God is stirring

I was telling a friend of mine the other day that big things were about to happen, I could just feel it. When she asked me to explain, I couldn’t. God is stirring something deeply in my heart and in those around me — preparing us for something bigger than we ourselves can imagine. We can feel it and we are waiting with great expectation.

I received this note from my friend and his words could have been mine as they expressed so well what was taking place within my own heart so I post them below.

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I know it is bad blogging to be silent for too long. Entries need to keep coming frequently in order for a blog to remain fresh and inviting to the audience. Thank you for your patience. My silence is definitely not a sign that nothing is going on. Actually, very intense and good things are going on. It’s hard to describe, or perhaps impossible right now, but I will try. There are deep things stirring in my heart these last few months and especially these last few weeks. But it’s as if the Lord is bypassing the intellect and brewing things directly in the heart instead.

The personal revelations coming are the kind that are radically changing me but cannot necessarily be explained in words until, perhaps, they have shifted my whole life and perspective and I have lived them out a bit.

These personal revelations are not ‘new’ ideas but rather ancient ones that are piercing deeper into my heart and totally affecting the way I rise up in the morning and face the day and face the future. Jesus introduced these mysterious concepts like embracing weakness, accepting God’s lavish mercy, and standing up confidently in grace.

I know these religious concepts have been explained to me in a thousand ways over the last 30 years of my Christian life (and I’ve tried to explain them to hundreds myself), but now Jesus is over-riding my religious understandings and bringing experiential truth in a way I can feel deeply in my heart but I cannot seem to explain in words. They are overwhelming me like ocean waves, and I suspect that I am only beginning to scratch the surface of all that is available in them. I am both terrified and thrilled at the potential these ideas have for my heart and my family.

We are all part of the same body, countries dividing us, but the spirit uniting us. I love that!
Joy

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