I am reminded today of a time that I had walked through the eye of the greatest storm I had ever known or imagined in my life. It was a time in which I held so tightly to the only hand that had never let go of me, the one whose hand, while I could see and hear the raging storm all around me would keep me and protect me. Although I never doubted that God would see me through this time, I was left with many questions and in need of much healing. As things began to calm and life began to have some normalcy again, I started having dreams that were so powerful and completely amazing to me. They brought me a great sense of awe and humility. I was literally seeing the future that God has planned for me. At first I was so excited that I couldn’t keep it inside, people thought the trauma was taking its’ toll. People always have an answer to that which they don’t understand, have you ever noticed?
After reasoning had time to set in, I began to talk to God about it. I shared my thoughts and feelings with absolutely no one other than God. I thought Lord, now it has all passed, what now……. is this it? Are my dreams just me, and not you at all? Is my conscious trying to make sense of it all and that’s all this is? I spent a whole week reasoning through these things and by the end of that week had convinced myself that what I had been seeing was not God at all. The following Sunday Morning, the pastor that was ministering that day gave me a word. He said, “ God says that the things he has shown you, He did show you and he is going to show you more soon. As he shows you more, these things will come into clear view and they will come to pass. You see he allowed you to walk through the storm because he EXPECTED to see you reap a harvest of Great Joy! Everything that the enemy has stolen from you will be repaid seven times, even better relationships than before.”
He EXPECTED!!! WOW! My father knew that I would make it through! I didn’t know and almost didn’t make it. It felt like a bolt of lighting went through my body when I heard him say that he EXPECTED to see this from me. You see when God talks about a harvest, above all else he refers first to the lost. The road that I had walked was a road on which I experienced everything that was the exact opposite of what God had planned for my future, with God protecting me through it of course. In order for me to reap the harvest that he plans for me to reap for him, I had to conquer the opposition spiritually in advance. We can not reap what we do not weep over and labor over. We also can not reap that which we have no understanding or burden for. You see we are allowed to plant, water with tears, and then harvest in great joy!
Psalm 126:5-6 “Those who plant in tears will harvest with shouts of joy. They weep as they go to plant their seed, but they sing as they return with the harvest.”
You see after every war, there is a gathering of the spoils!!!!!
