Sometimes a situation occurs that
alters temporarily, even permanently the customary flow of life. Such was the
case when I found myself being rushed to the hospital, then into surgery the
end of August 2011. My life took a sudden drastic turn. Many things I was doing
as well as things planned were cancelled. My life took a sudden downturn. I got
slapped, flat on my back.
My blog followed suit; it
traveled south. But with the warm winter, things that normally remain frozen
are thawing or are in some sort of semi frost state. I think one is my blog.
Driving home tonight, the earth
was covered with a dense fog. It was very hard to see so I drove more slowly
than normal. I thought about the fog and started conversing with myself.
That's how the last season was.
The fog was so dense it was almost impossible to find one's way. Yet we all
just crept along at a snail's pace to avoid total disaster. It didn't work
because one mess seemed to follow another. We kept hitting things shrouded by
the fog. Yet we couldn't see each other so we just kept on talking to
ourselves.
We Walk By Faith not By Sight
Ecclesiastes 3 says that to
everything there is a season. When seasons change, God first announces the
change. (Isa 43:18-19) Then He expects us to adjust accordingly by moving into
the new by faith. Raw faith.
When messes keep piling up
because fog hides the way, it is challenging to believe that it is going to be
different. Particularly when the fog is still there! Yet God always requires us
to take action because we walk by faith not by sight.
We have been in just such a
period of time where the season has been so long that we begin to believe that
problems, messes, crises, failures, losses were our new reality, permanent
reality. To think and act differently seems suicidal. Therefore we play it
safe, won't take the risk. The fog engulfed us.
Back to August and emergency
surgery. Being tethered to home was the best thing that happened to me. I did
what the doctor told me to. That meant not much. So I had a lot of down time;
time to think, rest, lie there, process life, meditate on the Lord, on His
Word, and do nothing. The more at rest I became, the greater the presence of
the Lord came and overtook me. Suddenly I realized I was being retooled for the
future. Paul calls it a renewed mind. I was living in the Presence of God.
During that time I received word
after word from well-known and not so well known prophetic voices. I didn't
seek out any of them but would get an email, a phone call, run into them
somewhere and they would begin to prophesy. All pointed me in the same
direction with the same end point in mind.
In a New Place
As I lay in bed, there were times
when I didn't know if I was in this world or another, if I was dreaming or
having a vision. And I wasn't high on drugs. I wasn't taking any. I began to
"see" things pertaining to the Church, see God, angelic hosts, and pieces of
the future. The more I saw the more rejuvenated I became. Then God told me to
basically take the Fall off, not returning to normal activity until just before
Christmas. By mid-December, I was a changed person.
Now I find myself in a new place.
God clearly pronounced to me that the book of the past was closed; now move
into the new. The four months hiatus cleared my mind and rejuvenated my spirit
to where I was able to position myself in the new. I understood that if the new
era were to unfold for me, I would have to act as if I were already in it.
That's exactly what I did. What I prophetically knew was to begin to happen, I
began to act, speak and position myself as if it had already burst into
reality. And guess what? It has begun.
I may not be as far into as I
will be, but I am now in the beginning of the new era doing what God asked me
to do. And His reality is now beginning to manifest in power and glory.
The fog has lifted. I see the new
era. It is now coming into being.
Take courage, persevere, hold
onto a God-given vision and its accompanying faith, and begin to strategically
act. Take the next step, the new will break out little by little before your
eyes. And keep moving, don't stop.
Barbara Yoder
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