Turnaround

Turn around.

Just turn around.

Just look around.

You remember this moment now.

Now is the moment.

This is the moment.

Excuse me while I have a moment.

For I am turning everything around.

As you turn, I am turning with you.

As you turn you expect your position to change, your posture to change.

Yet as you turn, I am turning with you.

For they shall share your perspective.

They shall see your perspective.

Like the moment you proposed to your beloved.

A centrepoint tower, you sat at the revolving restaurant, your position did not change, your perspective did not change, but those in a different position had a changing perspective.

You asked me for evidence, you asked for a sign, you wondered when you would see evidence of my handiwork, my hands at work.

”Oh that is fantastic news, as this will make the processes even more effective.”

Did you ever expect to receive such a comment from the one most resistant to change, most resistant to process?

Never in my wildest dreams, Lord!

Yet you see it again now don’t you?

Your hands move and I move with you, like a conductor directing the symphony.

What was once discord, now in harmony.

For your beloved reminds you to play the melody of the stream, to compose yourself, to compose – yourself. To make a new composition. To assemble the assembly, to tune in, to tune up.

How can this be Lord!

Yet you feel it now don’t you.

You want to turn around but you cannot turn back. You want to turn back, but as you turn the enemy turns to you, responds to you, has regard for you.

For in the moment of great unity, in the moment of the coming together, coming to gather, the world watched on as you turned, as you turned to your beloved and said “will you marry me?”

For just as I have brought you together, I will now bring you to gather.

For what you have regard for, shall now be regarded.

For as you turn, they shall turn towards you.

For as you direct, they shall be directed.

For as you push for a change, the change shall come.

As you push the world responds to your turn.

As you take up your position I will cause them to move their position.

2 Chronicles 20:17 You won’t have to lift a hand in this battle; just stand firm, Judah and Jerusalem, and watch God’s saving work for you take shape. Don’t be afraid, don’t waver. March out boldly tomorrow—God is with you.”

For now is the moment.

In this moment I am causing a turnaround.

Psalms 118:5-16 Pushed to the wall, I called to God; from the wide open spaces, he answered. God’s now at my side and I’m not afraid; who would dare lay a hand on me? God’s my strong champion; I flick off my enemies like flies. Far better to take refuge in God than trust in people; Far better to take refuge in God than trust in celebrities. Hemmed in by barbarians, in God’s name I rubbed their faces in the dirt; Hemmed in and with no way out, in God’s name I rubbed their faces in the dirt; Like swarming bees, like wild prairie fire, they hemmed me in; in God’s name I rubbed their faces in the dirt. I was right on the cliff-edge, ready to fall, when God grabbed and held me. God’s my strength, he’s also my song, and now he’s my salvation. Hear the shouts, hear the triumph songs in the camp of the saved? “The hand of God has turned the tide! The hand of God is raised in victory! The hand of God has turned the tide!” 1 Kings 18:30-39 Then Elijah told the people, “Enough of that—it’s my turn. Gather around.” And they gathered. He then put the altar back together for by now it was in ruins. Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes of Jacob, the same Jacob to whom God had said, “From now on your name is Israel.” He built the stones into the altar in honor of God. Then Elijah dug a fairly wide trench around the altar. He laid firewood on the altar, cut up the ox, put it on the wood, and said, “Fill four buckets with water and drench both the ox and the firewood.” Then he said, “Do it again,” and they did it. Then he said, “Do it a third time,” and they did it a third time. The altar was drenched and the trench was filled with water. When it was time for the sacrifice to be offered, Elijah the prophet came up and prayed, “O God, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, make it known right now that you are God in Israel, that I am your servant, and that I’m doing what I’m doing under your orders. Answer me, God; O answer me and reveal to this people that you are God, the true God, and that you are giving these people another chance at repentance.” Immediately the fire of God fell and burned up the offering, the wood, the stones, the dirt, and even the water in the trench. All the people saw it happen and fell on their faces in awed worship, exclaiming, “God is the true God! God is the true God!”