Lana Vawser - A Time to Selah: Gods Prophetic Invitation for you to Step Out of Crisis and Enter Into His Perfect Peace

Copyright 2020 Lana Vawser

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Chapter 1

A Garden Confrontation

As I sit here in my office, the whole world has been placed on pause. Here I sit as the news loudly reports on the Coronavirus and how it has spread, the damage it has caused, and the scrambling to bring protection to people of the world from this virus.

Nations are on lockdown. State borders are closed. People have died. People are sick. People are fearful. People are losing and have lost their jobs. The future seems uncertain. The questions resound loudly in hearts and out of peoples mouths, When will this end? Will life ever go back to normal? What will the ramifications of this be in the earth?

I remember sitting with the Lord when this Coronavirus began to spread into the nations. I sat in my favorite corner of the lounge looking out at my beautiful garden with a hot coffee in hand and seeking the Lords heart for what He was saying amid the noise bombarding the airwaves. Thats when I heard His whisper, Lana, I am inviting My people back to the Garden with Me. Its a SELAH moment.

Immediately I knew what the Lord was inviting us into. The Garden speaks to me of intimacy. It speaks to me of communing with Him and walking with Him in the cool of the day (Genesis 3:8). I thought of the word selah and its meaningthe invitation to pause and reflect.

I continued to seek His heart and He whispered again, There is fire in the Garden. I am inviting My people into the Garden to be aligned, refined, and purified.

I received those words for my own life and heard my heart crying out to Him, Lord, I embrace Your fire! Holy Spirit, do whatever You have to do in me to align me, refine me, and purify me in greater ways. The sense then surrounded me so strongly that this was a very significant moment of preparationand what struck me so strongly was what the Lord spoke next:

Lana, the encounters and lessons learned in this moment with Me for My people are going to be things that they carry into this new era.

We are here in a forced lockdown around the earth, but I feel the hand of the Lord. What I am writing here is not just for this moment on earth where we are now, historically, seeing the coronavirus spreadI believe the Lord is bringing the Church into a depth in Him that we have never experienced.

Right now we are being led into a place of surrender thats deeper than we have ever faced. Churches are closed. Services are cancelled. Conferences are cancelled.

Life as normal is no longer life as normal.

So right now, friend, I believe the Holy Spirit is inviting us into a place in the Garden with Him to lay ourselves down. There is a call right now upon the Church as a whole and upon us as individuals to lay ourselves down.

We are in a moment of fresh surrender. I hear Romans 12:1-2 (NKJV) resounding loudly:

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

This selah invitation is to pause and reflect right now. To rewrite in other way: God is inviting you and me into the place of deep surrender where we place everything on the altar and allow His fire to fall and consume what needs to be consumed and to strengthen and refine what remains.

I find it interesting that the word corona means crown. The Lord is dealing with pride, and the King of Glory is going to take His place. For the past few weeks I have been hearing the Matt Redman song, We Fall Down. I believe this is a song for the hour that describes the invitation being placed before us:

We fall down
We lay our crowns
At the feet of Jesus
The greatness of
Mercy and love
At the feet of Jesus.

And we cry holy, holy, holy
And we cry holy, holy, holy
And we cry holy, holy, holy
Is the Lamb.

We fall down
We lay our crowns
At the feet of Jesus
The greatness of
Mercy and love
At the feet of Jesus.

And we cry holy, holy, holy
And we cry holy, holy, holy
And we cry holy, holy, holy
Is the Lamb.

We fall down
We lay our crowns
At the feet of Jesus
The greatness of
Mercy and love
At the feet of Jesus.

(Written by Phil Wickham, Matt Redman, Brian Johnson (Bethel), Brandon Lake, 2020)

There is a call right now to lay down our crowns before the feet of Jesus. King Jesus is going to be exalted!

I feel the love of God so strongly for His people right now. He is calling us higher. He is calling us into our place of authority and positioning for this new era. This is the love of God that is giving us room to respond to Him and position ourselves for what is to come.

For many years now the Lord has been speaking to me these words, Ready or not, here I comeand friend, I feel those words stronger than ever right now. The invitation we are faced with right now is an invitation to go deeper into His heart. It is an invitation to prepare ourselves.

The Bible says in Revelation 19:7 (NIV): Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. There is a depth of preparation that the Lord is inviting us into right now and it comes in the position of surrender.

This is a decisive moment. This is a moment when the Lord is calling us to align. This is one of the moments when the Lord is beckoning us to align with what He is doing and what He is saying. This is the time in the Garden with Him when we are called to a place of decision. We are called to the place of confronting comforts.