Soon Comes The Reward of Our Patience

I looked up, this morning, the date of my vision of myself weeping abjectly for Israel. At the time of my seeing of that vision, I had not yet reached the same depth of emotion, in my prayers for my older sister. Since October 7th, I have been praying that way every morning. Yet today, for some reason, I looked up the date I received this glimpse of the future….and it was December the 14th. It’s been a year….

Patience

He gives us a challenge to test our patience to still be watching and waiting. No wonder HE said,”I will put before you an open door, because you have kept the word of My patience.”

I think there are still the fourteen Israelis to fill up the number to one hundred. (But three of the ones freed are Russian.) I am recording a request ahead of time, so that it will be known that I am asking HIM who can do all that we ask, for the release of seventeen more. I am praying for a miraculous intervention that defies logic, that His angel releases them without the aid of the IDF, that HE blinds the eyes of the enemy to the passage of these innocents. Hasn’t He called me to be persistent and persevere, witnessed by the name He gave me? (As He reminded me just yesterday to keep asking, in Luke 11?) Let me then be a witness to and for Your faithfulness, my precious Lord! Fulfill it ALL according to Your promise of THIS year. 

But Wait, There’s More!

A month after the abductions, after continuously crying for the abused captives, I was inspired to bargain with my Lord for their freedom, as our father Abraham bargained for the cities on the plains. Our certainty is the audacity of faith, in the face of the proven goodness of Him whom we serve. If getting them all out at once seemed too much or too grand, how about just part of them, and right away, and also as a sign that we were within twenty four hours of the harpazo? But wait! There’s more!

I asked for a hundred to be released. I heard nothing. The next day, I asked for at LEAST fifty. That is the number I stayed with. Four days later, I heard there was an exchange being discussed for, get this, EIGHTY hostages that Israel wanted released. Hamass countered with seventy. I knew this was HIS answer because this was exactly BETWEEN the two numbers I had randomly chosen! At this point, I told my son, on the fourteenth of November, to prove my Lord answers the prayers of His people! But wait! There’s more!

As of today, the twenty ninth of November, we are at one hundred and two total hostages freed. So tomorrow is our day of deliverance, if we go by that number. Or we can be gone the day after the sum total of one hundred Israelis achieves release. Right now it’s at eighty six. But wait! Here’s more!

What happened before this to help me know what to pray for? How did I know what was the good and acceptable will of the Lord? After all, I have followed Him for a couple months shy of fifty years. At the beginning of this year, I told the Lord I was tired of getting excited, passing on what I had heard, and then being disappointed that we were not there yet (and of being called a false prophet, even though I was careful to state I’m not a prophet, but was just interpreting as best as I could.). The psalms express it so well, “But You, oh Lord, how long?” I asked Him, to let me hear my newest daughter in law was pregnant, if this is the year. I knew that they didn’t want a child yet, but I wanted a grandchild from them if we were leaving this year. It was right after that, that they found out they were pregnant, on my birthday. Best present EVER! But wait! There’s more! 

Because of His faithfulness, I was bold enough to tell my Jewish friend that the Messiah would be revealed on the weekend of second Passover. That is my understanding of the beginning of the season of His return. He woke me up that Friday morning with the sound of a silver trumpet blast, the sound of a lamb, and Him speaking, “Daughter, I’m coming!” Not exactly what I was hoping for, but even better, in that He is faithful! But wait, there’s more!

The new baby is named Judah! How did Rachel know? She didn’t, but Jesus does! I was to drive the twelve hours to go see him, but three days before I was to leave (by myself), a huge “hurricane” hit us dead on! Because JD Farag had had people pray when they were in the path of one, and it had just went POOF and dissolved, I prayed and our little storm was shredded by the mountains behind us. All it did was leave a huge mud flow over the freeway I needed to use, to get to where my new grandson was, but it was cleaned up by the time I left to see him. But wait, there’s more!

I drove overnight, and when I got up in the high desert, I wound up in a blowing sandstorm! I started praying right away for the Lord to be my shelter and shield. While I was praying, I noticed a very bright light behind the hillside directly in front of me (middle of the night, okay?). I was fascinated, thinking that it was a huge mall or gas station. Imagine my surprise when the biggest moon I have EVER seen emerged from behind the hill, looking just like it was sitting on the ground directly front of me! I was amazed. Then, when I remembered about what I had been praying for, I saw that here was no more wind or blowing sand, and that the horizon was clear of debris and dust! What a beautiful light!

So, are we going to be in the Throne room tomorrow? Or, will we be watching and waiting two more days for the number to reach one hundred, and then go the day after? I tend to think tomorrow. Just look at my previous post to see the reason why. I can hardly wait to see what the Lord will do!

Prophetic fulfillment

 

The Consuming Fire

The reason we call our God a consuming Fire, is that all of our regrets, our grief, and our pain, are burned up in His Presence, never to be thought of again. Hasn’t He already carried those for us, just as He said He would? It’s all for Him. Dead works are over and past. He IS our fulfillment. He is passionate, zealous, in His pursuit of us, and has promised that it is never from anger, once we trust Him. His is, instead, the realization of flooding joy and peace, full of life, and the only tears, those from healing and grateful release. No regrets, now. None. I am satisfied in that He has appointed me an overcomer.

Holy, Holy, Holy

Only HE could create us, make a grand space for us, then inhabit it in a way we could understand. “We saw His Glory” as the “only begotten of The Father.” Only our Yeshua (salvation) could become what we needed. A single Being, one Person, the most exalted and all powerful, could and did manifest as THE highest and most sacred, The Supreme King, in every part of His creation, and in all of it’s dimensions. He is the Father of all, who gives the law, the visible Son of the covenant, and the Spirit which indwells each temple of consecrated (sealed) flesh. He carries each of our griefs, burdens too heavy for us to bear, and at the same time, maintains our very reality and consciousness. Thus is He ,THE Person who is HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, in each office, this One who “Was,” who “Is,” and who “Is to come”! All of this at the same “time” because He is One!

Self Deception

The last days are known primarily by the presence of multiplied forms of deception. That is something the New Testament is clear on, something that we are to expect, in the words of Jesus, and warned of also by Paul. By far the most insidious and unnecessary manifestation is the person who thinks they are good with God, but when brought to judgement, are told,”I never knew you. Away from Me, you workers of iniquity.” Instructions of what is necessary to please The Judge of all flesh and spirits is already available. It’s called the Bible, and needs to be read by everyone, and I do mean everyone. Allowing someone else to interpret it for you, creating an office of priest, is a path to destruction. We are all our own “priest” in that only we, ourselves, can work out our relationship with God, and only in the Way He has prescribed. Therefore, there is THE instruction manual.

Such self deception is the “form of godliness” warned of in Timothy. At first I assumed it was this religious expression of secularism called “tolerance” which I consider to be nothing more than self torture. Then I realized that the antichrist cult of death called islame (yes, I spelled it that way on purpose) could be accused of masquerading as a religion, or a form of “godliness.” Now I have a new candidate to add to the list of all these lies of the enemy (plenty of choices available to lead one astray).

There is an essentially lazy person who wants an authority to tell them how to get to God. They’re not choosy. Any kind of works based salvation message will do. Doing it this way makes reading and studying unnecessary, and they still get to feel good about themselves. They also have a calling, apparently, to whip others into shape and into following the same path. More glory for them. And pride. But no actual salvation.