I feel like this blog will be a short one but I want to share my word
I feel the Lord has given me for this year and to also share the verse in which has helped me and so I am holding on to this year during all seasons.
My word for this year is:
Restoration
The dictionary defines is as – the act of restoring, renewal, reviving or re-establishment. Restitution of something taken away or lost. A putting back into a former position or dignity.
I feel the Lord gave me this word in all my processing and quiet time from the last month. I wrote a blog about it click here for it:
http://www.ashleyhewitt.theworldrace.org/post/panamanian-reflections
I feel now as I’ve come into the new year and I am now also coming into a space and place of seeing what has gone before and it now no longer dictates my action or influences my decisions, it’s all experience.
When I look back at my past and to things that have gone before. All I see now is the Lord whereas before I felt a burden and responsibility to own and carry those things for the rest of my life.
I see me in Him, I see His goodness, rewriting the story, my story. The feelings I use to have would eat me alive and honestly weigh me down so much, now, they are gone, washed away. I don’t feel the shame I once did all because of His restorative power in my life.
I’ve been reading old testaments recently and I’m reminded of how the Israelites had the same process happen to them, they had done evil and turned away from the Lord but it came to pass and they were restored beyond recognition because that is just how good the Lord is and his promises to us!
I know now that the Lord is bringing me into deep affection, expansive freedom, that his plan and purpose now has room to grow and I will be able to carry and understand His ways, whereas before I know I would have doubted and been overwhelmed.
Now watch and see, taste and see that the Lord is good, restoration is coming ten fold and I feel it and believe it!
So moving on from that I hold on to the promise that He is making the way ahead clear and i could never count all the ways in which he has and is loving me and cherishes me. That he created me for such a time as this! And then the Lord goes and blows my mind all over again with this picture of His promise to me!
The verse that I’m holding onto for this year is from the passion translation of Hebrews 4:3 which states:
“For those who believe, faith activates the promise and we experience the realm of confident rest”
I feel more at rest and peace than I have for a long time, this year I want to continue to choose to dwell in His rest and peace even though I have no clue what is coming and it does make me a little nervous. Please continue to pray for me that the Lord will grow and stretch me in all ways.
I leave you with a really cool fact I found out recently. I have been reading Leviticus this past couple of weeks and did some research and found out that this year and the year just gone are celebrated by the Israelites as the years of jubilee. Biblically in Leviticus we see how the Lord revealed to Moses what was to happen in the year of jubilee – you should for sure check it out, chapters 25-27. Instructing the people to return to those what belonged to others, releasing slaves and giving back to those who were foreigners in their land.
RESTORATION!
WOW!
How amazing is God that He is bringing restoration to my life and others all while celebrating the year of jubilee – His joy and delight! I LOVE IT! I’m choosing to celebrate and be joyful in the process and I want to challenge you to do the same!
Blessings 🙂
Ps wasn’t a short blog at all, LOL
