SWEATING TO ALIGN OUR PERSPECTIVES PROPERLY
5/23/22 SWEATING TO ALIGN OUR PERSPECTIVES PROPERLY
Today I was groaning in prayer over my hopeless perspective regarding a specific issue.
I saw a pair of hands holding a twisted rope and ringing out drops of sweat.
When I saw that, I remembered that to wait upon the Lord is a part of travail represented by binding together by twisting a rope. And I remembered when Jesus prayed in agony sweating great drops of blood.
Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Luke 22:44 And being in agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
TO WAIT UPON THE LORD:
Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary
6960. קָוָה qavah (qâvâh)
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קָוָה qâvâh, kaw-vaw’
a primitive root; to bind together (perhaps by twisting), i.e. collect; (figuratively) to expect:—gather (together), look, patiently, tarry, wait (for, on, upon). verb
GROWING UP INTO MATURITY REGARDING OUR PERSPECTIVES
The spirit world is one world of both good and evil. For many years the Lord has had me on a course where I had to set my face like flint and only focus on the Lord and His good plan and give no room at all to the demonic side. There are deliverance ministries whose whole focus is on the devil and it leaves them very little room for intimacy with the Lord. It has only been recently that I have become convinced that if I want to grow up into full maturity I need to have my eyes open to see both sides, but ONLY under extreme discipline to partner with the Lord’s focus and purpose. I see that in order to help people and more fully partner with the Lord, I needed to be willing to allow Him to use my eyes more fully. So I committed my eye gates to His higher purpose, in order to defeat the plans of the enemy.
Growing up in discernment is a difficult and complex thing regarding learning how to separate not only the white from the black, but also the grey area when it is mixed with man, good and evil. Also the enemy takes what is good and perverts it with his mixture to get us off the Lord’s mark.
Another hurdle I have had to leap over repeatedly throughout the years are the supernatural reports from prophets that are prophesying the demonic plans. Most have seen demonic visions and heard demonic words and plans and then prophesied them as the word of the Lord. I have refrained from labeling any of them as false prophets. But I have thought that some failed to understand that just because they saw it doesn’t mean it was the Lord’s will. Some thought because they obviously experience the supernatural that it was God. And I on the other hand know they could label me as such, prophesying only good news. In reality both sides have needed to mature to see BOTH sides and know what to do with what they see.
I am so reminded of the beauty of how the Lord brought Bob Jones and Bobby Conner’s ministries together to form Him perfect message. Bob was a deliverer and he was known to have that as his greatest anointing. He often was sent into the enemy’s camp as a spy and then report what he saw so that the intercessors could pray over what he saw. He was told he could not join the school of intercessors, he was only to report and the Lord would allow Bob to see how God raised up His school of intercessors. Now in scripture Daniel was not only a prophet but also an intercessor, so it was just Bob’s boundaries for his life.
On the other side Bobby definitely gives warnings but he almost always reports the good side of God’s plans. The following is something the Lord recently brought to me. It helped me understand once again that the fullness is to be able to see BOTH sides as only submitted to the Lord so that He can help us better partner with Him.
5/10/22 QUOTE BOBBY: THE EXPECTATION OF YOUR PERCEPTIONS
I listened to Bobby Conner share about the time when he laid his hand on Bob Jones’ shoulder to pray for him and they were both taken up in trances and flew together. Bobby wanted to go higher and Bob said he didn’t want to go higher. But Bobby insisted and then the wind tipped their wings to the left and they saw all kinds of evil things going on in the valley. Bob said, See I told you we shouldn’t go higher. And then Bobby said, You don’t have to see only the bad. Then the wind tipped them to the right and they saw the goodness and blessings of God.
All this to say that maturity is learning how to separate good from evil and know what to do regarding both.
5/13/22 SEE WITH HEAVEN’S PERSPECTIVES
I heard myself saying to the Lord, am sorry I am so cautious. I was speaking about testing who is speaking to me. I heard: You need to be. Always test the spirits. We are kind. We will respond when welcomed. We make comments. I saw the word Comments in blue as a hyperlink to other cross references in my rhema database. Yes follow the breadcrumbs. You will see them with new perspectives from our side and what we think.
1 John 4:1-2 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
Often we do not understand that the demons have personalities and emotions and they inflict bad emotions upon us. We need to learn to recognize their influence, take our thoughts captive and rebuke them.
2 Corinthians 10:4-5 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;) 5 Casting down arguments, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
Here is an admonition I received this month about changing my perspective of hopelessness:
5/16/22 TURN ON THE LIGHTS
I dreamed I saw Anna and she was looking through our bay window and wanting to come in. She appeared to be in her 20’s with Hawaiian hair and a hibiscus on one side. She had on a colorful Hawaiian dress and appeared so lovely. I went to the front door and told her I was surprised to see her. From the entrance hall we looked at my chair where I had been sitting the dark. I apologized that I hadn’t taken the time to turn on the lights. I had been feeling hopeless about a certain topic.
I heard: Turn on the light and follow His path. Walk carefully, don’t bring up the past. You have a new beginning beloved, use it.
Isaiah 42:9 Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
UPDATE 5/27/22: Today I was praying over my past hopeless thoughts and realizing they are a gate that also bears authority. I was asking the Lord for help for my thoughts to align with His and thanking Him for renewed hope. Since I was a child I have prayed for the mind of Christ and know that is part of the reason I hear His thoughts as I do. I do not want to hinder them.
Psalm 19:14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
CONFIRMATION: I went to Facebook and saw my webmaster had posted this W2P for me. It was so precious to me to re-read it with these things in mind. He heard my struggles!
WORD TO PONDER: SWEATING PEARLS OF GREAT PRICE
Beloved ones, I know the repeated times you have been ensnared in patterns of wrongful thinking and mindsets then immediately submitted those thoughts to Me. I have witnessed your sorrow, repentance, resistance, even agony to change as you have known these thoughts and patterns are not in obedience to My will, My mind. You have wrestled against them and submitted them to Me and I want you to know your labors have not gone unnoticed. As you have earnestly labored to submit yourself to My will, you have been forming beautiful pearls.
In the fullness of time, irritants from your past are birthed as iridescent pearls and no longer will they touch your life. Each pearl has special significance dear one. These have such extreme value in My kingdom that if people discovered this, they would sell all they had to own one pearl. Some of them I embed into powerful weapons that My angels use to pull down strongholds and change mindsets. Do you remember that each gate into My heavenly city is made of one pearl? Consider that gate beloved one and the entrance into My kingdom!
Luke 22:42-44 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. 43 And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. 44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Matthew 13:45-46 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking fine pearls: 46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
Revelation 21:21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: each of the gates was a single pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
