Change. Healing. Dawning.

I'm coming to you today with a lot of change happening, healing occurring and a dawning approaching.

Life lately=messy... but here it is. I, in all honestly, have been in a season of sensitivness and confusion. It has been hard to understand what is happening and in doing so has created my heart and soul to be quite sensitive. I believe the Lord however does have a purpose for this time and it has been on my heart to share this here and hopefully reach someone who may be in the same season as I. So lets do this together...

Healing is tough.

Healing is hard.

Change is difficult.

Change is uncomfortable.

A new thing coming is scary.

A new thing is a bit painful.

But throughout this time I have learned they all often go hand and hand. This morning while in prayer the Holy Spirit revealed to me the thought "your full healing from your past is necessary for the change and dawning coming..". Hello 5am time with the Lord. I love how he speaks so clearly to me in the morning time. But as I thought about it; it's true. The next season is all new. A new town, a new home, a new job, a new lifestyle. God has called us to this place and we are going; and we know his heart is for it to be fruitful. But how can it be fruitful if I am stuck worrying about what is left in Cedar Falls? How can it be fruitful if my mind is thinking thoughts of "what if" all the time. How can it be fruitful if I am not fully present there. And this is where the healing lies within.

What do we do about that and how do we know when we are healed from things? At what point do we just move forward? When does revisiting our past provide the healing we need versus providing a time of fellowship with the enemy? These questions have literally been invading my mind and I just wonder if we as humans cling so closely to our past that it is impossible for us to even walk in the newness that God has called us into. Even if your past doesn't look like it fits a "traumatic" past, we all have gone through things, experienced grief and been let down; and those require healing. So whatever hurt or pain you are carrying from your past; we all share it together.

And we must walk through it... lets look at the Bible.

The people of Israel have to move through the wilderness to get to the promised land.

The people of Israel have to move through the Red Sea to escape pharaoh.

Jesus has to go through Samaria in order to get to the well so he can meet the Samaritan women who then becomes the first evangelist of the gospel.

Throughout the entire bible we can see that they went THROUGH things; going around caused more problems.

So yes we must be people that move on and have the faith that the Lord can do miracles, but also he will walk with us through things like he also did then. And once he has walked with you through it all, we are to be people that do not live defined by it. Because the enemy wants to define by all the scars of your past; Jesus wants to define you by HIS scars. You know how we know that?

Lets look at the Bible,

2nd Corinthians 5:17

"therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!"

Isaiah 43: 18

"Forget the former things; do not dwell in the past."

Philippians 3:13

"Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,"

All throughout; the Lord doesn't tell us to cling to our past. He doesn't tell us what you've done will define who you are.

We must look toward what God has for us, be excited about it and not dwell on what "could be" or the "what if" if we don't step into what God has put ahead for us.

We must FULLY step into the call God has for us, thank him for our past and how he has crafted it and walk in confidence for what is ahead.