I don’t really know what to share this morning. There are many things/topics/themes that could be shared. GOD continues to reveal HIMSELF and I am so grateful for HIS LOVE and FAITHFULNESS. Yet, this morning as I sit here typing, I am intently listening and waiting on HIS GUIDANCE for today’s post. As I was typing this I received a HOLY GHOST intervention. HE reminded me that when IT APPEARS that GOD is NOT speaking that I SHOULD NOT and MUST NOT be AFRAID. In other words, BE QUIET AND SIT STILL.
I have been in this place many times before where there were a lot and nothing to say at the same time. QUIETNESS AND STILLNESS use to unsettle me. IT appeared eerie at best. I use to fight the QUIET AND STILLNESS. I would call just about everyone on my contact list. I just HAD to catch up with people I hadn’t talk to in years. When they were not available, I would watch television and listen to the radio (YES RADIO, PRIOR TO THE SMARTPHONE). ANYTHING SO THAT I WOULDN’T HAVE TO BE QUIET AND SIT STILL.
I NOW know better and yet, more times than I want to admit, I still try to avoid the QUIETNESS AND STILLNESS of GOD. Some of it is fear, but not the fear of being condemned and the fear of damnation. IT IS the fear of KNOWING what HE REQUIRES and what HE EXPECTS and FALLING SHORT.
BUT GOD…WHO IS ALWAYS FAITHFUL AND MERCIFUL (WORSHIP HERE)
IT WAS REVEALED TO ME THAT THE QUIETNESS AND STILLNESS OF GOD IS NOT A PLACE OF CONDEMNATION. THE QUIETNESS AND STILLNESS OF GOD IS NOT A PLACE OF DAMNATION. IT IS THE PLACE THAT I AM SHONUFF (INDEED, IF YOU PREFER) LOVED AND PROTECTED. THIS IS WHERE GOD REQUIRED ME TO PUT IT ALL ON THE LINE, TELL IT LIKE IT IS, NOT TO HOLD “NOTHING” BACK, BARBEQUE OR MILDEW (THROWBACK). IN THE QUIETNESS AND STILLNESS, GOD OVERWHELMED ME (AND CONTINUES TO DO SO) WITH THE DEPTH OF HIS LOVE FOR ME
“…What IS man that THOU ARE SO MINDFUL OF him
Could AN AWESOME GOD find COMMON GROUND WITHIN
just to know that YOU DELIGHT to be WITH me…” (Psalmist Fred Hammond, Psalm 8:4-8)
BEING QUIET AND SITTING STILL IS THE ONLY REASON THAT I AM. BEING QUIET AND SITTING STILL HAS ALLOWED GOD TO TEACH, SHOW AND GUIDE ME ON HOW TO LOVE AND HONOR HIM. THE QUIETNESS AND STILLNESS OF GOD IS WHERE WE ARE THE MOST INTIMATE. HE IS LOVING ON me AND I AM LOVING ON HIM. I AM SO SAFE IN HIS LOVE THAT I NOW REVEAL ALL: DESIRES, FEARS, THOUGHTS, DOUBTS. IT IS WHERE HE REVEALS, CORRECTS, STRENGTHENS AND GUIDES.
I AM SO GRATEFUL THAT GOD HAS TAUGHT ME HOW TO BE QUIET AND SIT STILL and for this, I boldly declare that…..
…Nothing will separate ME from the LOVE of GOD which is in CHRIST JESUS…..”
Tangey V.
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