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Release

I saw the word release typed out, in that moment I saw the word differently than ever before RELEASE, I saw Ease in release.  When I thought on the pronunciation of this word it is real ease. 

To release means to be set free from confinement or bondage.  To set at liberty: discharge, emancipate, loose, spring.  To free from or cast out something objectionable or undesirable.   To relieve of a debt or obligation.

Galatians 5:1  1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

God is asking us to release everything to Him,  an ease comes with that release, as we release the pain of a situation eases, healing and forgiveness comes .  The situation has not changed however comma our perception has.  You do a bit of shuffling with the letters and you get erase to remove, expel, expunge, delete, to cancel, and that is what I see happening when you release.  Erase means to remove all traces of.  To cancel debt, I found that to be pretty powerful, as we are set free in Christ, we are no long in bondage to the law of sin and death.  

Romans 8 ¹ There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh

Matthew 16:19 (New King James Version)

¹⁹ And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

It is time to release to give birth to something new to break free from the bondage.

I was sitting here this morning praying and I got airport and transition and as I started thinking about and digging on that this is what I found those words to mean.

Airport
A place of landing and of departure receiving and discharging

Lay over
A short stop or break in a journey, usually imposed by scheduling requirements

Transition
Change often major
Passage from one form, state, style, or place to another.
A change of a system from one quantum state to another.

1. A period during childbirth that precedes the expulsive phase of labor, characterized by strong uterine contractions and nearly complete cervical dilation.

So an airport we can look at as a place of transition from one place to another, to get from where we are to the place we are going, an airport is also a place of receiving and of discharging, most often we have a lay over from one place to the next, which is a short break in our journey, so we transition from one place to the next to get to our destination. As we do in our spiritual lives starting at the very beginning when we first accept Christ, we are in a state of transition from that day forth with short layovers.

Last night I shared a word that goes right along with the last definition of transition….. 1. A period during childbirth that precedes the expulsive phase of labor, characterized by strong uterine contractions and nearly complete cervical

In time of birth
Out of your belly will flow rivers of living water
your water is breaking
you are about to give birth
PUSH
in the time of birth
nothing else seems to matter
you are focused on giving birth to what is within you
to bring it forth
to bring forth new life
and after the birth
you forget the pain of the birth
and have the abundant blessing
of what you have birthed
breathing is very important during this time
as you have “coaches”
helping you
midwives so to speak
and your Husband is there
your Beloved
holding your hand and comforting you through it all
breathing with you
with a smile
He want to share in the joy
and help grow what has been birthed

 Dream- Pictures “Images”

7/8/09

I dreamed there was this pink hand bag, I had, and inside this hand bag was cash, pictures, credit cards.

Apparently there had been travel involved in this dream, and during this travel, this hand bag disappeared, with my belongings in it. I was so sure where it had been, who was with me, noticing the last person around me that could have possibly taken it.

There was a sense of desperation when this disappeared, as there was 300.00 in it that was needed to take care of bills, ect.  This was the outside exterior concern and what I shared with others. (Surface concern). I recalled having gone to a friend’s home, and people I knew were there.

 I kept asking the same person over and over again where the hand bag had gone, I was sure that I knew this person knew where the hand bag was. Then after asking, there was what appeared to be a HUGE film that began to play in the middle of the living room. In an instant, I there was this video that showed my hand bag, and its contents sitting on a bed.( Revealing the location of the handbag) No one else could see this video aside from me. I began asking questions relating to what was appearing before me.

 Repeatedly I asked, and after continuously asking the person, the person grabbed the hand bag, as if to say here you go, tossing it at me.

 The dream changed, after my hand bag was tossed back to me.  Immediately, I literally saw the hands of God holding a huge string of pictures that(were) are kept tucked in wallets and handbags.  It was very long, revealing everything that was kept in that hand bag. It was never about the “cash” money in the handbag. It was the images that were concealed within the hand bag.  When I saw the ties of pictures that were tied together, it was concealed pain that was hidden within me, that the Spirit of God was drawing out of me. In my spirit, it was sealed within me, though I saw pictures, He revealed, “IMAGES”. I cannot begin to describe the Holy Spirit conviction and the depths of the Love of my Abba Father at very precise divine exchange. This was all at one time. I saw my Father holding within His very hands the very things,  that began to let go within me.

