RHEMA 4/04/12  WASHING DISHES BY HAND

HEARD:  You have the opportunity to come and do good.  Go.  Overcome.  Please be free.  Your Father has need of you.  Message.

IMPRESSION:  I perceived the name message was spelled MESSage.  And I was reminded of the Word the Lord recently gave me about MESSages.  I was pondering on whether I should share that MESSage on the www.

HEARD: Yes on the web.

CONFIRMATION:  In the middle of the night and in the dark, as I am doubting about putting it on the web, my wall heater clicks on and its power surge turned on my Tiffany lamp in my bedroom.  OK Lord, I got the point.    

PARABLE:  Our dishwasher broke and we bought a new one yesterday.  We are having to wash dishes by hand and this was quickened to me that right now the Lord is asking me to wash certain individual mindsets about their certain ways of thinking.  I have been praying earnestly that if I have any incorrect mindset about Him and His Word, that He please help me see them and make adjustment. 

TODAY’S CONFIRMATION:  Today’s Family Circus!

QUICKENED WORD :  Today at lunch I said, “I dont really mind washing dishes individually by hand, if it convinced me and reassured me that buying a new dish washer was the right choice.”  As soon as I said that, I realized it was a Word from the Lord.  A few weeks ago Wayne mentioned that we needed a new dishwasher, as it did not drain.  I said it might just be soap filling the holes so we needed to wait to be sure.  He said, “Well I think this is warning and we will have to wash dishes by hand if we dont order one now, because it takes a week to have one installed.”  It drained the next cycle and so we didnt buy one. 

INTERPRETATION:  In my older rhema washing dishes has to do with washing our minds that are set against certain ways God feeds us.  He speaks in many ways and some of them are tough to swallow and hard to understand.  Our tendency is to leave it on our plate and it gets old and stuck there because we don’t deal with it.  Too much soap is condemnation and I have not been sure if a certain mindset I have might be wrong, or I am facing condemnation that just needs to be washed away. 

RHEMA 3/08/09 EACH CARRY HIS OWN WASHING LOAD

DREAM: I walked into a huge dish washing area where everyone had left dirty dishes stacked and heaped all over the place. The long kitchen counters were built in long rows. There were rows of counters contained about 5 sinks deep and about 9 sinks across. This place appeared to be kitchen units for a cooking class of some sort.

I watched everyone leave after eating in the other room and I was left with the mess. I could not see the counters or sinks for the dirty dishes. I realized that the clean up duty was way too much for me and so I came up with a organized plan to get each unit responsible for their own messes, to keep them clean and intact with their area. There were 4 gals that were willing to help me.

First we were going to gather all the cups and put them in one dishwasher together. And the dishes would go in another dishwasher. The knives in another. And we would just keep filling each dishwasher with the same item. Then after they were clean, we would go through each kitchen stall’s units and make sure they each had the same equipment to start, with nothing missing. Later when the student cooks came back they would all have their own equipment ready for them.

I also organized their placement. The older leaders were the farthest away from the front, at the end of the rows. And the younger classmates were closest to the front. This way the leaders could keep an eye on the younger ones and still face front towards what was going on.

Gal 6:4-5 AMP

But let every person carefully scrutinize and examine and test his own conduct and his own work. He can then have the personal satisfaction and joy of doing something commendable {in itself alone} without {resorting to} boastful comparison with his neighbor. For every person will have to bear (be equal to understanding and calmly receive) his own {little} load{of oppressive faults}.

GET THE MONKEYS OFF YOUR BACK 11/17/11

VISION: I opened up the garbage can door and suddenly I had the sense of being an elephant and I rolled my back over like an elephant would and dumped some banana peels off into the trash. This represents getting rid of the monkey on my back. A reader sent me a Word last week about cleaning dirty dishes and garbage in the kitchen is about washing the residue of stuck mindsets off. This was quickened to me that sometimes when we carry the burden of the Word of the Lord, monkeys climb on our backs too and we need to get rid of the monkeys and their slippery banana peels.

PARABLE:  When we shopped to choose a dishwasher, they price them based on the decibels and noise that they make in the room. I felt this was a parable of God doing correction quietly behind the scenes and also with a quiet and gracious spirit.

2 Tim 2:25-26 NLT

Gently instruct those who oppose the truth. Perhaps God will change those people's hearts, and they will learn the truth. Then they will come to their senses and escape from the devil's trap. For they have been held captive by him to do whatever he wants.