There are passages that certain groups like to use as cudgels in order to attempt to beat believers into submission on the issue of immigration.
The probelm with those sorts of interpretations is that they rarely differentiate, inmportantly, between legal and illegal.
So, I will briefly cover Leviticus 19:34, the phrase in question, and what it acutally implies. The text reads:
“You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the L-rd your G-d.”
You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you.
Meaning, they were willing to engage with the legal process necessary to walk as citizens. Meaning, not amnesty, but rather, these immigrants were to be treated not merely with the rights, but also the responsibilities due citizens of a nation.
This precludes people coming into the nation of Israel illegally, while rejecting the rule of law. With rights come the responsibilities.
Looking at the situation with Ruth who immigrated from Moab, she clearly took an informal oath of citizenship (Ruth 1:16-17 ESV):
But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the L-RD do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”
Ruth invokes the COVENANT (legal, law, Torah) name of HaShem here., calling Him “L-RD”. This brings with it the Law of Moses. And coming here legally, includeing Leviticus 19:34, and the history of Egyptians and others that chose to come and celebrate the Passover and the feasts.
Ruth didn’t just steal across the border and ignore Jericho, the city that protected the boundary of the promised land. She said she would become as a citizen and subject herself to the same laws that the L-RD imposed on His people.
Application:
Most memes and arguments that I have seen, and I dare say, you have seen, dear friend, that call believers heartless for ignoring the plight of the immigrant do not make a distinction between those who come here legally and those who come here illegally. But the rule of law and Scripture are both clear.
Observe the principle illustrated in John 10:1.
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.” (John 10:1 KJV).
Your responsibility in dealing with immigrants is to make a distinction between those who come here legally, and those who come here by some other way.
And your job further is to reject the gaslighting of those who refuse to parse out and handle the nuance between legal and illegal.
The process for coming here is not heartless. Rather, it is designed to protect us from those who would seek to do us harm.
So, beloved, I bless your spirit to be present. Spirit, I bless you to see the King as not cruel nor a heartless taskmaster, but someone who seeks to Shepherd you and in so doing, protect you from wolves and coyotes and those who seek your harm. I bless you to see the ways, all the ways, the King and the Shepherd cares for you. I bless you to know and realize that there are times when people are not allowed in and that system is set in place not to punish any person, but to protect those who are citizens.
I bless you to see the applications not just in geographic masses but also in spiritual kingdoms. There is a reason, spirit, why HaShem filters out and blocks thieves and murderers from coming.
I bless you with purpose and understanding and compassion for those who wish to come in via the Gate, versus those who mean you harm.
I bless your discerment to be sharp as a tack. And I bless you to know the reality of what is required of us as children of the kingdom.
I bless you with a deep revelation of the Love of G-d. And I bless you with a comprehensive revelation of the manifold ways He keeps you safe, spirit.
Be at peace, in the name of Yeshua.
Amein
Tag: WOR blessings
Blessing 16: WOR Blessing: Distinguishing Your Provision From Anothers
Beloved, I invite your spirit to treat with me in the name of Yeshua.
Spirit, listen to the word of G-d for you for today.
Do not contend with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. You shall purchase food from them with money, that you may eat, and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink.
Deuteronomy 2:5-6 ESV
Spirit, not all of the resources you see are yours.
Some resources and wealth G-d has provided to others.
And as difficult as that may be, it is a lesson in discernment and Stewardship.
G-d places certain bits of land in our midst because He is giving that land to us in order to manage.
And sometimes He places certain peoples in our midst in order to provide food or sustenance to us.
Spirit, you will meet people that have a bit of land and resources and you will have to learn the lesson of discerning when the land is your portion and when other aspects are your portion.
G-d gives us certain provisions, He writes us specific checks from specific checkbooks.
And not everything we see is automatically going to get credited to our accounts.
And One of the sharpest most perceptive lessons we can learn is the lesson of discernment between our resources and the resources of another. And we also must learn how to protect not only our resources but also the resources of another. Because when we protect the resources of another, we are shown to be trustworthy and faithful stewards which means we can be trusted with other things as well.
So, spirit, I bless you to lead in the discernment arena.
I bless you to have a strong and clear voice in the area of what belongs to your host versus what does not.
I bless you to be content with your portion.
I bless you to see the resources being provided you, and O bless you to coach the soul in the appropriate direction in which to set his or her desires.
