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His Tears to Grieve and then to Arise & Believe

 
   HIS TEARS   to GRIEVE and then to Arise and BELIEVE!   ‘From caterpillars to BUTTERFLIES’   (do not miss the testimony below, under ‘IN SCHOOL’)   As we gathered in His presence today, how He came.  As we waited on Him, He came like an ever rising River of His presence.   By His instruction today we prayed Psalm 17 and how He moved upon His word… His Spirit hovered over the water and He said, ‘Let there be Light!’ and Light came to be.    EL SHADDAI   We began to worship Him and worship Him… without cd’s or music… but by the strings of our hearts.    Then the true worship Leader, His Ruach HaKodesh, began to lead us in worship of El Shaddai… the All Sufficient One.   We began to worship Him as El Shaddai…   … in Hebrew ‘Shad’ means breast.   Then I saw Yohanan…John… whose name means grace, leaning against His breast… Shad… as he was leaning against El Shaddai… the All Sufficient One.   Then He said that when He told Sha’ul, Paul, that His grace was sufficient for him, He was telling Sha’ul to lean upon His breast… to rest upon His breast… to lean against the All Sufficient One… El Shaddai.  HalleluYAH!   When He was saying to Sha’ul, ‘My grace is sufficient for you’, He was not saying ‘buck up’… no… He was saying My Grace is Shaddai… All Sufficient…Lean on El Shaddai… My breast… and find rest… true rest.    HIS HEART, HIS TEARS   As we continued to worship Him, suddenly I found myself in a pool… a pool.  And for a moment, I thought, ‘what is this pool’?  And then there came a big drop that made a ripple all around where I was standing.   He showed me that again and again.  We were standing in a pool that came from His eyes.  Note this definition of His eyes… fountain… well… pool.   Psa 17:2 Let my right-ruling (‘mishpat’ – right ruling, justice) go out from (‘yatsa’ – go out to bring out, spring forth) Your presence (‘panyim’ – presence, Face); let Your eyes (‘ayin’ – eyes, by analogy a fountain, well… His eyes are deep wells, pools, fountains of love) see (‘chazah’ – gaze, perceive, have a vision of) what is straight (‘meyshar’ – even, straight, equitable, right, upright).   It was His tears of intercession… His tears that became a pool… and His tears came like rain on our brain.  His tears came as rain on our minds… His intercession came on what we may have been thinking and turned it into what was on His heart… His intercession… He came and brought His tears…   … and how the tears came!     Jer 9:1  “’Oh, that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, and I would weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Jer 9:2  Oh, that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for wayfaring men, and I would leave my people, and go from them!  For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. Jer 9:3  And they bend their tongue like a bow. Falsehood, and not truth, prevails on the earth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they have not known Me,’ declares YHWH.”   How He came and shared His grieving heart!  And at one point so much passion arose that we fell on our knees and I cried out to Him by His tears flowing through me, that He has every right to judge… He is has every right to judge… but we draw on Your MERCY!  We draw on Your COMPASSION!    We are His and we grieve with Him… we love Him… and His heart was truly heavy.   For today was very much about intercession for this nation and this nation’s army.  We cried out with His tears and grieved with Him as to what was happening.  And cried out for Him to bring what is ‘straight’ and all that this term has come to mean… when the men of this world say they are ‘straight’ while others claim they are not… but are crooked.   Psa 17:2 Let my right-ruling (‘mishpat’ – right ruling, justice) go out from (‘yatsa’ – go out to bring out, spring forth) Your presence (‘panyim’ – presence, Face); let Your eyes (‘ayin’ – eyes, by analogy a fountain, well… His eyes are deep wells, fountains of love) see (‘chazah’ – gaze, perceive, have a vision of) what is straight  (‘meyshar’ – even, straight, equitable, right, upright).      