Running the Road to Galilee: Book Two

By Marie Elizabeth Randall Chandler

An avid runner’s path, now divinely purposed, is where she meets the Lord to hear His messages. This book, the second in the series, Running the Road to Galilee, brings a closer, more intimate glimpse into the life of this runner. She shares a life once lived filled with fear and worry, afflictions of PTSD, panic attacks, depression, poor health and diet, though now made full with glorious abundance through her unwavering faith in God, found serving the Lord with jubilant joy and never-ending zeal as she runs her road to Galilee.

The author’s use of parallelism and repetition is reminiscent of ancient Hebrew poetry bringing forth a book like no other with message-driven verse, replete with emotional power and passionate enthusiasm, penned with soulstirring words for modern life that speaks to all readers.

Messages that boldly convey man’s continual disobedience, disrespect, and denial of God, the absence of God in school, mankind’s ignorant and selfish ways, and the blatant disregard of the importance of living a God-filled life, as she delivers a clear-cut message for all mankind to love the Lord with an utmost earnest devotion, fully yielding to His law without reserve, thus receiving an abundant life nothing short of extraordinary, a life overflowing with nothing less than the phenomenal, unimaginable, sensational love of the Almighty God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Apr 27, 2019
• ISBN: 9781532045974

Marie Elizabeth Randall Chandler

Marie resides in Texas with her husband and five cats. She is an avid runner and follows a strict organic whole foods only diet. She is an active member of the First Presbyterian Church and is devoted to learning, reading, and hearing God's Word.

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Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 My Purposed Path

Decades Ago

August 28

That Dark and Quiet Night

The Anointing

My Ordained Path

Who Am I?

In the Spirit

You Started with One

I Write Your Words

Ready to Run, Ready to Listen

Your Gift Is My Gift

Nothing Sweeter

Drown Me

I Heard How Many

The Words of the Lord

Your Every Word

This Was the Night

Fame and Fortune

My Books of Three

Chapter 2 Roads Once Traveled

A Once Lazy Soul

I Needed to Go

Turn the Music Off

PTSD—Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

I Remember Your Word

Only You Can Change Hearts

A Therapy Void

This Was Me

The Joy of the Lord

Out Loud

Chapter 3 Lost in the Dark

I Have Fallen

I Had to Come Dirty

Rescue Me

Do Not Let Go

My Spirit Disturbed

I Wanted to Hide

The Walls that Fall

I Failed Again

My Mind Is Traveling

The Fear Now Real

The Anchor of My Soul

Running the Dark

My Heart Torn

Darkness’s Grip

Only You in the Dark Night

The Domino Effect

Chapter 4 The Valley Deep

Surely Sufficient

Higher Than Yours

The Valley

You Walked My Valley

A Wound So Deep

Teach Me on Ten

Time Spent in the Valley

All Is Well

Chapter 5 Running the Wrong Way

Eyes Wide Open

Flesh at My Feet

Let’s Make a Deal

Stubborn Little Children

Do Not Deny Your Father

When Will You Learn?

Let Me Be Grumble-Free

Old Habits

The Mouth of a Fool

Your Heart Flows

Toss That Screen

The Noise of the World

An Unsalty Mess

Are You Not Satisfied?

Will Your Crown Fit?

Serve the Lord

We Go Our Own Way

Where Do You Run To?

Chapter 6 At the Crossroads

At the Crossroads

It Is God’s Course

Seek Ye First

Seek God’s Path

Come Back Home

Chapter 7 Roads to Follow

Path of Gold

In the Early Light

Good Morning, Father

Obey the Lord

Just Ten

The Duty of All Mankind

Read It Daily

Ready Always

Repetition

One Hundred Percent

Draw Near to God

Pick up Your Pace

A Mighty Warrior

The Sword of God

Not by Might

Wait in the Lord

Grow My Wings

As You Grow

Winds of Change

You Change the Times and the Seasons

This New Season

Time Passes Quickly

Check Yourself

Six Days

Toss That Mat

A Pain in Each Step

My Path Flooded

False Reports

Love Thy Neighbor

Are You Worried?

