Beloved,
I would like to invite your spirit to be present to hear the word of the L-rd for today.
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
James 1:16-17 ESV
Spirit, there is a place of stillness, before the Father brings His light into your life, where the enemy may send darkness. But that darkness is a lie. It is a deception.
I begin the blessing in this way, not so you are frightened to step into the sequence leading to the ultimate blessing of love, but rather so you are aware of the risks associated with moving toward the Father of Lights.
I bless you to find the space that is necessary to allow your discernment time to adjust to the current circumstances. You are allowed to take time to discern. You need not feel pressure to rush as you are engaging an exercise of spiritual discernment.
After the L-rd’s promise to our father Abraham, the first thing that happened, after a season of not bearing children, was the movement toward dark solutions. Sarai offered up her maidservant Hagar to Abraham, ostensibly to provide the child of promise. And for a moment, I imagine Abraham probably froze and thought, “wait a minute. what about the promises of G-d?”
And then after that moment had passed, when Sarai had prevailed upon him, Abram took Hagar and married her and immediately produced a child. He probably thought this was the provision because of the suddenness of the conception and birth.
However, it was that birth that sowed jealousy and discord between the women in the home.
Spirit, the promise of the Father does not come because we help G-d out; His solutions to a problem never involve something that will intentionally breed jealousy as a product.
It is true that people may grow jealous because of the gifts G-d gives us, but G-d never blesses us with the intention of causing other people to stumble and fall.
Ishmael, who came first, was the false hope and the false light.
Ishmael was the plan of the enemy to supplant Father’s ultimate plan, which involved Sarai being blessed in her womb, thus breaking the curse of barrenness.
Isaac was the true child of promise, and it was his presence that gave life to Sarai’s womb.
Spirit, I encourage you to apply that here.
You will have the opportunity to engage with the false light and the true light. The false light frequently comes first.
And you will have the opportunity to choose. You will have the chance to ask Father to show you what the counterfeit looks like, as well as the real.
If you will ask Father, he will show you both the true and examples of the false.
Spirit, when that initial and maybe scary or intimdating moment of darkness comes, I bless you to be still and stay put and await the light of Father to radiate into your own life. I bless you to be still even when darkness is what you see and even when counterfeit light is provided to you. I bless you when you are thirsty for the true light, with a stubbornness of resistance to every false light that seeks to destabilize you.
I bless you to remain absolutely still and I bless you to breathe deeply.
Spirit, I bless you deeply with the capacity to wait on the L-rd’s solution and His life. I bless you to move when that light-filled solution comes, while remaining still when the enemy counterfeit comes. I bless you to drink deeply of that light and to absorb it into the light that you are, spirit. And I bless you to shine with that light in its multi-faceted wisdom to others in need, as Father directs you to hand it out to them.
I bless you to be what you are, the prism, the diamond, and the crystal through which His brilliant light is broken apart into its full spectrum. I bless your season to bathe in and be healed by the Light that does not shift, change, or vary. I bless you with the revelation that His light is possessed not just with consistency, but also constancy.
As William Shakespeare once uttered the principle that was meant to be uttered by the King of Glory:
“I AM constant as the Northern Star”.
The Father of Lights is fixed between all dimensions, in all realities, and he does not vascillate. He is not wishy-washy. Even should the guide stars and parallaxes and pulsars and red giants fall from their places where they were placed on the Fourth Day, He will not be moved from his place of steadiness. He is constant beyond the constant of light, spirit. He is the Radiance of all light that is.
And just because he is constant and immovable does not mean that His heart is not moved when one of his children is hurting or destroyed or damaged or beaten.
To the contrary, He does move toward them. But He moves, spirit, with an anchoredness. He will not be shaken.
And He is not merely the Northern Star. Rather, and better, he is the G-d of the Seven Stars.
And I bless you not to be shaken when confronted with counterfeit light. I bless you to be gathered by the true Light of Father’s affectionate and warm countenance.
I bless you with SHARP discernment to know the difference between lights, and to welcome the Father of Lights, who will not force Himself on you, but will wait for your invitation and who also offers you an invitation.
Be at peace, spirit, and receive the blessing of the Father of Lights.
I bless you to know that the Father of Lights is not shifty or shady. He does not tell you He will provide something, and then not follow through. He gives what He says he is going to give.
I bless you with a relationship with the Father of Lights that is free of deception. I bless you, if you have previously taken the bait of offense, to rest in His light as He removes all hooks from your mouth, all snares from your feet, all chains from your arms, and all shrapnel from your body.
I bless you to rest and heal in the warmth of His Light.
I bless the scales to be removed from your eyes, spirit, as you follow His path and through His gate, which is narrow.
I bless you to traverse the high places which might have unexpected turns with the Light of His steady presence and affection.
I bless you to know that He allows the crooked paths and in partnership with You, makes those paths as if they were straight, and He is your guide.
I bless you with the knowledge that the Father of Lights is a better, more accurate, and way more surefooted guide than any sherpa on Everest.
I bless you to enter into His ever-rest.
I bless you, spirit with a life that is unplugged from unsustainable covenants and agreements with darkness, and I bless you with the freedom that comes from the one-sided covenant He made with you, that does not have any hidden clauses or gotcha statements or fine print with exceptions and signing statements.
I bless you with a relationship with Father that is free from guile and duplicity.
I bless every path you traverse with sure-footedness.
I bless you that as you submit to His plan, He will transform you from glory to glory, and from strength to strength.
I bless you to stand in His light, and I bless you to flow with Him in peace, and even when you are climbing and healing and running and resting, to be in a place of stillness that keeps you rock-steady in His light and in wholeness and peace.
I bless you with peace in the midst of readiness.
And I bless you with stillness in the midst of discerning between the real and the false.
I bless you with those things in the name of Yeshua ha-Meshiach.
And most importantly, I bless you to fall in love afresh with the G-d of the Seven Stars.