My day started off early this morning. Do you ever get a tentative agenda from Holy Spirit as to what direction to go in for the day? I do and I did this very morning. Communion was first on the list. It was such a sweet time with Jesus. Communion elements in my hands and then partaking of them. It was in the partaking that I began to recall all the wonderful things Jesus has done in my life. I then began to pray for a woman Holy Spirit showed me and how this woman might be missing her husband that went to be with the Lord in 2014. I have been listening to her testimonies on you tube lately and from gathering bits and pieces I began to pray for her. Imagine this, you are perfectly content living a life with Jesus and then a man comes into your life and you almost feel like you are cheating on Jesus by accepting this man into your life. That is not me but in the moments of prayer I was able to see this in her eyes, a different perspective. So She gives up to gain a husband and walked with this man for several years. They grew in love for each other. So we have a woman that was happy in her life the way it was. She then accepts getting married and she now has a life with this man. Further thinking upon this this is how I began to pray. Lord take away any loneliness she may have this day in missing her husband. May family surround her and she find joy in this Resurrection Sunday.
She chose to give up and then receive into her life and now he is not in her life (the husband I am referring to.) You then showed me the many times that when I let go of things in my life how you so multiplied them back to me. I began to see my blue topaz ring I bought in Nassau Bahamas and it went down the drain. I now have a ring much larger in size where I can really see the beautiful blue color of the Caribbean waters when I look down at this ring. Next, my heart was broken when I lost my black onyx ring with the small diamond in it. Reason being...my mother purchased a ring (2 different styles for our two different personalities and ring sizes on our hands) for each one of us girls when my brother died so we had a memory marker so to speak of our brother. I cherished my ring and wore it. There would be times when the light would shine on it in a glimpse and the diamond shined forth against the black onyx. You know even now when I am cleaning I silently think to myself maybe it would come up in the carpeting somehow. I know when I look back that it was scooped up with some other items on my table and it went into the garbage. I did not dwell on this thought for long because Holy Spirit reminded me how I now have the 2 Holy Spirit rings I wear. He showed me this for ministry I am to wear the one ring on my left had with the blue bird facing my heart and the other ring with the blue bird facing outward so as to send forth His healing to the people I minister to. See how He gives us beauty for ashes?
There is something this woman I was praying for is holding onto. As I began to pray some more I asked Holy Spirit to show her that if she let go of this one thing (and I get it for it is a connector to her husband) He will give her so much more. I finish that prayer and I just am crying with a heart filled with thanksgiving. You know Jesus died for me so I can be with Him in heaven for all eternity. I was then reminded by Holy Spirit of something He once spoke to my heart about that is in heaven. I then thought to myself yes, little Mary Flynn is in heaven and I am sure by now she has seen this very thing. From that I begin to ask that all the saints in heaven, the cloud of witnesses to be blessed this very day. A blessing that is tucked in their very hearts. I am asking Holy Spirit if this is possible for I do not know if people that are already in heaven can be blessed. I just left that up to Him. This is how I move in Holy Spirit when I have these moments with Him.
I set my coffee maker to brew coffee while I was exercising on the exercise bike. I love walking and used to walk all the time but for some reason my one knee acts up now so I revert to the exercise bike. I miss walking in nature settings and I used to walk by a river until the day I saw a very long black snake slithering across the walking path to go from the river to the farm land across the way. I created my own blend of coffee the last time I was at The Fresh Market store. I blended Almond Amaretto with Chocolate Cherry Kiss and so I set the coffee maker to brew and I would have a yummy cup of coffee as I am writing right now. This is actually not decaffeinated coffee today. I do drink caffeinated coffee but I just prefer decaffeinated coffee. Back to the story at hand now. You do know I tend to go off on sub stories within the main story right? I grab the book I was to finish reading today and out the door I go. It was such a great value, it was only $0.98 at this book store I tend to go to. I know why I finished reading this book today. One of the next to last pages I read something that struck a cord with my heart. I am to share this with you all. The book is by Betty Malz with foreword by Catherine Marshall, "My Glimpse of Eternity At 5:00 A.M. She Died. At 5:28 She Returned To Life." Here is the excerpt from the book I am to share with you:
"Several nights later God completed this healing by sending a special message to me through a dream. I was walking down a dusty path leading to a crude stone shed. I noticed the door was open and walked inside. There an elderly man wearing a cobbler's apron was molding some damp red clay into cups, urns, and pots. Behind him on the shelf were pieces of beautifully decorated pottery. Suddenly a plain jar fell to the floor. the man, paying no attention to me, bent over and picked up the cracked vessel. While holding it gently, he reached into an urn nearby, dipping his fingers into warm molten liquid, and began to seal the broken vessel with the wax. He finished mending it and placed it back on the shelf behind him. Then he saw me and smiled. 'It is better to be a broken vessel, mended and sealed by the Holy Spirit and thus ready to serve, than a vessel without flaw, ornate and beautifully decorated, but unwilling to serve.'"
That was the light bulb moment for me. Yes, I am a servant and I do have a servants heart. So next on my list is to prepare for marketplace ministry today. I am going to paint my nails a beautiful yet soft and feminine color of nail polish. Do you like the sound of this color I do, it is called Lavender Lace. Feminine and that is just what I am feminine and I love being feminine too.
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