Luke 10:38 - Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house.
vs. 39 - And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' [fn] feet and heard His word.
vs. 40 - But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, "Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me."
vs. 41 - And Jesus answered and said to her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things.
vs. 42 - "But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her."
God has been bringing this passage back to me over and over again the past few months. I am so like Martha in this world, always about serving and doing and worrying and being troubled. I find it quite convicting that the scripture states she was "distracted with much serving." Because I myself am consistenly distracted with this life we live hear on this earth. There are so many distractions to keep us from hearing His Word! Oh brothers and sisters! We so need to be less distracted and more about hearing His Word! How much are we missing of Him by allowing these distractions to keep us from sitting at His feet and hearing what He has to say.
Just imagine that you were there in that house that day when Jesus was there visiting. Would you really want to be about serving or sitting at His feet and hearing what He is saying? The thing is He is here visiting with us every day, but we are all too distracted to hear Him. Who really comes to sit at Jesus' feet and listen to Him?
Jesus says in vs. 42, "but one thing is needed and Mary has chosen that good part". What a huge revelation is in these 12 simple words.
Only one thing is needed? You mean, you don't need me out here in all this caous running around? You only want me to sit here? What is sitting really? Isn't that resting? You mean, you only want me resting? This puzzled me and was so hard for me to grasp in my being because the church has always been about doing this and doing that and serve here and serve there and "why aren't you doing something!?" Does this mean we can be lazy and lay around all day and everything will be ok? Of course not! That is not what this is saying at all. You see when we are resting in Him and listening to Him, HE IS DOING! HE IS SERVING! He is doing this through those who are listening to Him and resting in Him. HE IS HEALING! HE IS MEETING NEEDS! HE IS MAKING WRONGS RIGHT! He is doing all this in the midst of daily activities and schedules. HE IS LEADING HIS SHEEP! Instead of the sheep going off doing their own thing and then getting ravished by the wolves.
You see, when you are resting and hearing Him, He takes you to those who need healing, who need clothing, who are hungry and thirsty. He takes you to meet the needs of others and He causes you to make wrongs right. Because, how can you obey what He is saying to you if you aren't listening? How much more is He wanting to say to us if we were willing to continually rest in Him and listen? I can only imagine how quickly His Kingdom would come if we all practiced what Mary did.
And finally, this is why Jesus says that she had "chosen the good part." We can do alot of the things the scriptures tell us we should be doing in our own strength and our own will and our own minds, but this isn't the good part because it isn't complete. The good part is doing it all in HIS STRENGTH, HIS WILL AND IN HIS MIND! HE IS GOD, not us. HE KNOWS ALL, we don't. We all need to learn to take ourselves out of the equation and allow God to COMPLETE HIS WORK! Allow HIS KINGDOM TO COME!
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
DREAM, INTERPRETATION & WORD FROM THE LORD
God has worked so much in me since the last time I posted on here. He has shown me over and over again how much easier all this is if I just stay in Him and not worry about any of the rest. I now understand that the child I so long for will be given to me if its His Will for me and I am now satisfied with that answer. He has shown me that He longs for us to love Him just as we long for His love. There is a place in Him that only his children can fill just as there is a place in me that only He can fill.
A couple of months ago, the Lord gave me a dream. At the time I believed it was for this one person whom the Lord told me it was for; however, God has continued to stir this dream up inside of me while giving more light and further interpretation to it and now I know this dream is meant for all God's children as well as the Word of the Lord which was given to me following the dream.
The DREAM:
There is a fortress and inside in an inner room is a child sitting alone in the room in a chair. The room is completely empty. There is a woman there, who is a witch, who torments the child. She cannot physically harm the child but she does torment him emotionally and mentally. My heart aches for this child and I just want to break in there and grab him and take him far away from there, but I know that if I do the authorities will take him from me and return him to her, as the child is there legally. She is the legal guardian. Also, she would be very angry if I were to take him away from there and once the child is returned to her she would take her anger out on him and the torment would be that much worse for him. I am then given the correct way to handle the situation and I'm told to "set up watch" next door so I can then get the "proof needed" to legally free the child from this woman. I go next door (which is like a tower) and I "set up watch" in the room at the top and there are others there with me and we wait to get the "proof needed".
The INTERPRETATION:
The child in the dream represents the new heart which God gives us (Ezekiel 11:9 and Ezekiel 36:26). The new heart is child like which is why God says to come to Him as a child. (Matthew 19:14 - But Jesus said, "Let the children come to me. Don't stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children.")
