Over the last few weeks, I have been hearing the Lord speaking about “inner turmoil” that is taking place in the hearts of many believers right now.
The Lord showed me that this ‘inner turmoil’ within many is for many different reasons and is stemming from different things in the hearts of many of His people. Some are experiencing ‘inner turmoil’ from pain, trauma, grief and disappointment. Others are facing ‘inner turmoil’ because of circumstances they are finding themselves in. Others are facing ‘inner turmoil’ because of weariness and burn out. The list of areas of ‘inner turmoil’ that the Lord showed me went on. The focus of what the Lord was revealing was that He is ministering to these ones that are finding their hearts in a place of ‘inner turmoil’.
There is a call deeper into the secret place that these ones are sensing and feeling because the Lord is going to bring a rest, a deep rest that they have not known before. The Lord spoke to me that as they lean in, as they lay themselves down before the Lord and allow the Holy Spirit to come and minister into those areas of ‘inner turmoil’ within, that as they partner with Him in the leading of His Spirit in dealing with this inner turmoil, that they will move into a realm of supernatural peace that surpasses all understanding. (Philippians 4:6-7)
The Lord showed me that in this place of encounter He was bringing these ones into a place of deeper understanding of trusting Him, of ‘casting cares’ upon Him, a deeper place of prayer, a deeper place of surrender and allowing His Spirit to heal, restore, and put turmoil to rest.
The Lord showed me that there were many that were carrying this ‘inner turmoil’ within and the Lord spoke to me that they have carried it for a long time. They have lived with the ‘inner turmoil’ continuing to swirl within their hearts for many, many years. They have learned to ‘live’ with this constant feeling of wrestling and inner turmoil within them. Some of these ones are now beginning to see the inner turmoil manifesting in greater ways in their body through physical ailments and physical symptoms, but take heart if that’s you, because the Lord is bringing healing to you.
I heard the Holy Spirit say,
“I am going to the heart. I am going to the root. I am going to heal them from the inside, out. This is their year of wholeness, this is their year of healing, this is the year where they will step into a greater understanding and manifestation of what it is to live FULLY ALIVE (John 10:10) in Me and to now live with ‘constant concern’.
They will walk in supernatural peace that I purchased for them at Calvary, and they will no longer be weighed down and marked by ‘constant cares’. I am decreeing that a major shift is taking place in their lives by the power of My Spirit, bringing that inner turmoil to rest and marking them with My peace.”
The level of inner turmoil that I saw many carrying brought tears to my eyes, it was such a heavy weight, that many even though they had ‘smiles’ on their faces for all to see, they were battling a level of inner torment and turmoil that no one has seen. But HE has seen. He is coming as the relentless pursuer to love them to life. The words continued to surround me loudly, “I am LOVING THEM BACK TO LIFE!!!! No more broken hearts.”
When the Lord spoke those words, I saw the broken hearts all across the body of Christ and I saw the ‘hidden broken hearts’. Those that were carrying broken hearts that no one knew about it, they would cry and battle alone behind closed doors. The sadness they carried was deep. But now, Jesus steps in. I watched as He breathed upon their hearts and their deep mourning was healed and turned to great joy. (Isaiah 61:3)
He whispered again to each one: “REST IN MY BREATH! REST IN MY RHEMA.”
He began to speak words of life over them. Each word full of His love, full of hope, piercing truth to shatter strongholds and ignite life. Where inner turmoil had weighed them down, where they had felt like ‘shells of their former selves’ because this inner turmoil day by day had been eating away at them, as He spoke, each word He spoke, as they breathed in His breath, His life, His rhema, they were being loved back to life. They were coming back to life and the deepest rest in Him and His rhema that they had ever experienced was rebuilding them from the inside out. The great awakening to their identity as a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17) and a son and daughter of the Most High was being ignited in them like never before.
THEY BEGAN TO REMEMBER AGAIN…
As Jesus spoke, as He was loving them back to life, they began to remember again. They began to remember the dreams, the promises laid down. They began to remember the joy of first love. They began to remember the joy of abundant life before the inner turmoil began to steal hope, peace, joy and life from within them. They began to enter the divine dance with the Beloved again in the steps of joy and deep peace.
Friend, today, if you are one struggling with deep inner turmoil, take heart the Lord has seen the deep turmoil, the wrestle, the struggle, the pain that no one else has seen in its fullness. The tears you have cried and He has not turned a blind eye or deaf ear. Jesus is here and He is drawing you deeper into the secret place, into His heart, to embrace you and life you back to life and love you into wholeness and healing. Surrender into His arms and allow Him to work deeply on your heart, allow His Spirit to minister to you. Partner with Him in your yielding. He is bringing that inner turmoil to rest. You will not know this deep inner turmoil any longer, but in encounter with Jesus, you will be marked by peace, joy and hope. Where that inner turmoil was, LIFE will now reside, HEALING will reside. You will begin to BELIEVE again. You will begin to DREAM again. You will begin to HOPE again. You will not walk around carrying deep sadness within, but explode with joy in the abundant life that is yours in Christ.