Do Not Worry

His Mighty Deed

Whatever You Do

Trust in the Middle

Yesterday, Today, and Forever

Renew Me

Look Up

Joy Always

Your Greatest Resolution

Chapter 8 Choose Your Path

My Every Breath

The Dominion of Darkness

Knocking at Your Door

Are You Prepared?

Are You Ready?

Shall Not Perish

Heaven or Hell?

The Lord’s Message

I Am the Lord

He Did It All

Do Not Delete

The Judgment

Chapter 9 Along the Way

Because of Long Ago

In the Quiet

My Promised Star

Your Voice in the Sky

Fairy Tales

Homecoming

I Eagerly Await

A Reunion Great

Total Eclipse

The Day You Died

Do You Hear?

Who Is Like Him?

Have You Heard?

Follow the Lord

Thanksgiving

I Believe

All Creatures Great and Small

Variety

Faithful

The Fullness of God

The Word of God

Hear This

No One Comes

The Special of the Day

The Class of the Lord

Teach Your Children

He Wrote the World

The Elective of the Lord

The All-Knowing

November 2, 2003

You Are the Perfect Doorman

My Box Number Ten

A Yard So Green

Wednesday Morning Bible Study

The Front Door

Friends Forever

Found Praying

Chapter 10 Running Strong

Running Strong

God’s Garden

The Wings of an Eagle

Spiritual Energy

Chapter 11 My Glorious Road

My Favorite Place

The Extraordinary Road

The Morning New

You Paved This Road

Set Up

The Open Road

Brilliance Bright

The Stage Is Set

I Am Worthy

First Above All

Labor in the Lord

Call on Me

This Is It

Lost in You

Forever Running

God’s Will

The Breath of God

Lost in His Word

Your Word Started Simply

I Know Your Word

You Are My Teacher

Growth Charts

The God of Perfect Timing

It Is My Faith

Words Penned Long Ago

Your Eternal Book

Take Off the Limits

In the Eye of a Storm

A Song in My Heart

I Smile

Quiet Time

Double Blessing

I Stand Waiting

I Will Always Have Hope

I Wait

More Than I Imagine

What Shall I Return?

I Did Not Even Ask

If That Were Not Enough

You Excite Me

My Soul Stirred

Weigh Me Down

Your Power Within

Blind Me with Your Light

Set Me on Fire

I Love You

How Many Times?

A Love So Great

Speechless

How to Say Thank You

Chapter 12 My Miracle

This Is My Miracle

Closing

About the Author

May Your words be my words, Your voice, my voice.

Breathe the pages with Your Spirit.

Shine upon each word, lifted to Heaven above.

To the Lord I love.

For my mother-in-law, Betty Chandler,

a friend always ready to listen.

Preface

There is a message for all to read.

For those who serve the Lord and walk His way.

Also too, there is a message for those who do not know the Lord.

This book is for them all the same.

If you wonder who this God is and what He can do, this book is for you.

The Lord spoke His words, I wrote them down.

You will see how the Lord took the life of just one, making it His glory.

I am just a small one, an ordinary one, though I found the Lord,

and He has made me mighty and great.

I am worthy to write this book.

I am a child of God, a daughter of the King.

With that, I run His road to Galilee.

I seek His face each night I run.

He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen.

I have not been rebellious, I have not turned away.

My words come from an upright heart.

My lips sincerely speak what I know.

In all my ways, I submit to the Lord.

He orders my every step.

He has brought me here to the writing of this book.

Read the words of the Lord, messages for all.

My feet have closely followed his steps; I have kept to his way without turning aside. I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.

—Job 23:11–12

I run in the path of your commands, for you have broadened my understanding.

—Psalm 119:32

How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

—Psalm 119:103

My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you.

—Isaiah 26:9

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

—Matthew 5:6

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.

