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Dear Friend, How are you? Hope you are well. Today I’d like to share Lana Vawser’s prophetic words posted on March 20, 2023, I HEARD THE LORD SAY “I HAVE TREASURES IN STILLNESS AWAITING YOU”: Recently as I sat with the Lord, I heard the Lord say, “I have treasures in stillness awaiting you.” There was such a strong sense from the heart of God that this is a time to really position ourselves to wait upon God, to linger in His presence and to really spend time soaking in the secret place. I could feel a warning from the heart of God that was thundering loudly, “Do not be eager to rush”. There was such an invitation from His heart to be immersed in His presence and to embrace and cultivate stillness before Him: for there are treasures that are awaiting His people that are so precious, so sacred and so much deeper than they have ever received or experienced before. As I continued to sit with Him I saw that these treasures in the stillness were flowing from His heart. There was precious revelation that the Lord was releasing right now: these deep revelations and secrets of His heart were bringing forth transformation, life, breakthrough, insight, wisdom and depths of intimacy with Him that had not been walked in before. I then had a vision of many and they were living in this place of embracing and cultivating stillness before Him, and Glory was filling the places where they waited upon Him. His Glory, Majesty and Awe of who He is was exploding as they waited, as they lingered. At that moment I was suddenly taken back to a Scripture the Lord spoke to many years ago that He said would be very important and key in the new era that would come forth, that we have now entered. “And so the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses returned to the camp, his attendant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.” Exodus 33:11 (AMP) I heard the Lord speak again, “Do not lose the stillness. Cultivate the stillness, for treasures in stillness await you.” It struck me deeply again. Stillness and His people lingering before Him, waiting upon Him, without agenda, without presumption or assumption, just being with Him, and lingering in His presence and NOT running ahead, NOT rushing, just “being” is VERY heavily upon His heart right now. A dream I had many years ago then flooded back to me at that moment where I heard the Lord say, “Where are those who will linger? Where are those who will linger? For those who will linger, I will entrust with the secrets of My heart.” This is not a time to rush ahead. This is a time to prioritise the stillness before Him, however that looks for you. This is a time to prioritise the place of lingering in His presence and waiting upon Him. I was so aware that the stillness He was inviting us into was not only spaces in our lives carved out to just be still before Him, but it was also a heart posture. It was a deeper awareness of His presence, of His nearness, of His voice. It was a stillness of heart that was turned towards Him to hear His voice, to sense His leading, it was a surrendered place of stillness before Him that embraces Him, His way and leading. That sense surrounded me strongly again, “Do not rush ahead, do not run ahead.” It is imperative in this hour to be surrendered in stillness to His way, to His agenda, to His pace, to His timing and to His direction. There is a weighty beautiful sacredness of what is being poured out right now that is to be stewarded with such an open hand, such a stillness of heart to allow Him to have His way — whatever that looks like. Waiting on Him for as long as it takes for Him to speak, Him to reveal, Him to lead and direct. His Glory is increasing and will continue to increase as we wait upon Him in the stillness. I can’t recall whether it was before or after Lana posted it. Interestingly enough, I listened to Pastor John Fenn’s audio teachings, Lingering in The Presence, and he also talked about the same verse from Exodus about Joshua, who lingered in His presence. And he talked about learning from the afterglow with his own experience on learning sailing when he was young. Likewise, we should stay before the Lord, contemplate and meditate to look back. If we may take a journal, we go back over that and review it. And he talked about the story in Mark 8:11~21: The Pharisees Seek a Sign Then the Pharisees came out and began to dispute with Him, seeking from Him a sign from heaven, testing Him. But He sighed deeply in His spirit, and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Assuredly, I say to you, no sign shall be given to this generation.” Beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees and Herod And He left them, and getting into the boat again, departed to the other side. Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, and they did not have more than one loaf with them in the boat. Then He charged them, saying, “Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.” And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “It is because we have no bread.” But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, “Why do you reason because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Is your heart still hardened? Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember? When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did you take up?” They said to Him, “Twelve.” “Also, when I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of fragments did you take up?” And they said, “Seven.” So He said to them, “How is it you do not understand?” And Pastor John talked about the Pharisees’s hardening their hearts despite His miracles, and said we need to be thankful and have attitude of gratitude. And he went on to say that Mark 8:21 “How is it you do not understand?” in Greek is “How is it you do not put it together?” We need to take time to put it together, contemplate and meditate. And he went on to say that some people always say, “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” One man or woman came to him, to receive personal prophecy from him. And this person already received words from the Lord through prophets a couple of weeks back. So, Pastor John said to that person, “There is no word for you from the Father now. You go back to the words, and meditate on them.” And he quoted Joyce Myer’s words, “If you don’t learn the lesson, you will come around this mountain again.” And he went on to say that we contemplate what He has done in our lives. God is waiting there in the afterglow. When we contemplate the little bit of care He has done, we will know He will provide the same in the future, no matter what may come. I resonated with his teaching. Since I learned the importance of lingering in His presence, I took some time once in a while to read my journals I saved in iCloud or I wrote in the paper notebook. Indeed, they gave me assurance and comfort, reminding me of the Father’s goodness and faithfulness in everyday of my life. Not only that, but I also tried to re-read the books I had read, and re-listen to the sermons and teachings I had listened to. They also refreshed my memory and reminded me of precious things I would forget otherwise. This year, I read some new books in politics, temperament, and so forth, but I would definitely spend some time to re-read Eugene Peterson’s books that resonated with me so much last year. Friend, I would not ask you to re-read my blogs I posted and contemplate them. :) But if you have your own journal, too, you might want to take some time to go back and contemplate it. Whether it’s our own journals, prophetic words, the Scriptures, sermons, books and so on, I pray that you and I take some time to soak and linger in His presence like Joshua. We don’t rush ahead or harden our hearts, but put it together. We will be amazed by His blessings through that. Have a bliss! Julie My son, if you receive my words, Comments are closed.
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