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Your Dreams oh Lord!
Your Dreams oh Lord!
In a church where people believe that Pentecostal fire is still for today? That is a good choice for many. Maybe you participated in a church that believes way past pentecost, taking promises thought to be only for the millennium to bring them forth in our day using your creative Holy Spirit gifts to minister to others while others minister to you with their giftings. Oh yes, that would be a great choice for most anyone.
Most important question to ask though, every day of the week, especially on Pentecost is “Holy Spirit where do YOU want me to be this Pentecost morning?” After two very busy weeks babysitting grandkids while mom and dad run a busy business that would not slow down even for a major interruption of a nasty virus raging from one family member to another, I truly didn’t know where I should be this pentecost. Just a few weeks ago, we had an amazing healing and deliverance service at my church and Holy Spirit was clearly working in our church. I am truly excited to see what is next. Yet exhaustion and recovery and this question mingled together to form this question that I sincerely had no idea where I belonged. His answer surprised me. Where did I spend Pentecost? After helping with a load of dishes, picking up some of the leftover packages and papers from quick meals through the week, I invited my grandkids to a Trampoline worship service. After acrobatic worship, giggles and laughs from kids 1-10, I taught on psalm 8 and asked the kids to join me on a prayer walk with our puppy to pray over their busy Greenhouse. Holy Spirit had convinced me that some of the children would believe and receive this lesson. I took the 1 year old and 6 year old for the prayer walk. By the authority vested in us through the blood of Jesus that speaks a better word even than psalm 8, we prayed with authority over the plants. To obey the rules of the children based on what God teaches about Sabbath rests. Sound far-fetched? Well either we believe what God says or we don’t. So here is a principle we see over and over again in God’s word. Everything on earth was intended to experience a Sabbath rest. The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. It is not about a list of things “not to do” on a “day of rest” rather it is a gift from God to build our faith when we take the day He’s given us to rest, all the plants under our care MUST heed our commands. At least that is what I see in God’s word. “Why would you bother with puny, mortal man or care about human beings? Yet what honor you have given to men, created only a little lower than Elohim, crowned with glory and magnificence. You have delegated to them rulership over all you have made, with everything under their authority, placing earth itself under the feet of your image-bearers. All the created order and every living thing of the earth, sky, and sea-- the wildest beasts and all that move in the paths of the sea -- everything is in submission to Adam’s sons.” Ps 8:4-8 TPT Today I taught a practical lesson to a 6 and 10 year old (along with who actually is smarter than he is able to demonstrate). My grandsons and I took our puppy for a prayer walk with a simple declaration and I taught them to speak this over the plants every time they help with the harvest. “Plants you are to grow bountifully 6 days a week and to rest one day a week so the whole family can rest, worship and play together with all those image-bearers of their Creator on their Sabbath rest day of choice. We are created to rule and reign over creation and not take our orders from creation that is under our jurisdiction. Joseph learned this from Pharoah’s dream. Israel learned it every Jubillee year when they harvest from the previous year would be so bountiful that they could lay the ground to rest for an entire year and not need to plant. They had a whole year to do less work, set any slaves free and enjoy the image-bearing children God gave them to enjoy and bless. Where should we be on Pentecost Sunday? Wherever Holy Spirit leads us to be!
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Just last week, we held our last week-end for our spring season. We studied the life of Joseph, who warred with the prophecies God spoke over him at the age of 17 through two dreams that would not be completely fulfilled until about 15 years later.
Warring with the prophecies God has spoken over us is something Paul taught Timothy to do in 1 Timothy 1:18-19 :"Timothy, my son, I am giving you this command in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by recalling them you may fight the battle well, holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith." This is a lesson I am still learning not only about prophecy but about destiny robbers who can, if we let them, rob us of the fulfillment of those prophecies for a longer period of time than God intended. Have you recognized prophecies God has given you or your loved ones? They can come in dreams or visions, words of knowledge God gives us or others receive from the Lord to give to us. It can come through any of our 5 senses. It can also come through a Rhema word as we are studying and meditating on God's word. A rhema word comes to us when unexpectedly a concept or sentence in the Bible stands out to you in such a powerful way that you know God is speaking specifically to you through that passage of scripture. Joseph gives us a good example of how to war with those prophecies through faith in what God reveals, regardless of what circumstances try to "shipwreck" or steal those destinies from us. Genesis 37 to 50 reveals a man of God who is one of my favorite Bible characters. Joseph never stopped believing what God revealed to him, even in his "land of sorrows" where he spent jail time for his integrity walk in Egypt where he was sold by his own brothers into slavery. His dreams came to him when he was 17 but their partial fullfillment took an additional 13 years but their completed fulfillment lasted 80 years according to some historical books that some believe are lost scriptures in the Bible. Whether truly inspired by God or good historical references, the book of Jasher and Jubillees indicates that Joseph actually became king when the old Pharoah asked his son to make Joseph king over Israel when he departed this life and his son apparently agreed to give up his throne to Joseph, who reigned over Egypt for 80 years. I've been leading a small group of intercessors, for about three years now. Most of these faithful friends and intercessors have joined us for a workshop or week-end for their own freedom/healing walk with the Lord. One of the questions that arises as we intercede for ourselves, families, communities, nations and the world, is can we remove "all the demons" from the territory God has given to us "in the spirit" as we intercede with the authority and direction He has been giving us through the past few years? In the book of Jubilee and Jasher, we may have found our answer. These books or fragment of them, were found amongst the dead sea scrolls as "part of the old testament scriptures" perhaps. They are found in the Ethiopian Bible to this day. Meanwhile, it is at the very least, a good historical reference. The story of Joseph is elaborated in greater detail and we are told that Joseph reigned in Egypt for 80 years, becoming king over it when the Pharoah with the "dreams" asked his son to give the crown to Joseph at his passing and the son agreed to this. In the book of Jubillees we are told several times that during Joseph's reign over Egypt "no Satan or any evil person could be found in all of Egypt." The people, who once bowed to foreign gods, were only worshipping and obeying the God of Joseph, the Creator God, or el;se legal license for demons would have remained in the land through strongholds of sin and idolatry. This could be a record of the longest revival this planet ever knew. It came about all because of the dreams of a Pharoah (and Joseph) that intersected and were correctly interpreted by a godly prophetic man who always gave credit to God for those interpretations. This happened in order for the world to be prepared (as well as God's people), to survive and thrive through a time that could have destroyed most of the population on the earth but God..... This story shows the hand of God in the affairs of man are loving, protective and destiny-oriented for all the people of the world, not just for Joseph and His family. God has a destiny story for ALL of us. Do you know yours? Have you stopped and taken time to inquire of the Lord? Perhaps it is time you did! The Lord is eager to show you what He wrote about you in His book of life noted in Ps. 139:16 and Ephesians 2:10. Check out those scriptures and ask the Lord what God has been dreaming about you since before you were born? Meanwhile, "do not despise prophecies" 1 Thess 5:20 warns. Perhaps they could save your lives! |
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