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Post by keita on Mar 19, 2008 15:13:00 GMT -5
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
(Ancient Arab/Chinese proverb)
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Post by Beulah5 on Mar 19, 2008 17:55:22 GMT -5
Depends on whether or not i got a fight with em too.
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Post by And Such Were Some Of You on Mar 19, 2008 18:10:12 GMT -5
Depends on whether or not i got a fight with em too. |
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Post by keita on Mar 19, 2008 18:25:49 GMT -5
Well alrighty then.... Thanks for clearing that up!  |
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Post by Beulah5 on Mar 20, 2008 10:04:59 GMT -5
Clearing what up Sister Keita?
Forgive me i have just had some guy i turned down send me a venomous email calling me thick and i am afraid his prediction is going true today as i nearly drowned in the bath this morning and the whole day is becoming a series of thick events so please forgive my slowness in asking that question if i have missed something glaringly obvious.
Cheers
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Post by keita on Mar 20, 2008 10:22:43 GMT -5
Cheers to you, my sista!  Clearing what up Sister Keita? No Biggie...just thanking you for reminding me that as individual humans, we can read the same words very differently, and that every quote doesn't always ring true for everybody in the same way. Well, BLESS HIS (l'il ego-bruised) HEART, LOL! The devil is a liar. Be very careful sis! I've had some days like that myself and they can be fraught with "accidents". No worries, sis! It's not and wasn't that deep. |
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Post by Beulah5 on Mar 20, 2008 13:29:50 GMT -5
Thanks babe!! It has well and truly been one of those days and thank you for the encouragement i needed to hear that. *sniff*sniff *Heading for one of those JB occasional glass of wine now* Silly man  |
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Post by livinganewlife on Mar 20, 2008 15:41:45 GMT -5
Thanks babe!! It has well and truly been one of those days and thank you for the encouragement i needed to hear that. *sniff*sniff *Heading for one of those JB occasional glass of wine now* Silly man |
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Post by keita on Mar 20, 2008 16:40:59 GMT -5
Thanks babe!! It has well and truly been one of those days and thank you for the encouragement i needed to hear that. *sniff*sniff Any time, sis! I know you have done, would and will do the same for me! LOLOL!!! Okay well then, I'm pulling up a chair, holding out my glass, and I have retrieved the keys to the wine cellar so... Pour sista, POUR, lol!  |
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Post by Beulah5 on Mar 20, 2008 17:53:19 GMT -5
Thanks babe!! It has well and truly been one of those days and thank you for the encouragement i needed to hear that. *sniff*sniff *Heading for one of those JB occasional glass of wine now* Silly man GOD I AM LAUGHING SO HARD AT U AND KEITA'S COMMENTS! |
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Post by Beulah5 on Mar 20, 2008 17:59:21 GMT -5
Any time, sis! I know you have done, would and will do the same for me! Amen for we are one body in Christ Jesus!!!awesome scripture and a godsend reality without which i could not surviveLOLOL!!! Okay well then, I'm pulling up a chair, holding out my glass, and I have retrieved the keys to the wine cellar so... Pour sista, POUR, lol! [/quote] Yes indeed sis i am with you on that as I have just gone into His presence to DRINK of the river of His love.
Any wine of the Spirit fanatics out there too? I would be in a strait jacket by now if the lord had not taught me how to drink of the wine of the Spirit.
Indeed He is our good samaritan always ready with an abundant supply of wine and oil
On the practical side the red andalucian wine did go down well with my chilli con carne this evening. Jb would have felt at home right here p.s: i did go to a meeting of some mystical prophets in Wales once. They had been drunk in the Spirit non stop for 12 years-now that was a meeting and a half!!!!
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Post by keita on Mar 22, 2008 21:21:30 GMT -5
The day after I started this thread, I was at a "Maundy Thursday" service where I heard: how Herod and Pilate went from enemies to friends... Herod and his soldiers made fun of Jesus and treated him with contempt; then they put a fine robe on him and sent him back to Pilate. On that very day Herod and Pilate became friends; before this they had been enemies. (Luke 23:11-12)how enemy religious factions came together to form a most unholy alliance... Early in the morning the chief priests met hurriedly with the elders, the teachers of the Law, and the whole Council, and made their plans. They put Jesus in chains, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate. (Mark 15:1)and Jesus call His betrayer, "FRIEND"... Judas went straight to Jesus and said, "Peace be with you, Teacher," and kissed him. Jesus answered, "Be quick about it, friend!" (Matthew 26:49-50)And while distracting myself from the corns and callouses of the business of foot washing....I thought about this thread.  |
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Post by Beulah5 on Mar 25, 2008 4:29:49 GMT -5
Very interesting observation Sister Keita. Sometimes our human ideas and experiences and expectations can cause us to be slow or miss out on what God may be trying to do in a situation.
t took many years but i can honestly say that my true 'friends' seem to be my enemies since for some reason i tend to thrive in the midst of controversy and betrayal.