The surface concern was money,(distraction) the root concern of my Heavenly Father was the concern of the images that were rooted within me.  The pictures were only pictures, but contained within those “IMAGES” was pain, and so very deep, that  I was absolutely deceived.  Each picture I saw uprooted, pain by the Spirit of God like drawing from deep within me, and releasing hidden pain. The weeping was uncontrollable, yet a deep relief as everything within me was being poured out to the Love of my Father. His love for me and the tenderness of His love drew from within me those captured memories that were contained within the pictures.

I saw in life form, in a video a face of a man, and immediately that face became others.  I saw my earthly father, as a young man, then I began seeing others in my life, who  were what I believed to be perpetrators (abusers) in my life.. This video was not just any video, God was showing me. 

In each and every person I saw within this video were not only the perpetrators in my life, but there was expressed Love of the Father towards each person. What do I mean? That although I truly had been the victim of circumstances of these people, there was the affection of our Heavenly Father to each person that hurt me, towards the very perpetrator.  Yes I had truly been a victim; my choices had been robbed as a child. Within me, with every fiber of everything within me, there was NO bitterness, or anger, but compassion of the Father.  This compassion was not experienced until there was release of the pain that had been contained within me.   

In this dream there was a continuous purging, groaning that I could never describe affectively into words. Imagine your greatest pain that you recall experiencing in your life, it was a cry deep within the very core of my being. I believe that was Jesus and Him alive within me, and such a release. Though it was a dream, it was VERY real. God went within the very depths of my heart; Heart Surgery that was being performed by the loving touch of the Father.

When this was completed, undone before God, crying out to Him, knowing I was forgiven, for the images that I was not even aware that I held onto, the Lord told me to look left.  This gets intense here as the spirit of the LIVING God reveals the thief!!!

When I looked left, I saw this HUGE creature, that stood what appeared to be ten stories high.  On first look, I did not see anything. It was as if God blew on this creature His breath revealing the accuser of the brethren.  He was not a man, but he was a beast!! He was breathing a pesticide from his mouth, with the intent to kill.  I knew with everything in me, there was just a knowing, and the word “rapist” that was exposed with the divine wisdom of God impressed within me. The spirit of the Living God, revealed the rapist of His people. I was so mad at the devil, I began calling him out, and crying uncontrollably at the same time, as God was exposing the thief of the hearts of HIS children.  IN that same instant, within seconds, divine exchange again, everything that the Lord has been revealing to me, in the past ten years His love for EVERYONE was very ALIVE in this dream. People are NEVER the enemy, whether you have been a murder, rapist, thief, JESUS LOVES you. Do you know who the real thief is? The real thief is the devil. If He can come in and have you believe that people have been your issue, then he has completed what he intended to do. Have you come into agreement with the lie that you are not LOVED. Am I saying that if you have been abused in your life, that it was not the person? No I am not saying that. What I am saying is that just as JESUS IS SPIRIT, so is the devil. Jesus became man on this earth, and the devil will manifest HIMSELF through people. All he needs is agreement. The people now become the distraction, and you become bitter because of what has happened in your life, believing the person is the issue, rooting un forgiveness, seeking to devour your life roaming about like a lion to destroy you, by making you believe that there is something that separates you from the Love of the Heavenly Father. What better way to do this, than to use the very people that were supposed to be there to protect you, come along and abuse you. God created me and you to have relationship with HIM. The enemy knows this. If he can just come in for a second by using the most impressionable people in your life, then what you can see on this earth, has already begun to root a blockage to the unseen.  In God’s infinite love, as all this was being revealed, not only was the true thief identified, the true rapist of LIFE, but everything within me, was revealed the TRUE love of the Father, as I was blanketed in His love as all the venim of the enemy was being sprayed all about me.  I was covered by the very hand of God with His blanket of LOVE. His protection, His hands, His love, His mercy, His goodness, and it IS these very things of God that reveals. Jesus, Himself. Can you contain the blessings of God? His light will expose every bit of darkness within our own hearts. It’s truly the goodness of God that gives to us a renewed mind, as well as a  heart transformation.

