Good morning, good day everyone. Today is day 15 in our journey together and this one
is entitled Solving Problems. Beloved one, I call your spirit to attention in the name
of Jesus of Nazareth. Listen with your spirit to the word of God for you. Consider it pure
joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds. James 1.2. His intent was that
now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers
and authorities in the heavenly realms according to his eternal purpose which he accomplished
in Christ Jesus our Lord, Ephesians 3.10-11. Restful one, your culture centers around avoiding
problems and greatly values happiness, which is defined as having others take care of your
problems. That is a delusion. God placed Adam and Eve in a garden in a perfect environment
and a perfect relationship with himself, yet he created a problem for them to take the
resources of the garden and the resources of their relationship with him to the rest
of the world and to subdue it. You were designed by your father to face problems and solve
them, not just to escape them. The problems God has designed for you to solve will bring
the greatest treasures in your life. People are remembered for the problems they solve
or the problems they create. I bless you with being remembered for the problems you solve.
I bless you with wisdom and pure joy when you face different kinds of problems. Whatever
problem you face, I bless you with rejoicing in the situation instead of complaining and
turning back. Restful one, I bless you with the faith to look at problems through your
father's eyes and realize that every problem he brings you is an opportunity to experience
his faithfulness. Ephesians 3.10-11 assumes that many colors of problems will make known
that many different colors of God's wisdom to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly
realms. God has an infinite amount of wisdom and there are colors of God's wisdom that
you do not yet know. He will position you so that he can bring new problems into your
life and you can reach deep into your father's wisdom and find his multifaceted wisdom to
solve the problems that he brings you. When you do that, God releases through your life
a color of wisdom that you have never seen. God will gain great glory and the evil rulers
and authorities in the heavenly realms will suffer great loss and great grief. Problems
are the playing field for the wisdom of God to be displayed. There is a time and a place
for God to display his favor, for him to lift you up out of a tight spot, to rescue you,
to lift you to a safe place above your enemies. There is a time and a place for God to give
you favor in the eyes of people who should be your enemies. But there is a greater joy
than either of those. That is the joy of discovering God's wisdom that flows in solving problems.
I bless you with not having a welfare spirit within you so that you do not look to someone
else to solve your problems, but that you rejoice in accordance with the Word of God
and consider it a joy to receive from the hand of God new and different colored problems
and you will search out the wisdom of God to solve those problems. I bless you, Restful
One, with rising to the challenge of finding wisdom. I bless you with perseverance to dig
in the Word of God as if you are looking for gold and silver and jewels. You have to
move a lot of dirt to find new jewels, but their value is worth the effort. I bless you
with the endurance to press on, to study and to look, to find those jewels of wisdom that
will reveal new things of the nature of God. I bless you with perseverance to seek out
solutions. I bless you with refusing to develop a theology of failure, never settling for
something that is a contradiction to Scripture. I bless you with not buying into the enemy's
lies to settle for an armed truce rather than a real victory. I bless you with perseverance
to spend decades, if necessary, searching the Word of God and the mind of your Father
to know the truths that will set you free and set others free. I bless you, Restful
One, with having the mind of Christ so that you can see things from His perspective and
see solutions.
that others can't see. I bless you with wisdom to embrace God's painful solutions
to problems. I bless you with the anointing of Mary of Bethany, who
received the truth that the crucifixion of Jesus Christ was imminent and it was
good. May you have the wisdom of God to embrace his solutions, although they may
seem bizarre or painful, and nobody has ever walked that way
before. I bless you, restful one, with a trailblazing anointing to do things
that have never been done before, revealing the wisdom of God, and in
that anointing to have the great joy reserved for those willing to embrace
pain. I bless you with the joy of fulfillment, which is not available to
those who are merely trying to be happy. I bless you with the joy of discovering
the wisdom of God and the mind of Christ to solve them. I bless you with
his joy, in the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
How interesting, Lord, to have a passage like this in the midst of the transition
from having the rest intensive and the rest lifestyle into a place of solving
problems. The conundrum and the mystery, Lord, of when it is that we're to be
still and wait on the Lord and when we're to act, when we're supposed to wait
in all things that have already been accomplished on our behalf and the
things that are going to come to us, versus hidden in all of this is a
step of faith that is the catalyst of action for faith and the manifestations
of your promises to come to bear. I don't propose in any way,
shape, or form, Lord, to have a clue for these people or even for my own self at
times to be able to peer through what seems like a murky or a fogged glass to
look ahead, especially at our own lives, to know at times when you're giving us
things for us to solve in a place where you're mentoring and growing us up and
to be sons or daughters in your own likeness, versus a time when we are to
sit at your feet and wait for you to act. Today, Lord, I pray that there be
innovative, colorful solutions, Lord, aspects of your wisdom, aspects of the
seven Spirits of God, aspects of who you are and the fullness and the display of
the spectrum of your Spirit in our lives that it says that the Holy Spirit
will search the very depths of the knowledge and the wisdom of God and that
there be aspects of those things that we can almost taste that we have never
experienced before that will shed a light on problems and situations and
even relationships in our lives as if we're seeing it for the very first time,
just like when we read a scripture and we hear something for the first time, as
if we've never seen it before.
