Look always for My presence and not what you would wish to see

Day 235

I confess I look around at my circumstances to see what might be different with them from yesterday, what might be different with me, whether in what I say to others or how I behave when approached by them. I guess I’m looking to see results differently than I have in the past. Yet I know from Your words, and from what I believe, that You are not without motion on my behalf, not without words to move obstacles in my path, not without a presence that would change what and how I would see. But I do not see; and perhaps it is how I am looking, with what eyes am I looking, what am I looking for.

I feel as perhaps a disciple would have felt: finally a king, with presence, with power, with purpose that I could get behind with my life, only to discover that His expressed purpose was to die. How does that serve my future? How does that change anything of the past? Events following His death seemed to move as they always had. What changed?

And yet I now know much changed: power to defeat men was defeated itself; Freedom released captivity; Might released within men; Prosperity unleashed, purposeful Creation abounded. I find contentment in these whom I have met, a fullness unknown in my past, a purpose in moving forward each day. I now know also I may not see things move as I believe they should, but I have a confidence in knowing they will. I must hold here, for this is my confidence in You. For I have seen You and heard You – what more must there be to believe?

And in that place is faith, that what I have said will come to pass. Do not be overwhelmed with the timeline of destruction, though it is an avenue of prayer. Do not let your thoughts dictate as if they are truth. Do not let your heart melt as if there is no response from Me. Fear and worry would capitalize on these and lead you where you would wish not to go.

Instead cast your eyes on our times together – was there joy, a peace you coveted your entire life and now have found? Did you not see what was given to others through your hands, given by Me to you for them? Was there also enough for you? This is what we speak of together all the time: a relationship with each other, a wondrous revelation of the things of the Kingdom of God never seen by you, never experienced, yet always hoped for – they are here now because I am here now. And now you see that I have always been here now.

This is the change you have sought and have now seen in My presence. Rejoice that we are together; be at peace that the flow of our kingdom is not at rest but moves with speed to release men into purpose and power as it always has, and yet brings abundant rest with it.

And you will see that what has changed within you, what you now understand, what you now see with new eyes, you move within and will move without. The kingdom must move, and will, for we are the kingdom. Look always for My presence and not what you would wish to see, until you can begin to see as I see. Only then will you see what you wish to see, what you would create.