<![CDATA[Mountain Momma Rising - Surrendered and Sent Blog]]>Thu, 28 May 2026 06:58:49 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Pressing In]]>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:54:06 GMThttps://www.mountainmommarising.com/surrendered-and-sent-blog/january-13th-2026
Pressing In: The Fire That Heals

     There is a call to go deeper. A call to press into the heart of God like never before. What He is doing is deep, transformative, and refining. But it comes with a cost.
     In this process, He is revealing the truth: without Him, the weight of your calling would crush you. He’s asking for all of you. Not just the easy parts, but the brokenness, the stuck places, the wounds you’ve kept hidden. The fire you feel isn’t here to destroy you but to purify you, stripping away the fear, pain, and scars that have held you back.
He’s inviting you to stand as His warrior Daughter, healed and whole, ready for the battles ahead. But this readiness requires surrender. It requires trust. It requires a willingness to let Him bind up your wounds and cast them far away.
This season may feel like the furnace—intense, unrelenting, and overwhelming. Yet the Lord reminds us of His promises: just as He stood with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fire, so He stands with you. The flames will not consume you. You are coming out refined, renewed, and transformed. Not even the smell of smoke will cling to you.
Your trauma will no longer feel like your story—it will feel like someone else’s, because His healing will be so complete, so profound, that you’ll scarcely recognize the pain you once carried. As His oil pours over you, from head to toe, it will create a barrier—a shield to guard your heart and mind from the enemy. His healing oil will anoint you, not just for your healing, but for the healing of others.
     When He touches your lips, life will flow from your words. When He renews your mind, His healing balm will flow through your thoughts. The fragrance of His presence will emanate from you, touching the broken and bringing His restoration to their wounds.

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.” — James 1:2-3

     This is His call: press in. Press into His presence. Press into His healing. Press into the secret place where He is waiting for you. He is ready to pour out His healing oil, to clothe you in His strength, and to prepare you for what is to come. The fire may seem intense, but it is only an illusion. The truth is this: He is with you, and you are being made new.
 
Prayer:
     Lord, I surrender to Your refining fire. I press into You, trusting that what You are doing in me is preparing me for greater things. Heal my wounds, renew my mind, and pour Your oil over me. Make me a vessel of Your healing, that I may bring Your hope and restoration to the broken around me.
In Him,
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Raeann  Ralston


]]><![CDATA[The Winter is Over/Come Away with Me]]>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:16:48 GMThttps://www.mountainmommarising.com/surrendered-and-sent-blog/the-winter-is-overcome-away-with-me
The Winter Is Over/Come Away With Me 
 
In the midst of recovering from a recent surgery and stepping straight into the holidays, life has been so busy that I haven’t had time to just sit in my prayer room. Today, I was playing Monopoly with the kids when I turned on worship on the TV. I was enjoying our family togetherness but longing to be in His presence. As I turned on the music I simply said, Holy Spirit, I miss You. Will You come sit with me? 
 
Instantly, I felt His presence. Joy filled me. We played the game for a while, as I enjoyed His presence in the room. My heart in tune with the worship streaming. The Lord began to show me some things on the horizon. 
 
As this conversation with Him unfolded He said; “It is time to go to the next level. I led you into a time of promises realized and in that place I ask you to follow my lead. To let me lay the foundation of what I was about to build. It was almost effortless as you stepped into the new place. I have been near. My presence reigned and I have stirred the waters of expectancy, of hope, of new life. I have resurrected what was dormant, dying and dead in the physical and spiritual realm. My breath of life came. 
 
Now it is time to move to the next level of what I am doing and calling my people into. It is time to till the land you have entered…
 
Tilling the land represents our responsibility as God's stewards to care for creation, symbolizing diligent labor, sustenance, and a partnership with God for growth
 
The Hebrew word for "tilling" can also mean "serving," suggesting an active, devoted work. It encompasses the whole process from plowing to harvest, emphasizing dedication…
 
“This new ground is fertile for my rain that is going to bring forth every seed planted. There is a time for sowing and a time for reaping. This is the season of the reaping. This is the new season you waited for. You held on for. You believed for. It is here. 
 
You will witness before you what was once thought to be impossible become possible. You will see the masses come to me and enter my kingdom seeking me in spirit and in truth. You will call on me and I will be there. You will see miracles and come into healing of the heart, mind, and body like in days of long ago and of times not yet seen. You are going to come into a new dimension of my kingdom reality and freedom. What once held you back will no longer. What once was an obstacle will crumble before you as you step forward. There will be ease in your step as you discover new dimensions of you and me. Our intimacy will grow according to the measure of your belief for all I am about to do. I am calling my bride to the bridal chamber. Come away with me and I will show you who I am. And you will know who you are.”
 
Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away, for behold, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come. Song of Solomon 2:10-13 

RaeAnn Ralston
 
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