Seek the LORD while he may be found;

call on him while he is near.

Let the wicked forsake his way,

and the evil man his thoughts.

Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him,

and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

neither are your ways my ways.

As the heavens are higher than the earth,

so are my ways higher than your ways

and my thoughts than your thoughts…” declares the LORD.

Isaiah 55:6-9

God’s ways are not our ways…God’s thoughts are not our thoughts. God’s sense of timing is not the same as ours. And it’s a darn good thing.

When it comes to precious ones in our lives — those who are either not-yet-believers or not-freed-up-believers — I have found that God’s ways, thoughts, words and actions are always perfect in love and perfect in timing…even if they differ (dramatically!) from what I want and when I want it. Sound familiar?

We need to actively PRAY for those who do not yet know Jesus as Savior…and for those who do not yet know the fullness of His transformation and the full life He offers through His unfailing love. To this, and of this, we must SPEAK. And we must always speak in LOVE…always act and interact in LOVE. And we must TRUST GOD in the WAITING.

While we wait on God – for days, weeks, months, years, decades – God is actively working deep within us, calling us to trust Him fully, opening His loving arms for us to surrender ourselves to His embrace…to surrender our pride and our fear to His perfect way and His eternal will…so that we may be conformed more and more to the likeness of God’s Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.

And while we wait, God is also constantly working around and within those for whom we are praying…constantly tugging at the hearts and minds of those for whom we want God to show up mightily and tenderly and amazingly in their lives.

Oh! The wait is not so easy. Yet, in the waiting there are deep blessings of knowing our Sovereign and Intimate God in unimaginable ways as we seek to live a life that is being continually honed by trusting God’s Word and yielded to His Spirit. Our lives…and the waiting…become purposeful and peaceful, passionate and fruitful.

Keep praying, my friends. Keep trusting God for all those who do not yet know the unfailing love — the salvation promise and the transformation power – of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Pray. Speak. Love. And Trust God in the Waiting!

In love, peace and purposeful passion,                                                               Sylane

On March 1st – 2nd Sylane Mack will be ministering again (sessions #22-25 since 2003!) at Mathom House - a Rehabilitation Center for adolescent male, sexual perpetrators.

On March 1st — Sylane will speak with 2 different therapy groups made up of the young men incarcerated, their staff therapists and Mathom’s directors and supervisors. Later that evening Sylane will speak again to the Parents and Family Group.

On March 2nd — Sylane will return to speak with those at Mathom House for one more therapy session. 

How great is God’s mercy and compassion for all people — for all who are victims and for all who are victimizers!  We all need Jesus!

How fully sufficient, for the sacrifice of every sin and the forgiveness of every sinner, is the blood shed by Jesus through His death on the cross! How magnificent and unfailing is the LOVE of Christ that is able to fully transform lives!

May each person who is present at Mathom House hear, believe and be set free through the grace and truth offered through our Lord Jesus Christ! Amen and Amen!