In a Holding Pattern?

I was speaking with a friend this afternoon, and it reminded me of something I studied out a while ago.  Just want to chronicle it here & share with others.

God's wait - when God has you in a "wait" season of your life...because God carries the weights in the wait (the lay aside every weight) of it.  Wait from God is like being on an airplane, ready to land, but receiving a message that there is a delay.  Therefore, the airplane can not land, it has to stay in the air, in a holding pattern.  Whatever the reason for the delay, whether it is congestion at the airport, or bad weather, you still have to wait.  And the thing about airplanes, they purposely add extra fuel to take into consideration possible delays in the holding pattern.

It is so much easier to WAIT upon the Lord, when you have truly WEIGHTED upon the Lord - cast your cares and concerns that can weigh you down.  Or as the bible says, the sin that so easily entangles you...

Another point we saw about the holding pattern is that you are there, you are in the right place, but delays prolong the landing - and the holding pattern happens in the air, usually the unseen...

Just sharing something to provoke your thinking and help those in the WAIT process/season of life.
~P~

Praying for our loved ones...

I just wanted to post a word of encouragment to people who are praying for friends, family, and loved ones that appear to be going the opposite direction in which they know to go.  One of my mentors taught that we can pray and ask God to pull back the forces of darkness that are surrounding them long enough for them to make a conscious decision to choose life and God's way of doing things.  Pray that God would shine light into the dark areas in their life that they may be able to recognize, accept, and walk in the Truth of God.

We have been given power, dominion, and authority - but not over another person's free will.  So our prayer is that God would illuminate their mind/will/thoughts to recognize the Truth, not the lies of the enemy.  We ask God to remove the blinders that the god of this world continually places before people who have not truly learned who He is and who they are in Him.  We then pray to the Lord of the harvest that He would send a laborer across their path that would give a fit word in due season that brings repentance and restoration.  The re-dedicated soul is the goal - that God get the glory.

All I can say is Pray, PraY, PRAY!!! With out ceasing, at all times, from a place of understanding, in the spirit, just do it - pray.  Will you stand in the gap and intercede?  Supplicate? Pray...

Trial handout, 8-19 & 26

Click on the link below to download the hand out from the bible study this night...

Titus 2 handout 8-19 & 26

Not ashamed...

Now is not the time to be ashamed of your testimony.  Revelation 12:11 says we overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony.  The enemy would love for you to keep quiet about what you have been delivered out of or come through, but prove him to be the liar that he is by telling HIS-tory in your life.

Let me let you in on a secret, the issues that you survive and overcome are simply indications of the anointing that you are called to walk in.  So don't be quiet about how good God has been to you - tell of the tests that have brought you to stand in this testimony.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of ALL of them!  Run tell that - tell of His deliverances over and over and over again - trial after trial after trial!  Be encouraged today. God loves you and I do to - I mean that for real.
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Love...

Last night's study of the love of God was just wow!  Can't wait to get the audio downloaded.  Be watching for it...