QUICKENED STORY:  UNDER THE SPOUT  9/15/07 

HEARD (on the way to church):  Position yourselves.

QUICKENED MEMORY:  The story about the coffee beans. 

RHEMA 1/21/96 QUICKENED STORY: UNDER THE SPOUT
Today I read a friend's dream where she saw me as a public speaker. I said to myself, “Gee I sure hope it’s not literal!" I was shy and the idea to stretch outside of writing was too much.

I was busy thinking how I’m not a public speaker and going on and on about it in my thoughts. Then tonight with anointed hands I turned to a story in a devotional entitled "Open thy mouth wide and I will fill it." It was about a coffee machine that wouldn’t grind the last 3 or 4 beans out of the machine, so she could pour her own in and grind. No matter what, she couldn’t get it to work.

When the clerk came to help her, he tried the same things, and then finally put a bag under the spout. The machine had an electric eye and wouldn’t grind beans unless a bag was under the spout! The point of the parable is that the Lord doesn’t fill your mouth until you are under His spout to pour His Word out.
PS: Lord, I'm not sure I like this parable!

Ex 4:11-12 NKJV
So the LORD said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the LORD? Now therefore, go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say."

CONFIRMATION:  One of the intercessors in pre-prayer saw a moving porthole and it was going to different fields around us.  We would follow it wherever it was going. 

QUICKENED MEMORY:  As he was sharing that, I was again reminded of the (above) quickened story I was thinking about on the way to church.  The coffee bean machine at the store would not grind the beans unless the bag was in the right position directly under the spout.  The machine had an electric eye and it would not work unless the bag was in position.  I had been thinking about if we are not hearing the Lord or something has changed, we need to run to where we know His Presence is.  We position ourselves right directly under His glory spout and in the apple of His eye.  (smile)

WORD TO PONDER:  NO LONGER CHURCH AS USUAL  8/2/02

I am calling you to move out of your comfort zone.  If you had your way, you would build a place of refuge, a sanctuary of comfort, rest, and a place for My holy Presence.  But the hour is late and I am bursting forth from the walls of sanctuaries and moving My people into a new place.  Those who have found comfort and joy and power in My Presence will follow My cloud outside the walls of their past.  They will no longer have church as usual.  They will have so loved My Presence that all restrictions will have been broken off from their restraints and they will know that I AM much bigger than the sanctuaries of yesteryears.  The church walls are coming down, where My people are going out and the people of the world are coming in.  Ready or not, I AM coming to move My people forward.

"But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You, how much less this house which I have built!” (1 Kings 8:27 NAU)

Ex 33:14-16 NKJV

And He said, "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."  Then he said to Him, "If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth."