MK
“It’s been so long, Lord.
So much has happened
since I last
sat at my keyboard
to write.
Where do I even begin?”
And I hear His Spirit . . .
“At the beginning, sweet girl.
Just start at the beginning.”
April 11
Out of the blue,
but in God’s perfect timing,
I received a message
from someone
near and dear to my heart.
Someone I have known
almost their entire life –
since he was
about eight years of age,
but someone who
sadly and regrettably
I had been out of touch with
for nearly the last thirty years.
The message
from a now forty-one year old
was without a doubt
a cry for help.
“I’ve been dealing
with a lot lately.
I need your prayers.
I could use
God’s divine protection.
My mind is always against me.”
He went on to explain
the struggles he’d been having –
one of which
was extreme paranoia
and the fear
of being outside
of his home.
Then the tone
of the message changed
as he began to thank me
for all I had been to him
over the course of his life.
His words hit
h a r d –
especially since they came
wrapped in fear
and what sounded like
a goodbye.
I messaged him back
and told him
I would love to see him.
I let him know I would
be in his area
for an upcoming retreat
in a couple of weeks or so.
He replied he would
love to see me, too.
Since he was afraid
to leave the safety of his home,
he ended our conversation
by giving me his address.
ABUNDANCE
This is the word
God spoke to my heart
as my word of the year
for 2024.
Along with this verse:
The thief comes only to steal, kill and destroy.
I have come that they might have life,
and that they might have it more abundantly.
~John 10:10
As the words from my friend
collided with this truth
spoken by The Word, Himself,
I began to understand
the intense battle
of good vs evil,
of light vs dark,
of fear vs freedom,
of life vs death
as never ever before
in my fifty-eight years of life.
And I longed . . .
and in my deep longing . . .
began to plead
with The One
who spoke abundance to me
to begin to speak life
and life more ABUNDANT
to my friend,
my precious friend, MK.
“Lord,
I can’t even begin
to imagine
being so afraid, –
how fear of this
magnitude
day in and day out
would be pure torment.
Oh sweet Jesus,
to live secluded
is not the kind of living
You died to give us.
Please Father God,
please speak ABUNDANCE
over his life,
into his heart,
through every fiber of his being.
Oh, precious Lord,
hold his hand in yours
until I can be there
face to face
with MK
and hold his hand in mine
as we pray to You
together,
side by side.”
And so began
my praying
without ceasing –
in ABUNDANCE,
for this precious soul.
The gifts
God so graciously
lavishes on us
are given so that
we can then –
like the Father,
lavish them on others.
God had been faithfully
pouring ABUNDANCE
into my life
this year,
now, it was my turn,
through His Spirit,
to be a vessel
through which
He could pour
ABUNDANCE
into the life of MK.
~Stacy
This post is the fifteenth post in the ABUNDANCE series.
The first post is “Abundance”, followed by “FULLY LOVED”, “In a New Light”, “Less is More”,“Choose Life”,“Run to The Father”, “Keep Looking”, “Doubling Up”, “The Referral”,“The Question”, “Death Brings Life” “Surrender” , “I’ve Got a God For That” and “Live Out Loud“