—Ephesians 3:20

You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

—Psalm 63:1

CHAPTER 1

MY PURPOSED PATH

Decades Ago

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Years ago, You brought me here to this road, here in this town.

I stood on its ground, though I did not know.

My family and I took to the highway, many a mile to go.

We journeyed in the night, long years ago.

Though soon stopped in the middle of nowhere, broken down on a darkened road.

This was the night of the Lord’s doing, though I would not know of this divine plan until decades later.

Soon to be rescued, yet still stranded, here in this town, this town I did not know.

Someone told me the name of this place, though I cared not to remember.

The journey now ending, this trip never meant to be.

For the Lord knew it would end here on this road in a place planned just for me.

Decades later, He would reveal this purposeful path I now run.

Life continued on, I grew, married, and had children.

I never again thought about that dark, quiet night stranded in the middle of nowhere in a town I did not know.

Yet again my steps were ordered, here once more did I arrive.

This town now my home and here now I still remain.

I serve the Lord, and with this, my eyes have opened to this connection from decades ago.

This town I live was the very town You brought me to long years ago.

Now decades later, here once again on a dark, quiet road, I run only a few short miles from where I once stood so long ago.

You knew this was the road I was to run.

It is the Lord who purposes my every step as I travel this road to Galilee.

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August 28

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You knew I was to be walking and not running, no sound of feet moving along.

You knew that as I set out this night, You would cause my steps to be

ever so quiet, and not a sound they would make.

You ordered the night air to be ever so still, not even the faintest whisper of a breeze so gentle.

For You knew that on this night You would send Your glory to fall upon my face.

There would be no mistaking this sound of violent rushing wind,

suddenly to come.

You ordered the stillness, Your Presence known and no denying

would there be.

I know, and I remember that night.

It will not fade from my heart.

The night You ordered the quiet and made Your Presence known.

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That Dark and Quiet Night

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On that dark and quiet night, there were no high seas.

There were no violent winds.

No ships tossed about with sails thrashing tattered and torn.

No angry squalls raged about.

On that dark and quiet night, there were no imposing birds of prey,

flying low and near with great and mighty wings.

There are no birds of which I know a sound could come—maybe, yes,

a pterodactyl with a span so great, whipping through the air with

unimagined velocity.

For these are the only sounds it could have been, yet this is not possible,

for you see, I walk on dry land in modern age.

The sound I heard, its origin nothing less than that of supernatural.

It was a sound from above that raged with a glorious might.

It came from nowhere, immediately upon my face, the sound of a violent rushing wind, entering the night so still.

It left a memory so lucid, unquestionable and undeniable,

that of a vivid revelation.

This came from the supernatural God whom I so faithfully serve.

This is the one and only explanation.

Yet God does not need an explanation, He does as He pleases.

On that dark and quiet night, He chose to reveal His Presence.

It remains true, whether you believe or not.

It does not matter what you might ponder, my pen needs not to persuade.

The Lord chose me on that dark and quiet night I shall always remember.

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The Anointing

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You were here waiting for me at the highest point.

How could this not be significant?

Divinely purposed?

For in days gone by, this is where praises were offered, sacrifices made, offerings brought to the highest hill.

Here waiting for me, You knew I would arrive.

With every step along the way, knowing each one would lead to You,

to this high place and so too the darkest.

For I would not have arrived here on this night had I not traveled in a valley dark.

Your thoughts made known, Your perfect planning grand.

You went before me, knowing I would arrive at this perfect place,

receiving now the anointing of Your Holy Spirit.

Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from Heaven.

These words I had not seen, these words I had not read, yet here they were in full view, experiencing each one as penned long ago, this great and mighty act of my God.

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My Ordained Path

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On that still and quiet night, the sounding rush revealed, I ponder to think the reason why the Lord presented this to me.

What was the reason?

Was it an anointing for that which He was planning?

Months later, the Lord began to speak and open my ears, giving me words to pen.

This is what the Lord was planning.