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.

One For The Thumb

Like millions of others, I watched the Superbowl. And while I had no
favorite, it was tough. I saw Seattle as a young team with a lot of
fire and hope. My emotional ties to the Steelers stemmed from my
youth where there were annual trips to the practice field and many
autographs.

As the game ended, I felt a "letdown" of sorts. I had actually
watched a lot of football this year and a lot of pregame stuff on
Sunday. And I felt everybody watches the Superbowl. And yesterday I
read about churches that had Superbowl parties with prayer at
halftime (Obviously, they did not know who Mick Jagger was!!!). And
the rest of the day was a blur yesterday, with no real highlights. So
exasperating were many of the situations yesterday that I found
myself in the bathroom in front of a mirror crying out for the Lord
to come back and "now" would be a good time. Last night a family
situation put the cap on it.

But during the day I thought about the meaning of the win. Was there
one? I certainly would have been wrong had I bet on the game. And I
thought about this line, "One for the thumb." Lord, that means 5, a
completion of sorts. And the more I meditated on it (Better than
meditating on the lies of a company we spent a lot of money with last
week and they changed their pickup days causing us a complete change
of our week. But hey, if we wanted to keep the schedule they would
only charge us $500 per day.) the more I sensed something to it.

Another ring for the thumb. A fifth ring indicating victory. For me,
it was deeper than that. It represented a recap of prophetic words in
Ephesian 4:11, when Jesus says He will give the church the gift of
the five ministry gifts. One of the gifts being the apostolic. So
many denominations have held on to the pastor, teacher and evangelist
gifts, but have denied(I am sure in many cases it is out of
misunderstanding.) the gifts of the prophetic and the apostolic. Many
have embraced the prophetic in recent days, but let's be real, we
have almost been taught that the apostolic represents control. But
what if it simply means what it means? People "sent" to a people for
the purpose of establishing His kingdom, What if we recognize the
word apostle because signs and wonders follow and not because it is
on their business card?

Is it possible, one for the thumb" represents a season of true
apostolic leadership and gifting coming to the church?

Where I will be
February 11th-Prayer and worship @2PM Mountaintop Christian
Fellowship, Oakland Maine
March 25th-"God Loves The Witches" Conference all day University Of
Maine, Machias, Maine
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