rhema 9/09/08  SPEAK KINDNESS  IN THE FACE OF DISHONOR

DREAM:  I was standing beside a bed and said something about tomatoes and then my adopted aunt said, “Did you just hear what you said?”  I said, “Yes!  I must be changing, there is hope after all!” I realized it was the first time I had finally said it right.  It had something to do with grammar and saying something appropriately. 

INSERT TOMATO:  LOVING KINDNESS

BOB JONES ON KINDNESS, IN THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT:
“It was the tomato. It was big {shaped} like a heart. All kind of seeds in it. Big hearted. Kindness means very generous. More than just money, it means time. Very generous in all the ways.”

Gal 5:22-26 NKJV

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

VISION;  I saw an angel that I have seen many times throughout the years. He said, “Pour it out family.  I want you to come out; running teams go with me for 9 days.”

INTERP:  When I heard nine days, I immediately thought 9 equals the fruits of the Spirit and the gifts of the Spirit.  When I woke I realized that today is 9/09, which represents double portion of both fruit and gifts.  I feel this is a Word for the year 2009. 

HEARD:  Watch. 

PIX:  I saw the action of walking down some stairs into a basement. 

{That is a word pun for abasement.}

Phil 4:11-13  nkjv

Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: 12 I know how to be abased , and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

1 Cor 4:9-13  NKJV

For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men. 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored! 11 To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless. 12 And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; 13 being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.  

HEARD:  Watch.  Lakeland. 

PIX:  I saw I was driving into a cemetery. 

HEARD:  Humility. 

WORD TO PONDER:  SPEAK KINDNESS  IN THE FACE OF DISHONOR 9/09/08

Beloved when you are ridiculed, mocked for appearing foolish, dishonored for your radical faith, reviled and accused... agree with your accusers in humility and die to pride, self defense, argument, strife.  Instead speak kind words, showing forth My loving kindness to a lost people “rich” in unbelief.  They are kept through your choices to forgive, guard and release them from judgment.  If you hurl unkind words back to them, it releases devils to destroy their lives, and they become even more blind. 

I show forth My loving kindness to generations of wayward sons.  It is through My kindness that I draw them to repentance.  I long for sons, those who will know Me as Abba Father.  Love others as your own family, treat them kindly and I will gather them.

Ps 89:30-37  NKJV

"If his sons forsake My law  and do not walk in My judgments,  If they break My statutes And do not keep My commandments,  Then I will punish their transgression with the rod, And their iniquity with stripes.  Nevertheless My loving kindness I will not utterly take from him, Nor allow My faithfulness to fail.  My covenant I will not break, Nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips.  Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David:  His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before Me;  It shall be established forever like the moon, Even like the faithful witness in the sky."

Rom 2:4 AMP

Or are you [so blind as to] trifle with and presume upon and despise and underestimate the wealth of His kindness and forbearance and long-suffering patience? Are you unmindful or actually ignorant [of the fact] that God's kindness is intended to lead you to repent ( to change your mind and inner man to accept God's will)?