Wasps, Heat, and Other Things

Was doing some work outside with my husband about mid morning yesterday! It was a cloudy day and cool, so mowing the grass was a delight! It helps keep one trim and strengthens those upper arms and shoulders besides keeping your core strengthened. And while enjoying the cool of the morning, I took notice of the hanging bait cylinder in one tree. It is a yellow colored cone designed to draw those pesky wasps away from the back door and patio area of the house and yard. And after a trip down one side of the lawn and around the tree, I made another cut closer to the tree and slowed to view this hanging " tomb " for stinging insects! It was interesting to note that those insects that had come into that cone in the last day or two had eaten those that were already dead.  Yes, at the base of the cone-shaped object there laid row upon row of insect body parts.

 Now I want to point out here that if the morning had been hot with a blazing bright sun, and sweat appearing on the brow I might have missed seeing that display of brutality upon the other. Because if one is really suffering to cut the grass in hot temps. you might not be taking in the beauty of the day and only spend time noticing what you missed in that last swath of cutting since you are only viewing the ground area!

Was praying as I walked along with the mower. Was trying to hear God above the noise of the mower but did not have to slap at mosquitoes  or the such while I took each cut nearer to the completed goal of a groomed lawn. No yesterday was quieter where insects were concerned, but the week before I noted there were some out to get me and my ankles showed the marks of their piercings by the end of that work time outside.

But let's get to the point here: are people like those insects? Yikes! Is it possible to eat others and take away lives by bitterness when confined by yellow-coned objects and no freedom is found? Scripture makes it clear that God sent peace on earth! He sent His Son and we say His name: Jesus! For in Him is only life and peace found!

So if insects can get rattled when trapped within a small space, what happens when man is sent into a small space to hunker down for say a "flu-type" illness for how many months? What happens when those you love can not be touched by your hand or a pat on the back? What happens when you do not have time to be with them but only by Skype or the such where you try to be on your best behavior, pushing back tears or trying to force that smile so others think you are fine? I have seen these things appear on those people in those stories related on one television viewing of those in lock-down alley!

But God sent His Son. I say His NAME: JESUS! He is REDEEMER of the world. But if people do not see Him nor hear Him then they are set for that which is "lost forever".  He came to set captives free. 

The insect world is amazing to me and even more so are the areas like the "marsh" areas, and the " prairies of the this nation that runs hundreds of miles through a few states like Wyoming and eastern S. Dakota, then southward through one end of Nebraska. And within this region is where certain grasses grow, where Buffalo roam grazing on these grasses. It is where prairie dogs live and build those security places for themselves in the ground, where also snakes can move to when hunting out one of those plump little prairie dogs to eat. It is place where certain birds live among the buffalo and move along with them as the graze their way around the land. It is where foxes, and certain rabbits make their home. And what I found out was this world of dry grounds, and prairie grasses provides safety to many creatures that God thought of and not us! Such a world so planned and beautifully detailed for animals to live, to eat, and yes, to survive in that dryness of the prairie and then I wonder why people cannot see what He has planned for them, each man and woman, to enjoy in the here and now!

No, we can see people acting with resistant to the things of God and even question if He exists! But He surely exits, and He is surely alive. In those documentaries I have seen of late, they all point to the creature living on the prairie has an agenda to be alive at the end of that day. And we can see that today, as people move from flu scares to riots in streets and hurricanes rushing in to drown a society. Still God is certainly alive and are we stopping to notice His presence?

If we would take a moment and look into that which Jesus brought from heaven, is this: "he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. ( Matthew 16:24) Following Jesus certainly brings some things to mind quickly in that one must surrender to Him and His way of doing things! If we are struggling to give up our plans for His, why are we doing that ? He is life everlasting and He is peace!

Are we desiring our own agendas? Are we looking for platforms in using someone's demise to use for ourselves and our own agenda?

What I mentioned earlier in this writing, that when I was finding yard work pleasing, mowing the grass without excess heat, I was motivated beyond the work itself and see what was going on around me and mine. When taking my mind off the work itself I was free to enjoy the moment I was in. 

In our Christian faith we believe God is one! We believe Him the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. We believe what is given that Jesus is the only way to the Father.  We live by faith in Jesus as our Lord and Savior and we believe we will be with Him forever. He has gone to prepare a place for those who believe. ( John 14:1-6)

When you consider say Hinduism: it has two known non-negotiable beliefs: that is karma and reincarnation. They will not stray from that belief. Islam believes that Mohammad is the last and final prophet. They believe that their Quran is the perfect revelation given. To deny those two precise points, one has denied Islam.

