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Posted: 05/12/2009 at 7:41pm | IP Logged Quote Mary Lindow

2009 - THE NARROW WAY: The Year of Personal Pilgrimage
By Mary Lindow through the Holy Spirit





Although we are nearly 5 months into the New Year, I was still impressed by the Lord to linger a bit longer in His presence before sharing what I feel He has shown me regarding the year 2009 and beyond.


If we were to look at the Jewish calendar we would see that the year is 5769 according to that representation of the New Year, a Hebrew year that started in the evening before September 30, 2008 and will end on September 18, 2009. I enjoyed learning the meaning of the numbers that represent this year 2009, or again, in the Jewish New Year calendar 5769. The meaning of this number has significance and flows beautifully with so much that the Father has been speaking to so many of His beloved children.


Samekh Tet, are the Hebrew words that define the number 5769.
Samekh Means to “to trust” “depend upon,” and “support.”

Tet means to “sweep out (by judgment).”
It also illustrates goodness and humility. The non-discriminatory type of “goodness” which is the Creator’s choice to define and outline, not humankind’s.


THE NARROW WAY

In Psalm 91 verse 2 reads;

“I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress:
My God, in Him will I trust.”


This is the reception area, the entranceway into the complete protection of the remaining verses of that psalm. It is your and my “password” when we say; “I will say!” It is as we proclaim it, as we say it, as we decree it; “I will say of the Lord! He is my refuge and fortress! I will ENTER in to His safety! IN HIM I will trust!”


But how do we get to this point?
I believe that we are at this place in time right now, where will we have to come to the realization that we must DWELL in the secret place of the Most High and live, exist, under His shadow. For only He alone is Almighty and safe enough to protect us.


A WELL-BEATEN PATH TO THE SECRET PLACE

The Scripture aptly says, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God." (Luke 9:62)
We often flippantly quote this without fully acknowledging the seriousness of this statement.


We have seen again and again, the devastations brought on by many failing in the body of Christ, from highly visible individuals to those working in the back stockroom of a business. Deviant and secretive behaviors inevitably will be exposed and found out. Sadly many believers who have been called to walk the righteous walk, the walk that depends upon the Lord - and yet when he speaks, when he commands, when he challenges, they do not follow.


Psalm 32 verses 7-10 addresses this matter. I will share it here for scriptural definition and then expound as to how the Lord spoke to me regarding this matter and the year 2009.


“YOU are my hiding place,
YOU LORD will protect me from trouble,
And surround me with songs of deliverance.


And the Lord replies, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way that you should go: I will counsel you and watch over you. Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding but must be controlled by bit and bridal or they will not come to you.”


“MANY ARE THE WOES OF THE WICKED, BUT THE LORD’S UNFAILING LOVE, SURROUNDS THE MAN WHO TRUSTS IN THE LORD.”


Unless the believing bride learns what it means to have a well-beaten path to the hiding place, the secret place, “secret” meaning - a place alone, hidden with the Lord), a place of uninterrupted dialogue, instruction, and worship, then she will continue to have public exposures on all levels and among all peoples represented in the body.


When we hide ourselves with the Lord, He instructs us, He warns us about the trouble ahead. He sings over us, songs of deliverance and He rejoices over us because of our obedience.


SOLITARY PLACES OF LIFE

On the external, there was nothing that marked the Lord as any different than the common ordinary man except for one thing. He was separated from within. He knew when it was the spirit of the Lord driving Him into the wilderness, and, that it was not good to be alone for too long. Jesus Christ does not make “religious hermits” as Oswald Chambers states. He makes us men and women fit for a world as it is.
HE DOES NOT EXPECT US TO WORK FOR HIM BUT WITH HIM.


The narrow way I spoke of before, combined with the solitary places of life, creates an incubator that the Lord can use. As we submit ourselves to his instructions in times of meeting with him in the secret place, he WILL instruct us as he stated! We must not be like a mule or a horse that forever needs to be prodded and forced into discipleship.


A true disciple, one who was willing to not simply be called, but follow obediently working with the Lord’s plan, will rarely have time to be self-promoting or shouting too loudly about their own, “divine destinies,” knowing that each day spending time meditating upon the Word of God, fellowshipping with Him in a place of rest and instruction is all that one needs for the tasks at hand.


