T. Wieland Allen
God's orchestrations continue to amaze and thrill His children with surprises and harmonious events. He never ceases in His ability to orchestrate situations for His children which work to answer their needs and solve their problems. For the participants in all of His harmonious works that He performs, it often takes their breath away because the events are so supernatural in their perfectly designed schemes which are performed with such love and specificity.
Such an orchestration happened recently in the lives of a group of ladies who meet weekly for prayers and studying God's Instruction Book. We are used to magnificent happenings from Our Father which cause delight and joy. Each event produces emotional results like it was the first time that we have seen His supernatural help appear so effortlessly in our behalf. All that we do is believe that he is the designer of all good things and that He proves Himself as the great orchestra leader.
We were asked by a friend to meet at her house and bless her new house. The husband of our friend is a minister and we were complimented to be asked to lead the house blessing. The first thing we did was go on line and search for house blessings. There are hundreds of them, Catholic ones, Protestant ones and ones from other religious organizations. All of them had the same type of blessings and prayers but they just didn't seem to fit this particular couple. The ones that were on line seemed kind of cold and impersonal. It kept coming to my mind that we should only depend upon the Holy Spirit to provide His words of blessing for the beautiful home. While waiting for the appointed day to arrive, we occasionally would consult the printed blessings but there was still no feeling that they were right for this occasion. It began to be exciting to see what the Holy Spirit was going to do when we arrived at the home on the specific day.
A week before the event, I was in Hobby Lobby buying yarn to send to my granddaughter and while there I saw a large gray satin throw pillow upon which the words "Bless This House" was printed in white lettering. The pillow had white satin piping around it and the lettering was encircled by a wreath of white cotton bolls. It was provided by God for sure. The only thing that concerned me was the presence of the cotton bolls, but the pillow was so beautiful and it had the right message on it, so I overrode my concern about the cotton bolls and bought it for the hostess of the home.
The night before we were to gather and drive to their home in another city, as I was going to bed I was talking to God about the blessings of the house, telling Him that I was excited to see what He was going to do to bless the particular new house. As I laid down to sleep, words began coming to my mind relating to each room of the house, the husband's study, the wife's study, the den, the entry hall, the kitchen, the laundry room, the garage, the yard and even the front door. I began to write on paper with a pencil the blessings that came to mind. Even though I knew that God would provide the right words the next day, I surmised that maybe those blessings for each room that came to mind were the guidelines for the blessing.
I slept like a baby that night, knowing that the guidelines were provided. Waking early the next morning was no problem for me, it's my waking time in order to write a God blog, as I call it, every morning. Instead of writing the blog, it came to my mind to type the blessings on the computer, the ones that had come to mind the night before, and I felt that I was to print out enough copies for the ladies and the homeowners. I did it, typed them and printed copies to be used as a guide that day in blessing the house since it was a new experience for us to be asked to participate in blessing a house.
About an hour after printing the copies, a gastrointestinal flu hit me, one which had been making its rounds in our town. I began to have horrible symptoms, running back and forth to the bathroom as the symptoms progressed. I knew it would be impossible for me to go with the ladies to bless the house. They are spiritually astute ladies and are well able to carry on the work to which we were called. I put the special pillow in a large gift bag, added the copies of the blessing for each room of the house and put them in a place for some of the ladies to pick up before leaving for the home of the friend who was anxiously waiting for us to help her bless her new house.
The orchestration continued with a little confusion because of the change in my plans, but several of the ladies were able to join with the hostess at noon. Later the report came back to me that the individual room blessings that the Holy Spirit had given to me the night before were perfect in every way as the group of ladies entered each room and read God's blessing for that room. As an act of celebration and generosity, the hostess had provided a banquet of delicious food for the ladies.
When the hostess opened our housewarming gift for her, she was overwhelmed with the light gray satin throw pillow. Her couch is dark gray and the pillow enhanced the beauty of the couch. The biggest surprise for me of God's perfect orchestration was that the hostess had been raised on a cotton farm and so the cotton bolls on the pillow were God's signature that the hostess needed, her sign from God that her house is definitely abundantly blessed. Only God could design the perfect pillow and then send it to her with His signature on it that only she would recognize. That's the way Our Heavenly Father does things. He puts his signature on each personal symphony that He creates for the harmonious and miraculous events in our lives.
He wants to orchestrate every decision that we make, every step that we take and every word that we speak. When we allow Him to do his designing and his orchestration, He creates heaven on earth for us. Now, that is a loving, spiritually artistic Heavenly Father who is well tuned to our needs.
Let Him lead and orchestrate your life. He does a superior job!
