11/27

My broth­er texted me at 6:09 this morn­ing with a Scrip­ture that came after a dream. He saw peo­ple in a room, men of enor­mous stature and bear­ing. They looked human, but he knew they were angels con­fer­ring. The door to this heav­en­ly room opened, and a being walked in. It was obvi­ous he was the one in charge. He had a sense of mil­i­tary weight, but wasn’t dressed as a sol­dier. He held one sin­gle shin­ing gold­en key, and began a dis­cus­sion with the oth­er men. Final­ly he said, “It’s time to give the key to (my name).” 

When he woke up, the key of David men­tioned in Rev­e­la­tion 3 to the church in Philadel­phia imme­di­ate­ly came to his mind. Philadel­phia is of spe­cial sig­nif­i­cance to our fam­i­ly. They were known for their love. It’s a bit iron­ic, as Philadel­phia comes from phi­los, one of the Greek words for love, and I’m deal­ing with my hus­band not know­ing what love real­ly is.

We brain­stormed briefly as to what the dream and pas­sage could mean.

  • David
    • David opened gates no oth­er per­son could. What he locked, nobody could open. He had that author­i­ty. He was the most suc­cess­ful mil­i­tary leader in Israel. There’s a verse that refers to not one of his bones was bro­ken in all his fight­ing (immense preservation).
    • I’ve been in bat­tle train­ing for the last 14 years. David was anoint­ed, then went back to tend­ing sheep. Saw Goliath and stepped for­ward. Only became king much later.
    • Isa­iah refers to key of David. Con­nec­tion to Rev­e­la­tion scripture?
    • He had the key to God’s heart; praise and wor­ship was a unique key. 
  • Keys in the Bible — Keys of the king­dom, what you bind/loose on earth will be in heaven
  • Crown – Talk­ing about how I’ve lived my life, he told me, “Don’t lose your crown. It’s there, pro­tect­ed, no lus­ter lost or blem­ish on it.”
  • New name – Refer­ring to new Jerusalem, on a pil­lar.  But what about my name, now that I’m no longer a Mrs.?

There’s a lot to unpack there. What­ev­er it is, obvi­ous­ly something’s hap­pen­ing in the spir­it world.

I went to DJ’s women’s Bible study tonight. They’re almost done with the book they’ve been study­ing, Whis­per by Mark Bat­ter­son. Oh my good­ness, how much rev­e­la­tion I got from the chap­ter we cov­ered today (no pun intend­ed)! But what real­ly made my jaw drop was when every woman there sur­round­ed me and prayed for me. One of the lead­ers (they call her Gen­er­al), laid hands on me, and of all things she could pray, she prayed… Rev­e­la­tions 3!!! She prayed for God’s favor on me, for open doors that no man can shut, closed doors that no man can open. She also prayed that God would send some­one to my hus­band who had already come through exact­ly what my hus­band is living.

And if that weren’t enough, one of the ladies came up to me after­ward. While I had been shar­ing my sit­u­a­tion with the group, she had been star­ing at me with her jaw dropped. Her name is Dar­by, and she and her hus­band lived my exact sto­ry. They’d been togeth­er for 14 years when she dis­cov­ered he was a sex addict (porn, affairs, hid­ing mon­ey, all the same stuff). But he had an encounter with God. They’re still mar­ried 10 years lat­er, and they’ve been serv­ing in the mar­riage min­istry in the church now for the last 6 years! What the heck?! And mind you, it was meet­ing DJ at my first ser­vice that led me here. I tru­ly know my steps are being ordered by God.

Rev­e­la­tion 3:7–12 (ESV) — “And to the angel of the church in Philadel­phia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens. “‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but lit­tle pow­er, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. Behold, I will make those of the syn­a­gogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that I have loved you. Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of tri­al that is com­ing on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth. I am com­ing soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown. The one who con­quers, I will make him a pil­lar in the tem­ple of my God. Nev­er shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heav­en, and my own new name. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spir­it says to the churches.’

Eph­esians 6:12 (NKJV)For we do not wres­tle against flesh and blood, but against prin­ci­pal­i­ties, against pow­ers, against the rulers of the dark­ness of this age, against spir­i­tu­al hosts of wicked­ness in the heav­en­ly places.

Psalm 37:23–24 (NKJV) — The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and He delights in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utter­ly cast down; for the Lord upholds him with His hand.

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