RHEMA 9/17/08  IN THE WILDERNESS TO LISTEN

HEARD:  Are you ready to listen?

PIX:  I saw someone lean over and tie their wilderness boots. 

HEARD:  All about My friends.  Someone is trying so hard. 

Hos 2:14-17 AMP

Therefore, behold, I will allure her [Israel] and bring her into the wilderness, and I will speak tenderly and to her heart. 15 There I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor [troubling] to be for her a door of hope and expectation. And she shall sing there and respond as in the days of her youth and as at the time when she came up out of the land of Egypt. [Ex 15:2; Josh 7:24-26.]   16 And it shall be in that day, says the Lord, that you will call Me Ishi [my Husband], and you shall no more call Me Baali [my Baal]. 17 For I will take away the names of Baalim [the Baals] out of her mouth, and they shall no more be mentioned or seriously remembered by their name.


 

Long I have waited for a generation of lovers who would serve Me out of their passionate hearts, birthed from intimate and genuine two way relationship.  My people know Me as Lord and Master. To serve so duty bound is to choose a life imprisoned in performance. 

They have yet to know Me as Lover and Husband.  How I long to connect and establish bridges of communications that cross their boundaries of fear and mind-sets and normalcy where all things are decently in order!  True passion is rarely in order, dear ones.  True passion breaks all boundaries of cultural decency.  True passion only knows one way, get to what matters and die for it when necessary. 

The passion I speak of is much deeper than an emotion of the moment.  It comes from a fire deep inside where the truth burns and builds, ever stretching to find a way towards expression.  It is in its expression that our mutual joy is known to the fullest. This brings the consummation of what you yearn for.  I will have a people who will so love Me, their torches will so love Me nothing will stand in their way towards expression.

Duty leads to burn out.  It always did, it always will.  Passion leads to My never ending eternal flame.

Hos 2:14-16 NLT

“But then I will win her back once again. I will lead her out into the desert and speak tenderly to her there. I will return her vineyards to her and transform the Valley of Trouble into a gateway of hope. She will give herself to me there, as she did long ago when she was young, when I freed her from her captivity in Egypt.   “In that coming day,” says the LORD, “you will call me ‘my husband ‘ instead of ‘my master.’

I was searching for a past Word to Ponder that connected with today’s Word and when I came to the above one, I heard the Lord say, “Exactly!”