Yesterday, I think it was yesterday, Lord, you woke me up really early and at one
point I, in my desire to sleep in on a Sunday, I noticed that I couldn't
sleep and it was 616, and for some reason I felt like I needed to turn to John 616
and it's just before the famous passage of when you describe communion and a
good bit of the disciples leave you, it's a very important passage to me, and it
was when you were walking on the water and the disciples were in the midst of a
storm, they were frightened, they saw you, they were frightened, all of this I knew
and that they were much comforted when you got on the boat, but the part that I
saw for the very first time was that it said immediately they were on the other
shore, immediately they arrived at their destination. Wow. As if for the
very first time, I just read that passage I don't know how many times, for the
first time I saw it. Lord, I pray today for each of these that are learning to
rest in you, in sublime confidence in all that you are, that Lord that you're
also standing and walking
next to them through, in a way of raising up and training through specific trials,
specific challenges, specific things that were designed for each and every person
that is under the sound of my voice today, including myself, including Ashley.
That there be innovative solutions. Lord, it's been said many times by people that there are whole rooms of things in heaven.
Some say that there are arms and limbs that are waiting to be grown out.
Other talk about there being this, what they would call the realm of creation,
where there are, where all of the things that are in creation now came from,
that there are things in that place that have yet to come to earth, yet to manifest.
Some of those things are, it is implied that there are things, innovations, understandings,
just like Daniel and the things that were sealed up until a time,
that there are things that have been held up through all of these years,
that no one has ever thought of, no one has ever done, no one has ever created,
that you have waited until right now to release, and that some of those people,
all of them to some expect, that are under the sound of my voice,
are called in this time to start to reveal, to be entrusted with,
and to be a conduit and a catalyst for these things to make it into the earth.
That your kingdom, Lord, is wanting to come through very different,
various different avenues and greater spectrums of color and completeness,
that Lord, we would go from the time of having a black and white television to 8K and 20K and 40K,
and that we are called to see in a spectrum that has never been seen or experienced before.
Some of the challenges that are in our lives today, Lord,
are inexplicably linked to your conditioning, your pruning,
and into your development of who we are and to prepare us for the season ahead,
that the challenges that are in our lives at the moment are the challenges that are meant to prepare us
and to instill in us the things that we don't have for the next season.
So Lord, I pray today that you would stretch each of us to wrestle with the idea
that we're not just lucky, we're chosen.
When you read in the synagogue,
you know, I have been anointed, I am anointed,
that Lord, that we are anointed and appointed, but we are chosen.
And in that place, to wrestle with the idea that you chose us,
knowing all that we would do, all of our hangups and mistakes.
There's a friend of mine used to say that, you know,
that with all that you knew, that you chose us in a place
and that there are things that you are wanting to entrust us with
and that you know far more than we do about who we are and what we're capable,
especially capable in you.
So Lord, whether you're calling us to rest or you're calling us to act,
that there is a place of resting in you and who you are.
That we can sit, whether we're sleeping, whether we're running, walking, working, or playing.
I pray, Lord, that there is a place of resting in you and who you are.
Walking, working, or playing.
I pray, Lord, that there be a place of encounter today with you in some form or fashion.
But Lord, that today, Lord, that you would provide a new light, a new hue.
Like they talk about in photography, the golden hour.
That just causes the perfect picture, that there be a shifting in the light, so to speak,
for us to be able to see things from a point of view, a vantage point that we never did before
and that, Lord, it would give us confidence.
As it says, don't even worry about what you will say because the words will come to you.
Give us confidence to step out knowing, to face new challenges without the solution in advance
because we know...
not just who we are, but whose we are and who is with us.
And finally, Lord, it's the image. I keep looking at this
painting across my office, this picture. It's actually Ashley's picture. It's of a mountain,
but I keep seeing the face of a lion in it. And it reminds me of this clip.
And I don't, there was a, there was a mountain lion that had,
uh, I'm sure many people have seen this, but there was a mountain lion that had been,
uh, that had cornered a cub bear. And the cub bear is scared. It's in their water. It's wet
and it is outmatched, but it can't run any further. And it turns the face,
you know, the, this mountain lion. And, uh, it starts to do its seemingly small and pitiful
roar and, but it's scared to death. And all of a sudden the eyes of the,
of the mountain lion get big and turn. And of course there's this confused bear. And it's
the fact that the mama bear is standing on her legs behind, behind the cub.
It wasn't the cub. It was who was walking, who stood behind the cub that struck terror
into the mountain lion, Lord. And that there is an aspect of that where you, the Lion of Judah,
are walking with us. And that Lord, it'd be known far and wide into every realm of every,
of every dimension that who it is that walks with us. Then that Lord, that if we can somehow
come to a, a settling within our own selves of who is really walking with this in might
and in strength and signs, wonders, and miracles, but also in just innovative solutions,
as it talks about here, and it'd be known, sought after.
There was another person, I don't want to make this too long, uh,
forgetting his first name, Comenius. And he was an educator, Christian, well beyond,
he was like the modern day, a lot of education initially was, came and derived from him. He was
just so far beyond his time in education. And he became so well known that the, I believe it was
the King of like Saudi Arabia or, or, or the like wanted to hire him to do their education.
And of course he said, well, you know, I'm a Christian. And the man said, I don't care.
Huh. Oh, Lord God, this world needs to see and to witness a full experiential
encounter with you. And not just of the spiritual kind, but in the places where it meets their walk
in the road, where the rubber meets the road, that Lord, there'll be such a communion with you.
That Lord, that, that people are drawn to all that you do through us as ways of people being able to,
that we would be known as really as the sons of God, and that we would be stretched into a place
of really understanding what that could possibly mean and how that might manifest. That just like,
I think it's George Comenius, uh, just like him, Lord, that there'd be such a place of walking
in and with you, known for solving problems, known for being able to, to be, uh,
to give counsel to Kings, to presidents, to leaders, that there'd be such a, a, a place,
a distinction, a branding on our life, such a track record, such a history, Lord God,
that it would draw all people in some form or fashion in every way to you. And to know
that you walk with us. We walk with you. We bless you. And we love you, Lord in Jesus. Holy name.