Category: Blessings

Window of Reconciliation Blessings: June 2021 (Reconciling to Land) Blessing #5: Land Aspect-When You Do Not Know That the Land Is Speaking To You

by theparacleteshammer, posted in Blessings, June WOR Blessings: Reconciliation to Land

Gang, I first stepped into this work quite by accident, and then I started hearing the land speak, even when I did not have the words to describe what was going on. It was not Arthur or Megan who clued me in to the idea that land or landforms speak to us.

Rather, it was an old friend from college named Kristi, who told me and a group of then-friends that “the trees were speaking”. She was part of a ministry with which I was involved in on campus.

And so, beloved, what do you do when you think you hear the land and the trees and the mountains and the oceans speaking to you? What do you do when you fear the response of a church that may be so devoted to stoning those who hear creation speak.

Well, beloved, I invite you spirit to hear the following passage afresh and I ask your soul to step to the side as I speak to your spirit.

Spirit, listen to the word of G-d for you for today.

“For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.”

Isaiah 55:12 ESV

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, ALL THE EARTH;
    break forth into joyous song and sing praises!
Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre,
    with the lyre and the sound of melody!
With trumpets and the sound of the horn
    make a joyful noise before the King, the Lord!
Let the sea roar, and all that fills it;
    the world and those who dwell in it!
Let the rivers clap their hands;
    let the hills sing for joy together

Psalm 98:5-8 ESV (emphasis mine)

The earth makes noise to the L-rd, spirit!. The various land forms speak in praise to the L-rd. And they are willing to speak to us, and hear from us. We are capable of hearing not only when the land is feeling good, but also when the land is feeling terrible and responds in reaction to the negative feeling:

“…and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.”

from Leviticus 18:25

“…WE KNOW THAT THE WHOLE EARTH HAS BEEN GROANING together in the pains of childbirth until now.”

from Romans 8:22 ESV (emphasis mine)

Spirit, you are not crazy. Beloved you are not crazy. That thing you are hearing may be the creation speaking.

Beloved, I bless you in your capacity to hear when the creation speaks, both when it speaks in the positive and when it speaks in the negative.

Spirit, you aree permitted to speak to the land, and you are permitted to find out solutions to the problems of why the creation is having trouble. You are permitted to be and to do and to flow in every aspect of the fullness of who G-d made you to be.

I bless you, spirit to hear the emotions of various parcels of land. I bless your discernment to increase to the place where Father wants it to be. I bless you to know what the L-rd wants you to know about the land.

I bless those who are created to be ornithologists, and park rangers, and botanists, and agcriculturalists, and horticulturalists, and farmers, and ranchers. I bless you each to flow in your design. I bless the fullness of you, spirit, to come online and express itself in zeal in the professional pursuits for which you were made.

I bless you to interact with the land, and hear the land, and to work to whatever degree you were designed to work with the land.

Be at peace, spirit, in the name of Yeshua.

Window of Reconciliation Blessings, June 2021: Blessing #4

by theparacleteshammer, posted in June WOR Blessings: Reconciliation to Land

Beloved, I invite your spirit forward in the name of Yeshua.

Listen to the word of G-d for you for today.

Now the L-rd said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your fathers hours to the land that I will show you.

Genesis !2:1 ESV

Spirit, there will be times when the L-rd sends you away from land that you have known into land that you do not know. And, spirit, there are going to be mysterious and idstant places into which you are headed that you do not know. You are first going to have to do what Abram did: Leave your homeland. Now you might have other relatives that come along with you:

…and Lot went with him…

from Genesis 12:4

but these relatives can provide some of the comforts of home and still be distractions from your ultimate goal, Abram’s design was not to play with his relatives and rescue them, but to see the land that G-d was promising to his descendants. And by descendants I do not mean chief servants or shirttail relatives. And I do not mean trying-to-be-sons like Ishamael. I mean actual flesh and blood, after the manner of Isaac.

Spirit, I bless you to engage with your spirit when it is time to leave the comforts of home to pursue the adventure and vision G-d has for you, and to create a home for your expression of that dynamic we call “family” in accordance with G-d’s alignment of your new family.

I bless you to find the land and context where this growing of family should take place. I bless you to find where you belong, and the place where you best align with the purposes of G-d. I bless you to hear the land speak to you, when you finally arrive at a place that feels like home to you. I bless your journey not to settle for lesser plots, but to find that right and righteous parcel.

