"My presence will go with you and I will give you REST"
ex 33
We HAVE FOUND GRACE - hallelujah! He knows us by name - woah!
There are two ways we can enter His presence and then practice it. Both are fruitful but only one sustainable. One is to pour into others from our own wells thus running dry, the other is to maintain fullness and therefore natually pour into others purely from the overflow of God and Holy Spirit by learning how to practice the presence of God, how to wait and how to rest. It is the most profound thing to realise that psalm 23 indeed states:
He MAKES me lie down in green pastures.
Oh katapausin...we must labor only to rest, not strive to be fruitful. It is out of our waiting on Him to instigate that the fruit naturaly pours out. Leading from the secret place, overflowing from the very fullness of God permanently in us is the rest that God desires, not burn out or striving, but Himself realised in our weakness, His love filling us til we almost explode that we might worship Him into eternity Him and us, we are dark yet lovely, we are beloved of the King...eyes fixed back on Jesus, oblivious to the storm raging and the impossible made possible, just loving and being loved. Oh that we would learn how to practice His presence.
ex 33
We HAVE FOUND GRACE - hallelujah! He knows us by name - woah!
There are two ways we can enter His presence and then practice it. Both are fruitful but only one sustainable. One is to pour into others from our own wells thus running dry, the other is to maintain fullness and therefore natually pour into others purely from the overflow of God and Holy Spirit by learning how to practice the presence of God, how to wait and how to rest. It is the most profound thing to realise that psalm 23 indeed states:
He MAKES me lie down in green pastures.
Oh katapausin...we must labor only to rest, not strive to be fruitful. It is out of our waiting on Him to instigate that the fruit naturaly pours out. Leading from the secret place, overflowing from the very fullness of God permanently in us is the rest that God desires, not burn out or striving, but Himself realised in our weakness, His love filling us til we almost explode that we might worship Him into eternity Him and us, we are dark yet lovely, we are beloved of the King...eyes fixed back on Jesus, oblivious to the storm raging and the impossible made possible, just loving and being loved. Oh that we would learn how to practice His presence.
posted by Claire at 5:44 PM
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