NOT FITTING THE MOLD

8/13/20: Today I was thinking about how simple my rhema has become.  I sometimes struggle with not fitting into anyone’s mold.  I am not a traditional prophet and yet I am totally prophetic.  As I pondered this, I thought about the truth that I role model how God speaks and in a personal way.  I am totally in love with His stories!  I was thinking about my new How God Speaks website, the fact that I love whimsical graphics, and how it is not the traditional “adult” way of teaching.  I realized that my passion is teaching.

So without realizing the connection, a few minutes later I was thinking about how my baby son at 6 months weaned himself from the breast.  I had made the mistake of propping him up in an outdoor lounge chair, putting both his hands on a bottle and seeing if he could hold it himself and drink.  I had given him a bottle before but laying in my arms.  Oh my!  You should have seen the look on his face.  He was totally THRILLED.  He grinned SO big.  From that moment on, whenever I tried to breast feed him, he would  resist and try to sit up.  He simply wanted to feed himself! 

I smiled as I remembered the huge grin on his face and how happy he was to do this on his own!  All these years I have treasured that memory but never made the connection!  This is what I have been doing, feeding mother’s milk to spiritual babies and then teaching them how to find their own manna from the Lord.  Even the word “propping” is quickened!  God tells us He establishes us.  That word in the Greek means to set us up strong in a certain direction. 

I am remembering the story about setting concrete.  Oh WOW.  I just found the story, I had forgotten this part:  I heard the Lord say, I am maturing you quickly. Setting you like concrete.  Then I remembered that someone at home group saw my feet planted in concrete and said my feet would become set and stable and that there would be no foot mold quite like mine.