Ears to Hear (Part 12)

Good Morning, 
  
    Isaiah 61:4 deals with restoration in our lives after we are in our divine placement, or positioning. This happens as we draw closer to God and as we yield to the Holy Spirit on a consistent basis.  This year is a set time for this to happen, so we must be sensitive to hearing the voice of the Lord and He will lead us by those still and peaceful waters of change.  Change means the action of making something different; and the fact of becoming different; a departure from the norm; consists in realizing a potential that is not real yet; a deviation from established character, sequence, or condition; alteration, modification, variation or mutation; passing from one state to another marked by radically different makeup, whether by sudden or gradual development; a transformation. Well, this is where we are in the divine placement of the Spirit. 
    Do you remember your first encounter with the Lord?  I do!  I was in a state of deep depression, because I could not see any purpose for my life.  I was married and had two children and was two months pregnant with the third.  We were having a hard time financially, making it with the two children and therefore I concluded we did not need another.  Now, when I look back at my hard, callous heart I can't even believe it was me.  Well, we got the money together to go and have an abortion.  It set off a chain reaction in my life of devastation.  I begin to spiral out of control with memories that I'd tried all this time to just deal with.  I was molested by several male relatives during my childhood, a cousin, an uncle and my stepfather.  This was not a secret to anyone I knew, for I told everyone, trying to get somebody to help me.  It started from about the time I was nine years of age.  My parents dealt with my cousin, but the other situations started later.  My parents divorced and then it began again with my uncle and later after my mother remarried , my stepfather and his brother.  I grew up thinking that I had done something to cause these things, like most victims of abuse.  It traumatized me as a young married woman.  My husband was as understanding as he could be.  It is hard to understand the depth of the ugly root of these things unless you have been there yourself.  He does deserve his own medal for loving a crushed and devastated soul.  Well, after the abortion, all of these issues came flooding to the forefront of my mind.  I started praying for help. I needed to be healed for my two boys, they deserved a whole mother.  My husband deserved a woman who wasn't all broken.  I cried out,"God, if you are real, help me." I could not go on in the state I was in.  He came and delivered me.  That's a whole different story. 
    In Isaiah 61:4, it says, " And they shall rebuild the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former desolations and renew the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations."  I have experienced the renewing of the devastation of many generations.  I stopped the familiar spirit of 'molestation and incest' from any future generations in my family.  When I received Jesus as my Lord and Savior, I soon found out about my authority in Christ and that it applied to my past, present and future.  As I grew in Him I took authority over those "devastations of many generations.'  I applied and still apply the Word over my children and my children's children.  After I was born-again, I had another child, a daughter.  I received mercy and forgiveness, for aborting a baby, God is worthy of my praise!  I hate that selfish spirit of abortion.  It is a murderer, but I am so thankful for my Redeemer and my Salvation.  He restores everything that the enemy takes from us.  He renews those things that have devastated our generations and set up a new paths for future generations, if we will yield to His positioning and placement.  Desolation and devastation are similar in meaning, it means-----a place of astonishment (in the negative sense) to lay destitute, to lay waste, to ravage, to destroy improvements, to bring havoc, and to destroy the good that was intended. Well, our God has turned what the enemy meant for harm, to shame, to destroy, to devastate, and to ruin us, into our good.  He delights in taking the very things that the enemy tries to give us as, 'crooked things'; our loving Lord uses, by straightening those places out, makes us whole and then gives us His voice on it. 
     Whatever state you are in now, God is still the same Redeemer, Deliverer, Salvation, Restorer and Healer.  He is still the same, He will restore, deliver, redeem, save and heal you.  He will not let you down.  Let Him position you for the great plan of good that He has for you.  The story of your life does not end where you are today, it could be a new beginning to a  great 'love story', that does end with the famous words "and they lived happily ever after." 

Love,

Pastor D.
                                                                                           

Comments

[Deneen Curry]

My God, My God, My God. Where would I be had it not been for the grace and mercy of God. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I can look back over my life from when I was a little girl up until now and see how the enemy tried to take my life from the very beginning but look where I am now. Accepted in the beloved. AHHHHHAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Now that's just funny. He tried to do all kinds of things to keep me away from God but little did he know it's what lead me to him. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE WIN EVERY TIME. No matter what he brings at us or what we go through, we will continue to fight. We won't quit, we wont give up we wont let up or back down. We are in it to win it and laugh at the enemy all the way til the end.

Praise God!!!!!!