My Prayers this Morning.
First let me say, there are only 3-4 more beautiful dawns to bless me and uplift my prayer time here at this farm. While I will so miss these 3-4 hours I have everyday - I am encouraged over and over by obedience to the Lord. To seemingly, be able to "hear" His movements in my life and this adventure He has me on.
I am ready.
My next farm I am moving to is beautiful and friendly: What will my work be there? for them? and for me?
So: Pastor Jack mentioned using Colossians 9-16 as a morning prayer for ourselves, reaching out asking and thanking the Lord.
9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,[a] 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, 12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you[b] to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Well, Pastor Jack this has served me so well this day. I do seek more powerful words when I pray, and invite the Holy Spirit to in-fill me with His Word, His Directions.
There is so much in literally every breath to consider and take in from Him when we turn our eyes and heart and mind and ears....That Way. To Him only. To let Him Lead.
All I could do this morning (now more than 4 hours into my morning since Ruby and I rose before sunrise) this entire morning, is weep and laugh, muse and be shocked... oh how little I do right to please the Lord... and still, and yet.... everything I do in stillness, and slower pace - yes, I am reminded to do and be and give - to Him.
I am ready to leave here. I am at peace. I am grateful for my life and for the unbelieavble beauty and unusual circumstances the Lord grants me. I pray it continues and that it is because I am so grateful for everything that I can rightly continue to ask for "gentle lessons". Dropping the world stories around me. Ending dramas. BEING... a PEACEMAKER.
Oh the new(er) me embraces what is to come. On my birthday, I move. On my birthday, I get my NC Driver's License (What! a 6 month story!) On my birthday, I gently and gratefully close the chapter of Parkton Farm. My experience of Chubby Bird.
I praise my Lord for the gift of His Grace in saving me. Rededicated over and over and over... rededicated to serving Him. To Walk Holy. To Follow Him.
I know I have not written of Colossians, I am overfilled and can do no more this morning. I am in Love with Jesus, my Lord and my Saviour. My King. My Father. My Morning.