Hinds' Feet

Good Morning, Papa God! 

As I get prepared (situated in my chair, focusing my thoughts, settling down to be still, physically and mentally), I find myself thanking You for Your answered prayers for so many in these recent days. You are working Your healing in their lives as You will – each in its own way. You are God and will accomplish Your will in each life just as You have planned … some through the rain, some through the flood, some through the fire, some through the valley of loss and sickness, some through great sorrow. But Your path for each is the best for that person. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. It is through the valleys, steep places that we, Your children, develop our “hinds' feet”. We grow in strength and faith to walk through those low places and those steep places. By Your grace and strength, Your children are able to walk this journey of life. This child is thanking You this morning for answered prayers and unanswered prayers. For all You do is for my best, whether I get it or not. It is still for my best ultimately, and so I accept Your will, Your answer, however You choose to accomplish it in my life. The laying down of my will to Your will is a daily act. I wish I could do it once and it would be a done act, but we both know that isn’t reality. I need to do it every day as the choices come my way. It is a daily taking up my cross and following You. Papa God, be my strength today as I face whatever difficulties come my way; and there may be few today for which I will be thankful. Give me strength and endurance as I walk this day of my journey. May my life be pleasing in Your sight and glorify You. When my strength fails and I cannot trust myself to do the right thing, You come and rescue me. Your strength takes over where my strength and ability end. Always has, always will. Without You, I can do nothing. Papa God, I am learning that all the times I laid my will on the altar of Your will and trusted You, these are the “stones in my crown”. You use all my life, every event, to produce loveliness within me. You are diligently working out the details of my life to bless me and to bring You glory. You take all the details of my life that often seem tangled, dangling, and disconnected, and You tie them together in to a perfect story.

My child,

You are seeing it more clearly now. These past five years as you have been bombarding heaven with prayers that seemed, from your perspective, to go unanswered, I have been at work. All those times you questioned Me about what was happening and what I was doing, I was quietly working within you, healing, restoring, and removing rubble, and rearranging the pieces of your life. I have been deepening your capacity to understand My heart and My character. And now you are seeing it! Your faith and trust in Me have deepened to great depths. You have learned and are still learning to cry out to Me when you feel weak, and you feel like you are sinking in the midst of life’s storms or sinking in those moments of weakness in the flesh. You know I am there and will rescue you. You are learning to rise above your circumstances and trust Me to meet you in your time of need and to see you through every circumstance of life.

(Luke 9:23; 1 John 3:22(AMP); Phil.1:6; Luke 22:42; Psa.18:33)