Tag: Alienation

Blessing 11: WOR September Blessings: Reconciled to G-d: Names of G-d: The Fear of Isaac

by theparacleteshammer, posted in Blessings, September Window of Reconcilaiton Blessings: Reconciliation to G-d

24 But G-d came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”

25 And Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen pitched tents in the hill country of Gilead. 26 And Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have tricked me and driven away my daughters like captives of the sword? 27 Why did you flee secretly and trick me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre? 28 And why did you not permit me to kiss my sons and my daughters farewell? Now you have done foolishly. 29 It is in my power to do you harm. But the G-d of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’

36 Then Jacob became angry and berated Laban. Jacob said to Laban, “What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me? 37 For you have felt through all my goods; what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that they may decide between us two. 38 These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks. 39 What was torn by wild beasts I did not bring to you. I bore the loss of it myself. From my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. 40 There I was: by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes. 41 These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times. 42 If the G-d of my father, the G-d of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and irebuked you last night.”

Genesis 31:24-29, 36-42 ESV

The Fear of Isaac, spirit.

You will note I did not start the blessing after the usual manner by inviting you present. My agenda is to proffer something in the middle and assume I am already speaking to you. As per my usual assumption, you have the free will to join me or no, from afar or from anear (giggle).

I bless you with that permanent liberty to do what you will as you will, spirit.

Now, as I have said before, the Fear of Isaac.

Spirit, I speculate He was was called this because Isaac dealt with the L-rd from the position of the fear of the L-rd in contrast to the Canaanites who did not walk in the fear of the L-rd or their gods. Something about Isaac in his relationship with the King presented differently and felt differently from the interactions between the inhabitants of the land on one hand, and Laban on the other hand. As Abraham relayed to Abimelech earlier, “surely there is no fear of G-d in this place”.

And Isaac, who had grown to walk in the Fear of the L-rd, considering certain events in his life, you know, with the knife and the altar, though still joyful, assuredly knew something more about the ways of G-d that marked him for the rest of his life.

Spirit, I want to bless you accordingly.

For, having known the rescue of the King in many different ways, spirit, you are able to communicate that sequence of the sobriety and the rescue of the Fear of Isaac (The Fear of Laughter or The Fear of The Laughing One).

So, I bless you, spirit, to know and to be known in accordance with that aspect of Isaac. Fear is not “I am afraid”. Fear really is “I take an active interest in knowing what the desires of the L-rd are and in doing those”. Fear of the L-rd honors the desires of the L-rd as consequential. You have known the reality of the Fear of the L-rd, and you are capable of communicating that reality. Now, I bless you with deeper revelation of that Fear as framed by filtering that fear through laughter.

I think of Psalm 2 where the L-rd responds to the meeting of the G8 or the G12 or the G-whatever-irrelevant-number-it-is saying He is irrelevant with a great laugh, followed by derision, followed by His handing the Son a lead pipe so He could take them out back and give them a shellacking.

Spirit, the correction of the mentally and spiritually dull enemies of the L-rd that is paired with laughter is precisely what is in view in the account of Laban and Jacob. G-d was intentional that this relationship, which had a chronic emotionally abusive component to it be broken and done away with. A wall between Jacob and Laban needed to be erected and not crossed every again.

And so, in Gilead they met and erected a placed called Mizpah, and there in the spirit, a boundary marker was erected.

Some people need to be cut off so we can receive from the Balm of Gilead.

I bless you to have the boundaries that stick with those people that are chronic abusers.

I bless the righteous alienation to clothe relationships that need to go and that are toxic.

I bless the King to show you which relationships just simply are not good for you, and I bless you to know which relationships are good.

I bless you to know the difference between seasonal and permanent friendships.

I bless the protection that is part of your life to increase so the enemies of the King do not take advantage of you.

I bless you to know the King’s voice in this dynamic, and I bless you to speak up so that the soul can hear what you are saying. I bless that discomfort that should be present when a bad-for-you connection comes up.

I bless you to not depart from season to season empty-handed. I bless you to accrue the right friendships with the right people who walk in the Fear of the L-rd, look for His counsel, and esteem that counsel.

