| | so, i am leaving in 10 days to move to kansas city. its a pretty
bittersweet thing. i have lots of good friends here and i feel like
even moreso recently i've made many new friends in the past couple
months who i already feel so close to. i'm sad to be leaving my friends
and my bible study on wednesdays and my youth group girls and my
Over-the-Rhine friends... but at the same time i am beyond words to
describe how excited i am for this next season of my life. i just
really feel the Lord preparing me for something BIG and i don't know
really what that looks like... but i know that this is just the
beginning of the beginning.
i want this time out in kansas city to be a time of getting to know
God. we can say we know the Lord but in reality we've only just
scratched the surface of who He is. i want to know His heart and hear
His voice so clearly. i feel that this season of prayer and fasting out
at IHOP will be a great end to the year. this year has really been all
about suffering and discipline for me... and just learning to wait on
the
Lord. the Lord has just been working in me to build me up to be the
woman of noble character in proverbs 31... and i feel so inadequate in
comparison. but He is working in me and in my heart to bring about
change. i have been
tested many times this year and even now... i've
just been put under many trials to see if i really do trust in His
goodness... and that i do put my hope and trust in His good plans for my
life. i really feel that this next season of pulling myself away into
the "wilderness" is a time of growing more in intimacy with the Lord
as He is preparing me for marriage. i know that i am called to be
married and work right alongside my husband... to be partner's in crime
and teammates... working dangerously together for the Kingdom. one of
the big things i've had to deal with this year is making sure that i'm
aligning my life with God's will... and not settling for just any guy..
but waiting for the man
that God has made and prepared for me. this is
the longest period of time that i have been single since i was 14 years
old... and the longest time since then was not even a month long..
that's ridiculous! at the
beinning of this year i thought i was going to die because i was
single,
and thought that i had messed things up so royally that i would never
end up getting married. but now i'm liking being single. i've finally
had my heart healed from the breakup and now i'm able to push forward
into knowing the Lord as my lover and as my first true love. and when
i go out to IHOP i can firmly plant my roots in the Lord and be able to
stand strong in future trials and just learn even more to wait on His
perfect timing... and just be still and know that He is Lord and that
He is good.
Hosea 2:14-16 & 19-23, 6: 1-3, 14:5-7
14 "Therefore I am now going to allure her;
I will lead her into the desert
and speak tenderly to her.
15 There I will give her back her vineyards,
and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.
There she will sing as in the days of her youth,
as in the day she came up out of Egypt.
16 "In that day," declares the LORD,
"you will call me 'my husband';
you will no longer call me 'my master. '
19 I will betroth you to me forever;
I will betroth you in righteousness and justice,
in love and compassion.
20 I will betroth you in faithfulness,
and you will acknowledge the LORD.
21 "In that day I will respond,"
declares the LORD—
"I will respond to the skies,
and they will respond to the earth;
22 and the earth will respond to the grain,
the new wine and oil,
and they will respond to Jezreel.
23 I will plant her for myself in the land
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1 "Come, let us return to the LORD.
He has torn us to pieces
but he will heal us;
he has injured us
but he will bind up our wounds.
2 After two days he will revive us;
on the third day he will restore us,
that we may live in his presence.
3 Let us acknowledge the LORD;
let us press on to acknowledge him.
As surely as the sun rises,
he will appear;
he will come to us like the winter rains,
like the spring rains that water the earth."
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5 I will be like the dew to Israel;
he will blossom like a lily.
Like a cedar of Lebanon
he will send down his roots;
6 his young shoots will grow.
His splendor will be like an olive tree,
his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.
7 Men will dwell again in his shade.
He will flourish like the grain.
He will blossom like a vine,
and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon.
i know that in going out to IHOP, it is all or nothing. no holding
back. i know the Holy Spirit is just going to capture me and there will
be no turning back. i can't wait!
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