How we saw these following verses as referring to those righteous warriors, as an evil edict is trying to suddenly surround them… an evil edict that is trying to rise, trying to cause homosexuality and the flaunting of it, to be released in their midst:   Psa 17:8 “Guard me as the apple of Your eye (‘shamar iyshon ayin’ – guard me, protect me, as the ‘apple’ the pupil of Your own eye, even as Your eye is upon Your people and we fill Your eye, as we stand before You. Even as You have created the eye to be sensitive and vulnerable, it needs protection, so we pray that You guard Your people as the very most sensitive part of You, Your eye, needing Your protection, as we stand vulnerable before You, not taking things into our own hands, but waiting on You). Hide (‘sathar’ – hide, conceal, cover completely where the enemy cannot find or uncover, as You secret away) me under the shadow (‘tsel’ – shade and defense) of Your wings (‘kanaph’ – edge, extremity, wing, overspreading skirt as is used in Ezekiel 16:8),   Psa 17:9 from the face of the wrong who ravage me (‘panyim… rasha… shadad’ – the face of the wicked who are burly and ravaging and powerful in the natural), from my deadly enemies (‘nephesh oyeb’ – enemies who live and breath to bring the end of Your people) who surround me.”   For the first time He allowed me to feel what righteous men who are serving in this nation’s army are feeling as this evil edict is trying to come.   But today He had us prophetically tear up the evil edict!    He had me write:   ‘EVIL EDICT’   on a piece of paper and tear it into pieces!   That by the Name above every Name… the Name of YEHOSHUA… ‘YHWH SAVES’… that this evil edict is undone in His Son.   That by His Spirit He will come and blow away the chaff of man.   Our grieving turned into believing for Him to move!   He did not send us into Washington DC and Arlington and Gettysburg for nothing!   He did not send us onto the USS Lexington blowing the trumpets and Shofar for nothing!   He did not send us to the World War II Museum declaring His prayer for repentance for nothing!   No!    He is going to move, remove and REPLACE!   He is going to come to reverse the curse and thereby bring blessing!    HIS LIGHT        Then again He showed us His light, and He Who is the Light, coming into the pup tents of the army of America… one by one… One on one.   And then this one sharing with that one… and on and on the Light shone in the darkness, and the darkness could not overcome the Light!  There was revival in the ranks.   Do you remember seeing the video of ‘The Revival Hymn’ and how when He came with His Spirit of repentance, men and women, boys and girls, ran to Him… crying out, ‘Is there mercy for me?!’  And they willingly came and put a padlock on the local drinking place and shut it down.     No rule of man’s law had to come to make righteous changes,   for He and His right rulings were in their hearts!   Again how He is emphasizing that we are not to be ignited by a political move of men, but by His Spirit…    ‘use the OIL’.   For He wants to do a work in men’s hearts and minds and lives and homes.   At the end of our time of prayer, by His instruction we blew the Shofar to arrest men and women, boys and girls, and for them to hear Him calling!    That Shofar was on a shelf and He had me prophetically put my Scriptures next to it…    … then walk up to the shelf and take the Light of His Word off the shelf and open it!  That men and women, boys and girls will begin to be drawn to the pulsating Light of His Word.   And then He had me open it and walk around and declare His word.   This first place I opened to was this in Daniel 12:1-3!:   Dan 12:1  “Now at that time Miḵa’ĕl shall stand up, the great head who is standing over the sons of your people. And there shall be a time of distress, such as never was since there was a nation, until that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered, every one who is found written in the book, Dan 12:2  and many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth wake up, some to everlasting life, and some to reproaches, everlasting abhorrence. Dan 12:3  And those who have insight shall shine like the brightness of the expanse, and those who lead many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever.”  (He had been showing me this scripture for some time, then this last Shabbat at our gathering, a brother from Houstonproclaimed this word by His leading.)   And we prayed that people would know that the great judgment is coming… and some will arise to everlasting life… and some to everlasting abhorrence (Daniel 12:2 above)… that this choice is real.   Then He had me take a Light House that my son had given me and hold it over the Scriptures as I walked around, and declared that as people He is calling open His word that His LIGHT will shine in the darkness…   … and the darkness cannot overcome The Light!    See the house built upon The Rock, becoming a Light House!   And whole houses will become LIGHT HOUSES!  