I'm in the LORD's Army!! I'm in the LORD's Army!!!
I may never march in the infantry...
Ride in the calvary...
Shoot the artillery!!
I may never fly over land or sea, but....
I'm in the LORD's Army!!
I can remember several years ago, my sister said to me, "Teddi, why do you talk like that? You sound like you're in the army."
We were in our late 20's early 30's, and I was just learning to Stand!!!
I had sung Stand up! Stand up! for Jesus...and Standing on the Promises all my life, as I was raised in Church!
I knew the verse: The gates of hell will not prevail against the Church!
I was learning what it meant...
The Church is not a standing still building, like the ones we worship in!
It is people!!! We are a building, growing up and together! Wild, huh?
That building is ONE man...according to Ephesians.
It's not that we stand there and allow hell to beat us down! Though, quite honestly, you would think that is what we believe. Aren't we being beaten down with all the stress and sin in the Church?
No, it means...We the Church Triumphant moving forward as ONE, we are taking the Kingdom by force...the force of the Holy Spirit!!!
We are on the move...we hear those who are hearing the Shepherd lead us...and they are saying, "Get up and get on the move!!!"
Why? Because the Church of the Last Days are on the move! We are demolishing strongholds as we go!!! sickness, disease, torment, fear, addiction, etc., ..all must bow to the Name above all names.
We are resisting the enemy, and, therefore, he must flee!!
The LORD's command to us in Matthew...called the great commission of the Church...is to go therefore and make disciples.
How? Same way Jesus did. We say, like Paul said, "Follow us as we follow Christ!"
Shepherds in Israel, lead their flock!!
If you google around on the internet awhile...look for the shepherds who lead the sheep through a narrow path or on a narrow road...one sheep behind the Shepherd ...and each sheep with one leading and one following...
I always loved following the leader! I loved being the leader, too! Remember, you did not win or play correctly if you got behind the leader and did something else.
This morning the LORD began talking to me during the prayer time that I lead each morning.
In order to hear Him and not forget later what He was saying, I took notes with dashes, as I heard the words...sort of a shorthand version...but so full that I must share...
Remembering that we are soldiers of the cross, read and meditate with me....
Army -- wounded -- hit -- eyes, ears, minds, appendages.
Boot camp (He calls our prayer blanket time in the morning) every day -- to be in shape to battle the enemy -- to stand!
We're putting on slings, casts, patches band aids, etc.
We're binding up the wounded --
We're repairing the breach --
We're building the wall like Nehemiah all the time --
We're crying like Jeremiah over those that are not hearing and turning --
We're sighing & crying -- vexed -- over the abominations --
* Just like a real army some will come through untouched.
* Some with purple hearts -- hit but still here --
* Some taken out --
*Some will leave the Army & run the other way --
*Some left behind as the Army goes forth -- protected -- babes, mentally challenged, elderly --
He told me to read about Israel leaving ... Egypt? and the desert?
I am very aware that He's not only talking about the leaders Moses and Joshua...but the order of the others as they left.
He's also speaking today about David and how David was a man after His own heart!
As I read Psalm 119, now, much more often since we pray 8 verses each day. Instead of 176 verses 2 1/2 a year...we pray the chapter every 22 days...times almost 17.
As this Psalm...this seed...the WORD grows in my heart...it says over and over...through the mouth of David..
I love Your WORD, O LORD!!! I love Your LAW! I love Your PRECEPTS! I love Your STATUTES! Cleanse me O LORD with Your WORD!! Wash me LORD!!! Create in Me a clean heart!!!
Coming to bear ... to rise up in my heart ... like birthing a baby it's so intense in my heart at times is that ...
I -- not David -- but Teddi -- love His WORD!!! I love His law!!! His precepts and His statutes and covenants!!!
And, over and over and over David talks of the Fear of the LORD!!!
Listening to a video today...an interview by those doing the internet where James Dobson was before he retired...and Kay Arthur says, "I was raised where I believed that I had to go on sinning every day."
The words she spoke jumped off the page!!!
Was that what this is all about, LORD!!! I was taught that, too!!!
I've heard prayed ...we sin all the time...not only sins of omission ... but commission...I prayed like that as a child...
At the same time, hearing the verse, I hide the WORD in my heart...why?...that I not sin against GOD!!
It's taken years for the application of the WORD to saturate me! Why?
Because, I was reading it...ocassionally...even some every day...
But, I wasn't filling with it to empty out the sin!!!!
I love that!!!
As a science teacher...I know that we can fill to the brim and the thing floating around...as we continue to fill ...must come out!!!!
Do it yourself! With anything that will float!
Water is dense and will lift even wood...
When you are camping and have no implements to clean with ...but water...
Amazing what the washing of water will do!!
I am in the Army of God! And this Army has generals...and captains...and foot soldiers...
I know I lead...because I have a following...discipling has become a lifestyle for me...
But, I am following some wonderful ones ahead of me...and I'm not jealous for their job ...or their anointing.
I know the anointing is the WORD...the anointing is the anointed ONE...the Christ!!!
Christian means anointed one.
I am not jealous...but zealous to follow close after...huffing and puffing...on the heels of the ones going before me...that are here in the earth still in their 70's, 80's and 90's.
I'm a young'n to them...I'm 62.
And to those ones behind me..."Come On!!!"
This race is to be run and finished by each of us!!!! There's always room for one more!!!
Woo Hoo!!!!!
Love in the LORD!!!
Teddi
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