My husband and I have been watching at times some adventure trips of an archaeologist who travels around the world looking for that which is a part of this mystery earth. He has looked for the ark, to looking for Yeti, searched the areas where the dead sea scrolls were discovered and finding gold from treasures of the early Spaniard explorers. 

In this I was thinking of the last few days of Moses who had tried to relieve the oppression of the Israelites on his own strength  and nothing happened. He had this pull toward his people the Hebrews yet, he had been raised as an Egyptian.  And although well educated and trained to live the life he would live, he still had the dress of an Egyptian,  and he wore the classic coloring on the face and the jewelry to match that lifestyle.

There was some changes that had to occur for Moses. And like him, we too can run headlong into the thing we think God is allowing but the time is not right nor is He with you in it. God was tuned into what He desired for Moses to complete. That was to lead a million or so people out of the hand of an Egyptian Pharaoh.  Was Moses sincere in what he believed? Yes, but no matter how sincere the person, anything outside the will of God is futile!

It amazes me today to see so many desiring to help a race of people which is all wonderful. But the best place to start is at the beginning. In the beginning God....created the heavens and the earth. And another place is to find where one's ethnic group has been in history is of your nation. For where we live in America it is found in the Wallbuilders by David Barton.

We certainly need to see where we have come from to know where we are going. If you asked citizens of this nation how many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were slave owners....you might hear all fifty-six of them. But in truth only one: Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner. The others all held the black man free to live as others in freedom. 

If you asked someone within this nation of America, how many black leaders were with Washington in the boat when he crossed the river at winter time, in the depths of winter, cold, and ice....to battle?  You might hear none! Yet at the front of that boat were two military leaders who were men of color and who served for some seven years alongside Washington himself. Again, go check this out in Wallbuilders by David Barton!

We must be in the will of God for in that we work together to build something God has in His plan. It does not matter if you think you have a noble or the pure heart but that the real success comes from God and when the enemy does not want you to know your true heritage you are doomed.

Yes, in remembering Moses and his willing to help God....he should have waited for God. And God's will for Moses came some forty years later! So what had occurred in that time period for Moses?  Well, he became the truly humbled and converted. He had given himself to God to such an extent that he was almost afraid to move, and God had to bring him back a way to restore some of his initiative. However, now that initiative would be used in harmony with a strong relationship with Him. Since Moses truly had the fear of God, he took God into account in every action. That is what the fear of God does to a person: It makes a person consider God and His desires in everything that he does.

Yes, there are many people who have strong beliefs. They believe in reincarnation and karma. They are those who believe Mohammad is the last and the final prophet. Others believe Jesus and satan are somehow related. And still others believe they cannot tell you about someone who is going through a situation for in that you the person might cause them harm by words spoken over them. A belief must not only be strong but it must be right. It is proved right in the process of living. It is where righteous actions will produce that godly fruit. This is why Jesus said, "You will know them by their fruits. " (Matthew 7:16) It is in this that the fruit of a person's life will reveal what that person believes. Because those in God will reveal God-ordered actions and one will not turn to the right nor to the left to change them.

 Yet, there exist Christians who choose lie about a health condition of a loved one. Instead of denying that ugly thing that has appeared in that loved one, they would rather lie, turn from God, choose that which is of the enemy and bring destruction on their heads. 

It is God Who desires us to come into the capacity He created to not only release but to also demonstrate the levels of His kingdom power and authority. But many belief systems in the Christian must become to that upgrade in Him! Is our security in trying to protect we four and no more? Are we coming into an "unbelief' that revels that we unwilling to let go of that security package we have held for so long? I have seen it in so many families the last ten years. Someone is going through something, and they hide it. They say all is good and then you find out these folks were seriously ill to the point of dying. Lying to protect something going on with a family member, the loving member tries to throw sand on it and think it is covered like Moses did! Nothing stays covered if you are lying about something as to a health issue. Why put yourself in a box and be like that wasp who will eat others like him only to die like he did!

We had a small poodle many years ago that she thought she could bury her dog treat in our daughter's boot. And all "the poodle" had was carpet and no dirt,  and she would scratch the carpet with her small paw, and push that same carpet using her nose to cover the treat. YEAH, that did not work at all!

I certainly will not encounter what the wasp encounters when entering a yellow-colored cone shaped object beckoning exploration. I will certainly not share the life experiences that say my neighbors have next door nor will have have the same life experiences my sister and brother-in-law have encountered.

Except one thing like the Eagle Creek Fire of 2017, the people of this small community and many others like this one would relate to it when seeing the hills on fire when someone decided to throw live fireworks on dry brush. Yeah stupid is as stupid does!  But one thing we all must take note in, as I am certain the wasp did, that within in his dire strait fear became real to him.

