Reclaiming Your Land: Transformed Through the Word of God

By Shari Lordi

As I was approaching my mid-forties, I was as weary and broken as a human being could be. Living in bondage for several years, had taken its toll on me. I was barely existing.

Although the Spirit of God was always with me, I was unable to gain a breakthrough until I finally, and totally, surrendered ALL to the Lord Jesus Christ. When I let go of everything, regardless of what the outcome could or would be, was when the miraculous began to take place and happen in my life.

The Holy Spirit used simple and practical elements in nature to impart deep and life changing revelation into my soul. One of the most powerful breakthroughs I received, was given to me through the revelation of the metamorphosis process that butterflies go through. It was through that journey that the blinders began to slowly fall off.

Born into a fallen world, we must have a transformation experience through the redemption and shed blood of Jesus Christ. Just as the butterfly goes through that very painful transition from what was to what is to be, from the old man to the new creation, we as children of God must also go through this process. Liberation is beautiful and so worth the process.

Remember, once a caterpillar transforms from crawling on the ground to a beautiful butterfly soaring through the air, he can never go back. He is a new creation. Not a perfect creation but a new creation.

You can be Free!!! Jesus really does love You.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jun 29, 2017
• ISBN: 9781512790078

Shari Lordi

Shari, has very candidly and honestly shared much of her life story. She has shared the ups and downs and the victories that she has gained in the process while giving all credit to her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. She has beautifully shared how obedience to God, and surrender to the Holy Spirit, has enabled her to overcome, and be truly free of the bondages of fear, anger and the feelings of guilt that had controlled her and seemingly doomed her life for years. She has included some of her beautiful poetry to help complete the picture of a life that has been transformed by surrender to God and the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

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RECLAIMING

YOUR

Land

Transformed Through the Word of God

SHARI LORDI

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Copyright © 2017 Shari Lordi.

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ISBN: 978-1-5127-9008-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5127-9009-2 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-5127-9007-8 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017908803

WestBow Press rev. date: 07/26/2017

FOREWORD

Shari, has very candidly and honestly shared much of her life story. She has shared the ups and downs and the victories that she has gained in the process while giving all credit to her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

She has beautifully shared how obedience to God, and surrender to the Holy Spirit, has enabled her to overcome, and be truly free of the bondages of fear, anger and the feelings of guilt that had controlled her and seemingly doomed her life for years.

She has included some of her beautiful poetry to help complete the picture of a life that has been transformed by surrender to God and the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

This inspiring story can be extremely helpful to Christians and non-believers as well. Rev. Jim Carmany; Rev. Carmany serves as a Pastor at New Springfield, Oh. Church Of God

He also has a Master’s Degree in Counseling

CONTENTS

THE BEST IS YET TO COME

SPEAK TO THAT MOUNTAIN

JEHOVAH JIREH MY PROVIDER

WHY ISN’T MY GARDEN GROWING?

A TIME TO SOW AND A TIME TO REAP!

A CHRISTIAN METAMORPHOSIS

WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE?

GOD’S GRACE VERSES GUILT

LET’S GET TO THE ROOT OF IT ALL

BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD

MY CHILD

IN THE MIDST OF THE STORM

BROKEN THROUGH THE STORM

RUN AWAY

ARMED BUT NOT DANGEROUS

JUDGE NOT

LETTING GO

MY BROTHERS KEEPER

CROSS ROADS

LITTLE GIRL

OH THOU MAN OF GOD

BEAUTIFUL ANGEL

LITTLE ONE

HONORABLE DUTY

LOST BUT FOUND

DREAMER

DEAR MOTHER

WOMAN OF GOD

PERFECT PEACE

TRUST ME

DONT WORRY DAUGHTER

TO BE A FRIEND

A PASTOR

BUTTERFLY BUTTERFLY FLY AWAY

THE BEST IS YET TO COME

It was a Friday afternoon and I was at work in the cafeteria having lunch with one of my co-workers. We began talking about the everyday experiences that we were dealing with at work, when suddenly our conversation shifted into a totally different direction. We began talking about Christmas and New Year’s Eve, which was only a few weeks away. It was at that moment that The Lord began to speak to me as He was speaking through me. I was amazed at what was coming out of my mouth. I was speaking about things that I was not even aware of, combined with things that I did know.

The Lord began to speak to both of us through me, as I was talking about the old New Year’s Eve tradition of eating pork, and a story that I was once told. Years before this, I was told that one of the reasons the tradition of eating pork on New Year’s Eve began was that people believed that pigs, once moving forward never look back. As I began to say this, I suddenly saw a flick in my mind of one of my favorite old time shows. It was a show where there was a pig that someone had as a pet. I saw this pig moving forward at a very fast pace like he always did. As I saw him moving forward, I noticed that he never looked back but was seemingly focused on where he was headed. It was at that point that I began to see another vision.

I saw people physically walking into the New Year but they had their heads turned backwards. What they were saying without even realizing it was that they were more interested and concerned with their past than what was ahead of them. Their future. It was as though their past still had a stronger connection and hold on them than their future did.

While watching them walk into their new year which also was a new beginning for them, I saw someone standing ahead with multiple gifts in his hands for them, but the people did not see him. The reason they could not see the person with the gifts waiting for them was because they had their heads turned backwards looking and longing for their past, for what was. It wasn’t that the person holding the gifts was trying to hide from them, it was that they had to walk to where he was, to receive their gifts but to do that, they had to look ahead to see what direction they needed to go to get to him, and the gifts that were already theirs.

The Lord began to speak to me in such a profound way. He told me that many of His people (Christians) were stuck in their past. He showed me that because they were either unwilling to let go of what was, or that they felt it was too hard to let go, and felt unable to, that they were going to miss the blessings and gifts of God that was ahead of them.

I began to see those that were in ministry who were wounded, and some angry because of past experiences, and those that were filled with sorrow only because God had ended a season in their lives and they were unable to accept that. It was a season that was very important to them and they did not want or expect things to change, yet it did, and they were broken, sad, fearful, and unwilling to let go and move on.

Then I began to see those who had bad and painful experiences in their past and they were filled with anger and unforgiveness that they had not overcome yet. There were also those that had wonderful experiences in their past’s but because others had moved on, it had ended leaving them stuck in the memories of the past. I realized that this pertained to everyone. Whether it was a past ministry, loss of job, broken marriage or relationships. Whether it was good or bad memories, that is all they now were. Memories.

They were memories that people were spending much of their time and energy focusing on, trying to keep them alive and recreate them, but they were gone and no longer existed. They were memories that were keeping the door to their future closed and blocking the blessings of God.

Good or bad, it was time to say good-bye to them, and bury them in the past and move on. As I could see in this vision that the Lord gave me, many were not able or willing to do that and as they walked into their future, some began walking down a road going in the opposite direction of the man that was standing ahead with the gifts in his hands. Some, without even knowing it became stuck in a small place. It was a small place of nothingness and emptiness leading to nowhere. It was a place that was in between the past and future. I could see Israel at the red sea and the Egyptians on every side of them, except the side of the red sea.

It was like they were stuck at the bank of the red sea in constant fear, turmoil, danger and lack with the enemies of their past oppressing them if only in their minds. They were paralyzed with fear in their current position, yet they were still not letting go of what was. They were stuck in neutral blinded by confusion because of their disobedience to obey Gods word, to let go, and move forward into the newness of His will. It was because of their own choosing that they were stuck in this place of suspension and frustration, all because they were too afraid to trust God and move into the unknown, which was a place of blessing.

Then there were those that were making some efforts to move forward but still not totally releasing the past to the Lord. So because of their inability to totally let go, they were moving forward and they did walk close to the man with the gifts but because their vision was limited and blurred from the past, they walked right past the man with the gifts without even seeing him. Their answers and blessing were that close, yet they didn’t even realize that He was right there and what they had been praying for was there and available to them.

It was so sad, but because they couldn’t see Him, they missed it all. The blessings, the breakthroughs, and the victories that they had been praying for was available to them, but they were not willing to follow the voice and move of the Lord to get what was ALREADY theirs.

It was very clear, It was a season of blessings, and breakthrough but It was only going to happen for those that would say yes to the Lord, on His terms to let go of it all and trust that whatever He does with it, is the best and right thing to do. To accept that what was, IS OVER. And praise the Lord for the newness that He now has for them.

As you read through some of my experiences the Lord has led me through, you will read of how my journey and deliverances of healing happened in many different ways. We have to allow God to do whatever He wants in our lives to get rid of all of the junk. While reading into the next chapters you will see the many different ways the Lord began to show me how much junk my life was filled with. I had one major breakthrough while on a project of clearing the junk out of our back yard. It was truly an amazing revelation through simple and practical elements. By cleaning up our back yard and getting rid of the old junk, it brought clarity and clear vision to me. That next morning when I woke up and I went to the kitchen to put our morning coffee on like I normally did, I happen to turn my head and glance out of our window at our back yard and I was stunned. I instantly knew that I was at the beginning of a new process. While looking out of my window now, I could clearly see that which I