Spirit, I bless your focus to be intense and with purpose. I bless you to ignore family members who are not speaking with and thinking with their spirits, but rather give you every good plan that isn’t a G-d-sized plan.

I bless you to flee the spirit of settling for less than G-d has for you.

I bless you to find the perfect vision G-d has for you, and to pursue connection with the land.

I bless you spirit to enlarge and rest once you find that piece of land where you belong, either for a season or permaently.

I bless those roots of yours to dig deep and find fertile soil and much water.

I bless you with that peace and freedom, in the name of Yeshua.

Window of Reconciliation Blessings, June 2021: Blessing #3, Land Aspect: Internally-Turned Or Unresponsive Land

by theparacleteshammer, posted in Blessings, June WOR Blessings: Reconciliation to Land

Beloved, I would like to invite your spirit to parley.

And by way of this illustration, to understanding.

Spirit, there are lands that have been so beat down that they have not the desire nor the will nor the courage (because they have not been encouraged well, regularly, and properly, nor deeply) to deal with humans in such a way that they are willing to muster a response.

Listen to the Word of G-d for today:

A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish

From Isaiah 42:3

Spirit, like some of your portions MIGHT BE, or the portions of some with which you deal, the lands that form some of your assignments might be inwardly turned through theft, raping, pillaging, or other mistreatments, that they cannot muster a response.

Some land is going to be quite silent and incapable of speaking to you.

I think of Sutter’s Mill and the California Gold Rush, and the land and soil of Northern California that is was so raped by the forty-niners that it does not provide arable soil for planting crops. There is much land in Northern California that will not respond to DRILL SERGEANTS.

Much in the way that there are many of y’all that don’t respond to “I CALL YOU TO ATTENTION AND NOW LET ME DECLARE AND DECREE MY WORD SALAD OF APOSTOLIC COMMANDS AND NOW YOU HAVE BEEN MINISTERED TO SINCE I TALKED AT YOU SPIRIT LETMESELLYOUAHONDAANDBUYMEAKIA.”

Is this making sense, gang?

Spirit, you deserve someone who will converse with you.

And is there a time and a place for the real decree of those who have authority? Yes!

But is there a time and a place to sit with someone who is oozing with pain and is in desperate need of a pastor who will allow them the latitude to weep or be angry or cry or just be present as they process? Absolutely.

So, spirit, I give you freely, the dignity to be present and heard.

I bless you to hear the internal land and to sit with it until it makes the choice to turn to you and opens up at its choice.

I bless you to be sensitive to pieces of land that are so damaged they do not realize their internalizations and the way they have gotten so inwardly-turned that they do not realize they can or should respond.

I bless you to sit with that piece of land as you would with a coma victim and just be present and open to help and serve.

I bless your Servant portion to teach the rest of your portions the depth and pause necessary to just breathe that which is life-giving though barely visible to the piece of land that is inwardly-turned.

And I bless you with the skill to walk in silence as you hear what is happening to the land.

I bless you to know when to life the sword, versus the scalpel, versus the seed driller, and the bare hand to touch the land that has felt so violated by tools and soulish nonsense and avarice that the land is able to trust you because you were loud and stupid.

I bless your trust to increase and I bless you to go to the lands you are supposed to in due season.

I bless you with these things in Jesus’ name.

Window of Reconciliation Blessings, June 2021: Blessing 2b: Land Aspect (Trauamtized Land)

by theparacleteshammer, posted in Blessings, June WOR Blessings: Reconciliation to Land

Spirit, in the last post, I talk about some general dynamics of hearing and instructing land, but there are some dynamics I neglected to include, given that last post was entitled, “Traumatized Land”. So, this is a continuation of that post.

Spirit, there are going to be times when the land you are working with is traumatized. The land may be able to acknowledge your presence, but cannot verbalize the nature of its pain. 

Spirit, if you get a “yes, I am in pain”, but you are not able to verbalize what the nature of the pain is, I bless you with the patience and the skill to be with the land. Nothing high-impact. Nothing where you are shoving or breaking or moving or pulling or pushing or fighting things in the spirit.

As the passage says, there is a time and a place to throw stones and to gather them.

And with your land assignment, regardless of what the nature of the trauma is, and even though bones might need to be set, or splints might need to be applied, or connection that is gentle might need to be made, spirit, I bless you to be sensitive while you are staving off longer-term trauma and it’s effects, even if it means you are having to engage in some first aid that is painful for the moment.

