T here was a feeling in the air over the weekend that awakened my spirit once again, and the sunshine helped heal many gloomy places within my soul. Although there was war raging all around in other parts of this world, in my small corner, things felt renewed. We can all be consumed with what is happening in the news, but God does not require our fear or worry, He requires our prayer.

The depth of my prayers don’t always happen in the quietness of my house, but on a walk around the family farm with my kids, an hour in a muggy greenhouse planting new life, time spent playing with our baby goats and moments spent in my Mama’s porch swing. I know it may sound naive to some, but we truly cannot allow ourselves to be consumed with what the book of Revelation already declares. We must each be ready, alert and filled with a watchman’s spirit, but God says many times for us not to fear. “ Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.” Deuteronomy 31:6.

I hope you were able to spend some time outside over the weekend if only for a little while. Did you too feel a shift in the atmosphere? There is something transformative that happens when the seasons change, and we step outside into a new awakening of blooms and birds. It is like the soil loosens and the little life that pops through after a cold winter is ready to bring forth restoration and replenishment to those around. It is a beautiful representation of God’s faithfulness through the dark seasons and the hope that one day soon the sun will shine brightly once again and all that was once dead is brought back to life.

If you have been buried in what seems to be a spiritual death, maybe you don’t see, feel or hear God, I pray that your soul is rekindled by warmth of the sunshine and the promise of brighter days. There is no doubt that we are in the end times, but we still must choose to focus on the Son and the never-ending assurances of new life even when there seems to be death and destruction all around. I encourage you to take your prayer time outside this week and be refreshed as you connect to God through the simplicity of His creation and all the new things growing and sprouting forth. Just as nature begins to come back alive, our spirits are also called to do the same – bringing forth new growth and new beginnings. It is time to let go of what is holding you captive to that hard soil and allow the Father to bring about a fresh anointing upon you as you dig deeper and build your relationship with Him through His word, prayer and fasting. In this season I pray you allow the love of God to renew your spirit while bringing joy, peace and purpose to every area.

You are called to bring life to your corner of this world – it is imperative that you are doing all you can to push through and bloom right where you are planted because there is someone looking out their window of life waiting to witness the transformative power that only our Father can produce.

“Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.” Isaiah 43:19.

Blessings, Kayla