Class Example: Interpret Tooth Parable

 

TURN YOUR ABRASIVE SPEECH TOWARDS PRAYER  

 

I had a vision of  the brushing of teeth in horizontal motions across the teeth, really hard and rough.  Then I saw the proper way to brush teeth up and down in a vertical fashion.

 

I saw a letter that I had read a few days ago by someone who was embittered at the president and had forwarded a true, but cynical response to the choices of the new administration.

 

PARABLE:  I had a possible tooth infection from a loose crown.  I was on antibiotics for a week and now they are taking their time to get the crown fixed to make sure the infection, if there was one, is gone.  There was no decay but they thought the periodontal ligaments had widened which can sometimes be an indicator of infection.

In the mean time I am having to:

1)  brush my teeth several times a day, being really careful around that one tooth.

2)  wash my mouth out with salt water to heal the injured gum line the dentist cut.

3)  wash my mouth with antiseptic rinse against infection.

Rev 3:10-12 NKJV

Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.  Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.

QUICKENED MEMORY:  Bob Jones received a vision several years ago about the Lord coming to him as a dentist and He was wanting to brush teeth and make sure people’s mouths were clean.  He interpreted it to be our manner of speaking within the body of Christ.

WORD TO PONDER:  TURN YOUR ABRASIVE SPEECH TOWARDS PRAYER  5/17/09

Beloved ones, when you chew on embittered, critical and cynical words from others venting their frustrations, it can cause you injury in your own mouth.  Be careful to be gentle and not abrasive in your communications with people.  Let your speech be filled with grace and seasoned with salt so that you may know how you ought to answer others.  And be careful to take what is ailing and inflamed into prayer.

Ps 19:14 NKJV

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer.

Col 4:6  NKJV

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt , that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

 

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NOTE:  The QW Class for the prophetic school chewed on this rhema and came up with some great interpretations.  The following is the wisdom the Lord gave them as He stirred up their gifts.

CLASS ACTIVITY ON INTERPRETING BRUSHING TEETH

Here is the next practice in interpretation. I had 3 visions in a row.

1) What does brushing the teeth mean to you?

2) The dentist teaches us the proper way to brush teeth, what is wrong with the horizontal strokes?

3) In spiritual language, what does horizontal vs vertical movements represent?

In this rhema, the letter I saw was the hint to the interpretation.

Please answer the questions, and then add 2 scriptures that you feel are relevant.

RHEMA 5/17/09

PIX: I saw the brushing of teeth in horizontal motions across the teeth, really hard and rough.

PIX: I saw the proper way to brush teeth up and down in a vertical fashion.

PIX: I saw a letter that I had read a few days ago by someone who was embittered at the president and had forwarded a true, but cynical response to the choices of the new administration.

Lord please breathe upon our hearts and minds with Your Word, in Jesus Name.

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WHAT DOES BRUSHING THE TEETH MEAN TO YOU?

• Brushing up on wisdom

• Teeth represent the ingesting of food and or information to me. Everything we take in spiritually is filtered in the heart. What was prompted to me are two scriptures.

Lu 6:45
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

4:23
Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.

• It is something that must be done daily or you will wind up with bad infected teeth.

• Cleaning the teeth, or removing plaque that causes decay to the teeth.

• Teeth = ability to chew food and gain fuel for the body

• Brushing teeth as a metaphor=removing worldly deposits from previous meals to prevent decay in our ability to chew on God’s word to us.

• The Lord is saying there is a proper way of getting wisdom, it is through seeking Him and we get a personal revelation from Him and not second hand. Eve received information second hand and it was skewed…

• We are to examine ourselves daily … our motives, our walk & talk with the Lord. Just as we cannot be lazy/slothful when cleaning our teeth on a daily basis; we cannot be lazy & slothful in our daily walk with the Lord (making sure we hold no anger towards anyone and that we repent for wrongdoing), also receiving God’s grace and filling of the Holy Spirit while feeding upon the word daily.

Judges 18:9 ….”be not slothful to go and to enter to posses the land?