When a bone is broken and misaligned, we need the bone not just to be fixed and healed and no longer bruised or broken. We also need the bones and tendons and ligaments in their proper alignments.

I bless you to team up with the right people of you need more than one person, and that those people are aligned together to the common purpose.

I bless you to move and bend and flex as you work with assuring the kingdom is manifested as it ought to be.

I bless the land to receive trauma care from you on behalf of and in the name of our King.

I bless you, spirit, to be skilled at placing things in alignment and to show love to the land as it is recovering.

I bless you, spirit, to keep doing the things Father has given you to do. And I bless you to consider what needs to happen long term as you are working at stopping bleeding or damage that keeps the land from embracing fullness.

Keep doing what you do, spirit, for you are blessed with the King’s favor.

WOR Blessings June 2021: Blessing #2 Land Aspect-Traumatized Land

by theparacleteshammer, posted in June WOR Blessings: Reconciliation to Land, Window of Reconciliation Blessings

Beloved,

I invite your spirit forward in Jesus Name

Spirit listen to the word of G-d for you for today:

“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.”

Leviticus 18:24–28 ESV

Spirit, there are things that we or others can introduce into the land that cause the land to become sick, or nauseous. These things can impact how the land interacts with us. We may be stepping into land that has been junked up by, and subsequently spit out its inhabitants, whether on a small scale, such as a house purchase, or a larger scale, such as a neighborhood, town, city, or nation.

When we introduce various pollutants into the land, the land will respond. I have seen times where the “reins of the land” are defiled, as if a picture of the kidneys and adrenals shows itself to me in the spirit, with an issue that is affecting it.

Think of what arsenic does to the body vs. sepsis. vs. a rusted metallic cut vs. snake bite vs. a misaligned colon.

Spirit, as a result of this, I bless you to see the stuff in the land where you dwell and I bless you to respond to the kinds input and instructions. I bless you to skillfully partner with the king in order to remove the offending issue.

I bless you to see and to operate with skill and understanding. I bless you to bring care to the land.

And I bless you to invest deeply to the degree you are supposed to with the land.

I bless you to be open to seeing things in the spirit over or in the land that the soul might not typically associate with land, so that you can get the frame you need around the problem so you can begin to address it.

I bless this to be a time of Bridal Intimacy in sequence with Sonship where you do the dance effectively, use the tools you already have to maybe do some things with them that you might not have done in the past.

I bless you to be life-giving to the land as you rightly connect with the land.

I bless your wisdom, skill, knowledge, and understanding. I bless you to connect both with the text of Scripture and with the work of the Holy Spirit as you help the land to work through its issues.

I bless you with fullness of peace as you help the land work through its sickness.

I bless you, Teacher Portion, to work through the complex riddles of what is causing the ailment in the land and to be skillful at unpacking that issue or set of issues in order to leave the land in a better place than you found it.

I bless you with clarity as to the right set of tools which are needed for you to diagnose the problem with the land.

I bless you in the name of Yeshua of Nazareth.

Blessing of the December Window of Reconciliation #8: Destiny Aspect, Right Light

by theparacleteshammer, posted in December WOR Blessings: Reconcilation to Destiny

Beloved, I would like to invite your spirit forward to treat with me in the name of Yeshua.

Spirit, listen to the word of G-d for you for today.

And G-d said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Genesis 1:3 ESV

Spirit, one of the first things that the L-rd created was light, preceded only by time, matter, the laws of science, and sound. Light is necessary to see, and not just to see partially, but to see in fullness. In order for us to possess birthrights, we must be able to see rightly, see really, and see fully.

G-d is the light, and we are the light, whether or not we acknowledge it. Spirit, you may have felt like a failure or a faulty, reprobate sinner, but sinner you most certainly are not. Father does not look at us with such a lens as to only see junk and garbage. Rather, he sees the glorious light of His that He desposited into human vessels and He sighs a sigh of relief and says, “Yeah!”.

It is good, and you, the whole person, are good. As I write this blessing in Block format, I remind you, spirit, incessantly that you are a chip off the Old Block, not the block that is the Father of Lies, but the Block that is the Father of Lights.

The Sons of G-d are Heavenly Hosts, and they are made of light, and spirit, you are made of light.

Bioluminescent, spirit. You were made to be life-giving light.

And in a zillion facets, hues, tones, expressions, and manners, you, spirit, and your compatriots, fellow sons of the L-rd of the Lights, were each made to contribute several threads of the fiberoptic tapestry that is the Kingdom of Love.

