HOW TO GROW ROSES IN YOUR DESERTby Kathie Walters, Good News Ministries
Wait!
Have
you ever been in a desert? I was once on a bus going across the desert in
Egypt. About 1:30 pm the bus broke down. It was HOT and DRY and BARREN. I can't
remember what happened, except that, mercifully, another bus came after a
while. There was nothing there in this desert except sand, sand, and more sand.
Is He Going to Kill Me?
Someone gave me a word one
time: "God is going to speak to you in the desert." I thought God was
going to kill me. I remembered the desert in Egypt.
Then I heard a message about
the wilderness . . . Oh God,
now He's going to leave me and let me wander around all alone for months or
years. I was busy ministering
for God, and God was moving and people were being touched and our ministry was
going great. It was a puzzle and a bit annoying. It looked like God was going
to interfere with my ministry?
Why God's Desert Places?
Why does God sometimes draw us
into a desert wilderness place? A punishment? Kind of like standing a child in
the corner? Maybe He wants to see if we can survive or not?
Let's take a look around the
desert wilderness place. You're right, there's nothing there. Great! What now? Well guess what? There's someone
coming toward you? There's something about Him that is pulling on your
heartstrings. He has all your attention now --
"I will allure her and bring her into
the wilderness and speak comfortably to her, and she shall sing there." Hosea 2:14
An old man of God I know said
this to me once: "Until you've learned to sing in the wilderness, you've
never learned to sing."
So, now this man in the desert
has got your attention -- and you remember a few things you kind of forgot.
Well, you didn't actually forget them, it's just that they got pushed into the
background of your life.
Who Is This Man?
This man in the wilderness --
He is incredibly beautiful, His eyes especially. They seem like a fire, and
piercing. And what great love -- He is so tender and gracious. You remember! He
is the Lord -- really. As you melt, a spirit of worship comes, and thankfulness
and great joy.
"Where have you
been?" He asks.
Ouch.
"Well, I was busy in your
kingdom, doing things for you." As soon as you said it, you realized it
didn't matter -- it was YOU he was interested in, not what you did. He seems so
focused on you. He loves YOU.
In verse 16 (Hosea 2), God
says, "In that day you will call me ISHI" . . . A prophetic term for
"Close relationship."
"ISHI."
He
wants to remind you: He desires a close relationship with you. You are not only
a servant, but you are His beloved. There are some things He's been trying to
tell you, too: some new direction, about renewing some relationships that you
didn't have time for, or thought you didn't; some different areas of ministry
maybe.
You
might be in a desert, but the desert doesn't have to be in you. Jesus said
there are springs of water in you, "springing up into everlasting
life." The springs begin to well up, and praise and adoration flows out of
you. Before you know it, the springs are watering everything around you. You
see things differently, you feel differently about people you didn't notice
before.
Growing Roses
When
Jesus shows up in the wilderness -- the wilderness disappears. The desert
starts growing flowers. Whoever heard of
"And the desert shall blossom like as a
Rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing." Isaiah 35:1, 2
"Then shall the lame man leap as a
hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing. For in the wilderness shall waters break
out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and
the thirsty land springs of water . . . " Isaiah 35:6, 7
That
happens when the water of life flows out of you -- and it flows as you respond
to Him. ISHI -- close relationship. The Beloved is here -- touching the very
springs of life in you.
"My Beloved is mine and I am His" (Song of Solomon 2:16).
There's
a sweet aroma now in the desert, like sweet Wait!
"Who
is this coming out from the wilderness, leaning on her Beloved?" (Song of Solomon 8:5).
Why, it's someone beautiful -- it's YOU.
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1 Like the woman at the well, I was
seeking
For things that could not satisfy. And then I heard my Savior speaking— “Draw from My well that never shall run dry.”
Fill my cup, Lord;
I lift it up Lord; Come and quench this thirsting of my soul. Bread of Heaven, feed me till I want no more. Fill my cup, fill it up and make me whole.
2 There are millions in this world who are seeking
For pleasures earthly goods afford. But none can match the wondrous treasure That I find in Jesus Christ my Lord.
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this world gives you
Leave hungers that won’t pass away, My blessed Lord will come and save you If you kneel to Him and humbly pray—
by
Kathie Walters, Good News Ministries
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