 And we, a people, can identity with pain, identify with suffering, with rejection, with heartache and loss indeed. We have to know where we have come from to where we are headed. We must know truth and hold that truth. As the body of Christ, I nor may husband can be everyone's rock but we know the Rock and can introduce you to HIM! And you and I can be drawn to other people to embrace them, yes in their hurt and give them truth. For it is only in unity of God's word and prayer do we hold together a people for God. When we do not do that, we are held in bondage of the enemy!

I ask you today to let ago of those days you lived in trenches of abuse, the trenches of hate and bitter resentment, trenches of disease like cancer..., the trenches of trying to protect others in religion instead of in the fear of God for it is God Who has given us life to live that is a good life. He did not come to make people sick, He came to heal!

Proverbs 6:16 These six things the LORD hates, yes, seven are an abomination to Him: 17 a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, 18 A heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, 19 A false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.

There are things that are out of our control and lying is not a way to keep control. We must submit to God, James 4:7 reminds us of this: Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Freedom from demonic assault and oppression is accomplished by submitting to God. It is a complete dependence on His word with a trust of faith that we walk with Him.

I wonder how many will be alarmed to find they lived their life on a lie and that which was false although appearing good and had nothing to do with God?

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A Witness that the Fire is Still Burning

Fire is Still BURNING

Hearing a message on 'faith' today, I was refreshed in the teaching and the greatness of God's word to us. As I meditated on this word found in Mark 10, I thought on Blind Bartimaeus and was rejoicing that many years ago I found this word most uplifting and yes, life-changing. I remember the first time I was prompted by the Holy Spirit to give this message at Chapel for Jail Ministry.
My husband and I were talking about some subject today and as we talked I told him of an encouraging word from this prophet. Although I do not know people to call him that, yet, every word he has given is always one to refresh and encourage. I receive the blogs he writes weekly and how gave this word how God is ready to perform His word. While praying and hearing this word on Bartimaeus, I was seeing that life of Moses and how God had used him. And yes, I have written on this recently and a young friend of ours had been in contact with us that involved this word that was given them years ago and how now it is coming to pass this month! 
So in all this, I heard the Holy Spirit speak of Moses and how God did not blame him for all his mistakes when Moses witnessed the burning bush. Yet, you know man still holds things against you and I. There is still that man who only remembers the one wrong thing you did, but not all the right things you did. When they give you a word to try to encourage they come from the place of where you need forgiveness for the wrong you did .....but thanks be to God who  does not do that......for it is God who blesses indeed. God knows all and is very award of all in the world, but He still wants us to participate with Him........ God still has fire for us telling us we are not burn out nor have we gone without fire!

Exodus 2:11-16  Amp. Bible 11 One day, after Moses was grown, it happened that he went out to his brethren & looked at their burdens; & he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of [Moses’] brethren. 12 He looked this way & that way, & when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian & hid him in the sand. 13 he went out the second day & saw two Hebrew men quarreling & fighting; & he said to the unjust aggressor, Why are you striking your comrade? 14& the man said, Who made you a prince & judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Then Moses was afraid & thought, Surely this thing is known. 15 When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh’s presence & took refuge in the land of Midian, where he sat down by a well. 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughter’s, & they came & drew water & filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

                                                                     

Exodus 3:1-10 Amp. Bible   Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro ,his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; & he led the flock to the back or west side of the wilderness & came to Horeb or Sinai, the mountain of God.    2 The Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; & he looked, & behold, the bush burned with fire, yet was not consumed.

 3 And  Moses said, “I will turn now turn aside & see this great sight, why the bush is not burned. 4 & when the Lord saw he turned aside to see. God called to him out of the midst of the bush & said, Moses, Moses!” & he said, Here am I!”

Exodus 3: 5-10… God said, Do not come near; put your shoes off your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground. 6 Also He said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. 7 & the Lord said, I have surely seen the afflictions of My people who are in Egypt, & have heard their cry because of their taskmasters & oppressors; for I know their sorrows and sufferings and trials.

8 & I have come down to deliver them out of the hand & power of the Egyptians & to bring them up out of that land to land good & large, a land flowing with milk & honey [ a land of plenty] to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite & the Jebusite. 9 Now behold the cry of the Israelites has come to Me & I have also seen how the Egyptians oppress them. 10 come now therefore, & I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth My people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.

