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Blessing of Stillness #8: Genesis 1:1: The Risk of Rejection of Perfect Love

by theparacleteshammer, posted in Blessings, Blessings of Stillness

Beloved, I would like to invite your spirit forward to connect with me in the name of Yeshua. No matter how angry you feel presently, and how badly you have felt wronged, I would still like to treat with your spirit, as they are willing, and I am not requiring you to come close or stand at attention. There are times to call the spirit to attention, and there are times not to. And this is one of those times where it does not feel right to do the military command thing.

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

In the beginning….G-d….

-From Genesis 1:1-

I am not going to adopt the same technique other writers and preachers have adopted previously. Rather, I am going to adopt a different strategy, spirit.

Here is my thought here, before all of the action, all of the mess, all of the fall, and all of the mercy mission, I have to ask this question at the head of all else.

Spirit, WHAT WAS G-D THINKING BEFORE HE SET OUT TO ACT? What was on His mind? I do not mean that question to lull you to sleep. I mean that question to provoke something in you to consider.

Ponder the following. Before the world was founded and the universe was measured out in a span. Before there was a devil or a man to mess with creation, G-d stepped into the reality of nothingness. Of existence that was not. Not Yet.

Father, He pondered deeply. Thought about what might be, and thought about the possibilities. He was still and quiet before He came and before the original creation was formed. Before He created, He was Father, and Son, begotten of the Father, and Holy Spirit. And the three, knowing what would happen, connected and engaged in the redemption of all that would be. They engaged in an act that predated the existence of anything else. And in redemptive power, the death and resurrection of the Son was engaged.

And provision of what would be occurred in the pouring out of Father’s eternal love.

So, the Son knew what would happen to Him, and the Father knew, thought of, prepared for, and accounted for every single kind of death and destruction that would follow in all eternity. By allowing for the place of choice and free will, the King chose instruments of execution, the time of execution, the pictures of the execution, and showed His affection by allowing sacrificial love to be the touchstone of His nature. And the thread of willingness was already present before even the first element came into being.

Messiah was indeed crucified before the first foundations, upon which the world was laid, were set.

Spirit, you were conceived and born into a world that eternally knew the redemptive power of the L-rd, and was incapable of living apart from that redemption.

The Law has as its heart, the passage that reads, “You shall love the L-rd Your G-d with all”. This passage is all about mercy, grace, and redemption. For the L-rd would never issue an edict or command that He did not Himself first execute on. Thus, the G-d of the Gospels was also the G-d of the Law. The Old Covenant is the New Covenant. There were not two covenants, nor did the G-d on the Right Side of the Book apologize for the actions of the G-d of the Left Side of the Book. Pulse-pounding, tender, affectionate, messy, deep, grace-and-mercy-filled Love was more than the watchword or a parable to be jettisoned in favor of the Law. Rather, He, Love, was the Foundation of the Law.

So that you would never have to fret about whether or not the King’s compassion was ever not present, the Death of the Son was not some cheap parlor trick, or some cook-the-books accounting transaction, the King established His Death and His DEEP and UNYIELDING Love as the cornerstone of the whole universe.

Spirit, I want to bless you with something that is without equal in existence, and with all my heart I want to say this.

You were created first with tender compassion, love, redemptive power, and life flowing through every letter of all of Scripture. Not one ounce of the biblical text was written apart from the sacrificial, warm, safe, and tender affection of the King, who saw to it you would be able to continue knowing the root of His Life.

So, I bless you with love from the beginning, from before you were born and before the first human stepped onto the world stage.

I bless you with a wealth of the Infinity that is Perfect Love in your heart that is a microcosm of the whole of Perfect Love that built the Universe completely.

I bless you to know Perfect Love so deeply.

I bless you to see the King and the way You move His heart so much that He gave EVERYTHING He had to give in order to have the chance of your love in return, even though there was no guarantee you would return that love, because Free Will, Free Love, and Freedom govern His every move.

Perfect Love, in order to exist, must suffer the risk of rejection, and so the right to choose to reject love must also be present for control and manipulation to have an antidote. Her completely loved you knowing you might not love Him back.