HalleluYAH!  TODAY!   Act 16:29  “And asking for a light, he ran in, and fell down trembling before Sha’ul and Sila. Act 16:30  And having led them outside he said, ‘Masters, what do I have to do to be saved?’ Act 16:31  And they said, ‘Believe on the Master Yehoshua Messiah, and you shall be saved, you and your household.’ Act 16:32  And they spoke the Word of YHWH to him and to all who were in his house. Act 16:33  And taking them in that hour of the night, he washed their wounds, and immediately he was immersed, he and all that were his.”   And we knew that today this came to pass for many!    Then as He would have it after prayer, I spoke to my daughter on the phone, and as we were speaking our grandson David, (today’s Psalm 17 is subtitled, ‘A prayer of David’) came up to her and she said:   ‘David, here is a Bible just for you’ and handed him, our five year old David, the Light of His Word!   What confirmation, for she did not know how He had moved in our midst speaking of this!   He is bringing men and women, boys and girls, to the Light of His Word by He Who is the Light!   For only by His Light… His Word… can men escape the path of destruction.   Psa 17:4 As for the deeds of men – by the word of Your lips (‘devar saphah’ – Your word from Your lips… we walk according to Your instruction…‘not my will, but Yours be done’), I have kept (‘shamar’ – guard, hedged about… Your word is a guard and hedge to Your people) myself from the paths of the destroyer (‘orach pereets’ – the well trodden way of the violent, ravenous destroyer. Your Word keeps Your people from engaging in what the enemy would try to draw us into… the same old trodden path… we wait on You and Your right ruling and deliverance even while You arerefining us).    BELIEVE   Then He moved upon us regarding judges who have brought forth evil edicts that have circumvented the true hearts of men and women who have voted against the darkness of homosexual ‘marriage’.    We prayed for Him to pour out conviction and repentance upon them… and if they do not repent, we prayed for Him tomove, remove, and REPLACE with judges after His own heart.  Amein!   By His Spirit He had just led us to watch ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’, and He moved on this to show us the importance of having righteous judges…   … and know this, that His righteous Judgment seat is far above the judgment seats of men and He is recording all things in His books…   … and soon they will be opened.   Dan 7:9  “I was looking until thrones were set up, and the Ancient of Days was seated. His garment was white as snow, and the hair of His head was like clean wool, His throne was flames of fire, its wheels burning fire. Dan 7:10  A stream of fire was flowing and coming forth from His presence, and a thousand thousands served Him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him, the Judge was seated, and the books were opened…   Dan 7:26  “But the Judgment shall sit, and they shall take away its rule, to cut off and to destroy, until the end. Dan 7:27  And the reign, and the rulership, and the greatness of the reigns under all the heavens, shall be given to the people, the set-apart ones of the Most High. His reign is an everlasting reign, and all rulerships shall serve and obey Him. Dan 7:28  This is the end of the matter…”   Then by His Sprit we prayed for children and educators and the system of education, namely the NEA, the National Education Association, to be changed… that He would move, remove, and REPLACE with a righteous move of His Spirit and righteous educators…   … even as we prayed for little children coming into classrooms where they are vulnerable, and given into the hands of men and women that they do not know.   Psa 17:8 Guard me as the apple of Your eye (‘shamar iyshon ayin’ – guard me, protect me, as the ‘apple’ the pupil of Your own eye, even as Your eye is upon Your people and we fill Your eye, as we stand before You. Even as You have created the eye to be sensitive and vulnerable, it needs protection, so we pray that You guard Your people as the very most sensitive part of You, Your eye, needing Your protection, as we stand vulnerable before You, not taking things into our own hands, but waiting on You). Hide (‘sathar’ – hide, conceal, cover completely where the enemy cannot find or uncover, as You secret away) me under the shadow (‘tsel’ – shade and defense) of Your wings (‘kanaph’ – edge, extremity, wing, overspreading skirt)…”    IN SCHOOL   Years ago, at His leading, He had us pray for Him to come into the public schools… and I saw Him flying as a Great Eagle down the halls.  