Through the Terrains with Jesus | 023
I prayed for it to be reversed just as the Lord said. I prayed those words they said would happen for it to not be and instead for this to make His name known.
How did I expect it to come out? I didn’t know I just knew I had to pray just as He said, even if it made no sense right there and then.
My husband, two daughters, and I walked this beautiful garden somewhere in Houston. I began to look at the beauty and wonder of Gods hand upon it all. The scenery was so well put together with all the aroma of roses in the rose garden and the pine trees all throughout. We walked towards this massive green hill with a curvy walkway that pathed its way all around that hill til you got to the top.
You could hear the slow flow of water flowing downhill and how it just stirred within your Spirit. As I hear the trickling sound of the water coming down, I hear the Lord say “serenity.”
“Lord, did I just hear you say serenity? What are you saying? How does this resonate with what we are going through now?”
I felt to look up the word and see synonyms and definitions of it.
Waa-laa. It all began to make sense.
“He calms my heart in the storms I face. He is my Peace in the storm I am in. He is my stillness that makes me lie down beside still waters.”
I needed this reminder in this storm that nothing can “calm” me only Jesus.
Nothing can help me, only Jesus.
Nothing can rescue us or heal us, only Jesus.
Nothing can provide and give Peace, only Jesus.
There is false securities in this world that cannot be proven or truly secure. It is only Jesus that can give us this serenity we need because He is our serenity.
Psalm 23
The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters.
He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness for His names sake.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil,
for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil, my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
This verse was memorized about 2 years back and gosh I am so thankful I memorized it. Only He knew I needed it in this time. When I walked that beautiful garden it was as if I felt the Lord’s presence right near me and this anxiety, this worry, this fear immediately fell off. He knew I needed this reminder. And the way to be reminded was by walking through a garden full of roses, (oh he knows me so well he knows roses, flowers, gardens are my place with Him), and he spoke.
Friend, this world offers very little to us. If anything, it offers us not anything at all. It is only Jesus that offers us more to this life. And sometimes by seeing what He offers, we have to walk through sufferings and trials, through terrains to actually see the beauty wonder and awe of our God.
Would you take time today to slow down and ponder on what the Lord has been showing you? Ask Him to show you again. To show you what you’ve been missing. To remind you of what He said He will do.