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TO THE ANNA’S & SIMEON’S
A Fun Word on How God Speaks Through Numbers
NOTE TO THE READERS OF THE QUICKENED WORD: I wrote and
completed this article today, 6/26/02 under the Lord’s
inspiration. I had no idea that Elijah list posted a
parallel Word today about honoring the senior citizens.
It is the work of the Holy Spirit to confirm His Word by
2 or 3 witnesses. It was very obvious to me after having
already written my post, then discovering the parallel
post from Elijah list called, "The Lord Told Me to Honor
This Hidden Army of Warriors…" that this is the season
to bring those hidden in that generation into their
places. Both posts are two pieces of the same puzzle.
May the Lord bring great encouragement to us all as we
understand that His timing is perfect and our promises
are very close. We are truly moving in!
Lovingly,
Sandy
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6/26/02
Hi Loved Ones,
When my son was young, he could not pronounce the name
Nana, our chosen name for his Grandma. He called her
Anna and that name supernaturally stuck and we all call
her Anna to this day.
Anna is my Mom, and she is a wonderful women of God who
spends her life and time on keeping His prophetic Word.
Along side of her own journaling and intimacy with the
Lord, she has also been my silent partner in ministry
and edits my writings. I greatly appreciate her command
of English grammar and also her keen sense of
discernment. She has served me and my ministry all these
years and I am totally assured that any rewards I
receive in heaven, will also be placed in her own
account as well.
I would like to share with you a precious Word that not
only shows how the Lord can speak through numbers, but
is also the Word of the Lord for the Anna’s and the
Simeon’s of today. These Anna’s and Simeon’s are like
the Joshua’s and the Caleb’s who were forerunners, taken
to view the promises and came back with a good report.
They have faithfully waited through 40 years of circling
in the wilderness and now stand with a younger
generation ready to move into the promises. (Luke
2:25-38, Num 14:38)
FREECELL SOLITAIRE
Anna enjoys FreeCell, which is a computer solitaire
game. The game is built so that you carefully align the
cards in order. It is said that if the cards are aligned
properly, it is possible to win every game. It seems
there are endless choices to play with several thousand
FreeCell games. Anna often plays FreeCell at night just
prior to bed, as she works hard during the day on her
rhema and this is a way for her to relax. Being the
precise and methodical person she is, she has chosen to
play these games in order. She will not go to the next
game number until the last one is won. (Isa 28:10)
SUDDENLY
Last month she received a revelation about FreeCell. She
sends me her rhema and here is what she wrote in her
journal: "I awakened early in the morning with the
following going through my mind. The end times are going
to be very similar to playing FreeCell on the computer.
There is steady progress towards winning the game as one
card after another fits into place. The Lord has
everything in His time frame and we are in the count
down time with each step leading ultimately to the very
last one. The last step will be like it is in FreeCell,
when the card is played that unlocks all the other cards
and every card suddenly flies into its place and the
game is over. That’s the way things are going to happen.
The waiting will all be over SUDDENLY!" (Acts 16:26)
When I read her entry, I did not tell her this, but the
Lord placed in my heart that she had waited a long time,
and her card had been on the bottom of the pile. I knew
that one day when the Lord moved her into place, that
end time promises would be fulfilled. I did not know at
that time, but the Lord had a Word to say to us all
through this. Today I received another email from Anna:
"I had an interesting experience on my walk. I have been
stuck on FreeCell #451 for ages. I have really been
praying that the Lord would help me win it. This evening
while walking I was praying about it again and thinking
of the "suddenly" parable connected with it and winning
it and I felt the Lord’s Presence.  So I
really was looking forward to playing tonight. I don't
know how many times I started over and was feeling sad
about it, and wondering why I had felt the Lord’s
Presence. THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN I WON! YEA! And guess
what? It was quickened to me to look up # 451 I’m
going to have a SUDDENLY!"
{end of note}
STRONG’S EXHAUSTIVE CONCORDANCE NUMBERS
I was so overjoyed at this precious parable. She had
looked up the number 451 in the Strong’s Greek
dictionary, and it is the number assigned for the word
Anna! Some may think this is a strange Word, first to
pray for the Lord’s help to win the game, and also to
look up a number in a dictionary. I know that the Lord
Himself led her to ask for His help in winning the game,
and He confirmed it with His Presence, of which she
recognized with anticipation. He loves fellowship with
us in all that we do, and in this particular adventure
He had something to tell us all.
It is important to understand that one can know all the
formulas for how God speaks and yet end up following a
false road of signs. It is only as His Spirit quickens
something, that it comes alive and has application to
our hearts. Not every number is a Word from the Lord,
but those He quickens are.