I bless you to receive everything needed to sustain the reception of His Perfect Love.

I bless you with that strength in the name of Yeshua, who loves you in complete strength and tenderness.

June 2023 WOR Blessing #1: Reconciled to Land, Land Not Condemned, You Not Condemned

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

Beloved,

I invite your spirit to be present, forward. I am not your drill sergeant, therefore I am not going to call it to attention. That’s just not my way; that’s not how i do it.

Spirit, I bless you to be present, whether far away or near, whether divided or integrated altogether.

I bless you to be as near to or as far away from me as you need to be.

But I encourage you to listen. Listen to the word of El Shaddai…

“For G-d did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but that through Him the world might be saved.”

John 3:17

Spirit, there is a place for the King where He yearns not just for the people in the world, but also the land itself. He does not want to condemn. It’s not His heart to condemn. His Father’s heart is to teach, and to instruct, and to show, and to show cause-and-effect. Spirit, He wants to do this with you. He wants to show you how deeply you are loved.

So, I bless you, spirit, to receive revelation of the not-condemnation of the L-rd. He does not condemn you. He does not condemn where you live. He doesn’t condemn ________ city that anybody else might condemn. He doesn’t condemn Washington, DC. He doesn’t condemn San Francisco. He doesn’t condemn Boston. He doesn’t condemn Moscow. He doesn’t condemn London. He doesn’t condemn Beijing.

But that, through Him, through the Son, the Bridegroom, Who romances the Bride, they might come to know.

So, spirit, I bless you with that revelation. I bless you with a deep, deep revelation of what the L-rd has for you in your place, in your season. I bless you to partner with the L-rd in this season in working with the land to hear what He is saying. “Son/daughter there is a portal over there.”

“There is a structure over there.”

“There’s a Leviathan.”

“There is a Nephilim.”

“There are clowns.”

(That’s my term for demons. That’s my term, not Arthur’s. I don’t call them critters, because I do not think they merit the dignity of any of the members of the animal kingdom, and critters for me are soft and squishy and friend-shaped. I refer to the enemy as clowns because he is a circus show and he deserves to be shut down. At every stop. And thoroughly run out of town. Off the land. He does not deserve honor and worship. I might respect that he has some sort of authority or whatever the case. But there are times when I just do not have time for the crap he brings to the table.)

So I bless you to not have time to glorify overly what the enemy is doing. I bless you rather to know the purposes of G-d for the land, and to spend time on that dynamic instead.

I bless you to hear when the L-rd is saying, “check that structure over there. Look over here. Give a call to this person. Put your heads together. Devise a strategy.”

I bless you to know the strategies. I bless your toolbox to increase. I bless your toolbox of not-condemnation-but LOVE to INCREASE!

I bless your heart and your mind and the eyes of your heart to be opened and able to perceive and see what needs to be seen.

I bless you to know the King’s love and the love He has in this season. And I bless you to see the land move up from negative numbers up to zero and into positive numbers and grow.

And I bless you as you encourage and coach the land.

Be at peace, gang.

Full of the King’s purposes.

Be at peace, spirit.

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

Amein.

Blessing Your Spirit: Tiny Human Blessing, Part 6

by theparacleteshammer, posted in Blessings

Beloved,

I invite your spirit forward in the name of Yeshua.

Spirit, listen to the word of El Shaddai for you for today.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil,

for you are with me;

From Psalm 23:4 ESV

Immanuel….

The One who is with us….

No matter who else is here, He is with us and makes himself available to us.

In the midst of being chased by the shadows of death, not even the reality of death.

Even when the enemy or the shadows of his coming take hold of us, the L-rd has given us Himself to protect us from the wolves that come in the shadows. When death comes at night, the Light is in the darkness with us.

He created that darkness and that night to be the cooling-off period, not the destruction of hearts nor the fracturing of spirit or soul.

Beautiful spirit, no matter what, the Father of Lights and the Bridegroom, and the Fairest of Ten Thousand is aligned in tenderness with you.

So, spirit, I bless you.

I bless you with weapons to fight, even in the womb.