I bless you to cultivate and lead the soul and body with a strong awareness of the Tenth Commandment, and to coach them in parsing between what G-d has given Soul and Body versus what G-d has given another.
I bless you, spirit to say “no” when “no” is right and good.
And I bless you to say “yes” when “yes” is right and good.
I bless you with revelation of reality pertaining to your resources. And I bless you with skill to utilize the resources that are you.
Be at peace with that revelation, spirit, in the name of Yeshua.
Amein.
Blessing 15: WOR Blessing: Reconciling To G-d: The Provider In the Wilderness
Beloved, I invite your spirit forward.
Spirit, listen to the word of G-d for you for today.
For the L-RD your G-d has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the L-RD your G-d has been with you. You have lacked nothing
Deuteronomy 2:7
Spirit, there are a number of things to consider while you are in the wilderness. Where you are, the Father is. Where you are with your need, the Father is there to meet your need.
The problem begins, however, when you believe the resources are not there to meet your need, or you believe Items A through G are the only legitimate resources and provisions, when Father has provided you A through ZZ.
Spirit, out of the gate, I am not just merely going to bless you with a pleasant “there there, it’s alright”….
Right now, spirit, I am going to bless you with eye sight and eye salve, if necessary, to see properly, and maybe so also that scales might fall from your eyes so you can see broader, deeper, higher, or more profusely that you currently see.
I bless you with the Mercy Season need to see the blindness, poverty, misery, wretchedness, nakedness you formerly accepted as your portion,
And I bless you to buy refined gold and linen garments that are needful for this season.
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.
Revelation 3:18 ESV
I bless you to look around and see options you are allowing others to blind you to.
I bless you to know more deeply His polyvareigated wisdom and understanding that you might accrue the full compliment of wisdom you need.
I bless you to break off any self-imposed blindness, or self-imposed affliction, or any self-inflicted punishments.
I bless you to see and fight the Third Head of Leviathan. And I bless you to know Father as the Ancient of Days who will help uncoil the twisted and prematurely decaying view of Life you might currently be accepting as your portion.
I bless you to shoe your feet, not with the Shoes of Peace, because those are not the correct shoes for the Teacher, but the Shoes of READINESS.
“Having shod your feet with READINESS” -from Ephesians 6-
“Therefore, get READY” -from Matthew 24:44-
You were not made to get peaceful with that spirit of heaviness that masquerades as peace, but you were made to put your shoes on to get ready for the excursion.
I bless you with the proper alignment to see your shoes in the spirit, and to align footwear to readiness for task.
I realize this dynamic will cut against the grain of much of the teaching on the shoes of the Armor of G-d, but my job is to present you with what you have.
The dynamic of peace is associated with the Gospel.
The dynamic of readiness is associated with the Shoes.
As you Prepare for fulfill your Responsibilities (Principle for the Teacher).
Spirit, I bless your feet, ready and beautiful as they are.….
I bless your awareness of your resources and tools to increase.
And I bless you to plug into the One Who Prepares you for Life in the Wilderness.
And I bless your shoes not to wear out, and I bless you to grasp the manna that is necessary for this season of life in the wilderness. I bless the canvas of your tent to be fresh and strong and without mold.
I bless your eyesight to seek for fresh and daily bread.
And I bless you to reconcile with the Provider.
I bless you to check the balance sheets to take a full account of available resources.
Number the people, spirit. For Son you are.
Be at peace, that is, wholeness.
And get Ready, spirit…
With all my pastoral love and affection…
Amein
Blessing 14: September WOR Blessing: Psalm 42:10
Beloved,
I invite your spirit forward to treat with me, regardless of what status it or they are in.
Spirit, I recognize the pain of assault and the trouble that comes when you are traumatized, and the shattering of the human spirit that takes place when ritual abuse occurs.
Spirit, listen to the word of G-d for you for today.
Be still and know I am G-d
Psalm 46:10
Spirit, there is a place following the trauma of a harsh season or following mistreatment of harsh leaders.
G-d can and often might place us in proximity to harsh leaders.
Note what I said versus what I did not say.
Consider the following also, spirit
Although he was a son, he learned obedience by the things he suffered.
Hebrews 5:8 ESV
There may be times when G-d allows you to connect with harsh leaders in order to refine you.
I don’t guarantee it will happen. In fact I hope it doesn’t happen. But in case you end up dealing with a difficult or harsh leader, I want you to remember one thing in the still place following mistreatment.
He is G-d. And He will coach you in very difficult times.