Now what I am about to share, may not be easy for some to read, but please continue to read on Keeping in mind, that if you have been a victim of abuse in any matter, ITS NOT YOUR FAULT!! The enemy has kept you bound long enough has he not?  God wants to heal your heart, and release that so that He can love you, as you have been created to BE LOVED. Love was very distorted in my life, the images that were kept  “secret” within my heart, for so many years, that fear gripped me at every turning point in my life. Fear became love. That was the trick of the enemy. Fear is NOT love, but Perfect Love Casts out ALL Fear.  Today I can share that, but fear became the “trust” in my life. I trusted the spirit of Fear more than I trusted the very creator that created me for Intimate relationship with Him. JESUS LOVES YOU. If you can believe that He does not love you, then the enemy has rooted in your heart, and doing exactly his job. He is the accuser, the life wrecker. Fear told me, not to ever let anyone else in again. (Spirit of Fear) . Fear told me, that everyone would reject me in my life, if I let them in. Fear told me that everyone would be the same way towards me.

Jesus came to give you life and Life more abundantly!!  There is no LIFE in fear. If you take the “f” out of fear, you have a listening EAR to the heart of our Heavenly Father in Christ Jesus.  Life comes only in Christ Jesus. The world has NOTHING to offer you.

There is nothing of this world that can fill the void. The emptiness, that rejection, the abandonment, shame that I experienced in my life, identified me, based on the images (mindsets) strongholds that were rooted deep. Because of those images, my responses in life were based on that mindset and rooted within my heart.  I am here to tell you, you can be free from this. You can be free of fear dictating your yesterday, your present and your future.  Jesus poured Himself out for ME. He poured HIMSELF out for YOU.  His love covers a multitude of sin. He does not agree with sin, but truly His grace absolutely goes around for each person. There is nothing that is that bad, that He has not died for. NOTHING.

There has to be an exchange. Something comes within you. Jesus exchanged himself for YOU. He loves YOU. When you can identify the true thief, remember is never people, though people will come into agreement with the enemy, Jesus still loves them. What the issues truly are, are the issues in MY heart, not your heart.

 The Lord says to you, You are indeed MY BELOVED. To be ONE with ME. The abusers of your life, have not been of ME. My Beloved. I am doing a new thing in your life. My affections are set upon you. I am restoring what has been taken from you. I am restoring and revealing to you my affections and my thoughts towards you. I am restoring the broken relationships you have experienced in your life, because I love you. I desire you with an ever lasting love. I have good thoughts about you. You have felt squeezed, and Yes that is Me. That is me taking that within you and exchanging what you have known for the wonders of who I AM.

I am a Father to the fatherless, I am a lover of your soul. Taste and see that I am good. I will take everything that has been bitter in your life, and replace this with honey. I will melt down every barrier, with MY LOVE. Come, lean your head upon my heart, sit me with for a while. Let me share with you, my Love for you. There is Only Love with me. Let me reveal to you. I have had nothing but compassion for you. I have a life of destiny for you. I speak tenderly to your heart. I will not hurt you. Encompassed in Me, wrapped in beauty, of all the love I have for you, my Beloved My Bride. The entry is narrow, I will touch those areas of your life, I will set free every chain, expanding you in such ways you have never known. I have created you for my good pleasure my Beloved. GREAT Pleasure.

