Nugget 2.2 (3)
Metaphors for Spiritual Warfare: Digging Deep for Bind-weed roots and finding New Life
Dear Reader,
I don’t know about you - but I have a tendency to ‘let sleeping dogs lie’. But in the end we have to face the disturbance of those sleeping dogs and see what lies as hidden suffering, behind them.
So it was with me. And God gave me strength, and encouragement to make a bold move….leading to the exposure of a living metaphor - which led to greater honesty with God - and ultimately new life..
Sunday 9th February, 2020
Darling child - in this pit is salvation. Trust Me to overcome. Keep praising and forbearing - serving and blessing in My Name - as I told you so long ago - trusting Me to bring you healing and deliverance. All glory to God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen
( Amen Lord.)
Tuesday 11th February, 2020
Gentleness My child, My daughter, My purity of Heart, My holiness in Spirit and Truth. You are clinging to the Cross for My Sake - for My Purposes. Do not be afraid.
Trust Me child, not your past, but My Future - ‘on earth as it is in Heaven’. Have patience and faith for the garden.*
*I was living in an empty shell of the old vicarage, which was in the process of being made into individual apartments, apart from where I was living which would become a larger flat for a family. I had lost the ‘garden’ I used to tend because of all the new boundaries and drainage pipes turmoil, and I realised - as Spring approached, I needed an area of garden.
Because of the Lord’s encouragement, I went and asked as ‘a child of God’ if I could have some garden. I was given an area used for garden rubbish of the original garden. It would become an area of garden for flat 8- when it was on the list for renovation.
The work I was led to do, sometimes aided by the workmen who I had been supporting and providing for over the previous 6 months of demolition and re-construction, meant that ‘in truth’ my body engaged in constructive activity. The uprooting of ‘bind-weed’ became a metaphor for the uprooting of lies, and demonic forces holding me in darkness and powerlessness.
Wednesday 12th February, 2020
Child, you are not trusting Me to live in, through, for you. You in Me - Me in you. Keep praising and trusting and stand against the lies of Satan and self-hating which led you to want to be in control. Open your heart door and put all your work needs, inside and out, in My hands and Heart, and Trust Me.
Forgive me. I trust You, help my lack of trust.
*By the end of the 12th I had cleared over grown trees - cutting back and cutting up what had to go on a fire. The work men helped me get a fire going for all the rubbish that was ready
Thursday 13th February, 2020
‘PS Pulling and digging up bindweed remains.
pm Visited E in hospital to support her re the birth of her baby….which was to be induced.’
And so my life continued, clearing the garden- ground of bind weed in order to be able to plant good seed, or transplant fruit or vegetable plants to make the area productive. And alongside the joy of creating a productive garden, the Lord led me to support women in the parish who had no parent near-by.
With both surprise and joy in my heart, I found myself that afternoon visiting the mother afore-mentioned and was able to stay with her for some hours while she was being induced, till she was being left to rest. The following evening two babies and 2 mums plus two families!
Another mother of the parish was booked in for a Caesarian, but her husband needed to be elsewhere at the appointed time. The first I knew of my role was when I had arrived at hospital, at the time she told me, and was being given ‘scrubs’ to wear!
So that day I was at least present and involved in a C-Section birth and became the one to hold the new baby while Mum was being sewn up. What an honour!
And that evening I shared the wonder and joy of two families, in the same hospital but two different areas….By God’s grace I did find both of them and marvelled at the gift I was given to share in the birthed babies and celebrating families. God is Good.