RHEMA NEXT PHASE OF BUILDING:  MOVING FORWARD AFTER A DELAY   2/27/08

HEARD:  Photo it down.  Unusually quiet. 

Insert DID THE WIND STOP MOVING?

RHEMA 2/22/08  WOA, HOW SLOW IS SLOW?

Heard:  Stop.  Did the wind stop?  Halted.  Everyone halts with you.  What colors are in your coloring box? 

John 3:8 NKJV

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit." 

INTERP:  As to the above allegory about God and His box of crayons, if we limit God into too small of a place, it eventually stops our progress. 

PARABLE:  I have my grandson’s highchair in a different room than where I feed him.  So when it is time for dinner, I put him in his chair and wheel him into the other room.  This week I put him in his chair, and moved him about 3 feet and then stopped.  It was a tight squeeze and I had leaned down to straighten out some chairs and the rug.  I guess I took too long, because suddenly he turned around in his chair to look at me, wondering why he was no longer moving forward!

PARABLE:  I spent a miserable 3 days trying to cram a huge 73 meg file together and put it onto my tiny pocket pc. The traditional ways did not work, and neither did other alternatives.  I had wanted that foundational file for several years and never figured out a way to get it over and usable.  I was determined I could find a way it could work.  Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong and I must have crashed my machine at least 50 times in 3 days.  One of my friends also lost his computer and files the same week at work and was trying to recover them at the same time. 

CONFIRMATION AND PARABLE:  That same week I had a forum reader send me an email entitled:  “What?  No Posts?”  I was tempted to write back and say, “I’ll tell you what: NO COMPUTER!”  But I got my sense of humor back so I refrained.  (Smile)

After a lot of prayer, determination and time, I am happy to report I got the file transferred over and it works great.  It was through a totally different means than I had tried before, so I knew it was the Holy Spirit that gave me the idea.  Both my computer and PPC lived through it and are all clean, streamlined and backed up.  I felt the parable was saying that sometimes our brains are fixed in boundaries way too small and it is not until we become desperate that we are willing to pay the cost to find a different way to resolve an issue or need.    

HEARD continued:  I agree with you, it’s time.  Enough is enough.  Foundations.  In union with Him.  Forward march.  All the way.  A genuine calling.   Pure.  Much to observe, much to walk out.  Carried you to your goal.  To be with Me. 

PARABLE:  I had been praying over the foundations of two Christian internet companies; I was concerned that changing foundations would upset the apple carts.   I prayed that they had been built in the best way to handle the next phase of growth without tampering with them.  So I was grateful to hear the above Word about foundations.

WORD TO PONDER: NEXT PHASE OF BUILDING MOVING FORWARD  2/27/08

I have been bringing the foundations of My work to a level, stable place, and durable enough to carry the weight of increase.  Beloved you are set and ready.  I AM moving you forward, all the way.  Listen well, walk well, and trust Me well.  For I AM carrying you to your goal.  I know the plans I have for you, it is for your good, and not for disaster.  My plans are to give you a future and a hope. 

Jer 29:10-14 NLT

...Then I will come and do for you all the good things I have promised, and I will bring you home again. For I know the plans I have for you," says the LORD. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me in earnest, you will find me when you seek me.  I will be found by you," says the LORD. "I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and bring you home again to your own land."