Waiting

A short time ago I was on a trip and I discovered that the enemy had launched an attack on my finances.  I quickly discovered that what the enemy had tried to use for destruction and distraction that God would use for His purpose and for His glory.  When I sat in the midst of this attack, I couldn’t see what I couldn’t see, I was blind sided by it, I had a friend remind me that He is my rear guard, that the Lord has my back, that He gives seed to the sower that the glory of God prevails.

Isaiah 58:7-8 (New King James Version)

⁷ Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,
      And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out;
      When you see the naked, that you cover him,
      And not hide yourself from your own flesh?
       ⁸ Then your light shall break forth like the morning,
      Your healing shall spring forth speedily,
      And your righteousness shall go before you;
      The glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.

I closed the account and received new cards in the mail and activated one and could not activated the other, there seems to be a problem getting it activated, so I must wait until I can make contact with the bank before I am able to use it.  When I activated the cards, I went to get some fuel and took the card in to pay for the fuel, and it was denied, I looked at the card and realized that I had grabbed the wrong card, so I paid for the fuel by check.

  The next day we took a small trip to a nearby town, when we got there I stopped to get fuel and went to use the card to pay for it, and this time I had the right card in hand, and it was denied, so once again I paid for the fuel by check.  I share all of that to lay a foundation for how the Lord spoke to me through this.  I was upset that my card did not work, I had waited two weeks for it, and by the time I went to use it, it would not work and I wasn’t able to contact anyone as to why it would not work, because it was the weekend.  So I sit in waiting.  As I sit and think on that I see so very much there, I could continue to dwell on the circumstance, of which I cannot change, or I can wait and see what God has to show me through it.  As I wait on Him He is renewing my strength, as it says in Isaiah, those who wait upon the Lord, shall renew their strength.…  now lets look at that word “shall”

1. Used before a verb in the infinitive to show:
   1. Something that will take place or exist in the future: We shall arrive tomorrow.
   2. Something, such as an order, promise, requirement, or obligation: You shall leave now. He shall answer for his misdeeds. The penalty shall not exceed two years in prison.
   3. The will to do something or have something take place: I shall go out if I feel like it.
   4. Something that is inevitable: That day shall come.
2. Archaic.
   1. To be able to.
   2. To have to; must

It is inevitable, as we wait on the Lord, our strength WILL be renew..

2 Corinthians 4:8-11 (New King James Version)

⁸ We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed— ¹⁰ always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. ¹¹ For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh

Redefining Safety

-n., pl. -ties.

1. The condition of being safe; freedom from danger, risk, or injury

Restriction Release

1. Something that restricts; a regulation or limitation.

Redefining Safety

-n., pl. -ties.

1.      The condition of being safe; freedom from danger, risk, or injury

Restriction Release

1.      Something that restricts; a regulation or limitation.

Condition-

tr.v., -tioned, -tion·ing, -tions.

1.     To make dependent on a condition or conditions.

2.     To stipulate as a condition.

3.     To render fit for work or use.

4.     To accustom (oneself or another) to; adapt: had to condition herself to long hours of hard work; conditioned the troops to marches at high altitudes.

I am doing a new thing, The ties of safety that have kept you tied to things of the old, the conditioning that you have received, to the broken hearted, I say I am your redeemer, I am your Lord. Come to me, let all those hurts with despair, I call you unto me, let me repair, let me heal you. I have called you unto Myself. I am the re definer, your shelter, your shield, your protector. No harm shall ever come to you again. I have broken the ties, that have had you chained. You have said, “there is no hope for me, But I say unto you, I am your hope, I have loved you from before the foundations. You have cried out, in the secret place of your hearts, but I say I am have heard every word, there has not been a tear that has not been captured. I uphold you, I keep each tear, every pain, for I have wept with you. You have not been afar from my tender loving hands. The injuries you sustained in your life, those will be healed by my Love,, my gentleness, my mercy, come unto me, won’t you let me hold you close to my heart, I long to embrace you as you have never known before. I  long to whisper my love to you in the quiet stillness of my presence.