You will also note I did not say G-d sets us under harsh people in order that they would abuse us.
Abuse happens, but I don’t see it as from the hand of G-d. I do however see our response as capable of coming from the hand of G-d.
I bless you following a difficult situation to get really still and to occupy the still place and to lean into the King deeply.
I bless you to walk in stillness and to take advantage of that stillness in order to receive deep clarity.
I bless you in that season to find out how Father wants you to respond and to deeply know Him in intimacy.
I bless you to find deeper intimacy regardless of the current pain.
I bless you to speak to Yeshua, who is capable of taking all pain. I bless each of you, parts, to just be and to appropriate whatever of King’s love in whatever manner you deem necessary.
I bless your enforcers in their anger to express that anger and frustration and to ask the questions they need to ask. This is a safe space for them.
I bless you to know what is meant by fellowshipping with the King in His sufferings.
I bless you to participate with Him in a deep and satisfying connection.
And most importantly, I bless you to, in the still place, for your parts that which to occupy that space, to occupy that space in time and to fill that space with the knowledge of Him.
I bless you with dignity and grace and love and affection and wholeness.
And above all, I bless you, spirit, and relevant parts to know you belong.
You belong, dear heart.
In stillness, you belong.
I bless you to know Him as G-d, spirit, in the name of Yeshua.
So be it.
Blessing 12: September WOR Blessing: Deuteronomy 1:25
Beloved, I invite your spirit forward.
Spirit, listen to the Word of G-d for you for today:
And they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us, and brought us word again and said, “It is a good land that the L-RD our G-d is giving us.”
Deuteronomy 1:25
A good land, given us….
Spirit, you were made for good land. You were not made for sin or made as a foul, reprobate, worm, bastard sinner.
You were made for the good land and the good land was made to be given you. G-d does not make us and never designed us for the place of suffering that is the lake of fire.
The lake of fire, rather, was prepared for the devil and his messengers.
Spirit, you, On the other hand, or made for a land that is FLOWING with milk and honey. A land in a place of abundance and provision.
Spirit, I resist utterly the idea that we are supposed to castigate ourselves for the entire tea of our lives. no no no no no no no. We were made for birthright and for destiny and for love and for purpose and for peace and for joy and for kindness and for goodness by an eminently faithful King.
You are to be reconciled to this Gift-Giver who affectionately thinks of you, toward you, and is for you.
So, spirit, I so deeply bless you with the revealing that the Father is the Giver. He is neither a taker of gifts or a stripper of callings. Those gifts and those callings are irrevocable. You were made to walk in them, and for them not to be stripped and given and stripped and given.
I bless you with love.
I bless you to know and be reconciled, for that is the MAIN REASON why Christ Jesus died. Not for mere fire insurance, but for deep reconciliation.
So we could experience the transition from summer to autumn and the beauty and the color change of the leaves, and his abundant provision in 1000 different facets.
I bless you with maple sap from sugar maples.
And long, powerful, spotted giraffe necks.
And the nasal, tooting “Kent”call of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.
And the plush feel of St. Augustine grass.
And the aroma of coconuts.
And the scent of orange blossoms.
And the zest of Lemons.
And the laughter of babies.
And the wood of dogs.
And the fullness of your birthright.
All of which was given by a good, good Father.
Who creates and creates in abundance, just so she could “lead captivity captive and give gifts to men”.
Ladies that includes you as well. Spirit, that’s for the masculine as well as the feminine. For if I can be called the bride of Christ, then you can be called the son of God. Congratulations, life is uncomfortable for everyone. 🙂
Spirit, I bless you to know the generosity of a Father who yearns for deep reconciliation with you, even as bad as you might think you are. For he still made you and called you good.
I bless you to be reconciled with the reality that you are worth giving a good gift. And you are worth Jesus dying so that you could have a good gift. And not just one good gift: many besides.
I bless you deeply with that revelation in tenderness, kindness, compassion, and love.
Be blessed with the steadfast love of that revelation.
I bless you in the name of Yeshua.
Amein.
Blessing 11: WOR September Blessings: Reconciled to G-d: Names of G-d: The Fear of Isaac
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
Blessing 9: WOR September Blessings: Reconciled to G-d: Names of G-d: The G-d Whom Moves Us From Season To Season
Beloved, I would like to speak to your spirit,
Spirit, listen to the word of G-d for you for today
It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea. The L-rd our G-d said to us in Horeb, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain.”
Deuteronomy 1:2, 6 ESV
“And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.”