We believed Him then… and we believe Him now… for it is happening.   Testimony: Let me give you a brief testimony of what happened this year in public school.  One of those in our fellowship who is a teacher asked me to come to her class and read to the students… we knew this was His leading, for when praying over her before the school year, suddenly by His Spirit He showed me the following in her classroom:   1.     a great Rainbow… His rainbow… and the Ark of Noah 2.     He then showed me the blood of the Lamb slain on the posts and lintel of her classroom door Two things…   …And twice He sent me into her classroom to read to a group of very intelligent 5 years olds, even the same age as our little grandson David.   When I came to the school and was waiting for the class to arrive, I did not sense His presence… then I heard their footsteps coming down the hall…   … and He came!  He was there… coming as they were coming!    The first time I read to them of Noah and the Ark, even as He first showed the rainbow and the Ark, and I asked them,    ‘Do you want to learn about the first rainbow?’   And they said,   ‘Yes!’   Then I read them the book and shared with them how the people of the earth did not believe God and did not believe what He had told Noah…   … and I asked them,   ‘Who was right…   The people or God?’   And they cried out,   ‘GOD!’   Then I taught them how important it was to hear God and to obey Him, no matter what people say…   … then I asked them…   ‘What do we do?  Hear and what?’   And they cried back,   ‘OBEY!’   As a gift, He had me paint little rocks as a gift for each one, wrapping them in white tissue with red, blue and purple ribbon (the three colors in His tabernacle)…   …and while praying in preparation for this time, He showed me to make the rainbow into a Menorah… His Light.  Here is a picture of one… The Rock… The Light… His Promises:      When those little children opened the gift of this Rock, they responded as if this was a great gift!  They treasured it.  And I knew He was moving on their hearts.   Those little children’s lives were changed that day for He had come… and their teacher told me that they were constantly saying to one another from that time forward…   ‘Hear and obey!’    Then during Passover, He showed that I was to go again and read to them a book about His Passover and the blood of the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, even as He had shown me the blood of His Son on the posts and lintel of the classroom.   And He showed me exactly what to do.  He showed me little notebooks of different colors, and told me to get rainbow colored pencils to go with them… and to put butterflies on the notebooks, wrap them in white paper with red ribbon and take them as gifts to the class.    I did not fully understand what He would do with these notebooks, but I knew He was showing new life… salvation… new creation… even as a caterpillar turns into a butterfly.  I was to simply do what He was telling me to do… I was to:   ‘Hear and obey!’ J   Then He had me return and read about the Passover Lamb… and I asked them:   ‘Do you want to learn about the very First Lamb?’   And they said,   ‘Yes!’   And I read the book that showed the blood of the Lamb on the posts and the lintel…   … and He had me use a red laser pointer to ‘apply’ the ‘blood’ on the door of their classroom as I did shine it on the posts and lintel, even as He had shown me in the vision by His Spirit.   I continued reading and sharing that it was the Lamb Who brought them out from slavery… out from darkness…   … that even as a little worm… a caterpillar… becomes a butterfly… that by the Lamb… they came out new… free!   Then He had me share about the very First Lamb, slain before the foundation of the world.  And He had me share how we can have the Lamb in our hearts… JESUS… YESHUA… to be made new and to be set free.   Then it all began to come together!   By the leading of His Spirit I asked them,   ‘Would you like to have the Lamb come into your hearts?’   And they said,   ‘Yes!’   And we PRAYED… they prayed and asked Him to come into their hearts!   Yes, we PRAYED in public school!   And these little children asked Jesus, Yeshua, the First Lamb, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world…    to come into their hearts!   Then He had me take unleavened bread, that was striped, pierced, and bruised and I told them that He said that this was His Body broken for them…   … and all had a piece.   