Beth (B) – Joy Lord, your joy. I want to feel your joy, see your joy, hear your joy, experience your joy. I want your answer to brokenness. Joy. Joy that surpasses understanding. Joy that is over the top, more than enough, joy. Lord your way, I am all in. Lord, give me your strength, love, wisdom, joy, peace, faith, belief, love, Lord. Fill me with love. For all. The hard ones, the easy ones, Lord fill me – more Lord.
With the book, do I believe you are with me and guiding me and for me? Lord, I believe you have given me unique revelation and perspective. I believe you are doing a good work. I believe there is a message that you want me to share. I believe I can with you. I believe you have a way. It is creative and different and that is part of your story. I believe. I want your way. I want to stand, believing you can use my voice and it is for your glory. I believe you have made me for this. I believe you are with me. I believe this is your idea, not mine. I believe.
God (G) – I AM.
B – Yes Lord.
G – I call you to stand. Do not be swayed or dismayed. Be still and know I AM and watch and see. Do not. Be still.
B – Yes Lord. How does that look?
G – It looks good. It is beautiful. You are not pressing. You are not anxious. You are with me on my schedule. Watch and see. It is really good. My way is easy, my burden light. Watch and see. I am giddy for you and for what I am unveiling through you. It will rock your world. All will know that I am God. It is enough. It is enough for your yes to mean yes and for your faith to be stretched and for your eyes on me and waiting to see me in my full glory unveiled in your bits. I am making a beautiful and magnificent story for you to share and it is your waiting, believing that is the climax. It is your certainty in me that is the glory. It is the truth. I AM is always good. I AM always has a plan and it is always the best way and it is always full of the most delicious fruit and it is beautiful. It is! I AM!
B – How do I know it’s you? How do I know you? How do I know when enough is enough?
G – You know. Keep standing. Keep believing. Every whisper is a place to stand. Every doubt is a time to believe. Every wiggle is an opportunity to be still and yes, I said ‘wiggle’
B – LOL
G – wiggle, wiggle, wiggle
B – You are funny Lord
G – I AM
B – LOL. Thank you, Lord, for being funny and for humor.
I am – God’s delight. God’s delight in presence, in me being with him, in life, in truth and revelation.
Zephaniah 3:17 The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.
Psalm 37:23 (TPT) The steps of the God-pursuing ones follow firmly in the footsteps of the Lord, and God delights in every step they take to follow him.
Psalm 149:4 For the Lord takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with salvation.
Psalm 18:19 He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.
Excerpt from An Encourager’s Heart