Had the most wonderful faith conversation with a new friend. It was purposefully placed by our Lord for sure. What would be goosebump-raising in coolness was that next level up of open faith conversation, agreement of His timing and opportunity. We had discussions of plans for listening to the Lord’s tapping on our shoulders. Others tell me of appreciation of my openness, which shines naturally they say, but I know it has taken me years of Armor of God building to fortify my base confidence and wiggle my life open. (*The wise woman builds her house*). We can appreciate that when work is traditionally hush hush to the openness, that this is a new era of opportunity, one with one conversations. Our kitchen tables and our work tables are the Lord’s Table when we remember Him!

Same awesome God, new era. This is our era other strengthening each other, of shining His Light, even if in small fractured ways. It’s still Light. And pockets of opportunities, like this lunchroom hour of openness is one of these places of refuge that the proverbs speaks about. When God shows powerful enough to open the opportunities, fear the unspoken over the spoken. Take the opportunity and listen more than speak.  Smile the willingness to want to learn. Appreciate God’s Placement and Protection. 

In the fear of the Lord there is strong confidence, and His children will have a place of refuge. The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to turn one away from the snares of death. Pvb14

I used the example of a diamond more beautiful when cut, the light hits facets in all ways. Our brokenness too seeps light out in healing,  from HIS source, and what doesn’t speak out of our mouths can still be felt in our souls via prayer. In other words, if you don’t normally put a basket over a light (your light of HolySpirit), then surely the fractured light beeming in all directions out of one’s brokenness (but still glued together) is too confusing and complicated for the devil to try to knock it all down. Let us be on the pivot plan to beam away from the blockages. Let us keep shining and light-shifting to minimize devil-sifting. 

Ah, is it that the Lord needs us to reflect Him like a mirror, a fractured mirror that shows much flaws from the devil-sifting? (Because we all have then) OR is it our Living God lives inside of us in order to SHINE OUT of the holes, WORK OUT of our hands and feet, and therefore one never sees nor focuses on the fractures, that are ever humanly present, but on the Light. That’s it, we see and feel our brokenness, but have the ability to shine anyway. So we need to devise and develop our plans of how we share this Light from the Lord, and watch His set up the opportunities. Yes.

– those who plan what is good find love and faithfulness.  – mercy and truth belong to those who devise good. Pvb 14:22b NIV, NKJV

AMEN !

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Some more good from Proverbs 14:1, 6-8, 26-27 NKJV

The wise woman builds her house,

But the foolish pulls it down with her hands.

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A scoffer seeks wisdom and does not find it, but knowledge is easy to him who understands.

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Go from the presence of a foolish man, when you do not perceive in him the lips of knowledge.

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The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

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In the fear of the Lord there is strong confidence, and His children will have a place of refuge.

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The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to turn one away from the snares of death.