Walking the Passage: No weapon formed.................

Friday, February 21, 2014

No weapon formed.................

No Weapon Formed Against Me Will Prosper.... Part 1

Transparency used to come to me with greater ease then it does these days. The desire and hunger to create pathways of vulnerability and places of safety course throughout all that I am. I completely buy into the reality that the things we are not talking about, those things we lock safely deep within us and compartmentalize , contain toxins and their poison seeps into our very beings and alters who it is that we are most intrinsically.

The cost of transparency has gotten daunting though. I hear the whispers of worldly wisdom shouting in my ear to play it safe. The taunting of what will people think or what will I lose if I speak or share what is really in my heart.

But in these days I try to remember that actually the cost of morphing myself in the past was actually much larger. The lack of transparency was almost my undoing. Because the truth is I have lost equally as much at times from sharing and then not sharing.

If loss no matter what is part of the equation then the fullest answer must be that some how I find the path that keeps me, me.... That regardless the cost I walk my life out as I would walk it out and do that the best I can. Transparency and vulnerability were terrains I was called to walk upon way before they became the culturally popular currency.

This morning I awoke from a very dark dream.

As I lay there adjusting to the fact that the dreams were dreams and I was now awake, I heard the Lord speak... “No weapon formed against you will prosper.” And then He said, “Your weapons are not of this world.”

A list of words and situations and “weapons,” began to play across my mind.

On one side were weapons of this world loneliness, fear, weaknesses, greed and on the other side weapons of courage, strength, and humility.

“No weapon formed against you will prosper...”

It was a loud command into my soul. My Father was speaking with His authority into the depths of my heart... A tenderness coupled with heavenly power saturated my soul as He repeated His words, “No weapon formed against you will prosper.”

I could tell He wanted me to view these things as weapons being formed against me, trying to inflict enough wounding so that I would sit down, shut up, and not live.... Loneliness, rejection, fear, lack …. The choice was to believe that no weapon formed against me would prosper and that my weapons to combat them would not be of the ways of this world. The ways of the world would not offer me the solution bu that He would...

He then past before me and I saw the weapons our enemy uses and they were awful and striking and wicked... greed, fear, manipulation, loneliness, comparison, weakness, sickness, selfishness, ambition and then I saw before me light triumphing over the darkness and the power of humility, love, kindness and compassion.. The prayers of forgiveness and repentance.

In these coming days I will begin to write a series about these weapons and the tactics of the enemy and the strategies of Heaven.

Simple and yet profound are the ways of Heaven. The power of light, love, kindness and courage is immense, amazing and beautiful.

Isaiah 54:17

"No weapon that is formed against you will prosper; And every accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their vindication is from Me," declares the LORD.

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One of my Favorite Narnian Quotes...

“One word, Ma’am,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping because of the pain. “One word. All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things – trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world that makes you real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play-world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we’re leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for the Overland.

A Brilliant Quote from Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,

but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking

so that others won't feel unsure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us; it is in every one.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.