You, spirit, and your compatriots are the fiber optic equivalent of the Bayeaux Tapestry. You are fullness of workmanship and a full expression of His love, even when you think you are most broken.

So, I bless you, spirit, to SHINE HIS LIGHT, not merely through effort of your own, but through cause and effect, and through allowing Him a place to shine through you and in you. I bless you with the stubborn persistence to shine and be who you are even when you are broken. A light shines because it is light. It does not have to work to shine or make light. It is light.

Spirit, you are also light, and you are a light in the world. You don’t have to manufacture something that you think is fake. If you will be who you are, then shining will be the most natural thing for you. Just as these lights on my LED keyboard were designed to shine as I press the keys and they engage, because they do not know how not to shine, so you also do not know how not to shine. Trying to teach yourself not to shine, spirit, is absolutely foreign to you and it does not feel right.

I bless you to shine always, and shine everywhere, and shine like bronze.

I bless you with the capacity to shine even when you are feeling hopeless.

“Let your light so shine before men” means “allow or permit your light to shine”. It takes no effort to allow you to shine because shine is what light does. But it takes all sorts of effort to block a light from shining.

I bless you spirit, with a deep and far-reaching shine, a shine that pushes back the demonic darkness that is a twisting of G-d’s purpose for the darkenes He brings.

I bless others to see truth more clearly because you shone, spirit.

I bless you with the revelation that your Father is not the Father of Darkness, but the Father of Lights, and because He is Your Father, you are therefore by definition, light.

I bless you with all these things, spirit, in the name of Yeshua.

Blessing of the December Window of Reconciliation #7: Destiny Aspect, Right Product, Right Lane, Right Path

by theparacleteshammer, posted in December WOR Blessings: Reconcilation to Destiny

Beloved, I would like to invite your spirit forward, this time to attention, and though I am not a drill sergeant, this blessing might be a bit more on the proactive side of things. And that is okay.

Spirit, I would like for you to join me for a few minutes. Spirit, if you will, listen to the word of G-d for you for today. As much as what I am about to say might sound like home to you, it’s not about home. It is about the journey.

G-d said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the G-d who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

Genesis 35:1 ESV

Arise and Go

Spirit, Qum, lechu. That’s Hebrew for “get up,” or “arise,” and “walk”. We have an excursion. Jacob’s life at this point was not about sitting on his keister and duff and allowing G-d’s purposes to come to him, because there were plenty of enemies surrounding him. His sons Simeon and Levi (the Prophet and the Teacher) had just gotten done making a mess of his relationships with the land of Shechem, after what Shechem had done to their sister. Jacob’s apparent refusal to deal in justice on behalf of his daughter led to the circumstances where his sons had to fix things, and it cost them.

Spirit, arise. Kum. Your perspective in this season is about to change, as is your geography, but only if you want them to change. G-d can give you the vision, but you have to move. Lechu. It is time to get the blood flowing into your legs as you see out the new thing Father is about to do in you.

It is not about sitting and letting life happen to you, letting it pass you by. It is, in this season about minding the gap and jumping aboard the train whereever the L-rd is going to see it.

Spirit I bless your reaction time to be speedy and full of vitality.

To Bethel

Spirit, you need vision, and open access to heaven and to see what the King is doing on your behalf.

In order to accomplish that, you MUST be seated in the right place in order to receive. You must go to the right piece of land, buy it, no matter if that land is in the People’s Republic of California (which is severely hurting after the gang-raping of the 1840’s), or if that land is on Manhattan Island, or the mountains of Bethel. It might mean that you have a journey to a land that is not in alignment with the current nature of your current set of resources. You might have to liquidate your current set of assets and change them out to a diferent set of resources.

I bless you with the willingness to go where you need to go, and I bless you with the skill to initiate trades into the resources that will suit your location.

Dwell There

Spirit, Jacob was not sent to Bethel to merely have a worship service and move on, but rather to live on and get used to the flow of the land, which was radically different than Aram Naharaim. The land was designed to become his home. And, spirit, the land of Bethel was made to feed Jacob’s spirit repeatedly, just as it had fed him in Genesis 28:11-22). He was made for that land to unpack vision and a purpose for the remainder of his life.

Spirit, I bless you to move to and dwell in the land Father wants for you in this season, and I bless you to receive from and give to the land the things Father has in that exchange. I bless you to expand and your vitality to grow.