This is your time, your divinely appointed moment for wholeness. This is your time of encounter with Jesus to come FULLY awake and FULLY alive and rediscover again, the amazing YOU that He created you to be in Him.
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I don’t understand why God willed that the tree of knowledge to exist if he knew we were going to sin and plunge ourselves into chaos and evil and pain. For some reason I just can’t connect with God’s love, especially due to the fact that Ill never know the answers to this. I feel like God’s love for me is an illusion and there’s something about me that just will always fall short of it. The more I focus on God’s love for me it’s like it gives me license to keep making mistakes. I can’t realize it with how much sin that lives in me. I don’t understand how God ordaining all of this can be a good thing. I can’t minister to anyone. I’m so depressed and fearful. I feel so empty and alone. I’m full of so much turmoil it’s like I’m dying inside. Ivr never had so many thoughts of wanting to die.
God has done all and given all for you to have abundant life here and now and eternal life in the age to come. You will find Him when you seek Him with all of your heart. The choice is yours and the stakes could not be higher.
After salvation comes Sanctification and it is also a work of grace, so take heart, brother – bring it all to Jesus and He will do all that is necessary if we stay in His presence in prayer, worship and just waiting and enjoying His peace, His place of rest from the turmoil in the world. At first it is hard, but soon you will feel the break though. Scripture, lifting up the names of God and worship (the devil can’t stand it) are powerful.
It’s a divine exchange: your hurts, fears etc for His peace and joy. Take your eyes of your storm and fix them on ‘Jesus, the Author and Finisher of your faith’ and who is your righteousness, the One who makes you acceptable to Him and loves you with an everlasting love. (Heb 12:29; Phil 3:9; Jer 31:3)
He is the One who began a good work in us and who faithful to continue until it is completed on the day of His return (Eph 1:6); we are His masterpieces Eph 2:10, so let Jesus and the Holy Spirit take the strain and stress. DO NOT worry is a biblical command.
Lay down the burdens which He never intended for you to carry (Matt 11:30) and put yourself on the altar every day (Rom 12:1) and let your loving Saviour will and work the changes in you, not only to desire to please Him but also to be enabled to please Him (Phil 2:13).
Speaking of the flesh, the sinful nature, even the Apostle Paul said, no good thing lived in his flesh and miserable man, He did the opposite of what he wanted to (Rom 7:18).
But take heart, Jesus told us about trouble in the world so that we may have peace in Him who has overcome the world (and the flesh and the devil and all things). “ Here on earth your will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33).
Jesus will fill you with His peace and joy. Tell Him you are giving Him your pain and emptiness and you are accepting His peace, joy and strength (that He so wants to give you) and He will, for He is so faithful, great-hearted and patient with us.
He is the God of the impossible, (Rom 4:17). Let Jesus first minister to you and then your will be able to minister to others.
A month ago when I felt as bad as you do, Jesus told me not to take any more nonsense from the devil and now I am much further forward than when I was first attacked, because God works all things to the good of those who love Him (Rom 8:26-28). I remind myself of these verses first thing every morning and at any time in the day that I start to feel discouraged and I fix my thoughts on Him again, so that I forget the temporary things that cause us trouble (Rom 8:18; whole chapter)
Don’t forget to pray in Tongues (Rom 8:26-27) and to put on the FULL armour of God every day (Eph 6:10-18). “ He will keep you in perfect peace whose mind is fixed on Him (Isaiah 26:1-4) – the One who loved us so much, He paid the highest price to buy us back us (1 Cor 7:23) for Himself.
No matter how you feel, the truth is that He will never leave you or forsake you, He loves you so much: read Romans 8 and John 14-17; Deut 33:27. Bless you brother!
Without having evil, no one will realize the good because there is no comparison. Having been born into this sinful world, people realize the evil associated with it. Being born again, we realize how big the contrast is between good and evil by encountering the goodness of God.
Lana, I am one of those with “deep inner turmoil.” I’m at the point where the first decision I have to make every morning is whether or not I go out in the yard and end it with a bullet. I am tired beyond words, and my anectdotal experience is that God is nowhere to be found. I am 65 with a wife to care for. My business has failed, I have NO money, or hope of any in the near-term, I am exhausted waiting for an apparently indifferent God to show up, and do SOMETHING, ANYTHING He said He would do. I just wish everyone would quit making excuses for Him. I no longer buy it!
