Abundance
It all started
a few days before
the new year –
this new thing
the Lord is doing
in my heart,
in my life,
in my very being.
While sitting outside,
scrolling on social media,
the word ABUNDANCE
was abundantly
everywhere.
“This –
this is My word
over your life
in 2024.”
In a stirring
deep in my heart,
the word abundance
and these words
started echoing together,
over and over.
ABUNDANCE
Each new year,
I pray about
a word for the year.
It’s an intentional
time with the Lord
that usually spans weeks
and includes much prayer.
That December day,
however,
I hadn’t yet begun
the yearly process –
a word for the year
not even on my radar yet.
But, there was that one word:
ABUNDANCE
And every time I saw it,
the same stirring in my heart,
the same hearing without words
the Lord speaking to my innermost being:
“This –
this is My word
over your life
in 2024.”
I have to admit,
it’s not a word
I would have ever
chosen for myself.
But I also have to admit,
when my spirit heard it –
my heart grabbed onto it
the way a drowning person
reaches out and takes hold
of a life-preserver.
And I’ve been holding onto it ever since.
The rest of December.
All of January.
All of this month, too.
And what’s been most
amazing to me
is the way that
my holding onto ABUNDANCE
has opened the way
for God to
strip away
e v e r y t h i n g
that is not of Him.
In my willingness
to receive His word
ABUNDANCE
into and over my life,
God has been
in the perfect position
to show me just how
poor in spirit
I am.
And this new found poverty,
when revealed
by the Spirit, Himself,
changes you.
It breaks you.
It humbles you.
It undoes every part of you.
It leaves you
scrambling for adequate words
to explain to others
just what God is doing.
And yet,
I know that I know that I know
God’s calling on my life
is for me to sit
at my laptop
and allow Him –
through the unveiling
of His work in my life,
to miraculously
usher in His working
in your life, too.
So, here I sit.
Not at all sure
how the posts
following this one
will come together.
Not at all sure
how to write in words
what God has
already been doing
since that December day.
But,
I do know this.
Since I’m human
and you are, too –
I have no doubt
God’s purpose
in me and for me
is far beyond me –
it’s for you, too.
What He is graciously
teaching me,
revealing to me,
dealing with me on –
I hear Him saying,
“Tell it to them.
Share it with them.
Be willing to be real
so I can do real work
in you, first –
and then, through you.”
ABUNDANCE
I am quickly discovering
it’s not at all what
I first thought it might be,
but isn’t that just like our God?
Always,
in all ways,
His ways are higher,
His ways are better.
~Stacy