• The brushing of teeth means that despite the fact that we have Holy Spirit alive within us we still need to have a constant topping up (cleaning so to speak), never assume we have made it we need to be cleaned regularly.• For me, brushing the teeth signifies cleansing and purification especially in the Christian life. the way we talk. I believe it means most of the time our talk and our walk dont synchronize and so must be brushed. The dentist can be the person of the Holy Spirit that shows us the proper way to talk and do things that ordinarily we would not know how to do.• Teeth bite. They tear and chew. They rip.
  • You sink your teeth into things.
  • Clean teeth bring a smile.
  • A smile reveals a confidence.

Mat 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

• I think perhaps brushing the teeth would indicate a washing and reassessing of one’s understanding of a particular thing. (i.e. sinking the teeth into…)• Teeth represent RELATIONSHIP in my “dictionary.” We have 32 teeth, two sets of 16. 32 stands for COVENANT. 16 stands for LOVE. 2 stands for division, separation but also for two witnesses, and for being established and fully prepared.

The Bride has perfect teeth, perfect relationships. Every tooth is washed and every one has “twins”, a partner, a friend. Because of the healthy relationships the Bride is not “barren” but fruitful and productive.

NKJ Song of Solomon 4:2
Your teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep Which have come up from the washing, Every one of which bears twins, And none is barren among them.

KJV Mark 6:7
And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them
forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;

The “health” of our teeth/relationships with others determines our closeness to the Lord Himself.

NAS Matthew 5:22
“But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever shall say to his brother, ‘Raca, shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever shall say, ‘You fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell. 23 “If therefore you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your offering there before the altar, and go your way; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.

NAS 1 John 4:20
If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

• Bad teeth according to the doctors can cause even heart disease! And of course with bed teeth or without teeth we can not “chew”. We are unable to eat spiritual food which leads to spiritual malnutrition or even starvation.

NAS Proverbs 4:23 Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.

• The cleaning tools for getting food and proper digestion of our food. Our food is what we need to survive spiritually and grow so we need to facilitate that gathering, chewing and digesting of food.• I had a meditation on teeth brushing recently as to the fact that it is kind of a mindless activity that we do every day. The thought was to be more mindful when I am doing mindless things. …To really be present in the mundane, but necessary. …To actually feel the toothbrush as it is cleaning and to have more of an awareness.

Be still and know that I am God. Ps. 46:19

Taste and see that the LORD is good Psalm 34:8 NIV

This brings to mind Derek Prince’s weekly devotion for today.

This is Derek Prince with a word for you from the Word.

Psalm 34:8 NIV
Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him

Notice that first word, taste: “Taste and see that the Lord is good.” You realize, of course, that we are endowed with five physical senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. What is it that’s distinctive about the sense of taste? I’ll tell you one distinctive feature of taste. If we see something, it’s external to us. If we hear something, it’s external. If we touch something, it’s still outside us. If we smell something, it may be still far from us. But there’s one thing about taste: when we taste something, we take it right into us and it becomes part of us. And I believe that’s why the Lord challenges us to “Taste and see.” Don’t let the Lord remain external, don’t let Him remain something outside of you.

Paul says in the New Testament, “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” You’ll never really have that hope of glory until you’ve actually tasted of the Lord, till you’ve taken Him within you, and then you’ll know for sure He is good. Not because the preacher says it, not because the radio evangelist declares it, but because you’ve proved it in your experience, you’ve tasted, you’ve invited the Lord to come in and be an integral part of your life. And when you do that, you’ll know He’s good. – Derek Prince

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE HORIZONTAL STROKES?

• Horizontal strokes are mans way of getting wisdom, by seeking others opinions and discernment instead of it coming from the Lord.

• Seeking mans wisdom (knowledge) is hard to do and can be rough because God’s wisdom comes in love and is non-abrasive.

• It is abrasive and probably doesn’t work too well as it doesn’t get the small crevices or spaces clean. We need to pay attention to the way we brush out teeth, the way we clean ourselves.