I bless you with the bow and the arrows the King gives you to fight.

I bless your placenta to be full and whole and holy and for the season for which the amount designed it to function.

I bless you to know His fire and light and His heart to protect and beat back the acusare of the brethren.

I bless you to perpetually know He is with you.

I bless you with a revelation of the love both your father and mother who have fought years in advance for you to be.

I bless you to be the recipient of every good and perfect gift.

I bless you to know deeply an unshakable knowing of Him who calls you.

I bless you beyond with knowing His presence in both the present and the future.

I bless you to be not shaken by dread of the enemy’s coming.

I bless you to echo the reality that says, “where, death, is your sting?”

I bless you to know the precise opposite of fear.

I bless you to know the King’s surpassing power, love, tenderness, self-control, self-discipline, and a sound mind.

I bless you with these blessings, dear and beautiful spirit, in the name of Yeshua.

Amein

Blessing Your Spirit: Tiny Human Blessing, Part 5

by theparacleteshammer, posted in Blessings

Beloved,

I invite your spirit forward in the name of Yeshua.

Spirit, listen to the word of El Shaddai for you for today.

He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake

From Psalm 23:3

Spirit,

I will not lie to you. The King adores you, before you even do anything for Him. His heart yearns so deeply for you. Not because of anything you have done, but because He knows how He made you and He loves that.

So, before I go anywhere near talking to you about Him leading you in the paths of righteousness…

I want you firmly established that He does not lead you in the paths along a path you are incapable of walking out with Him,,,

and I want you established in the idea that He IS EXCITED ABOUT LEADING YOU ALONG THOSE PATHS AND HE REALLY WANT TO LEAD YOU BECAUSE IT IS IN HIS HEART TO DO SO.

Spirit, you are not a no-good, miserable, wretched, or illegitimate child. You are the object of the King’s tenderness and love.

He leads you along a series of paths in order that you might possess a reality that was always His design for you. He has wanted to walk with you in that path to give you Himself, because He is the righeousness of G-d, and He intends for you to be the same thing that He is. He intends for you to be the righteousness of G-d.

To that end, I disagree with the idea that we have a dual nature that unavoidably wants to sin. I believe we have the choice as His followers to sin, but it is not as unavoidable as some would have you think.

So, spirit, I bless you with strength, which comes from His joy; His tender love; and the strength of His love. That is the only way you will be able to handle the reality and freedom that comes from walking along the path with Him. He does not want to merely treat you as a slave, forcing you along a predetermined path in order to “get righteous”.

His idea of righteousness is not what the church culture thinks of righteousness.

His idea of righteousness includes tenderness, and love, and kindness, and a path full of mercy, grace, justice, truth, protection, readiness, and the faithful attentions to communities builtbut upon His rock-solid reputation, and Himself.

It’s not merely that you avoided sin.

It’s not that you lived your life oriented to avoiding sin. I

t’s that Father desires to help you orient your life and direction so that you will find and walk in your destiny. Father completely ADORES His plan for your life, and He lives His Everlasting Life with the aim that you will find what He made you to do, not be deaf or ignorant of it, and to walk in that.

And Righteousness produces in you a steadfastness because it is rooted in His promise to protect His own reputation, His good Name. HaShem, the Name of the Lord, which is a strong tower that you can run into for safety.

That righteousness will protect all of your organs, spirit. The Breastplate of Righteousness. It will protect your life, your voice, your internal strength, your early warning system, your night processing of thoughts, dreams, and the infinite library of data He has placed in you.

So, I bless you to receive counsel in the night watches, while you are still in the dark of the womb.

I bless you with a deep yearning for practical righteousness from your mother’s womb.

I bless you to fight for your family there when they are attacked.

I bless you to have the right weapons for your current fight.

I bless you to be led even now as you are still being knit together.

I bless your ordination to all the things the King has for you and I bless you mommy and daddy to see all He has for you.

I bless the tools in your hand, and I bless you with deep life that is led along the paths the King has for you.

I bless you not merely to a life that avoids sin, but, more accurately, a life that is oriented to find what you were made to do and to do that.

