Know that He is transforming the knowledge of Him in my heart.
At the end of January was the intreat at Nexus, where God just poured out words of this season. Words about equipping, settling, and dependence. Words of encouragement and kindness. Kindness has been such a big word.
Hosea 2: 14,15
“Therefore I am now going to allure her;
I will lead her into the wilderness
and speak kindly to her.
There I will give her back her vineyards,
and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.
There she will respond as in the days of her youth,
as in the day she came up out of Egypt.
God has really fulfilled this word through my time back in Wales. So much of this place is a wilderness and God opens my eyes to it all the time. South Wales is deprived and broken spiritually, abused by liberalism and stifled by a spirit of religion.
Culture is ruled by what 'should be done' and false politeness surrounds the way many people interact with one another.
In this way I have seen more wilderness than I ever did before.
In this way the Lord has walked me into it - in order that He would lead me into the promised land fully leaning upon Him... knowing and living in His kind, steadying voice.
I just want to live in complete dependence upon Jesus.
It is there I find fullness of security and it is there God is exalted. Oh for Him to be exalted in the way He is worthy of!!
I am desperate to be one of the Levites, when they run to Moses as a sign of them being 'for the Lord' [Ex 32] and so for all time on the Lord consecrates them to Himself as his priests and ministers. I want to be a levite! In a sprint towards God, continuously in consecration instead of giving myself to idols.
Leaning upon, consecrated to, and living out of Jesus and all He is.
Yeah! This is where life is found. In the fullness of Jesus. I find all of life here.
Everything I could ever want and immeasurably more than I could have thought I needed.
Freedom. Abundance, freedom, JOY. Real JOY. space and settling. Boundary lines. Intimacy and fire and the glory of the king.
He is a good, good God.
