Amy Layne Litzelman

The wilderness was the testing ground__he deciding place. It was a place of God revealing himself in a whole new and deeper way. Would his people trust him completely, confident in his goodness, wisdom, and power? Those who believed God to be who he said he was moved on into the promised land; many did not.

Do you find yourself in a dry place today? Don__ look back toward the land of your bondage, or even to the place where God miraculously saved you from your enemies. Those seasons are over and he is now offering you a great opportunity. He is longing to reveal his sovereignty to you by providing for you in this most hot and dry place.

God created all living things to bring forth seed, not reproduce shrines.

Not only did Jesus purposefully enter the wilderness on a regular basis but historically, God seems to prefer meeting with man in these desert regions.

Your heart of devotion and obedience is not in vain. Who knows but God how many people have come near to you and were forever changed simply by the fragrance of his love in you? Who knows but God if he will put you before kings and leaders to speak the truth, redirecting the future of nations? Who knows when that small crack in the dam of our enemy__ plans will give way and God__ glory will truly cover the earth as the sea? Do not become distracted or discouraged by the death around you. Death must always give way when the life of Christ enters the picture.

My words shouldn__ be trophies to look at, but seeds to continue the cycle of Life.

You know, we can quote the written Word all day to our friends, but nothing will touch them like our own hunger and love for the Word himself. It is not dutiful love that attracts but love freely lavished from a heart familiar with the gardens of heaven.

This perfect, eternal, Holy exchangeIs worship that satisfies both heaven and earth:

We need both reverence and obedience. If we worship but do not walk in obedience and discipline, we are emotional, lacking self-control and godly character. If we obey God__ commandments but are not true worshipers, we become religious and judgmental. As the Pharisees in Jesus_ day, we may miss the real meaning and purpose, even God Himself.

That One Who is greater than us is near - nearer than we could measure.

I__ feeling very thin and vulnerable, in a good way.

All of life comes in seed form _ not as monuments.