Help Us to Dream
Your
Dreams oh
Lord!
Your
Dreams oh
Lord!
For over a week now I have been inspired by an unnamed servant in Genesis 24. It has felt like another “first mention” of the word hesed because three out of the four references in this chapter are the first mention in the Bible of God's hesed kind of lovingkindness that English takes elaborate explanation to describe accurately.
Here is the background. Abrahem was getting pretty feeble. He was sensing he didn’t have long to live and didn’t want his son to fall into the idol worship of the Canaanites around him. He called on his senior servant to go back to his own kin in the land where Abrahem once lived to find Issac a wife amongst his own clan of people. When the servant shared his hesitation about this seemingly impossible task, Abrahem’s response was full of faith. “God will send an angel before you to prepare the way.” His servant was not so convinced, “but what if she won’t come with me, can I take Issac there?” Abrahem knew the promises God gave him and believed them and recalled them in the hearing of this servant, “No, Issac cannot go with you because God promised THIS land to us. If the girl won’t come with you, I will not hold you to this promise. Just promise me you won’t look for a wife for him among the Canaanites.” This promise was not just for his family. God promised that ALL the world would be blessed through Abrahem. Indeed, through his eventual seed, I am part of that promise as part of Abrahem's spiritual seed. Jesus continues to impact the world today through us, the body of Christ. As Jesus did we are to do. This unnamed servant didn't know anything about Jesus yet his faith, prayers and worship in this passage put my faith, worship and prayers make mine look quite insufficient for the tasks God has called me in which He wants me to trust Him to accomplish through me. I WILL let this servant's testimony become my testimony and I hope anyone reading this blog will do the same. As the servant arrives at the local watering hole he is faced with a daunting task. First he must find Abrahem's clan amongst all the other clans in a land in which he is likely unfamiliar. He prays to Abrahem’s God, not willing yet to claim that God as his. “Lord, God of my master Abraham, make me successful today, and show kindness to my master Abraham. " From this day forward I want the same kind of response to daunting assignments the Lord gives me. "Lord God make me successful today and show your kindness to others through me." Then came a word of knowledge that taught me far more thant he 'first mention of a word of knowledge' as described in 1 Co 12 provides. God put in his mind to speak out this destiny God would fulfill through this word of knowledge: "See, I am standing beside this spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water. May it be that when I say to a young woman, ‘Please let down your jar that I may have a drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels too’—let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.” Here is what I learned from this servant about a prophetic word of knowledge now that I have experienced them and watched them work in miraculous ways to lead christians and nonchristians into greater faith and reliance on the Lord:
Several times you see this servant not even responding to the events around him until he first bowed down and worshipped the God who showed "hesed" kindness again and again. I am humbled and ask for this servant's kind of hesed love for God and for those in leadership over us. Surely this servant became a believer of God's words coming out of Abrahem and even his own mouth. Surely we will see him on the other side. When he met the parents of Rebekah he told of God’s hesed kindness and faithfulness to Abrahem and Sarah through the miracle son, Issac, and all the ways God has blessed them in every way, especially on this journey. He retold the story of what happened at the town well. Here is her parent’s response: “This is from the Lord; we can say nothing to you one way or the other. Here is Rebekah; take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master’s son, as the Lord has directed.” Divine appointments, prophesies fulfilled have a way of bringing such a sense of awe and reverence to its witnesses that they become willing conduits of that hesed love and can’t help but respond in surrender and willingness to go along with the Lord’s plan. God changes hearts, orchestrates the affairs of our day, sends angels before us to do His bidding, let us not become dulled to Your workings in our life Lord. I CAN'T even imagine such a "yes" from Rebekah's parents. Yet Lord, if you ever ask that of me I can trust YOU can give the rich gracious supply of mercy and hesed to follow through. Every missionary who leaves their homeland has made this sacrifice. There are many left on this planet who still have not one word of the Bible translated into their heart language. Millions in the 10/40 window have not yet heard one time the name of Jesus. I was reminded also by a missionary to Spain that there are unreached peoples who were once reached by CINO's (Christians in name only). Some of these "christians" brutally beat, sexually abused, forbid indigenous people their own culture or language "in the name of their false Christ" and have turned off multiple generations to the beautiful name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Only authentic christianity demonstrating the power of the gospel of the kingdom can possibly shatter the plans of the enemy for these people groups all across our land and in the world. Jesus's power IS more powerful than the Shaman's many have returned to, mixing witchcraft, new age medicine, alcoholism, drug abuse and pharmaceutical power grabs. Yet what satan used for evil GOD has and WILL use for good, even this pandemic. What is toppling? Our dependence and false understandings of Drs. and medicine or even herbal preparations and supplements as our "first line of defense against illness." Is. 53:4-6 tells me that Jesus carried sickness sadness AND sin on the cross. Whether His whippings brought physical or spiritual healing, Hs body paid the price from illness and sickness so we would not have to carry them. One of His many names is Great Physcian and one of His Dad's names is "I AM Healer." The Israelites, despite their sin and failure wandered in the dessert 40 years and ther was not a sick or feeble one among them. That is our destiny and God is using covid to break our reliance on mediine, herbs and supplements to do what only God can do with contagious diseases, mandates destroying livlihoods of people and even IF there are nano technologies in some of the vaccines people took in good faith. God has been in the past few yeasr removing metal from people's bodies all over the world where revival is breaking out and healings and miracles are taking place. His timing is perfect. He is building my faith and the faith of many around me. I believe God is going to use this blog someday, maybe starting today to build the faith of those who read this. God wants to display His glory, His power and His majesty to the humble willing to believe in GOd's kind of success to do impossible things in and through us. I want no other God than this.
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