sons of korah part 1 by Kandi Bahr

Breakthrough by Kandi Bahr

Trusting in the Process

Arise and Shine for the Glory of the Lord has risen among you.  Isaiah 60:1

We come to a point in our lives where we have to BLINDLY trust God!  In Hebrews 11 verse 1, we are told that FAITH is the evidence of things HOPED for but not yet seen.  Hmm...that pretty much sounds like your blindly hoping for something. Then in verse 6 of the same chapter, we are told that it's IMPOSSIBLE to please God without FAITH...

So what does that mean?  It means that there is a process to receiving a promise...and seeing it through to completion.  In that process, a change must take place in order to get to the other side of the anticipated fulfillment.

Let's look up the word PROCESS.  It's a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end: To perform a series of mechanical or chemical operations on (something) in order to change or preserve it: -Oxford dictionary

Let's look at some examples of Processes....Since this is a blog and not a book, We are going to focus on just one example today.  In the next few days, we'll look at some other examples of processes.  We are all in a continual process.  We are CHANGING/TRANSFORMING from GLORY to GLORY (2 Corinthians 3:18).  We need to EXPECT and KNOW that this process is going to produce CHANGE.  In the Change, there will be isolation, darkness, death, growth, new life, transformation, hope to reach our purpose of promises fulfilled.  It's a cycle of life and I don't think we realize that it's normal to count it all joy through our various trials and testing.  Process is truly for our own good.  We are to count it PURE joy when we are in these processes...(James 1:3).  Let's look allegorically at a seed and its process of transformation.

1.  a SEED

Do you see how a seed must transform through a process that deliberately changes it through a growth process.  A seed has potential to become a plant.  One of the first steps a seed must take in the process is being thrust into the dark-solitary-confinement of isolation.  In that darkness and isolation, it literally begins a dying a process.  It has die in order to live.  Wait, doesn't the word say something about that?  For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. (Philippians 1:21)  The plants process is called photosynthesis.  The process by which green plants and certain other organisms transform light energy into chemical energy.  During photosynthesis in green plants, light energy is captured and used to convert water, carbon dioxide, and minerals into oxygen and energy-rich organic compounds.  So much science going on there...but to break it down simplistically...change, change, change.

I wrote this journal entry when the Lord began revealing to me how planting a seed is an act of faith.

O Lord, I am knocking on the door of expectant hope.  I am seeking you in love.  I am asking for the desires of my heart.  In this journey of planting seed in the garden of earth.  I am asking for my garden to be fruitful.  Let it multiply and fill the earth.  Even though I cannot see nor understand, I am believing that I have received the sprout of new life.  I am filled with hope.

HOPE - Psalm 145 - Blessed are those whose hope is in the Lord their God.  Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.

My hope is in you and you alone, my Lord.  You are my delight daily-minute by minute; hour by hour.  My thoughts are on you continually.

Proverbs 28:20 - A faithful man or woman shall abound with blessings.

The image I see is of a well-nourished, soil-enriched garden.  The dirt and ground are ready for the planting of the seed.  You spill the seed deep within the earth.  Cover the seed with the soil and wait in expectation.

Is the seed/plant-life -living-breathing even if I can't see it?  What is taking place in the depths of earth?  Will this seed produce a living, viable green growth?

Is it not living just because we can't see it?  Does the spilled seed produce life on its own or is there already life (DNA) within the cell's structure?  Does the plant become a plant once the seed is sown into the earth and covered in deep utter-darkness?  If you would take that same seed filled with potential life and sealed with complete DNA and set it on a table top would a plant begin to grow?

NO!  There needs to be a process of planting before the hope of expecting can even begin.  Once the sown seed is planted deep within the earth and covered with the soil.  The process of creating new life immediately begins.  Once the conception of seed meets soil, water, and sun; many, many things begin within this new creation.  New growth-new life begins. 

Even if we can't see the miraculous taking place, we have HOPE or EXPECTANCY that within weeks our FAITH in this garden will begin to sprout new life that eyes will begin to behold.  But until our eyes behold the green sprout of new life, we have to walk by faith; DAILY trusting in the miracle of God's government of creation. 

What happens if we dig into the soil and pluck this tender growth from its safety and protected capsule?  It will wither and die.  Hope deferred makes the heart grow weary (Proverbs 13:12).

Farmers know how unwise it would be not to have faith in planting and harvesting.  They know there is much FAITH, HOPE, EXPECTANCY when gardening.

Faith is a must in the waiting game.  Farmers know by experience once the seed is planted, new life begins.  Seeds of Hope and Expectancy.

Job 8:19- "Behold, this is the joy of His way, and out of the earth others will grow."

Job 8:16-18 - They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden, and entwines its roots around a pile of rocks and looks for a place among the stones but when it is torn from its spot, that place disowns it and says, "I never saw you."  Surely, its life withers away and from the soil other plants grow.

So are you in a process now?  Are you feeling isolated and lonely?  Do you see nothing but darkness?  It could be that you are in a process of learning to hope and trust in God alone.  It could be He wants you to call out to him so He can show you great mysteries.  He promises, He will never leave you nor forsake you. 

Father,
I pray for the ones going through a process.  Touch their hearts. Let them not grow weary in doing good.  I ask Lord, that you comfort those who are mourning, give them beauty for ashes, joy for mourning.  Surround them with your glory.  As they are being kept in the cleft of the rock, may they experience your glory.  Touch them with your presence and cover them in your glorious light.

Honey from the Rock

 (This is a link to a song that we sang during our time of soaking.  May the Lord fill you with expectant hope today to believe He is faithful and will complete the good work he began in you).