rhema 1/23/09  EMOTIONAL CRUTCHES

HEARD:  I am training you.  Balance.

[I woke up with a headache after eating too many salty crackers last night.  The first portion was fine to take with my meds, but I had a second portion and I knew I did not need it, it was only appetite that I ate them.]

WAYNE’S WORD:  He saw a large place with rafters and all these woven wicker stools stacked one on top of another.  I knew this was related to the following lines in a poem.  I sent them to a person a couple days ago who was trying to get rid of an emotional crutch in his life. 

From flaming the fires to burning the dross
My heart tumbles and turns as the tares are tossed.
Dear God I need my stool to be stable
Let me rest and lean as I am able.

Is it so wrong to need this stool?
I hope I have not missed it - that I am no fool.
My heart cries to You to help me through it.
It is in Your lap that I crave to sit.

He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with uquenchable fire.  [/quote]

QUICKENED:  The loft reminds me of the harvesting barn where the Lord has separated the tares from the wheat in our lives.  The fact that the stools were made of a basket weaving was also quickened to me.  Weaving a basket represents waiting on the Lord.  Baskets are created by binding together by twisting.

Isa 40:31

But those who wait {6960} on the LORD Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint. 

HEBREW  WAIT

OT:6960

OT:6960 qavah (kaw-vaw'); a primitive root; to bind together (perhaps by twisting), i.e. collect; (figuratively) to expect:

KJV - gather (together), look, patiently, tarry, wait (for, on, upon).

POSSIBLE INTERPRETATION:  The Lord is taking away our emotional crutches, leaning posts/ stools so that we will lean upon Him.  However in the process, He is accepting them as sacrifices unto Him when we give them up and He converts our sacrifice as good fruit to preserve.  Due to economy and shakings, many are in the process of giving up many emotional crutches in the world, and waiting upon Him to replace them with His provision instead.  This is pleasing the Lord.

1 Cor 10:23-24 NKJV

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify.

1 Cor 10:31 NKJV

Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.