The Lord told me to read Psalm 46 when I got in to work earlier on this morning…
I read through and then stopped at verse 10…
“Cease [striving] and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” (Psalm 46:10 NASB)
Then He said it was really just the following that I needed to focus on…
“Cease [striving]…” (Psalm 46:10a NASB)
So I looked up verse 10 in the interlinear…
http://biblehub.com/interlinear/psalms/46-10.htm
Cease is the following word…
http://biblesuite.com/hebrew/7503.htm
raphah: sink, relax
It’s like a deflating of all our efforts, a deflating of all our striving and all our “trying to make things happen”…
Such a peaceful feeling…
“…I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” (Psalm 46:10c NASB)
Yes Lord…
As we deflate, fail, sink or relax – as we cease striving – He becomes everything over us…
As we become helpless (another rendering of this word in the NASB) and hang limp (another again) and abandon all effort we receive the Power of God to overcome – to wait – our victory is in our decision to wait in silence before the Lord – to wait until He makes it happen – all that we see we must wait until He makes it happen – Powerful…
He reminded me again of that word He’d given me previously for Christ’s Church that we needed to wait in silence before Him and how later He’d told me that I had and then I saw the rain of His Righteousness falling down on us at our local congregation not too many Sundays back showing that that other word He’d given me about seeking the Lord until He came and rained down righteousness upon us had come to pass in the spirit (the spiritual realm)…
But now He’s saying it’s deeper – it’s a lifestyle – our inability and complete “giving up” was completely what He wanted – He is waiting for this – our admission of inability – and then He will move – we will have constant revelation in that place and just speak it as it “goes past”, so to speak, us in prayer as He shows us – it’s like we’ll just “Amen” Him and it is done – that is what I saw – such a place of rest…
All in that word, “cease”…
Beautiful… 🙂
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