I looked at Jordan’s face in the counselor’s office at school on Friday. She was different. All I can think is that death had crept in to have a word with her. God had it covered. He brings a friend like Sydney Butler into the equation long before things go nuts. Sydney brings words of life to Jordan and keeps her from pulling the trigger.
In one day at the hospital, something changes. Jordan physically is different, and her countenance is much, much lighter. There are still things to be done and plenty of changes for how we operate, but in the spirit, something has been broken. I was gaining weight over the last week and a half like crazy. Some days, I would gain a couple lbs in a day. I was at 181 on Friday. Yesterday, I was back to 177. I will be back to my ideal weight of 173 after this fast that is about to happen. But, there was something spiritual going on all over the place. Laura and I had started fighting a bit. Things were going awry. I dont know if you want to call it signs or if there was a full-on attack, and those were components to it.
Nonetheless, the LORD was all over it.
We got to see Jordan for a while yesterday, and we met with the social services lady at the hospital. She did some counseling with us as a family, and it was awesome. We are not medicating Jordan at all. Jack didnt like the idea from the start. I agreed to let it happen, but it didnt. And, Jack and I had prayed that if it werent necessary for God to keep it from happening. We are going to work on counseling first.
Last night, while we were talking to Jordan on the phone, a boy at the hospital would not wake up. They called 911. Not sure what happened, but I think that it will impact Jordan. She will live, and she will fulfill her destiny. There is a big call on that girl. I call her into it now. In the name of Jesus!
The other night, Jack spoke to me. I actually listened to what the boy had to say for once. And, it was the LORD speaking through him. He had wisdom that shouldnt come out of a boy that age. It was amazing, and I just knew it was God. Yesterday, I told him about it. He said that he was just saying what came to mind, but he realized that the LORD had to be speaking some stuff. The counselor even repeated exactly what Jack had said the day earlier. So, my young prophet is born. I call him into that place as well.
This is about relationship. I got the message loud and clear. CHOOSE RELATIONSHIP!
You can choose the relationship, be right or get your way. Those are the three things that you go after. I have chosen to be right most of the time. Now, I will choose relationship and not have to be right. When God tells me to speak, I will speak and choose to be truthful. But, with Laura and the kids, I will choose the relationship first. God, I need grace to pull that off. The prophetic nature is so bent on truth. Being right is just an offshoot of that. But, where there is no love, you are a clanging cymbal. Choose relationship.
Tomorrow, Jordan turns 17. May this experience be the end of what was an amazingly hard 16th year for Jordan. God, free her prophetically, physically and spiritually from that hospital of mental illness and bondage. I decree that Jordan is free. Where the Spirit is, there is freedom. Place Your Spirit upon her and baptize her anew, LORD GOD!
Now, we turn our sights to Colorado and moving out there. I ask for Jordan’s heart to be made ready for this news and to receive the move well. Help, Jesus!
Father, thank You for what You are doing in this family. This has been an amazingly hard season. Bring the right folks who can get the stuff done that needs to, and give us the hearts to want to keep doing it long after the effects of this weekend are over. Protect us, and have mercy on us. Thank You for Your love. We love You and call on Your name. You are holy and blessed and our God. Thanks, Jesus!