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

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 #3: Now The Serpent…

Beloved,

I would like to invite your spirit to connect in the name of Yeshua.

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

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” 

Genesis 3:1 NAS95

Spirit, there are going to be times when you are in creation dealing with the enemy of our souls. You are likely going to hear him question your place, your love, your heart, your very design, and your purpose.

In this case, the serpent was questioning Eve’s right to stand in the place as a foxhole buddy, and a fellow warrior of her husband. And the church has been doing this for a long time.

And using hammer/bludgeon passages to silence powerful sons of the King, both male and female, when it comes to executing on their design.

Such as:

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

1 Tim 2:12-14 KJV

As if Paul, who was taught by woman was actually stating this as carte blanche for all women in all churches.

Now, whether or not Paul was a chauvanist is not my tack on this or the other passages. My issue is one of design. Our women were made to fight, build, and lead just as much as the men.

And given that G-d made us to be compatriots, male and female, we do better when we fight together and lead together, pointing our weapons at the true enemy of our souls.

Spirit, you were made for the fight, no matter your sex. You were made for community and to lead no matter what the soul says, or the culture says, or the church culture says. And this is one issue I brook not one bit of unbiblical foolishness. The King made us to be keepers of one another. And we belong, with equal rights and equal access before the blood and the love of the Holy One of Israel.

So, I bless you, when you are on the land blessing it.

I bless you to recognize the voice of the evil one, and to respond rightly to it.

When the devil opens his mouth to speak YOU HIT HIM!!!! -E.V. Hill @ Promise Keepers-

I bless you to HIT HIM!!!! HIT HIM!!!!

I bless you spirit, to be strong, no matter what, and confident, no matter what, and to HIT THAT CLOWN WITH THE TRUTH.

I BLESS THE SHARP TWO-EDGED SWORD THAT IS IN YOUR HUSBAND’S MOUTH TO ALSO BE IN YOUR MOUTH, BRIDE!!!!

Spirit, I bless you with love and all the tenderness and confidence and affection and truth in every way, no matter what happens.

And after the enemy has fled, I bless you to hear the heart cry of the land. I bless you to hear the love of the Bridegroom your Husband to your heart, spirit. I bless you to hear His voice in the cool of the day. I bless you to abide as you hear and respond to the land. I bless you with His strength in your weakness. I bless you with divine strength in your inner man.

I bless you with love that transcends all your doubts.

I bless you with the revelation of the truth that transcends and CUTS the enemy’s nonsense.

And I bless you to be established in the Truth that is your Bridegroom and Lover and Husband…..For He is both romance and strength, truth and tenderness, cold and hot; mind, heart, and reins.

And He adores you deeply as you connect with the land.

I bless you in that revelation, in the name of Yeshua.

June 2023 WOR Blessing #2: Without Form And Void

Beloved,

I invite your spirit to be present, in the name of Yeshua.

Spirit, listen ot the word of El Shaddai for today:

The Earth was without form and void…

From Genesis 1:2

Spirit, you are going to come across patches of land that feel tohu ve bohu. Chaotic, waste, empty, messed-up, befouled, vexed, defiled, broken, ruined, and otherwise in not good states. This text says before the L-rd began to refill the land, it was completely wasted and destroyed. The land was in dire need and in outer darkness from a cataclysm of some sort.

Spirit, in this season, I would ask you to be open to the possibility that the L-rd has you in the land and it may be because you and soul were made to bring something to the land it would not otherwise have.

I encourage you to consider deeply whether you have a role to play in the healing of the land.

And I will note, it is not your job to do the heavy lifting, spirit. That is the job of the King. He will work at it. But He does look for human partnerships to bring transformation to creation. This is why, later, it was said, “the L-RD G-d planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed”.

Spirit, you were chosen and placed on a particular piece of land to bring the life of the King to that chunk of land.

So, I bless you to see the vision the L-rd has for that patch of land, and to partner with Him according to that vision.

I bless you to work with the land that is torn-up and chaotic.

I bless you to work even when situations are not ideal. I do bless you to see what you can contribute as you partner with the L-rd to bring the life of G-d in a spiritual wasteland, and maybe even a physical wasteland.

I bless you to see the best when you see the worst.

I bless you with a revelation of the L-rd G-d that is equal to the task at hand.

I bless you in the name of Yeshua to find the life and flow of G-d and to incorporate that life flow into your working with the land.

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

Amein.

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

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, 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 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…