• Horizontal cleaning means brushing the “bad stuff” from one tooth to the other. Words like accusation, blameshifting, finger pointing come to my mind. It also shows our inability to clean, to deliver each other. There needs to be a force, a power that lifts the “bad stuff” off of us.

• They cause abrasive strokes and after years of it, may cut through the enamel near the base of the tooth and even cause the loss of the tooth. (http://www.toothandteeth.com/how-to-brush-your-teeth.html

• Going from side to side is lazy and incorrect, a back and forth motion that avails little.
• It is a short and limited space, whereas up and down prevent the gums from dropping and limiting the shine.

• Horizontal brushing would indicate one’s decision to go crossways what is in his heart. His discussion is now being influenced by his environment, such as the news media.

• Harsh brushing perhaps indicates frustration. Perhaps deferred hope has pressed one to take council from the world rather than the Kingdom.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12

• Horizontal does not thoroughly clean and it is the way children clean their teeth when not taught the right way. It does not clean properly.• Eternity….horizontal is lying down, we are prone to attacks when we slumber

WHAT DOES HORIZONTAL VS VERTICAL MOVEMENTS REPRESENT?

• Horizontal is person to person (or the world’s way) and vertical is a Spirit filled movement, allowing God to move through us.

• In our vertical relationship with God we must allow Him to wash with the water of the word the things we get from the horizontal relationships with man on this earth.

• Horizontal means from person to person or sideways…vertical means from God to me directly.

• I believe the horizontal movements represent our relationship to one another, and the vertical movements represent our relationship with God.

• Holy Spirit teaches how to do it, vertical is the way up, we need to set our target upwards towards the ultimate.

• The horizontal strokes represent the old way of doing things that is wrong. It allows presence of food particles to remain in the teeth and this wont work. Horizontal represents our way of doing things in relation to our self. Vertical movements represents God’s way of doing things in relation to our relationship with him.

• Brushing them up and down is like shining the sword with a soft rag, polishing them, buffering them for the task they are to accomplish next. Vertical brushing would indicate one’s understanding being cleansed and changed to Kingdom mindedness.

Mat 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

…to make her holy, cleansing{a} her by the washing with water through the word… Eph 5:26

• Horizontal=relationships with people. Vertical=relationship with God.• Horizontal means relationship/in connection with people/the physical realm and
  • Vertical means relationship/in connection with the Lord/the spiritual realm.

MISC CLASS COMMENTS ABOUT THE LETTER:

• We receive information and sometimes react to it based on our fleshly feelings and man’s wisdom (if you can call it that-it’s not wisdom) and our reactions can be unholy if not first checked with God’s heart for the matter. This is where the unholy reactions come. We need His wisdom and revelation first hand….PERIOD…I cannot say that I go to Him first in everything…that is why my responses to certain matters is skewed…

Happy are your men! Happy are your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom! 1 Kings 10:8

…but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, half the greatness of your wisdom was not told me; you surpass the report that I heard. 2 Chronicles 9:6

And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breadth of mind like the sand on the seashore, 1 Kings 4:29

• The letter was a written message. It reminded me to be careful of what you read and absorb because sometimes it may contain other people’s prejudices and/or faulty thinking.• In your third vision, you saw a letter written by someone who was embittered at the president and wrote a cynical response. This ties in with your first vision of someone brushing the teeth really hard in horizontal motions, which can cause damage to the teeth. How much better to do it as the dentist advises — brushing softly in vertical motions. This would correlate to our first speaking to God about the situation regarding the president (vertical brushing), getting His take on it, and speaking/praying what and how He advises.• Complaining to one another without first speaking to God only causes damage. This includes gossip. The teeth are part of the mouth, and along with the tongue are used for speaking to one another as well as speaking to God.

Job 27:4
My lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will utter no deceit.

Samuel 23:2
The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me; his word was on my tongue.

Job 31:30
I have not allowed my mouth to sin by invoking a curse against his life-

Psalm 19:14
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in
your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.

Psalm 71:8
My mouth is filled with your praise, declaring your splendor all day long.