Word of the Day
Beloved, can you hear me calling you aside to sit with me…to walk with Me? I have come knocking on the door of your garden. Will you hesitate to answer? Will you be convinced to wait as the burdens of the world try and settle on you with weariness of heart? Have you already given your best to something else? No matter. Come anyway. Come and let Me come to give you rest, for you are Mine.
Close your eyes a moment and listen. Can you feel me drawing you into the garden that I am? Put all aside all misconceptions…all distractions and believe I will meet you right where you are. I am an oasis in the midst of busyness. I am the calm in every storm. I am what I am for you every moment of your life. Not one moment goes by without the potential of being saturated by Me.
Beloved, you can be with Me while you are walking…while you are going about daily chores and administrations. Learn of Me in the quiet place then busy places, though sometimes hectic, will be like pools of deep silence because we will walk in them together. This very thing is something the world longs for and something you have at your immediate disposal. In fact, as you are experiencing your oasis in the midst of chaos others will be drawn into its realms of refreshment just by being next to you. They may not always realize what is happening; but, they will know peace when they experience it.
Block out all other distractions and relax in the comfortable quietness of My Presence. Speak my name. Softly call on me saying, “My Father.” Allow repetition of My name to create a place of warmth in the depth of your heart. As you do this, know I am aware of your every need and desire…know I have forgiven your every sin. I am here with you right now as deep calls to deep, connecting our hearts in a place of communion too deep for words.
No matter what you have done…no matter what you feel, do not hide from Me in the cool or in the heat of the day. Jesus made the way for you to be with Me and shame has no power here because of His precious blood. I forgive you. I receive you in My garden. I love walking with you.
Come, for I am walking with you this moment in the coolness of My garden…you are walking with Me in the gardens of My heart. As I told you, there are many eternal conversations I long to have with you. They have the ability to affect your entire lifetime and the lifetimes of those you encountered and love.
It is time to take a siesta for a time and join Me without hesitation or excuse in the quietness of the day…to rest and listen. Beloved it is time to rest and receive. It is time to seize the day for I have drawn near. Will you let this ordained moment pass you by? Selah.
I HAVE come into my garden, my sister, my [promised] bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my balsam and spice [from your sweet words I have gathered the richest perfumes and spices]. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends [feast on, O revelers of the palace; you can never make my lover disloyal to me]! Drink, yes, drink abundantly of love, O precious one [for now I know you are mine, irrevocably mine! With his confident words still thrilling her heart, through the lattice she saw her shepherd turn away and disappear into the night].
I went to sleep, but my heart stayed awake. [I dreamed that I heard] the voice of my beloved as he knocked [at the door of my mother’s cottage]. Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my spotless one [he said], for I am wet with the [heavy] night dew; my hair is covered with it3[But weary from a day in the vineyards, I had already sought my rest] I had put off my garment–how could I [again] put it on? I had washed my feet–how could I [again] soil them? (Song of Solomon 5:-3 Amplified)
Prayer
Lord, I can hear you calling me to walk with You. I will no longer hesitate or ask for You to wait because I am busy taking care of the burdens of the world. I give those burdens to You and follow after You with my whole heart. I follow You into the secret place away from all the distractions in order to become sensitive to the slightest movement as You walk through the garden of my heart.
Thank You for helping me to recognize all misconceptions and distractions which have the power to take me away from the awareness of Your Presence. So many things compete for my time with You. Teach me the secret of being in You no matter what I am doing. Help me to make my time be subject to You and not the other way around. I long to realize there is no limit to Your Presence when it comes to experiencing You. I can have all of You in ever spectrum of my life from the busiest moment to the most restful sleep and all in between. The only limits to experiencing You are the ones I set.
Yes, You are my oasis in the midst of busyness. You are the calm in the midst of all my storms. I learn of You in the quiet and the busy places of my life, for truly You are my sanctuary in the midst of chaos. Thank You for calling me as deep calls to deep…for connecting my heart with Yours in a place of communication too deep for words. I will never hide from You again. I join You to rest and listen, to rest and receive for now and eternity. I hear you knocking and I say, “Come in.” Amen.
Reflect and Journal
- What areas are you hesitant to let go of and cling to which have the power to keep you from entering into the rest of God?
- Are there areas in your busy life that are so important You would put them above the call of the Lord to set aside time to join Him in rest?
- Ask the Lord to show you how to block out all other distractions in order to be able to enter into His Presence in quietness or in busyness.