jan 14

excerpt from the road this past winter:
January 14, 2009

God is so very EAGER to talk to us! He is SO very EAGER to hear from us. He has so much to say! So much love and wisdom and favor to speak over us! We can each hear from Him,

I, Lindsay Leigh Ellyson, can hear from the God of the universe. He speaks to me. I respond to Him. He moves on my behalf. He aches for me. I ache for Him. This is such a beautiful thing!

I just asked Him, “Father, what should I read in Your Word today? Your Word is life and sustenance and I am hungry!” The first thing that popped into my head was Isaiah 52. At first I am disappointed because I recognize the first few verses and I know I’ve read this chapter a lot, and I’m thinking that I made the reference up in my head. But I didn’t. I really do hear from God! And I think His task at the moment is to convince me of this. Every day, in some new way, I think I hear from Him and thus move timidly forward - only to hear a shout from heaven “YES, I DO SPEAK TO YOU AND YES YOU DO HEAR FROM ME!!!”

So here is the part of Isaiah 52 that totally grabbed my heart for where we are at today-
us, being me, Allison, and Ryan headed West for Wilder things.

“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news,
this is us - we’re bringing good news to the Campuses of America
who publishes peace,
who brings good news of happiness,
who publishes salvation,
who says to Zion, ‘Your God reigns!’
this is our message
The voice of your watchmen we are the watchmen, its our voice going out
they lift up their voice; together they sing for joy; again this call to worship - Ryan’s heart, admonition from Adam about worship being our weapon
for eye to eye they see the return of the Lord to Zion. we can see the big picture, we have eyes for the Vision, thus we bear the message
Break forth together into singing, again worship you waste places of Jerusalem, for the Lord has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem. calling the dead to get back into the game
The Lord has bared His holy arm before the eyes of all the nations and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. redemption has stories to tell
Depart, depart, go out from there; we’re going
touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves, mandate or caution for us?? Lord, I ask for more clarity here.
you who bear the vessels of the Lord. we bear the vessels of the Lord
For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go out in flight, its not like we’re running for our lives, we’re going with intention and purpose to TAKE THE LAND
for the Lord will go before you and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.” He’s got our backs, for sure. This is His dealio.


God, Thank You for Your word. It’s right, it’s true, it’s energy to me! I ask for more here, God.

“Your God Reigns!” - that’s for the kids at NAU that we’ll be with tomorrow night, eh? I ask you humbly for more to this by the time we get there.

The admonition to “touch no unclean thing... purify yourselves” - Father, we want to be obedient to You! What does this mean for us? What does this look like? I long to hear Your thoughts on this, Father.