The God of your fathers, the statement that allowed the Israelites to put their trust in what Moses said…
Until it got hard and scary, then things changed. Realizing they needed another to speak to them. They were correct they couldn’t stand before God and live. Christ is the answer. Moses told the children of Israel, God will raise up another like me. God would come in human form, fully God and fully man! God needs us to understand this meeting and the one to come is serious, not casual nor always comfortable, but worth everything it costs you. Grace is free but it is not cheap.
Needing a shower, a deep desire for a waterfall of refreshing. The diapers, the nursing of babies. Setting up camp. Taking down. Preparing food. Totally dependent on the One who called them out. At His mercy in need of grace! Would you have complained?
Journey to Mount Sinai! An absolute miracle. Their journey ushers us into the waterfall; Living Water; Mount Zion. The pouring out of God’s Holy Spirit, not of law, but of Grace! And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.
Such specific instruction. What was God teaching them? teaching us? What is He revealing? A truth our heart knows, not yet interwoven? God desires a Holy Nation. His desires have not changed. (1 Peter)
I feel excitement in the air. Today something changes. Our halfway mark!
My Editor and Publisher
My editor and publisher My promoter of the guild My producer and my manager Of this destiny to build
When seeing works and limits Overwhelming desire to change I am reminded I have prayed Only be this in Your Name
When production is the goal To bring about desired change Realizing it is only by Your power I need Your direction to rearrange
Show me what I should delete Edit my every discourse Because in all I do My prayer is to be a source
A source of change and hope To this backward worldly system The target and the goal to open Teachable hearts that choose to listen
My Heavenly Father is my editor My Publisher and friend He is my Production Manager Because it all began with Him
Now I know just where to turn For the subject of my first edition Looking forward to my journey Reminded of the Great Commission
Being called out is a humongous, mega, monumental, supernatural event. I pray we never forget the reason for our salvation.
Jesus Christ, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.
Number 25 Number 25 is considered to manifest “grace upon grace”, being 5*5, it has strong meaning of a holy presence. It intensifies the meaning of number 5. It is a symbol of God’s grace and forgiveness (especially if you read 25 as 20 adding 5). The throne of God in heaven has 24 thrones with sages around his one, which equals to 25. The book of Acts consists of 25 books.
“For out of His fullness (abundance) we have all received [all had a share and we were all supplied with] one grace after another and spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing and even favor upon favor and gift [heaped] upon gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, grace (unearned, undeserved favor and spiritual blessing) and truth came through Jesus Christ. [Exod. 20:1.]” John 1:16-17 AMPC
God bless you and keep you and make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord cause His countenance to rise upon you and give you Shalom!
Until next time, thank you for listening with me. Laurette
“You are not forgotten, for you have been chosen and destined by Father God. The Holy Spirit has set you apart to be God’s holy ones, obedient followers of Jesus Christ who have been gloriously sprinkled with his blood. May God’s delightful grace and peace cascade over you many times over!” 1 Peter 1:2 TPT
God’s people pushed out, expelled, liberated; wait! They are free but dependant. Like newborns babes.. (1 Peter 2:2), helpless, in constant need. The need for food, water, comfort and provision is beyond their grasp. Obedience is crucial. Their destination is marked. Now completely at the mercy of the God of their fathers. The I Am. God’s people, His children, called to be a holy nation, a kingdom of priests a holy priesthood, according to His foreknowledge (Genesis 15). The groaning, the travailing, God heard their groanings, like a woman in the throngs of labor, He came down to rescue and deliver them, (Exodus 3:8).
Concerned for them, the time had come, the hard labor, unbearable. The tight place, The Hebrew word for Egypt is Mitzrayim, which translates as “tight place, narrow, straights, blockages. This place has caused them grow, to increase in number, but the time of slavery must end.
The newly born Nation of Israel, the children of Israel are in more danger, vulnerable, at God’s sovereign mercy, fragile covered in blood, by the blood, protected and extremely loved; more than they could think or imagine.
On their way to Mount Sinai. The Law of God awaits. The meeting place. This great deliverance still talked about today. The Exodus, the judgement against Pharoah, pushed out with mighty signs and wonders, the Greatest power shown…
That Is Until… Until the resurrection of Christ. From a borrowed tomb Christ lifeless body is raised to life, raised to immortality by the Power of God! Hope! Expectancy! New Life! The Resurrection Power of our God is here! But there is more. Wait for it.
Tarry here in Jerusalem. Do not leave Jesus said, until you be endued with power from upon high. Would Yahweh share His great power, His resurrection power… Fifty Days. Feast Of Weeks! Counting the Omer! Pentecoste!
