By: Hanny Lynn
Stearns
Fish N Loaves Ministries, Inc.
“Multiplying God’s Word Around the
Globe”
September 19, 2016
Sitting at Jesus’ Feet
Daily
Journal from September 21, 2015
I
am sharing a journal from a year ago. I hope it encourages you.
By
looking at what I was going through a year ago and comparing it with the
progress the Lord has helped me to make now, I stand amazed at the glorious power
of God and His word. After all that pain and toil over food, I have truly
discovered it is working the word, by faith that really brings results. Time
with the Lord and in His word will cause it to happen by His Spirit. Nothing
else will ever get us there. As you read this, please know that I am sharing my
struggle and finally, my victory in the deep desire that you be encouraged to
be strong in the Lord and the power of His might! Hallelujah!
Praise
His name forever!
At church yesterday we sang the song,
“Your love lifted me”. I began to sob. I cried off and on through the service.
The Lord spoke to my heart and said I need to receive more of His love. I typed
back on my notes on the phone telling Him, “I don’t know how Lord.”
After church I went to the kitchen to
start preparing our salads for dinner. I walked over to my Bible and opened it
to the following verse…
Luke 10:42
“But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that
good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
But what
did I do? I went right back to the kitchen and continued cooking. Jesus was
calling me to come and sit with Him, like Mary did. Who but the Lord knows if
Martha had chosen to do what Mary was doing by sitting with Jesus, the whole room
of people may have received so much of God’s love that they all would have been
saved and healed!
When I
asked the Lord to show me how to receive more of His love, He said just sitting
with Him, like Mary did, at His feet and leaning against Him. Like when I hold
our precious puppy in my arms. I cradle him and rub his fur and comfort him.
That’s what the Lord wants to do for me. When I got done eating the food, it
was too much and it did not feel good in my stomach. If I had stopped right
then and there and gone into my office to sit with Jesus I could have been
filled up on His love in ways I cannot even imagine. I missed the blessing.
Lately on
Sundays I have eaten too much. So I need to see the trap. I must recognize what
is going on. We usually go out to eat on Sundays after church. This particular
week we went to breakfast before church. The food was all “good choices” but it
was too much. Seems I can’t eat much for breakfast these days - only between
200-300 calories, if that much. But I do need something. I guess some of the
overeating on Sunday has been triggered by not knowing how many calories I ate
at the restaurant, so I threw in the towel on counting for the rest of the day.
It then
became a negative mindset. “Oh well, you have no idea so just eat whatever for
the rest of the day.” But no! Jesus has a better plan! Come over here and let
me fill you with the true Bread from heaven. Take a dip in the refreshing living
water. Then I would be filled and refreshed like nothing I could find in the
kitchen.
We sat down
to get our coffee and breakfast yesterday. I grabbed the hazelnut creamer –
something I am not supposed to have. Now I had not been planning to do this but
it happened so fast. Then I proceeded to pour it into my ice water instead of
the coffee! My husband looked at me and asked, “Are you supposed to be having
that?” I replied, “No.”
I felt like
a kid who was caught with their fingers in the cookie jar, a bit foolish. I
pushed the coffee and water away and asked the waitress for a replacement, and
she kindly obliged.
When my
food arrived they had put potatoes on my plate and I had specifically asked
them not to give me bread or potatoes. They caught the mistake and quickly took
the plate away to make the correction before I could even say anything. That
was the power of God at work on my behalf. Oh the tender mercy of God to help
us in our weakness, if we will let Him!
I had
opened to Ezekiel 47 in the morning before church in the bedroom Bible.
Ezekiel
47:1-12
Then he brought me back to the door of the
temple; and there was water, flowing from under the threshold of the temple
toward the east, for the front of the temple faced east; the water was flowing
from under the right side of the temple, south of the altar. He brought me out by way of the
north gate, and led me around on the outside to the outer gateway that faces
east; and there was water, running out on the right side.
And when the man went out to the east with the line in his hand,
he measured one thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the
water came up to
my ankles. Again he measured one thousand and brought me
through the waters; the water came up to my knees. Again he measured one thousand and
brought me through; the water came up to my waist. Again he measured one thousand, and it was a river that I could not cross; for the water
was too deep, water in which one must swim, a river that could not be crossed. He
said to me, “Son of man, have you seen this?” Then he brought me and returned me to the bank of the river.
When I returned, there, along the bank of the river, were very many trees on one side and the other. Then he said to me: “This water
flows toward the eastern region, goes down into the valley, and enters the sea. When it reaches the sea, its waters are healed. And it shall be that every living thing that moves, wherever the
rivers go, will live. There will be a very great multitude of fish, because
these waters go there; for they will be healed, and everything will live
wherever the river goes. It shall be that fishermen will stand by it from En Gedi to En
Eglaim; they will be places for spreading their nets. Their
fish will be of the same kinds as the fish of the Great Sea, exceedingly many. But its swamps and marshes will not
be healed; they will be given over to salt. Along the
bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food; their leaves will not
wither, and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month,
because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and
their leaves for medicine.”
The river
of living water flows down into my soul; the valley of my soul. Once it reaches
the wound, it heals it! Wherever this living water from the temple of God
touches my soul, there will be life where once there was death. And the waste
places - the past, the old dead things will remain exactly that…the past, gone,
dead and over with forever. But I will be like a tree planted by the living
water. I will bear fruit perpetually. Fruit in abundance that will last. Rather
than lack, there will be abundance. There will be overflow. The healing balm
from the hand of God will be in my “leaves” and I will be healed.
Mark 11:20-24
Now in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried
up from the roots. And Peter, remembering, said to Him, “Rabbi,
look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered away.”
So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever
says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not
doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he
will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask
when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
Right now
in the name of Jesus I speak to the mountain of eating issues and command you
to be cast into the sea! May that tree within me, the tree of eating issues,
wither and die and never bear fruit in me again in the name of Jesus! Glory to
God! Thank You Father! Thank You Jesus! You are my Healer! I am healed! I am
free! I am fruitful! In Jesus name! Hallelujah! Your love has lifted me! Glory
to Your name!
Speaking to
anything that is a mountain in our lives is of monumental importance. That is
how we work the word. Be blessed my friends!
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