Breaking the Spirit of Heaviness Part III

BREAKING THE SPIRIT OF HEAVINESS - PART III

Song Of Solomon 2:10-13 NASB 2020

My desire is to speak prophetically over you today and encourage

God gave my assistant, Michelle Saurbek, these verses for us when

we had just come through a very difficult season

I want to share what I have learned from these verses

We will discover that God’s desire is for us not to remain long in

seasons of heaviness, mourning and despair

How fitting that we’ve just come through winter and are in spring

Notice the bridegroom is speaking here (Jesus) to the bride

Jesus encourages us to “come along” too

Why? Because winter is past and the rain is over

New life is springing up all around if we’ll only look and see

I love the exhortation to “come along” is spoken at the beginning and

the end

Turn to I Samuel 16:1 to see what God told Samuel

Samuel had been mourning King Saul’s disobedience to God

I think it significant that we can mourn another’s failures

God asks Samuel “how long are you gonna mourn for Saul?”

God then tells Samuel to fill his horn with oil

Notice how heaviness kept Samuel from doing what he was supposed

to do

He was supposed to go anoint the next King (David)

Let look at Habakkuk 3:17-19

Can we see that Habakkuk’s joy was not circumstantial

The Prophet determined to rejoice in the God of his salvation no

matter what

Are you open to God telling you your winter season is over?

Are you open to God telling you you may have mourned long

enough?

Are you open to putting on praise in the midst of unpleasant

circumstances?

Lets finish with Revelation 22:17

This exhortation goes out in three different ways:

To the one hears

To the one who is thirsty

To the one who desires

To all three types the Spirit and the bride say “come”.