Don’t get up from the operating table wile the surgery is ongoing:
The Lord seemed He almost had to hog tie Israel in the wilderness from leaving, and thats usually what will happen in times of anxiety.
I’ll admit in these last seven months there’s been several times I have looked for ways and sought for ways to hurry this transition, because the longer we stay the more is being stripped away. Recently, I felt saying to the Lord there will be nothing left if this keeps happening.…I heard the Lord say very clearly, saying "Exactly”.
The wilderness is a season God puts His people in to strip them of everything they held dear, and for God to be their only source of sustainable life.
The crushing is never an easy process.
I heard an old missionary who experienced a revival in South America many years ago say….
"We want revival and it’s glorious but when does God come, He sees your heart in half and says here’s you!”
How many times have we left the wilderness and God wasn’t done yet? We wanted to hurry up and get into a ministry. The temptation is to think we are ready because of what we endured, and there can’t be anything else for God to strip, but that is where we can’t allow our feelings and emotions to get in the way of His open heart surgery. That’s what kept Israel in the wilderness longer sometimes because their feelings kept getting in the way, and that sometimes can be the last thing crucified!
The Lord is preparing us and it may hurt a lot at times, but in the end, He will have a vessel He can work through to achieve His purposes.