Mighty Rushing Wind

Last night a storm came up that rocked my core…I’ve never heard the thunder or lightning or see the wind blow like it did last evening. It blasted so loud I actually screamed…I looked out across our back yard and saw twirling rain and wind coming straight for us…it blew my potted plants and chair and other things onto our patio as it blew past us…it was really scary…that is what inspired this poem…

Standing in my doorway, looking out into the storm

Rain and wind came dancing T’was a powerful form

Twirling straight towards me, the force it would be great

Is that you LORD walking across the yard in majesty, but wait…

No time for preparation, no time to gather things in…God is walking, He’s powerful

He’s a Mighty Rushing Wind…

If you aren’t ready when the Spirit passes by, then everything you’re storing will surely begin to fly…

How can you contain the wind, or tame the rolling tide…

How can you catch a falling star, or, hold back lightning, from afar…?

How can you take a sunbeam and send it to one place…

How can you hold in your hands, God’s invisible face…?

One tiny touch from the creator of the human race, one word spoken forming earth and space…will cause the earth to open, volcanos to erupt, tsunamis there’s no stopping as it gobbles everything up…His touch will heal diseases, cast mountains into the sea…one touch of His mighty power will set people free…

I now can say that I have seen Creator God walking…You do not know His power, or the strength of His majestic hand, until you’ve seen God, in the form of the Mightily Rushing Wind. Walking by He’ll show you, just how Powerful He is…shaking ground, purpose bound He’ll turn your world upside-down… His invisible touch surrounds the ones, that he loves Oh so much!

God is real; His Spirit indescribable…if you could hold electricity, in your human, unprotected, bear hands…than you would see just a glimpse of God’s Mighty Rushing Wind.

Do not underestimate God’s unseen power…

He’s in the storms of life

He’s walking towards you this very hour…

He is a consuming fire; He’s a mighty rushing wind…

There’s a stirring in the atmosphere…let it begin…

Blow wind…blow…

~Marla Shaw O’Neill June 6, 2018

Acts 2:2-4 King James Version (KJV) And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

Exodus 24:17 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) The appearance of the Lord’s glory to the Israelites was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop.

Psalm 46:4-7 English Standard Version (ESV) There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns. The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts. The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah

John 3:8 Good News Translation (GNT) The wind blows wherever it wishes; you hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. It is like that with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Job 38:4-7 New International Version (NIV) “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone— while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?