The hallmark of true discipleship will always be noted and noticed by the discipline of one who has worn a well-beaten path to the place of intimacy and personal deep fellowship with the King of glory.


“OBEY MY VOICE, AND I WILL BE YOUR GOD.”
Our destinies for good or evil are completely determined by the voice we choose to obey.


LISTENING TO THE VOICE OF THE LORD and obeying what He says will bring blessings. Not always as speedily as our consumer minds prefer. Nor will they always come in the format our flesh would desire or dictate. But indeed, the blessings will come!


IGNORING THE VOICE OF THE LORD will bring many curses.
It is impossible to obey God without first hearing His voice. His voice tells us what He expects and what He requires. And it is always for our good, and the good of mankind.


A LAMP AND A LIGHT ON THE PATHWAY

“Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.”
Psalm 119:105


When David wrote this passage, it was a literal reality. When David wrote this, there was a small plate that attached to the top of the sandals people wore which allowed a candle to be positioned so that it would light the path ahead. (Look at the picture again at the top of this message.)
“A lamp unto my feet!”


However, this lamp only provided enough light to show where to place the next step. And so, this is how the Lord is moving and speaking at this time in 2009. He illuminates our path today, with just enough light for our next step.


THE “REIGN” OF GRACE - AND THE “RAIN” OF GRACE
MERCY FOR THE MERCIFUL

Psalm 109:4 reads:
“In return for my friendship they accuse me,
But I am a man/woman of prayer.”


Jesus taught us that God forgives us in the same measure in which we have forgiven others. He said in Matthew 6:14 through 15 that if we forgive men their trespasses, He our heavenly father, will also forgive us. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your father forgive your trespasses.


If there is a ministry, a foe, a friend, whom we do not forgive within the same measure that the father has forgiven us, truly God cannot fully forgive us. He stated here we can get all the preachers in America and around the globe to pray for us and pray over us, but we cannot dislodge the devil and darkness of our own unforgiveness. We give the enemy consistent access to our churches and our families as long as we “lord it over others”, hiding our own sin, pretending that God does not see.


In order to have the times of refreshing we are crying out for and are desperate for as believers, we must learn to rule and reign with grace. Refreshing rains will not fall, and cannot fall in full glory when we refuse to lay down judgments, manipulations, and self invented spiritual dictates that do not run parallel with the King of grace who is the ULTIMATE Mercy bringer.


Mercy.
It means to perform out of a desire to relieve suffering, motivated by
compassion. The action of forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one's power to punish or harm. Its occurrence prevents something unpleasant or provides relief from suffering.


DO YOURSELF AN ETERNAL FAVOR. TELL THE TRUTH.
God will protect you more for doing this, than any self-invented cover-up ever could. And, you just might regain relationships with those you have used as stepping-stones to your own deviant self-empowerment.


The Heavenly King of Glory is always and forever creating newness of life. If we are as mentioned above in the psalm, “A man or a woman of prayer”, the test will come of that deep prayer life when your enemies surround you, accuse you, and often attempt to execute and silence you.


A man or a woman of prayer in this season, in this year of 2009, will learn to sweep out iniquity, falseness, slander, and “hierarchical pecking orders” through goodness and humility. The year 5769 or 2009 is as stated in its meaning, a year to trust, depend upon, to lean upon, the goodness of the Lord. To trust in His sovereignty more than ever. It is his prerogative to define what grace is. Not man’s.


THE FAITHFUL DIGGERS OF DITCHES

In second Kings Chapter 3 the Lord seemingly through the prophet Elisha, ignores the pleas, and strategies of the king of Israel, Jehoshaphat, and the king of Edom.


They grew frustrated. They wanted action, they wanted vindication, and they wanted control over their enemies. But Elisha knew what brought wisdom, council, and the “lamp unto his feet.”


He himself knew a well-beaten pathway to the secret place. He himself had lived a life of personal pilgrimage and had walked the narrow way.


He created an atmosphere, with worship, silencing the voices and opinions and fears that were suffocating the atmosphere of Kingly decisions and wise counsel. He called a harpist, and the song of deliverance began to bring direction. He even stated that he had no respect for the king standing before him! He would not be swayed by
their power or positions. Nor what they could do to promote him. He knew that in the presence of the King of glory and all wisdom, the dispensation of grace would be fairly and appropriately measured out.


