Healing Rain

Well, so...here recently, we have had storms in Georgia.  Not driving rains where it makes instant puddles that just stand there; but a rain that soaked into the earth, providing moisture where there had been none; providing life to death; providing water to the thirsty ground.  I said all that to say this: God did that for me.  And, He will do it for you when and if you are willing to ask Him. 

I spent some of my days last week outside, sweltering [but not really uncomfortable because I LIKE the heat] in the heat like most everything else was, and while doing so, was praying over and through some things.  When the rain started, it was my great pleasure to be invited outside by the Lord.  In my spirit, I could feel Him summoning me, calling me, "Beloved, come to Me.  I am sending healing rain."  So, outside I went, to stand under the flow.  My prayer for the last couple days, really, last week or more, has been "Lord, change me."  "Change my heart, change me from the inside out."  "Help me to become a better representative of and for You."  "I can't change anyone else; I want to BE CHANGED by You and Your Spirit." 

He is answering my prayer, little by little, and I feel the shifting and changing on the inside.  Nothing really visible on the outside where everybody can point to it and say, "Oh, there's been a change in you..." but little things that I have noticed.  I have pretty much decided that I will NOT be perfect today or tomorrow, and I won't live up to a certain standard that I may have set for myself, or anyone may have set for me; but I CAN hold on to God's promises, and I can live up to the standard He is setting for me. 

The promise that I am holding dearly to today is found in Philippians 1:6 - it says "I am CONFIDENT of this very thing, that He who BEGAN a good work in you will perfect it UNTIL the day of Jesus Christ"; which means to me that He began the work in me by leading me to the Cross, and that every day, He works to perfect me, not happening all at once - possibly because I may forget who He is and what He did, and WILL CONTINUE to work to perfect me UNTIL THAT DAY...the day of Jesus Christ...the day of perfection completed; the day we see Him face to face!

Lord, help me to hang on to those promises; things You say rather than things others have said, or things I have said.  Let us hold fast to the hope, and ready to give reason to that hope which is within us.  Help me to remember to think on those things that are good, pure, holy, of good report; help me to put a guard up at my tongue, so I don't say things that are not pleasing to You.  I pray a binding up of my thoughts, things that lead to saying those wrong things.  And, Father, I give You my heart once again.  Help me to lead it, not to follow it.  Lord, You are worth of praise. 

Lift up His name, friends and family.  Soon and very soon, we will be attending a wedding feast like none other!  Much love and encouragement to you today <3

Velvet