For God so loved the world…
John 3:16 NIV
Framed and hanging in the personal hallway of God’s heart is a family portrait of all of us; those children named in His book and gathered from every place He spoke into existence; a Father’s pride and joy He can’t help himself from looking,
Because God so loved the world.
A God who holds the world in His hands;
In His hands are the depths of the earth…
Psalm 95:4 NIV
An omnipresent God whose arms they reach from east to the west in a Father’s embrace.
And yet, from the millions and billions of namesakes seated in His family portrait…
An all knowing God…
Is so intimately aware of me…
Aware of my days.
Aware of my thoughts.
Aware when I sleep.
Aware when I rise.
Aware of my ways.
Aware of my words.
Aware of my presence.
AND
All this knowledge is too wonderful for me;
(Psalm 139)
An all knowing God…
Who numbers and names the stars.
(Psalms 147:4)
Who sees the sparrows that fall.
(Matthew 10:29)
Because God so loved the world
That he gave his one and only Son,
That whoever believes in him
Shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16 NIV
He sees me…He sees you…
An intimate God we serve.
He saw me as I sat in a packed church sanctuary one evening just a week ago (from this writing).
Among the crowd of hundreds God saw me…God saw you.
Speaking that evening was an evangelist anointed in the prophetic gifting, who travels the world unveiling the heart of God, ministering to the sick, ministering to the broken and hardened hearts of others.
Throughout the evening, God revealed himself in many ways through the prophetic gifting of this evangelist; through encouragement, healing, words of knowledge.
God saw me…God saw you among the crowds.
A personal God aware of me…aware of you…
Who spoke through a man who knew us not.
To one woman standing, the crowd and evangelist they laughed as he saw chickens too many to gather; a vision only God could have known as this wife and her husband had been praying in faith for a farm.
A Heavenly Father leaned in and touched the wounds of brokenness in marriages and individuals with His healing salve of love that night.
Prophetic words of encouragement were spoken to some which could have only been written from a pen in God’s hand, as they were so specific to the ones receiving.
In awe, God moved in our midst.
Caught off guard, the evangelist began calling out ailments one after the other, and for those in need to stand in faith to receive their healing.
Struggling not with health, I sat and believed for others in prayer.
But then God saw me.
Among the crowd of hundreds He saw me.
”Somebody with a left eye issue please stand and receive your healing.”
In great thanksgiving, I stood in faith to receive my healing.
Alarmed days earlier, I began experiencing blurred vision in my left eye when looking afar and communicated this to my husband the need to see an optometrist.
An attentive Father noticed.
Just like that, the vision of my left eye was clear again.
I basked in the joy as a little girl at Christmas that evening one week ago.
An all knowing God so intimately aware of me…
He sees me…He sees you…
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me…
Psalm 139:6 NIV
Apples of Gold Encouragement 