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CLEAN OUT THE BOTTLE NECKS
Experience
1/17/06: We woke up today to discover our street
had flooded. About a week prior to this, when Wayne was
out at the mailbox, he suddenly had the thought, “What
if that culvert got plugged up and the street flooded?”
We have lived here 30 years and never had that problem.
In hindsight, he realized this was the question being
posed to him by the Holy Spirit and the answer to that
question was the natural tool and knowledge that that
saved our buildings. On a spiritual level, as the lip of
the water came right up to the edge of our buildings, we
stood at the line of the water and spoke to the edge of
the water. “This far and no further. You will NOT
cross this line and flood our buildings in Jesus Name!”
Help came and it never did.
A few houses down from us had illegally placed and
covered over a 12 inch plastic pipe instead of a 24”
metal culvert and this caused the run off rainwater from
all the houses in the neighborhood to back up. Our home
was closest to the culvert so it was in the most danger
of being flooded. Wayne knew about this pipe and told
the county about it when they came out to clean out the
covert. In desperation when all else had failed and 5
streets were flooded, they got a backhoe and tore the
pipe out of the ground. The minute the pipe was ripped
out the waters abated from our home, and the rest of the
neighborhood was able to drain. I saw several spiritual
applications to the story.
2 or 3 weeks ago I heard the term “bottleneck” in the
prayer room and felt there was a spiritual bottleneck
keeping things from flowing in our intercessors. We
have had remarkable times of intercession (about 36 of
us) and then strong confirming Words that connect with
one another while waiting upon Him afterwards in the
prayer room. We have been flowing like this most of
2005. Well when I heard this, we were not getting many
words, none of them were confirming or connecting and
the words that were coming I felt were mixture.
I shared that we needed to break up the bottleneck of
whatever was plugging up the flow of His Spirit. I felt
that it was unforgiveness, and division planted to
destroy unity. One of our intercessors confirmed during
that same meeting that he saw a needle and a shot being
put into an arm that said disunity and
misunderstanding.
{Get this: since then, our church went on a 40 day
fast. We did not fast food, but fasted speaking
negativity of all sorts. WOW!)
Two weeks later our gutters on our roof overflowed due
to being plugged up. This caused the ground water to
flood outside and then seep up into 2 lower concrete
floors that we had in our home and flood our carpet.
This had happened to us about 20 years earlier as well.
The Lord reminded me that in 96 the rivers in our area
flooded. Immediately after, people along the flood
plain started bringing in fill dirt and rearranging
boundaries. The Lord told me back then that this was
changing the waterway and things would get backed up,
plugged up and moved up next time we had high water.
Thus far with 100 year history things have been pretty
determinable. Not any longer.
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INTERPRETATION: The river, the gutters, the
culverts, and our intercessions are all interpreted as
being vessels in which to flow His kingdom, His
Presence, His power. We have a responsibility to be
accountable and responsible to maintain the boundaries
that are given to us, and do it knowing that it affects
others who are joined with us as well. We need to be
considerate and legal. It is not our right to change
boundaries that are supposed to be governed by God and
when we do, it causes a true mess and bottleneck. When
we change boundaries in order to cover up, it is from
the spirit of control, which is the arm of flesh.
Old leaves are dead flesh that need to be cleared away
through confession and repentance and forgiveness.
Filling in dirt illegally is a coverup in order to
protect ourselves from demonic floods caused by sin.
Leaving the channels open is transparency, walking in
the flow of the Spirit, in honest communion.
The guy who put in the illegal pipe did so against
argument of the surrounding neighbors, being a lone
ranger and not wanting to join the pipes on both ends,
because it would have cost him too much to go to code.
He was not flowing in unity with the needs of the
neighborhood.
On a personal note, I see the parable of our 24" pipe
(which Wayne put in 30 years ago when he developed our
street) and our connecting to others. Ours is 24",
Ricks was 24", Jim's was 20" and this guys was 12", the
one past him is 10". It is a parable of being unequally
yoked and a backup is caused from this. When it got
plugged, our house sits right next to the culvert on the
street; it was our house that became immediately
surrounded and it backed up from there about 5 blocks,
including the local school. It is a parable of being in
a key position to distribute, and a need to join with
those who are yoked properly so we can build a channel
that flows safely.
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SO THANKFUL
I want to thank each and every one of you who prayed to
save our home. It truly was an amazing day of timing
and natural and supernatural events with the helping
hands of people in prayer, works, and angels all working
together to save our home. The downpour of rains slowed
way down and finally halted within minutes after my
sending out the prayer request. The moment they tore
the pipe out, the flood waters abated. It was a miracle
they ordered the backhoe and tore out the pipe. The guy
who did this, in order to save over 100 homes, went into
the back yard without right of way and tore up the pipe
without permission. It took much communication between
people and departments to get the knowledge needed to
bring the deliverance.
I share the following past Word to Ponder as a Word from
the Lord that He gave me via anointed hands several
times in regards to this issue. I feel it is a strong
Word for others who might in the future be waiting upon
Him for supernatural deliverance from unforeseen events
from the elements. Deliverance will come, but will need
many aspects of human and angels working together
against the elements, protocols, and men’s illegal
choices.
WORD TO PONDER: YIELDING TO THE NATURAL WAY
Precious one, how I love your tenacity to cling to Me
and how proud I am of your stubbornness to resist enemy
plots. Dearest, I have carefully watched you, and if
you had to make the choice you would choose to go down
with the ship, if that is what you believed was the
right way.
There are times to stand for supernatural intervention
and there are times to submit to natural wisdom. In all
ways, I have asked you to occupy until I come.
Sometimes, because of the timing of your waiting period,
it is necessary for you to yield to the voice of wisdom
that I have given to men who have gained expertise in
their field.
I know this is not your highest choice or aim, all of
heaven knows your strong stand of faith. But I am
asking you to yield to Me in this matter and know that I
also work through men. Trust Me to carry you through
this. Remember it is I Who declares all boundaries.
You have nothing to fear. Please trust Me to also take
care of you in this natural way.
Job 38:8-11 NLT
Who defined the boundaries of the sea as it burst
from the womb, and as I clothed it with clouds and thick
darkness? For I locked it behind barred gates, limiting
its shores. I said, ‘Thus far and no farther will you
come. Here your proud waves must stop!’
John 17:15-16
I’m not asking you to take them out of the world, but
to keep them safe from the evil one.
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