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.
Recently we have been pondering how to deal with situations in our family that don't line up with the word. What action do we need to take? Are we being too harsh? Do we accept the behaviour or be considered by those around us as "too radical" or "too black and white"? "Where is grace in all of this? How do we love the sinner but hate the sin? What about forgiveness? What is the role of discipline? What makes that sin any worse than lying? What is true love? And there are a lot more questions going through the mind in how to work through this and know God's will and desire for the situation and the person. And firstly to say we have not come to any conclusions and are growing and learning day by day in this but I want to throw it out there. In Matt 10:34-39 says "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn "a man against his father, ...