This season of advent, I am pondering on the importance of presence. A few days ago I had a really good call with a friend and colleague who explained to me how her year went. It was one of those check ins I was so thankful I honored in the midst of my hectic year end schedule. It wasn't a meeting where I was asked to produce anything, or where I was pouring into someone(these are all really important meetings I regard highly), it was a meeting where we were both reflecting on our 2022. I think these types of meetings as we close the year are really important more than work and productivity meetings because they rejuvenate us in ways unimaginable.
In that exchange of a conversation i shared some things God was laying on my heart with my my friend, I could tell it blessed her. During the conversation, she also shared some of the things she has learnt this year. I then had a light bulb moment. It seemed my colleague had already stepped into her new season and she had done some reflecting something I hadn’t done yet. The meeting helped me realize that I hadn't really started reflecting on my year and I wanted to. I thanked her after our call for honoring me with her presence. Since then I’ve been thinking about how the most important thing you can gift someone in this advent season is the gift of presence. A few weeks ago in my quiet time with God, I was speaking to Him about relationships and the journey of healing. I sensed the Lord speaking to me about presence once again. The Holy Spirit stirred in my spirit that the most important thing you can give me in this season is your presence. Whoa where did that come from? I thought we were just talking about relationships Ha! God always has a surprise for you when you honor Him with presence! I reflected on the word I heard that morning, and thought "Well isn’t the most important relationship one with God?". I think about how the angel Gabriel visited Mary and revealed that she would be the chosen one to carry our savior Jesus. Angel Gabriel isn't just any type of angel, He is a high ranking angel that is sent out for such powerful messages and as we know this was the most important message mankind had been waiting for the arrival of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ! I wondered what it must have felt for Mary but the fact that she honored the presence of the angelic visitation I could imagine even in the midst of how this conception was to happen, that she received some peace especially reading from her response"“I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her." Luke 1:38. Mary understood in that moment the gift of presence. Later on she goes to spend some months with Elizabeth (Luke 1:39-56) and Elizabeth honored Mary with presence in a time where she needed her the most. I think about these months of winter that can be so cold and dark, and sometimes many may feel lonely during the holiday season, and the importance of honoring presence. The uttermost presence we must honor is the presence of God and the next being honoring the presence of His people. In this season I wanted to offer some tips on how I am being intentional about honoring God's presence and those around me. Here are some ways I ensure I gift the gift of presence
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A season of revelation, reflection and rest. A season of TRANSFORMATION.
Believe me for more: Ephesians 3:20-21 don’t limit what I can do for you in this season. The more you expect of me the more you will see in this season. It’s like Christmas all around us! Gifts, Gifts and more Gifts are being released! Don’t count yourself out! I am doing a new thing. Isaiah 43:19 Don’t be tied to the things of old. Forget the past and allow me to show you the new. Don’t bring old baggage into this new session. This is a season of great manifestation of my move. I will show you great and mighty things in this season. Jeremiah 33:3. This is a season of great manifestation. Understand with a new season you have to discern your new terrain you can’t do things like the old so with new wine comes new wine skin. Don’t allow old habits, attitudes beliefs to contaminate the new thing I am doing in your life. Isaiah 43:19 Mark 2:22 New wine into old wine skins won’t last learn to rely on me for your capacity in this season. You are my precious ones, you are my chosen ones. Hold each other with great care and always look to me. I see and have heard all of your prayers and there will be manifestation. Continue to remain on the narrow path, your fulfillment of my purpose for your life depends on it. You will bear fruits in your life when you abide in me, continue to press in in this season. I am doing 11th hour miracles in this season, perceive the impossible because I am able to do exceedingly abundantly above all you can ever ask or think. Believe me for more miracles, more intimacy, more manifestation of my promises over your life. I will never leave you draw near to me and I will continue to draw bear to me. Seek me with your entire heart and you will find me. Do not allow your spirit to become contaminated. You are my beloved. Not qualified vessels buy vessels that are yielded to HIM! This is your Shiloh no one goes to SHILOH and returns the same. I have equipped you for the new season ahead. You will face many adversities because of this ascend but you shall overcome. You are my beloved. |
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