Scriptures
About Potential Upcoming
Housing
Changes
The following are some indications to me that God seems to be in the process of leading me into a different and more appropriate housing situation, due to my increasing disabilities (at least for now) and need for more space for ministry aspects, etc. The following Scriptures have been coming up over the past year or so...
Scriptures about "I am doing a NEW THING"
In the last week of Dec.2004 I got numerous words confirming I'm going to 'have lots of children' (spiritually) and Is. 49? confirming that (the passage which starts out about being hid in the quiver), and then it talks about the many children and how I would be asking 'where did they come from?'. This is just following the verse about 'enlarge the place of your tent'…(which He's been saying to me again lately)….and He's also been saying how He's about to give me more influence, etc.) . Anyway, then the passage in Is 49, which I wasn't looking for, talks about needing a bigger place for all the children!!!!
Then a couple days later Chris W. came over with some confirming words and one of them is about me being a 'mother of nations' (not exactly sure what that means at this point though it confirms things I've felt God impressing on my heart the past several years)…
Then one of the prayer fellowship groups that meets in my home were praying for my leg a couple days later and as they were praying one of them suddenly started praying about how the healing of my leg is connected to God HEALING THE NATIONS…this last part which is something which has been sooo on my heart this week in a special way (between Christmas and New Years).
And earlier the same day, as I was lying down for a nap, the part of the vs. in Job that came to mind, this time in terms of my housing, which again I was not thinking about, is in Job 36 - 'wooing you…to a spacious place free from restriction…." The entire verse is: 16 "He is wooing you from the jaws of distress to a spacious place free from restriction, to the comfort of your table laden with choice food." (NIV)
Some prayer partners have had dreams about me moving
2 Sam 7:10, 11 - "And I will provide a place for my
people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own
and no longer be disturbed (for me I feel that this may mean that I won't
have to be concerned about moving every few years cause every move, especially
with my worsening health, has been soo hard on me!)
THE LORD DECLARES TO YOU THAT THE LORD HIMSELF WILL ESTABLISH A HOUSE FOR
YOU. - this sentence really stood out to me, in fact it was the first verse
that I read...
Then this verse is one that came up when my prayer partners were ministering to me the other night, and I heard it again this morning on TV just after I had read the previous verses!!
Isaiah 32:18 My people will live in peaceful dwelling places, in secure homes, in undisturbed places of rest.
I find it interesting, too, that both of these passages talk about not being disturbed...and this just after I was nearly broken into...wondering if there might be a connection there?
I just keep getting that I'm to be continuing to prepare to move by continuing to tie up loose ends and pare down my stuff as much as I can, and I sense that He will probably move me before the end of the year...but I may be way off on that...?
Ruth 3
Ruth and Boaz at the Threshing Floor
1 One day Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, should I
not try to find a home [a] for you, where you will be well provided for?
Ruth 1:99 May the LORD grant that each of you will find
rest in the home of another husband."
Then she kissed them and they wept aloud
New American Standard Bible - Psalm 68:5,6
5A (J)father of the fatherless and a (K)judge [a]for the widows,
Is God in His (L)holy habitation.
6God (M)makes a home for the lonely;
He (N)leads out the prisoners into prosperity,
Only (O)the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
The Message:
5Father of orphans,
champion of widows,
is God in his holy house.
6God makes homes for the homeless,
leads prisoners to freedom,
but leaves rebels to rot in hell.
Amplified Bible:
5A father of the fatherless and a judge and protector of the widows is God
in His holy habitation.
6God places the solitary in families and gives the desolate a home in which
to dwell; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity; but the rebellious dwell
in a parched land.
Isaiah 52: 11Out of here! Out of here! Leave this place!
Don't look back. Don't contaminate yourselves with plunder.
Just leave, but leave clean. Purify yourselves
in the process of worship, carrying the holy vessels of GOD.
12But you don't have to be in a hurry.
You're not running from anybody!
GOD is leading you out of here,
and the God of Israel is also your rear guard.
(The Message)
June 27, 2005
I HAVE PREPARED A PLACE FOR YOU kept coming to mind
1"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God[a]; trust also in me. 2In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4You know the way to the place where I am going."
July 12?, 2005
Acts 28: 30For two whole years Paul stayed there in his own rented house and welcomed all who came to see him. 31Boldly and without hindrance he preached the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ.
This sounds very similar to my current situation in some
ways: ie. I'm renting, basically home-bound and have been for a long time...
and have lots of company and minister to people that the Lord brings as He
enables. I have the sense that I may be here for two more years?? It was the
TWO WHOLE YEARS that seemed to stand out to me...