I love when the Lord speaks a word in the midst of the hardest season you have ever been through. The Lord spoke to my heart and said, “keep your head down and do the hard work.” He had been talking to me about peace in every situation, no matter what you are experiencing, fear doesn’t speak louder than peace. The truth I was learning required something from me and that something was a submission, a submission to all that I want in the hard seasons. I want to know how it is going to work out, I want to know how I will live out each day in the in between. Well, peace requires a discipline and that discipline is believing. The Lord has given us peace, but peace is never something that overrides your free will. Peace, and peace is a person, requires a submission to let Jesus rule in our hearts and minds. It is believing that He is Lord over our lives. He has gone into our futures and He knows what is best. So we submit to this peace and we release our will to the Lordship of Jesus in our lives.
Peace requires also that I release all of my demands for a certain outcome in those hard situations. I give up my rights to know the outcome, and I trust the Lord to work all things for the good, because I do love Him. Emotional healing requires work, and during the journey, I have said “no, I’m done, and I’m mad and I can’t go on!” Holy Spirit said well no your not done, not even close and the next steps are so much harder than the last steps so “ put your head down and do the hard work!” Everything in my life is being overhauled, strongholds of fortified structures are being dismantled and my foundations are being rebuilt. The Lord is working on everything at once, and He is even healing my body from the years and years of trauma. I am working with a nutrition and fitness coach who said wow, your metabolism is stubbornly not responding due to the years and years of stress it has had to endure. Your body really does keep the score. The Lord has also revealed that my hippocampus has shrunk due to all of the gaslighting in my life. He revealed the picture of the hippocampus in a vision and later He gave me an article that had a picture of a hippocampus which was shaded in the drawing of the brain. The picture in the article was the exact image I had drawn in my journal. I knew He was healing it. I have struggled during this healing process with extreme forgetfulness where the symptoms of hippocampus shrinkage seem to be worse, only to come to know that the Lord is healing and restructuring all that is broken. I choose to partner with peace and walk through these places of restoration with the Lord, trusting Him for my future, keeping my head down and doing the hard work of consistency in submission in all that He has showed me to do. Amen
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