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Topic: I am going to bend your bow - 1-02-15 Susan O’Marra
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JaneGreenstein
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 “I Am Going To Bend
Your Bow!” – 01-02-15
Today the Lord spoke to my
heart, and said, “I am going to bend your bow!” I thought to myself, “bend my
bow?” I went to my computer and looked up several scriptures regarding bending
bows and the use of bows. The Lord loves to speak in pictures and parables to
illustrate truths to us, to help us understand the journey ahead of us.
2 Samuel 22 and Psalms 18
reveal powerful illustrations of the ways in which God will train us for war and
for victory. For the sake of time, I will post the shorter version below: But
study the whole chapters for they reveal much for the coming years ahead of us.
We have much to recover, to redeem, and to apprehend for the Kingdom.
2 Samuel 22:29 For You, O
Lord, are my Lamp; the Lord lightens my darkness.30 For by You I run through a
troop; by my God I leap over a wall. 31 As for God, His way is perfect; the word
of the Lord is tried. He is a Shield to all those who trust and take refuge in
Him. 32 For who is God but the Lord? And who is a Rock except our God? 33 God is
my strong Fortress; He guides the blameless in His way and sets him free. 34 He
makes my feet like the hinds’ [firm and able]; He sets me secure and confident
upon the heights. 35 He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow
of bronze. 36 You have also given me the shield of Your salvation; and Your
condescension and gentleness have made me great. 37 You have enlarged my steps
under me, so that my feet have not slipped. 38 I have pursued my enemies and
destroyed them; and I did not turn back until they were consumed.
Psalms 18:33 He makes my feet
like hinds’ feet [able to stand firmly or make progress on the dangerous heights
of testing and trouble]; He sets me securely upon my high places.
We personally grow and
spiritually advance the most under times of extreme testing and intense trials.
Our very thoughts/words will determine whether we fail or succeed in the
allotted time that we are given for the assignment. These are opportunities for
us to achieve tremendous victories in the earth and in the realm of the Spirit.
The Bow: the tongue.
The
Arrows: the words that are spoken forth. (Good or bad)
Jeremiah 9:3 And they bend
their tongue, [which is] their bow for the lies [they shoot]. And not according
to faithfulness do they rule and become strong in the land; for they proceed
from evil to evil, and they do not know and understand and acknowledge Me, says
the Lord.
The revelatory word is to be within our minds, our
hearts, and in our mouths at all times. The Lord will inspire us to speak as His
very oracles, to declare forth His arrows to pierce the enemy and to destroy his
works.
Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise up for them a prophet
(Prophet) from among their brethren like you, and will put My words in his
mouth; and he shall speak to them all that I command him.
Deuteronomy 30:14 But the word
is very near you, in your mouth and in your mind and in your heart, so that you
can do it.
Isaiah 55:11 So shall My word be that goes forth out
of My mouth: it shall not return to Me void [without producing any effect,
useless], but it shall accomplish that which I please and purpose, and it shall
prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
As we speak under the
authority of the Lord, our bow (tongue) releases the arrows (the words) outward
into the atmosphere around us to accomplish the Lord’s purposes. Our obedience
is very important to the Lord.
Zechariah 9:1 The burden or
oracle (the thing to be lifted up) of the word of the Lord is against the land
of Hadrach [in Syria], and Damascus shall be its resting place, for the Lord has
an eye upon mankind as upon all the tribes of Israel,2 And Hamath also, which
borders on [Damascus], Tyre with Sidon, though they are very wise. 3 And Tyre
has built herself a stronghold [on an island a half mile from the shore, which
seems impregnable], and heaped up silver like dust and fine gold like the mire
of the streets. 4 Behold, the Lord will cast her out anddispossess her; He will
smite her power in the sea and into it and [Tyre] shall be devoured by fire. 5
[The strong cities of Philistia] shall see it and fear; Ashkelon, Gaza also, and
be sorely pained, and Ekron, for her confidence and expectation shall be put to
shame, and a king [monarchial government] shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon
shall not be inhabited. 6 And a mongrel people shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will
put an end to the pride of the Philistines. 7 And I will take out of [the
Philistines’] mouths and from between their teeth the abominable idolatrous
sacrifices eaten with the blood. And they too shall remain and be a remnant for
our God, and they shall be like chieftains (the head over a thousand) in Judah,
and Ekron shall be like one of the Jebusites [who at last were merged and had
lost their identity in Israel]. 8 Then I will encamp about My house as a guard
or a garrison so that none shall march back and forth, and no oppressor or
demanding collector shall again overrun them, for now My eyes are upon them. 9
Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O Daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your King comes to you; He is [uncompromisingly] just and having
salvation [triumphant and victorious], patient, meek, lowly, and riding on a
donkey, upon a colt, the foal of a donkey. 10 And I will cut off andexterminate
