President of the Aglow Northern Virginia

President of the Aglow

Northern Virginia Area Board

WV Women’s Aglow Retreat

August 1996

So Shall I Adorn You

with My Glory

“You may have heard it said, ‘Can anything good come out of WV?’ You have been at the bottom of the list in poverty, unemployment, lack of education, and many other things.  BUT I say to you the world shall know, I shall begin to unveil and reveal what I have prepared in you and in this state.  You shall be the head and not the tail.  Many have come into these mountains to enjoy the gifts of natural beauty I have bestowed on this state.  People come for rest and refreshing to these mountains.  They shall begin to come for spiritual rest and refreshment as they hear of the work I have done in and through my women.

“As the mountains are round about Jerusalem so are My mountains round about you.  The hills are alive with the sound of praise.  The trees are clapping my praises.  Even the angels who are camping round about you are praising My name.

“I have called you forth from the hills, the valleys, the farms, the coalfields, the ‘hollers’ to heal you, to lift off your shame, to bear your reproach.  You must go back to these same places, to the women living in despair and hopelessness.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

“Out of your adversity has come a strength; you have learned endurance, faithfulness, courage, and a simplicity of faith. My character has been reproduced in you.  You have been an object of scorn and ridicule.  You have sent your sons and husbands forth to battle for this nation.  You have learned relinquishment and sacrifice.

“You have learned to be abased ---- You will come to know what it is to abound!

“Even as I have bathed your summits in glory like  Prince Immanuel’s land, these very summits that shout forth my praise as they are robed in the blooming garb of spring, they cause you to delight in Me as I display the flaming, fiery colors of fall.  —So shall I adorn you with my glory!

For your sake I will not keep quiet,

till your righteousness shines out like the dawn, your salvation like a blazing torch.  The nations will see your righteousness and all kings your glory; you will be called by a new name that the mouth of the Lord will bestow.  You will be a crown of splendor in the Lord’s hand, a royal diadem in the hand of your God.  No longer will they call you “Forsaken,” nor to your land will it any longer be said,  “Desolate”;  But you will be called, “My Delight is in her,”and your land “Married”; for the Lord will take delight in you (Is 62) and your land will be bestow upon you a crown of beauty instead of ashes.  I alone am your glory and the lifter up of your heads. Think of these things 

“Lift up your heads West Virginians.  There is a sound coming from the mountains. It shall be heard clearer each day.  It says the way is prepared”.

  “Instead of your shame my people will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace they will rejoice in their inheritance; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.”  (Is 61:7)