THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA
6/13/24 THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA
HEARD AND SAW:
I was wrestling over my peace last night and was submitting to the Lord about it. I heard, I assure you, My mercies are new every morning. This morning when I came to the Lord, I saw a pea. One tiny pea being held between 2 fingers. Immediately I remembered the Princess and the Pea story:
From the www: The Princess and the Pea
A literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a young woman whose royal identity is established by a test of her physical sensitivity
The story tells of a prince who wants to marry a princess, but is having difficulty finding a suitable wife. Something is always wrong with those he meets, and he cannot be certain they are real princesses because they have bad table manners or they are too fat or thin or not beautiful. One stormy night a young woman drenched with rain seeks shelter in the prince’s castle. She claims to be a princess, so the prince’s mother decides to test their unexpected, unwitting guest by placing a pea in the bed she is offered for the night, covered by 20 mattresses and 20 feather-beds. In the morning, the guest tells her hosts that she endured a sleepless night, kept awake by something hard in the bed that she is certain has bruised her. The prince rejoices. Only a real princess would have the sensitivity to feel a pea through such a quantity of bedding, so the two are married.
11/01/16 CONSIDER WHAT STUMBLES YOUR FAITH
What are you tempted by? Lay it down, it’s not worth it. A trust issue. Where your trust fails: in pleasing Me. I give good gifts to My children. What is a good gift? What looks like Me. Inside you know that.
ANNA RHEMA 2/9/93: RESTING PLACE
Princess. Pea. Rest standing up. … No shame. Motives. Pure in My sight.
WORD TO PONDER: THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA 11/01/16
Beloved, each increase along your path has been to bring your conscience back to life. Yes it has been a long journey since your childhood of learning the difference between right and wrong and becoming sensitive to the realms of My Spirit along with understanding what grieves Me and what passes inspection. I separate everything between soul and spirit and make a clear distinction of thoughts and intents. As My Spirit spotlights these things, each inkling you have of something not aligned is an invitation to lay it down. Dear heart, don’t let these inklings become stumbling stones that shipwreck your faith!
Consider the peas in your life! Yes like the princess and the pea story, I want My bride to be so sensitive to My heart that she would feel even one tiny pea inside her resting place with Me. The peace I give is like a barometer to your soul. When you wrestle to find your resting place in Me, ask My help to identify exactly what you are wrestling over. It may be something very tiny in the grand scale of things, but it will become monumental until it is removed from your life. Search for the pea and let it go dear one!
Heb 4:11-16 Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. 12 For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. 14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 15 For we have not a high priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our weaknesses; but was in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
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My daughter. Courage sent one. Keep trying. Don’t give up. You are making progress.
As I submitted what I was wrestling over to the Lord, I turned to this Word to Ponder at the website:
JOY IN DECREASE
Everything in your life comes and goes in seasons and this is good. Through these seasons, I have brought to completion many things in your life. After you have gone through a season of harvest, when your fruit has been picked and given as sacrificial gifts… when the dead things have fallen away… it is not time to mourn over the dead, but instead turn your mourning into dance. For you have decreased and I have increased. My Word promises that the humble shall increase in joy. This is how you overcome dear ones. When the leaves fall from your trees, remember that as My government increases, it brings My peace without end. When My kingdom increases, it establishes justice without corruption. My zeal will perform this.
John 3:30-31 NKJV
He must increase, but I must decrease.
Isa 29:19 NKJV
The humble also shall increase their joy in the LORD.
John 15:2-3 NKJV
Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Zech 3:4 NKJV
Then He answered and spoke to those who stood before Him, saying, “Take away the filthy garments from him.” And to him He said, “See, I have removed your iniquity from you, and I will clothe you with rich robes.”
Rev 12:11 NKJV
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
Isa 9:7 NKJV
Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