You have said to yourself, how could anyone love me? Look at what I have done, I say unto you, My love is from everlasting to everlasting. There is nothing you can do to un do my love for you, I patiently await moments of intimacy with you. I love you. I am not the Father that has betrayed and rejected you, oh no, but I do understand your pain, for you see, I too was betrayed, but I love you with an everlasting love. I have never condemned you. I only await you, to love you. I wont say the hurtful words you have heard in your life, for my love is from everlasting to everlasting. I have nothing but good thoughts of you. Will you come to me, allow me to hold you, and kiss with my breath of life, restoring every broken area of your life? Will you let me? I won’t force myself on you, like others have. I wont hurt you like others have, for my love is from everlasting to everlasting.

You are free from the danger, the abuse you have experienced in your life. I am your strong tower . I am your Father who protects you from all harm, I am the one who will take you from the pit of the miry clay. The Father to the child, the one who is watchful over his children, but not controlling, the one who builds you up and encourages you through each situation in your life, I am He who sustains you, the one you can come to at any given moment. I raise you up and teach you my ways, that you will not depart from it. I am the one that you run to for safety, when war rises up around you, Yes I am the Father who has never let you go without each and every need met in your life. I am the one who created you, with one seed, I have created you for increase, and to multiply, I have created you to be confident. I created ONE of you, you are that precious to my heart. Unique and beautiful.

Will you let me redefine the safety you have known? Will you allow me to unlock the prison you have been in, who has the key.

 Will you let me gather you into my bosom, and bless you with every blessing I have for you, for I am not a father of broken promises, but I am the Father who has never broken my covenant with you, full of promises and faithfulness, rich is goodness. Will you let me be your safety?

The limitations that you have been accustomed to in your life, are limitations that I have not given you, for I am limitless. You see, as the experiences in your life have been given room to root into your heart, that have become a part of who you are, has placed a limitation in what I can do you in your life, for you have believed some things that have been said and done to you in your life. Fear has crept in, those rejections, have become veils that I desire to lift from over you, for you to see me as I am. Will you allow me to lift the veils and reveal to you my healing power through my love for you. Yes I am stirring the waters, I am stirring within you a love you have never known. I have placed that deep hunger within you, for I am a Father who loves you. I have not forsaken you. Will you allow me to expand within your heart, and overflow of abundance as a result of my love. Will you allow me to expand the perimeters of what you have believed into the place where you are seated in the heavenlies, with me, to encounter one on one, my love for you. For I sing over you a banner of Love, and lift your head up. Will you stay in my presence? I long for you as you long for that love. I am limitless in you. I say to you my beloved, arise. Come unto me. For I love you from everlasting to everlasting.

Psalm 91 (New King James Version)

Psalm 91

Safety of Abiding in the Presence of God

¹ He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
         Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
 ² I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress;
         My God, in Him I will trust.”
         
 ³ Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler^[a]
         And from the perilous pestilence.
 ⁴ He shall cover you with His feathers,
         And under His wings you shall take refuge;
         His truth shall be your shield and buckler.
 ⁵ You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
         Nor of the arrow that flies by day,
 ⁶ Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,
         Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.
         
 ⁷ A thousand may fall at your side,
         And ten thousand at your right hand;
         But it shall not come near you.
 ⁸ Only with your eyes shall you look,
         And see the reward of the wicked.
         
 ⁹ Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge,
         Even the Most High, your dwelling place,
 ¹⁰ No evil shall befall you,
         Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;
 ¹¹ For He shall give His angels charge over you,
         To keep you in all your ways.
 ¹² In their hands they shall bear you up,
         Lest you dash your foot against a stone.
 ¹³ You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra,
         The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.
         
 ¹⁴ “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;
         I will set him on high, because he has known My name.
 ¹⁵ He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;
         I will be with him in trouble;
         I will deliver him and honor him.
 ¹⁶ With long life I will satisfy him,
         And show him My salvation.”

