Splendor Returned-Shining Hearts Made of Gold!

Never Forsaken, Always Loved Children of the King!
Those Who See His the Firey Furnaces Bring Them Out Brighter Than Gold!

Lord will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and have ruined their vines. Nahum 2: 2

It seems like everyone around me has been going through a cut back season, through loss, sickness, or major changes.
Then I read a wonderful verse like this and I remember God always brings us back better than we were before.

Before God healed me of my autoimmune issues—I had prayed for healing having no other resource left—and then I received an ovarian and breast cancer scare where the only solution the doctors offered was to cut out my ovaries.

I hadn’t yet received my promise of children—although I had helped others with theirs—So this was completely devastating report.

Especially, since this was during Covid and I didn’t have anyone who could go be with me.

As an act of faith, I told them I would never consent to their plans and I still have my ovaries today!
But I also don’t have any cancer or autoimmune issues anymore.

They were wrong about the cancer diagnosis or God healed it before I got to any more major appointments.

And God healed my autoimmune disorder, that caused exquisite kidney pain, swollen teeth and broken teeth, throbbing joint pain all over my body in one day when I was walking, praying, right after He had me forgive a couple people.

All the pain poured out of my body and I was healed.
And I have been healed from that day since. (see healing testimony)

I might have gone through a season of destruction, but God really did bring me back better than I was before.

Because not only did I see Him heal me miraculously when doctors couldn’t do anything, but in the lack of people support, unable to walk with me through that season, I found a comfort in walking through that season with God that I had never known before.

I realized in the lack of people; I could feel Him more closely than I had before.

He was all I had and we were walking through this together.
He was reminding me of my promises and keeping me strong to believe for them through all this mess.
Learning to stand on His words.

And in the loneliness and the fear, I got to see Him more clearly.
I got to feel Him love me more intimately.
It allowed me to find my strength in Him so that no matter who is in my life or not, I can stand strong.

It infused me with more love for Him, a completeness, I had never known.
It showed me how I could trust Him with everything.

It filled me gratitude to Him, that He removed, kept from me, didn’t allow people from this season to help me through this—bringing me this challenge at the time of Covid isolation—so I could see how present He was with me, for me!

That I could truly know through this season, that He is the Healer, My Healer, The Healer of the World.

That it was binging me into my calling, a Healing ministry that stands on every word from His mouth, seeing them come to pass, a truth that sets people free.

It showed me just how closely He was living with me, though I had not been living, mentally, emotionally, so close with Him, in my thoughts.
It turned me to run to Him more deeply for all things first.
And it gave me a heart of mercy for all people so much greater than I have ever had before.
It changed the focus of my life.
I became more focused on Him first, what His plans were, my mindset being changed, on how I walk with the Lord.
And it empowered me to let God be God in my life, and let people be people, looking for God to provide for me as only He can, giving me space to just love others for who they are and where they are.

It showed me that I was His teammate.
That He and I were a literally team, every day, every moment, Me and Him.

May we know that we know that we know that everything we go through is so that we can see God, Jesus, our Messiah, and His deep intimate, never leaving never forsaking, always near, always providing, always loving presence.

May we know that we know that we know if He has taken something out of our lives, it’s so that we can see Him, and experience His goodness in our lives.

May we know that we know that we know, once we really understand this, when He brings back all the other pieces, it’s like getting cream cheese frosting on our already decadent delicious brownie, extra splendor that we receive with a new ten times bigger, deeply grateful heart full of love, more equipped to give out His love to others, stronger to take on the new purposes and challenges He brings us into.

love kathlynn