All who have turned against me for no reason or betrayed or done whatever they have done to hurt me catapulted me into the next level of what God had for me.
I thought of your post and how Judas enabled Jesus to achieve His highest call the fruits of which today you and i have been adopted into God's love.
Since the lord began to teach me and reveal some of life's lessons to me i have come to view and let my eyes be open to the fact that my human definition of what a friend is, what should be expected of them etc etc might not exactly be God's reality.
I would never have learned mercy if i did not have friends who hurt me, i would not be learning how to love on a daily basis and die to myself if i was surrounded by perfect people who had my interests at heart, betrayal in ministry etc etc
I share this with a lot of women and folk can take it or leave it: the lord when He called me dropped an apostolic mantle on my life as He is doing on so many other women. I believe the world and Africa in particular as well as the church is being set for a new wave of unprecedented female leadership
He then began to teach me that if i allowed myself to be subjected to what the world thinks a woman should be and act that we will be greatly hindered in fulfilling this mandate-why?
Because many of us women folk tend to be more emotional than men i accept that we also tend to get deeply wounded in our emotions and i accept that however in spite of all that the lord expects us to move from this issue of friends, their betrayals etc to the higher ground of mature love.
Too many of us stay on that level of what was done to us and oh yes trust me i know what we are more than capable of however if the lord is calling us to be part of an end time Moses Company of people who are called to govern the nation then we cannot allow those things to remain part of our identity.
For too long the enemy has kept us bound with the things that were done to us and have been done to us but i decree him a liar and that the supernatural mind of Christ and His shed blood which has liberated us from every mental captivity and bondage will become our reality.
The lord does not want us to still be identified by our issues and what happened to us 20 years after we met Him-there is divine destiny to get to and that is what we must begin to catch a glimpse of.
Some years ago after having greatly suffered in my youth and in my life a warrior tenacity fell on me ne morning: i decided i was not going to be known any more through the abuse i suffered, some of my issues which were still ongoing like my mother's unending war and rejection of me i put them all to a close because i realised that the enemy might not stop us from getting saved but he is more than happy to keep us in the valley of offence, issues, brokeness etc because as long as we stay there we are not going to be those sling stones that the Lord can catapult into the nations.
I decided that my former shame was no longer going to be any part of my identity-was it easy of course not but everything starts with a decision and after that things begin to line up.
A month ago the lord led me back to the same hotel i was at when this experience happened and interestingly enough the same room was allocated to me looking exactly the same.
As i watched the magical landscape of sea and sand from my window i struggled to find the girl who came there 7 years ago totally bleeding and oozing of every imaginable pain matter of fact these days i struggle to remember things that happened to me it is almost as if everything up to the last 2 years is a blank.
God heals and He is more than able to heal to beyond anything we can imagine or think. We have a great destiny awaiting each and everyone of us and if we will only allow the lord to shed that false image that the enemy has put on us by making sure that we are clouded with pain and issues which then prevent us from seeing heaven's high demand on us.
Clouded in my issues i was incapable of hearing, perceiving or imagining that i was born to be a forerunner. That the Lord had placed and could place on our lives the ability to birth out a nations shaking ministry or business. That instead of wallowing in the shame that He never put on me i was missing out on the opportunity to become the hands of Jesus extended to the starving, the victims of genocide, the hopeless and the fatherless.
The real us is not even out yet and it might not come out untill we begin to embrace adversity and allow it to become our friend instead of our enemy because it is only in the furnace that we get chosen
Isa 48:10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Isa 48:11 For mine own sake, [even] for mine own sake, will I do [it]: for how should [my name] be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.
Lawd have mercy the enemy is gonna be in trouble-BIG BIG TROUBLE.
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