                                                                                                      

Now, yes I did just write in this blog on this Moses and I had gotten back this wonderful response of what God continues to do in our lives when we truly abide daily, always connected to the Source of Him! ( this dear one shared the goodness of God and the word given them in a service that they were late for,  and stood at the back of the room, but God met them there in the dark side of the room to speak directly to them..... and He is still operating in their lives today)

Captured by the sight of the burning bush, God certainly heard Moses heart and Moses with the humbled heart would himself turn to see what this burning bush meant. Moses touched God's heart by revering Him. And God gave Moses directions to not come near but do take off your shoes from your feet understanding God is holy and has nothing to do with sin.

God did not take an hour to describe how Moses had let HIM down when he Moses had killed the Egyptian, and God did not remind of all the other past mistakes, God had "this moment" to be speaking with Moses. And on God's heart was the cries of His people. This was given us in verse 9 of chapter 3 of Exodus: " Now behold the cry of the Israelites has come to Me & I have also seen how the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now therefore, & I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth My people, the Israelites, out of Egypt."

When Moses appeared in the wilderness and had come to Median, he had come from the strife of man to live in a place called strife. He would have no ease of life like he had as the son of Pharaoh. If you remember Stephen told us that Moses was educated in all the wisdom and culture of the Egyptians and he was powerful in his speech and deeds. Moses most likely acted like a Prince! (Acts 7:22) But Moses came to the wilderness and had to learn to survive. His clothing would have to be changed to that of a sheepherder.

God revealed the fire still burning. God was still active in Moses' life and Moses' had to see it. I also think it is powerful to see that these people were those as the sons of Abraham, those who had the father of faith. So now, God was sending Moses to his past to reconcile the people of God's eye back to God's personal involvement. Any personal time with God always involves our faith to be active. And it is our faith that pleases God. (Hebrews 11:6) Sometimes you can just be living out your week, when along comes someone who needs a touch from God and you seeing that person, and hearing God's heart you reach out to them in His truth, His love and His power.

Yes, there came that moment of a face off with Pharaoh!

A Face Off with Pharaoh: Exodus 5:1-2 NIV Afterward Moses & Aaron went in & told Pharaoh, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel: “Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.”  2 Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD, that I should obey him & let Israel go? I do not know the LORD & I will not let Israel go."

When man chooses his ways above that of God, he can find himself trying to dig his way out of a miry mess. Bartimaeus heard the crowd of people walking with Jesus and called out, "Son of David have mercy on me!" When one is blind and cannot lead them self out, they need help in a big way. Hearing of Jesus and hearing of His signs and wonders would propel this man to see Jesus and leave his past behind where the blind lead the blind. Bartimaeus had faith in Jesus for his healing.

In looking at the face off of Moses and Aaron with Pharaoh, we find the plagues were presented to him who had the 'hardened heart'. As Pharaoh was considered at that time as the embodiment of the god Horus, the king of the gods of the earth. Pharaoh held a view of himself as he who had a fortified city, he who had the great garrison of soldiers and charioteers, he who had qualified men to drive teams of horses for Pharaoh's advantage and prestige. Their Abrabian horses were bred to be used for the endurance of the run in the harsh and very dry climates of the Egyptian desert.

Still what wealth seen in this place will not make up for the hardness of a heart set for self worship. And Moses would have known the greatness of the special foods, the fabulous dressing apparel, for he experienced them living in Pharaoh's palace. Yet diseases were rampant and plagues were on their way to him who held such arrogance before God and God's people.

For whatever cure for Moses in the wilderness, his acknowledgement of God proved by the humble heart to speak to that which needed a healing from God the healer before the burning bush. 

God showed the burning bush for Moses sake, but the signs and wonders that would come later would indicate God on the scene of His people. Jeremiah 31:2-3 Message Bible.......... This is the way God put it: "They found grace out in the desert, these people who survived the killing. Israel, out looking for a place to rest, met God out looking for them!" God told them, "I've never quit loving you and never will. Expect love, love and more love!

For you who have been given a word years or even decades ago, know that God will not forget what He has spoken and He will perform that word to come to pass in your lifetime. He has chosen this time to do what He, God does for His people's sake.

He does not want to talk you about your past unless you keep bringing it up to others, but repentance means we have turn from wicked ways. We should not desire to trust in our own hearts for it only appears as the heart of the 'fool'. 

Choose this day to continue with your Father God and know He has the right path for you to take. It will be for His glory and to His praise. Lord, help my brothers and sisters in Christ to stay wise and separate from anything that might tempt them away from the high mark You have for their lives. For You our Father God hold the answers and You will most certainly perform them. May my brothers and sisters in Christ walk in those steps You have ordered in the  ministry destined to those who know this word is theirs indeed.......in Jesus' name. Amen

  

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