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MIC Check

Today’s Most Important Challenge is…

• Empowering others to overcome
• Their trauma-induced programming
• Even as I learn to confront
• My most abjected fears

Immanuel Approach Memo

Continued from 7/10 IAM: Shaping

I am… drenched.

The wall I had been building
Was part of a refuge
For Jesus

From the rain
From the floods

It isn’t finished
It may not be enough

Does that even matter?

Why am I trying to protect Him?
Why is He letting us?

I look for Jesus.

I cannot see Him
Because of the storm clouds
Because of the raindrops

No

Because of the wall
I built with my own two hands

I fall to my knees
I cover my face with my hands
I weep

My heart breaks
So does the wall

I look to Jesus.

He walks through the rubble
Shining like the sun

He is smiling
But grimly
Like stone

His eyes
However
Twinkle with mischief
Amidst the sheeting water

Jesus looks to me.

“Do you still not understand?

Why are you so foolish
And hard of heart?”

He points to the ruins
Of the castle we had built

“Everything
Is exactly as it should be”

He points to my chest

“It’s time to build!”

To be continued

Reflection

I feel…

• Confused
• Foolish
• Hard-hearted
• Broken
• Prepared
• Ready
• Willing

Scripture

“I will pour refreshing water on the thirsty and streams on the dry ground.”‭‭

Isaiah‬ ‭44‬:‭3‬a ‭TPT‬‬