"Sometimes the treasure of our vision is buried so deep in the soil of disappointment, discouragement or disollusionment that we need help unearthing it. We need to ask the Holy Spirit to give us a prophetic word to restore our vision and encourage us to press past the pain to obtain the prize". Heavy Rain by Kris Vallotton
I love the Lord's bride. We are all His bride but I feel a special love for His women. John 4:4 says that He had to go through Samaria to meet the Samaritan woman at the well. This speaks so clearly of His pusuit of her. Reminding me of when He found me, and how pleased He was to go there. Loving me before I ever knew Him or did anything right in my life. Just like the Samaritan woman, the invisible women, hiding for different reasons but with a deep cry that only He hears. A cry beyond words or tears. Patient with our fears. He comes to reveal Himself.
He came to His diciples following the resurrection. He even invited them to examine His wounds now so completely and miraculously healed. He pressed in the reality of His victory to them. They touched the tangible evidence of a resurrected, victorious Savior!
His love is amazing and His pursuit for His bride is the same today. Only now He sends you and me to go through the Samaria's of our time by the leading of His Holy Spirit in us. Through places we don't wish to go, but He does. In the process, we are making it all about us and wondering if we did anything wrong to have to go through this path on our way to our destiny. A detour we did not expect making us feel frustrated and impatient, to say the least.
Just like He asked our Bible heros in the faith, He's asking us, Will you go? Can I take you through this unpleasant experience and we're still friends? Can you trust Me?
I was reading the book of Genesis, where Abraham was sending his servant to find his son's wife. Telling him that the angel of the Lord will go with him to make his journey successful, and to take a wife for his son from his relatives. Abraham's father's house. The servant went and prayed to the Lord asking for success on his journey with a specific sign. And it was just as he had prayed, that the Lord showed him Rebekah with the sign he had asked from the Lord. Gen. 24:13-27
I'm believing that we are sent out just as Abraham's servant was. Jesus is now sending us to bring His bride back to Him, and through this scripture is inspiring me to pray the same prayer as Abraham's servant. Asking the Lord, to make the journey on which I go successful everyday. To help me stand by the spring He chooses where his daughters are coming out to draw water. The place they come to get their needs met, wherever that may be. To watch for His chosen ones and bring them back to Him. To see Him in signs and wonders discovering glimpses of His glory in her. He waits..... To bring her back to the place where He reveals Himself to her and shows her the tangible evidence of a resurrected, victorious Savior!! O' how He loves us!
there's something about women in one place with one accord that creates a Mary and Elizabeth thing. the babies leap, the visions come back and encouragement occurs ~ TD Jakes
Revelation 22:17 ‘And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!”
