Raging Waters

"His feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and His voice was like raging waters." Revelation 1:15


I have always wondered about this particular verse. I had no problem with the feet part...and I love how this verse sets aside "refined in a furnace" for us. I believe the feet represent our walk..and our walk is ALWAYS being refined in the furnace of affliction! Amen! However..the part about raging waters always made me pause..and wonder. Until this past week. Let me explain.

As we all know, flood waters have come to Jersey, overflowing one of the rivers most of us grew up around. And like never before, the Passaic River is on a rampage. For those of us that have visited the site, it is most spectacular...that word is the only one I can come up with. The way the mist hits the rocks and sprays upward..the fast moving current..and the fact that the water has surpassed its banks and flooded streets, parks, and is almost at the bridge level is far too much for our minds to understand.

But NOTHING compares to the SOUNDS of the RAGING waters going over the Falls. If it weren't for the 5-0 (police) I would take up my blankets (and 9mm--JUST kidding) and sleep outside those Falls. The sounds are too glorious to sit here and describe. You would have to experience it yourself to grasp the event. I received a "revelation" about what is written in Revelation, thank God. It was not so much what I HEARD that moved me....no...no....no. It was what the noise DID INSIDE of me that grabbed me and pulled me into such a deep place with GOD.

You see, those sounds...the cracking of water plummetting 80 feet downward displayed one thing to me: POWER. And that is what GOD showed me. His voice, when it speaks, the voice of "raging waters" exudes POWER just in its projection. OUR LORD"S VOICE OF RAGING WATERS SPEAKS OVER OUR LIVES TODAY. When the enemy comes in (...ha ha how awesome is this..)LIKE A FLOOD..the LORD will raise HIS standard against him. I believe like never before that when the LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH ROARS OVER US.....EVERY SATANIC POWER IS BROKEN THAT HAS SURROUNDED US AND IT HAS TO FLEE.

I have been under several different attacks in the past few weeks...too deep to describe. I sought my help in prayer and fasting before my God. There were times I was too weak to fast..but guess what..the VOICE OF RAGING WATERS spoke to others, and they fasted on my behalf..or prayed fervently (without my asking)..and here I stand today-COMPLETELY LIBERATED. How humbling. How amazing. How priceless is that Precious Voice that roars over me. And simultaneously, as He ROARS against my enemies, He lulls my spirit to rest like a baby in its Father's arms...while singing over me (Zephaniah 3:17). I have been restored.

How about you? Do you find yourself in a current of temptation? How is living holy going for you? It is not so easy sometimes..not when this world TOTALLY contradicts everything we believe in. It can weigh us down..consider Abraham and Lot..how the Bible says they were tormented in their "righteous spirits" due to the evil of their day. What about Christianity? Have some saints hurt you by their actions, their words, their lack of sensitivity to your pain? Forgive them..as Christ forgave you..and allow the Lord to handle it.

Until then, never, ever, ever forget that HIS LOVE TUMBLES DOWN OVER EVERY ROCK IN OUR LIVES THAT THREATENS TO ANCHOR OUR SOULS TO THE BOTTOM OF THE RAGING WATERS. AFTER ALL, HE IS THE ROCK, AND THERE IS NO ROCK LIKE JESUS TO "BASH" OUR ENEMIES AND TURN THEM INTO FINE DUST.

Lord, give us a deep understanding today of how wide, how deep, and high, and how long your love washes over us.


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