Blessing Your Spirit: Tiny Human, Part 7

Beloved,
I invite your spirit forward to treat with me, in love and tenderness in the name of Yeshua.

Spirit, hear the word of El Shaddai for you today:

“Your rod and your staff, they comfort me….”

From Psalm 23:4 ESV

Spirit, I want to draw out a few tools here that may not be often-thought-of, but which are incredibly valuable:

His rod, not of correction but of measurement.  His metron. And His staff of connection.

Spirit, the Rod of the King, the first word He is speaking to me for you is “measurement”. Measurement of your days, measurement of your destiny, measurement of the scrolls the King will give you all the days of your life, and His capacity to tell you that even when you do not feel in yourself that you “measure up”, that He affirms you do measure up. You are capable, a miracle, full of wonder, and full of wisdom and understanding and knowledge.

The King doesn’t seek to beat you with the rod.  He seeks to instruct you with it by showing you the measurements and the dimensions of a thing. 

The second word He is speaking is “tribe”. The Hebrew word for “rod” here also is used in the Tanakh to refer to the TRIBES of Israel. Family groupings that BELONG with each other. So there is a tribe into which you will be born, that will show you you belong. You mother and father have a tribe and mothers and fathers, and I as their brother have said to them they belong with Father.

And spirit, I bless you with a deep sense of belongingness in your tribe in your family.

I bless you to hear and relax in the tribe of your home so you can see what portion the king is measuring out to you.

Spirit also, the staff of the King.

His staff provides comfort.

And what is His staff, spirit.

His staff is his SUPPORT and SUPPLY, according to Isaiah 3:1.

Those connections with others in your tribe will provide support and supply. They are your staff of advisers and counselors.

“but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.”

Ephesians 4:15-16 NKJV

Every joint and connection, spirit, will be used by the King to supply life to your body, spirit, and health to your bones.

I bless you with a community that will be life-giving and not death-dealing.

I bless you that, even when hard situations and circumstances flow to you, you will have a steadiness in you that helps remind you that these circumstances will not dictate your response, but the King’s supply of His eyes of love will.  And you will know, no matter what happens around you that there is a supply and a support for you.

I bless you to make your first supply the Father of Lights and your Bridegroom, Yeshua.

I bless you spirit with this deep reality in the name of Yeshua.

Amein.

Blessing Your Spirit: Tiny Human Blessing, Part 6

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

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 4

Beloved

I invite your spirit forward in the name of Yeshua.

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

“He restores my soul”

From Psalm 23:3

Spirit,

There will be a time period, from conception to a certain period after you were born, where the soul will not be able to express itself. Spirit, during that window, you have an incredible opportunity and a gap of time to grow and strengthen so that you are the leader in your right place, instructing and leading the soul in the way they should go.

And while that gap of waiting for the soul to engage is taking place , I bless you to be free to learn all that is necessary and to know how deeply loved and legitimate you are simply because you were made by Love Himself.

There will be times when, after soup comes online and starts interacting, that soul will get hurt or maybe wounded by careless or mean people.

Life will happen, and stuff will happen, spirit. Crappy, junky stuff. You are going to hear the soul’s heartache as they become in desperate need of restoration and rejuvenation.

So, spirit, I bless you to help soul out of the depths of despair.

I bless you to help soul to a place of restoration.

I bless you in those seasons of woundedness and harm and heartache to CALL FOR THE SHEPHERD and to take your place in assisting the Shepherd heal and restore the soul….

To bring the soul to a place where they will partner with you to point yourselves upward to the King in difficult times.

Spirit, there is a life-giving partnership meant to exist between spirit and soul, with the spirit in leadership, since G-d deals with us on the level of the spirit and not the soul. One of close friends and allies and camaraderie. One of tender love and affectionate connection. One of steadfast love, loyalty, and enduring faithfulness.

And so, I bless you to lead the soul as you connect with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I bless you to show soul the way back to the King, who although He doesn’t interact with us primarily in the arena of the soul, still has a keen interest in seeing the soul restored, since it is the soul and body that are designed to execute the instructions Adonai gives to the spirit.

I bless you to be nimble and loving in your interactions with the soul, just as one who blesses you works at being loving and tender with you.

I acknowledge the need for both spirit and soul to be heal it by simply because they both need to be present and strong in order for us to lead the life G-d always had for us.

Be at shalom, spirit, but also be vigilant and walk in accordance with your powerful design.

Blessing Your Spirit: Tiny Human Blessing, Part 3


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


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

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…