Preparing in Love

Dear Friends,

Shalom!  This has been a glorious, fast-paced, full of stillness, month.  I will describe below in two sections.  First, a Spiritual Snapshot (in words), and then a Physical Snapshot (in words)… But before I get into all that, I want to pray that you have each had many moments this past month that inspire you and deepen your walk with the LORD … in communion with each other, and I want to invite you for Sukkot and share some of my recent short films with you.

Beckah Shae for Sukkot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPAWurVRBxE

We are having Beckah Shae for Sukkot.  Here is a recent video of hers: 

Please join us on Friday evening, September 29, for a GLORIOUS JOY-FILLED, INSPIRING NIGHT!

Here Are Three New Scenes in my “Goshen Series.” 

Irena Sendler

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CPV8nS2-wg

Feng Shan Ho

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwDkvtRxxk4

Paul Stern

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb5_RXKewIw

Spiritual Snapshots of the Month

Sometimes I can’t tell, and don’t want to tell, the distinctions between the LORD and myself. Being with Him, inside of Him, filled with Him, is all that matters. Swimming in His Sea of Glass, held up by His Righteous Truthfulness, imbued with His Love, is remarkably sustaining and filling. Transparent. Fiery. Flowing. Beautiful. When I “lose Him,” I can slow down, seek His Face, and start again. With no limit to the height of the sky above me, I can soar easily with Him through life’s requirements. When I stumble, my own brazen ceiling limiting my soul, my flight wobbles. Prayerfully, I turn to Yeshua in stillness, walking carefully and watchfully with Him, so He can heal my broken foundations. Then I become “a little more like Jesus, a little less like me.” Smile. It’s always loaves and fishes: I bring whatever I can to His operating table, making myself as available as possible to His Scalpel, and He removes my darkness and multiples His Glory inside of me, many times over. Then I fly higher still. Freedom. It’s always worth the effort and pain.

I had a dream about it last weekend. Flying through walls, ceilings, floors, nothing could stop me … until I got invested in somebody else’s perspective, and then walls became walls, and everything was concrete and impermeable. I had to reconnoiter myself back into Yeshua’s heart, feel my truth within His Truth, then everything opened up again.  

Learning not to be impacted by my differences with people, but only by what the LORD is doing and saying, learning to do and say only what Yeshua is showing me, creates a life without “walls.” It is a tough lesson, I’m not good at it yet, but I’m learning and the effort is worth it. Like the daring young man on the flying trapeze, who could fly through the air “with the greatest of ease,” we can fly through life with Yeshua sustaining us. A little more like Jesus, a little less like me.

Here’s the extended point …

Imagine a time with no water, no food, no shelter, where even the “Goshens” we are creating fail. Imagine a world where we are ONLY but FULLY sustained by spiritual and physical “manna,” living fully in God’s Kingdom in the midst of the other kingdom, inside of Him, living within His Embrace, filled to fulness with the glorious joy-love of Who He Is, knowing exactly how to survive within His Love, sharing it with others. 

In the Exodus, those who were living and walking through the wilderness with Moses, but not fully invested in the LORD, never made it to the Promised Land. Those who were fully delivered from attachments to their pasts, to their old ways, to their “old men,” meaning Joshua and Caleb, entered valiantly.  

We are to be like 

• the “two witnesses” of the Old Testament, Joshua and Caleb.

 (Joshua remained in God’s Presence in the Tent of Meeting even when Moses left.) 

• the “two witnesses” of the Book of Revelation

(Every word out of their mouths defeated some power of the enemy)

• the “five prepared virgins” whose lamps were full of oil

• the ones who were given the vineyard because they honored the Father, the Master

It’s time to prepare.

Physical Snapshots of the Month

Many things have happened this month.  

We have weekly Shabbat gatherings, focusing on what the LORD is highlighting, thanking Him for how our weeks have been “good” and “very good,” bringing each week to prayerful completion in the LORD, with some people also choosing to share their challenges, those areas where the LORD is restoring wholeness in their lives.

The erosion problem on the land is being addressed to the tune of $38,000.  It is a major issue.  If anybody would like to pray into the solution, or would like to contribute to fixing the problem, I would be very grateful!  I can share more information about this with anybody who is interested.  When we are finished we can begin planting, etc.

We have seven new people living on the Land, and now have five trailers, four that are residential, and one that is available for people who come to visit.

One of the residents is helping a lot, and I want to give him a stipend.  If anybody would like to donate into this cause, please let me know.  He is being hugely helpful. 

We had our first visiting worship artists.  Yay, God!  Five Korean worship friends from Israel came to pray and worship and bless the work the LORD is doing here.  

The Native connections continue to develop and grow. I was recently at a First Nations Gathering of Intercessors for Israel. Did you know the following about the ancient Cherokee beliefs and practices?  I sure didn’t! 

(Information from Chief Joseph Riverwind’s book, “That’s What the Old Ones Say,” citing a book by James Adair, an Irish-born Hebrew scholar who lived amongst the Cherokee for 40 years during the early part of the 18th century.)

• The Cherokee name of God is YoHeWaH (YHVH)
• The Cherokee God is a trinity, one being called EloHayM.
• AuDoNiVDu is the word for “Lord.” (close to Adonai)
• Creation took seven days.
• Man was made from Red Clay and the woman made from the first man’s rib.
• There was a great flood that killed the giants but YoHeWah said He would never flood the earth again.
• They have a Patriarch named Aquahami (similar to Abraham)
• The Cherokee keep no idols
• They work six days and rest on one day.
• They don’t eat pork because they consider it unclean.
• They often begin ceremonial songs with “Hallel, Hallelujah!”
• They did not practice divination.  A witch or bad medicine person was supposed to be put to death.
• Cherokee carried a sacred ark before them into battle.
• The Cherokee word for wife is Havah. (Hebrew for Eve is the same word)
• They practiced new moon assemblies and began the New Year with the first sighting of the New Moon around the Spring Equinox.
• They start their days at sundown.
• They had Peace, Sin and Trespass Offerings.
• The High Priests wore white garments with 72 bells, a sleeveless jacket and a breastplate with 12 stones.
• They celebrate Feast Days that closely remember Passover, Feast of First Fruits, Shavuot/Pentecost, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. 

So, God is beginning to flesh out why He wants me to focus on the Cherokee.  I am still waiting upon Him to discover what exactly He wants to do. Meanwhile the connections are growing … and I am amazed.  People ask me how I am, and I stand before them speechless.

At the same time, there is much interest and ministry commotion around my home is Israel…

Praying for Israel … the LORD had told me He was done with mixture in Israel in 2018.  And I continue to see the results of that declaration.  So I am praying that, during all this upheaval, the LORD will again become sovereign over the hearts, souls, and spirits of the Israelis and of Jews around the world.  May we give Him back His proper place in our lives and in our countries.

Much love to everyone!

Shalom!  Shalom!

Remember that I love to hear from you,

Wendy