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Wedding is Planned! Come! (New territory)
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Posted by: GODS Grace
I'm hopeful you will see this as a timely prophetic word from the Lord.
It goes along with several other posts both under dreams and prayers.
(I've edited out some of the jokes between Lisa and Mr. Robison with "...", if you would like to read this in full just PM me.)
Week 12, 3/18/08
In the studio:
James: ... I really want to understand what you're referencing when you would write a whole book on the subject “Nurture.”
Lisa: Nurture means to give and to get what you need to flourish; it says to give a child or a tender plant what it needs to thrive. I think that God is positioning people all over the world to thrive right now. I believe he is going to use women to really do this. As a matter of fact, I believe in the next 10 to 20 years women are going to rally, they're going to let their heart be broken with compassion and they're going to bring solution to the widow, the orphan, and the poor.
... it is time that the women come and bring their portion to the body of Christ...The voice of a daughter, the voice of a mother, and the voice of a grandmother all begin to say the same things. I believe that heaven is crying out for the daughters of earth to rise up because the earth has need of them. There is just this hurting, wounded world out there.
When I was writing this book, I was like, “God, I need an example of women that are peer to peer doing life well together.” I searched from Genesis to the end of Revelations for every reference to female friends or sisters. Do you know how many references there are to the term “sister”? Well, there are 100 but zero of them are about friendship. It was so and so was a sister of Tubal-Cain and ended with “greetings from the children of your sister.”
I was like, “God, there are tons of ‘You are a brother to me. You are my friend.’ There is none of the sisters.”
I was like, “God, I'm like in the middle of a 21 day fast. Why are you not talking to me? Why are you not talking to me?” I don't know if you've ever felt that way. You are seeking God --
I need to hear from God. So I was sitting there and I was like, “God, I just need one example -- just one example to work with.”
I felt the presence of God come upon me and he said, “Lisa, the daughters of earth are writing that chapter right now. Tell them to write it well.” He said that the chapter that the world has watched, of the women being friends with each other and partnering with each other for strength, is being walked out
right now.
I think that we need to be very intentional, to tell the women, “We have need of you. We have need of your strengths, we have need of your compassion, and we have need of your nurture.” So many women don't know how to connect with each other. They don't have relationships with each other.
And so I felt the presence of God. I was like, “Okay, forgive me for complaining.”
And all of the sudden he said to me, “Lisa, men plan wars but women plan weddings and both of those are on the horizon for the church.” He said, “It is time that the daughters of God begin to bring their portion in all of their strength.”
Right where they are -- and we need nurture in every single aspect. Not everybody has to be in the pulpit, not everybody has to go to Thailand but we need women to open up their heart of compassion in every realm of life, whether they are a daughter, whether they're a mother or whether they're a grandmother. Because I think that we have a lot of grandmothers that say, “Hey, my life has no value anymore. Nobody thinks I have --.” Well, we need them! They have things in them that we don't have.
... grandmothers are the most amazing because they have perspective. They understand what's really important and what's not really important. We need the strength of a grandmother to surround the mothers and daughters. Betty: I think it’s that grandmothers have had time over the years to sort out. I know with our 11 grandchildren, I have time to look at each grandchild and see the attributes in their lives, the gifts God has given them and to focus in on those. And I think too, what I hear you saying is that we just need to become more aware of what we're doing, what we're saying and that there are those that are watching.
Lisa: ...Grandparents, they understand perspective.
... I also think that we've got this family dynamic, we have a church dynamic, we have a world dynamic and I like to think of it this way. I'm not trying to slam guys, this is just the way it is.
One time, and it was only one time, a friend trusted me with her daughter for a weekend and I watched how my boys were building big (with blocks) and the girl was building (block) like rooms. She actually got out the beds and the people figures; my boys didn't even have the people figures and things unless they were fighting. She was laying people down; they were eating and stuff like that. She was building in a way that was gathering.
If we do not have the women in the house of God and the women in community and the women in government, then what's going to happen is we're going to build really big but it is not going to be safe. And as fast as the people come in, they're going to leave because there is no rest for them, there is no connection with them and there is to fellowship.
You need to know there are people out there watching for you to bring only what you can bring to their life. So many people say, “But nobody ever did that for me, I don't know how to do that for them.” So that's why I took the book and I said, “What could I give somebody to position them so that they could not only feel whole but they could turn around and reach out to others?” So the word "nurture" captured that.
James: I look back over my life, being fatherless and I lived with a mother who was husbandless, but my mother nurtured me. There are people who will comment on a quality or a virtue that they see that they think is worthy of noting and I will know, Mother.
People have said, “You speak well; you construct sentences well.” My mother corrected every sentence I ever spoke. Every time I used an improper word she corrected it. She would say, “No, not this, that.”
I'm thinking, who gives a rip? My gosh, I'm with a bunch of kids and thugs. But she cared.
I was led to Christ by a pastor's wife who believed that God could use a boy who had never had an opportunity. She had hope for me.
The greatest woman I've lived with is right here; the greatest impact in my life -- I'd never make it without her.
And our girls have been a great blessing. I think they are great women.
I have a great son in so many ways because of her. Perhaps I've contributed some, the hope is there but the “know” is she is contributed much.
I don't hear you trying to start a movement. I hear you trying to inspire a move of God through available women. I don't hear any kind of power play. I don't hear anybody reaching for power when you talked about women in government. I had some pretty scary images at that moment.
[Laughter]
I thought, God, women that have been nurtured and women who are nurturing and women who are principled and who understand something about real love and dealing with issues, not just throwing somebody else's money at the problems but really getting involved. That's what I hear you saying about nurturing.
So I hear you saying women nurture, inspire men, children, boys, girls -- everyone. I think you are writing it to women because they can fill this role and it is critically important.
Would you like to say thank you to Lisa for going out in what looks like new territory of emphasis?
...We have talked about children in the sex trade in Thailand. There are hundreds of thousands of people that go in there every week to take advantage of children and many of them just shop for little girls, under the age of ten if they can possibly find them and young teens, always. That’s what they're shopping for -- and boys. ... In the field:
Lisa: Looking out here you just can't miss the beauty. It is so serene, it is so idyllic. You see these children and they are so beautiful. But in the midst of all this beauty and peace and tranquility, there is a danger and there is a darkness that you don't see.
Lisa: But it is always prevalent, it is always waiting to pounce.
Lisa: These young girls are at risk of being trafficked, of being abducted, of being lured away from safety by sex traffickers.
Lisa: When I look at the contrast of the innocence here and the beauty here, it just tears your heart. It is such an affront to God that these five- and six-year-old girls would be abducted, that these 10- and 12-year-old girls would be lured from the safety of their village with the promise of a better life only to find themselves trafficked into the sex slave trade.
That is why we have to do something to stop that. That is why we want to partner with our mission partners here in Thailand and build a House of Destiny so we can rescue these girls from the life of prostitution. To see the intervention happen before they could ever be snatched and taken away. ...
In the studio:
James: I would you like to say thanks so much to LisaBevere for being here? Lisa, thank you. God bless you and John. Bless those boys!