In part of my dream last night I saw cast sheep dying. After talking with Jim a previous sheep farmer, cast sheep are when they are pregnant and they lie down and cant get up. So my thinking is that there are sheep (people/christians) pregnant with things; dreams/visions/hopes in the spirit and in the waiting are really tired and so are sitting down/giving up on their dreams. Sometimes when we are expectant and pregnant as a mother we can become tired in the waiting for the baby to be born, but keep going, keep believing and it will come to pass. There is always the tiredness and exhaustion in the final stages of labour but the thing that keeps you going is that there will be a baby. Isaiah 66:9-11 "Do I bring to the moment of birth and not give delivery?" says your God ....v10 For you will nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts; you will drink deeply and delight in her overflowing abundance." God gave me this scripture once when I was really struggling to keep going and so I encourage not to give up but keep believing by faith and those things that he has given you will come to pass.
Several weeks ago the Lord shifted us out of the 'home office' into the 'market place' and in the process a spiritual shift happened - one of letting the 'baby' go, a releasing and handing over the batten, so to speak to others. In this process the nests that WE ALL have been in have been stirred up, shaken about, and pushed out, to fly in ways that perhaps we were too afraid to do previously. The amazing thing with God is that He knows the timing of all of this and where each one of us is at and what we can handle. Yes there has been a fluttering of wings in panic. Yes, we have had a few weeks of challenge as authority and structures get changed and challenged, frustrations coming to the fore, but love helps us overcome, love helps us to forgive, love helps us to see the good and not the dirt, love helps us remember our own failings and yet forgiveness and grace that the Lord has for me, that I can give to others, remembering it's the glory of G...