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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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