the war chariot from Ephraim and the [war] horse from Jerusalem, and the battle
bow shall be cut off; and He shall speak the word and peace shall come to the
nations, and His dominion shall be from the [Mediterranean] Sea to [any other]
sea, and from the River [Euphrates] to the ends of the earth! 11 As for you
also, because of and for the sake of the [covenant of the Lord with His people,
which was sealed with sprinkled] covenant blood, I have released andsent forth
your imprisoned people out of the waterless pit. 12 Return to the stronghold [of
security and prosperity], you prisoners of hope; even today do I declare that I
will restore double your former prosperity to you. 13 For I have bent Judah for
Myself as My bow, filled the bow with Ephraim as My arrow, and will stir up your
sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and will make you [Israel] as the
sword of a mighty man. 14 And the Lord shall be seen over them and His arrow
shall go forth as the lightning, and the Lord God will blow the trumpet and will
go forth in the windstorms of the south. 15 The Lord of hosts shall defend and
protect them; and they shall devour and they shall tread on [their fallen
enemies] as on slingstones [that have missed their aim], and they shall drink
[of victory] and be noisy and turbulent as from wine and become full like bowls
[used to catch the sacrificial blood], like the corners of the [sacrificial]
altar. 16 And the Lord their God will save them on that day as the flock of His
people, for they shall be as the [precious] jewels of a crown, lifted high over
andshining glitteringly upon His land. 17 For how great is God’s goodness and
how great is His beauty! And how great [He will make Israel’s] goodliness and
[Israel’s] beauty! Grain shall make the young men thrive and fresh wine the
maidens.
1 Chronicles 11:11 David’s 30 mighty men, and the 30
captains: (The age of maturity is 30)
And this is the number [thirty, and list] of David’s
mighty men: Jashobeam, a Hachmonite, the chief of the Thirty [captains]. He
lifted up his spear against 300, whom he slew at one time.
The Lord is not only bringing
forth the Mighty men and women of valor into the forefront, but He is also
setting them in their new positions, and training them for special duties and
assignments ahead of them. Below are some of the key verses for us to look at.
Study the whole chapter for more insights into the other weapons they used.
1 Chronicles 12:1 These are
the ones who came to David at Ziklag, while he yet concealed himself because of
Saul son of Kish; they were among the mighty men, his helpers in war. 2 They
were bowmen and could use the right hand or the left to sling stones or shoot
arrows from the bow; they were of Saul’s kinsmen of Benjamin. 14 These Gadites
were officers of the army. The lesser was equal to and over a hundred, and the
greater equal to and over a thousand. 15 These are the men who went over the
Jordan in the first month when it had overflowed all its banks, and put to
flight all those in the valleys, east and west.16 There came some of the men of
Benjamin and Judah to the stronghold to David. 17 David went out to meet them
and said to them, If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be
knit to you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, although there
is no violence or wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers look upon and
rebuke you.18 Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the captains,
and he said, Yours we are, David, and on your side, you son of Jesse! Peace,
peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers, for your God helps you. Then
David received them and made them officers of his troops. 33 Of Zebulun, 50,000
experienced troops, fitted out with all kinds of weapons and instruments of war
that could order and set the battle in array, men not of double purpose but
stable and trustworthy. 38 All these, being men of war arrayed in battle order,
came with a perfect andsincere heart to Hebron to make David king over all
Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one mind to make David king.
The new emerging leaders will
be knit together from their very soul and heart, and they will walk in like
vision and in unified purpose. Together, they will be a formidable force, the
very army of the Lord. They will rout out and destroy every enemy, and take back
that which belongs to the Kingdom of the Lord, and establish His true
Habitations in every land.
It's time to bend your bow!
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“I Am Going To Bend Your Bow!” – 01-02-15
Therefore another Weapon is given into your management, which is my Covenant Rain-Bow, which will be to you of great consequence, if you have skill rightly for to use it. The use of an Eagle Eye, that may this great Birth-mark espy. Here lieth the grand deep-sighted Wisdom to shoot forth such a Golden Shaft as may hit, and thereby make way for Wisdom’s first-born to come forth through sending out this mighty Arrow of all precious Faith. Nothing like this you will find, will be of travelling force to help you out in your Births Agonies, which upon you will come, before you can embrace this Ghostly Body imbodied with a Soul and Spirit. That will spring all a new, from the creating Word imbodied in a corporeal shape. Which for a time shall remain a high degree of Wonder: For to see the Ghostly Power to send forth through contemptible Humanity, that high scented Breath of Air, which may be felt, tasted, and smelt with whom it is resident. [Excerpt from Journal of Jane Leade from Jesus Christ]
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