This very quiet, slow moving morning I sit.  Sipping my coffee, hearing the sounds of a lulling rain outside, Gracie, my dog, on my lap, beside my husband, my best friend, my God chosen companion, as we both read our bibles and quietly talk with our Father who art in Heaven.  Peaceful.Quiet.Contemplation
I open my bible to Psalm 45 and begin reflecting on this past year.  A week ago, one year ago, God called me to some time in prayer at ChattHOP where He showed me a vision in prayer time.  I was being dressed in very fine robes by many maidens surrounding me, they were fussing about me, tending to every last detail of my physical presentation, and when satisfied everything was in place they began escorting me into the throne room where they presented me to my father, seated on the throne.   He asked me to come sit beside him in a majestic chair to his right, and as I hesitated, he reached for me.  The throne room was full of people for as far as I could see with heavenly hosts surrounding the throne, harps and musicians occupying the backside of the throne.  At once He quiets the room and tells me to speak.  As I look pensively at him, he, with a slight of hand, invites me to speak once again with no fear.  I begin talking softly and before me a new wine skin is forming from the floor up.  The more that is spoken, the more full it becomes.  More confident, the words urge from my soul until the velvet ropes of the top appear and wine is overflowing.  Still speaking, my being is completely transformed as the wineskin envelopes me and I am standing before my father once again transformed with new skin.
This vision has been the culmination of what God has done in my life this year and the work he is continuing to do.  Each year for the past three, in December, he has called me to specific prayer.  And each time he has given me a vision or picture for what is to come.  They do not make sense in present context, but as each year progresses it manifests to completion….not my completion….but His!
This year He has surrounded me with maidens….Relationships with women of God.  Some I have known for a short time, others I have known for years and he induced a reconnection with these significant relationships.  He has revealed to me how each one has impacted and dressed my very being.  How they have influenced me and wrapped me in their prayers and taken me before the King when I did not feel worthy to be anywhere near the courts of my Heavenly Father!!  But they, throughout the years and throughout new relationships, have presented me no matter where I was in life!!!  He surrounded me with a gender that I have had a hard time making relationships with throughout my life, but he tarried on….they tarried on….in my behalf.  Never forsaking me.  He does the same for you!!!  He knows what you need and who you need in your life.
With the prayers and support and the ushering into the throne room, I have felt this year Him calling me into feeling worthy.  Worthy enough to sit at his right in a seat reserved my brother Jesus.  Can you imagine what this does to my heart????  What does it do to yours?  You have  a seat there too!  It is for all of us.  Jesus came to this earth that we may each have a seat beside our father in heaven…..a request to sit with him and to talk with him and to do whatever he may ask of you.  It just so happens he asked me to speak….He asked me to share my heart and my testimony and this has manifested this year to several groups.  And as I spoke His word the new wineskin was formed…it is forming….it will continue to form!  He is transforming my life with each word spoken….each word spoken from my heart, in his truth with grace never ending! It does not go without notice that the first two places spoken were before congregations that I grew up in….places where he was surrounding me with prayerful maidens….places where he was protecting the heart of a young girl who had been violated from the truth until his timing allowed the truth to be revealed.  His protection is Mighty and His grace even mightier!
I ask you today…..Has He called you to prayer to seek for the coming year? If He has, will you take the time to spend with your Father that He may begin to reveal to your heart, in whatever way He speaks to you, that which he wishes to share?  It will change your life and your relationship with Him!  I promise you that!