Today at the Healing Rooms, I was caught up into a
visionary experience:
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
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