Nothing else but the kingdom of God manifesting in my life, on my mountain, in my circumstances will ever be enough for me!
I am a violent woman! I will wreck cities. I'm going to stop asking permission and go out and be VIOLENT!! (For the kingdom of God of course)
Last night I opened my Bible after our evening worship service and just wanted to spend some time with God.
I flipped open to my standard choice of Song of Solomon and began to read, it just wasn't doing it for me.
Which is strange because I've been in this sort of romantic "what will my husband be like" kind of mood lately.
Never the less I closed my bible and turned on some worship music, God had really broken through some barriers in my life during worship.
The Holy Spirit fell on me like it hasn't for a long time, as I began to pray in the spirit I kept hearing my self getting louder, and louder and louder. All I could do was shout to the Lord in words I couldn't understand, my mind totally blank to anything but how awesome he is, how amazingly powerful he is!
It was like a shout of victory, of triumph, I didn't care what people thought about me shouting to God until my voice cracked all I could do was stand ready calling out my cry of "YES GOD I WILL FOLLOW!" (Only not in those words)
So with that bit of back story you can see why the gentle sonnets of Song of Solomon wouldn't sustain me. I asked God, what are you trying to show me RIGHT NOW.
I only got to letters, EZ.
So I began to flip around, flip, flip, flip the first EZ book I got to was Ezra.
"Okay, Ezra, that's good, I can't remember actually ever reading more than a verse or two from there God what are you gonna show me in Ezra." I thought.
But I just flipped, and flipped, and flipped until Ezra was gone and I hadn't been struck by anything. Okay, well, let's flip around some more.
The next EZ book was Ezekiel, I randomly flipped to chapter 2.
"And he said to me, 'Son of man, stand on your feet and I will speak with you'." Well that was a good start, I was asking him to speak to me. "And he spoke to me, the Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet and i heard him speaking to me." Wow, that's even better, God did that during worship.
"And he said to me, 'son of man, I send you t the people of Israel, to a nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.'" The words began to change as I read them. "Daughter, I send you to the people of Japan, to a nation of people broken because of their rebellion. They rebelled against me and I have broken them, but I will make them whole- and I will make them new."
Now you can see this started to get my attention.
I read on, down to verse 6. "And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words." "Do not be dismayed by their words or their actions, for they are a rebellious house. And you shall speak my words o them, weather they hear or refuse to hear for they are a rebellious house."
Again the words took another form "Don't be afraid of their words, or be discouraged by their actions, they are a broken people. And you WILL speak MY words regardless of whether they hear or not because I HAVE called you here!"
By this point my heart was racing.
Verse 9 "And when I looked, behold a hand was stretched out to me. and behold a scroll of a book was in it." Down to chapter 3 verse 1 "And he said to me, Son of man, eat whatever you find here. Eat this scroll and go out to speak with the house of Israel."
Once again God spoke to me through this scripture. "I have placed you under these teachings, now take what ever you learn here, take what you learn and fill your self with it, and from there go and speak to the nation I have promised you.
Now that was a lot to take in just in one Chapter. Really it was, I almost shut my Bible then and went to bed, it wouldn't have been bad for me to do that at all, but then I saw verse 17 of Ezekiel chapter 3 "Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel." Knowing that Israel was Japan in my life this scripture leapt at me. It tied in perfectly with Joshua 1:6 "Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land I swore to their fathers to give them."
Amazed at God's ability to piece things together I began flipping through Ezekiel. Chapter 29 came up, verses 3-6 The prophecy against Egypt. Egypt being spiritual bondage and slavery. God promised to break the chains of spiritual bondage and darkness.
then finally I ended up in Ezekiel 37: 1-14 the valley of the dry bones. God promised to raise up a generation of the dead and dried up and make them fully alive and fully capable or reclaiming their inheritance.
Last nights promises and filling were exciting, and I couldn't help but be in awe of God's majesty and might.