As we pondered what the same number 451 means in the
Hebrew, I was reminded of part of a promise I’d had
about Anna. In a couple visions, I had seen us herding
cows. I was at the front leading the way, and she was at
the back bringing up the rear. The Hebrew number 451 in
the Strong’s dictionary means the rear or rump of a ram
or bullock. It is first mentioned in Exodus 29:22
speaking about a ram of consecration. Anna has always
lived her life as a forerunner, a sign, a living parable
- and I was downloaded by the Holy Spirit that this Word
for her was also for all the Anna’s and Simeon’s who,
like her, have faithfully waited upon the Lord for His
Words to come to pass.
HONORING OUR ANNA’S AND SIMEON’S
So today I would like to share with you about the Anna’s
and the Simeon’s and give honor to whom honor is due.
These are the faithful senior citizens who have
earnestly waited upon the Lord to fulfill His promises
in their lives. They have walked the way of love,
forsaking their own opportunities in life in order to
serve those younger and help them come into their
callings. They feel old and worn out in their bodies and
in spite of all the odds, still hold on that the Lord
will remain faithful to fulfill that which He has
promised in their own lives.
Simeon in the Bible, (Luke 2:25-38) was promised that he
would not die until he saw the Lord’s Christ. Simeon was
a righteous, devout and spirit-filled man, and he lived
with earnest expectation in his heart for the Messiah.
He was obviously prophetic and upon seeing the Christ
Child, he prophesied over Jesus and mother. Simeon not
only beheld and prophesied over this awesome Child of
promise, he took the Child in his own intimate arms, and
the Child could hear his heart beat.
Anna served the Lord day and night in the temple, being
a servant of the prophetic Word. Her life was dedicated
to the Lord as she lived it in discipline, putting her
flesh upon the altar. Her prayer life knew the intimacy
of dwelling in the courts of her God. Suddenly the very
child Jesus, about Whom were the scriptural promises she
knew by heart, came to the temple. Her joy bubbled over
and she prophesied about Jesus’ life to everyone.
SAVED THE BEST WINE TILL LAST
I have been working upon a scriptural study for my
website about the Sovereignty of God and one of the
subtitles is, "God Does as He Pleases." A few days ago I
heard the Lord say to me, "Yes, I do as I please. And I
have chosen to save the best wine till last." That
promise is wonderful and rich all by itself.
But I want to prophesy to you, Anna’s and Simeon’s, that
you may feel old and tired and like there is no hope
left in your bodies, but the Lord says, "I have saved
the best wine till last." You have been faithful to
wait, bringing up the rear. But the first shall be last
and the last shall be first. Even as the launching of
Jesus’ first public miracle was in turning the water
into the finest of wines, even as they said that wine
was kept till last, so you will go forth to launch a
generation of glory, and through your very own hands
will come forth public miracles.
You think that the generations have passed you by, but
in reality they have been built upon your loving
foundation of intercessory prayer, upon your promises,
upon your hope and earnestness in waiting for God. You
have stood in the gap of "in between", where instead of
a curse coming upon the earth, the Lord has used your
waiting and your service to hang onto a generation of
promise, that they would not be destroyed. You are tired
and have waited long, but the Lord is not finished with
you yet.
He has saved your promises till last, for in their seeds
dwells the power of His quickened Word. He will use you
to behold, prophesy, touch and confirm a manifested
generation for His glory. You shall touch them with your
very own hands and heart. These sons will hear your
heart beat with all your yearnings of your years in
waiting. And they shall come alive with the seeds of
promise that you have so earnestly kept. (John 2:10,
Matt 19:30, Mal 4:5-6, Rom 8:19.)
PRAYER
Lord it is only in Your keeping power of the last 40
years that You could bond together such a powerful union
of three generations of believers. When in the face of
curses from the destroyer, You chose to plant Your seeds
of loving promise into grandparents, parents and
children. And through a weak intercession of sacrificial
love, You have chosen to place Your power upon it and
bring to fruition the promises of three generations for
this prophetic hour in which we live. And yes, You shall
come forth suddenly to fulfill all that You have spoken.
Even as we have been carried by an older generation, we
turn and ask that You will preserve the Anna’s and the
Simeons, and that their lives would be supernaturally
sustained for Your glory. We desperately need them Lord,
for their work is not yet done. We have heard their
hearts beat Lord and we ask that You will sustain them
for not only the fulfillment of Your Word, but also for
our own foundations. Papa, we ask that You will
supernaturally launch them into their place. Fulfill
Your Word and bring them in suddenly. In Jesus Name.
{end of prayer}
Lovingly,
Sandy |
