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PLAY DOUGH PARABLE:
"CONFORMED" 5/03/10
QUICKENED SONG: Today in
the car, my grandson suddenly sang the patty cake song:
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man.
Bake me
a cake as fast as you can;
Roll
it, pat it and put it in a pan
Put it
in the oven for baby and me.
QUICKENED REMINDER; After
he sang, I reminded him that was what we do when we play
with play dough and I realized it was a Word from the
Lord. When I searched my files for Joyce's funny
parable below, I realized I had forgotten to post it.
God is amazing to remind us when we need it. We just
need to be sensitive to what is
quickened.
PLAY DOUGH PRUNING 1/08/10
I watched Joyce Meyers this week
and laughed when she had her yellow clay that she was
flattening. She put a gingerbread cookie cutter over
the flat clay and that was the “image of Jesus” all
nicely formed. And then she started taking off all the
excess around the cutter. She said, "OH NO Lord, not
that THAT!"
Rom
8:29-30 NKJV
For
whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to
the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn
among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom He predestined,
these He also called; whom He called, these He also
justified; and whom He justified, these He also
glorified.
CONFORMED
NT:4832
NT:4832
summorphos (soom-mor-fos'); from NT:4862 and NT:3444;
jointly formed, i.e. (figuratively) similar:
KJV -
conformed to, fashioned like unto.
NT:3444
NT:3444
morphe (mor-fay'); perhaps from the base of NT:3313
(through the idea of adjustment of parts); shape;
figuratively, nature:
KJV -
form.
LIKENESS
NT:1504
NT:1504
eikon (i-kone'); from NT:1503; a likeness, i.e.
(literally) statue, profile, or (figuratively)
representation, resemblance:
KJV -
image.
NT:1503
NT:1503
eiko (i'-ko); apparently a primary verb [perhaps akin to
NT:1502 through the idea of faintness as a copy]; to
resemble:
KJV -
be like.
NT:1502
NT:1502
eiko (i'-ko); apparently a primary verb; properly, to be
weak, i.e. yield:
KJV -
give place.
It was very funny and real. I had
been playing Play-dough with my grandson and teaching
him how to pull off the excess around the cookie
cutters! Now I will never be able to play Play-dough
with him without remembering that amazing parable.
God takes all the excess stuff off
our lives that weighs us down and that does not belong
in Jesus’ image!
Heb
12:1-2 NKJV
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight , and
the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with
endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto
Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith...
Teaching him how to flatten the
dough with his little hands was such a precious memory.
We graduated to a rolling pin when I bought refrigerator
cookie dough for Christmas. That was quickened to me –
the “pressing” part. Ever felt stream rolled? Hmmmm.
We may be hard pressed but we are promised we will not
be crushed.
2 Cor
4:7-10 NKJV
But we
have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the
excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. We
are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed ;
we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but
not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed — always
carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus,
that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our
body.
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ANNIE’S VISIONS: A GRAIN OF WHEAT
http://www.penieluruguay.org/
“As I went
to prayer in a certain place, many sorrowful memories
swept over my mind. In this atmosphere of unbelief there
was much opposition; nevertheless, the Spirit of the
Lord finally drew near and carried me through the
darkness of spiritual enemies to the glorious entrance
of the great cross of light. How welcome it always is to
me, for I know that just beyond the cross He awaits me.
In the passing through that cross-door, all the sorrows,
fears and stains of earth are melted away and I am then
ready to enter into His Presence. Passing through that
wondrous cross, I heard His voice coming to me telling
me not to fear. As always, all fears were fully washed
away, and I found myself standing before that mighty
Cloud of highest glory.
When He
told me to look, I looked and saw a beautiful field of
grain like unto ripe wheat which belonged to Him. He
plucked one of the grains of wheat, then showed me the
process that all of His grain was going to have to pass
through.
He brought
the little grain that He had taken in His hand to an
angel of great stature and might, who held in his hands
two large mill stones. This mighty angel of great,
beautiful and tender love, put the grain between the
stones and bruised and crushed it with great vigor,
smashing and breaking it into very fine powder.
What great
tenderness and love, the Lord took this ground grain and
carried it to another place, where I saw a stone of
bread. It was not a loaf I saw, but a stone. The Lord
told me that this was His bread that He was making, and
then proceeded to take this finely ground grain and
kneaded and molded and formed it unto that stone of
bread. He looked with much love at this lovely bread
filled with life and light and cared for it most
tenderly. I was astonished at the love He showed for
this stone of fine bread. Afterwards He told me that He
would have to take all of His other grain through this
same process in order to make fine bread of it.”
{end
Annie’s Vision}
Isa 28:23-29 NKJV
Give ear and hear my voice,
Listen and hear my speech. 24 Does the plowman keep
plowing all day to sow? Does he keep turning his soil
and breaking the clods? 25 When he has leveled its
surface, Does he not sow the black cummin And scatter
the cummin, Plant the wheat in rows, The barley in the
appointed place, And the spelt in its place? 26 For He
instructs him in right judgment, His God teaches him. 27
For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing
sledge,Nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cummin;But the
black cummin is beaten out with a stick, And the cummin
with a rod. 28 Bread flour must be ground; Therefore he
does not thresh it forever, Break it with his cartwheel,
Or crush it with his horsemen. 29 This also comes from
the Lord of hosts, Who is wonderful in counsel and
excellent in guidance.
PRAYER: So Lord, please
form, shape, and make adjustments on our parts. We
yield and give place to You, that we may represent,
resemble and be like You on this earth.
Flatten us (humble)
Shape us (conform)
Prune us (remove baggage)
Bake us (in Your fire)
When we come out of the fires of
being tested, may our aroma be sweet, and may the fruit
of our lives strengthen many as they partake in Jesus
Name.
1 Peter 1:6-7 NKJV
...that the genuineness of your
faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes,
though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise,
honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ... |
