10/30/19   BREAKING THROUGH TO HEAR AND SEE

HEARD AND SAW

MORNING DEVOTIONS – WHAT DO YOU WANT?

I will comfort you.  Settle this.  Permanent decision.  What do you want?

I heard the above while waiting upon Him with my notebook.  I wrote the following down in answer to His question.

1.     Daily friendship with you.  I want to hear/ see.

2.     Daily creative time.

3.     Daily hiddenness.

4.     Easy entrance to our fellowship.

CONFIRMATION – BE MY VISION

I suddenly remembered that I had the following melody in my mind several times this week.  I started humming the tune in the car and could not remember any of the words.  Anna even knew the tune and hummed with me.  I had no idea it was a hymn, but felt it had a unique Irish sound to it.  I could hear in my mind the flute playing longingly as I hummed it. Imagine my surprise when yesterday in the car I turned on Christian family radio and this song was playing!

BE THOU MY VISION

An old Irish Hymn

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
naught be all else to me, save that thou art -
thou my best thought by day or by night,
waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.

Be thou my wisdom, and thou my true word;
I ever with thee and thou with me, Lord;
thou my great Father, I thy true son;
thou in me dwelling, and I with thee one.

Be thou my battle shield, sword for my fight;
be thou my dignity, thou my delight,
thou my soul's shelter, thou my high tow'r:
raise thou me heav'n-ward, O Pow'r of my pow'r.

Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise,
thou mine inheritance, now and always:
thou and thou only, first in my heart,
High King of heaven, my treasure thou art.

High King of heaven, my victory won,
may I reach heaven's joys, O bright heav'n's Sun!
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
still be my vision, O Ruler of all.

SANDY INTERPRETATION OF LYRICS

Lord please be my vision, nothing else except You.  You and Your Presence are my best thought 24/7. 

Lord be my wisdom and true Word.  Let us dwell together and be one!

Lord be my shield and sword in warfare.  You are my power.  Shelter me in Your high tower, raise me up even higher towards heaven.

I don’t listen to riches or men’s praise.  You alone are my inheritance forever and ever.  You are my most precious treasure taking first place in my heart.

Victory is won as You lift me up to reach the joys of heaven and its light.  Whatever happens, please remain my vision, my dearest Lord.

BACK TO BED

Lord why is it that I can lay here for hours and not hear You, and then try sitting in chair and that works?  Is this due to my years of prayer asking to hear in the day more since I heard mostly at night for so many years?  Cant I have both?

Speak to you.  My beloved, I heard you.  I immediately saw a flash picture of the celery in our fridge and heard celery.  Both happened so fast I barely caught them. 

I wondered why on earth He would say that, then I wondered if it was a demon and prayed. Then I pondered the celery in our fridge.  I washed and cut it up and put it into a ziplock bag quite a while ago.  It has sat on the bottom shelf all this time uneaten.

Apprehensive. 

REVELATION:  Ah yes, I have been hesitant to eat that celery!  Lord it is true I have recently been apprehensive in approaching My time with You. [The Lord went on to explain some issues from my past that caused this, and this comforted me to understand the issue.]

Ways around the problem.  You delight Me.  Testimony.

I see now that this problem of entering in has been like a writer’s block where I have been searching for different ways to get through to Him.  The block was within me and I am so glad He identified it.  (As Terri used to say, CELERY – WHODA THUNK?)

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

WORD TO PONDER – OVERCOMING HEARING/ SEEING BLOCK 10/30/19

Precious ones, throughout the years I have heard your prayers to hear My voice and see visions of what I am saying and doing in the earth.  I have taken you through deluges of spiritual rain, and you have found watering holes in subsequent droughts.  Even when the holes dried up I watched you dig spiritual wells in efforts to reach your thirst for My personal Word to you.  Your desire for fellowship with Me has remained in your prayers and I have not forgotten you dear ones!  Your roots have grown deep in Me throughout these seasons and you will always find water.

I have not stopped speaking.  Remember that I always speak into the earth and My Word will not return void but will accomplish all that I desire.  Yes sometimes you need to realign yourself to be in the right place to hear and see what I am saying and doing.  And sometimes you need to be still before Me, knowing I am God. And yes you need to pray for opened ears and eyes.  Sometimes you need to climb higher above the cares of the barking world.  More prayer, worship and My Word.

Dear one if you yet struggle, begin to pray over what limitation you have placed upon Me.  It is very possible the barrier is within you.  Yes always discern and filter what you hear and see.  Yet still approach Me with the heart of a child who knows I give good gifts.  Your childlike faith and trust is very precious.  Do all you can to protect it and increase it.  Thank you for pressing into Me and not giving up.  You are overcoming all that is within and without and I am so very proud of you.  You totally delight Me, My precious child!

Luke 12:32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.