The Dealings of God

One of the ways that God speaks to me is through signs... as in signs by the roadside kind of signs.. sometimes, you just find your attention drawn to one of them and inside of you, you know that God is speaking to you... and so today, the bus happened to pass by a Caltex petrol kiosk and one of the signs there caught my attention as to what God is doing.. there was an advertisement about some petrol and it says "Cleans your engine so you can go further" or something like that... And in this season, that's what the Lord is doing... He's cleaning us, He's cleaning our engines so He can move us and bring us further, bring us into our promised land and the fulfillment of the promises He has spoken over us. In this light, i just wanna say that those who are gonna move further are those who are willing to submit to His work of cleansing. Yes, it might be painful but it is necesary... Rick Joyner wrote that the things that you get get away with in the Outer Court can get you killed in the Holy Place...

So anyway, what is God doing now?? He is stirring the waters (see John 5)... in the pool of Bethesda, there was a belief that when the angel stirs the waters, the first one to jump in gets healed. And so now, God is dealing with us.. He is stirring the waters and when you stir the waters, what happens is that all the dirt and all the silt comes up and becomes unsettled from the bottom of the pool... it's time to confess and allow God to deal with our sins and hide them no longer... only then can there be healing and restoration. He's bringing us to a place of brokenness, a place of dependence on Him so that our trust will not be in man and what man can do but on Him and what He can do.

One more thing i wanna share... we always talk about the eagle in Isaiah 40.. about they who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, etc... But do we really know what renewing strength means?? It's actually a very painful process... there would be a time when the eagle would retreat into a cave and begin to shed his old feathers for new ones... it's very painful and it takes quite some time.. but when the eagle comes out, it's like he's young again... his strength is renewed and his youth is restored... The key idea that we wanna gain from here is about submitting to the Lord's dealings with us... His purging and pruning.. so that when we come out of it, we can be fruitful vessels for His use...

Here's a passage that the Lord gave me just now.. it's primarily for myself but you can go ahead and claim it if it speaks to you too.. :)

Hebrews 12:4-11 (emphasis mine)

4 In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 5 And you have forgotten that word of encouragement that addresses you as sons:

“My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline,
and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,
6 because the Lord disciplines those he loves,
and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son.”

7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? 8 If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. 9 Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live! 10 Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. 11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

God bless! :)