Let Hope Arise!

Precious Lord, speak to me in the silence that displays itself through this pain and confusion! All that within me quakes, and cherished breath is a foreign commodity...yet in this imprisonment, my eyes shall look to your goodness and glory! You remind me of the beauty displayed in Jeremiah, where you comfort your children with the hope of the future....for you will break this suffocation, and lead me into the plans that you have for my life! Oh, the freedom that arises in my core, when I focus on gripping Your Word with all that I am...and I know that abundance of blessing unfolds for those who walk in obedience! I will speak to the evils of my flesh and rise up with sword of the Spirit! Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him!

You turn my eyes to the travails of Spurgeon, John Donne and many others... yet within their longings of humanity, Your sovereignty was their sanctuary! My being is filled with joy as points of relation with these men is so present. Many times they were stricken with paralysis of body, soul and spirit, taken into realms of suffering humanity hopes never to encounter. As I persevere through my own imprisonment, I am comforted by the stories of these men, and I will press on, desirous of continuing on as a warrior...taking the next step, climbing the next mountain, no matter how bloody my body becomes..God never makes light of our suffering...EVER! If we can envelope His spirit in every facet of our lives, the pain is seen differently...continue on dear soul in laying burdens down at the foot of the Cross! We are not built to be the bearer of our burdens!

Oh God, teach us to dwell continually in the shadow of The Almighty! A paradox exists before my eyes, in which my soul is so barren, yet a well that overflows..the words arise, sentences keep forming..I am so impassioned by this weakness, and the parallels that are present, and furthermore emboldened to share with others! Within this heart's cry, teach me to look to You above all else! May I crave nothing but the favor of Your face, Your presence before me, around me and in me! I will walk in the power of Your presence, I will declare Your promises over my soul and that of others! I will not look to the state of another's existence and ask "Why not them?" For I know you are doing the unimaginable in my life, and I will claim this as long as you give me breath! Take us from the temporal into the supernatural Oh Lord..that fear would be far from us, as you bring us into a deeper understanding of Your Holy Spirit!!! May we live in the expectancy of Your return Eternal Father! May we live for Your glory, and that alone.