God is faithful to keep ALL His promises and that’s the truth regardless of whether or not anyone believes it. Our problems are all on our end, not His. God has already done all He ever needs to do for us, but our problem is we don’t believe Him so we don’t receive what He has done. We humans have a tendency to think way too highly of ourselves. True humility is all too rare but it’s what we all need so God can open our blind eyes to see the truth.
Bill,
Some years ago, I told myself no matter how bad the situation I fallen in, I will pray the Lord. There were a few times I ended in that kind of situation. A lot of bad feeling fallen on me. I cry out to praise the Lord Jesus Christ with the tear in my eyes. The Lord has word for me that ” people will push you down, but I’ll make you stand. ” some years ago. So I know there will be bad things happen to me.
I don’t have the inner turmoil. In your situation, you cannot be waiting. Let me explain the principle in this. I met a pastor in the past. He told one of his own story. He used to be bound in a wheel chair . Then he quote the healing verses from the bible and waiting for God to heal him and raising him up from the wheelchair. He waited for some time. Nothing happen. Then he suddenly understand he has already been healed by God. He can not sit in the wheelchair still waiting for God to heal him. So he started make plans to make his muscle strong in the gym. In the process, then the total healing was manifested.
If you have a pastor, you can ask your pastor to pray for you over your financial difficulty and declare the financial blessing is coming to you. But when he pray, you must understand the pastor has two identities. One he is a human. The other one he is representative of God. So when he pray, you must know and remember it is God speaking to you through the pastor’s mouth. Before you ask your pastor to pray to you, you can pray to God first and ask God to put His word in the mouth of the pastor who you are going to ask to pray for you. After the pastor has prayed for you, then you set your mindset to what the pastor has said ( as God have said ), and keep thanking God for solving your problem — in the process there will be thoughts of doubt came to you, and you must keep declaring that God’s word is never empty. ( That’s test of your faith. )
Do not use your physical senses to believe, but use faith to believe.
Use the end-result ( image in your mind ) ( God have solved your problem ) to believe, to thank God.
Hi Bill. I have been lifting you in prayer since I read your comment last night. I understand that trapped feeling and broken confidence from a failed business and financial lack. I was embarrassed at being in that place yet not able to change my circumstance. Life began to be distasteful because of the hopelessness, and I struggled with suicidal thoughts though I had been a Christian for 3 years. Sometimes I was even sarcastic in my conversations with God.
One morning I was depressed as all get out and hanging clothes on the outside line. Someone had thrown a blue bowl at the edge of the yard, and I thought to myself, ‘that pig couldn’t throw that plastic bowl away in the garbage but had to throw it in the yard. Now, I’ll have to throw it away when I’m done here.”
Suddenly, an intellectually disabled girl came riding by on a clunky bicycle. I never saw her before. She screeched the brakes and hopped off her bike. She picked up that plastic blue bowl, inspected it carefully, then lifted it up and started waving it in the sky shouting,,” Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus!” Boy, did I feel the rebuke of the LORD.
Weeping may endure for the night, but joy comes in the morning. Hoping for you that this dark night of the soul will give way to the morning’s joy. Lana’s word certainly is timely….and keep your eye out on that plastic blue bowl.
IF YOU KNEW THE PLANS THE lORD HAS FOR YOU, ALL YOUR TEARS WOULD BE TEARS OF JOY. BELIEVE WHAT HIS WORD SAYS WHILE YOU LIVE ONE MOMENT AT A TIME.
Thank-you. I receive this Word.
I’m taking this word, this has been the cry of my heart as I have cried out for healing with every fiber of my being. Thank you
I claim it with you! This is exactly what I’ve been dealing with and have been praying for.
Thank you so much, Lana, for sharing what the Lord showed you. Your message resonates powerfully with me and with that, brings great comfort. Blessings.
Thank you, Lana – at various times, any one of us believers is going through crisis, turmoil and hardship. Thank God is it now, in relatively normal times, so that we have a little time for God to straighten us out, BEFORE we go through however much or little of the Great Tribulation we may have to battle. – It is truly a season of trial that we as believers worldwide are all going through.
As difficult as it is – and the heart and the breath were totally knocked out of me from 24th Sept through into November – God in His mercy is clearing our decks of all debris and readying us for our battle stations.
I bought into the lies of the devil and believed that I had lost my salvation and forfeited my Pearl beyond all Price because I was a “ foolish bridesmaid” who had missed the roll call.
– The roll call WHICH HAS YET TO TAKE PLACE, though our preparation time is so short now and the Great Harvest is almost upon us (together with as much of the Tribulation we will see).
(You can be sure I studied the written word again even more closely and got my doctrine straightened out, minus the unbiblical insecurities the devil exploited.)
As 2 Cor 1:1-4 puts it, “The God of all consolation comforts us, then we in turn, comfort others with the comfort we have been given.
Awesome word Lana