I bless you to have the depth of well to draw from as you begin to dwell on that land where you belong, and to find in the Father’s presence, your belongingness, and in the presence of Jesus, your worth, and in the Holy Spirit, your competency.

Make An Altar

Spirit, when you get home to the piece of land where you belong, I bless you to make an altar to the L-rd. And I bless you to celebrate the L-rd’s purpose in creating you and hardwiring you for greatness. I bless your competency and your dominion. And I bless you to know that you have a place along each season of your journey where you belong.

I bless you to not neglect the gift of G-d that is in you from conception, from the new birth, and from the laying on of hands. I bless your altar and place of dedication to the King to not be corrupted or disrupted by any scheme of the enemy, and that when the enemy attempts to assault you at the altar, that the L-rd would thunder against him and all of his schemes.

I bless you with a deep revelation of the Holy Trinity and the Divine Council as you spend time meditiating in His presence.

Escape From Esau

Spirit, you cannot pursue your path fully, nor produce your G-d-ordained product for the kingdom, so long as you are allowing yourself to be subject to the spirit of jealousy. The lane, dear heart, will not be straight so long as you jealousy is permitted a place at your table. I give you permission to rout jealousy completely, spirit.

Truly, truly, I bless you to remember the L-rd’s former deliverances from the hand of those who have flowed against you in the spirit of jealousy. I bless you, spirit with comprehensive protection from Adonai Tsevaot, the L-rd of Hosts, and from Adonai Echad, the L-rd who is One, and the Father of the Heavenly Lights, which are the Hosts of Heaven, and the Father of the L-rd of Hosts, Yeshua ha-Mashiach.

Spirit, I bless you with deep peace, and I bless you with a strong and well-callibrated plumbline that helps you not take the bait of deception.

I bless you not to succumb to the temptation to
throw a wet towel on yourself,
limit yourself,
corral yourself,
edit yourself,
emasculate yourself,
or engage in the abominable practice of pharonic circumcision to your vitality and your fullness just because others cannot handle you, spirit.

Father can handle you, and your shipmates can handle you. The junk theology cannot handle you though. So I bless you with your hands being taught to war and your fingers to battle.

Zero Tolerance For the Deception That Takes Advantage of the Open Door Created By Jealousy

SPIRIT, I WOULD EXHORT YOU WITH THE FOLLOWING

It. Is. Written.

DO NOT BE DECEIVED

Every single good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of Lights, the Father Who Does Not Change, in the way shifting shadows ever change.

In Brilliant, real-white, opalescent light, sitting on the infinitely-colored-and-yet-Agean-Azure-Sapphire Throne between the infinitely-eye-laden wheels-within-wheels with sight in all direction. He is the Kaleidoscope Superior. And He provides the right, multi-faceted lenses, cut perfectly so you can see exactly what you need to see in sequence, as the colored chips of His polyvareigated wisdom and glory fall right into place right into sequence, in perfect alignment without a violation of your free will, as in the mystery of the syncronization between his sovereignty and your free will, there is an perfect enmeshment of light and truth.

Spirit, I bless you with the revelation that,
even thought He is sovereign…
He is not in control…
And does not always get what He wants in the culture…

But, spirit, with you, as you partner with Him and hear what He wants to do, and it blesses you and you partner with it, and walk in agreement with it, may the light fall into place where He wants it, and may you be enlivened to action and to causes that will leave the kingdom effects in place, so that, at least with you He does get what He wants.

I bless you, spirit, to value everything that He values, and that fully includes the good things He has placed in you.

And I bless you to refrain from damning yourself in ways and areas where He has not.

And above all of this, I bless you spirit with the revelation that He is happy and pleased with how He made you, even when the Calvinists who demand a whipping boy for all of their junk doctrine of the condition of believers do not. I bless you to receive Father’s approval ESPECIALLY when dour-faced, piss-and-bleach-guzzling, jealous believers do not approve.

I bless you spirit, with the revelation that Father loves what He sees when He looks at you, and He laughs with you and helps you to ascend to the place where His blueprints are. I bless you with an enjoyment rather than a self-flagellation of your identity, because spirit, He made you, designed you, and hardwired you as you are, whether Prophet with your high-strung emotion and cranky attitude toward unrighteousness, or Servant with your knack for helping everyone, or Teacher with your Anchor truth, slow gait, and FREAKING AWESOME PLACE OF SAFETY, or Exhorter with your breathtaking revelation and breathless pace of horizontal human relationships, or Giver with your wealth of gathering resources and being able to discern the pith of a situation, or Ruler/Judge/Deliverer, with your capacity to build an empire with a skeleton crew and do much with few imperfect resources, or Mercy with your touchy-feely Ethereal affection and intimacy and erstwhile whimsy and bouts of meloncholy.

