The Destiny’s Diamonds ladies conference usually involves people
travelling down to Glasgow to meet in a conference hall and listen to speakers.
I wanted to go last year but the toilet-stops required to get me there was too
much to factor in. This year with Covid-19 restrictions they moved it all
online to Youtube. The main speaker was a lady called Anne Calver. She
focussed on the account of Saul’s conversion. It was just days ago I read the
story; but I was looking more at Ananias side of things rather than Saul’s.
Anne was a woman after my heart with her four alliterated
points.
•
Transformation
• Turn
around
• Tasked
• Time
She talked about Sleeping Beauty, the curse that caused
the sleep, the thorns growing up around the castle, the time passing by and the
prince slashing he way though. He finds the princess and wakes her with a kiss.
Love awakened Sleeping Beauty.
Jesus woke up Saul – not with a kiss. His love wakes us
up. He transforms us and sets us off on a path to wake up and transform others.
In passing she mentioned a song, Reckless Love. The words,
the melody and the truth sung are a powerful combination.
She talked about butterflies and caterpillars not in the
context of one transforming into another but in the way that what the butterfly
sees is entirely different from what the caterpillar sees. They might see the
same things but not in the same way. God intends to turn around our vision.
Lockdown, she says, has turned around the way we see
church, the way we see the lost and the way we see outreach
Lockdown has also been this time to turn around the way
we walk with Jesus. We have the time to read and meditate on his word. We don’t
need to dash into His presence, gulp down a couple of verses and then rush out
into the world. We can be more intentional, taking time to look deeper and
learn better.
Ananias was tasked with anointing Saul. I was
Zoom-anointed into a leadership role last night. God was shifting both Saul and
Ananias into unfamiliar places. We need to be swift to come on board when God
stirs us. His spirit moves and we need to respond with a “Yes” and step out. I
have been given the Box, our ladies discipleship meeting to oversee. God trusts
me to do the job and equips me for it.
The enemy would like to tell us that we have missed our
chance. Then was a good time to move out, now is not. He always brings a word
of ending, does the enemy.
There was a question on Pointless yesterday about
tectonic plates. The world has a molten centre and a hard crust. The crust is
broken up in places and the broken bits, the tectonic plates, shift about to
cause mountain and valleys. Spiritual tectonic plates are shifting. The rise
and fall of leaders are in our hands as we posture ourselves for prayer.
We are not called to look upon things, whether is
Covid-19 or lockdown rules and allow them to sow seeds of fear. Find a
scripture, she says that speaks to wherever that fear comes from. Take
authority. Speak your word, His word given to you, into the situation. Break
any agreement you have with fear.
At the end of the meeting there were a couple of
prophesies given. I don’t think they were there-and-then words, but words
spoken earlier on in the year. One of them was pre-pandemic, warning of its
coming and the opportunities there to grasp. The pandemic is not good, but even
then God can use it to produce good. The world is looking for leaders and not
finding them, certainly not in the political arena. God is commissioning His leaders
and calls upon us to become experts in His word. Who knows who we will be called
to talk to, or what influence we have? We need to ask for BIG THINGS and to ask
for them boldly.
