Well I'm glad to be in such great company. Maybe we should start up a new group and call ourselves the "Off Kilters" -- of which I am a proud member 🙂 Sometimes in my own pee brain, I can imagine the battle of heavenly host, with swords and shields clanging. The evil is strong but the Lord’s army is stronger still. I can almost imagine them all around and the battle cry is victory as the enemy is held at bay because they have no power … they are a defeated foe. He has put on strength as his belt because of his enemy …. Psalm 93 is a favorite of my memory work ….. I would like to be a charter member of the “off Kilters” :mdrmdr: and happily so. I would enlist each of the members to pray for our heavenly siblings…. :prayer-hands: Soon we will be there and as the angel told John in Rev 22 — do not seal up this book for the time is near …. And if a 1000 years is as a day, then the day is almost over :yahoo: :flyup: :flyup: I appreciate the openness and encouragement to turn to our perfect, capable, loving, all-knowing, all powerful Savior in our times of fear, trouble, anxiety... Heidi, you are receiving wisdom from God here for certain! Just remember to really open up to Him personally and rely on Him to help you apply the wisdom He imparts in His Word and reminds us of by fellow Spirit-filled Believers. I've recently been praying about laying my life before Him more fully- remembering that this is now His life- He lives within me and wants to truly be Lord! Out of love and appreciation for shedding His blood to free me (from slavery to Satan, my sin nature & it's resulting death) and making me a new creation with His life within me, I am learning to offer all of me to Him as a living holy sacrifice. Having that perspective and telling Him/reminding myself that I am His removes the previously hidden- even to myself- motives and attitudes and thoughts that feed my anxiety (Pride in believing i can figure things out on my own, selfishness in wanting to make things happen the way i decide they should, etc. can be seen as determination and hard work, but He revealed to me that often my anxiety is not even about things He is currently wanting me to be doing.) My patient Heavenly Father is teaching me more and more that real worry (not just concern, but holding on to fear & anxiety & feeding it etc.) about anything is- during those moments- a lack of faith in His ability and willingness to help...He tells me i can choose...in that exact moment...choose to trust, not ruminate or try harder on my own...He says He gives us a way out of temptation, but we have to recognize when we are being tempted and make a conscious choice to cry out to Him -and obey The Spirit's promptings to pray or read His Word or do or not do whatever He leads -to get us out of a destructive mindset/behaviors etc. This is definitely a struggle for me in those moments to make the right choice to call on Him instead of continuing sometimes full speed ahead in the wrong direction (that never leads me to more ability or better results....it only leads to wasted time, exhaustion a marred witness and hurt to my treasured relationships.) Tammie- thank you for praying for your fellow siblings! I need to more often as well...that's one thing we can always do and you are right- it is powerful in the spiritual realm! i'm happy to be off kilter as well! i'm thankful to not visibly see the evil spiritual side of things- The Lord knows most of us can't handle it in our current fleshly state....I look forward to my glorified self that can look on it all with pure joy in the Victory of our King without any fearfulness of evil! I think the glory of His goodness, His Godness is more than we can handle currently too! But one day, hopefully soon, we will be revealed with Christ Jesus in glory! And all His majesty will chase away all our fears (and doubts and worries and pain and suffering) for all of Eternity! I'm excited to meet all of y'all in the air, too! Going to see family soon most of whom i haven't seen in years...but how cool that we also have such a huge long distance family all around the world spiritually that we haven't ever met but are united in an intimate way- by the same Holy Spirit within each of us! 2 Kings 6:17 17 And Elisha prayed, “Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see.” Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha We may be the Off Kilter but we are correct. 😁 Amen Yohanan
