Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago
**Listen on Podcast: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/joanie-stahl/episodes/Heaven-Land-Devotions---Your-Victorious-Conflict-That-Frees-Others-e36npkt
**Thank you for supporting this ministry, I lovingly refer to as "The Little Green Pasture." Click here: PayPal: paypal.me/JoanStahl
**Please prayerfully consider becoming a ministry partner:
Patreon: patreon.com/joaniestahl
**Contact Email: jsfieldnotes@gmail.com
**Subscribe to me on Rumble: rumble.com/c/c-534183
Recently I felt I was hit broadsided by an event that knocked me off balance for a few days and nights. Though years of trials and wars, there are always new fields not fought in yet. I had to wrestle in prayer to get my footing.
There were sleepless tossings and turnings. "I watered my couch with tears," several times, and finally, I found my balance again. I began to come up for air and scenes from the Bible and words of the Lord began to flood in. His light shone and I was strenthened.
I thought of Paul the Apostle who was one man aboard a ship full of men. It was the Lord who met him one night during the fierness of the storm and told him all on the ship would be saved.
Moses and Phineas stood up as the only ones among tens of thousands who prayed to God, and His wrathful judments were halted. There are many more examples. The Lord showed me this morning that there are many trials that are very hard and unbearable. That if He allows a trial to come to you, it is not just for you.
It is for many others later on because He knows He can trust you to "go down into sea in ships to do business in great waters." To go down into the depths, in darkness. He knows that when you are at your wits end, you will pray like Moses and Phineas did. He does this because He knows through you, many will be liberated by His great force of love and power.
It says, "Unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for His sake." (Phil.2:19). A word like this to you, "It is given," takes the ache from battle wounds.
You will lean into His arm and like Paul you will say to others who are desperate, "I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me," and many will live because you stood for Christ, and Christ stood by you in the deeps at night.
"If we are the sheep of His pasture then all of us are headed for an altar."
- Jim Elliot
**Listen on Podcast: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/joanie-stahl/episodes/Heaven-Land-Devotions---Your-Victorious-Conflict-That-Frees-Others-e36npkt
**Thank you for supporting this ministry, I lovingly refer to as "The Little Green Pasture." Click here: PayPal: paypal.me/JoanStahl
**Please prayerfully consider becoming a ministry partner:
Patreon: patreon.com/joaniestahl
**Contact Email: jsfieldnotes@gmail.com
**Subscribe to me on Rumble: rumble.com/c/c-534183
Recently I felt I was hit broadsided by an event that knocked me off balance for a few days and nights. Though years of trials and wars, there are always new fields not fought in yet. I had to wrestle in prayer to get my footing.
There were sleepless tossings and turnings. "I watered my couch with tears," several times, and finally, I found my balance again. I began to come up for air and scenes from the Bible and words of the Lord began to flood in. His light shone and I was strenthened.
I thought of Paul the Apostle who was one man aboard a ship full of men. It was the Lord who met him one night during the fierness of the storm and told him all on the ship would be saved.
Moses and Phineas stood up as the only ones among tens of thousands who prayed to God, and His wrathful judments were halted. There are many more examples. The Lord showed me this morning that there are many trials that are very hard and unbearable. That if He allows a trial to come to you, it is not just for you.
It is for many others later on because He knows He can trust you to "go down into sea in ships to do business in great waters." To go down into the depths, in darkness. He knows that when you are at your wits end, you will pray like Moses and Phineas did. He does this because He knows through you, many will be liberated by His great force of love and power.
It says, "Unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for His sake." (Phil.2:19). A word like this to you, "It is given," takes the ache from battle wounds.
You will lean into His arm and like Paul you will say to others who are desperate, "I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me," and many will live because you stood for Christ, and Christ stood by you in the deeps at night.
"If we are the sheep of His pasture then all of us are headed for an altar."
- Jim Elliot
