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RHEMA 4/20/97: LOVED BUT
REBUKED
QUICKENED
rebuke: Today at the grocery store
(market) I had
reached in to get my pen to write a check. It was not
anywhere in my purse. I was feeling very low (and
hopeless) about writing and saw it as a sign that the
enemy was trying to steal my pen and thus writing. I
muttered under my breath, “It’s probably a parable.”
Wayne heard me and quickly rebuked me saying, “Don’t be
like that!” He is rarely so strong with me, and I
wondered what exactly he meant. He said, “Where
everything is a demon or everything is a parable or a
sign.”
A couple minutes later the cashier asked me if I had a
coupon for the pop. I said, “No.” It was not a sad no
or a disgruntled no, it was simply no. The cashier said
a quick, “Don’t be so negative.” He had a little
cherub grin on his face and I wondered if he had heard
the exchange between Wayne and I. In that brief moment
I did not believe he heard a word of it. The Lord had
simply filled his mouth, like Wayne ’s. As the cashier
grinned he punched in a 60¢ coupon into the register. I
thanked him and was kind of stunned that the Lord would
rebuke me so suddenly. I was comforted by it in a
strange kind of way.
In the car I explained the Lord’s rebuke to Wayne
and what had occurred and also a correction in what he
had said that not everything was a sign or a demon, only
what is quickened. I said, “I can hardly
wait to look up the number 60 when I get home.”
[The coupon was for 60¢] But I had forgotten by
the time we got home. About 45 minutes later Wayne
came in while I as working on the computer and asked me
what 60 meant! He was taking a bath and started
thinking about it! So we looked it up. I
laughed when I read it.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
60 agoraios {ag-or-ah'-yos}
¤ from 58;; adj
¤ AV - baser sort 1, law 1; 2
¤ 1) in, of or belonging to the
market place 2)
frequenting the market place 2a) hucksters, petty
traffickers, retail dealers 2b) idlers, loungers, the
common sort, low, mean vulgar 3) generally, proper to
the assembly, suited to forensic speaking, business-like
transactions
060 'ebel {ay'-bel}
¤ from 056; TWOT - 6a; n m
¤ AV - mourning 24; 24
¤ 1) mourning 1a) for the dead 1b) for rites of mourning
(metaph) 1c) mourning garb 1d) period of
mourning
UPDATE 4/21/97 [The next day] Today I found my
pen on the table. It was not lost, simply misplaced.
It was an encouragement to find it.
HEARD: Trust Me.
Prov 13:12
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the
desire comes, it is a tree of life.
WORD TO PONDER: CEASE MOURNING
You have suffered a long season of mourning, for
your spirit grew heavy with the pain of delay. I tell
you to cease mourning for it is the dawn of a new day. I
have broken through with My light and will turn your
mourning into morning. I give a brand new start for a
brand new day.
“Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring
forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in
the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.” (Isaiah 43:19
KJV)
“To proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of
the prison to those who are bound; 2 To proclaim the
acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of
our God; to comfort all who mourn, 3 To console those
who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the
oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the
spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of
righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be
glorified.” (Isaiah 61:1-3 NKJV)
UPDATE: After 13 long years of waiting and
preparation, the Lord launched me into public writing
ministry 2 months later. Smile!
BEING SENT TO THE MARKET PLACE
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