“Sorting through the junk” came from a moment of clarity I felt was given to me from the Lord while others, still considered strangers at the time, were digging deeply inwardly to cast known and unknown cares upon Him. It was during this time of worship the Lord gave me the sight to see a glimpse of how He might use me… by grace, I, His living sacrifice. Thank You, Lord Jesus.
Training camp at AIM began as a “testing of the spirits” (1 John 4,) but shortly after became communion with family through the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. In that moment of clarity, the Peace that surpasses all understanding began filling my heart, mind and soul Sunday night when the Spirit of the Lord said “Brandi, look around you.”
With spiritual eyes I began seeing things I am very familiar with. And all I did see, I knew through experience could only come from one place, the Love of our Heavenly Father. The work of the Lord through those led by the Holy Spirit was at hand before me. There was preaching of the gospel, healing for the brokenhearted, deliverance for the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, and setting at liberty those who were bruised… WOW!
MY LIFE REDEEMED FROM THE PIT, BY THE LORD, was miracle number one! Seeing it take place in front of me, within, through and for others, is CERTAINLY miracle number two! Thank You, Lord Jesus!
Well later that week we drove up to Helen, GA where we set up camp and around the fire one night I heard the Lord again, “Brandi, look around you.”
You see, within me the Lord has placed a very desperate heart, desperate to see a nation on its face before Him, desperate to see people by the masses hunger and thirst for Righteousness, and desperate to see a body, HIS body, bare fruit.
So there again, always faithful, was the small, still voice of the Lord speaking to me saying, “Look around you Brandi, for right here, ALL that you’re desperate for, begins. And as a family, HUNGRY AND THIRSTY FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, was a small portion of His body camped about the fire while one AMAZING young lady, whose name is Yvette, had her face (in the dirt,) before Him. WOW! Thank You, Lord Jesus!
And now, after a miraculous 10 days of camp and my return home, in the midst of high hopes, many prayers, and much anxiety, I hear the Lord once again, “look around you.”
It was twenty minutes ago as I stopped in traffic (rd construction,) after visiting the Suwannee River, that His Peace (again, faithfully) fell upon me. As I began indulging in the beauty I was surrounded by (that just weeks ago I prayed for,) His Spirit whispered, “Take it all in. Absorb it well. Be thankful, worrying for nothing, relaxing and enjoying the two months to come, because when they’re over, life as you know it will never be the same as you’ve known it thus far.” And so again I say, thank You, Lord Jesus!
“Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God called me heavenward in Christ Jesus!” ~ Philippians 3:12-14