While the harpist was playing, and an atmosphere of reverence and respect for God’s voice was shaped and waited upon, (a Key, a “HUGE” indicator as to what the Lord desires in this year ahead,) the Lord God gave a divine battle strategy that would subdue and totally defeat the enemy.


It was not in any handbook or jazzed up battle gear, or any strategic war craft-planning manual. It was in the hand of God, written by The Eternal One Himself.


The instructions were these. Make this valley full of ditches for this is what the Lord says: “You will see neither or wind nor rain. Yet this valley will be filled with water, and you, your cattle and your other animals will drink. This is an easy thing in the eyes of the LORD; he will also hand Moab over to you. You will overthrow every fortified city and every major town. You will cut down every good tree, stop up all the springs, and ruin every good field with stones."


The next morning, about the time for offering the sacrifice, there it was—water flowing from the direction of Edom! And the land was filled with water.


DIGGING THE DITCHES OF 2009

“And so says the Lord, the Spirit of grace, the Voice of Wisdom, and The Only Almighty one. As you cry out for times of refreshing, for a change in the hearts of men, for a move of my spirit across the lands of Earth, my command to you is that you begin to create an atmosphere where I may speak My plans according to My Word, and according to My prerogative.


I will lead you and guide you with enough light each day as you come to that narrow place with me. I will strengthen your weakened spiritual muscles as you dialogue in honesty with me and repent of foolish choices and foolish actions that have caused many to be shattered and shamed because you spoke out of a calling rather than out of following my voice.


Begin to dig ditches in prayer. Become addicted and immersed in it, never ceasing. Prepare places where my rain may fall and cause a fresh drinking place for those yet to taste of my goodness, as well as for those who are thirsty within my body. Begin to dig ditches in dry places in humility and goodness. Lean upon me, trust in me, do not lean upon your own understanding, for you have well seen that having done this in the past you have missed many opportunities to prepare a way of salvation for
others.


I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction: (Isaiah 48:10)


So comfort yourself weary and tried believer with this thought. Does not the word come like a soft shower quieting the fury of the flame? Is it not a fireproof armor against the heat, which will then have no power? Whatever happens to you in this valley of weeping, know that I have chosen it for you. If you still require an even greater comfort, remember that you have the Son of man with you in this valley. In that secret place with you, there He sits by your side. One whom you have not seen
but whom you love, and whether you know it or not your friend sticks closely by you. I will never leave one whom I have chosen as my own.

But you now must choose whether to heed a calling from me - or follow me in that calling.


Great grace. Great mercy. Great promise.
All these are yours, extended from my hand, and for you to extend from your hand.
NOW IS THE TIME, NOW IS THE TIME, NOW-IS-YOUR-TIME,
to live out the heart and life of the servant, as I lead you with the little light that you have now. It is all you need as long as it comes from me. It is a time to learn to march forward, to dig ditches, to prepare so that others may also drink freely with no restraints.


When I come and speak to you and move among you, I express everything that is pure and lovely and of a good report, and sin and uncleanliness depart. Peace also rains when I move with humble power. Gentleness will be the result of my transforming power. Harmlessness will follow, for hearts that are touched by me are always meek and lowly. My grace is sufficient for you, and you will find it if you will seek it, and above all if you will express it.


Be strong in the grace that is in me. (2 Timothy 2:1)


As a reservoir empties itself into pipes, so have I emptied out my grace for my people. Of my fullness you have received grace for Grace. Grace is always available from me without price. Keep yourselves from presumptuous sins. (Psalm 19:13) You will surely stumble if you look away from the One who is able to keep you from falling.


If your love is fervent, your faith constant, and your hope bright, continue
nonetheless to be on your guard and cry out, “Keep us from temptation!” The seasons revolve according to my Divine appointment and man cannot change their schedule. In the spiritual as in the natural world man’s power is limited I alone can remove the winter of spiritual death from an individual or from a church.


Let me hear you say, “Not my will but as you will oh Lord!:
As you yield, I will yield.
Let it be as I will, and allow me to determine the best. Be content to leave your prayer and your petitions in my hands. I know when to give, how to give, what to give, and what to withhold. As you visit me in the secret place, and as the road becomes narrower, seeking me earnestly and often times pleading, yet with humility and resignation, you shall surely prevail. I am the light on your pathway.
And, I AM all you need.”


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Thank You! Copyright © 2009 " THE MESSENGER "

~ Mary Lindow
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