Every gift that comes from the Father of Lights is both good and perfect, even those gifts that seem hard and come with a high responsiblity, and even those gifts that may seem like they are causing pain. I bless you with the skill to parse out between the pain that comes from the clowns and the enemy, and the pain that comes as a gift from the Father to refine you.

I bless you with His light, love, and pleasure in your hunting for your right path, your right lane, and your right adventure. I bless you will all of these revelations in the name of Yeshua ha-Mashiach.

Blessing of the December Window of Reconciliation #6: Destiny Aspect, Right Adventure With Right Friends

by theparacleteshammer, posted in December WOR Blessings: Reconcilation to Destiny

Beloved, I would like to invite your spirit forward in the name of Yeshua.

Spirit, Listen to the word of G-d for you for today.

Some went down to the sea in ships, doing business on the great waters;
they saw the deeds of the L-RD, his wondrous works in the deep.
For he commanded and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea.
They mounted up to heaven; they went down to the depths; their courage melted away in their evil plight;
they reeled and staggered like drunken men and were at their wits’ end. Then they cried to the L-RD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.
He made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.
Then they were glad that the waters were quiet, and he brought them to their desired haven.
Let them thank the L-RD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!”

Psalm 107:23–31 ESV

Spirit, not only do we need the right home, and not only do we need the right relationship with the right Father, but we also need the right cadre of friends to engage our destiny with us.

We were made to become people of destiny in the context of community.

Now, some of you in isolation might say “why is that?”.

In order to answer that, I have to tell you a story.

Spirit, I have a sailor friend whose name is Bryan. He is a sailor’s sailor and has always made a home or found a place at sea. From stints in the Navy and the Army Corps of Engineers to tours near Nigeria, he has gone down to the sea repeatedly in ships and done business on the water. He has seen the works of the King on the waters.

And he has shared with me that sailors frequently have inked on their knuckles the words “Hold Fast”. if you wash overboard, that rope to which you are tied may be the last thing keeping you from physical death. In so many contexts, holding onto a lifeline is all that stands between us an eternity.

Likewise, at least four of Jesus’ Twelve fished on Lake Galilee: Simon Peter, Andrew, James, and John. And they would have understood in squalls the dangers inherent with sailing.

Unlike a cruise-ship, which is the ultimate form of mothering, military and other sailing and fishing vessels are solid expressions of fathering. The need on a boat is to develop the tools necessary to survive and thrive and return home safely. And often times, in order to thrive on a ship or a boat, you have to take calculated risks relative to your environment. And in all of that, whatever you do, spirit, do not let go of the rope. Hold fast.

And have a crew of mates that you can connect with that will work with you and help you learn the ropes and will have your back and keep you safe.

And it takes a group of people each weaving together their unique set of principles together, and bringing those sets together that helps us move into destiny. One man or woman cannot pilot a vessel alone to do a task alone. Destiny is a community skill. And Several sets of eyes that can see the various aspects are so desperately needed.

And love which flows between brothers and sisters is needed.

So spirit, I bless you for the seasons when you will be abroad. I bless you no matter the nature of the water or the location of the water. I bless you when you must be on the open ocean, or on the lakes or rivers, or in the waters underneath the earth. I bless you when the waters are calm, and I bless you when the waters are boiling out of control. I bless you when there is a red sky at night and at morning. I bless you when you are surrounded by sharks and when the waters are pure sapphire. I bless you to have the right mates. I bless your friendships to be rejuvenating and life-giving, and importantly, life-PRESERVING.

I bless you to find THE RIGHT BERTH ON THE RIGHT VESSEL, and to link up with THE RIGHT CREW. For whatever reason, the following poem feels appropriate here.

I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking. 

I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying. 

I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.

Sea Fever by John Masefield

I bless your business and I bless your vision to see the works of G-d in the depths of the deep.

I bless you to be aware of the dynamics of Leviathan, whereever you are, in seven heads. I bless your compass, chronometer, sextant, pelorus, and maps to be true and accurate. I bless your skill in using them.

Spirit, I bless you with a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover. I bless you with lads who will keep you aboard and welcome you into their cabal as they accomplish great exploits in the name of the Captain of Our Salvation.

