Oceans in the Desert

By Kathi Pelton

When I woke up on Sunday, September 1st I knew by the Spirit that the body of Christ was at a threshold— from a veiled place into a place of unveiled awe.

I heard the verse in my spirit from 1 Corinthians 2:9,

“No one has ever seen, no one has ever heard, no one has ever imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.”

Then I heard the Spirit whisper to me,

“Ears have heard of who I Am but eyes will see and they will be transformed by in my awe.”

I had been meditating on the final chapter in Job over the past number of days prior due to a revelation that the Lord gave me while praying over someone. As most of you know, Job was a righteous man and the enemy thought he could sift him. He went from favor and wealth to losing everything— his children, his possessions, his wife’s faith in him and then his health. To top it off his closest friends (possibly leaders in his life) counsel him with wrong advice that brought accusation against Job’s righteousness.

Then Job questioned God— he thought that God must be against him. Yet he knew that he had lived a righteous life. He questioned why God was punishing him without cause. Does God reward evil and punish righteousness? But God answers Job with questions that reveal His greatness and awe that silence Job’s “Whys?”

In the final chapter of Job we find that Job has crossed a threshold— here are his words,

“Then Job answered the Lord and said:

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’

Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. ‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.’ I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”” Job‬ ‭42‬:‭1‬-‭6‬

Job crosses over from carnal thinking and understanding and enters a new place of awe and wonder. He crossed into the place of the knowledge that God’s ways are too wonderful and lofty for his human understanding. He realizes that God’s purposes have somehow been in his loses and yet he now knows that his human understanding will never comprehend the ways of God. He repents for believing God to be unfair or unjust in his ways toward him.

We know that if anyone had a reason to question God, it would have been Job. And yet even that statement underlines our human understanding of what is fair verses the surrender into knowing that there are things to lofty for us to understand.

The recent revelation that I had was of a small child hearing the instruction of his parent and over and over again asking, “Why?” I then saw that child come to a place of realizing his parent’s what is best and do not do things or ask things without greater purpose that he could understand. In this realization, he crosses a threshold and the “whys” became silenced. I see us crossing the same threshold as we behold the revelation of the awe of God. In this revelation, as this child crossed the threshold they entered into maturity and that maturity left the “whys” behind. They now obeyed without hesitation, they stopped questioning and merely trusted without the need for understanding and their eyes beheld the awe of God.

Childish agendas and accusations will be left behind as well as the demand for God to explain himself. Maturity of faith will be found to be carried out in the place of awe— the realization that his ways are too high and too wonderful for our understanding— even in human suffering.

Even the “wisdom of Job’s friends” was brought into the place of awe. They counseled out of human understanding and judgments— but they were wrong in their understanding and in their counsel— making Job’s plight even more difficult. But God asks Job to pray for these friends who brought him greater pain and when he did, God forgave their debt and wrongdoing. They repented as well.

The story of Job; his loses, the unwise counsel of the friends, the questioning God and then the revelation of God’s greatness is being played out in many lives right now.

Many have suffered and in that suffering, many have questioned God. A lot of wrong counsel has been given by many who have looked upon those who suffered but God is now revealing His power and greatness that silences every why and every reason why that either accuses God or accuses a righteous man.

The body of Christ is being called to repent for wrongly questioning God’s fairness or for wrongly counseling God’s people— bringing them greater pain by making up an answer for their pain. We are moving from merely hearing about God to seeing him as he is. Our eyes will see and we will stand in awe as we finally cross into a place of trust without questions. We will not accuse him in our hearts or counsel out of human understanding— as if we understand the meaning of right and wrong, fair and unfair.

No longer will we declare that our Father is not fair.

We will trust his ways, knowing that they are higher than our ability to understand or comprehend. Humility will become maturity— trust will become strength— vulnerability will become a covering— repentance will become favor— and surrender will usher in peace.

In this new place God can release His double portion— because we have left childish ways and the demand of human fairness or an explanation from the Almighty.

September is a threshold to move from childish ways into the maturing of our faith. It is a threshold that we can cross from merely hearing to seeing— seeing the awe and wonder of God. It is time to live in the awe of His great love for us and no longer vacillate about his love based on human understanding or circumstances.

This is a work of the Spirit that is happening in all who yield to him. This will transform many Simons into Peters and Sauls into Pauls— Abrams into Abrahams and Jacobs into Israels.

We are on a threshold of transformation. Let’s yield and cross over.

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Thank you for those who helped support our recent trip to Houston. God did more than we could have asked or imagined.

We fly into Washington DC in September and I sense that we will be there to partner with the Lord regarding a shift in our nation.

We are so grateful for your financial support!

Kathi Pelton’s newest book will be released on October 1st!

We will be sending details for pre-orders soon!