Arise sons and daughters of the King!

Hasn't there been a lot of storm activity here in Melbourne over the last week?  Raging winds blowing over trees and wrecking havoc in the suburbs.  Pelting rain reducing visibility on the roads and saturating everything.  I don't mind the storms when I am safely tucked up at home but I don't like to be out and about in them.

Last week I was holidaying at Cape Paterson and had to return home on the Saturday.  It had been a stormy week with wind gusts at the Prom reaching over 100km per hour. I listened to the news the night before and they again forecast high winds and rain to move over Melbourne from 9am - 11am on the Saturday.  "Oh great!" I thought, "just when I want to drive home!"  I went to bed and fell asleep.  I awoke on the Saturday at 5.30am to howling winds and pouring rain.  I guess I didn't have to wait until 9am for that to arrive!  I was annoyed.  I dislike driving through howling storms.  But what could I do about it?

I got up and looked out the front window.  "Enough!"  I thought.  "Enough!"  I took up my authority as the daughter of the King, raised my hand over the howling wind and pouring rain and commanded it to be still when I was driving home.  I spent the next 2 hours packing up and getting ready.  By the time I left at 7.30am the rain had stopped and the wind had dropped to a breeze.

On the way home I only had one encounter with a wind gust along the open road, no rain and a safe passage home!

Romans 8:19-21

The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

Here's a link to another similar testimony about taking up your authority over storms - Lessons In Dominion