God Speak

I went to the beach last night to spend time alone with God, and as I was reading my bible He started speaking to me through the words... I felt I should share what He told me.

It was in Ezekiel and He was pointing out different bits of verses and telling me a story along with them. So here goes:


Ezekiel 34

(4)"The weak you have not strengthened, nor have you healed those who were sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back what was driven away, nor sought what was lost..."

(6)"...My flock was scattered over the whole face of the earth, and no-one was seeking or searching for them."

(11)"...So I myself will search for My sheep and seek them out."

(12)"...I will seek out my sheep and deliver them from all the places where they were scattered on a cloudy and dark day."

(13)"I will seek what was lost and bring back what was driven away, bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick..."

(22)"...I will save My flock, and they shall no longer be a prey..."

(25)"I will make a covenant of peace with them..."

(26)"I will make them and I will make the places all around My hill to be a blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing."

(27)"...They shall I know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bands of their yoke and delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them."

(28)"And they shall no longer be a prey for the nations, nor shall beasts of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and no one shall make them afraid."

(31)" "You are My flock, the flock of My pasture; you are men, and I am you God," says the Lord God."

God told me that those of us Christians who are freer and healed and more victorious are the shepherds (the people in verse 4 who weren't seeking etc). We have been slack, and we haven't been reaching out to our broken and defeated family (Christians) the way God intended. And we've been shocking at extending God to those yet to know Him. So God is doing it for us, going out and redeeming the people on His own without our participation. But He wants to use us. He wants to reach to the hurting, broken, captive, lost, and fearful THROUGH US. He wants us to be His vessels. And we are the ones missing out on the blessing of being used by God in a mighty way. Yeh. So lets step up, and bring glory to the heart of God.


After that God kept giving me words through things that were right in front of me in the natural.
Ok... First one:

-God showed me this piece of driftwood that was sitting on the sand just above the waterline. It just sits there on the beach, in the same place unless the ocean reaches it and picks it up...Unlike the driftwood, WE HAVE LEGS! So stand up, prepare to be soaked by the Holy Spirit and impacted in ways we couldn't imagine, and RUN as hard and as fast as we can into the River of God- the flow of life-giving water!

- God showed me the people on the pier. They walk as far as it goes, then stand there for awhile and turn and walk away. As Christians we shouldn't do that. Don't be walking to the edge of what you know in (and of) God and just turn and walk away. Go off the foreseeable edge of what you know and jump into the river of God! Let it flow over your head- don't fight it, just surrender and let the Spirit of God take you wherever He likes.

- God showed me a boat, and it had this pipe going over its side, deep into the ocean. We gotta be like that. Going *deep* into God. And we shouldn't stop when we think we've reached the end. There is NO END of God. You can never reach His limits, becuase they don't exist- so keep pushing on and on and on and on! Past the understandable and "logical", into the incomprehensible.

- God showed me a bird pecking at the crumbs in the sand, but there was a whole loaf of bread sitting a few steps away. We are like that bird. We know there is a huge extent of tools, blessings, gifts, and promises that God has given us; but instead of utilizing them, we turn our noses up at them and keep fluffing around with the selected few we know well. DON'T!! Stop being comfortable! God has given you butt-loads of awesomeness to tap into. So blimmin' use them!

Yeh. That was to myself as much as it was to anyone else.

May God supply all your needs according to His riches in glory- and may He- the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always, and in every way.

Grow in wisdom and in favour with God and men,
Love maddi