Have you ever gone into a Hotel Room and smelling the smell of fresh clean sheets and a bed beautifully made? Or even hoping into your own bed after you have changed the sheets and have beautiful fresh pillowcases? Well this morning in a vision I saw a Hotel Room and the word that came from the Lord was - "The Dinah Sheets need changing" and knowing there was blood on the sheets and calling for a Hotel porter to come and bring new sheets.
Dinah was Jacobs daughter and her story is
told in Genesis 34. She was a
virgin, pure, but then Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, took her and violated
her. I encourage you to read the whole story and
to see what takes place in retribution for her defilement.
But the point that I believe the Lord is
wanting to show me and to bring, is that once we were pure in Christ, but
things have happened to us that defile us, make us ‘unclean’, where we are no
longer ‘pure’ and the Lord would say to you this morning, “change the sheets”,
do something about it, take action, to become a pure bride again. Like Dinah with Jacob, she was still
his daughter, as we are still sons and daughters of God, but there are things
we can do to remove and to change the ‘violation’ or the ‘defilement’ that has
occurred in our lives.
When we become defiled we no longer see
things from a pure heart, from a place of innocence and childlikeness, for
example perhaps we have been disappointed where we haven’t yet seen something
we are believing for and so we go
into the next situation that requires hope to be there and we no longer
have the hope or expectation of a child that we once had because we were
disappointed before.
Once we have become defiled we no longer see what the Lord showed Peter in his vision in Acts 10:15 "Do not call anything impure that God has made pure".
In Titus 1:15 “To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.”
Many years ago people prophesied over me
and said “protect your childlike faith”.
That is a place of protecting the simplicity and purity of childlike
faith in the Lord and that has been extremely hard to do when people
misunderstand you, judge you and your motives of your heart of which the Lord
is not judging, when people say all kinds of things about you to others that is
not true etc. And so on a
daily basis I need to come to the Lord and sit with him for all that
‘defilement’, that ‘violation’ of my purity and innocence that is being stolen,
before the Lord is removed. On a
daily basis, I need to change the sheets where I have been soiled by life. Many people wash their towels on a
daily basis, or their underware and it is a bit the same in the Lord, daily we
need to cleanse ourselves of the muck and the grime that wants to settle. Because I find that if I do not, I find
myself like Dinahs brothers who with their mouths gave consent and agreed to
intermarry to heal and restore the situation within the tribes, but in their
hearts they carried deceit and they were still seeking retribution so when the
opportunity came, they killed every male of Shechems tribe.
It is so easy if we are not changing our
sheets, cleansing ourselves, then we carry deceit in our hearts, we say one
thing with our lips but our hearts are far from it. And then when the opportunity arises we take retribution
instead of giving grace and forgiveness which we have received from the Lord.
2 Tim 2:21 “If you keep yourself pure, you will
be a special utensil for honorable use. Your life will be clean, and you will
be ready for the Master to use you for every good work.” (NLT Version)
When we carry deceit in our hearts we
are no longer seeing things clearly, seeing people around us from pure eyes,
the eyes of the Lord, we end up judging everything without even realizing it
and yet the Lord is saying this morning – change the sheets, cleanse yourselves
of the later and you will be made pure, you will be made useful for every good work that He has for you.
Take some time with the Lord and ask Him to come and show you where you may be defiled, and ask him to give you new sheets, a new heart, a pure undefiled heart and like me calling the porter in the Hotel Room who came instantly, the Lord too will come and give you everything you need in order to do this.
The Lord would say - “I love you my child, you are still my
sons and daughters, you are still my children despite the defilement but there
are things that have happened that its time to let go of and move on. Time to cleanse yourself of those
hurts, of those woundings and become as I made you to be, become once again
pure in me and then you will see clearly to remove the speck in others. Then you will see others as I see them,
then you will see the hope and the future that I have for you. It’s time to let go of the past and
move into the future with me as a ‘pure bride’ in your heart. Forgive those who have hurt you, as I
forgive you. Trust me that I have
good things for you to walk into.
I am going to take you places you have never been before but if you are
still carrying the baggage its going to be a slow journey and I have many
things to show you for you to see with awestruck eyes. I love you my child, trust me, let go
of the past, change the sheets and come to me once again pure, of which I have
made you in Jesus. I love you,
remove the soiled sheets and come to me and I will show you a new way.”
With love from your Heavenly Father.