The Whirlwind by Sara Whitten
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By Sara Whitten
Have you felt like your life has been a whirlwind lately? This is for you!!! I came across the passage in Hosea 8 about reaping the whirlwind. I had always read this passage as a wrathful one, but this time God began to download something I had never heard before. Now I read it as a tender, pleading call back into His arms. Whirlwinds come in your spiritual life; times when obligations and events and heartaches and busy days are swirling around. Merriam Webster defines whirlwind as "a small rotating storm of limited extent" or "a confused rush."
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Have you felt like your life has been a whirlwind lately? This is for you!!! I came across the passage in Hosea 8 about reaping the whirlwind. I had always read this passage as a wrathful one, but this time God began to download something I had never heard before. Now I read it as a tender, pleading call back into His arms.
Whirlwinds come in your spiritual life; times when obligations and events and heartaches and busy days are swirling around. Merriam Webster defines whirlwind as "a small rotating storm of limited extent" or "a confused rush." Guess what? The whirlwind you're in is of limited extent. It has no great power over you! It is limited! God is UNlimited! The anecdote to the whirlwind is in its second definition. If a whirlwind is a confused rush, the anecdote is a CLARITY and SLOWING DOWN.
God began showing me that while whirlwinds come, it is how we USE this force that determines our experience. Hosea 8:7 warns that he who "sows to the wind will reap the whirlwind." God began to open my understanding of this verse.
Reaping the Whirlwind
The word used for wind in Strong's exhaustive Concordance is Ruwach that means "mind, spirit, or wind." If we sow to the mind (feeding worries, basing our decisions on our understanding instead of God), we reap the Whirlwind that is the confused rush. If we sow to the SPIRIT of God, we reap the whirlwind of Elijah that takes us up to Heaven!! (2 Kings 2).
So how do we sow to the spirit? The rest of Hosea 8 leaves clues.
"Israel cries out, 'Our God, we acknowledge you!' but Israel has rejected what is good." (v 2)
"Though they offer sacrifices and gifts to me, and though they eat meat, the Lord is not pleased." (v 13)
God is simply craving your INTIMACY with Him. Do you hear Him crying out to come to the secret place? Not for your performance; not for your sacrifices; just your listening ear and your heart that is moved for Him and by Him. Pressing into intimacy in the midst of overwhelming chaos in life is the key to the Elijah experience of the whirlwind. It will only draw you closer to the Lord!
Sara Whitten
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The word "memory" has been populating the news headlines, and the Lord has drawn my attention to it. A memory card was credited in flipping an election. A report came out about attempts to try to rewrite different events that happened during 2020 and 2021, but those who remember will know the truth. A study made the headlines about the connection between rest and memories. All of these became examples of how memory is an active informant rather than a passive recollection, and it makes sense why the Lord commands us so many times to "remember."
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Recently, God gave me an image of a big tree growing atop a very narrow, tall hill. "How can this tree grow bigger?" the Lord asked me. I replied, "I guess it would need to be transplanted. It can only grow so big with that narrow piece of land." There are some right now that God is doing a transplant work in. As I read about transplanting trees in the natural, some of the process surprised me. In the natural, trees must be prepared for transplanting for anywhere from six months to a year before the transplant even happens! It begins with pruning the roots. You do it months in advance so that the tree has time to heal before the transplant.
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As we've watched current events unfold, there is a temptation to feel powerless. The truth is, behind every negative headline and evil agenda is a redemption plan of the Lord. Recently the Lord has been highlighting five responses or postures for the church that partner with the "working all things for good" that He is doing behind the scenes. As we've watched inflation soar, the Lord has reminded me how, in the natural, inflation is caused by deviating too much from the gold standard.