Psalm 139 (New King James Version)

Psalm 139

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

 ¹ O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
 ² You know my sitting down and my rising up;
         You understand my thought afar off.
 ³ You comprehend my path and my lying down,
         And are acquainted with all my ways.
 ⁴ For there is not a word on my tongue,
         But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.
 ⁵ You have hedged me behind and before,
         And laid Your hand upon me.
 ⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
         It is high, I cannot attain it.
         
 ⁷ Where can I go from Your Spirit?
         Or where can I flee from Your presence?
 ⁸ If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
         If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
 ⁹ If I take the wings of the morning,
         And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
 ¹⁰ Even there Your hand shall lead me,
         And Your right hand shall hold me.
 ¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall^[a] on me,”
         Even the night shall be light about me;
 ¹² Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,
         But the night shines as the day;
         The darkness and the light are both alike to You.
         
 ¹³ For You formed my inward parts;
         You covered me in my mother’s womb.
 ¹⁴ I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;^[b]
         Marvelous are Your works,
         And that my soul knows very well.
 ¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from You,
         When I was made in secret,
         And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
 ¹⁶ Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
         And in Your book they all were written,
         The days fashioned for me,
         When as yet there were none of them.
         
 ¹⁷ How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
         How great is the sum of them!
 ¹⁸ If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;
         When I awake, I am still with You.
         
 ¹⁹ Oh, that You would slay the wicked, O God!
         Depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men.
 ²⁰ For they speak against You wickedly;
         Your enemies take Your name in vain.^[c]
 21 Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate You?
         And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
 ²² I hate them with perfect hatred;
         I count them my enemies.
         
 ²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart;
         Try me, and know my anxieties;
 ²⁴ And see if there is any wicked way in me,
         And lead me in the way everlasting.

 Psalm 12:4-6 (New King James Version)

  ⁵ “For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy,
         Now I will arise,” says the LORD;
         “I will set him in the safety for which he yearns.”
         
 ⁶ The words of the LORD are pure words,
         Like silver tried in a furnace of earth,
         Purified seven times.

 Song of Solomon 2:3-5 (New King James Version)

THE Shulamite

    ³ Like an apple tree among the trees of the woods,
      So is my beloved among the sons.
      I sat down in his shade with great delight,
      And his fruit was sweet to my taste.

THE Shulamite to the Daughters of Jerusalem

    ⁴ He brought me to the banqueting house,
      And his banner over me was love.
       ⁵ Sustain me with cakes of raisins,
      Refresh me with apples,
      For I am lovesick.

Song of Solomon 6:3-5 (New King James Version)

³ I am my beloved’s,
      And my beloved is mine.
      He feeds his flock among the lilies.

THE Beloved

    ⁴ O my love, you are as beautiful as Tirzah,
      Lovely as Jerusalem,
      Awesome as an army with banners!
       ⁵ Turn your eyes away from me,
      For they have overcome me.
      Your hair is like a flock of goats
      Going down from Gilead.

 Revelation 21:1-6 (New King James Version)

Revelation 21

All Things Made New

 ¹ Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. ² Then I, John,^[a] saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. ³ And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. ⁴ And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”
⁵ Then He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” And He said to me,^[b] “Write, for these words are true and faithful.”
⁶ And He said to me, “It is done!^[c] I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.

There were quite a few of us that went to the zoo this past weekend. It’s been years since I have had the opportunity to do this.  I love to capture in images/pictures what God is revealing through His beauty as this is displayed in everything that has been created by Him.

Every capture is moment of intimacy with the Father, as His expressed love is manifested in every living thing in the natural.  He created it, therefore He is in it. 

These images can be images in our mind, the pictures that are either enlightened by the glorious light of Lord (living) or those things that bring to the bones of the body, a dryness-such as lack, doubt, condemnation, and then become the “decoy” (distraction) to conceal the truth of  the love of the Father.