I bless you to hear the King’s voice and to even advance down the path of righteousness the King has for you right now. And I bless you, spirit with a deeply authoritative voice that leads your soul, darling spirit.

I bless you in the name of Yeshua, Amein.

Blessing Your Spirit: Tiny Human Blessing, Part 3

by theparacleteshammer, posted in Blessings

Beloved,

I invite your spirit forward in the name of Yeshua.

Spirit, listen to the word of El Shaddai for you for today

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside quiet waters.

Psalm 23:2

Spirit,

There is a place in the letter to the Laodiceans that gets overlooked as a blessing.

“I wish that you were hot OR COLD.”

Cold refers to a cup of cold water given to the little ones, and it signifies usefulness. A resource that can still be used and used well.

Cold water is refreshing on a plush lawn on a hot summer day, and even in the cool north, hot summer days happen.

And the balance necessary for green pastures is not just the sunshine, but also the coolness of evening and night, the rhythm of days that creates the right circumstances to help the grasses and plants grow.

And Father wishes to set you in a meadow of verdance. That was watered by cool water and saw the cool of the night.

There are going to be times when you need a plush lawn to set your bare feet upon, and it takes the right calibration of atmosphere and climate to bring that grass to reality.

Likewise, with well-calibrated human relationships that come from the Shepherd’s own hand, it take the right circumstances.

I don’t imagine much research has been done covering the effects of night time rhythms on foliage, but those breaks between sunshines I feel are needed.

And the grass is needed to create cushion, and food for the sheep. It’s a marker of provision, even though grasses are fleeting.

And the Greek Old Testament, the Septuagint, says G-d called into existence, specifically, “pastures of grass”.

So, spirit, because I want no nuance of the biblical text overlooked, I want to bless you accordingly.

I, Penelope, bless you deeply not just with green pasture from the Shepherd’s own hand, but also the conditions necessary that will bring those pastures into being.

I bless you with love and Mercy, and the sense of being hugged even in your mother’s womb. I bless you with the feel of my homeland, the Giver land known as Florida, with its plush carpets of St. Augustine Grass that underfoot are thick and hardy and broad with ample cushioning for bare feet, so that as you run, you can feel the grass blades between your toes. I bless you to know the sounds of Katydids and grasshoppers that use those grasses for homes. And I bless you with seasons. Many warm summers, breezy springs, cooling and colorful autumns, and the crisping winters that produce not only the snowdrifts of New England, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, but also the cold snaps that force the citrus of Florida into a place of discomfort, without which, no orange would move from sourness to sweetness.

I bless you with the bees of orange blossom honey, and the wafting sweet scents of the Northern Lilacs and the Confederate Jasmine.

I bless you in the spirit with a deep place of peace, a meadow full of His wildflowers and protective woolen fences as needed, when you need a refuge from the Egyptian fires of this age that would seek to destroy all you hold dear.

I bless you with the Shepherd King’s protective and prevailing pillar of affection by night and by day.

I bless you to know true intimacy with Him, and the continual reality of being being filled from your mother’s womb.

I bless you to be filled with the Holy Spirit, who is the manifestation of all that is Truest about the Three-In-One.

I bless you with deep and prevailing reminders of the King’s shalom to quiet you when much around you may become disquieting. So that your anchor may hold within the veil.

Blessing Your Spirit: Tiny Human Blessing, Part 2

by theparacleteshammer, posted in Blessings

Beloved,

I invite your spirit forward in the name of Yeshua.

Spirit, Listen to the word of El Shaddai for you.

“I shall not want.”

From Psalm 23:1

Spirit,

I am not going into some diatribe of wants vs. needs.

That’s been incredibly overdone to the point of no longer being useful.

Rather, I want to approach this from a bit of a different angle.

There is a place of lack that is not the portion of the follower of Yeshua.

And there is a place of abundance, of resources and raw materials provided by the Shepherd for the skillful reapplication of principles in order to transform well-managed-and-engineered raw materials into useful products to accomplish the King’s agenda.

Psalms is the boom of Sound.

It is the book for hacking the Fifth Head of Leviathan, so that hearts are heard.