I bless you to reconcile with the King and to see the Fear of Isaac as a tool that was made to help you in certain nettlesome situations.

I bless the King to give you the plumbline you were made to have so that you can see which friendships

I bless you with that revelation of the Fear of Isaac, and I bless you to reconcile with the Fear of Isaac, in the name of Yeshua.

Amen

Alienation Is Not the United States’ Inheritance Or the Intended Destiny of Any Of Its Inhabitants, Native Or Otherwise… Do Not Buy Off On It In Your Political Zeal

by theparacleteshammer, posted in Principles, Principles Of Relationships

People, especially followers of Christ in the United States, are going to certify and legitimize massive alienation beyond what the L-rd has commanded in this season.

Granted, in the case of Saul and Samuel, the removal of G-d’s Spirit from Saul and His commanding Samuel to stop grieving over Saul is one example where G-d legitimized alienation as a result of persistent rebellion–

And DO NOT get it twisted. This blog post is not an opportunity for people to say one political party or another is damned by G-d for its behavior. so do not use it as your time to grandstand for your chosen model

Rather, it is an opportunity to remind you, Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Socialist, Progressive; Anarco-Capitalist, Keynesian, Smithian, Austrian economists, Communists, etc., to work for reconciliation and for removal of your pet ideology and to look for the execution of the Kingdom of Our L-rd in your life and with your fellow man.

Granted, various partisan and “non-partisan” groups have taken this time to attempt to alienate you from followers of Orange Man or Sniffit.

But Orange Man and Sniffit are not the point.

Your political ideology is not the point.

The point is the “kingdom of G-d”. Thank you, Judge Barrett, for reminding us of the chief end of man.

Gang, if you regularly digest ANY of the news that is out there now, you are getting fed a regular and mandatory mindset of alienation and fracturing of relationships, when, as a nation, we were meant to build something constructive and help other men and women to a place of sonship rather than a mindset of poverty.

The fly on VP Pence’s head during the debate serves a point.

You are getting manipulated by Beelzebub. He is a threshold guardian.

Do not fall for his trap.

Do not get victimized by saying “because Trump/Biden is in the White House” I cannot move forward.

Damn the mask….put on the damn mask.

Slave to the government. F*** the goverment.

Big Government. Small government. No government.

Stop it.

Granted, we have a need to execute the kingdom.

But, gang, no matter who is in office the next four years.

Look around you on the ground in your immediate vicinity and in/with/among your relationships, and FIND THE RAW MATERIALS that you can use to build something.

Your best work as an American is to be a builder in the life of another human. To help them unpack what they are made to do so they can go do it.

SCOTUS is not your g-d. It is become a golden calf.

Yeshua ha-Mashaich is your G-d, who has made you and predestined you to good things and to help others unpack their things inside of them.

This political theater between two sides of the same coin, intending to control you through fear and alienation, is not your end.

Some of you are hardwired for government and leadership and service.

For a season, or for permanence.

I remind you that the archetype of the husband found in Proverbs 31, and he is a type of the idea, the Proverbs 31 husband was a career politician.

Your job and my job is to find what we were each made to do, and to snub the distractions that seek to bind us to the kingdoms of this world.

And we were made to shake things up.

There were things that Barack Obama did to cause alienation and racism as much as there were things Donald Trump did to bring us together.

I know there people will call that previous statement garbage.

But can you find the good and the bad in a presidency or a politican and still call them by G-d’s intended design for them and call that design good?

If you can, then you have resisted the pull of the Mesmerizing Spirit.

The Mesmerizing Spirit that calls us with its siren song and begs us to label the part that we see as “the whole of the matter”.

Even if you are on one side or the other and you call your side right, you are still only seeing through a glass darkly.

Your job is to reflect His light.

Find what He is doing and where He is operating in you, and go do that.

I understand, this post is way more political than I sometimes like to get.

But my job is to help remind you that you still only see a part of the whole, and others that a part of that whole. G-d intended you each to gather and bring your parts together so you can see the whole more clearly.

Be at peace.