I was cleaning dishes on this particular day and I was so grateful for the way the Lord had tenderly spoken to me already. Worshiping Him this day was a sweet time and it left my heart so tender to Him. I was talking to Him as I did the dishes and this little poem came quickly. A couple years ago the Lord gave me the color silver to represent my year and the following year was gold. Silver was signifying a season of “redeeming the time” as I had a deep valley season that was painful and this was His promise to me during the darkness. Gold represented a year of “coming forth as gold” after such difficulties.

I did not ask for a color last year and really had forgotten to put it before Him. Not until while doing dishes did it enter my heart again. The amazing thing is that as I was researching the meaning of “green” it also meant to bloom, be fruitful, and to flourish. All which the Lord had been speaking to me recently. What beautiful ways He encourages and speaks to us! Perhaps you could ask for something, even a color, that represents your new season with Christ in 2018. Most often, we receive not because we ask not.  I learned this asking from another beautiful sister in Christ who stirred it up also in my own heart. So, I began to ask also….and He did answer:)

 

If I asked of you a color, Lord,

Representing this new year

Tell me what now it shall be

And why you choose it dear?

 

Inside my heart and mind does come

The color clear “Tis’ green?”

But tell me, Lord, why is this

The color you now speak?

 

My child, tis’ coming a season lush

With meadows fresh and green

Ripe they are and watered well

Drenched with tears and screams.

 

Some places I have set thine feet

Will be new borders too

Filled with wild and greenest knolls

And rolling hills anew.

 

For green is growth and grow you will

Deeper in Me still

While bearing others burdens too

With vineyards full that yield.

 

Fruit from many seasons past

Cultivated well

And too shall come the fallowed ground

Yielding fruitful wells.

 

Green will also have its tests

For envy comes with tales

Test the spirits sent, do sift

For some are sent from Hell.

 

Jealous bites will manifest

Dare not to turn thy back

But never fear when you are pressed

There is nothing that you lack.

 

So keep your eyes focused firm

And hear your Shepherd’s voice

For I will lead you onward still

To pastures green and moist.

 

And when in times of hardship come

Do know I meet your needs

For you will Flourish and prosper new

It’s why I’ve chosen you, “green.”

 

January 7, 2018

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Strong’s H7488 – ra`anan (green)

raʻănân, rah-an-awn’; from an unused root meaning to be green; verdant; by analogy, new; figuratively, prosperous:—green, flourishing.