A
word that I sensed that God gave me on Thursday August 7th 2003 while
at the Flames
of Fire Conference at Builth Wells:
Do not fear the wilderness —
The wilderness of
your own heart
Or the wilderness of other peoples’ lives,
The darkness, despair, fear, nothingness
The unloved-ness. the abuse, the sin.
It
was to the wilderness
That the Spirit of my Father drove me;
It was in the wilderness
That I faced Satan
As he stretched my innermost being,
As he sought to erode the foundations of my life,
It was in the wilderness
That my Father’s word gave me victory,
Holding me in his love,
And conferring upon me
Spirit-authority and power
To minister his healing and forgiveness:
And it was
through the wilderness of death
That I and my Father
Healed the broken-ness of the world.
It
is the wilderness
That I make to blossom and flourish
As the river of life, flowing from the Father’s heart,
Begins to flow
In those who open their wilderness
to me.
Do
not fear the wilderness
It is the gateway to life.
N.G.C.