A decoy is a person, device or event meant as a distraction to conceal what an individual or a group might be looking for.  (www.answers.com) 

I heard, Watch for the decoy, I saw the decoy, on the right was what was a living breathing duck. The decoy is meant to be  the  distraction  to what God is doing in our lives, to take the focus off the LIVING breathing Lord, Jesus. I am quickly reminded of Joseph. His brothers were jealous, as Joseph shared a dream with his brothers. His brothers attempted to “conceal” Joseph before his father, leaving him for dead as they stripped Joseph of his coat of many colors that were made for him.  

Joseph was a slave in Egypt, but the hand of God was still on him. There were many distractions that were thrown his way, decoys so to speak in attempt to conceal God within him. Joseph however, remained focused, when temptation arose, he resisted the temptations and the enemy fled.  He was successful in His relationship with the Lord, though his family  concealed his life, his body, the Lord was with him. He knew who he was, he knew the dream that was given to him though having shared it prematurely, God still restored the relationships with his brothers.

While in prison, the favor of God was upon Joseph.

In Genesis 39:

Genesis 39

Joseph a Slave in Egypt

 ¹ Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. And Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there. ² The LORD was with Joseph, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. ³ And his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD made all he did to prosper in his hand.

As Joseph, so shall you be. Stay watchful and gaze into my eyes, Where I lead, you will be. There is no place you have gone, or will go that I am not with you, for I have seen the end from the beginning. Keep watchful, let not the snares or pestilence be of deep concern to you, but the treasures I have hidden within you. The treasure you are within me. I say come up here, I say come up here, let me show and give to you all that I have promised as the rainbows, as the promise and the inheritance of the children of the most high God, I say to you, my children come find rest in me. My beloved, You are my beloved, I am your refuge and strength in times of trouble you are hidden within me, I am your rear guard, I am with you. I am vision, I am your vision, for apart from me, you can do nothing, I love you.

 Apart from me, you only have A Part of me, but I have come that you may receive all that I have for you. I desire you, I desire for you to receive in my fullness.

You have been engraved on the palm of my hands, what is engraved will always be, I know by name, I know you, there is nothing about you that is hidden from me, for I have created you.

My hand is upon you as was Joseph, I lay my hand upon your mind and renew each thought, bringing down every stronghold every decoy that would attempt to separate your mind from me. For I am truth. My hand is upon you, my children. When my sheep go to the pasture, I gently bring you back I am your comfort and guidance, I have set the paths before you, no harm will come to you, for I have you, I have you, I have never forsaken you, my love for you is from ever lasting to everlasting. You are blessed, for the inheritance you have my inheritance.

I am taking those who have hunched over, those who have sought me, I am raising you up, I am bringing you into alignment, I have taken every crooked path in your life, I have straigtened it, the narrow way, come with me, come I say come with me, into the rich fullness of my love of my bride. There is no harm that will come to you, no weapon that will prosper as you are clothed in my righteousness, you are my beloved.

Isaiah 54

¹² I will make your pinnacles of rubies,
      Your gates of crystal,
      And all your walls of precious stones.
       ¹³ All your children shall be taught by the LORD,
      And great shall be the peace of your children.
       ¹⁴ In righteousness you shall be established;
      You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear;
      And from terror, for it shall not come near you.
       ¹⁵ Indeed they shall surely assemble, but not because of Me.
      Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake.
       ¹⁶ “ Behold, I have created the blacksmith
      Who blows the coals in the fire,
      Who brings forth an instrument for his work;
      And I have created the spoiler to destroy.
       ¹⁷ No weapon formed against you shall prosper,
      And every tongue which rises against you in judgment
      You shall condemn.
      This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,
      And their righteousness is from Me,”
      Says the LORD.

As I packed for my journey, I saw myself putting things in my suitcase, things that I thought that I would need, or things I wanted to take with me to share with friends at my destination.. as my suitcase was “bursting at the seams” my son looks at me and says, “wow, that’s a lot of stuff,” the shock for him really came when I brought the smaller bag out, that was packed with stuff as well.  I believe that I had four bags all together beginning with my purse, and getting bigger from there.  I needed all this “stuff” for my journey.  I deposited half of the things in my suitcase at my destination, and the load will be much lighter on the return trip. 

