Word of the Day
Authored by Wendy Thomas, Co-authored by Brenda Craig
Beloved, I ask once more, are you willing to wait on Me in all circumstances both good and bad? Do you know what it means to really wait on Me? Wait means to linger…to be available…to hang around…to remain in a certain place or to spend your time in one position while expecting something to happen. When you wait on and in Me you can surely expect something good to happen. Expectation builds faith and energizes hope.
It means to linger patiently while listening intently for My slightest whisper with the willingness to act on what I say immediately. To do so requires time just simply being in My Presence. It means putting aside other things just to spend time with Me. Can you do this? Do you want to? I hope so, for I love spending time with you. I take great enjoyment and delight in each and every moment I am with you. Will you do likewise with Me?
Sometimes when you are with Me, you may not hear Me speak for a while. Don’t interpret My silence as distance. It is not anything like that. It’s just that you take My breath away, for you are so beautiful to Me. It is a time when I am savouring each moment spent with you…a time when I am gazing on you with a deep abiding love in My eyes.
Do you want to gaze on Me also and drink deeply of My love for you? Do you want to be satisfied with My overwhelming love for you and to know in a more profound way that you are My treasured possession? If so, come near and I will tell you all you need to know in order to come into a complete understanding of who you are to Me.
There are great rewards for spending time with Me and drawing close to My heart. When you draw close to Me, I draw close to you. I cannot resist you and the love in your heart for Me. Resisting the pull of Your love for Me is not within My capability. You come to Me and I run to you.
Beloved, the very thought of knowing how you long to hear My voice compels Me to speak to you…to whisper words of love in your ear…to declare before all that you are My highly favoured one.
I want to be your first love. I want you to long to be with Me the same as I long to be with you. You will love Me only as you know how much I love you. I am drawing you with cords of loving kindness until we are interwoven as tight as a three-stranded cord which cannot be broken. In doing this, you will be able to love others as you are loved. You can only give away what you have.
Remember, it is in My Presence where all the cares of the world fall away and you are made complete in My love. You will realise you don’t have to do anything. All you have to do is simply be. I created you and watched you cell by cell being formed in your mother’s womb. Every day of your life I have looked on you with love while watching over you. You may not have been aware of Me at all times; nevertheless, I have always been there and I will forever be. Come right now and let’s spend some time together…just you and I as father and child and you will rise up form our encounter refreshed and renewed from being with Me…from waiting on Me.
The Lord appeared from of old to me [Israel], saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn you and continued My faithfulness to you (Jeremiah 31:3 Amplified)
I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love, and I was to them as one who lifts up and eases the yoke over their cheeks, and I bent down to them and gently laid food before them. (Hosea 11:4 Amplified)
Come close to God and He will come close to you […] (James 4:8 Amplified)
Prayer
Father, I am sorry for not always wanting to put you first…for letting my time with You get crowded out by other things. The desire of my heart is to be in Your presence and hear what You have to say to me in order to truly live…in order to truly walk out an abundant life. Please tell me of Your love for me and how precious I am to You. Help me to believe how much I am adored by You deep in my heart in such a powerful way that I am affected in my everyday life. In Your Presence, the cares of this world fall away. They fade in the in the presence of Your glory and grace.
Lord, how I love You. How I want to live to spend time with You…to have You at the center of all I am and do. Therefore, help me to put You first and foremost above everyone and everything. Renew me with fresh vigor and strength for the task ahead. I am Your highly favored one, and even this moment, Your eyes are on this child whom You love. Amen.
Reflect and Journal
- Do you spend time with the Lord each day just enjoying His Presence? If not, what are your main distractions? Name them. It will help. Why not start today learning to receive His gaze in a whole new way All it takes is time.
- Do you realize how much God loves you and how He longs to spend time with you? Ask Him to tell you how much and listen to what He says. What is He saying? Remember, one syllable spoken from His heart to yours is more than enough to change anything and everything. Therefore, don’t despise even the smallest of impressions He shares with you. Even the intake of His breath can fill one with delight for it expresses the rapturous desires of His heart for you. Selah (stop and think or meditate)
Greetings SisBrenda! Wanted to share what I heard from the Lord this morning before reading this love letter!
Lord, what would You tell me today?
Peace and rest! Milton, I simply want you to rest and enjoy My peace. I’ve set aside a heaping helping of it just for you and you won’t come near to using it all up before you leave earth. It is not true that you must always be “doing” something to please other people and to please me. This is so wrong! It is a blessing to be able to help another, but when you take on more duties than your time and energies allow for, you begin to stress yourself physically and mentally and this has an adverse effect on you spiritually as well. Can you imagine what it would be like living in a house with a leaky roof and creaky floors? With every gust of the wind, the house shudders to the point that you fear that the whole thing can come tumbling down at any moment? Stressful, right? That’s what your spirit has to deal with when you live in a constant state of stress and unrest. What part does stress have with peace? No part!
Come to Me and I will teach you how to isolate the world and to go off and spend precious moments with me in the spirit even as your physical body works. During these moments, much healing and repair will take place. It’s coming and coming soon! Keep pressing in to me…
I’ve heard you wondering whether the times you spend with me each morning are “working”. No, they’re not “working”; they’re resting and believing. Just a little play on words for you! Your willingness to spend time with me is worship! You truly want to be with Me and I can sense this! You are seeing the beginnings of excitement over the things that I am doing. Just wait until the full sensation hits you! It’s going to be like a tidal wave and it will sweep you onward toward what I have for you. You are in a period of resting, healing and preparation. I am preparing you to be sent out in My name and it will be tremendously fulfilling to you! Nothing pleases more than being able to do that which you were created to do. The present state of things will not go on forever! The speed of these changes that will take place is directly related to the degree that you are able to let go and rest in Me. The more you put your hands and your mind to things, the slower things go. Let all your cares go! These things all come from Me anyway. Do you think I’d just allow you to be overburdened forever?! No!
Rest and peace! That’s what I have for you today!