The Firstborn! The First fruits!
Oh the excitement is brewing but the journey had struggles, trials, temptations; oh but the hope!
Excerpt from
Carpe Diem He Made a Way
In brokenness and despair, I fell to my knees, I cried out to My Savior, “Oh Jesus save me!”
Do not become hopeless If you are broken or sad He is in the waiting Not angry, nor mad
He made a way Though not easy or trite He knows your victory Is seized by the fight
I’ve come to tell you To pick up that bible Read it for yourself It is totally reliable
Ready to take root His word is alive and powerful Planted securely in your heart Growing where allowable
Our Lord willingly gave His life, The shame and pain The Cross He endured, His blood for our gain.
So I say to you Carpe Diem-and get ready Because God has a plan…. The victory is won already!
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. (Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.) Horace, The Odes of Horace
“But the truth is, Christ is risen from the dead, as the firstfruit of a great resurrection harvest of those who have died. Even as all who are in Adam die, so also all who are in Christ will be made alive. But each one in his proper order: Christ, the firstfruits, then those who belong to Christ in his presence.” 1 Corinthians 15:20, 22-23 TPT
God bless you and keep you and make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord cause His countenance to rise upon you and give you Shalom.
Until next time, thank you for listening with me. Laurette
It’s a mitzvah. A commandment. Not dread, not of force, but rather because excitement is in the air. Following simple commands leads to the fulfillment of promises beyond our imagination.
Have you been so excited about an event you marked your calendar and counted off the days? Have you wished time would speed up, so the event would be here sooner?
God brought His people out just as He had told Abram, on purpose, with a profound purpose; to meet with Him. A meeting place, a mo’ed, an appointment. With everything, just as He has spoken. Think about this for a moment, God was waiting and planning to meet with His people, once again!
So many years of obedience, following the law of Feast of Weeks, what was so important about this? Knowing the what without looking for the why allows the enemy a foothold. If God requires it, we can be certain it comes with more than we can think or imagine. It will be alive!
S’firat HaOmer (Counting of the Omer) links the Exodus from Egypt with the giving of the Torah at Sinai. A meeting place!
It’s Time to Count the Omer
It is time to count the omer The days shall be complete Counting of the omer Abounding, bulging, full and replete
At the precise moment In the twinkling of the eye The promise forthcoming Truth for all who to themselves will die
Planting of the seed Leads to a dark damp season Seemingly of no value Without any rhyme or reason
We must die to self In order to learn His ways Because His ways are not ours We measure weeks, counting days
We see and glean from weeks Remaining steadfast and accurate To lose count and quit is death; What has been promised is immaculate
For when The Day had fully come They in one accord did stand Waited on the gift from God Just as Messiah did command
The count coming upon fifty Did they observe, and could they know They would house the kingdom of God Tongues of fire, The Spirit did show
His power mightily poured out Spirit as a mighty rushing wind Power from on high to be Called witnesses Of Him
Our Jewish brothers and sisters Will count and have begun Because the fullness of the Gentiles Is determined by The One
Oh what excitement awaits us. Can you sense it? The promise; not one and done as some believe, but a continuous flow, an exceedingly, abundantly more than we can think or imagine! An outpouring, a pouring out from heaven that cannot be stopped.
The annual grain harvest would usher in the power of His Spirit. Only if the seed falls into the ground and dies. Our first fruits is Christ the anointed One! May we be found in Him. Dead to the world, but alive in Him! The first fruit had to be shown to the priest before the other could be harvested. Get it? Leviticus 22:9-11.
The what and the why. The meeting place, the gathering for God to tell His people exactly what He required, years of trying and falling away. Determined but powerless to complete. Repentance and restoration, leading up to the Day of Pentecost…
Can you sense it? Do you feel His very presence in the holy atmosphere? The persecution, the trials, the travail, the traveling to get to the mountain, the meeting place. The place determined by The Almighty. Yes!!! I’m certain He is going to meet with us again, very soon! He will empower this movement to become what He destined all along. A chosen Nation, a Holy Priesthood, sons and daughters of our King!
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“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.” 1 Peter 2:9 NIV
“But you are God’s chosen treasure —priests who are kings, a spiritual “nation” set apart as God’s devoted ones. He called you out of darkness to experience his marvelous light, and now he claims you as his very own. He did this so that you would broadcast his glorious wonders throughout the world. For at one time you were not God’s people, but now you are. At one time you knew nothing of God’s mercy, because you hadn’t received it yet, but now you are drenched with it!” 1 Peter 2:9-10 TPT
I’m excited! Are you?
