The Spiritual Journey 2024 – Day 18: We must lay aside the weight and the sin if we are to endure.
”Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.“
Hebrews 12:1-2 NKJV
When I change the calendar over at the beginning of each new month, the Lord gives me a scripture and/or some direction in terms of what the month will hold. The thing is, when December was over, I went four or five days into January without changing over to the new month. It was as if there was some resistance on the inside of me, some dread in terms of January 2024, but I didn’t know exactly what it was.
When I finally did turn the calendar over, the Lord spoke to me to write, “The Lord sees and knows and will disclose.” As well, I wrote, “What was hidden is seen,” and at the top of the calendar I wrote the word the Lord had given us for 2024: “Resolve.” I was also led to write the word, “pivot” on January 25. I did not know that this was the day of the Jewish New Year for Trees.
Now, the reason that holiday is significant, is that the Lord had spoken to my sons about that indicating the season Ararat Church was entering in 2024: a season of harvest, and of eating the fruit.
When I wrote “pivot” on the 25th day of the January calendar, I had no way of knowing what the 10 days preceding January 25 would hold.
As you know, the spiritual journey experience happened during an extreme illness my husband and I had starting the week before the week of the 25th. Amazingly, it was on the 25th that I would experience the last destination in the spiritual journey. The day of “pivot” would certainly be just that.
Yesterday I shared with you about the movement sometimes referenced as “Kingdom Now.” And, as I have said, I had close relatives who were very influential in that movement. However, I never embraced that theology. I have always continued to look for the coming of Jesus Christ. I have always continued to know that the answer to the ills of the world are in the rule and reign of Christ. And, the Lord had shown me several years ago that the message I was born to give is: