A Moment of Cheerleading
Sarah Guppy of the late 18th century and early 19th century was 15 times over inventor during a period in time when female inventors were rare. She invented the coffee maker which used the access steam to boil eggs; as well as, to reheat toast.
Thinking about her caused my thoughts to travel …. again … A cheerleading moment …
Rebekah, the wife of Isaac, agreed to marry a man she had never met.
Leah struggled with eyesight and wasn’t 1st choice as a wife. She became one of Israel’s founding mothers.
Zelophehad’s 5 daughters lost their father and became bold enough to change the women’s inheritance laws of the land.
Rahab lived in a town surrounded by war and a people who trusted in stone and wooden gods. Her shrewd ways saved her family from great loss and even more, death. She as a mother, made way for her son Boaz to be in the generational line of King David and Jesus Christ our Messiah.
Ruth lost her first husband to sickness and drought. She was courageous enough to leave a region where stone images were bowed to, while cheering of the killing of children was common practice. She became a mother in the generational line of Christ, and daughter in law to Rahab.
Deborah, lived in a village where life was boring (described in the Bible as “ceased”). She was prophetess and judge of her nation. She preferred to be titled, “Mother of Israel.” She led her nation into battle and won.
Abigail lived a life of misery married to a wealthy drunkard. Her great wisdom and gift of peacemaking made a way for her to become wife to the King.
Rizpah, the wife of Jonathan, bore a son who later had a painful accident becoming crippled for life; he was invited to eat at the King’s table and for his entire lifetime was cared for by King David.
Hadassah, an orphan, became Queen of Persia.
Magdalena was possessed with seven demons. She was delivered of this torment by Jesus becoming one of Christ’s best friends. Being first to see Him post-resurrection, she was chosen to be the “face” of the “new Eve.” Jesus’ love for her and for all of God’s daughters is evident as she not only traveled with Him but is pronouncement’s glorious picture of the deliverance of all women then empowered to rule with Him. Within that Garden moment, her embrace of the Tree of Life was a declaration that the snake had lost its grip, and God declared as her forever Rabboni. She, the first one ‘sent out’ from the Garden of His tomb, ran carrying the message of our Resurrected Christ. One once filled with demons was now empowered with dominion rulership.
Joan of Arc, born into poverty and an illiterate teenage became a warrior and military leader.
The list goes on …..
There is no lock powerful enough to keep doors sealed shut which God has opened for His daughters. Let’s make a difference wherever we find ourselves.
Uniqueness is found in a woman who is courageous enough to be who she is meant to be in the face of opposition. Be yourself and give yourself permission to become, fail, and to get up again.
God is worthy of witnessing the fabulous display of His Glory shining from within His daughters. He is in love with us. Make Him proud!! You are meant to come out of the desert leaning on your Beloved.
Much love
p. zananiri
Jesus received “God infusions” from His Father daily (at 3am) which reminded Him of His identity, refreshed and strengthened Him, and revealed His daily assignments. Anything He needed to know for that days work was given to Him then….. I can just imagine the love which flowed from His Father into Him – that alone would give anyone the sustainability to run up the Himalayan Mountains.
This was the place and time where He had access to the ONE who IS. Above ALL things He IS!
Humanity was created to exemplify the life of Christ. The cultivation of our identity is important to us, God, and impacts everyone around us. If we have not gone to God to find out who we are, and to receive all that is necessary to succeed in life, where do we find our identity and confidence?
If we have placed the defining of who we are into the hands of humankind than we have set ourselves on an unseen roller coaster ride ready be tossed daily by the opinion of voices.
Consider this. Respect yourself (if you haven’t already) and honor God, for He made you. Honor Him by accepting the appointment time with Him. Find your “3am hour” whether it is noon, 4pm, or 8 and enjoy the interactions awaiting you.
God embedded in you will reveal the most beautiful image. God’s identity, exemplified through us is unshakeable. The only thing that shakes off is the counterfeit which has held on long enough …. If this is for you … We look forward to meeting YOU – the real YOU!
Remember, we become unstoppable at each revealing of our “real You in Him.”
Let’s bring up Deborah for a moment…
The biography written about Deborah’s glorious feat places her as a citizen of a people living in 20 years of oppression. The King at the time was an intimidator, using 900 iron chariots to keep the people of Israel subservient to his rule. Deborah, known as a prophetess and judge sat under a Palm Tree where men would stand before her; seeking wisdom and a just verdict.
This “normal” everyday woman found unbelievable courage because of her communion with Her Creator. She believed in His existence. She engaged Him daily. She yielded to His best for her. She allowed Him to form her beauty; and in so doing, she as ordinary yielded to the revealing of the depth of her extraordinary reality…
If Deborah had not cultivated her times with God, she would of never been able to carry through the resistance and be used of God to bring those 20 years of a hellish existence to a stop. It is honor to God and self to invest in cultivating a “daily pattern” of drawing away from the noise and speed of “man-made time,” receiving from God His opinion and Holy Spirit infused identity. Deborah’s cultivated identity as a deliverer was used to deliver her people into freedom. Let’s receive the awesome reality of God. He loves to adorn His daughters for the Victory!
[I found this photo: This is on Mount Tabor. This arab village man and I are overlooking the village of Deborah. This mountain is where Deborah instructed the General of her army to come and meet with her before the war of victory. (ps. my friend took 5 of us up here to spend the day…a nice memory]
by briskilla
For the love of His Scrolls
by briskyz
Oh my goodness!
If I could obtain a copy of the Bible in scroll format it would find a healthy home right next to my bed. It would be the last thing I touched every night, and first thing I looked at every morning. (I hope that doesn’t offend anyone. I know the traditional and honorable thing to do is to keep the Scrolls in a special cabinet. I guess that could be done.) Anyway
God gave us the antidote for the tough questions and answers in life, and for those found etched within the scrolls of His Word…. He said, “It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, and the honor of kings to search it out.” Hunting time is all year long when it comes to searching for the hidden treasures.
As we remain committed to learning of His ways, we will realize that even as “the Word of God is pure, like the seven fold refining of silver; so too we will have learned seven dimensions of the depth of understanding for each truth found in scripture. Which dimension are you at? I think I’m on the first. Maybe 2nd on some truths…maybe?
Persistence is key. There is nothing boring about Christianity nor about “the gift of the hunt.” So keep those hunting boots on and dig deep for the gold infused stones used for building the foundations of His Kingdom.
Psalms 12: 6 says,
“The Words of the Lord are pure words.
As silver tried in the furnace on the earth,
purified seven times”
You and I can trust God and His ways. It takes a champion to embrace the truth. He has us covered. We are all champions, if we dare to tap into that part of our DNA. After all, we are all created in His image.
Psalms 18:30 says,
As for God, His way is blameless.
The Word of the Lord is tried;
He is a shield to all those who take refuge in Him.”
His written scrolls are the shield which we need for life. So lets get behind our shields and run the race with confident celebration that He has given us all we need to exercise the right to turn on the search light and hunt for truth.
scribed by briskilla
Seed=>
“God spoke: Earth, green up! Grow all varieties
of seed–bearing plants,
Every sort of fruit–bearing tree.
And there it was.
Earth produced green seed-bearing plants,
all varieties,
And fruit-bearing trees of all sorts.
God saw that it was good.
It was evening, it was morning—Day Three.”
Genesis 1:11-13
God will provide, show us, lead us in the hunt to find the field in which we are to create His dreams — our dreams. He will also provide the seed (thoughts – ideas) for conception so that we can ultimately bear fruit–life that remains…
ps. There was going to be a need for nurturing what was in the earth and what was in the atmosphere… for the land could not survive without water of the oceans, and the oceans cannot be held in place apart from the clay of the earth holding it’s borders in place.
The earths soil would need moisture…the place of facilitation needed the right amount of pressure, moisture, and salt for preservation. All of this provided by the Creator of the created. The Lord knew the balance needed of each ingredient for the earth to experience life.
The Lord knows the right balance of ingredients for our dreams — His dreams to succeed.
Love,
briskilla
Skies and lands hidden in the womb of the waters =>
Yesterday we introduced the topic of facilitating a place where God’s dreams (His word and will) can be created and carried out . Today the introduction is of the waters which encapsulated the skies and lands (the place of His facilitation).
At one time this place-this earth was fully encapsulated within the waters which we now call oceans, streams, seas, and rivers.
Just for a minute let’s take a breathe and look into our divine imagination and ask Holy Spirit to “see & hear” what the 2nd day of creation would of sounded like…
…later we will have another thought to ponder ….
Here we go — the firmament/the expanse, the 2nd day:
Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters,
and let it separate the waters from the waters.”
God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were below the expanse
from the waters which were above the expanse;
and it was so. God called the expanse heaven.
And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.”
Genesis 1:6-8
The word firmament is רָקִ֖יעַ, ‘raqia’ in Hebrew (the language of the Old Testament). The firmament is a substance which is known as the dome of the sky that separates the heavens from the earth, or an area of atmospheric space, either relatively close to the ground or in the upper limit of the sky and heavens.
When God Spoke, the waters responded to His command, and shifted into their new place.
Imagination Activation: Wooo, can we imagine the sound of the waters parting; some to the earth (forming oceans, seas, rivers, creeks, lakes, ponds, water falls….) and some back into the heavens? Just imagine all of the water in the world today…these are the waters which shifted in that moment.
These are the very waters which the Holy Spirit hovered over, as they covered-protecting; within the “womb of the waters” the earth which was made for us to have, to enjoy, care for, live freely upon, and have dominion in.
This is the Holy Spirit who is larger than the entire universe, land, and seas put together. There is no beginning and end to Him. Holy Spirit is beyond what we can “size” with our mind or measuring sticks.
It was in this very moment, as the waters heard the sound of their Creator that the very substance transitioned into their next assignment. They began with all of the sound, weight, and depth of their reality; to roll back, revealing the wonder of the sky and earth hidden within their dominion.
God You are incredible in design.
So too for us, what the soil of our lives is meant to become is sometimes hidden from our earthly eyes. This doesn’t mean that God has forgotten us, it simply means that the presence of Holy Spirit is surrounding us-holding us so close, for the moment of “revealing.”
What an awestruck moment to have observed the dividing of the waters and the revealing of the skies and lands.
We are living in awestruck moments now, when Papa is about to reveal the “land” of the younger generation in preparation for the forming of their first, second, and third decades of life. Can I say it that way?
Love,
briskilla
Heavens and the earth => our heavens within ‘Father’s Heavens‘.
When we 1st create (forming the place of facilitation) we often do not see what will come next. Out of obedience we begin to form the place that will facilitate His plans, our designs.
He did this with the world. Knowing full well His family was coming, He prepared our earthly home for us. We would get to know our Father, and through our relationship with Him, we would care for our earthly world…. This world (this clay) from which we were formed.
Light/Day (spectrum of time from which to work) =>
The Spirit of God hovered over the chaos – sheltering the will of God until the time came for life to begin again (Genesis 1). He then revealed (spoke it into existence) His Light.
When light comes we witness the truth of the “hovering of God” over His Word (in us) to perform it (that which we thought was “dead). He is, was, and always will be there with us.
His Words will never return empty, disappointed, … => never. His intentions towards us are alive and well. Very Alive. Death does not exist in His will for us.
The “heavens” which He has empowered us to bring and build on the earth is so beautiful. Fathers, mother, and children — people … all invited to live and breathe within our parameters of influence. It is easy to breathe where God’s reality is allowed. Labored breathing stops in the presence of the One who is breath itself.
Light shown in the darkness first, …..
God first created with His Word and His creative power,
the house which would facilitate the results of His Word/Will.
“follow His example, linked to His lifestream.” there is only one way
Learning to create with words,
briskilla
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