SPRING FORTH NOW 2024

Sunday, October 6, 2024

Then the angel who talked with me returned and woke me up, like someone awakened from sleep.  He asked me, “What do you see?”  I answered, “I see a solid gold lampstand with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven channels to the lamps.  Also there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.”  I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”  He answered, “Do you not know what these are?”  “No, my lord,” I replied.  So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty.  “What are you, mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground. Then he will bring out the capstone to shouts of ‘God bless it! God bless it!’”  Then the word of the Lord came to me: “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this temple; his hands will also complete it. Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you.  “Who dares despise the day of small things, since the seven eyes of the Lord that range throughout the earth will rejoice when they see the chosen capstone[a] in the hand of Zerubbabel?”  Then I asked the angel, “What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the lampstand?”  Again I asked him, “What are these two olive branches beside the two gold pipes that pour out golden oil?”  He replied, “Do you not know what these are?”  “No, my lord,” I said.  So he said, “These are the two who are anointed to[b] serve the Lord of all the earth.”

Zechariah 4 (NIV)

As hard as we may try, trying to do what God would want us to do, sometimes it looks like we are not moving our circumstances anywhere, and if we are honest, we feel like God has forsaken us and/or we question whether we really know God as we think.  It is at the edge of our human limitations that we must admit our inability to do that which is required to move our circumstances to the place where we believe they should be and, as a result, Open Up The Way and release By God’s Spirit to control.  It is ok to come to and accept your limitations; you may not be able to see what God said should be will be nor the people, places, and things around you, just keep pressing, and it will be accomplished By God’s Spirit.  By God’s Spirit, what looks like little things that did not amount to much, God is connecting those things and bringing them to completion together, working it all out for your good.  Don’t worry nor fret; you will achieve what God has intended for your life, it will not be by might, not by power, but By God’s Spirit.