You are blessed to be a blessing...this has been ringing through my mind for you Val and anyone here whom loves the LORD our GOD and each other....and it is not a coincedence that the Spirit of the LORD lead me back to this post...this verse has been ringing through my pea pickin brain for a week now.

Just think about it for a second. The God of all the Heavens and Earth came down and made himself a lttle lower than angels. He came down to sacrafice his life to give us LIFE IN HIM.

He is Living within us...the HOLY SPIRIT.
When we hand something over to another in Giving without wanting gain....but giving joyfully without even expecting or wanting reward...just out of the gift of giving that GOD gives us....by his POWER without Jesus we are lost and confused with his Power comes Grace and Humility and love.

Just think on this...first comes God's love. GOD LOVED US FIRST.For God so loved the WORD that he gave his only begotten son.

The son then gives us all an opportunity and priviledge to work and obey and joyfully to surrender and be a part of his Kingdom through HIS LOVE and HIS GRACE and FREE GIFT TO US ALL.

What an exciting opportunity to share the LOVE OF GOD. even in ministry to HAND THAT OVER to ONE WHOM NEEDS TO KNOW THAT THEY ARE NEEDED IN HIS KINGDOM TOO...we gladly give it to them not of ourselves but through the HOLY SPIRIT...not for our GLORY but for God's glory. the mentoring concept...of passing it on, and the multiplying for Christ is the TRUE FISHERMAN....and sends us forth and gives us opportunity and the words to speak and the gift of grace to share...HE IS ALL IN ALL


this person then realizes wow they gave me opportunity to show GOD's LOVE passing the ministry of God's grace and HIS WORD and TRUTH by laying it all down to Jesus and yet obeying by just walking through it all..all the storms that come against us letting go of our control knowing the PROVISION and VICTORY is alreay won and God will lead us where he will when he wants and where he wants and to whom he wants..not of me because HE IS THE LIFE and RESURRECTION of every soul surrendered TO HIM...just as GOD gave Jesus and Jesus gave us...what a concept...PAYING IT FORWARD. and the multiplying of his goodness and mercy and truth.

to give without wanting to be recognised, to give because the Father has given us GRACE TO GIVE and GRACE TO LOVE...what a wonderful goodness of our Father whom loves the son, and the son loves the Father, and the Father and the Son LOVE YOU, and ME. GIVING AND RECEIVING HEALING THE POWER OF GOD.

Now I can understand, that Elijah gave it to Elisha....he wanted him to experience the JOY OF GIVING without fear. THE JOY OF THE LORD IS OUR STRENGTH.

and as ABRAHAM was given the seed that LEAD TO CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD...he couldn't go over into the promise land...and GOD gave him peace to place it forward to future generations for the KING OF KINGS TO come, riding on a donkey.

JESUS GAVE HIS ALL FOR US...ALL HIS LOVE, MERCY AND TRUTH

He is walking right in front of us....when we reach him the TRUTH IS REVEALED through his WONDOUROUS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND TRUTH AND LIFE...
when we give we receive...when we reach out we forget about self but are embraced in HIS LOVE and POWER.

and therefore he tells us it is better to give than receive..for by giving is when we are rewarded and the HEALING BEGINS...

much love from the LORD our GOD TO YOU AND ALL HERE...blessings in the Name of JESUS OUR LORD and SAVIOR.

I'm starting to understand this word l received more now..."Inside out" What's been hidden by the calloused sinful heart...that little spark and candle. (This is part of the Pacific NW storm post...)

Lot's of times we can't see what's going on on the inside of someone (or nations) because of appearances...But He's turning.....

Blindsidedness will become eyeopening.

Jacob is about to have their own "on the road to" Bethel experience!

This is the hope...

For every man..to have an encounter of their own and not rely on what there father told them

but to see with there own eyes the provision...

For men to have confirmation of purpose

and that purpose to enlighten the road ahead! Let it be so God!...

(A wrestling match will soon follow.)

I grew sunflowers and everlastings...and fruit..Actually..lots of things.

Just as Jacob turned his face from Christ...So Christ turned his face from Jacob. And the last of those 6 hours on the cross where the worst.

In the days ahead the last will be the worst...but then..as with the first resurrection...hope will spring alive. When all seems lost many will recognize their lost opportunity.

The song says;

Long ago He blessed the earth.....(through the Jew the Christian came to be) A life of homeless wandering
Cast out in sorrow's way (the wilderness experience)

Then the song reflects on Jesus. You can read this Jewish Christian experience through the whole song if you choose.

But what God was showing me is that he will turn his face away in the darkest hour. But it's in the turning away the hope is reborn...Just like Christs death...

Many will be brought low but not lost. Once again through Jacob (now Israel) many Gentiles will find the light of life.

This picture for me is so poignant... Centuries of grief and pain...

Like a child who'd dressed himself...shirt turned inside out and backwards...now righted and cleansed...Seeing what it's really suppose to look like!