Small Straws In A Soft Wind by Marsha Burns:

Never fear. I will show you the way to resolve every issue that seems beyond your ability to solve. When you get afraid, remember the times that I have rescued you and set you on the right path again, and access that level of faith. Refuse to allow difficulties to become a road block instead of a detour. 

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.

Zechariah 11

The Doomed Flock

Open wide your doors, O Lebanon and let fire devour your cedars! Let the pine shriek! because the cedar has fallen, for the mighty men have been greatly afflicted: Shriek, O oaks of Bashan! for the thickly planted forest has been torn down. A sound of wailing of shepherds; for their greatness is brought low: a voice of roaring lions; for the pride of Jordan is brought down. Thus says the LORD almighty, Feed the sheep of the slaughter; which their possessors have slain and have not repented: and they that sold them said, Blessed be the Lord; for we have become rich: and their shepherds have suffered no sorrow for them. Therefore I will no longer have mercy upon the inhabitants of the land, says the Lord: but, behold, I will deliver up the men every one into the hand of his neighbour, and into the hand of his king; and they shall destroy the land, and I will not rescue out of their hand. And I will tend the sheep of the slaughter in the land of the Canaanites. And I will take for Myself two rods; the one I called Beauty and the other I called Line; and I will tend the flock. And I will cut off three shepherds in one month; and my soul shall grieve over them, for their souls cried out against Me. And I said, I will not tend you: that which dies, let it die; and that which falls off, let it fall off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of his neighbour.

The Two Rods
And I will take my beautiful staff, and cast it away, that I may break My covenant which I made with all the people. And it shall be broken in that day; and the Canaanites, the sheep that are kept for me, shall know that it is the Word of the Lord. And I will say to them, If it be good in your eyes, give me my wage or refuse it. And they established  for my wage thirty pieces of silver.  And the Lord said to me, Drop them into the furnace and I will see if it is good metal, as I was proved for their sakes. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them into the foundry furnace in the house of the Lord. And I cast away my second rod, even Line, that I might break the possession between Judah and Israel. And the Lord said to me, Take yet to yourself shepherd’s implements belonging to an unskillful shepherd. For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd against the land: he shall not visit that which is perishing, and he shall not seek that which is scattered, and he shall not heal that which is bruised, nor guide that which is whole: but he shall devour the flesh of the choice ones, and shall dislocate the joints of their necks. Alas for the vain shepherds that have forsaken the sheep! the sword shall be upon the arms of such a one, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be completely withered, and his right eye shall be utterly blinded.

June 5, 2024. Don’t let pain change you. Pain, in the simplest state, causes you to focus upon it. When you focus on the painful you overlook the beautiful. It was with joy that Christ endured the cross. Embrace the beautiful, silence the painful, let it steal from you no longer. Pain and endurance are cohabitors. Turn your pain into something that works strength for you. Don’t fall down the chasm of loss – flip the switch and thrive!

Hebrews 12:2  “and fix our eyes on Jesus, belief’s pioneer and perfecter. He endured the cross, ignoring the shame, for the sake of the joy that was laid out in front of Him, and sat down at the right side of God’s throne.” Robin Robinson Bohlin 

June 5, 2024.  I AM a creative God and I move in creative ways. Base your reality on My Word not on your circumstances. Your reality is My Kingdom, not the world. I AM releasing an explosion of power, increase, miracles, signs and wonders. A power that will accelerate and catapult and transform you and your life. It is time for you to become conscious of the power of Holy Spirit that is available to you. 

Acts 1:8 “But you shall receive power of the Holy Spirit coming upon you. And you will be witnesses to Me in both Jerusalem, throughout Judea, the distant provinces–even to the ends of the earth.” Jennifer Peikert