The woman (witch) in the dream represents the enemy that torments the new heart with all of our failings and sins keeping our new heart locked up in bondage and unable to grow closer to God, which He is calling us to do.
"Setting up watch" represents praying and waiting on the Lord to give direction and following His way and not ours or obeyeing when He speaks. Our way never accomplishes freedom only God can do this. (Habakkuk 2:1- I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart*, And watch to see what He will say to me . . .) and (Isaiah 21:8- . . . I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime; I have sat at my post every night.)
*ramparts means - fortification or a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place. Other versions of the Bible have this word as "watchtower".
WORD FROM THE LORD (for those who will hear):
I have brought you out of the house of bondage and you have not obeyed My voice. Judges 6:8-10
You have lied about the Lord and said “it is not He” and “neither will evil come upon me nor shall I see sword or famine”. And the Prophet becomes wind for the Word is not in him. Thus shall it be done to him. Jeremiah 5:12-13
Do you not fear Me? Says the Lord. Will you not tremble at My Presence? Who has placed the sand as the boundry of the sea? By a perpetual decree that it cannot pass beyond it? And though its waves toss to and fro, yet they cannot prevail. Though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it. But you have a defiant and rebellious heart. You have revolted and departed. You do not say in your heart, “let me fear the Lord my God who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He reserves for me the appointed weeks of the harvest.” Your iniquities have turned these things away and your sins have withheld good from you. Jeremiah 5:22 -25
Also, I have set watchmen over you saying listen to the sound of the trumpet, but you have said you will not listen. Stand in the ways and see and ask for the old paths, where the good way is and walk in it, then you will find rest for your soul. But you have said you will not walk in it. Jeremiah 6:16-17
Return backslider, says the Lord and I will not cause My anger to fall on you for I am merciful. I will not remain angry forever. Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the Lord your God. Return O backsliding child, says the Lord, for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. Jeremiah 3:12 -15
HEAR MY WORDS or behold I will certainly bring calamity on you – the fruit of your thoughts. Because you have not headed My Words nor My Laws, but rejected it. Jeremiah 6:19
If you hear My Words my covenant with you will be . . . ISAIAH 54 -
"Sing, O barren, You [who] have not borne! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, You [who] have not labored with child! For more [are] the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman," says the LORD.
"Enlarge the place of your tent, And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; Do not spare; Lengthen your cords, And strengthen your stakes.
For you shall expand to the right and to the left, And your descendants will inherit the nations, And make the desolate cities inhabited.
"Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame; For you will forget the shame of your youth, And will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.
For your Maker [is] your husband, The LORD of hosts [is] His name; And your Redeemer [is] the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of the whole earth.
For the LORD has called you Like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, Like a youthful wife when you were refused," Says your God.
"For a mere moment I have forsaken you, But with great mercies I will gather you.
With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; But with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you," Says the LORD, your Redeemer.
"For this [is] like the waters of Noah to Me; For as I have sworn that the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth, So have I sworn that I would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
For the mountains shall depart And the hills be removed, But My kindness shall not depart from you, Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed," Says the LORD, who has mercy on you.
"O you afflicted one, Tossed with tempest, [and] not comforted, Behold, I will lay your stones with colorful gems, And lay your foundations with sapphires.
I will make your pinnacles of rubies, Your gates of crystal, And all your walls of precious stones.
All your children [shall be] taught by the LORD, And great [shall be] the peace of your children.
In righteousness you shall be established; You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; And from terror, for it shall not come near you.
Indeed they shall surely assemble, [but] not because of Me. Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake.
"Behold, I have created the blacksmith Who blows the coals in the fire, Who brings forth an instrument for his work; And I have created the spoiler to destroy.
No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue [which] rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This [is] the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their righteousness [is] from Me," Says the LORD.
AMEN!
A couple of months ago, the Lord gave me a dream. At the time I believed it was for this one person whom the Lord told me it was for; however, God has continued to stir this dream up inside of me while giving more light and further interpretation to it and now I know this dream is meant for all God's children as well as the Word of the Lord which was given to me following the dream.