I bless you, mariners, to hear the voice of your ship and crew. I bless you when the storm is getting worse. I bless you with adventure and safe passage, no matter where the map and route take you. I bless you to know when your ship needs rest, and your mates need a hand, or a look, or a smile, or a heart.

I bless you to sleep aboard your ship when the Captain sleeps, and I bless you to wake when the Captain awakens. I bless you with love to keep your ship in its right alignment. And I bless you to be fathered in the wholeness of cause-and-effect that is critical to the operation of a fathering vessel that carries sons of the kingdom. I bless your reins to provide you counsel in the night seasons. I bless your capacity to see the usefulness of everyone else around you whose gifts are nothing like yours. And, importantly, I bless your capacity and skill at meshing your skills together with theirs, and no matter the conditions, to sail effectively. And to reach not only your destiny, but the desired haven of your home, having accomplished what the L-rd intended you to accomplish.

I bless you with wholeness in your community, as you seek for your place among your tribe. Be at peace, spirit, in the name of Yeshua.

Blessing of the December Window of Reconciliation #5: Destiny Aspect, Right Father

by theparacleteshammer, posted in December WOR Blessings: Reconcilation to Destiny

“Safe?” said Mr Beaver …”Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good.

from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Beloved, I would like to engage with your spirit in the name of Yeshua, if they are willing.

Spirit, listen to the word of G-d for you for today.

αὶ εἷς ἐκ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων λέγει μοι· μὴ κλαῖε, ἰδοὺ ἐνίκησεν ὁ λέων ὁ ἐκ τῆς φυλῆς Ἰούδα, ἡ ῥίζα Δαυίδ, ἀνοῖξαι τὸ βιβλίον καὶ τὰς ἑπτὰ σφραγῖδας αὐτοῦ.

And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judas, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”

Revelation 5:5

Spirit, there is a line of thinking that came into being with the writings of Jack Lewis that the L-rd is not safe. Indeed, in the Chronicles of Narnia, Mr. Beaver said he was not safe.

And truly, when someone is wounded or bruised or smoldering, a bruised reed Messiah will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish.

But, when the time comes for us to grow into kingdom sons, He is not going to lead us merely or only into the safe place of home, but into the risk-laden context of the wilderness. Spirit, Father did not bring us home to leave us home, but to have a safe harbor from which to do exploits on behalf of the King. And when we travel, Father goes with us, and He allows good things to come into our lives as well as testing and difficult things.

The issue is not whether or not Jesus is safe in that we can control Him, but whether or not He is good, meaning “consistent and trustworthy, free from corruption, and incorruptible”.

In the first blessing, I reminded you of the anchor that was the most trustworthy. Our best anchor is in G-d’s nature. And because everything He created was good, it follows that He who is the Source of all is also good.

Goodness is so lacking in our culture. Alienation in many places prevails.

And the masculine, fathering antidote for the brokenness is not the mothering attribute of safety, but rather goodness.

Goodness is brought about by execution, by a G-d who executes. By a good Father of Lights Who gives us every good and perfect gift. Goodness is seen EVERYWHERE, including in what He has put into you.

Father is going to challenge you, spirit. Father will spend some time working to heal you, but after a season of healing, He will take you out on an adventure with him. You might have to climb mountains, or swim oceans, or work with people who are occasionally ungrateful. You might have to run a marathon, or embrace some pain.

But, spirit, I bless you to rest in your Father’s goodness. I bless you with not just an anchoring place in home, but also a place of rest in Father’s affection as He is doing the grueling work of training you and refining you and giving you sometimes more than you can handle.

I bless you not to rely on Father’s safety when you are questing about, but on His goodness, which is central to His nature.

And that you can praise Him even when He sends you an unlikely messenger to correct you. I bless you spirit to hear Father speak in the Prophet language of Greek and in the Giver language of Hebrew.

Both Prophets and Givers are CRITICAL to your life, spirit, and I bless you to hear what Father is doing as He does it. I bless you to see, hear, smell, touch, taste, and experience the full range of Father’s good pleasure and His good gifts, even if they come in the form of fiery trials.

I bless you, in those season when you are laying on the pavement with a bleeding artery to savor the flavor of grace Father brings to you, whether it is repairing a transected artery, or eating a bowl of your favorite ice cream.

I bless you to lean hard into Him and the strength of His goodness when everything is going up in flames.

I bless you with hyperendurant resolve.

I bless you, spirit, to be galvanized against all the plans of the evil one and the clowns.