God bless you and keep you and make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord cause His countenance to rise upon you and give you Shalom.
Until next time, thank you for listening with me. Laurette
It was prophetic, it was profound and yes, powerful.
This Is The Lord’s Passover! Chag Sameach!
Let’s stop for a moment, revisit; can you imagine the noise, the bustling, and the rustling about? Was Moses hurrying about with the leaders? Were they anxiously checking, making certain everyone was prepared? What was the scene leading up to the climatic Exodus? Were they filled with adrenaline, the blood pumping through their veins as their hearts were beating wildly with anticipation? Dressed and ready as instructed; believing, no, knowing full well after the previous months events, God was going to send the death angel throughout the land as He told Moses.
Commanded do not come out of their houses during the night. The smell of the blood of sacrificed lambs permeated the air, blood applied to the top and sides of the doorframe with hyssop, the smell now covered by the enticing aroma of roasted lamb filling the land, but who would be hungry, they couldn’t possibly be hungry?
Yet instructed to kill the lamb, take some of the blood, roast it and eat it all. The remembrance of the innocent lamb. None was to be left. If the house couldn’t eat “all” of the lamb the remainder had to be taken out and burned.
Or was there a Holy Hush? Was the smoke from the roasting of the lambs a sign likened to the glory that filled the land? We are told not even the bark of a dog would be heard in the camp of the Israelites. God said then you will know that I make a distinction between Egypt and Israel. (Exodus 11).
Yes, it was both. The physical body responding to e amazing events unfolding, but the Spirit of God covering and protecting His people brought a Holy Hush over their hearts for this amazing Exit, the EXODUS we still hold dear to our hearts.
When leaving the life of bondage or sin we do not find a casual, calm, lackadaisical approach we may not be surrounded by human comforts but we know in Whom we have believed. Leaving requires all your heart, strength, mind and soul…wait haven’t we heard this before? (Deuteronomy 6) (Mark 12) oh yes, now we see and remember.
Reverence, trust obedience and love, following and obeying God’s directions was how the power of God operated in and through the Israelites, with many signs and wonders. It was prophetic, it was profound and yes, powerful. This is how they were able to be delivered. They did not escape, they were led out and set free to go into the wilderness to worship, delivered with a destination, the promise of the Promise Land. Purpose-Provision-Promise-The Power of God! The Egyptians were warned repeatedly. Not all made it into the Promise Land.
It is the same today. We overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. If Jesus isn’t your testimony you are not really free. The Lamb God has provided is Christ.
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This is The Lord’s Passover
Hurry get ready we’re leaving in haste The Lord God I Am Said no time to waste
I Am that I Am Has sent me to say The time for deliverance Does start today
We shall eat it in haste With our sandals latched For this is “The Lords Passover” Gird up our loins, ready our staff
Each family to choose A Lamb for his household Without spot or blemish marked sign on the threshold
deliverance does not come From any Other Than Jehovah Jireh And this we will discover
The blood is covenant and a sign on lintels and doorpost applied no other offering can you supply A spotless lamb required
This is a sign for us to see With hyssop the blood we apply When God sends judgement on Egypt He will at Passover pass by
“On this night as I pass through I will see and know the sign That you have listened and obeyed And by sacrifice you are Mine.”
“I Am taking My people out Just as I swore on oath Into the land that I have promised From Ramses to Succoth.”
When our children inquire and ask About this memorial We’ll tell them how The Lord struck Egypt Making known to them this tutorial
We were once slaves and prisoners trapped by sin in Egypt’s land I Am that I Am, brought us up and out; Rescued by His Righteous Right hand
Jehovah Jireh has provided the mystery now made known Given for us, His sacrifice Is Jesus Christ, His very own!
…11Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste– it is the LORD’S Passover. 12For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night,and will strike down all the firstborn in the landof Egypt, both man and beast; and against allthe gods of Egypt I will execute judgments– I am the LORD. 13The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.…
Exodus 12:23-24, 26-27 AMP
For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel [above the entry way] and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to slay you. You shall observe this event [concerning Passover] as an ordinance for you and for your children forever.
When your children say to you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’ you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the LORD’S Passover, for He passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians, but spared our houses.’” And the people bowed [their heads] low and worshiped [God].
The apostle Paul dealing with sin used the Passover to quicken, remind or awaken them, some 1500 years after the event. Yes they did tell their children and keep accurate details.
“Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” I Corinthians 5:6-8 NKJV
Do you relate? Is there a Passover in your life? Do you have a testimony you pass down to your children of when God brought you out?
Happy Passover- Chag Sameach!
God bless you and keep you and make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord cause His countenance to rise upon you and give you Shalom.
Until next time, thank you for listening with me. Laurette
This passage of the discourse of Jesus here has been called “a prelude of Gethsemane.”
““I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already ablaze with fiery passion for God! But first I must be immersed into the baptism of God’s judgment, and I am consumed with passion as I await its fulfillment.” Luke 12:49-50 TPT
Thy will be done
Oh My soul is troubled And sorrowful unto death I must go to pray This fear is choking out My breath
Will you pray with Me In Gethsemane for prayer Can you watch one hour Sit here while I go over there
Oh My Father hear My prayer And if it be Thy Will I ask that this cup pass; Crucifixion on Golgotha’s Hill
There isn’t a worse death Ever known in time The scourging and the Cross Salvations price paid for mankind
His sweat became as drops of blood And to the ground did flow Because redemption starts Where the will of God is known
As He prayed He agonized Is there another way When He was reminded While on His knees He prayed
Nevertheless not My will But Thine be done on earth For this has been prophesied From before the time of My birth
Just then an angel from heaven Appeared and strengthened Him For He would rise and conquer And drink this cup, it was The Will of Him
Saying for this reason I was born And I have come to say Resurrection power Came to you this way
And when I rose up, yes I knew I had already won The war was fought in a garden My mind set on things above
satans lies had deceived In a garden long ago God redeemed our minds with blood Giving us back our soul
For I did bleed and agonize So when you call on Me You can read and remember Fight your battle on bended knee
In that garden I redeemed The ability to win The war against your minds To do the will of Him.
Gethsemane, the place of pressing. A garden of redemption. The hard place, decision to follow and obey God’s Will, the place of His extreme agony, the tight place. The reminder of the suzerain/vassal covenant found between Abraham and The Lord, Abraham and Isaac… hearing God will provide…
Clearly the sacrifice is among us and He is agonizing.
Jesus’s familiar place of prayer, the olive grove, going to His safe place to pray, now an internal war zone. The hours spent with The Father, learning of His ways, hearing His voice, carrying out the miracles, teaching, training, showing The Father; certainly knowing this day would soon come. Hadn’t Jesus taught His disciples this would happen? Hadn’t He just proclaimed at Supper, this is My Body broken for you, This cup is the my blood, the New covenant. And now it makes sense. The Lamb, the Bread come down from heaven, the sacrifice on the altar, He bound Himself to the horns of the altar as our pure sinless sacrifice. What love!
Years ago I had a profound revelation, the first place our Savior’s precious blood was shed was in the Garden of Gethsemane. The decision to willingly lay down His life, suffer the worst torture and death ever known, to redeem mankind. It began with a war over His mind and flesh, in a garden, submitting His will to the Will and obedience of The Father…
redeeming what was lost in a garden, Adam and Eve agreeing gave into the flesh, the disobedience, the curse. Yes a war over our carnal desires.
Luke 22:42-45 NKJV saying, “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.” Then an angel appeared to Him from heaven, strengthening Him.
“Father, if You are willing, take this cup of agony away from me. But no matter what, Your will must be mine” (Luke 22:42 TPT).
“And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
When He rose up from prayer…
When Jesus rose up off the ground He purpose was secure, with singleness of heart the decision was made. He had already seen His resurrection. He rose up from prayer and truly RISES UP, becoming our RISEN LORD. The next time He would rise from the dead. The resurrection power of God Almighty would do exactly as He said!
If you haven’t submitted your will and life to The Father, it’s not too late. Jesus paid our price. What is easy never lasts, what lasts didn’t come easy. Our Savior payed the price of our sin. Lay it all at the Cross. You will never regret this decision.
God bless you and keep you and make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord cause His countenance to rise upon you and give you Shalom!
Until next time, thank you for listening with me. Laurette
Time is of the Essence! There are seasons, opportunities, set times, decisions that must be made, provisions that require obligations, contracts to be signed, expressing “the need for timely completion”, i.e. has a set time!
Knowing His appointed time was near; under intense stress and strain, our Lord didn’t leave one detail undone.
“Our Father who art in Heaven”…
Always has, Always will, never left us, never will.
In this season of The Lord’s Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread and during the Holy Week, I pray we make time to reflect on our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and His absolute faithfulness! His faithfulness to The Father secured the way for us to come home.
Jesus Christ came to show us The Father. How good, how kind, how merciful, how long suffering, and oh how willing!
