We concluded last week's Living Lesson when I asked this question: Did you know there are several “Aha” moments in Scripture?
I also gave you something to do while you waited—asking Him to reveal an Aha moment, a moment in your life when it was almost like the lights were turned on in a dark room. Did you do that? If you didn't get around to it, my guess is that you didn't ask Him to remind you. I'm being entirely honest with you when I confess that unless I ask Him to remind me, the thought or what I hoped to do never happens.
Now with that out of the way, let's begin this week by reading these amazing instructions:
“Then the LORD answered me and said, 'Record the vision and inscribe it on tablets, that he one who reads it may run. For the vision is yet for the appointed time; it hastens toward the goal and it will not fail. Though it tarries, WAIT for it; for it will certainly come, it will not delay.’” Habakkuk 2:2-3
One morning, a couple of weeks ago, I found myself just staring at that verse in Habakkuk, not really knowing or understanding why I was looking at it. When all of a sudden I looked and the words (I changed to bold) just jumped out— and that's when I looked at their meaning, literally!
For several weeks, our Ministry Team Members MTM began recording voice notes and voice messages for our MTM meetings. So when we looked at Habakkuk 2:2-3 (that I nicknamed Haby 2:2 to make a habit of it), we knew it wasn't by chance or a coincidence what was about to happen. We simply had embraced the New Year Promise He gave us for 2020 FCBH “Faith Comes by Hearing” Romans 10:17 along our Abundant Life Journeys each morning.
*Note we are not traveling a Restoration Journey now but our Abundant Life Journeys!
After we recorded voice notes for each other, we began discovering new ways He was leading us to transition to hearing each other. After so many years of us working somewhat silent, adorning ourselves as workers@home on our laptop computers, letting us keep the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God" as we were working with each other—suddenly became so easy, so light when we were hearing each other!
“Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:29-30
The next juncture in this part of my own Abundant Life Journey happened the day I was driving back from my Sunday morning on the beach. I began to hear a Living Lesson in my head that I was desperate to share with you. So at a stoplight, I opened the built-in voice memo and began recording the •)) PODCAST “Added Fear.” I recorded it from my phone and that day discovered an easy way to inscribe it.
Our HH allowed this new discovery to become integrated into my own workday and because I couldn't keep this to myself, I shared the praise of what He'd done with everyone we work with! Do you naturally share praise with everyone around you, too? If you do, if you pour into others and give to other women, you can't help but reap the blessings He promised!
“Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure—pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return.” Luke 6:38
The blessings began to really overflow to the point of flooding us with more and more wonders. We each began discovering more and more platforms we could use, sharing praise with each other.
”No eye had ever seen, and no ear had ever heard such wonders, but You did them then for the sake of Your people, for those who trusted in You.” Isaiah 64:4
Often when I woke up, after snuggling in bed with Him (as He revealed "new things to come" because I love to ask) or while sitting in the dark having our coffee together, I'd open my built-in voice memo on my phone and began recording what He'd just said.
Because He said, “Ask Me about the things to come…” Isaiah 45:11
Rather than run the risk of forgetting my voice memo, I would listen to it and type, when He revealed the next way He wanted me to yoke myself to Him. He led me to "seek and find" a way to easily record from my computer anything and everything I envisioned through the workday to share with the Ministry Team.
“Ask and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find . . .” Matthew 7:7 KJV
Recordings are amazing, but to go back to search for something that was said is nearly impossible—but "nothing is impossible with Him"! So I ask Him again to "lead me" and then just waited.
“The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; HE LEADS ME beside quiet waters. He restores my soul.” Psalm 23: 1-3
Like He often does, it's when I am weak when He showed me something else that is both so easy and so light.
“Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.” 2 Corinthians 12:10
He led me to find a tool that listened and typed it for me! A way to inscribe what I recorded, making it easy to be able for us to search and find something I'd previously said. Now, putting all these stops along my Abundant Life Journey together, read this verse again and notice what is not just in bold but where that link, that bridge, takes you!!
“Then the LORD answered me and said, ‘Record the vision and inscribe it on tablets, that he one who reads it may run. For the vision is yet for the appointed time; it hastens toward the goal and it will not fail. Though it tarries, WAIT for it; for it will certainly come, it will not delay.’” Habakkuk 2:2-3
Our Ministry Team Members began learning how easy it was for us to, "Record the vision" and inscribe it on our tablets, computers, and phones. \o/ After we record what we've envisioned, we easily use this tool to inscribe it and then share it with each other!
Why not give it a try? Record and inscribe what you hear Him saying to you. You can also add a date and then copy and paste as many promises below each vision reminding you that it's yet for an appointed time, as it hastens toward the goal, more assured than ever that even should it tarry, you can WAIT for it because you know for sure it will come, it will not delay any longer than it needs to.
Let me conclude this Living Lesson with another question: Are you sure it's not the time for you to Become a Minister in a time such as this to further your spiritual education, an education that will carry through Eternity? It's never been easier or more enjoyable!
“And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?” Esther 4:14
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