The Spirit In Words

God wants to share His heart with His people.  

And how does He do that you might ask?  Well, I believe His preference is for His beautiful creations to learn to hear His voice and then go where He leads, all with the understanding that great personal freedoms and unity with our Creator comes from that, but in this world we live in, this society of distractions, even those who are committed to following His lead can find this difficult to do.

So how does He get through to us with all these constant interruptions?  Well, lately for me He has been using words.  For a few years now we have all been seeing the mass marketed words sold at all the local "buy everything you need here" stores, and these words have great meaning to many, but I consider them sort of entry level.  I believe this art lacks a depth compared to where God wants to take us in understanding how He communicates with us.

A few years ago a dear friend got me interested in collage art, prophetic collage art, to be specific.  My personal favorite is when God puts someone specific on my heart; I begin praying about them whenever I feel prompted by the Spirit and then I get a "download" of sorts about who they are, how God sees them, about His heart for them and what His plans are for their life.  I already have on file massive amounts of pictures, phrases, words, decals and so on, so I begin rifling through all of these and I set aside whatever speaks to my spirit about this person.  From there the piece of art begins to form and through this I am privileged to become an intimate participant in encouraging, bringing laughter, and more often then not, healing to one of God's great creations.  It's a symbiotic relationship.

The point of bringing this up and what has really been brooding in me lately are the words.  Bunches of words put together designed to stir people at the very core of their being.  Words are communication and God desires to communicate with His people.  He desires to involve His people (you) in His creative thinking process.  For us to meet Him and be stirred by Him and allow Him to wake us up to an even bigger God than we have previously known. He wants to get our minds out of religious ruts, our routine ways of thinking and for our bodies and spirits to be reaching out for more of what He has for us.  Looking at words can do that.  

Looking at groups of words or phrases, such as; "Decaying Foliage Can Cloud the Water"  when seeking out things in the Spirit, can mean innumerable things to different  people, because God communicates very specifically to each one of us.  He is a very intimate and personal God.  "One Part Romance + Two Parts Passion =" can also ignite our imaginations on a personal level, maybe how we want that equation applied in our own lives; or on a very intimate, spiritual level in our relationship with Jesus.  One of my favorites that I found is "Do Hard Things".  Doing hard things is sometimes what it takes to produce sufficient change in our lives, either in the way we think, how we react, how we don't react, there are so many ways to see those three simple words.  

Some of you might be thinking, "How does this work?", or "God doesn't act like that with me", or "Wow, I've never heard anyone talk about God like this before, I wonder if I could do this".  It's pretty simple really.  God created all things, by Him and through Him all things came into being, therefore, it stands to reason that everything spiritual was made by Him and for a purpose.  We are spirit in flesh, we are made to operate in the spirit, to be aware of the goings on, to be involved in what God is doing and is preparing to do.  It's a very exciting time; doors opening in the spirit to awaken His people to things as of yet unseen.  If you are not a believer, you still have access to the spirit realm, it's just which spirit realm you choose to work with, you cannot have "good" without having "evil"; God is also a scientist, for every "positive" there is a "negative".  Very simple, you have a choice.  I know because I've worked both sides of the fence and there is a distinct difference, I have observed it and experienced it.  Being on God's side is way better than anything else out there.

I recently started a new Facebook page titled Rebelution/s.  It is designed to open lines of communication between people as to how the Spirit speaks to them when reading words.  How do they make you feel?  What stirring in your spirit did you feel, or if you even felt anything?  To be able to read how others were affected, what they thought or felt, what those words reminded them of,  to help wake people up to a new way of God communicating with His people.  Through words He stirs me to no end; reminds me of people to consider, helps me communicate better with my kids, gives me opportunity to feed into other people and often He brings me revelation of what He is doing, or wants to do in His church, His people.  I want to be a part of that intimate moving of the Spirit and I'm hoping this page brings others into that desire also.  That may seem like a shameless plug for my new page, but I really am so passionate to watch God communicate and to see doors to hearts & minds opened.

So on that note I leave you with these words: 







What can you do with them?