LAID AN EGG, BIRTHED A PEARL

[Giving birth to pearls that are 10 times bigger]

5/20/05: This week the Lord has been "birthing" some strange Words about eggs. I woke today to this email:

Hi Sandy,

Guess what my neighbor (school cafeteria manager) brought to me? A bunch of eggs in a large white box. I have found this quite humorous and do not know why?

{end of email}

Then Anna came into town and brought with her 6 brown farm eggs. She has never brought eggs with her before. They were like prized possessions to her as she opened up the carton to disclose these eggs with the rich yolks. My spiritual antennas are wiggling and I am wondering what the Lord is saying because a couple of days ago, while I was doing a rhema search, my eye glanced briefly at some old rhema about laying an egg and it was quickened to me.

CONFIRMATION: I received an announcement that a friend gave birth to a baby boy yesterday. This was very special because her biological clock was overdue and she had waited a long time for this wonderful promise.

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HILARIOUS UPDATE CONFIRMATION 5/29/05: From the other room, I overheard Anna ask Wayne, "What's your house worth?" I could not believe Wayne's reply! He said very matter factly, "I don't know, I had an egg a while ago." Anna & I burst out laughing, it was SO funny. Wayne had no idea why we were laughing. He thought she had asked him something else.

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THE CORNER OF THIS PUZZLE

Here is the old rhema I briefly glanced at and was quickened to me. This was before all these "egg" words mysteriously showed up all at once.

1/19/96: John runs into the other room and gets his Bible, and is frantically looking up a verse. He asks me: "Mom, those notes on the floor by your bed, are they yours or Gramma's?"

"They are a combination of 4 people."

"Well who is the one pregnant?"

[My goodness, what has he been up to?] I said, "You mean the one in the hospital giving birth?"

[He runs out of the room and goes and gets the notes.] "Who is this one?" He points to the top page, 12/1/95. "My eyes fell on this one."

"That is my rhema."

John says "WOW!"

HERE IS WHAT JOHN SAW FROM 12/1/95:

[While sleeping, I turned over and glanced at the clock. It said 11:12]

HEARD: Pregnant. I felt kind of bad. In transition. Laying an egg. Oyster, big pearl. 10 times bigger.

John said, "My eyes fell on the line where the clock said 11:12. Do you know what Matt 11:12 says?"

"No, I don't remember."

"It says if you ask for an egg would He offer you a scorpion?!"

I had heard about laying an egg and it being just like an oyster bearing a big pearl that had grown 10 times bigger. To date, I have suffered 10 long painful chaffing years of delay. I am in an uncomfortable place, going through transition towards birth. The Lord is saying if I am giving birth to an egg, would He give me a scorpion? In other words, would He give me more delay and cut me down again?

ANNA COMMENT AT THE TIME: And life goes on in this screwy family of mine. Praise the Lord for the "Wing Nut" that secures all these loose screws! I have really been cracking up at this last episode. It is so funny!

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CONCLUSION

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{Words to Ponder are summaries of His quickened Words}

WORD TO PONDER: POPPING THE EGG 5/20/05

Yes, My love. All those years of delay have been accumulating. You have been sitting on a large nest egg and it has grown larger and more valuable with time. Did you think when I gave you My promise, and then you had to wait, that I would give you a scorpion? Never, My love.

Those seeds of My Words in your life, the ones you held onto, the ones you brought into your dwelling place, all those rich and fertile eggs are like multiplied pearls ready for harvest. Each and every year that you have waited and trusted Me, I have added increased wealth to your basket. Rich and full and overflowing, My abundance is popping out all over. Travail is very painful, it is true. But oh such joy comes when the baby is birthed!

John 16:21-23 AMP

A woman, when she gives birth to a child, has grief (anguish, agony) because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she no longer remembers her pain (trouble, anguish) because she is so glad that a man (a child, a human being) has been born into the world. So for the present you are also in sorrow (in distress and depressed); but I will see you again and [then] your hearts will rejoice, and no one can take from you your joy (gladness, delight). And when that time comes, you will ask nothing of Me [you will need to ask Me no questions]. I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that My Father will grant you whatever you ask in My Name [as presenting all that I AM]. [Ex 3:14.]