new year’s resistance

Each New Year I ask God for a word to have for the coming 12 months and it is so interesting that as I look back, the words that I’ve had have been the exact opposite in what has either been ‘manifested’ or even come anywhere close to the word. I’m not sure if this is pure attack, or if the word has produced but in a different format to what I expected, or if it is even deeper still and was just given in seed form
in the at year that will produce over different time periods..

This year (and we’re only 4 days in at the time of writing this!), my ‘word’ has almost tormented me and kept me awake at night and it has been SO crazily difficult to fix my mind and position to align with God. 

As I’m trying to organise my thoughts, I find it interesting to think that as soon as we move into an assertive stance or position to grow or expand, the resistance increases massively! When our intention is set then it seems that everything within us goes into revolt and wants to then start taking away the little ground that we had!

To engage in growth we must be so aware that we have a real enemy that is against us- the devil and all his demons- as well as our own flesh and comfort zone (or even pain zone- whatever is most usual and accepted as our normal). When we go from passive to assertive, we will always find that the path of least resistance is trying to lead us right back to where we are trying to move on from!

Let us not become discouraged or fatigued as we move forward and let us fix our eyes on the goal. If things don’t look like what we expected then that’s fine- as long as we are investing our all into what we believe we need to be doing, everything else is out of our control.

the power of a seed

This morning I woke up praying for my friend to have his walls of resistance broken down that are keeping him from Life and Truth and Love. This is such a deep prayer for all of us- that we don’t have any walls that bring division between us and God. As a believer in Christ, there is now direct access to God and yet how many of us keep building walls, or structures, or “bridges”?! Crazy madness and so not necessary.

As I continue to pray, as a visual person, I ponder on the power of a seed. Even in hostile and unsuspecting places seeds can grow and, as they get bigger, can actually cause so much damage to the handiwork of men. I love this so much. It is such an encouragement. It demonstrates to me that things don’t have to be perfect for life to be seeded and be brought forth. Even in “impossible” situations, life cannot be kept away. Also check out a great encouragement from blogger Silvia.. I love that God is always working and has always been there. Even if it seems that there has been no Gardener close to this person or that situation, God is and has always been there. Seeds that have been sown many years ago and slowly growing in the background can be brought forth and start to cause impact and start to be seen. No-one and nothing is overlooked. Absolutely no-one. There is no wall that is too high, strong, thick, deep or wide that can keep God out. He doesn’t even need to break walls down, in all honesty! He can just walk through them! And my deep heart prayer is that He will do this. That any vault-like walls will be accessed and walked through by the Lord God Almighty who has invested all interest of His heart in us.

My prayer is that all of the work that we have built in our own strength, for our own self-protection or reliance or whatever, will be broken down so that we have nothing standing in-between us and Life in fullness. That Kingdom seed will grow and cause a dismantling of all walls and structures that we’ve built to “keep safe” and in doing so, detached ourselves from our Source of all Light, Life, and Power. May we come into all Freedom and live in wide open spaces 🙂