Then He led me to the notebooks and had me say,   ‘Now that you have asked Him to come into your hearts…   Did you know that your names are now written in   The Lamb’s book of Life?’   And I said,   ‘Now take your pencil and write your names in your book, even as He is writing your names in His Book…   And draw a Lamb… even as ‘The Lamb’s book of Life’   And they did.   Here is a picture of the notebook (mine is below) and how they wrote their name and drew a picture of the First Lamb… The Lamb slain before the foundation of the world:      Then a little boy named Xavier (whose name means, ‘New House’ J) said,   ‘Can I pray for my cousin and my friend?’   And I said,   ‘Yes!’   And he prayed,   ‘Dear Lord, please help my cousin… please help my friend…’   And he continued with the most poignant, tender, faith-filled prayer!   Then without any prompting from me, but by His Spirit, he stood up and put the little notebook on his chest and said,      ‘Look, this is like a door… and we open the door of our hearts’ (and he opened the notebook)… and then he said, ‘And look…   The Lamb is INSIDE’   What a PREACHER!    These children were changed for eternity that day.   And we are believing for this door that was opened to become an open door in many, many classrooms and schools across this nation…   … a nation whose first classrooms taught children to read out of the BIBLE.   And yes, all of this testimony above happened in public school…   The Eagle SOARED down the halls!   The Eagle SOARED into the classroom!   The Eagle SOARED into the hearts of a whole class of 5 year olds!   Deu 32:10  “He found him in a wilderness, and in a wasted, howling desert. He encompassed him, He made him understand, He watched over him as the apple of His eye. Deu 32:11  As an eagle stirs up its nest, flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, taking them up, bearing them on its wings.”   But there is more…      To my utter amazement, up on the board in the classroom were pictures of butterflies and a book of a caterpillar turning into a BUTTERFLY!    As well as a real cocoon in a habitat in their classroom, as this caterpillar was readying to become a Butterfly… for they were right then… unbeknownst to me but not to Him…   studying about the caterpillar becoming the    BUTTERFLY!   And He had me bring this RED BUTTERFLY above representing the blood of the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world…   … and NEW LIFE… NEW CREATION   And we saw how these little notebooks represented His saving, redeeming, transforming LIFE!    He Himself had prepared all this… even as they had been studying about this… even as He had me put butterflies on the notebooks representing   The Lamb’s book of LIFE!   Who is like our ELOHIM?   There is NONE like HIM!   And there is NONE beside HIM!   You have just got to receive that out of HIS TEARS of intercession,   and yes, even grief…   … out of this will emerge BELIEF for Him to come and transform!   Even as a caterpillar becomes a BUTTERFLY!      RECEIVE HIS INTERCESSION   At the very end of our time of prayer today… after much weeping… after falling on our knees in a passionate cry by His own TEARS...      … then He showed me men of the American army who LOVE HIM.  There were those who are currently in the military… and those who had ‘retired’…   … all praying and weeping at what they were seeing.   We joined our tears and prayers and intercession with THEIRS   We are believing for Him to hear and bring STRAIGHTNESS and all that that means, for   He is good…   And He is kind…   And His mercy and love endures forever…   Again, He was so grieved when we began and His own tears fell like rain on my brain… and He moved as the One Who said, ‘’Oh, that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears…’   He brought us through the valley of weeping and then He opened a door of hope… as He brought us to a place of STANDING and DECLARING and BELIEVING for Him to   Move and Remove… and   R E P L A C E   With a righteous move of His Spirit…   By an outpouring of His Spirit of repentance…   With true reverential fear of YHWH…   He is FAITHFUL…   And He brought His own tears from the fountain and well and pool of His Ayin, His eyes, for us to   GRIEVE   and then to arise and   B E L I E V E …   ‘as caterpillars to BUTTERFLIES’    In His shalom, Constance www.onestickministries.com          “But to you who fear My Name the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings.   And you shall go out and leap for joy like calves from the stall.”   Malaki 4:2http://www.onestickministries.com/shapeimage_3_link_0

7/23/11

 
 
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