His Heart Scribe Inspirations Devotional Magazine November-December November - December 2014 | Page 6
rest for the sole of her foot, and
she returned unto him into the ark,
for the waters were on the face
of the whole earth: then he put
forth his hand, and took her, and
pulled her in unto him into the
ark. Genesis 8:8-9
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God’s enabling power is found in
our ability to rest in His image,
which is only seen as we gaze into
His eyes through intimacy. II Corinthians says, “Now the Lord is that
Spirit: and where the Spirit of the
Lord is, there is liberty. But we
all, with open face beholding as in
a glass the glory of the Lord, are
changed into the same image from
glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” This verse defines
well what the Lord is doing this
year, transforming us into the image of His glory so we can release
it into the world around us!
After the rains had stopped
Noah chose a very peculiar way to
see if the waters had totally receded; he released a dove. There
were many other birds on the ark
that he could have chosen to release to gauge whether or not it
was safe to transition from the
ark to the land again but he chose
the dove. Prior to this we see him
release a raven, which hovered
above waters flying to and fro until the waters abased. The raven
obviously served a purpose in revealing to Noah when it was time
to leave the ark but the dove
seemed to be his focus.
As in the time of Noah God is
releasing His blueprint for deliverance and total victory so that
we can arise and shine as vessels
filled with His glory. One of our
greatest enemies this year will be
our tendency to be complacent
and procrastinate. We must go to
battle against these tendencies
and allow Holy Spirit to enable us
to accomplish what God has
placed in our heart. As we commune with the Lord face to face
our spirit communes with Holy
Spirit and we obtain mercy and enabling power in our time of need.
Our western culture has displayed the raven as a form of evil
but scripturally speaking the opposite is true. The raven was appointed to bring the prophet Elijah food while he remained at the
brook Cherith. The color of the
raven is used to describe the hair
of the beloved in the Song of Solomon. The raven during Noah’s
time was a sign of his reverence
for the Lord after being delivered
from the flood. Psalm 111:10
tells us that the fear of the Lord
Releasing the Dove
Also he sent forth a dove
from him, to see if the waters were
abated from off the face of the
ground; But the dove found no
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