Little One,
Let’s talk about this morning.
I would love to because I see Your hand written all over it!
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How about you start? Tell Me everything from your perspective this morning.
Well, last night I spent the night with my friend who had cataract surgery yesterday.
Why did you start with that? Why not start with waking up this morning?
I don’t know… because I kind of think that the cataract surgery and the relationship issues the last couple weeks… I see it all as inseparable. I wouldn’t have told You that an hour ago, but, yeah now I see it all tying together.
So she had cataract surgery... Oh my goodness… as I’m talking, I am seeing even more and more…
I really love when you get those tears in your eyes because they’re just evidence that you’re getting it. Continue…
Okay. So she had cataract surgery on her left eye. In two weeks, she will get the second eye done. Previously, she needed glasses to see but, obviously, she had issues with her vision or else she would not have had surgery on her eyes. At dinner, she was confused and delighted that she was able to read a pill bottle behind me that she normally would not be able to read from her seat. She was able to read it looking at it normally with both her repaired and her unrepaired eye.
When she covered her repaired eye, she could not read it with the unrepaired eye. When she tried to look at it with just the repaired eye, she also couldn’t read it.
I don’t know what any of that has to do with anything but I’m just gonna say it here so that if You wanna give me revelation on if that has anything to do with anything, You can. Feel free to stop me at any point.
Oh, don’t worry… I will. Continue…
Okay. So she kept falling asleep watching the movie and I suggested that we should put the eyepatch on because she’s not supposed to sleep for the first week without the eyepatch protecting her eye so she doesn’t accidentally rub it or disrupt the repair. We both fell asleep in front of the TV but, when she got up to go to sleep, I woke up and said, “Let’s put that eye patch on.” She told me she was so glad I spent the night because without that reminder, she is 100% sure she would’ve gone to bed forgetting to put the eyepatch on.
When we get a revelation or a repair on the way that we see things, it is so important to remind each other to protect that vision until it has healed and become whole.
Yes, that is one of the primary reasons why discipleship or mentorship in faith is so important. When you have a fresh little seed of faith in any area, it needs to be protected and fostered.
Everything is making so much more sense with every passing moment here. Is there anything about those eye drops? Any significant thought about those eye drops that she has to use every day for the next 28 days three times a day?
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Little One, why is she using those eye drops? What is in those eye drops?
They are medicated. It is an antibiotic.
What is the purpose of that antibiotic?
Because she has been opened up, there is an increased chance of infection or a foreign object causing a problem. My understanding is that the antibiotic is a preventative measure intended to prevent infection.
You’re having a thought - quit trying to determine if it’s Me speaking or if you’re speaking. All truth originated with Me, so what is your thought.
The Bible… it’s like an antibiotic. When we have a fresh revelation from You, we should get in the Word and meditate on what it has to say about the subject. Three times a day - is there spiritual significance to the number three?
“The number 3 represents divine perfection and completeness. It is prominently marked by the Holy Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), Jesus rising on the third day, and the three-part nature of humanity (spirit, soul, and body).”
Well, that’s interesting, whether or not it is applicable here… but let’s say it is. Morning, noon, and night we get in Your Word to see what it has to say about the subject.
Go ahead, look it up…
Joshua 1:8 “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Psalm 1:2 “But his delight is in the law of the LORD and in His law he meditates day and night.”
Psalm 55:17 “Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice.
I’m going to say yes - there is spiritual significance to the drops being three times a day.
Take Me back to this morning.
My alarm went off for my prayer call at 5:45 AM and I decided to just have the prayer call from the couch - to just lie there in the dark to participate in the call. Lying there meditating with You, I was very distracted by the word “zygote” but I had no idea what that word meant, so I Googled it.
Zygote = the initial single cell formed when a male gamete (sperm) and a female gamete (egg or ovum) merge during fertilization
I asked You why that word was in my head.
You give us faith (sperm) which gets planted in our spirit (egg) and then something is birthed in us. This concept gave me many more thoughts. Faith is not from us. It’s a gift from You.
Ephesians 2:8-9 “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.”
Romans 12:3 “For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.”
So, You birth something in us. Then, I was thinking about the parable of the sower and the four types of soil and I began to wonder how many zygotes make it to become a human: one fourth of all zygotes make it to become a human. So, if we take this analogy spiritually, one fourth of spiritual seeds of faith take root and mature to manifestation. Some make it significantly farther along in the process yet still die before being seen in the physical reality.
“The first two weeks are called the germinal stage: A zygote forms when a sperm fertilizes an egg in the fallopian tube and it starts rapid cell division (mitosis) on the way to the uterus. A morula or a solid ball of cells form after a few days of division. Blastocyst is a hollow ball of cells with an inner cell mass (which become the embryo) and an outer layer (which forms the placenta). From there, the blastocyst attaches to the wall of the uterus.
