Shared on Friday, June 25, 2010

“Surrender all that is broken to Me. Let Me put the pieces back together.”

“He was spurned and avoided by men, a man of suffering, knowing pain, Like one from whom you turn your face, spurned, and we held him in no esteem. Yet it was our pain that he bore, our sufferings he endured. We thought of him as stricken, struck down by God and afflicted, But he was pierced for our sins, crushed for our iniquity. He bore the punishment that makes us whole, by his wounds we were healed. We had all gone astray like sheep, all following our own way; But the LORD laid upon him the guilt of us all.” (Isaiah 53:3-6).

A sense that the Lord is speaking to wounded hearts and He wants to convey that He knows their sorrows and pain. He has felt rejection, and He relates to our pain. He is truly, intimately aware of our pain and He can bring healing!

"Blessed the one whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD, his God, The maker of heaven and earth, the seas and all that is in them, Who keeps faith forever secures justice for the oppressed, who gives bread to the hungry. The LORD sets prisoners free; the LORD gives sight to the blind. The LORD raises up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous." (Psalm 146:7-8).

“The LORD is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth. He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them.” (Psalm 145:18-19).

“Lord, you will open my lips; and my mouth will proclaim your praise.” (Psalm 51:17).

I saw an image of Jesus with a key. With it He unlocks our tongues to praise God and opens the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Our heart's posture is surrender and reception, and Jesus baptizes in the Holy Spirit. Jesus releases and opens the gifts of the Holy Spirit with the baptism in the Holy Spirit. It is like doors in a dam that are about to burst because of what is behind cannot be held in any longer. Jesus comes and opens the doors and they burst open. Graces flow all over the earth like water that quenches, but at the same time like fire that burns. He is forming our hearts, like turning coal into diamonds, and lead into gold, and we burn for love of Him.