I heard the Lord say:
“You are going to have to dig deep in this season”
As we came to the end of 2021, I was seeking the Lord in the midst of a busy and at times wearying time, I heard the Holy Spirit say: “You are going to have to dig deep in this season”. I knew that to be able to navigate through this next season, I was indeed going to have to press in deeper into the Lord and seek out the deep things of His heart.
2021 has been a time of great change for many and great uncertainty, where the Lord has been doing a work of undoing, of stripping back, dealing with deep issues of the heart and revealing new and amazing things to His Body. For many who have heard the Lord calling them in a new direction and have stepped out in faith, choosing not to back the same way, we are now in the tension between the old and the new. It can be an uncomfortable place to be, where the only way through is to lean into Him completely and trust Him (Proverbs 3:5-6) and to dig deep so we can discover to true foundations.
“How enriched they are who find their strength in the Lord, within their hearts are the highway of holiness. Even when their paths wind through the deep valley of tears, they DIG DEEP to find a pleasant pool where others find only pain”. (TPT)
Psalm 84 vs 5-6
It has indeed been a time when I have needed to constantly strengthen myself in the Lord and I have dug deep into His word. I awoke one morning as Holy Spirit was reminding me of Revelation 3:8 that He is pleased when in times of testing, at times when we feel weak and have little strength, we keep His word. I realised that to “dig deep” it meant to persevere and endure during those difficult times.
One thing I love to do is to pray the scriptures, especially some of Paul’s apostolic prayers and Ephesians 3:16-21 is my favourite one to pray. I regularly pray it over myself, my family and the church. One morning the holy spirit highlighted verse 16 in particular, where Paul prays:
That we would “be strengthened with might through His spirit in our inner man” (NKJ)
That morning I prayed it from the Amplified Version and it read: “to be strengthened and reinforced by His mighty power in the inner man by the (Holy) Spirit (Himself indwelling your inner most being and personality)”.
I particularly, sensed an emphasis on the word “might”. The Lord so desires to strengthen us as we press into Him and fill us with might through His spirit in our inner man. Might is a facet of the Spirit of the Lord Isaiah prophesied that would rest upon our Messiah, Jesus and is available for us today. In fact, I believe it is essential for us as we navigate these days ahead as we pray and are constantly filled with the Spirit of God. We need His might working in our inner being, so we can be rooted and grounded in love and filled with His strength to endure and to overcome the things we will face in the days to come.
I believe God desires to do a deep work in our inner man, so that we have the capacity to be filled with the fullness of God. As we walk with God, He deposits deep things within us. In fact, I have come to realise that He is more concerned with the internal workings of our lives than the externals. God looks at our heart, while man looks at the outward appearance. But so often we are more concerned with the external things in our lives and in our world than the internal workings of our heart. As this revelation began to sink in, I was reminded of 2 Corinthians 4:17:
“Therefore, do not lose heart, even though your outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction is working for us a more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. While we do not look at the things that are seen, but the things that are not seen. For the things that are seen are temporary, but the things that are not seen are eternal.”
2 Corinthians 4:17
So, my prayer for you at the beginning of 2022 is that as you dig deep with the Lord and allow the Spirit to renew you inward man each day, so that you would be strengthened with His might in your inner most being.
Prophetic Keys by Pam Semp – Jan 2022