Hebrews 11:6 ESV
Spirit, there are season where we move, and seasons where G-d moves.
There are also seasons where, as Smith Wigglesworth once said, “If G-d doesn’t move me, I move Him.” So, seasons of a push/pull with G-d.
And then there are seasons where G-d instructs us to move. And it may come to if we don’t move, He will move us.
In one such situation, I have a friend who did not want to take a new job with his company in a different city. His boss presented the opportunity and asked “who is moving from this place to the new branch office? He did not want to move. But his spirit, who knew it was a better opportunity and, as my friend retells the situation, he heard a voice inside himself say “sign me up.”
At which point, the transition began.
Now, spirit, faith expresses itself in a number of ways. In some cases, G-d looks for us to allow Him to move. And at other times, He looks for us to move, and still other times, He looks to partner with us as we move together. But the bottom line is that faith, to be living, necessitates some kind of movement that increases the Kingdom on at least some level.
The Kingdom is populated by sons who build.. and that building isn’t done in one simple way in one simple process. It is creative and unique and not always initiated by the same catalyst.
And for those who got hung up on the “sons” populating the kingdom and not daughters, I will say this. If I as a man can handle being called a Bride of Messiah, you as a woman can handle being called a Som of G-d.
Congratulations, life is uncomfortable for everyone.
Now, back to blessing your spirit.
Spirit, there are coming times when you will hear the voice of the L-rd tell you: it’s time to make the transition.
And not all transitions will look the same. Some transitions will be initiated by you (as in the very initiative-taking behavior of the Daughters of in Numbers 36), and some by the King (who said, “separate for me Saul and Barnabas”), and yet again, some by a partnership.
There are no sausage factories in the Kingdom.
We will have a series of situations where different types of movement in the spiritual realm will happen.
And we need to observe the sorts of movements necessary.
“You have spent too much time in this place.”
“Ten generations is long enough for your family in this county and states and nation.”
“That town has been a boat anchor around your legs for long enough. Leave.”
“You need to leave to put some geographic distance between yourself and that toxic family member.”
“Time for you to move.”
“Why don’t you take that new job?” (not a command, but a playful remark aimed at upping your curiosity at a situation).
Fill in the blank.
Spirit, there are going to be new seasons where you need to change your location at the prompting of the L-rd because His grace for a location has lifted.
And it’s not something you can explain to anyone. And if you tried explaining, they’d call you crazy.
So, spirit, I bless you to hear the L-rd when he speaks about transitions. When He speaks and says, “enough time dwelling here. Turn northward.”, I bless you with not only the skill to hear, but also the strength of will to follow through.
Moving can be incredibly destabilizing. But it is sometimes necessary to refresh a life.
I bless your move to be smooth-flowing and as you arrive at the new place made for you, I bless you to put down deep roots. I encourage you to not remain in a constant state of transition. Between transitions, each season is best marked by deepening roots.
I bless the transition to be nimble.
I also bless your desire to be in the new place to grow and increase so that you do not get comfortable with either Egyptian slavery or the arid wilderness.
I bless the home you are selling to look to the King for its life, and to not latch onto you or anyone or something anything else as its hope or promise of hope.
I bless you to know where G-d designed for you and to move in the direction of a place that will feel like HOME to you.
I bless your desires, spirit, for you to be able to articulate those desires, and for G-d to partner with you to give you a home that aligns with your desires and His desires.
I bless you that when you are transitioning to your new homestead, that you will see the land for what it is. Not merely a physician set of resources and assets to be looted and pillaged or used, but as a valuable place that exists in the spirit and impacts and is impacted by, the spiritual realm.
I bless you to see and perceive what the L-rd wants you to know about the place where you live.
And I bless you to steward that place effectively with an eye in the spirit to what is happening to your land beyond just what you see.
I bless you to make the transitions out of the desert and to move when the King tells you to move.
I bless that communication to be open and free, and I bless you to arrive at your desired haven and safe place.
I bless that series of transitions under the hand of the G-d Who Moves Your From Season To Season.
I bless you with those realities, in the name of Yeshua.
Amein
Blessing 8: WOR September Blessings: Reconciled to G-d
Beloved, I invite your spirit to commune with me for a few minutes.
Spirit, listen to the word of G-d for you for today
and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the L-RD your G-d carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.
Deuteronomy 1:31 ESV
Spirit, the end of the season in the wilderness, and just before they entered the promised land, the generation of Israel was getting used to the idea that G-d had raised them up and viewed them as sons.