“Weeks 3-8 are called the embryonic stage. The embryo is the official term for the developing organism from implantation through the 8th week. In this period, the major internal and external structures form, including the neural tube (brain and spinal cord), heart (which begins to beat), and limbs bud. The cells differentiate into three distinct layers (ectoderm mesoderm, and endoderm) that build all the body tissue and organs.
“Weeks 9 through birth are called the fetal state. The term fetus is used from 9th or 10th week until delivery. Organs and body systems grow larger, mature, and begin functioning (such as brain development, bone hardening, and lung maturation).
“Clinically, this span is grouped into first trimester (conception to 12 weeks), second trimester (13-26 weeks when movement is felt), and third trimester (27 weeks to 40, focusing on rapid weight gain and final preparation for birth).”
That whole first prayer call this morning, my mind was obsessed with this idea of the zygote, faith meeting the spirit, and what is occurring there. That call was abruptly ended. I don’t know if it was the bad signal or if the one on the call saw that the time was over, but then I was alone on the call and my alarm went off that my second Tuesday morning Zoom prayer call was beginning. I jumped on that prayer call and headed out the door, still meditating in my heart on the concept of the zygote.
There is someone on that call who is working hard to start a Lifewise program in her home school district. There is resistance to the idea within the community and she is struggling to get support from the churches in the community.
What is Lifewise?
It is essentially a Bible class offered to public school children where they are taken off the school grounds on a bus, I think once a week, to have a Bible class during school hours. Parents can opt in to send their children and I think it’s a wonderful program from what I know about it.
Anyways, right in the middle of our prayer call, my heart started swelling up really full with words of encouragement about this concept of the zygote and faith and Your yoke being easy and Your burden being light.
When I couldn’t stand holding it in anymore, I opened my mouth and it was a powerful encouragement to stop striving and that ,if this is of You, she only needs to stand… that if YOU truly put this desire in her heart then it is YOUR project, YOUR assignment, YOUR will, and YOU will make it happen - not her. Her job is to stand firmly in the faith she has been given regarding it.
After I was done praying, the conversation and the prayer continued, and again, it was like when the toilet begins to fill with water and you start looking around for a plunger because it’s about to overflow… as soon as there was a pause in the prayer, You spoke up again with a question for this woman, “What happens when you give birth prematurely?”
After a brief pause, it just started again - those babies that are born prematurely tend to need a LOT of human intervention just to survive. They usually go to the NICU where they are put on all sorts of machines and medications just to survive. Machines help them breathe, medicines help their lungs continue to develop, and they must be closely monitored because it was birthed before the appointed time.
You reminded me of the word You gave that pastor several years ago, “Stop trying to build your church. Every brick laid with human hands WILL BE REMOVED.”
If THIS program in THIS city is YOUR idea then the enemy CANNOT prevent it; but, when WE get in YOUR way while You are trying to accomplish Your will, WE can make a mess of it.
This doesn’t mean do nothing. This doesn’t mean sit and wait. This means STAND. This means stand firm and confidently in the conviction the LORD has given you. If He authored it and you saw it and you saw those children on that bus then THERE IS A BUS for it. If there is a bus for it then there are finances already lined up for it, IN HIS TIME.
This doesn’t mean do nothing. It means that every school board meeting you feel led to attend, you attend. Every word you feel compelled to speak, you speak. You don’t “fight the school board” or “try to convince the local pastors.” You show up to the school board meetings and you show up in the offices with these pastors and you tell them what you see.
Do NOT be deterred when others cannot see what you see. Do NOT be discouraged when people tell you that it won’t work or offer suggestions for WHY it won’t work.
Faith is a substance. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
SO WHAT if you have NO IDEA where the money is coming from? If it’s His idea, the money is waiting.
SO WHAT if it seems no one is in favor of the idea? Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.
RHEMA Word; the revealed word, not just the written word. If GOD has written this desire on your heart, if HE has birthed this seed in your spirit, you just have to be faithful to hold it in your heart and speak it with your mouth. Not aggressively, not forcefully, not trying to convince ANYONE of ANYTHING - just speak it:
“This city will have a Lifewise program available to the students. There will be a bus to transport them. There is a location God has divinely authored to host it. There will be enough leaders/teachers to run it. We will NOT have lack in ANY area when this program is authored in God’s perfect timing.”
So what should this woman do?
Build her faith. She has faith but she is responsible to build it to maturity.
Does that involve striving?
No. It is resting. She is to rest in Your timing and simply show up with her shoulders back, her head held high, and the understanding that, just like the Israelites showed up to the battles unprepared and You fought for them, You will show up to open doors that look IMPOSSIBLE to open, and You will close doors they are not to go through so tightly that they cannot be pried open.
God, YOU are SO incredible!
I just kept saying the words, “This is easy. It’s SO easy. With God, it’s all SO easy!”
Do YOU believe that?
Yes. Thank You for agreeing to be through me in this past couple weeks what I was failing to successfully be on my own.
You’re welcome.
Your friend is waiting. Delight in your fellowship.
LOVE,
Daddy
Matthew 17:20b