Liquidation Sail

Liquidate. I felt sure the Lord had spoken a one word sentence to me.
Liquidate. Because of the business I am in, I got a little nervous. I
know for "fact" that you can not sell from an empty cart. But, as the
day wore on I felt to share my word with my partner. He looked at me.
We had just made the decision to launch the antique side of our
business and had made some heavy investments with the idea of holding
on for the bigger money. I let it go. Perhaps the pearl before the
swine and I had messed up. I began to think of all the other parts of
my life.

I received a great thrill when Jesus said to the rich young man,
"Sell all that you have." And so I have tried to sell all that I have
that I might have more.

The next day my friend said to me, We ought to consider making our
antiques side like our business and industrial side and sell faster.
So, we agreed. I watched a beautiful spinning wheel, a super old
industrial cart and a few other items fall under the new decisions.

Ok...so I thought.

Yesterday my "dad" asked me what the Lord had been telling me. The
other day someone else asked me if I had a word. As I heard the words
I knew I did.

Liquidate. I have meditated on it for days.

Some of my conclusions are this.

The Lord is asking us to give up things dear to us, even those things
He has given us, so that He might bring us through to the next place
He is wanting to be. I think my favorite person in the scriptures
(Outside of Jesus.) is Abraham. I feel the Lord saying to me, to
others that I would like to give to you as I gave to Abraham. And for
me to be able to do this, you will have to give up something so
precious(Even as Isaac was to Abraham.) that it is painful. "Did I
give you this? Most assuredly says the Lord." And now I want to see
if you will give it back to me.

The Lord will soon be asking(If He has not already.) ministers and
business people, "will you give it back to me?"

And this brings me to the next word the Lord is speaking...communication.

Just as the word "liquidate" speaks of liquid and a flow, the Lord is
asking His church, "will you communicate?" Not just the Gospel, but
will you be in touch? Am I the only one who has ever experienced the
lack of communication, only to be thinking someone is upset with me?

Communication-I believe the Lord is saying that communication is a
result of liquidation. The word communication suggests a flow of
experience and feelings (Not just words!) to one another. The flow is
like the river. A liquid state of something moving from one place to
another. Our communications need to carry the river of the Father to
those we speak with.

And finally the "liquidation sail." I believe the Lord is saying
that if we might follow His instructions here, we will be free to
follow the Holy Spirit, wherever He might take us.