Today at the Healing Rooms, I was caught up into a visionary experience:
The Vision of the Lord as the Barley Cake - 07-28-15
I am sitting on the grassy hillside of the mountain again in the vision, and I am sitting beside the Lord. We are clothed in our tunics, and our sandals. I see the valley laying below us and I see the encampment of the enemy arrayed against a group of people living in the valley at the base of the mountain. The group was embattled by the enemy, and I knew that they were being slowly whittled down to a small group. I knew the group was strong, yet they were also very weary in the longevity of the enemy attacks.
Jesus did not look overly concerned, and only sat there watching with his arms wrapped around his knees. I sat there to see what would happen. After a few more minutes of watching, I saw Jesus then stand up, and looked over at me, and said, "Let's have some fun!" Suddenly He grabbed my hand and pulled me up, and then He launched Himself forwards into a tumble with me still holding his hand. Here we are both tumbling down the mountainside like a dual ball, and I hear Jesus laughing all the way down! So I start laughing too, and realize that we are like the barley cake falling down the hillside in Judges 7. The Lord knew my thoughts as we tumbled, and He shouted to me as we rolled, "Exactly!"
Then we reached the bottom of the mountain and as we hit the valley floor, thunder and lightning flew outwards from our rolling momentum, and it hit the enemy forces with great bolts. The enemy began to scatter and run. Then fire broke out everywhere, and we came to a standstill at the edge of the city. We stood and watched the fire burn in a circle, all around the city like a wheel. The fire burned up all of the encampments and the weapons of the enemy that the fleeing army had erected. The people that were worn out, then came and stood by us, and the Lord said to them all, "Come."
The Lord then turned and walked over to a lake that was near the city, and He walked down into the lake until He was under the water. I quickly followed the Lord and went under the water too. I knew the people behind us on the shore were deciding what to do, to either enter the water, or to stay. I also knew their thoughts, and their thinking of the possibility of getting pounded by the army that was sure to regroup against them. One by one, the group finally chose to follow us, and soon we were all in a group standing under the water together. Then the lake we were all in turned into a body of fire. We were all standing in the flames, and the people were all crying out in the purification process, and soon they were were shouting. After a few minutes they were all worshipping together.
Then the fire died down, and we were all found standing on the valley's dry ground again. The Lord then said to them all standing there, "Never fear anything of the enemy that draws near. I am your Battle Axe, and I am also your Barley Cake. Never fear the tactics, nor the weapons, that the enemy use or would make. Know that these things currently being arrayed against you are only being used to becloud the path that is about to be paved. You are to lead My People into the Purposes that I have ordained, and into the destiny written for you all in this land. There is nothing that can withstand Me, nor My Word, and nothing can withstand My Plans for you. Rise up today; move forth firmly in your faith; and then move into your full inheritance that lies just ahead of you, knowing that certain victory shall be yours in every way."
Scriptures:
Judges 7:1-25 Then Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod; and the camp of Midian was north of them by the hill of Moreh in the valley. The Lord said to Gideon, The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel boast about themselves against Me, saying, My own hand has delivered me. So now proclaim in the ears of the men, saying, Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him turn back and depart from Mount Gilead. And 22,000 of the men returned, but 10,000 remained. And the Lord said to Gideon, The men are still too many; bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. And he of whom I say to you, This man shall go with you, shall go with you; and he of whom I say to you, This man shall not go with you, shall not go. So he brought the men down to the water, and the Lord said to Gideon, Everyone who laps up the water with his tongue as a dog laps it, you shall set by himself, likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink. And the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was 300 men, but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water. And the Lord said to Gideon, With the 300 men who lapped I will deliver you, and give the Midianites into your hand. Let all the others return every man to his home. So the people took provisions and their trumpets in their hands, and he sent all the rest of Israel every man to his home and retained those 300 men. And the host of Midian was below him in the valley. That same night the Lord said to Gideon, Arise, go down against their camp, for I have given it into your hand. But if you fear to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp And you shall hear what they say, and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp. Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outposts of the camp of the armed men. And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east lay along the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand on the seashore for multitude. When Gideon arrived, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down so that the tent lay flat. And his comrade replied, This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon son of Joash, a man of Israel. Into his hand God has given Midian and all the host. When Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped and returned to the camp of Israel and said, Arise, for the Lord has given into your hand the host of Midian. And he divided the 300 men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets and empty pitchers, with torches inside the pitchers. And he said to them, Look at me, then do likewise. When I come to the edge of their camp, do as I do. When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then you blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp and shout, For the Lord and for Gideon! So Gideon and the 100 men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when the guards had just been changed, and they blew the trumpets and smashed the pitchers that were in their hands. And the three companies blew the trumpets and shattered the pitchers, holding the torches in their left hands, and in their right hands the trumpets to blow leaving no chance to use swords, and they cried, The sword for the Lord and Gideon! They stood every man in his place round about the camp, and all the Midianite army ran—they cried out and fled. When Gideon’s men blew the 300 trumpets, the Lord set every Midianite’s sword against his comrade and against all the army, and the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah by Tabbath. And the men of Israel were called together out of Naphtali and Asher and all Manasseh, and they pursued Midian. And Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites and take all the intervening fords as far as Beth-barah and also the Jordan. So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together and took all the fords as far as Beth-barah and also the Jordan. And the men of Ephraim took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, and they slew Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian; and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
- Susan O'Marra
- 07-28-15
