Christ has gifted us each through the power of the Holy Spirit. We must become a people…a church…who recognize and learn to use His gifts to strengthen the brethren and become vessels used for soul winning. I am finding He is showing me such subtleties in “seeing.” The broken of heart will rarely tell you they are broken. Of course this is not always the case..but many are broken in hidden silence.
The enemy has successfully, for the moment, dragged them away.
Tell me….are we looking for them? Have we allowed Him to have our eyes?
It’s the “knowing” of pain when there is no real evidence. The swell of the Holy Spirit within us that tells us one is not “ok” although they say they are. It’s the glance toward someone that slows in motion as He allows you to see that which is unseen. Sorrow deep in one’s eyes. A countenance that is low. The shuffling through a purse in an attempt to dig for money for lunch as you watch them walk away with nothing. It’s the one missing from your view. How is it we learn to see?
The Word tells us in Isaiah of Christ…
“And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD..”
Christ has given us all we need …but we must ask Him to help us see..help us hear…then help us go.
I have spent countless hours asking the Father to train me to “see..” Oh God give me eye salve that I may see as it says in Revelation. ” Where are the broken? The afflicted? The captives? “Shelly, they are all around you…I have given you eyes to see…watch and pray..then go when I go..”
I can tell you this training to “see” will come through fire. There is no other way. There must be an authentic heart’s desire to see the broken. Out of sight out of mind seems to be our human nature. Not because we want it to be…but because it’s hard to look at brokenness. It’s messy…it’s uncomfortable…and we feel inadequate most of the time. Yet we have been called to bind that which was broken and bring back that which was driven away. It will take time….and lots of it. You and I will have to lay down our lives. Have we?
First…we must WANT TO SEE… but if Christ lives within us….we will not be satisfied with not seeing. A desire to SEE requires LOVE. Love that snatches from the pit those stuck…Love pursues… it is wreckless. Love sacrifices pride, resources, time, and self…..
The Lord began singing me a new song this past week. It will go to production soon but I didn’t feel He wanted me to wait to share the message He has sent through it. So for now…the lyrics are most critical. May it burn in your heart..and may we learn to see what Father Sees…
I’ve Seen What Father Sees
© 2014 Shelly Wilson/320 Publishing
She’s the one running for the door
But it will not open fast..
Panic Stricken, her heart’s still sore
The tears are coming fast.
Oh that pain, yes it’s closing in
Oh will it ever pass.
She is weak from the long long nights
And her endless lack of sleep.
Oh I’ve seen, I’ve seen..
I’ve seen what Father sees..
Yes I’ve seen, I’ve seen..
I’ve Seen what Father sees..
She’s the one with the smiling face
But her eyes no longer dance.
Joy has left her nose and cheeks
I see she no longer laughs.
In the silence she sits and waits
For another who might see.
Who would come and please rescue her
From the chains of the enemy.
Oh I’ve seen, I’ve seen..
I’ve seen what Father sees..
Yes I’ve seen, I’ve seen..
I’ve Seen what Father sees..
She’s the one once was strong in speech
But her voice is lost in need.
Covered by daunting whispers…lies
She sinks to a darkened grief.
She’s the one missing from the fold
Who in awhile has not been seen.
A missing stone who has left her home.
Oh God won’t you help us see..
Cause
Oh I’ve seen, I’ve seen..
I’ve seen what Father sees..
Yes I’ve seen, I’ve seen..
I’ve Seen what Father sees..
Do YOU see? Do YOU see?
Do YOU see what Father sees?
Do YOU see? Do YOU see?
Do YOU see what Father sees?
Isaiah 58
58 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy reward.
9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:
11 And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Oh Lord…help us be repairers of the breach…
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