Into the Depths of the Sea

Into the Depths of the Sea

Oct. 8, 2016

Thank God for prayers partners. Rosanna Ek, her Mom and I rise early every morning at 6:15 to seek, praise and worship our God. We humble ourselves and come clean before Him as we make consecration to Him our first work every morning. It has been a glorious year of searching and drawing closer to God, and in later blogs I will share more with you about how God has moved powerfully in our little group of seekers.

Plans were set for us to write and release our God letters. What's that? Well, it's a letter to God of confession, realizing and acknowledging that we cannot do anything about our sins...that we all are in need of a Savior to set us free. The place would be Black Point Marina at the break of dawn next Sabbath morning.

Psalm 55:22 says "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain you; He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved." For surely I was "heavy laden and burdened, and so in need of rest." Matthew 11: 28. I had been carrying around feelings of anger, hurt, and resentment for so long and it was time to lay them all down. It is no wonder that this problem was now manifested right over my heart because I had not truly released my pain to God.

I spent much of Friday, Preparation Day, not only getting the household ready for the Sabbath day of rest, but more importantly in spiritual preparation for God's Holy day. I sought God as I wrote my God letter. He brought back to mind those things that had caused separation from Him, the hidden things, and even small things that I never even realized had bothered me. A few other family members were to come but it didn’t work out that way. I was disappointed, but I must surrender even the disappointments to God and trust that “all things work together for good to them who love God.” Romans 8:28.

The most beautiful Sabbath morning

Prayer Circle

It was the most beautiful, perfect morning as I, Tony, my sister Tanya, Rosanna and Roberto Ek, and Ms. Sylvia (Rosanna’s mother) arrived at Black Point Marina. The early birds joined in a chorus of worship of the Creator God. He had taught them to seek Him every morning, to lift up their voices in praise and thanksgiving. As we walked out to sea we beheld the majesty of God before us. The vast ocean spread its hues of blues around far and wide. The ever-changing colors on the horizon of purples, pinks, yellows and oranges lit our pathway. They seemed to be saying that a glorious deliverance awaited us. Surely it was. We finally made the 10-15 minute trek to the farthest point. We joined our voices in singing “I Surrender All,” prayed and read our daily Psalms 27 and 91. Then a few moments of contemplation as we privately read over our own God letters in sorrowful repentance for all we had done against our God who loves us so much that He gave His own Son to save us.

Rosanna sending off her God letter

We joined hands and lifted up our petitions in our prayer circle. It was time to give eviction notice to all the people who had been living in our minds rent-free for so long. The time had come to set our God letters out to sea as the sun emerged on the horizon in all its God-given glory. We set them on out to the ocean and released them to God, never to picked up or carried again.  “Sometimes you don’t feel the weight of something you’ve been carrying until you feel the weight of its release.” (Thanks Tracy for that FB post!)

To God be the glory! Sweet release! These things cannot and will not hurt us anymore. My friends, too many of us are carrying around burdens of guilt, shame, unforgiveness, anger, malice, jealousy, envy….whatever it may be. God never asked you to. There is no sin big enough that He cannot take care of. Trust me…I know! I am no angel as my past can testify. However, He wants to set the captives free. He wants to do so much in our lives but we keep carrying all this baggage. STOP! During the last year and a half  I have begun to realize the magnitude and depth of the restoration He wants to do in me. And He wants to do the same for you. Let it go and let God. Give Him the reins and let Him take control so He can do a good and mighty work in you. I strongly recommended every family, every group to write God letters and do as we did and set them out to sea and release to God. And when you do, DO NOT pick them up again. The weight has been lifted, and although I can’t afford to lose any more weight, I feel 10 pounds lighter!!! Praise God! I can breathe again……Glory to God!

He will again have compassion on us; He will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins in to the depths of the sea.” Micah 7:19

Glorious!

Tanya sends off her God letter

Cheryl- I'm free of my burdens!

Hallelujah!

The heavens declare the glory of the Lord