Small Straws In A Soft Wind by Marsha Burns:
There are issues in your life that you need to confront with truth and righteousness. You can do this by defining your goals and confronting your resistance to carry out your intentions. This can only be done by self-examination and getting to the root of the problem, which is likely to be fear.
2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
Micah 7
Wait Upon The LORD
Alas, for I became as one gathering stubble in a harvest and as one gathering grape gleanings where there does not exist a cluster of first-ripe grapes to eat, which my soul longs after. Woe O soul. For the reverent one is destroyed from the earth; and there does not exist one keeping straight among men. All adjudicate unto blood; each squeezes out his neighbor by oppression; they prepare their hands for evil; the ruler asks for gifts and the judge speaks peaceable words for bribes. It is the wish of his soul. And I will take out their good things, as a moth chews away and one proceeding by the rule in the day of the watch. Woe, your punishments came, now there shall be their weeping. Do not confide in friends; do not hope upon leaders; of your bed-mate watch out to not present anything to her. For the Son dishonors the Father; the Daughter rises up against her Mother, the Daughter-in-law against her Mother-in-law; enemies are all the men, the ones in his own house. But I will look upon my LORD; I will wait upon the LORD my deliverer. My God will listen to me. Rejoice not against me, O my enemy! for I have fallen and I will rise up. For if I shall sit in the darkness, the LORD will give light to me. The anger of the LORD I shall endure, for I sinned against Him, until He does justice to my cause and shall execute my judgment. He shall lead me into the light; I shall see Hs righteousness. And my enemy shall see and shall wear shame, saying to me, Where is the LORD your God? My eyes shall scrutinize her, now she will be for trampling upon as mud in the ways. A day of plastering of brick is your wiping out and your laws shall be thrust away in that day. And your cities shall come unto leveling and into partition by the Assyrians; and your fortified cities for partitioning from Tyre unto the river and from sea unto sea and from mountain unto mountain. And the land will be for extinction with the ones dwelling it, because of the fruits of their practices. Tend Your people with Your rod, the sheep of Your inheritance, the ones encamping by themselves in a forest, in the midst of Carmel! They shall feed Bashan and Gilead, according to the days of the eon. And according to the days of your departure from the land of Egypt, I will show to them wonderful things. Nations shall see and shall be disgraced, even of all their strength. They shall place hands over their mouth, their ears shall be deafened. They shall lick dust as serpents dragging on the earth; they shall be confounded in their confinement; by the LORD our God they shall be amazed and shall fear from you. What God is as You, removing iniquities and passing over impiety to the remnants of His inheritance? His anger is not constrained for a testimony, for He is a wisher of mercy. He shall turn and shall pity us; He shall sink our iniquities and shall throw away into the depths of the sea all our sins. He shall give truth to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, in so far as You swore an oath to our fathers, according to the former days.
May 17, 2024. Just because you sense that someone is rejecting you, this doesn’t mean you have to reject them back. Remember to offer them the other cheek or give them your coat. I want you to conform yourself to your older brother’s (Jesus’) image. He fought the battles so that you wouldn’t have to fight so hard. Remember to be “ME” in every situation. I don’t reject; I love. Read the Words of My Son:
Matthew 5:38-40 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well.” Robin Robinson Bohlin
May 17, 2024. “What are you contending for? Are you contending for the things I’ve set before you or are you contending for things that aren’t yours to fight for? I’ve called you to peace. You’ve allowed things to strip away My peace, so today contend for My peace and let it cover you. Do not be distracted by things going on around you, do what I’ve called you to do and let My peace reign.”
Hebrews 12:14 “In every relationship be swift to choose peace over competition and run swiftly toward holiness, for those who are not holy will not see the Lord.” Pam Jackson
