MONKEY BUSINESS

3/16/06: I received a delightful Word today about monkeys. God has a wonderful sense of humor.
 
So here is how it all started. I received the following e-mail from a friend who has a delightful clown ministry to children.
 
HER E-MAIL:
Hi Sandy,
 
Tea time :>Well, I was watching the news and a feature came on about hula hooping being a way to get inches off. An inch in a month. Being the vain thing that I can be, I had an idea! An inch in a month - this is a true miracle and I could hoop as a child, not as well as my sister, but I could do it.
 
So, I received the box and out comes the 3lb. hoop. I step into the hoop with greatest of confidence and boing, straight to the floor. I now know how they lost an inch a month; it is from bending over and picking it up!
 
CONFIRMATION NOTE FROM SANDY: This was so funny to me, because I could just see that hoop bouncing off and her leaning over to pick it up. But that was really quickened to me, because Wayne and I had just had a conversation this same day about leaning over to pick things up off the floor. I learned some time ago that our lymphatic system does not move with our circulatory system which is driven by the heart. The only way our lymphatic system moves is if we move, and especially when our movement defies gravity. So, I was sharing with Wayne just prior to receiving this e-mail that we could get healthy simply by leaning over to pick things up off the floor!
 
MY RESPONSE BACK TO HER:
 
That is hilarious.
You GO GIRL. Move those hips and jiggle that belly!
 

 (And then I included the following graphic. I looked a while for that graphic. I felt quickened I was to send her some kind of an animal, and when I saw this one, I knew it was the right choice.) 

CONFIRMATION:
HER RESPONSE BACK TO ME:
 
Sandy,
Yesterday, I received a manual called "The Art & Joy of Hospital Clowning." In it says, "But the key to our way of clowning is 'swinging between the trees'......."
 
I also was given a chance to buy a new $80 gorilla puppet for $20 yesterday. Unbelievable!
 

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CONFIRMATION UPDATE: Two days later, on March 17, my friend received the following email:
The card said:
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
And may everyone you meet, with a “Kiss Me, I’m Irish” button ... be real attractive.

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SANDY’S NOTE: So, with all of this monkey business, I felt the Lord was saying that it was time to dig out Anna’s monkey rhema!!!
 
ANNA’S MONKEY RHEMA
I have had rhema in the past when the Lord used a monkey. It all started when my young grandson sent me a crayoned drawing of the back side of a monkey scratching his head. I had it up on my wall for quite a while and never turned it over to know it had a face! The Lord used that experience to tell me He was trying to get me to turn around so that I would face my calling in Him.
 
10/5/87 ALLEGORY: JOURNAL ENTRY ABOUT MONKEY:
"Lord, this monkey that my grandson sent me, I never turned it over! I was only looking at the back which showed him scratching his head. Sandy couldn't believe what she was hearing about the backside of this monkey. She said, “Turn it over! It's a picture of his front side and face and he is winking!” Lord, are You trying to show me that who I am in You has been kept a puzzle and I haven't known, but now You are going to give me a hint?"
 
1/11/92 HEARD: Removed from your hands, a veil. Getting to the bottom of the iceberg. A quick glimpse. Wow. You don't know. Turn monkey over.
 
3/24/92 HEARD: Where are your coconuts?
 
11/14/92 HEARD: Wondering. No more. Face the monkey. Yes, little one. It's OK. Sit in the cloud forever. You are mine.
 
11/19/92 HEARD: Life's tree. Monkey swinging by his tail. Doing valiantly. Forever mine. I love you, sweetheart.
 
9/10/95 HEARD: Overthrow. Stronghold. Not going anywhere. Lie. Impossible. Not with ME it isn't. When is it a monkey? When it is on your back. Remove.
 
DREAM: THERE'S THAT MONKEY AGAIN!
I had a monkey that I was instructing. He was to tell people his name and something about himself and then served food to everybody. He was happy to serve food to everyone, but he was not happy about giving his name and telling something about himself.
 
{end Grandma Anna rhema excerpts}

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Since the Lord has connected seeing the monkey’s face... (notice that in the picture, he first has his eyes closed, he is not seeing who he is, then his eyes are open, I know the Lord is turning us around to reveal our face. I am reminded of the monkey pictures where the monkey has his hands in front of his face hiding himself. He thinks no one can see him!
 
He is saying that the reluctant ones have dropped all these promises on the ground, and He is bringing them to our attention. It is time He is opening our eyes to who we are in Him, and that we face this and then become intimate with Him and with others as we greet one another with a holy kiss!!

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CONCLUSION

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{Words to Ponder are summaries of His quickened Words of prophetic revelation, punched with the word of wisdom and written under inspiration.}

WORD TO PONDER: MONKEY BUSINESS 3/16/06
Yes, dear ones, I am settling all that monkey business. For years, I have been talking to you about who you are in Me. And every time I turn that sweet face of yours around to face Me and face your calling, you pop right around and scratch your head, or drop the ball and we start all over again. You have all this excess baggage you are carrying around, and it is encumbering you from running the race. And there are pearls at your feet just waiting for you to pick up and look at once again. 

Down up, down up, get a movin’.
Take it in stride and start your swingin’.
Swing those hips round and round,
and soon you’ll pick up what’s on the ground.
I’m “notta kiddin’” you have what it takes.
Just a little practice and you’ll be in shape.
One two, one two, come on dear ones, show your face.
Look at Me and leave disgrace.
It’s all in the past, leave it behind.
And soon you’ll be lighter and your face will shine.
 
1 Cor 9:24-27 NKJV
Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.