...//a word for Haiti

in 2003, i went with a small team from my church on a construction trip to Haiti...

everything i worked on was destroyed...

i can't wait to go back and restore what's been lost

but in a time of intercession for Haiti at the Front on Monday, January 18th,

the Lord showed me this verse

Isaiah 54:10

¹⁰For though the mountains should depart and the hills be shaken or removed, yet My love and kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall My covenant of peace and completeness be removed, says the Lord, Who has compassion on you.

and then during my personal time with the Lord later that night/early this morning He gave me another word of encouragement to the nation and our brothers and sisters there

so, i've got to share it

Isaiah 60:1-5
¹ARISE [from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you--rise to a new life]! Shine (be radiant with the glory of the Lord), for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you!

²For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and dense darkness [all] peoples, but the Lord shall arise upon you [O Jerusalem (Haiti)], and His glory shall be seen on you.

³And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

⁴Lift up your eyes round about you and see! They all gather themselves together, they come to you. Your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be carried and nursed in the arms.

⁵Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill and tremble with joy [at the glorious deliverance] and be enlarged; because the abundant wealth of the [Dead] Sea shall be turned to you, unto you shall the nations come with their treasures.

Isaiah 60:10

¹⁰Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you; for in My wrath I smote you, but in My favor, pleasure, and goodwill I have had mercy, love, and pity for you.

spread the Good News...

this is a time for restoring whats been lost, reviving what is dead, renewing of the old, and a re-birthing of a nation; a nation that will now be founded upon God and His word, and dedicated to the Glory of God and His Kingdom.

continue to pray for Haiti, the best homeland security is a praying church

beth

(verses are out of the Amplified Bible)

i am dumb...

at the start of this year, i began a sabbatical...

a time of just me and God speaking and working in me

He's confirmed it multiple times in His word and through people who don't know why I'm back home

but I believe that this last week has been one of the most God-moments of my life.

There has been time after time where He has spoken to me so clearly, that to think it otherwise would seem silly

The other night, I was really in this "i want to watch christian television" which I am never in because personally I don't think very highly of most of it. But I stopped flipping channels at about 12:15 and Brian Houston was on...

He was speaking about stepping into this next season of your life and that there's no need to be worried or scared because our Hope is in God.

Hope...

What is hope?

Most Christians can quote the biblical definition of faith but do we really know what hope is?

hope: the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best, to believe, desire, or trust,...

... it means to wait with all trust and believe that what you want and the circumstance you are in will turn out for the best

wait...

wait...

wait is hard for the modern day person... we are constantly trying to fill our schedules with busyness that we don't know how to simply wait for the answer...

when God directs us in the "waiting" stage, He does it so that He can answer us, not so that we can figure it out and then go do it, He wants to guide us down that path of righteousness for His Name sake.

So, I'm reading "My Utmost For His Highest" and on the 9th, one of the scripture readings was from 1 Thess 5... so I read it and it was amazing

1 Thess 5:23-24

"And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you through and through [separate you from profane things, make you pure and wholly consecrated to God] and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved sound and complete [and found] blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah). Faithful is He Who is calling you [to Himself] and utterly trustworthy, and He will also do it [fulfill His call by hallowing and keeping you]."

What an amazing encouragement!!! and confirmation of being healed this year...

so searched out hope in the back of my amplified bible and there wasn't many references for it but I found the one I was needing because it spoke not only to the reason for the next year but why He's not allowing me to get up and minister...

Psalm 39:7

"And now, Lord, what do I wait for and expect? My hope and expectation are from You."

vs 9

"I am dumb, I open not my mouth, for it is You Who has done it."

Someone said to me so clearly one night that this next year is a year of refreshing, a year of consecration unto God, that there is a deep well in me, but I've let the well run dry. I am to guard this time and be very careful who I let in.

She had no idea what's going on when she said this.

God's speaking to me so clearly right now that it may seem strange to you, but what if this is the year that God prepares me for the rest of my life... and if I was to become selfish with my life and not obey the Word of God, I would be catastrophe upon myself... I would have no ministry.

but there are too many people I know God will touch through me and the message that He's placed in me and the ministry and anointing He's given to me is greater than I could dream of.

so to take a year to be filled and consecrated and set apart to Him... will be so worth it...