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God is prepared to do in principle for His Kingdom children
as we face the unknown and potentially dark days ahead - no matter how dire the
circumstances we may encounter, God always has a “road through the sea, a
pathway through the mighty waters.”
BY DR. F. STONER CLARK
“Your road led through the sea, Your
pathway through the mighty waters — a pathway no one knew was there.” - Psalm 77:19 NLT
Probably the most difficult challenge to our faith since the
onset of the coronavirus is not being able to see ahead, to know what’s coming,
to have some sense of predictableness about our future.
Most of us feel as if we are definitely in uncharted waters
and that flies in the face of our natural bent to see around the next corner
and be able to maintain control over our own lives.
No one feels comfortable in circumstances ranging beyond
one’s own control and what we are presently experiencing has the eerie sense
that we could easily be facing the end of life as we have always known it.
It is circumstances like these that always usher me back to
the Psalms of David. I have always been impressed with his honesty before the
Lord and the willingness to pour his heart out to God.
Recently it was in Psalm 77 that I found tremendous
encouragement and hope. Although not a Psalm of David, it conveys the same
tenor and spirit of the Davidic Psalms.
It is likely this particular Psalm came from the time of the
Babylonian captivity and so we can imagine the feeling and heart of those
singing this refrain.
To have been militarily defeated and then deported as
captives to a strange land and culture would leave most people utterly reeling
and maybe wondering where the God of their ancestors was in the whole scenario.
In this passage the psalmist begins with the bemoaning of
one rejected and forgotten but readily transitions to the recollections of the
promises and providences of God (verses 11, 12).
For me, the most significant remembrance of this psalmist
was recalling how God supernaturally provided a way through the Red Sea as
Egypt was in hot pursuit of the escaping Israelites.
In this situation, Israel was bound by mountains and a
pursuing army behind and the Red Sea before them.
This is the kind of omnipotent and merciful God we serve. He
wants to bring us into that relationship with himself wherein he can show
himself mighty on our behalf — a relationship of absolute faith, belief and
trust that wonderfully frees the hand of God to act magnanimously on our
behalf.
I would like to share a very recent personal experience
wherein I believe with all my heart that God was “prophesying” the miraculous
walk we are going to be having with him as we learn to utterly abandon
ourselves to him, trusting not in the things of this world but solely in him.
My wife and I went to Lowes to purchase softener salt. I was
concerned that it could be one of those items in short supply and possibly already
being rationed.
Upon entering the store, I proceeded to ask an employee for
assistance in finding the salt. This man didn’t know but he connected with a
second individual who looked it up and gave us the exact location all the way
across the store.
Rather than sending me on my way with that information, the
original employee led us all the way to that aisle and to the salt.
We were elated to discover that the softener salt was there
in abundance and without any prescribed limits.
While traversing the store to the salt I was thinking about
the need for a flatbed cart that would handle several hundred pounds of salt.
Once we got to the salt, lo and behold, sitting right there in front of the
salt was the very device we needed.
As I began to load the 40 lb. bags onto the cart, two more
employees show up and insisted on doing the chore for me. This was indeed a
welcome offer given the trouble I have with my back.
They commenced to load up approximately 500 lbs. of salt and
then took the cart to the nearest checkout.
As I was going through that procedure, getting the military
discount and putting the charge on my Lowes’ card, there was some kind of
glitch getting the transaction completed.
Ultimately, three different clerks worked on the sale to
resolve the issue with the third one meeting with success. All three could not
have been more patient and willing to help me and conquer the problem before
them.
While we were involved in this process at the checkout,
another entirely different employee arrived asking if he could take the salt
out to my truck for me and load it!
By this time, I was utterly amazed in how blessed I was from
the first I stepped into the store. The last attendant rolled the cart to my
truck and cheerfully loaded 12 heavy bags aboard.
I believe God was showing me a simple illustration of what
he is prepared to do in principle for his Kingdom children as we face the
unknown and potentially dark days ahead.
No matter how dire the circumstances we may encounter, God
always has a “road through the sea, a pathway through the mighty waters.”
Our part is to faithfully remember the promises and
providences of God. Israel of old was always urged to faithfully recount God’s
wonderful deeds to their children that they might in turn share the same with
the next generation.
It is a wonderful and spiritually profitable exercise to
periodically take time to recall in your own life all the times you experienced
the incredible providence of God.
Think about all those experiences where God’s presence
changed circumstances from disaster to victory. Many times, this happens in
ways other than our particular choosing but always redounds to our benefit
spiritually.
Nothing is more faith building in the
face of trials and testing than remembering the mercy, grace and goodness of
God through his providing a way through the mighty waters, “…a pathway no
one knew was there.”
Hi!
I’m Patricia Baird Clark. (I like to include my maiden name because there are
about 54,000 Patricia Clarks in the U.S.!) Beside me is my husband, Stoner, who
has been my pastor for over forty years. I started this website in 2000
primarily to promote my first book, Restoring Survivors of Satanic Ritual
Abuse, and offer articles of encouragement to survivors of satanic ritual abuse
and their counselors. Over the years the site has grown to include many topics
related to the end times. In the past few years my husband has also been
contributing many articles to the site. His articles are mostly under the
categories of church, full-stature life and the end times.
One
of the major calls on my life is Bible study, so you will find on this site the
results of many years of protracted studies compiled into articles, books and
videos that reveal many things pertinent to the end times. Much to my surprise,
many of the strange, supernatural things I have encountered in the satanic
ritual abuse ministry have shown up in my studies when I wasn’t even looking
for them. Take dissociation for example. I have written a book entitled Dissociation
Revealed and Healed in Scripture based on Judah and his strange
experiences with Tamar in Genesis 38. I wasn’t looking for anything related to
dissociation in Genesis 38, but I found it there in the first verse. The whole
chapter about Judah and Tamar is explained in my book and also in my video
series on this site entitled From Dissociation to Perfection Revealed in
Judah. (The book, Dissociation Revealed and Healed in Scripture, is
available on this site and also on Amazon in hard copy and Kindle.)
This
website, His Presence Online, focuses on the presence of God coming to us
through the difficulties of our lives to heal broken hearts and lead us beyond
the veil into His glorious kingdom even while we are still on earth. As many of
my videos and articles reveal, God intends to take His church of the end times
into realms of His presence and kingdom reserved only for the church of the end
times. We will face atrocities of such magnitude that humanity will only
survive by the presence and power of God. It is my hope that the teachings
offered here will bring great excitement and expectancy into the hearts of all
those who truly love Jesus and desire to be conformed to His image.
https://www.hispresenceonline.org/full-stature-life/a-way-through-the-sea/
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