Hearts get heard when resources are well stewarded. 

The skillful allocation of stewardship ensures the sound flowing from us is put in the right amplifier and sound intensification equipment so that nothing of the original sound.

Refusing to whine over the raw materials you got instead of the finished product ensures Leviathan is a defender rather than a devourer in this flow of life.

So, spirit, I bless you with John 10:10:

“The thief does not come except to steal, to kill, and to destroy. I AM come that they might have life, and that life abundantly.”

I bless you with the reality of life abundance, resource for the task at hand abundance, mental and emotional abundance, and abundance of love and tenderness.

I bless you with an anchored stability and security in wanting nothing because of the L-rd’s shepherding tenderness.

I bless you to know His voice and to experience Him in fullness.

I bless you to receive the joy that is unstoppable that comes from managing your resources well.

I bless you to learn to steward your sound exceptionally well.

I bless you to know the King’s living touch on all you put your hand to.

I bless you to deeply know your design and to unpack that truth of love. 

I bless you to feel the fullness of His grace awash in your life. 

I bless you to not want.

I bless your mind to be nimble, spirit, as well as the rest of you, to feel out what to do with each set of resources give to you.

I bless you to unpack resources that may jot look to others like resources.

And I also bless you to enjoy your joy as your parents enjoy you enjoying your joy and waking in your deep design.

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

Amein…

Blessing Your Spirit: Tiny Human Blessing, Part 1

by theparacleteshammer, posted in Blessings

Beloved,

I invite your spirit to come forward in the name of Yeshua 

Spirit listen to the Word of El Shaddai for you for today:

יְהוָ֥ה רֹ֝עִ֗י

Adonai Ra’ah…

The L-rd My Shepherd 

From Psalm 23:1

Spirit, you are soon going to emerge from your mother’s womb into a place of many unknowns. You are going to wonder at reality as it changes rapidly from one place to another. While the body of your mother is providing building blocks for the Father to knit together the sukkah you will occupy for a season, He has already breathed you into the place where you belong.

He has given you a mother and a father who love you fiercely and intensely, and without exception. He has given you a set of messengers who watch over you as you are growing and developing. And He has given you Himself as a resource.

But most importantly, as He has brought you here, He wants to be your Ra’ah, Your Shepherd. He does not want you to hearken to the voice of another. Rather He wants to develop in you as you have transitioned from the multiplied heavens to this place called Time the capacity to hear His voice, in not just the shout, or the spoken word, or the gentle whisper, but also the movement of His eye.

So spirit, I bless you.

I bless you with the capacity for deep hearing.

I bless you for the capacity for deep hearing of your Shepherd’s voice. 

I bless you to distinguish all manifestations of that Voice from the voices of other shepherds, to whom you should not listen.  I bless you to stay and be content in the fold where your Shepherd leads you, and I bless you to know deeply the leading and gazes that would hold your attention.

I bless you to know His voice? And to be known of Him, and to follow Him, whereever He would lead you.

I bless your parents to partner with the Shepherd to encourage you and show you His deep and many-faceted love and affection.

I bless you spirit to know the feel of what a loving voice sounds like versus an unloving or deceptive voice.

I bless you to refuse to be taken advantage of by others who would claim to shepherd you.

I bless you to recognize where the boundary lines are fallen unto you, and where they are in pleasant places and I bless you to have a goodly heritage.

I bless you to remind others where your boundaries are, and that you only need speak once and the authority that fills your voice and is rooted in the Shepherd’s deep love for you would be sufficient to stop the plans of the enemies of the King, as your boundaries would be perfectly enforced.

And I bless your voice to carry such a weight as you respond to and relay the words of the Shepherd’s Voice that even the would-be predators would back up and fall back to the ground (“Whom do you seek?”, “Yeshua of Nazareth.”, “ I Am He.”, And they drew back and fell to the ground.: John 18:4-7).

I bless you to know deeply when others are attempting to take advantage of you and to speak to the soul and body of this child.

I bless you to speak up as you have need and to walk in the authority of the Shepherd.

I bless you with all of these blessings in the name of Yeshua.

Amein…

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

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.

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….