Appearances

It is not how it seems.

How does it seem to you?

Chaotic, turbulent, ground breaking, stormy.

Are these not the signs of breakthrough?

You send up a flare for rescue, yet I have given you flair.

Have I not given you your own style? Your own moves? Your own steps?

You look to your enemy for directions and yet have I not established the way. Am I without direction?

For I am not lost.

I know where you are. Have I not ordered your steps? Are you not where I have placed your steps?

Have I not called you to set the course, to determine the destination?

Am I not the author of climate? Are not the storms simply my light show?

Will I not light the way in the place of turbulence?

Have I not given you peace and it’s consequence stillness.

For I have given you peace instead of pieces, joy instead of fear.

Am I not extending the boundary?

For that which is impenetrable shall penetrate.

When you come up against it, I will shift the boundary to give you more room.

I’m just making room for you.

You shall not need to fight. For what is the point of the sword, when the lightning strikes?

Come and dine with me, celebrate with me, and enjoy the light show, the spectacle.

For I have set you upon the rock, the High place, above it all.

Come celebrate my goodness.

Zechariah 9:10-17 And I will cut off and exterminate the war chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off; and He shall speak the word and peace shall come to the nations, and His dominion shall be from the Mediterranean Sea to any other sea, and from the River Euphrates to the ends of the earth! As for you also, because of and for the sake of the covenant of the Lord with His people, which was sealed with sprinkled covenant blood, I have released and sent forth your imprisoned people out of the waterless pit. Return to the stronghold of security and prosperity, you prisoners of hope; even today do I declare that I will restore double your former prosperity to you. For I have bent Judah for Myself as My bow, filled the bow with Ephraim as My arrow, and will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and will make you Israel as the sword of a mighty man. And the Lord shall be seen over them and His arrow shall go forth as the lightning, and the Lord God will blow the trumpet and will go forth in the windstorms of the south. The Lord of hosts shall defend and protect them; and they shall devour and they shall tread on their fallen enemies as on slingstones that have missed their aim, and they shall drink of victory and be noisy and turbulent as from wine and become full like bowls used to catch the sacrificial blood, like the corners of the sacrificial altar. And the Lord their God will save them on that day as the flock of His people, for they shall be as the precious jewels of a crown, lifted high over and shining glitteringly upon His land. For how great is God’s goodness and how great is His beauty! And how great He will make Israel’s goodliness and Israel’s beauty! Grain shall make the young men thrive and fresh wine the maidens.

For I have turned the tide, that which was against you us now for you.