REMEMBER: Some Plant, Some Water, I Bring the Growth

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I hear Him say: 

My heart for you is what really matters. Let’s focus on the heart today. Your heart beats with love for me. Let my love overwhelm you again today. Let my love empower you today. Realize my love has the ability to sustain you in times of hardship. Nothing can separate you from my love. 

What if you let everything else fade away as you soak here in my love? Maybe your mind is fighting this. Maybe it’s telling you that is impossible because the cares and concerns are just too great. Truly I say to you, my love is greater than those things. 

I want you to lay down striving and choose the greater thing, like Mary. Although it may seem counterintuitive, that’s the way of my kingdom. 

Come and rest here at my feet. You need to stop trying to figure everything out and resist the urge to meddle in other people’s affairs. You need to recognize I’m their Savior and not you. You don’t need to work harder for them to be saved and cared for. No one can come to me unless my Father in heaven draws them.

When you take on responsibilities I have not assigned to you then you begin to be wearied by the weight. You have no grace for what’s not yours to carry. Stay in your lane. Refuse the pressure to take on more than I’ve given you. Remember, my burden is light. If it doesn’t feel light, ask me to show you what you’ve taken on that was never yours to carry. 

Stay focused on receiving my love. Run to me like a child runs to their loving Father. Seek first and foremost my kingdom and righteousness and everything else will be added unto you. My kingdom is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. This righteousness is a free gift of friendship with me. I’ve made you right with me through the cross. Through my precious blood. All these things - righteousness, peace, and joy - I’ve placed in your lap. Don’t leave these gifts unopened. Embrace my peace. Let it rule in your hearts. 

Don’t let other people’s journeys discourage you. Don’t judge my unfinished work in their lives. You’re not to lose heart when you see where they are now. The story isn’t over yet! Stop trying to change them. Just embrace them. Love them wholeheartedly and see me watering them through your love, through your faithfulness, through your sweetness to them.  Some plant, others water, I cause the growth. Leave them in my hands! 

Ask me how I see them. From a place of rested faith, begin to call those things forth; the things that are not, as though they are. I bring dead things to life through your words. Your words will echo my heavenly decrees. Create with me with your decrees. Decree a thing and it will be established and light will shine on your ways.  Spy into the promise land with Caleb eyes. These giants in your promise land will not outlast my word. All the promises of God are “Yes” in me and “Amen” in me. 

You are to fix your eyes on me, the God of All Hope, who makes mighty armies out of dry bones, the Valley of Achor (muddy, turbid, gloomy, dejected) a door of hope. 

“And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.” Hosea 2:15 

Ephesians 3:17

Romans 8:39 

Luke 10:38-42 

John 6:44

Romans 14:17

Romans 4:17

Job 22:28

Colossians 3:15

2 Corinthians 1:20

1 Corinthians 3:7

Hosea 2:15

Kaeley ♡