Littlestone was studying scripture as was his custom. He looked at the Word of God as his daily bread. He would forget to eat but not the Word from Heaven to fill his heart and mind with the goodness of God.
He was studying and asked his Heavenly Father, will we know when the writing is written on the wall? We live in a very comfortable country, full of prosperity and a lot of distractions. The blessing from Your hand can steer many away from Your purpose for our lives that are found in Christ Jesus.
Will we know when the writing on the wall is right before us in bold letters? Then the new thing has just come out around the corner and we loose our focus on You and what Your gaze is on.
Please have mercy on us…..All things are not okay if it is quiet as written in Zechariah……I know Father God, You have zeal for Your people.
For we are as sheep, stupid, dull and blind to the wiles of the evil one. He plays his pride tricks on us and we fall into a ditch thinking nothing can happen to us in this country……
Littlestone wondered if the King in Daniel’s day thought the same thing until the finger of God appeared and wrote on the wall…..MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN….….The interpretation of each word as Daniel spoke……MENE- God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it; TEKEL: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting; PERES: Your kingdom has been divided and given to the MEDES and PERSIANS…..(Daniel 5).
That same night as the writing on the wall was given, the king lost his life as well as the Medes and Persians took over the empire…..
Holy Spirit speaks to us many warnings and directions…Littlestone was very grateful for His constant Companion and Director of his little life….He was concerned for the nation in which he lived…..He prayed for all that call on his King’s name, seek Him with all their heart….NOW.
The signs are everywhere but are they muted out by the blue skies and abundance of anything we could ever want or desire. He asked, are we forgetting to seek the only real Sustenance we need?
You, our God Almighty and King are our fulfillment of our searching heart…Nothing else satisfies.
When we wait before You, Lord, we are not waiting for You to answer us……When we wait before You, we are here to listen and absorb You within us. When we behold You, we become in Your image as written in Corinthians…..That is our Answer and our real need and hearts desire….
You always answer our requests found in prayer and fellowship, but there is more……
We do not want to be found lacking before You in Your Day or this day….
As written in Colossians 2:6-10:
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and grounded built up in him,
strengthened in the faith as you were taught,
and overflowing with thankfulness.
See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy,
which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces
of this world rather than on Christ.
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,
and in Christ you have been brought to fullness.
He is the head over every power and authority.
He continued his thought as he got into the car to go to the Hill Meeting. Meeting with the God who holds everyone’s breath in His hand and owns all our ways, and have we glorified Him through this knowledge as Daniel spoke to the king regarding the writing on the wall?
He knew that we cannot be full or complete on our own….We will always be lacking but God in His great mercy gave us His Son to dwell and live our being in today……
One of God’s sons wrote in 2 Corinthians in 13:11, 14: Finally, brethren, farewell, and be complete. Be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. AMEN!
A new thing that comes our way will never allure us, if we are rooted and grounded in Him…. And found in our heart to be satisfied with all of Him. When we received Holy Spirit, we did not receive a dab of Him…..The fullness of God was put in us….
So why do wait before the Lord? His fullness will overflow through us. His presence kicks out our old man, our old self….His creation of the newness of Him exceeds death and fills us with His life….Resurrected life….in all of His abundance…..We have been given His mind…..We have been given all we need to live a life of filled with His purpose and be His overcomers….Nothing missing or lacking because in Hebrew- shalom, peace, is being complete in Him, nothing lacking or missing. After all, He is the Prince of Peace.
He remembered Paul spoke over the Philippian church in chapter 1:9-10: And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ.
The more we gaze and put Him first, the more we will not be found wanting…..
We will know and live as we are found complete only in Him.
Remember, Christ will be all and in all…..All else will not be…..
He is the I AM…….now, yesterday, and in the forever tomorrow and beyond all ages.
Sit before Him and hear Him.
Sit before Him and allow His peaceful comfort surround you. If the peace is not there, deal with what His finger has placed His weight on…..Repent and stop it!
Sit before and think, this is where eternity takes over time in me.
His Word is everlasting and never ending and He dwells in you. This reality is true; Only if you put His Word in you will you realize His way in your day to day and night to night!
The Old Testament was regarding the outside of man; the New Testament is all about Christ indwelling man and living through man bringing glory to God Almighty….
Behold and become the image of Him. We are offered to partake in the One who holds every breath of everyone and thing in His hand…. Your name has been also written in the palms of His hand….
His love will never fail…Trust Him and sit before Him for your Life breath and being found complete is in Him…alone.
Is He enough? If you cannot say yes, then I question if you know Him….If you know Him, for me, I can never get enough……
Who can eat one potato chip? Exactly! This is like being with the Uncreated One….He is more than enough. All the days of time will never reveal an adequate measure of Him in His goodness and greatness and love towards us.
Is it easy to sit before the Uncreated One?…..No, leaving the world realm to enter His peace takes practice of dying to the world…..Once He has helped you to know the difference of His reality and the other or ours, then….you will quiet the world to amplify His ways and presence. Discipline, discipline to be His disciple…….But to be infront of One who watches and knows all things about us and allows us to worship Him and pray and lean into the One who knows what is to come is worth all.
A little lost puppy or stray never complains to be at his master’s feet on the floor. He is grateful to be allowed to be there and very grateful to be rescued. He lovingly gazes up at his Master for there is no better love found then right there. He has found his purpose.
Littlestone thought as he pulled over to write these thoughts down….
I want to immerse in all of Him……Abide in the Vine and bear fruit for all of eternity.
Be found complete and not lacking.
Again, he prayed, may all read the first three chapters of Revelation and find your place and walk with Him in living out the overcomer of the world in His cadence.
I can hear the heart beat of heaven and it is getting louder and louder.
And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one; I in them, and You in Me, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me, ( John 17:22-23).
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SELAH!!!!
(perfect means complete- nothing missing and nothing lacking)