Ezekiel 5:7 God, the Master, says: You've been more headstrong and willful than any of the nations around you. ... I'm going to do something to you that I've never done before and will never do again: turn families into cannibals—parents eating children, children eating parents! ... . Then you'll know that I was serious about this that I'm a jealous God and not to be trifled with. Epidemic disease, unrestrained murder, death—and I will have sent it! I, God, have spoken."
Ezekiel 6:8 Every place where you've lived, the towns will be torn down and the pagan shrines demolished. Corpses everywhere you look! Then you'll know that I am God. ... This is what God, the Master, says: Clap your hands, stamp your feet, yell out, "No, no, no!" because of all the evil obscenities rife in Israel. They're going to be killed, dying of hunger, dying of disease—death everywhere you look. Because I am angry, furiously angry. They'll realize that I am God...
Ezekiel 7:2 The end of business as usual for everyone. It's all over. I'll make you pay and you'll realize that I am God.' It is I, God, Who have hit you.
Ezekiel 8: 1 In the sixth year, in the sixth month and the fifth day, while I was sitting at home meeting with the leaders of Judah, it happened that the hand of my Master, God, gripped me. HE said: "They can shout all they want, but I'm not listening."
So, am I listening to God where I am this day? I wonder what is happening in the Unseen World of our United States of America? The Unseen World of the Brandon household? If we could really see and listen, we would be filled with such hope and courage. But, this is frightening. The people of Ezekiel's day never realized that God was God. God made them pay. We must ask every question that comes to mind as we read the horror of what God did to make these people cannibals. So what is God's response? I hit them with this terror for not listening to Me. What will He do to our family and friends this day who choose not to follow Him? All I know is that we must first look within and pay whatever price to follow Him and tremble before a Holy God and learn so much more to wait in our emptiness for His Plan A. "Only those who struggle in confusion and wait in hope will be strengthened to struggle well and to wait with confidence." 66 LL. Isaiah 30:15.
Cici received her final documents today and we are so grateful to God for His present help. Reagan will receive hers in the morning, hopefully. Then they fly back. Thanks for praying for this sweet pearl who is doing this to honor God and welcome a life into their family and be God's hands and heart to that little one. Oooh!
ReplyDeleteI've been hitting the wall around mid-afternoon ever since I came back from Florida. I knew something was not right. The cancer tests today revealed anemia. Glad to have a diagnosis that is treatable. Been hard trying to move without playing with a full deck. Please pray for my health over the next two weeks. There were 5 areas that were "low" on my cbc profile today. Thanks so much!
ReplyDeleteFriends - thank you so much for prayers. I came back to DC yesterday morning and waited at the embassy all afternoon. They stayed late to finish my dossier so I was able to FedEx it to Kigali last night. Should arrive on Friday. I'm now sitting at the Embassy waiting for Reagan's file. I have a 1:45pm flight today so am praying for the workers' productivity. Need to bring her file back to Austin with me. Thankfully a friend of a friend is giving me a free pass on American but have to fly stand-by. Please pray that I make it home today as I don't have childcare covered for tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI so appreciate your prayers and encouragement!
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I am waiting there with you as much as I can in your unwritten sequel. Praying the doctors get you straightened out and feeling like you are walking on the wall and NOT hitting. I am not reading the Message and reading chronological Bible and I keep reading His words.."I will do such and such and THEN they will KNOW that I AM the Lord.. WHEN He moves in your life and opens the right doors for your unwritten sequel..I am confident that He will do that exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask, think or imgaine. I would appreciate your prayers for the next few days. I had an severe allergic reaction to some food that both david and ate...had to go to the ER....my face swelled, my tongue swelled...and my blood pressure dropped really good...didn't have to wait and they took care of me (He was guiding thier hands and abilities) guess I could have died but God interevened Prais His holy name. I got home about one thirty..went about eight...they watched me for over four hours. I feel totally washed out today..am sure I will bounce back in a day or two, but would appreciate your prayers. We truly never know what any one day holds for us...praying for an opening in your written sequel and in Cici"s, we never know how much time we have left here and we truly need to look to Him, who holds all of it in His hands.Love and prayers and blessings on all of you today.
ReplyDeleteLadies - my adventure with God is winding down. I am on a layover in Charlotte and should arrive in Austin around 10pm. I'm exhausted but happy. This has been such an amazing experience, from the ways I saw God move to the incredible families I've met who are on this same journey. I wouldn't trade anything in the past week - it was all part of a wonderful story.
ReplyDeleteTurned out I had to race to airport before Reagan's file was done. I hated leaving it but another family agreed to FedEx it home for me. As it worked out, I didn't get on the 1:45 flight. A friend found a cheap ticket leaving at 3:45 so that gave me enough time to go back and get Reagan's file. I have it with me!! All answers to prayers, just not the way I was expecting!
Thank you for standing with me in this. It's so obvious that my pearls were praying! I love you, my friends!
...and then you'll know. What does He have to do to get my attention? When will I realize that He's God? He's serious about this. He's angry. He's had enough. Time's up. Judgment Day could be in the next moment. Am I ready? My heart says yes, my mind says no.
ReplyDeleteBev, sweet friend. I thought about you all day as I finished up at the ranch and headed home. I prayed, asked God to show you your next steps, to heal you physically and internally as you go through yet another passage. He has your back. We will continue to bring you to the Throne of Grace in prayer.
Cici, So happy for your trip to be successful for this life you are interceding. I can't imagine the blessing and the chaos of the last few days.
Mary Lou, How scary your allergic reaction must have been. I hope you know what might have set it off to not let that happen again. Do you have an epi pen? I am praying for your continued healing and thanking God you are doing better.
So much going on in our lives. Anybody else thinking our days are short here? Such trial, such pain, sickness. Finding God in strange foxholes...I pray that each of you feel a load lifted this day as you trust in Him and rest those burdens at His Feet. I am singing "these are the days of Elijah...Behold He comes...
Mary Lou!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You get some rest for a few days. When you start swelling internally like that, it's so scary. I've had it happen before when they injected dye into my kidneys and my throat started swelling shut on the operating table---I was already in the hospital so they did racemic epinepherine right away. I know the feeling. Hope you figure out what it was. Take care. Will be praying for you especially tonight for sweet sleep and tomorrow!