INTERCESSION OVER WILD SONS AND THE FEAR OF THE LORD 7/07/09

HEARD:  Your brother.  You still defend him.   I want you to tell him something for me.

COMMENTS:  This intercession was in regards to a brother who continued to return to sin and begged for my prayers for healing and deliverance.  I have felt that unless he developed his own deep sense of desperation and temperance, he would not have the will to keep out the demons should he be delivered, and 7 much worse demons would come in instead.  So I have earnestly prayed and waited on the Lord instead.  I have known it was an intercession for many in the same place, not just this one person.

Matt 12:43-45 NKJV

"When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none.  Then he says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.' And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.  Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation." 

HEARD:  I have your T-shirts.

PIX:  I saw many T-shirts laid out flat with their arms stretched out and I thought they looked like being stretched out on crosses.

Matt 16:24-26 NKJV

Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.  For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

HEARD:  To be washed.

Zech 3:3-4 NKJV

Now Joshua  was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the Angel. Then He answered and spoke to those who stood before Him, saying, "Take away the filthy garments from him." And to him He said, "See, I have removed your iniquity from you, and I will clothe you with rich robes."

Rev 3:4-5  NKJV

You have a few names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white, for they are worthy.  5 He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments , and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. 

PIX:  I saw a wire scour pad.

HEARD:  Captain. 

Josh 5:13-15 KJV

 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? 14 And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? 15 And the captain of the LORD's host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.

DIVINE SIGN:  The whole time I was pondering this rhema, there has been a thunder and lightning over our house.  The fear of God has been trembling inside of me with every thunder boom.  It continued to move over our house, make a wide circle and then come from the back of the house and then directly overhead again.  It made this circle several times before finally moving on. 

Both Wayne and I felt it was a Word from the Lord about fearing Him.  We were not afraid of the storm.  There was no wind at our level and not much rain.  But we could feel the atmosphere charged with electrical ions and the thunder was so loud and strong that we could feel the reverberations in our hearts, just like subwhoofers cause in loud stereo speakers.

PIX:  I saw a red 3 wheeler motorcycle.

The 3 wheeler is significant.  A normal vehicle rides on 4 tires.  It is as though this wheeler lost one of its legs.

Matt 18:8-9 NKJV

"If your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life lame or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into the everlasting fire. 

HEARD:  Put it in gear and move past the past.  Bringing sons into alignment. 

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PARABLE UPDATE 7/11/09:  I watched a movie tonight called Flicka.  It was about a girl who earnestly defended a wild mustang horse.  This caught my attention because I have visions and rhema in the past about wild mustangs who represent the wild and independent sons whom the Lord has been long suffering in drawing them, lassoing and bringing them in.  In the movie, her father did not want the mustang horse on his farm as it would pollute his line of thoroughbreds if they crossbred.  I saw the parable of how the Lord wants a holy people to live in His holy place, and not to be contaminated by the spirit of the world. 

In the end, on a stormy night, a mountain lion attacked the mustang and brought it down, along with the girl riding it.  (I thought of the parable of the enemy being a devouring lion.)  The family searched and brought her home and she came down with a 103 fever.   No one on the ranch would go shoot the horse to put it out of its misery, as they all knew how the girl cared for that horse. 

Finally the dad said he would go shoot it.  Before he got out the door, the girl rose from her sick bed, with deep circles under her eyes, and wet hair bedraggled from the stormy night.  She stood at the top of the stairs and saw her Dad with the gun and coat in hand.  She said, “It’s OK Daddy, you can shoot us.”  And then she turned around and went back to bed. 

This stunned me, because prior to this, as I was listening to the Dad speak about the horse and putting it out of its misery, I asked in my mind, “And would you shoot your daughter too, to put her out of hers?”  He had been very unrelenting in his refusal to allow this horse to be on his ranch of Thoroughbreds.  So when she stood at the top of the stairs and said such a statement, my spirit opened and I understood the parable.  It tore at my heart to see this reenactment of what it meant to defend the wild, runaway sons, who refuse to be tamed, who stay independent, and who are subject to the devouring lion.  The Father demands separation of the holy ones, that their line not be contaminated with wild blood.  I understood the difference between the Holy Place and those who are walking in sin and barely live in the outer court.  These wild sons will learn the fear of God and He will circle over their lives until they make their decision to relent or be lost.

Job 22:30 NKJV

He will even deliver one who is not innocent; Yes, he will be delivered by the purity of your hands.

Ps 106:23  NKJV

Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach, to turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them. 

Ex 32:14 NKJV

So the LORD relented from the harm which He said He would do to His people.

Ezek 22:30-31 NKJV

So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. 31 Therefore I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed their deeds on their own heads," says the Lord GOD.

Jer 5:1 AMP

RUN TO and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now and take notice! Seek in her broad squares to see if you can find a man [as Abraham sought in Sodom], one who does justice, who seeks truth, sincerity, and faithfulness; and I will pardon [Jerusalem — for one uncompromisingly righteous person]. [Gen 18:22-32.] 

Heb 2:10-13 NKJV

For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. 11 For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 saying: "I will declare Your name to My brethren; In the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You." 13 And again: "I will put My trust in Him."  And again: "Here am I and the children whom God has given Me..."  

Heb 2:16-18 NLT

...We all know that Jesus came to help the descendants of Abraham, not to help the angels. 17 Therefore, it was necessary for Jesus to be in every respect like us, his brothers and sisters, so that he could be our merciful and faithful High Priest before God. He then could offer a sacrifice that would take away the sins of the people. 18 Since he himself has gone through suffering and temptation, he is able to help us when we are being tempted.

PS: The Dad could not bring himself to shoot the horse, instead he called the vet and they brought him back to health once again. And yes, the horse stayed on the ranch in its own corral. (smile)