This time is like no other. No longer business as usual. As Christians, what is God asking from us?
To trust Him for what He’s doing no matter how wild it may seem. Line up with God, not the noise and confusion we hear.
The Lord has acted in the heavens. Time and events have been locked in and the course is set.
Those who have God’s ear and listen are privileged to see and will be settled in faith.
Before I experienced my recent car accident, I pondered on these words: “No longer pray or write from where you are, but from the glory of God.” How does one do that? Then I heard, “Don’t react to things here on the earth, the noise, the tension. Can’t trust it. But act in what you know has been done in heaven.”
Many of us have felt the darkness that has covered the earth. It has drained us. We’ve worried for the next generation, worried for our country, and we are somehow asked to be a candle in this perverse world, a world that doesn’t make sense and acts without God.
I laid in bed flat on my back for two weeks, thinking of those words, praying from the glory of God. The first four days after the accident I was pulled by two forces, darkness and light. Like a Raggedy Ann doll torn apart, I didn’t know what was going on with my mangled body. I had no control.
On Saturday morning, Aug. 10, the morning of surgery to repair my ankle, I woke to a feeling of peace; the light of Jesus embraced me. The light had won. My life was spared.
After three hours in surgery, when I opened my eyes, the nurse said, “Did you have sweet dreams?” I said “No. I saw the heart of Jesus weeping over Israel. He was so sad I wanted to cry.”
At that moment, the doctor said, “Her blood pressure has gone off the charts. Keep her here in recovery for 30 minutes more and watch her.”
In the quietness of the room, I studied the clock on the wall. I focused on the black rim, the white face of the clock and the hands. The time seemed to be moving from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., then back to 10 a.m. as I waited to be released. I asked, “What does this mean?” In my heart I heard, “I have reset the clock.”
This time, such as it is, looks different than those years when we prayed asking God to do something. He’s done it. It’s a different way of praying. It’s one of faith in what He said He’d do, and He has done it.
How do we enter into God’s glory in our calling? The Hebrew word for Glory is kavod, which means honor, respect, reverence, distinction, weight of importance.
There is no longer fear in me for this time. I trust God and have given him respect and reverence. God has acted and we need to stand in what He has done. Today in God’s story, He is asking us to act out of His glory. Enter into what God has done in the heavens right now.
For some of us, “resetting the clock” means reaching out into the unknown and believing we are still on the path of Jesus, but building new trails, speaking from heaven what God is about to do. We are entering into this new season as trail blazers. Trail blazers make new trails. God is asking us to open our hearts to the new wine being poured out. Have faith in Him and what He’s doing today.
Final brushstroke: Ministering out of God’s glory, praying differently, is a new place in the spiritual realm. For us to walk in the light in this new dawn, we must move into this time, such as it is.
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