He did not view them as slaves.
And likewise, under the New Covenant, WE ARE NOT SLAVES.
I am going to say it a different way.
If you refer to yourself as a slave under the New Covenant, which is better than the Old Covenant, you are doing it wrong.
Spirit, you cannot partake of fullness if you adopt the mentality you are a slave or even only or primarily a servant.
Slaves do not have a birthright or access to an inheritance. On the other hand, sons do.
Spirit, if Jesus views you as a son, you are a son. And I bless you with this deep revelation that you are a son.
Soul, if Jesus views you as a son or a friend and you view yourself as a servant, one of you is wrong, and it won’t be Jesus.
Soul, listen to the spirit who will tell you what you are.
Spirit, it might require seasons of fighting and warring against dumb and religious mentalities, and just because Paul called himself something or described himself as something does not serve as an indicator you are supposed to call yourself the same thing, especially if your mindset is currently bastard worm who is barely even saved.
Paul’s mindset was transformed from the murderer who thought more highly of himself than he ought, to a better perspective RELEVANT to him.
And just because Scripture DESCRIBES something does not mean it PRESCRIBES IT for everyone that reads it.
Rather, our job is to take on the mindset of Jesus who WAS A SON. Sure there was an element of humility, however, that wasn’t the only or first mindset that He had.
As the Son of G-d.
We are often coached through a sausage factory that we are responsible to blast ourselves and not allow ourselves to be raised up to be seated in the heavenly places as the sons that we areS
“No longer do I call you servants, but rather friends.”
You cannot carry, in a healthy manner, the mindset of being a son, unless you are willing to receive ALL aspects of who you are. Son. Friend, brother, fill-in-the-blank.
If you try to carry the mindset of a servant and you abandon the reality and mindset of a son or a friend, for which reconciliation Jesus died that you would be called friends and sons (John 1:12) then you will grow toxic as you work to earn his love.
And as sonship come through suffering with Hom, Spirit, I bless you in a few ways.
I bless you to allow Father to carry you when you are weak.
I bless you to walk in the revelation that you are a son and a friend of the King.
I bless you to hear the voice of this Friend while you work, while you do chores, while you are will the your friends and children, and while you are with your animals
I bless you to hear and receive his affection even in the wilderness.
I bless you to resist only carrying the mindset of a servant and not also carrying the mindset of friend and son.
I bless you to see sons and friends around you.
I bless you with deep compassion and affection.
And bless you to deeply understand and seek for what your King and Father are doing.
I bless you to ask questions.
I bless you to build and I bless you to feel the freedom necessary to build creatively.
I bless you to fight the mindset that you are only a servant or a slave.
I bless you to see what He is doing in and with you and I bless you to see more than you have ever seen before.
I bless you to know not just his majestic voice, but also his still small voice, the quiet and intimate whisper of a friend, and also his friendly voice, that voice that jokes and kids around and tells you stories.
I bless you with the freedom that, even though the L-rd knows what you are going to say before you say it, that you feel freedom to share stores that make you come alive, spirit.
I bless you with deep compassion and zeal for the things He made you to do.
I bless your unique design that is not subject to be conformed to any other man’s ideas or will.
I bless you, spirit, with a full compliment of expressions tied to your design.
I bless you with the revelation that even though you have a different deisgn, the L-RD made you and KNOWS the full measure of your design.
I bless your skill in acquiring new tools that the institutional church may not have vetted, but tools that the King has vetted.
I bless you to see creation in places where you first did not realize creation was there.
I bless you, spirit, to flow deeply as a son.
In the name of Yeshua.
Amein.
Blessing 7: Window of Reconciliation: Reconciled to G-d
Beloved,
I invite your spirit to connect with me no matter their state, in the name of Yeshua.
Spirit, listen to the Word of G-d for you for today.
Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’” But Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.” Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.” But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your burdens.” And Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens!” The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen, “You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as in the past; let them go and gather straw for themselves. But the number of bricks that they made in the past you shall impose on them, you shall by no means reduce it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.’ Let heavier work be laid on the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.”
So the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will not give you straw. Go and get your straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least.’” So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. The taskmasters were urgent, saying, “Complete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw.” And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today and yesterday, as in the past?”
Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, “Why do you treat your servants like this? No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.” But he said, “You are idle, you are idle; that is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’ Go now and work. No straw will be given you, but you must still deliver the same number of bricks.” The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in trouble when they said, “You shall by no means reduce your number of bricks, your daily task each day.” They met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them, as they came out from Pharaoh; and they said to them, “The LORD look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.”
Then Moses turned to the LORD and said, “O Lord, why have you done evil to this people? Why did you ever send me? For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people, and you have not delivered your people at all.”
But the LORD said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”
God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the LORD. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them. I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant. Say therefore to the people of Israel, ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. I am the LORD.’” Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.”
Exodus 5:1-6:9 ESV
Spirit, He is the G-d Over The Brickyard, Who Prioritizes Freedom Over Labor Relations. Sit with that reality for a few minutes, spirit. For this May be an unpopular idea at the moment. And there while there are times when the L-rd will sort out what is happening in the brickyard and the field and on the job site and between disparate people, G-d has a strong and vested interest in liberty and if trying to make things easier and more comfortable in the brickyard makes us more comfortable with slavery and less comfortable with the risk associated with freedom, G-d will almost certainly always ignore the brickyard to prime us to be ready to walk in freedom as we grow out of slavery and into sonship.
So, spirit, I bless you to writhe at and be revulsed at the mere though of more bondage.
I bless you to wrestle with and for your liberation from captivity.
I bless you to rest in the strong plans of the G-d of the Brickyard. I bless you to grow dissatisfied with your current state of being, and to increase in your place of design. Spirit, you were made for liberty. You were not designed for the brickyard.
I bless you to endure being refined and proven and tested in the crucible for a fight that awaits a future date.
I bless your capacity to endure hardship and to handle being placed for a season under harsh leadership as you grow with a deeper vision against the day of your release.
I bless you as you are feeling pain and heartache that that pain would not be in vain and the enemy would suffer casualties as a result of your endurance. I bless you, spirit, to grow in “integrity of heart and skillful hands” both as you are working through hard seasons in the brickyards.
I bless you to find rest in The Anchor’s stability.
I bless you to hear my out clarity the voice of the G-d of the Brickyard and to allow Him to set your eyes where they need to be.
I bless your seasons to be fruitful, and I bless you to be a damaging source for the enemy and a thorn in his side even as G-d is growing you.
I bless you to not waste a moment of your days, even in your sleep.
I also bless you to be a knife and a sword and a catapult in the hands of the L-rd as He uses you as a peculiar weapon in His hands with which to harass the enemy.
I bless you to hold the line and stay the course.
I bless you with that reality and set of revelations, in the name of Yeshua.
Amein.
Blessing 5: Window of Reconciliation: Reconciled to G-d: September 2021
Beloved, I would like to invite your spirit forward to connect with me.
Spirit, listen to the Word of G-d for you for today.
Shall not the Judge of all the Earth do what is just?
From Genesis 18:25
Spirit, this post is about one of the names of G-d.
That name, “the Judge of all the Earth”, describes G-d in the process of weighing a group of cities for judgment, which simply means “decision”.
And further, Spirit, He is not merely the Judge of one person or people group or one chunk of land. Rather He is the Judge of ALL THE EARTH.
This story of Sodom and Gomorrah and the rest of the cities in the plane was a story about deciding the fate of a piece of land due to, not just the people crying out, but also the land crying out as an entity itself against the distressing injustice occurring within its borders.
G-d can be counted on to hear and handle unjust situations.
He will respond to those who are mistreating others.
He will hear the outcry of victims of all kinds of violence.
He will act and judge and decide switfly when violence happens to his kids.
So, spirit, I bless you to rest in the king’s judgment, and to depend on Him to act with justice.
His idea of justice May differ from you idea of justice, but He will act.
I bless you to trust the King is not slack concerning His promises to act.
I bless you to let go of your ideas of justice and to take on the King’s ideas of justice.
I bless you to rest and observe when a case is taken up by the Judge. I bless you to get curious as to how the Judge handles cases of injustice. And I bless you to watch when justice is rendered in a case that is not yours.
I bless you to not fall apart when the Judge renders a verdict that does not align with your idea of justice.
I bless you to get to know the love of the Judge for you. And I bless you to feel and know the love and affection of the Judge for the land.
I bless you to hear His voice and to see the memos and papers getting marked and the court orders getting signed.
I bless you, spirit, to help others see the Judge’s process of justice.
I bless you to rest on the earth as the Judge metes out His ruling which will affect not only people, but also chunks of land.
I bless you with that revelation in the name of Yeshua.
Amein