Hallowed be Thy Name…
The Week of His Passion
Now the week of His passion They surely wanted Him dead How to carry out this evil, Keep the crowd going ahead
They wanted to avoid a riot trying to cover up their scheme It was the time of Passover celebration Thousands gathering, the crowd could turn mean
Jesus went about cleansing the temple Delivering all the woes They desired even more His life to simply dispose
He gave attention to last details Instructing His disciples to follow Unleavened bread, bread of affliction Isn’t He called the Man of sorrows
The last supper, Passover meal He stood to boldly proclaim He uncovered the way and the plan His body and blood our claim
Jesus said, “This cup is my blood Blessed and poured out for you, When you drink it remember for as often as you do.”
Seeking to take His life, How foolish could they be It wasn’t theirs to take He would lay it down willingly
Through all the pain He never spoke His life was not His own He and The Father made this plan His will and His alone
Behold I make all things new; His heart and mind steadfast But they didn’t understand they needed Him gone, and fast
Thinking to do away with Him Get this hushed away Only later to realize Behold, Salvation’s Way
Through the scourging and berating brutality and pain for the joy set before Him At the Cross, He endured the shame
The week of His Passion Free will offering poured out He laid down His life, gave His all Now we know without a doubt
His perfect work was finished We now have our place, Secured for all who believe Until we see Him face to face
Passover Blessings, The Blood Poured Out For The Remission Of Our Sins!
Sin sent Jesus Christ to the Cross. God’s love in action!
“Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us”…
Available to all who ask!
Our Lord will return as Righteous Judge.
Our God who’s love is perfect also hates vehemently! Perfect love must hate evil! We must remember this! With His first commandment God reminds, them and us, I Am the the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of bondage.
God hates sin! But, He loves His people caught and entangled in sin, so much so that He came in the form of a man and died in our place. Call out to be delivered.
“For Thine is the kingdom and the power forever and ever”…
Don’t miss this season. Time is of the Essence!
Amen!
God bless you and keep you and make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord cause His countenance to rise upon you and give you Shalom.
Until next time, thank you for listening with me. Laurette
Under harsh circumstances, seemingly intolerable temperature differences, at the mercy of the elements, through all extremes, in good times and bad, but knowing her roots run deep.
Yes! That is it. The game changer. The roots! The tree is held in place by her roots. How deep are our roots? How strong, how deep, how wide? Then I’m reminded. I can’t give up I’m planted. It isn’t really up to me anyway. (Ephesians 3:17-18)
I’m made to weather the seasons, season after season, after season; and so are you. Actually I’ve grown quite strong and if you dare to look, so have you. What meant to break me, has caused me to heal stronger. Like a tree, the strongest winds cause it to fracture, and then heal. At each healed place there is more strength. Without winds of adversity the tree would be soft never gaining the strength to stand and produce. The healed fractures cause the tree to become pliable, able to bend but not break. Supple enough to bend because of the mend, bend but not break. Growing stronger and stronger, becoming more and more fruitful, only with each season.
Don’t be discouraged we are about to be more fruitful than we’ve ever been. We have endured, we have healed, or are healing. This fruit is for those coming behind us. We want it to be the best we’ve ever grown and the sweetest they’ve known. God knew this. Yes, He knows exactly what it takes. Our Master Gardner knows, that’s why we need these extreme almost intolerable circumstances, to make us the most fruitful we’ve ever been. To nourish and enrich those coming behind us.
So as I think about, I do have hope. I pray you do too. It isn’t over, it’s a new beginning.
And I do believe; the best is yet to come.
“And they shall be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of His splendor. They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated” (Isaiah 61:3-4).
God bless you and keep you and make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord cause His countenance to rise upon you and give you Shalom.
Until next time, thanks for listening with me. Laurette
Blessings and Happy Women’s The safest place for every woman is in JESUS CHRIST.
God bless you and keep you and make His face shine toward you and be gracious to you. The Lord cause His countenance to rise upon you and give you Shalom.
Until next time, thank you for listening with me. Laurette
As painful as it is we come to understand, there is purpose in pain, wisdom in waiting, comfort in the confusion, glory revealed in grueling circumstances, peace in the pause, joy in being jostled about, rest during the test, and an end to the trial, and salvation in no other name, but Christ.
After the trial, glancing back, we see The Lord’s heartprints and footprints… He was, and is, and is to come.
Aleph, Mem, Tav
Truth
Only in Christ
You show that you are a letter from Christ, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tender hearts (2 Corinthians 3:3).
God bless you and keep you and make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord cause His countenance to rise upon you and give you Shalom.
Until next time, thank you for listening with me. Laurette
Through All Seasons 