TIME IN A BOTTLE

[Our Deepest Wishes Are Collected in His Bottle]

HEARD [1/03/05] Intercession. Did I mention that I love you? A standing ovation. Intercession groan. How can I help you? Things have been very tough on you. Beneath you a 100%.

VISION: A friend received this vision while in prayer for me and sent it to me today: "I saw a green wine bottle turned on its side with a cork in it. The neck of the bottle was pointed to the left. It was empty of wine, but had a paper note inside rolled up."

INTERPRETATION: This vision had meaning to me because when I turned all of my son's scrapbooks into a condensed computer generated family album, one of my favorites pages was called, Time in a Bottle.

In the photo, my son and his bride-to-be were sitting on a bench at the beach and they were holding a green bottle. It was empty with a cork and the bottle was on its side. Inside they had placed a rolled up piece of paper with a message. I named the page Time in a Bottle because I knew the piece of paper was significant as a message of a snapshot of time. After they took the photo, they climbed out on the rocks and found a perfect place to throw the bottle into the deep water.

As I looked at the next photo of them tossing the bottle, the Holy Spirit brought this scripture to mind: "Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days." (Eccl 11:1 NKJV)

After I received the vision in an email, I called my son and asked him what they had written in the bottle. I felt that it would be significant. He said that they told whoever found the bottle, they were praying for that person and they included a scripture about the sea.

In high school, I once wrote a proverb and decoupaged it onto a hunk of redwood and hung it on the wall. It said, "A prayer is simply love entrusted to Jesus, which is then given to that person in the best form possible."

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CONFIRMATIONS UPDATE: Only a few days later I was watching ice dancing on TV and the Lord alerted me to the fact that the man was ice skating to the old song, Time in a Bottle. I had forgotten there was an old song with the title when I titled my son's scrapbook page. I felt quickened to find the words to the song. When I read the words, it was extra special to me because my friend who sent me the vision, sent it to me on the day of my 29th anniversary.

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?

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TIME IN A BOTTLE

Words and Music by Jim Croce

If I could save time in a bottle

The first thing that I'd like to do

Is to save every day

Till Eternity passes away

Just to spend them with you.

If I could make days last forever,

If words could make wishes come true,

I'd save every day like a treasure and then,

Again, I would spend them with you.

But there never seems to be enough time

To do the things you want to do.

Once you find them

I've looked around enough to know

That you're the one I want to go

Through time with.

If I had a box just for wishes

And dreams that had never come true.

The box would be empty

Except for the memory

Of how they were answered by you.

But there never seems to be enough time

To do the things you want to do.

Once you find them

I've looked around enough to know

That you're the one I want to go

Through time with.

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CONCLUSION

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{Words to Ponder are summaries of His quickened Words of prophetic revelation, punched with the word of wisdom and written under inspiration.}

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 treasured every step you took in your pursuit to overcome and be with Me. All your tears, all your smiles, all your rabbit trails and all your bull's eyed targets are all numbered. 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 onto your faith. I AM your High Priest Who has been touched by your deepest wishes. I have prayed you through your darkest hours during your time of waiting, and I understand those things you carefully tucked inside the bottle. When I think of earthly time and eternity, I think of spending it with you, My bride.

Ps 56:8-13 NKJV