The DREAM:
There is a fortress and inside in an inner room is a child sitting alone in the room in a chair. The room is completely empty. There is a woman there, who is a witch, who torments the child. She cannot physically harm the child but she does torment him emotionally and mentally. My heart aches for this child and I just want to break in there and grab him and take him far away from there, but I know that if I do the authorities will take him from me and return him to her, as the child is there legally. She is the legal guardian. Also, she would be very angry if I were to take him away from there and once the child is returned to her she would take her anger out on him and the torment would be that much worse for him. I am then given the correct way to handle the situation and I'm told to "set up watch" next door so I can then get the "proof needed" to legally free the child from this woman. I go next door (which is like a tower) and I "set up watch" in the room at the top and there are others there with me and we wait to get the "proof needed".
The INTERPRETATION:
The child in the dream represents the new heart which God gives us (Ezekiel 11:9 and Ezekiel 36:26). The new heart is child like which is why God says to come to Him as a child. (Matthew 19:14 - But Jesus said, "Let the children come to me. Don't stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children.")
The woman (witch) in the dream represents the enemy that torments the new heart with all of our failings and sins keeping our new heart locked up in bondage and unable to grow closer to God, which He is calling us to do.
"Setting up watch" represents praying and waiting on the Lord to give direction and following His way and not ours or obeyeing when He speaks. Our way never accomplishes freedom only God can do this. (Habakkuk 2:1- I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart*, And watch to see what He will say to me . . .) and (Isaiah 21:8- . . . I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime; I have sat at my post every night.)
*ramparts means - fortification or a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place. Other versions of the Bible have this word as "watchtower".
WORD FROM THE LORD (for those who will hear):
I have brought you out of the house of bondage and you have not obeyed My voice. Judges 6:8-10
You have lied about the Lord and said “it is not He” and “neither will evil come upon me nor shall I see sword or famine”. And the Prophet becomes wind for the Word is not in him. Thus shall it be done to him. Jeremiah 5:12-13
Do you not fear Me? Says the Lord. Will you not tremble at My Presence? Who has placed the sand as the boundry of the sea? By a perpetual decree that it cannot pass beyond it? And though its waves toss to and fro, yet they cannot prevail. Though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it. But you have a defiant and rebellious heart. You have revolted and departed. You do not say in your heart, “let me fear the Lord my God who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He reserves for me the appointed weeks of the harvest.” Your iniquities have turned these things away and your sins have withheld good from you. Jeremiah 5:22 -25
Also, I have set watchmen over you saying listen to the sound of the trumpet, but you have said you will not listen. Stand in the ways and see and ask for the old paths, where the good way is and walk in it, then you will find rest for your soul. But you have said you will not walk in it. Jeremiah 6:16-17
Return backslider, says the Lord and I will not cause My anger to fall on you for I am merciful. I will not remain angry forever. Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the Lord your God. Return O backsliding child, says the Lord, for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. Jeremiah 3:12 -15
HEAR MY WORDS or behold I will certainly bring calamity on you – the fruit of your thoughts. Because you have not headed My Words nor My Laws, but rejected it. Jeremiah 6:19
If you hear My Words my covenant with you will be . . . ISAIAH 54 -
"Sing, O barren, You [who] have not borne! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, You [who] have not labored with child! For more [are] the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman," says the LORD.
"Enlarge the place of your tent, And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; Do not spare; Lengthen your cords, And strengthen your stakes.
For you shall expand to the right and to the left, And your descendants will inherit the nations, And make the desolate cities inhabited.
"Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame; For you will forget the shame of your youth, And will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.
For your Maker [is] your husband, The LORD of hosts [is] His name; And your Redeemer [is] the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of the whole earth.
For the LORD has called you Like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, Like a youthful wife when you were refused," Says your God.
"For a mere moment I have forsaken you, But with great mercies I will gather you.
With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; But with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you," Says the LORD, your Redeemer.
"For this [is] like the waters of Noah to Me; For as I have sworn that the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth, So have I sworn that I would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
For the mountains shall depart And the hills be removed, But My kindness shall not depart from you, Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed," Says the LORD, who has mercy on you.
"O you afflicted one, Tossed with tempest, [and] not comforted, Behold, I will lay your stones with colorful gems, And lay your foundations with sapphires.
I will make your pinnacles of rubies, Your gates of crystal, And all your walls of precious stones.
All your children [shall be] taught by the LORD, And great [shall be] the peace of your children.
In righteousness you shall be established; You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; And from terror, for it shall not come near you.
Indeed they shall surely assemble, [but] not because of Me. Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake.
"Behold, I have created the blacksmith Who blows the coals in the fire, Who brings forth an instrument for his work; And I have created the spoiler to destroy.
No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue [which] rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This [is] the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their righteousness [is] from Me," Says the LORD.
AMEN!
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