I noticed when I got home and unpacked my suitcase, I had not used half of what was in there, I paid the fee for checked baggage, however comma, I didn’t need all that I thought that I needed, I just carried it with me just in case..  That spoke to me as I thought about how much I am carrying that I do not need and am not called to carry, as it is deposited at the foot of the cross, my burden becomes lighter.

Psalm 55:22 (New King James Version)

 ²² Cast your burden on the LORD,
         And He shall sustain you;
         He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.

Doors
A few months back I had a dream
I had a dream that I was in a child’s bedroom the bed was centered up against the wall, and to the left of the bed, there was a door, not a regular door, the height was the same, but the width was not, it was no more than a foot wide, you had to have a special key to open the door, when the door opened, there were stairs that led upward, you could see the beautiful wood that the stairs were made of, yet there was no light in the stairway.
Through this the Lord revealed to me that narrow is the way, and the key to open that door is Jesus, Jesus lights the path, in the darkness you cannot see the beauty, but once you have light, all things are new, nothing looks the same as it once did. He’s calling us to go higher, “to climb the stairs” that lead upward.

A few days ago I had an open vision
I had an open vision of a door with crates stacked in front of it, the door was concealed by these crates. I heard and saw concealment and obstacles. Then I read
The devil has shut a door of opportunity and blessing for many of the saints! BUT GOD IS GONNA OPEN A WINDOW.
Whatever the area of your life is where the enemy has shut a door, it is a set-up for a new breakthrough at a HIGHER LEVEL. God is going to OPEN A WINDOW.
With this I saw so much, that it would take effort and faith to get passed these obstacles or to remove them, opportunity lies behind that closed/blocked door, and allowing the Holy Spirit to come in and show reveal the contents of that room, will bring freedom. I know with myself, my flesh will say, “leave it, it’s not hurting anything, no one can see it, it’s concealed,” that my friends is a veil that needs to be removed. There is nothing hidden from the Lord. He stands at the door and knocks.
Matthew 10:25-27
25 It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub,[a] how much more will they call those of his household! 26 Therefore do not fear them. For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.
27 “Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops.

Revelation 3
14 “And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans[f] write,
‘These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: 15 “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. 16 So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot,[g] I will vomit you out of My mouth. 17 Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked— 18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. 21 To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
22 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”’”

As we were driving down the road, I looked up at the sky, and the Lord immediately spoke to me about what I was seeing. I saw eagles wings covering the whole sky. Isaiah 40:31
31 But those who wait on the LORD
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.
Our strength is renewed as we wait upon the Lord, we will soar, when storms come we can soar above the storm and not get caught up in it. When the weariness hits and we do have the strength to soar, we go to the center of the storm where it is calm, as the storm is raging around us, we are safe in the center of His presence.

With the stripes, I saw that by His stipes we are healed, not might be healed, but we ARE healed, He bore it all so that we could have this healing.
Isaiah 53:5
But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

The whole area was covered by this great cloud. These great wings, a covering for those who know Him. The secret place of the most high.. to be covered by a shadow we must be close to what makes the shadow. Take refuge under the shadow of His wings, as He draws you to Himself.
Psalm 91
Safety of Abiding in the Presence of God
1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress;
My God, in Him I will trust.”

3 Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler[a]
And from the perilous pestilence.
4 He shall cover you with His feathers,
And under His wings you shall take refuge;
His truth shall be your shield and buckler.
5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
Nor of the arrow that flies by day,
6 Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,
Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.

7 A thousand may fall at your side,
And ten thousand at your right hand;
But it shall not come near you.
8 Only with your eyes shall you look,
And see the reward of the wicked.

9 Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge,
Even the Most High, your dwelling place,
10 No evil shall befall you,
Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;
11 For He shall give His angels charge over you,
To keep you in all your ways.
12 In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.
13 You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra,
The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.

14 “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him on high, because he has known My name.
15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him,
And show him My salvation.”