Sweep the Nations, Change the World
It’s perfectly fine to be a visionary. I’m a visionary, and an extravagant one at that. And I believe my Father is a visionary as well. This is why He says:
Eyes have not seen and ears have not heard the things the Lord has in store for those who love Him. (1 Cor. 2:9)
See, His plans are WAY beyond the ones we could ever dream of. Sunsets. Flowers. Waterfalls, mountains. Stars. Come on! Look at how grand our God is.
But what about when your huge vision from Him doesn’t look like what you imagined? What if instead of speaking to multitudes, you’re sweeping up multitudes of dust and leaves? What if instead of playing with children and loving on them, you get to spend a month with your squad and learn to love on them just as well?
I haven’t asked the question why. I haven’t even given the enemy the pleasure in me questioning what my Father is doing. Instead I’ve chosen to go lower. I won’t lie, I absolutely love attention. I love people and leading. It hasn’t been easy 24/7 to choose to love on people when you are annoyed. It hasn’t been easy being a missionary in a culture you barely understand. But I can tell you it has been beneficial.
I’ve learned this about my Father. He’s not in a hurry to get you from point A to Z. He loves to take His time with you. Holding and molding is what I’d like to call it. With Him being the Master gardener, He knows a thing or two about pruning. He knows it hurts like hell sometimes. Losing the bad can have its moments, but when He cuts off the good…that’s when it really hurts.
For me it’s been pruning of the bad and the good. Frankly the pruning of the good sucks. I’m seeing His love through it. As He cuts away even the good things, His loving embrace finds me and holds me close. Though He is molding me, He is also holding me.
But I’m seeing that I have a choice. I have a choice in choosing joy and abiding in Him during the process or deciding to do my own thing and stay where I am at.
My heart’s desire is to truly see the Nations shake in Holy fear. For young people to come alive in purpose and for little ones to know love. I desire to see women and men set free from sex trafficking and pornography; seeing bars shut their doors because people simply have no desire to be there. I long to see families restored and broken hearts mended in an instant. Eyes to be opened and the dead to be raised. And these things will happen.
I don’t dream or envision myself being a mega evangelist or anything like that. If He does it, I’m cool with it, just going with the flow. I don’t desire to start a revolution because I believe Jesus did that; I’m just joining in. I don’t desire for people to point at me and applaud me for doing something so simple in my eyes. The only thing I desire is to go lower and deeper still so that the things mentioned above will come to pass. That is why it is written in the Lord’s Prayer:
“On earth AS IT IS in Heaven,”
I desire for heaven to invade in wherever He sends me. But how could He trust me with those things if I don’t delight in the things not seen by man; such as the secret place and sweeping?
So I’m loving it. This season of pruning and sweeping. I’m excited to see the fruit He bares through it all someday! There are a lot of impromptu dance sessions during work and tons of singing. Sometimes a game or two. But it’s truly great. Through the digging and sweeping and hole punching, nations are changing. Things are shifting and aligning into the perfect place so when that moment comes, he rightfully gets the glory.
I could go on for a while since there is a ton to catch up on, but I’ll leave you hear for now with this:
“Sweep the Nations, Change the World”
Totally should trademark this…
Love you all dearly!!!
Harmony
