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RHEMA 3/01/10 TEACHERS & RABBIT TRAILS UNITE!
QUICKENED COMMENT FROM A READER: RABBIT TRAIL
“I have always
been known as a good speaker and encourager. I was a
school teacher for years, and have taught an occasional
adult S.S. class. I believe part of my hesitation with
God regarding courage to just "do it" has to do with my
concern of being too detailed. I am known as a good
story teller but know I can be too wordy. Through my
years in the valley, shut away in my bedroom (due to
illness), I had time to see parts of myself I didn't
like, such as being too outgoing and verbal. Now,
knowing He is preparing me for an amazing testimony
about Who He was to me and how He brought me through.”
{End reader comment}
RESPONSE FROM SANDY:
Teachers
have the gift to be DETAILED. That is the nature of
their gifting. They micromanage everything in regards
to what they have to say, and every little thing is very
special and important to the whole theme. They LOVE
rabbit trails and have a great ability to weave them in
on little side bars and then come right back to the
point. The LORD loves rabbit trails, He put them in
your heart to share at that exact moment, and you are
following His anointing by being His river. A river
slows down in some places, it might gently circle around
some point, then it continues to move forward at a
different pace. It can bump over rocks and get narrowed
down to slim channel.
BOTTOM
LINE: You go girl! Don’t let condemnation put you into
that squashed corner. You go where you are celebrated
and not tolerated. Some people, will not always
understand your way of communicating, they want the
bullets, and bottom line point. They rarely want to
spend the time listening to the rabbit trails. But God
put those rabbit trail inside of you for HIS purpose.
You follow God, not man.
May the
Lord bless and raise up His victorious teachers in Jesus
might Name!
{End
comment from Sandy}
HEARD: Who I am. You’re
important. Conversation. Conversation rabbit trail.
Assurance. I found you. Can you talk to me? About who
I am?
RHEMA 5/30/97
RABBIT TRIALS TELL STORIES
HEARD: Story in the book.
Rabbit trail. You did a nice job on this. I
love it.
RHEMA
10/25/01 SHARE YOUR TESTIMONY
PIX:
I saw my going around a car
and pulling along side another larger car with a very
distinguished grey headed man was looking at me. His
face was very sunburned as though he had been in the
glory.
HEARD: Honey wake up the
kids or a friend? Both. Supernatural arousing. Let’s
get this show on the road.
HEARD: And it was quite a
story. Measured portions. Will you erase it? Can’t
erase. It’s recorded for posterity. Why? So that you
will know My faithfulness. A long story. I was with
you all the way.
HEARD: One way or another,
it was a powerful storm. And she made it all the way
through. Rabbit trail. No telling what she’ll
do. What’s the difference? The difference is Spirit
led.
WORD TO PONDER: TIME IN A
BOTTLE 1/03/05
My Beloved, I have saved your
time in a bottle and recorded all your journey. I have
treasured every step you have taken in your pursuit to
overcome and be with Me. All your tears, all your
smiles, all your rabbit trail and all your bull’s eyed
targets… they are all numbered one by one. Each a
treasure safely tucked away in the deep recesses of My
heart. How I cherish your innocent trust in Me, My
Beloved.
Like a bottle tossed into the
sea, you cast your prayers upon the waters of life and
waited for the return of your harvest. In those lost
and lonely times when you saw no return and continued to
span the horizon, you did not give up hope. You waited
as an innocent child while I found your bottle and held
your heart in safe keeping as you continued to hold on
to your faith. I AM the High Priest Who has been
touched by your deepest wishes. I have prayed you
through your darkest hours and I understand those things
you have carefully tucked inside your time of waiting
within that bottle. When I think of time and eternity,
I think of spending it with you.
Ps 56:8-13 NKJV
You number my wanderings; Put
my tears into Your bottle ; Are they not in Your book?
When I cry out to You, Then my enemies will turn back;
This I know, because God is for me. In God (I will
praise His word), In the LORD (I will praise His
word), In God I have put my trust; I will not be
afraid. What can man do to me? Vows made to You are
binding upon me, O God; I will render praises to You,
For You have delivered my soul from death. Have You not
kept my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In
the light of the living?
CONFIRMATION 3/27/10:
I was determined to start digging deeper into the rhema
He has said to me, so I had collected the first word of
the month that was quickened to me which was, “rabbit
trail.” One of the ways I felt to dig was to gather all
the times in my data base where I had heard that Word
and see if I have missed something He is wanting to
say. So today I was harvesting March rhema and I
wondered if this was important to the Lord for me to
“cook” the word rabbit trail into a Word, and asked Him.
By the end of the day, I heard 2 different people say
“rabbit trail!” One was a speaker on a DVD who said
“Listen to this rabbit trail, it is very, very
important!” When I mentioned it to Wayne, he smiled and
said that he thought of me when he heard the fellow
mention rabbit trails.
FAMILY CIRCUS: I
am reminded of an old cartoon in Bill Keane’s Family
Circus. Billy is asked to do something. So you see him
leaving the house to do something and then there is a
dotted line where you see he had climbed the fence, up
the tree, around the neighborhood and then back home. I
don’t remember if he was asked to go to the store or
what, but the scene is vividly in my mind!
WORDS
OF WISDOM: In our
fast food society, we want the quick heavenly
drive-through happy meal. But God likes us to wander
through His garden, pick the spices, crush them between
our fingers and smell their aroma. He wants us to knead
His bread and let it rise. Finally, He wants us to turn
on the flame and sear His meat to perfection. There is
simply no comparison. Yes it takes time. But given the
choice, I would rather linger with God.
OPENED SMELL:
Just as I finished writing the above, He opened my sense
of smell and I smelled sizzling steaks on a BBQ.
Deut
8:3-4 NKJV
So He
humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with
manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know,
that He might make you know that man shall not live by
bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of the LORD.
HEARD {as I was posting
this}: She may not know where she is going,
but she sure does a good job of it!
[The Lord
is so funny!]
CONFIRMATION UPDATE 4/28/10: I was listening to
Stacey Campbell this week on God TV and she mentioned,
“Now back to the point!” She grinned and said that she
preaches like a girl, going all over the place before
getting to the point. She said those other places were
needed and important.
I also
heard Bobby Conner say he preached in bunny trails.
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