Lost for words

Lost for words

When you are lost for words, take mine, speak mine.

For I have much to say.

For I have opened your ears to ear.

You need not go looking for the right words.

You need not pause and consider what to say.

Just open your mouth.

Did I not give you lips?

Did I not give you the means to speak?

Was it not I that taught you my language?

Does it not give you such joy?

Does it not make you laugh so hard?

For out of the abundance of my heart you speak.

I love it when you try to enunciate the words, and you cannot, you cannot adjust the words, you cannot say something different. When you try you just burst into laughter.

It was so funny, it was hysterical!

For when you know not what to say, just open your mouth.

Have I not put my words upon your lips?

Be bold.

Cry aloud.

Speak up!

Spit it out man!

Don’t be shy about it.

Reflect not upon your capacity, you capability, just use mine!

Seriously, have I not got your back?

Did I not promise to give you the words!

Is this not the word for you?

Jeremiah 1:4-10 Then the word of the Lord came to me [Jeremiah], saying, Before I formed you in the womb I knew [and] approved of you [as My chosen instrument], and before you were born I separated and set you apart, consecrating you; [and] I appointed you as a prophet to the nations. Then said I, Ah, Lord God! Behold, I cannot speak, for I am only a youth. But the Lord said to me, Say not, I am only a youth; for you shall go to all to whom I shall send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Be not afraid of them [their faces], for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord. Then the Lord put forth His hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, Behold, I have put My words in your mouth. See, I have this day appointed you to the oversight of the nations and of the kingdoms to root out and pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.

Don’t talk to me about what you cannot do.

Am I not the author and the writer of this story!

Have I not appointed you!

Do you really think that you can attempt this without me?

No Lord it is beyond my ability, the thought of it overwhelms me.

Are you not the work of my hands?

Are you not my handiwork?

Have I not chosen you?

Have I not designed you for this task?

Are you not my key that unlocks?

In this time of lockdown are you not the one to bring release!

Just be.

Seriously just be.

Let go of all your worries, and Let’s go!

For I have given you divine strength that no hostile power can overcome.

You shall be my Goliath.

It is time to call out your enemy.

It is time to beckon him forward.

For he has no power.

I have taken away his power.

He goes to move his arm, and discovers that he has no power, for I have robbed him of all strength.

He looks upon your natural strength and laughs, yet he know not what power I have given you.

Have you not seen my hand in action, over and over, over and over, over and over, over and over, do I need to go on and on, on and on, on and on about it!

Before you ask me, I have already answered.

You think to yourself, this will be a slow trip, yet in a moment the unexpected happens, that which stands in your way, for no reason pulls over, turns away, moves from your path, or in a blink of an eye you are in front of that which stands in your way.

It feels like a dream to you.

It feels like it is not real, you arrive at your destination ahead of schedule, and wonder how it was that you got here so fast.

After all this time, time after time, time after time, time after time, you pause in wonder “how can this be?”

For I have chosen you for this purpose.

In your weakness, despite your weakness, despite your failings, despite your unbelief, despite your nature, you are the one I have chosen.

Expect EVERYTHING to be different now.

SO different now.

Unexpected.

Unbelievable.

Accelerated.

A flood of blessing.

Blessing upon blessing, blessing upon blessing, uncontainable blessing, an overflow, beyond the boundary, beyond the limit of your thinking, your vision, your dream.

Get used to a new normal.

Things happening so fast that your head will spin.

Yet this will pass.

How much do you enjoy acceleration?

Amazing, wonderful, such a rush!

Yet why so concerned about what I am doing?

You can talk to me about it…

These words echo in my ears – “have you ever driven something as fast as this before?”. My immediate response was “of course”, and my mind flashed back to overtaking 5 cars when I had planned for only one! I remember the absolute speed, the rush and then the sound of an alarm as I have reached the limit of that gear.

And yet there was more that you felt at that moment wasn’t there?

I remembered the smoke that poured from that same car, broken because I did not have the money to service it, the running from the car as smoke pervaded the cabin with my young kids in the back. It was a shock to the system, such a great loss, like my enemy was laughing at me, mocking me, telling me WHERE IS YOUR GOD! I retreated back, I stepped back, I was taken aback in that moment. I retreated back into myself. I buried my hope within, I covered my joy, I hid my very self from that moment. How could it be that I had fallen so far?

Yet I have spoken these words to you – ARISE.

For this is the time of much gain, ALL gain, beyond all you can imagine.

What is it like for you now, when you drive your joy machine?

I feel so unworthy of your love. I drive along and see all the cars that I considered or would have settled for. Each desirable in their own way, and yet what I sit in is so far beyond all I could have asked for!

It is time to take off the sackcloth, and to rise from the ashes.

You know what it is like to see the look of joy and delight upon the face of your beloved.

For it is your delight to bring her delight.

It was so difficult for you to see her struggling to see herself as you do.

It was like you wanted to give her an injection of some love drug, some joy drug, some wonder drug, so that she would feel all the wonder and splendour of who I have made her to be.

It is such a delight to see her in all her glory.

You would love to give her everything her heart desires and more, yet why is it so difficult for you to receive my love?

Have I not forgiven you all your failings, have I not expressed my love sufficiently?

I have gotten so used to living with limitation, with loss, with pain, with rejection, this is so foreign to me.

Yet through all this you gained me, here you sit with me, I love it when you sit with me!

For this is the time of the turnaround.

Back to front.

From behind to in front.

From hardened to strong.

From wounded to healed.

From rejected to the cornerstone.

From destroyed to rebuilt.

From retrenched to elevated.

From disavowed to chosen.

From robbed to restored.

From subservient to majestic.

Watch and see.

Watch and see.

Look for my delight on display.

For in you I will display my delight.

Manifesting all my delight.

My desire manifest.