Vision

Dear Reader,

I send you the warmest of greetings for this new year. I know I’m stretching that sentiment as far as it will go, considering we’re already halfway through this 2025 year, but indulge me.

You know, I had plans for this year, and truthfully, I started off pretty strong. I ended the fourth quarter with my annual recap, it gave ‘You go girl!’ vibes. Then, after a bit of deep work, my Q1 projections were screaming “You’ve got this!’ My heart was ready to take off into January when suddenly the ground began to shake. From worldquakes, fires, to silent goodbyes, the first four months of this year sent me into a dizzy spell. I felt disoriented, a bit anxious, and spent most moments tear-stained and wondering what exactly was going on here?! The work I put into healing my soul was finally in a place where deep breaths no longer hurt, and suddenly the atmosphere was hijacked by chaos and changes I didn’t ask for.

With everything happening so quickly, the only thing necessary thing to do was hold on. Transition had touched down with the determination of heaven, and distraction was attempting to gain entry behind it. Let’s be honest, chaos carries the ingredients for fear, doubt, and bitterness.

What was I going to do?!

It’s one thing to know that all things work together for the good of those who are called according to God’s purpose, but it’s a different thing entirely to experience the grace that comes when you walk with Holy Spirit. The heart of God is wild and beautiful, and His mind is uncontainable. How had He managed to write so much necessary growth into heartbreak?

He’s like that, meticulous in how He moves. He went before me and gave me what I needed to capture a vision, write it out, and assist others in doing the same, all the while knowing what was just beyond the week’s end. He didn’t prep me because He wouldn’t be with me or wouldn’t hold me up, not because mercy would somehow run out or that fear would miraculously become an ally. No, He did it because He was reminding me of the value of taking Him at His word and how writing out your vision will equip you with a compass that always points you in the right direction.

So, here I am, six months into this year, many quantum leaps into growth, and the vision still speaks. Isn’t it just like God to again prove Himself good?

Indeed, He IS.

Whatever is going on around you or even within you, set your focus on His face, meditate on His rhema, make His presence your priority and take the next step toward what you saw… even if that means you need to seek Him to See Again.

Grace & Peace,

LL

Quality time with God

Dear Reader,

There is something of great sensitivity that I want to draw your attention to today. I pray your true ears are open to receive this message.

Your efforts for God are chaotic, often ineffective, and quite frankly, unacceptable until they become offerings of obedience. Now, don’t reject the message before I’m finished you can rest assured every letter is for your edification. Obedience is not making up instructions on behalf of God and trying to follow through with them that’s called, I’m sorry to say, religious delusion. Obedience is simple, God speaks and you do exactly what He has said. If you are asking, ‘What is God saying? from confusion rather than inquiry it is possible you haven’t fulfilled the first instruction He gives; COME.

Quality - the standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind; the degree of excellence of something.

Time - the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.

And He will call you even as you hurry along doing what you think you must or what brings you some semblance of satisfaction. Will you come? Because human nature is naturally self-centered you will hear His beckoning as, at best your next task to tackle, at worst a suggestion. altogether.

He will call you nonetheless. And soon your life will cry out for Him, a savior, a deliverer, a purpose. Yet your ability to hear not just His voice calling you, but His spirit drawing you is based on your ability to surrender, to make Him the central focus of your expended energies.

And when you do come, for you’ll have no choice, you’ll be surprised at what He wants from you; NOTHING.

Nothing you have, as it stands, can hold up in the light of His glory, in the presence of His majesty.

No, it is not for your offering that God calls you to Himself, but for His sacrifice for your good. And so His purpose will completely undo your reasoning, your fickle grasp on love and sonship and redemption.

The Lord is not calling you so you can DO anything for Him. He is calling you so you can BECOME of Him and growth occurs beyond what the natural eyes can see. This is why He calls each of us into a necessary WAITING…

The self-centered soul will see waiting through the lens of personal contribution, but when God calls you away to Himself He isn’t looking for you to DO. Don’t just start ‘doing something’… no, instead stop your doing and just be there.

Feel uncomfortable, feel inadequate, feel undeserving, let your anxieties roar, your short attention span show, let the truth of your hearts meditation be exposed, allow the facade you’ve called ‘self’ to fall away, and let yourself be consumed in His presence.

Accept His proposal into a love relationship, get to know Him, adjust your life to Him, let Him love you and teach you and transform you. His pace, His way, for His kingdom and His glory by His Spirit. It is only after the process of a surrendered response to His calling is long underway that you’ll have the capacity to hear Him say GO.

Quality Time with God is about the availability and surrender in spirit you are with Him, not just the number of minutes in isolation you have amassed. Quality Time with God teaches you not just what the words on the pages are but develops within you the ability to accurately hear what The Spirit of The Lord IS Saying. A crucial skill for the journey.

His Spirit within.

His Spirit upon.

Grace & Peace,

LORI LaChelle

After Resurrection

Dear Reader,

I find it quite incredible that our Lord Jesus is both right here in every moment with us and already waiting to welcome us home in victory. Not too long ago I shared a moment of perspective that gives our lives in Christ value because of the cross and purpose that extends beyond it. I share this flicker of awareness with you now;

‘The work of the cross is finished. Completed.

God’s Holy wrath was satisfied by the only sacrifice that could carry such a weight; Christ crucified.

And it’s a wonder that the Father didn’t wait until sin fully had its way with us, but rather when all that there was was darkness and void He gave his only Son, a sheep to the slaughter.

This changes the way we see, not only Jesus but also ourselves.

Up from the obedient baptism, before a miracle in ministry, a declaration from heaven is made that Jesus is the Son of God, the beloved of the Father and in Him the Father is well pleased.

A pleasure that carries itself out in a death that happened before time started ticking, yet in time became so much more.

Death couldn’t hold him, the Grave couldn’t claim him, Hell broke because of Him, Sin died, but Jesus rose.

And it turns out now so do those in Christ. We too were crucified on the cross.

We too experienced resurrection power. We too are seated with Him at the right hand of the Father.

Right now.

Not in hyperbole, but literally. What more could we add to the work of the cross that was finished on our behalf?

Surrender is all there is to give, not good works.

Surrender, not self-righteousness.

Surrender, not self-mortification.

Surrender, not false humility. Surrender.

Because Christ’s death wasn’t for defeating the enemy, His resurrection was.

Christ’s death was to redeem us again into the Holy Father

The Father who has plans for us, not to enter heaven’s cul de sac. Plans for the extension of His rule here in this realm through us.

So I ask you, What are you doing with the life He gave you if you’re. not about the Father’s business?

You should know the Father’s delight is not in others being found to look like you,

but in their spiritual transformation to BE as HE IS.’

You see there is a purpose beyond just believing that Jesus is God and it is the Father’s desire that we live from this truth.

Praying for you as always dear one.

Grace & Peace

LORI LaChelle