Word Filled Wednesday

Then He said to me, "Prophesy to these bones and say to them, "Dry bones hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you and you will come to life. Ezekiel 37 4&5


Ezekiel was a prophet of God who had a vision one day about a valley of dry bones. In the vision God led him back and forth among the bones that were very very dry. Then God asked Ezekiel, "Can these bones live?" To which Ezekiel replied wisely, "Sovereign Lord, you alone know."

Then God told Ezekiel to do a very powerful thing. He said speak to those bones and tell them to hear the word of the Lord. He told Ezekiel to send His word to those dry bones so that they may live.

God is telling us the same thing today on this Wonderful Word Filled Wednesday. Whatever areas in our lives are dry and practically dead we should speak the word of the Lord to them.

If we are sick, we can speak God's healing. By Christ stripes we are healed. (Isaiah 53:5)

If we're in lack, we can speak God's provision. The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want. (Psalm 23)

If we are weak today, we can speak God's strength. The joy of the Lord is my strength.(Nehemiah 8:10)

Whatever you and I face today, whatever area of our lives is dry we can prophesy to it.
"You shall live and not die to declare the glory of God."(Psalm 118:17)

The word says in Ezekiel 37:10 "So I prophesied as He commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet - a vast army." God doesn't just give life, He gives abundant life. You can trust and rely on His word for all that you desire today.

Get in agreement with God and His word and see your life start to turn around.

Blessings,
Vickie

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First day of spring......still no life.

Today March 20th signals a new season. Today is the first day of spring. However looking out the window at the huge cluster of trees on the opposite side of the road, all thoughts of spring are far far from my mind.

The trees are so dry, they have no leaves whatsoever on them, no blossoms, no flowers, they move slightly as if groaning when the breeze touches them. They just have no life at all.

I look at them and I think, you know, even though these trees look so lifeless, in a few weeks they will be unrecognizable. They will start to blossom almost overnight, then leaves will come, then flowers will come and pretty soon they will be a sight to behold.

I see my life like that sometimes. There are times when it seems like nothing is happening in me. I feel a bit disconnected from God, I don't feel as though I am bearing any fruit and my spirit just seems to be dry.

However we serve a God that's always at work. Even as we look at those trees and hardly see any life, something is going on. There's a process that's going on deep down in the roots of every tree. A process that causes life to literally spring forth.

The word says that God clothes the lilies and the grass of the field. He causes the trees to bear fruit. He causes to snow to fall in the winter to help prepare the earth for the beauty of spring.

How much more is He at work in us, even when nothing seems to be happening?

Even in the bleakness of winter the trees look up to Him. They continue to declare His glory.

God is never idle. As we continue to draw close to Him, commune with Him daily, He does His work. His word is alive even when we don't feel it, and so as we read and study, it starts to renew our minds, it starts to cut and mold and shape every area that we give over to God.

We must go through dry seasons to come into the spring of our lives.

Keep your head looking up to Jesus and keep your hand firmly in His. Winter is about to pass and spring is in the air.

Blessings,
Vickie

In love with The Word

I am so amazed at God and His word. I am absolutely thrilled when I read the scriptures. There is so much truth, so much reality, so much awareness. I feel when I read like I never want to stop. I just want to study every area of it, I want to sometimes just read it like a novel since there's so much drama in it. I tell you I just love the word of God.

Sometimes I get mad with myself that I wasted many years just skimming the surface of The Word, not really knowing who God is. I am just so thankful for His faithfulness. I am grateful that He promises if I seek Him, I will find Him.

And seeking Him is what I am doing, day and night.

I've struggled over the years with issues like insecurity, loneliness, abandonment, approval addiction and time and time again I would try to work on them, getting nowhere. I tried in my own strength over and over again to no avail. I had a rocky marriage for years and each time I would try to work things out and after a while, same thing again.

All this, until I got to the point where I started to allow the word to renew my mind. I looked into the mirror of the Word and saw myself as I really was. I was reading the word but not fully digesting it and so I wasn't allowing it to work in me.

After listening to teaching by Joyce Meyer some years ago on the battlefield of the mind, I started to get a glimpse of how things could be if I would allow God's word to penetrate the deeper recesses of my mind and heart.

I started to open up more and more and more and I tell you friends, it has been marvelous the things that He has done in me.

I have seen God do some wonderful things in my life and that of my family, but my greatest satisfaction is the personal change that has come about since I have become more intimate with Jesus.

He truly has become the lover of my soul. He reveals things to me, He speaks truths to my heart that I couldn't know otherwise. I am growing in His wisdom in ways I could never imagine before.

This Word of Life has become my life and my everything.

I sum up this post in the words of the Psalmist David, " I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have preserved my life." Psalm 119:93

Thank you Jesus, for being the Living Word to me.

Blessings,
Vickie

We sang and we testified

We sang and we testified!! To God be the glory!!!

I want to say thank you to those who remembered in prayer and who encouraged and supported the Evening of Song and Testimony. Despite a snow storm that started on Sunday and continued throughout Monday, and despite attacks of the enemy on almost every member of my group, God met us there and covered us in His awesome presence.

Throughout the week leading up to the event, which was held on Sunday evening, 4.30 March 1st, almost all the members of the small group came under fire from the enemy. One person sprained an ankle and could not move around for the week, another one 'mysteriously' lost her voice for one full day without any warning, my husband suffered bad stomach cramps and vomiting for a whole night, and then spent almost the rest of the week in bed, and another member seemed to be 'under the weather' not really sure what caused her to be.

Realizing that the enemy was on the attack because he knew what we had planned, we got together on the telephone a few early mornings, and spent some time praying over everyone, and really petitioning God for a move of His Holy Spirit as we came together.

By Saturday it seemed like everyone was on the move again, getting more excited, but ready for the time of fellowship.

Then he decided he would try just one more thing. Saturday evening, walking the street, on a sidewalk, clear of snow and ice, an evening cold but bright, I had the fall of my life. I was stunned. Out of the clear blue, I saw my face and the sidewalk coming together. It was scary. I was able to break my fall with my hands, which hurt for many days after. I really busted up my right knee and was in terrible pain for a long time. I was the one co-ordinating the program for the evening. I was the one who would have to be on her feet more than anyone else, and here was I, one evening before the program, hardly able to walk.

I thank God for praying people. We spread the word to everyone and got into some very serious prayer as we realized, how serious the enemy was about taking out one of us.

Praise God, despite the pain, I was able to stand before Him and His people and testify of His goodness, I was able to stand and encourage others to sing praises to Him among the nations. The testimonies were amazing and very uplifting. There were testimonies of healing, of God's provision and they all spoke of His faithfulness.

1Peter 5:8 says, "Be alert and of a sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour." He is not kidding, he is out to destroy us, but thanks be to God who ALWAYS causes us to triumph in Christ Jesus.

I am not backing down. His attacks have only made me more determined to go on in God.

I encourage you today that no matter how much it seems like the enemy is after you, "Greater is He that's in you, than He that is in the world.

God is able to keep you, just make your mind up that you will stay the course with him, and after you have made your mind up, keep it made up.

Bless you
Vickie