I bless you radiantly, affectionately, and zealously, in the name of Yeshua.

I bless you to find the silver lining when the clouds have gathered. I bless you with chops and strength and massive resolve and life and peace and understanding and PLENTY OF FIGHT.

Even in the dark night of the soul….

Blessing of the December Window of Reconciliation #4: Destiny Aspect: Right Home

by theparacleteshammer, posted in December WOR Blessings: Reconcilation to Destiny

Beloved,

I would like to invite your spirit forward to encamp with me about a specific truth.

Spirit, you were made for a right home that is a place from which you proceed to the adventures Father has for you.

Listen to the word of G-d for you for today.

And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Genesis 2:8 ESV

Spirit, when G-d made Adam, and provided him his spirit, it was not in the context of the garden. It was in the context of a wilderness place away from the garden. We are not told where specifically in Scripture, but we are told it was not the garden.

We are however told that sons are creators based on the illustrations of what sons like David, Solomon, Josiah, Nehemiah, Moses, Deborah, Mary the mother of Jesus, Martha, Peter, John, Andrew, and Paul did. In order for a person to become a son, they must first be unpacked. And because Adam was the son of G-d, I would imagine G-d created him strategically far from the garden so as to help Adam unpack his abilities along the way by introducing him gradually in the wilderness to sundry aspects of the Father’s creation. And for Mercies to be adequately unpacked (Adam was indeed a Mercy), given they are by nature a bit slower than the other gifts in some ways, they need a longer process that is more marked by gentleness than others.

And I imagine Adam longed for a place to call home. A place to call his own. A place without property taxes and fees to rent and a place where Father dwelled.

For Adam, that home was with Father and Eve in the garden.

Spirit, in order for you to walk into you destiny, you need a place to call home.

And that place, whereever it is, is characterized by at least a couple of things: The presence of a loving and good Father, and a place of safety where you can learn how to be you as you step into the office of person.

I will cover the dynamic of the safe home in this post and the presence of a good Father in one of the two next.

When you have a place you can truly be you, you can branch out and decide what you like and what you do not like. You can allocate your likes and dislikes and grow into the person you were made to become.

So spirit, without stifling you, I would like to offer you the following blessing.

I bless you with a place to call home. I bless you with a place you can lay your head down and sleep in peace, whatever that is supposed to look like.

Whether your pleasure is coffee or tea; black, extra light, or bulletproof; hot or iced; cakes, cookies, muffins or biscuits (southern biscuits or English biscuits); chips or crisps; ketchup, tartar sauce, malt vinegar, aioli, or none of the above; ranch or italian; cookies or brownies; math or science; carpet or hardwood; and sunny, snowing, or rainy; I bless you with a place that is appointed in keeping with the preferences Father placed into you, spirit.

I bless you with a place that has soft grass, or sandy desert, or Carolina clay, or forests, or ocean surfs, or mountains (“mountains, Gandalf! And find a quiet place where I can finish my book.”) as those are each life-giving in unique ways to different people, depending of where we grew up and what our spirits each like.

I bless you with a home that appeals to you, whether city or country.

I bless you with being surrounded with the animals you enjoy, or the absence of animals if you prefer that.

For those that bend toward the arts, I bless you with the resources needed to own those sorts of art media that give life, whether that medium or expression is digital, or canvas, or Procreate, or a piano, or a some other musical instrument, or a throwing wheel, or drawing pencils, or oils, or acrylics, or sheet metal, or leather, or woodworking, or sewing implements, or crochet hooks, or needles and cross stich.

For those that move, I bless you with the means to exercise, whether that is a place that has free-weights, or treadmills, or a road or track on which to run, or a bike, a pool, a sparring partner, a 24-form, a football, a tennis racquet, a lacrosse field, leaves to rake, lawns to mow, the colors of fall leaves and the sounds of the crunch beneath your feet as you do the yardwork, loamy or clay-like soil in which you place compost and plants. I bless you, spirit, to move as you process the riddles and problems that you are working at solving.

For those that read, research, and write, I bless you with the books, tomes, inks, quills, parchments, and a desk of your chosen size, shape, and material.

I bless you with a home that above all, is a place of rejuvenation and restoration. I bless you with a place that enables you to level set from any potential disjointings of the world that you have worked in and lived in during the day.

I bless you spirit with a safe place complete with “the cool of the day” whatever that looks like to you. I bless you with a safe harbor and a home in which to anchor.

I bless you in the name of Yeshua ha-Mashiach.