I like this one, too.
Strange As It May Seem
Susan Cummings
Strange as it may seem, you are not failing in your pursuit of Me. Just because the walls of opposition have raised and have stood in full array against you, does not negate your progress. It actually reveals it. For nothing comes by chance or by accident, but I do all things on purpose. These trials have served to settle you and firmly root you in Me.
You need the opposition to bring you further into Me, and to show Me through the issues, so that others can see Me in them, as you deal with them. I teach you through the things you suffer and the things you learn. It is also the way others follow. For all of My People learn through each other. This is why you cannot stand alone, nor live apart from one another.
Each step builds upon the next, which is the foundation for the next, and the platform from which you will climb upwards. Without each step, you would not arise unto Me and expand in your understanding. Every situation has it’s trial, it’s good, and it’s grace. Look at it through My eyes, and see My will for you. Embrace it and bring it into your heart, for within it, is my treasure to you.
Many want My treasures, but don’t want the opposition that it takes to make the treasure. They are formed through much fire, pressure, and yielding to My hands. Not many stay upon My wheel and allow Me to turn it till I am finished, but it is always My Purpose to create a perfect work. You are My perfect work child.
Take every day as a gift from Me, and see it as a journey of transformation and perfection. I do nothing half way or with faultiness. It is those who look at themselves through their own eyes, that see their faultiness and their humanity. But when you look through My eyes, you will see My handiwork, and will rejoice. My Standards are much different than yours, and I have a higher purpose than you can fathom, and a greater purpose for your life than you can yet embrace. But trust Me to bring you to completion, and yield to My hands.
Everything has it’s season and I am moving exactly where I want to in your life. I am moving through My Body, and showing My handiwork, as it comes forth out of you. Each of you will display Me, as I work through you. You are My great and strange work in the earth, and many will marvel at what I will do through each of you in the days to come.
Think it not strange that I am working behind the scenes. It is the greater works that are now being established within you, and when I am finished, they will come forth out of you. For I am working a great, and very deep work, that I alone will be glorified in, and seen through. So, rest in Me. I am moving.
Keep drawing near to Me, and stay your heart upon Me. Quiet yourself before Me, and allow Me to finalize My ministrations to you, and in you. For surely, what I have been forming within your life, will come forth in this season.
-Susan Cummings 5-2-05 12:29 am
http://groups.msn.com/CummingsFamilyAdventures http://topica.com/lists/JustHisWordsI Love this one from Somers' site:
Through
Judy Bauman
5/7/05
RivermistLighthouse1@comcast.net THROUGH
On April 29th while reading a teaching by Johnny Enlow entitled, You Have Not Passed This Way Before, I had a quick vision. Given the fresh ‘bread’ found in his article, I found this vision like frosting on the cake. You can read it in its entirety at:
http://www.injesus.com/Groups/ViewMessage.cfm?MessageId=PB006Z4S&UCD=jbk Vision: I was talking to a person standing in front of me. The Lord was standing behind me. I became transparent. The Lord reached His hands THROUGH me and lovingly embraced the person. He then pulled the person THROUGH me and to Himself. End
Now while I thought it was interesting, it happened so quickly it hadn’t really occurred to me that I had just had a vision. As I continued to read the article, there was a word that jumped out at me. The word was all in caps and it was the word, THROUGH. It stunned me for a second as I thought about what I had just seen. This is what the sentence declared:
“We have so limited the Holy One of Israel and we will be astounded at what He does THROUGH us in these last days.”
The sense I got from the Lord about this vision was that I, being representative of the Body of Christ, was talking to an unbeliever. It seems clear the Father wants us, as His Body, to be transparent so that He can draw the lost to Himself. We live and move and have our being IN Jesus. Being IN Christ and doing things THROUGH Him is how we fulfill the call to be His ambassadors to make His appeal and carry out the great commission given to us each. Our commission is found in Matthew 28:18-20:
And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
It also paints a clear picture of John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except THROUGH Me.” NKJV (Emphasis mine)
It is my desire to exhort you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, fully pleasing Him. I pray that you would be fruitful in every good work and increasing in knowledge and all wisdom and spiritual understanding of God. May you walk worthy of Christ who called you into His own kingdom and glory. He has anointed you to be His ambassador. Jesus is making His plea to the lost THROUGH you so that they may be reconciled to God the Father THROUGH God the Son.
Jesus taught that we do this by walking in His grace and truth THROUGH Him, for He is the Spirit of truth. It is knowing the truth and walking in the truth that sets us free. First gird up your loins with the belt of truth, continue to dress in God’s armor, and walk in the truth of God’s Word. Please see Ephesians 6:10-18 and John chapters 14-17 for further insight. A deeper study of the word THROUGH will thoroughly bless you. Remember that the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Grace and peace,
Judy Bauman