God promised to always make a way
of escape. Jesus is our Savior, Healer, Redeemer, and He is also the Rescuer. Every
one of us needs rescuing sometime or other. From situations beyond our control,
from situations brought about by other people, even other people's selfishness
or carelessness or even dishonesty. Sometime
we need rescuing from our own mistakes or our own lack of wisdom or
discernment. But Jesus is also the Rescuer. Part of the word meaning of
Redeemer is "rescuer."
When Joshua sent two spies to
Jericho, Rahab allowed the two men to stay at her place. But the king of
Jericho found out that they were there. He sent his men to Rahab's house to
capture the spies. The people of Jericho were very afraid of the Israelites.
They had heard stories of the great victories won by them.
Rahab hid them on her roof and
let them down over the city wall with the aid of red cord. Leaving the red cord
in the window, when the spies returned, and were able to locate her house and
rescued her and her family.
God Always has a Red Cord
Did you know that God always has
a red cord? The key is that we LISTEN
and do what He tells us to do. In Rahab's case it wouldn't have worked if she
decided to put a parrot or a cat in the window instead of a red cord. It was
very important that she followed instructions.
God knows how to rescue you - but
you have to listen. You can't do the will of God your way- you have to do it
His way.
A lady wrote me a few months ago.
She had made a mistake in some business decisions and consequently dug a huge financial
pit. Unfortunately she was convinced that she was going to reap the
consequences of her mistake.
While that's true there are
consequences- it is also true that Jesus can redeem you and rescue you.
If God gives you an
"order" or a word to do something, guess what? He can also give you
instructions as to HOW. He can give you a red cord.
When we lived in Orlando area
years ago, the Lord gave us a very clear word to move on from there.
I was driving to pray with a
friend. God spoke very unexpectedly to me. "It's time for you to leave this
city and wash off the dust from your feet."
The car swerved a bit. I didn't
tell anyone except my husband, David. We had been in Orlando since we had immigrated
to America 12 years previously, so it was a big thing for us to leave.
David said "Well I think we
need to believe for a word from outside to confirm this." I said to the
Lord then, "You know Lord, I don't want to start thinking this was just a
thought in my head if it doesn't go smoothly, so we need a word from
outside." I went on, "I want you to get someone to call me, someone I
know that hears from you, and he has to say the exact same words to me." An evangelist I knew from England came to
mind. "I want you to get Harry to
call me." Did you know that you
could believe for a word from heaven and it will be released? I had a thought that maybe in a few weeks
Harry would call.
The next day I was sitting
waiting on the Lord when the phone rang. I casually answered and almost fell
off the chair when I heard Harry's voice. "Harry where are you?" I
asked." I am not sure; I am at some
restaurant in Arizona. The Lord told me to call you - what's up?" Of course I didn't want to put anything into
his mind so I just said, "Well we're doing great, and having some house
meetings. We may move on sometime down the road." Harry paused and then
said, "It's time for you to leave that city and wipe off the dust from
your feet." Then he prayed for some
doors to open and hung up.
By the way - wiping the dust from
your feet does not mean you stomp off in a bad mood, it means that when you
leave somewhere (an area or church) you don't have any bad feelings or
unforgiveness toward anyone. If you do
that it will cling to you and you will take that "dust" with you to
the next place. We had the word - now we
needed the "how."
Bright Colored Flowers
For a start we needed to know HOW
to proceed and how to sell our property. I don't believe that we need to do
"trial and error" and waste a lot of time, because the Holy Spirit
can tell us HOW.
I asked the Lord, "How do we
sell the house, it's a very overbuilt area." I waited in faith; you know
we hear by faith right? God spoke to me "Take $200 and go to Home Depot,
buy $200 worth of brightly colored flowers and put them in the front yard. Then
put out a "For Sale by Owner" sign." Well I did exactly that and
then waited.
About 2 weeks later as I was
praying in the morning the Lord spoke to me "The man who is going to buy
the house is coming today to look at it."
Sure enough around 11 AM I had a
phone call - a lady was on the phone "Can we come by and see the
house?" Well I wasn't sure who "we" were, but it turned out to
be a nice lady and man who was a bodyguard to the Princes and Sheiks that came
over from the Middle East. When they came and looked around, the lady said to
me "We weren't really looking in this area- but every time we rode by we
noticed all the bright flowers." So the flowers the Holy Spirit told me to
buy were just an eye catcher to get their attention on the house.
Have you noticed how awesome God
is at doing several things at the same time? The man treated us very
respectfully - almost like he was a bit afraid of us and we couldn't figure it
out.
Well he finally told us that when
he was a young man he had a 3 year old daughter who had Leukemia and was in
hospital dying. He said that he had knelt beside her bed and told God "If
you heal my little girl I will serve you." Three days later she left the
hospital, but he never did serve the Lord. When he was confronted with us as
Christians, I truly believe God was giving him another opportunity to keep his
vow. I don't know if he ever did.
God then told us when and where
to move. He even showed us the 4 young
men who come from Gainesville, Florida with a moving van.
We have Many Stories Like This
I remember one time when we just
didn't seem to hear from God about HOW. Which door to go through? It was very frustrating;
we just kept trying different, things and pushing on different doors. Then I
had a vision. I am sure that many of you can relate to it. I was sitting on the
floor in a very dark room. I couldn't see a thing. I kept getting up and
pushing my hands against the walls, trying to feel where the door was.
The Lord spoke to me and said,
"Sit down." I had sat down and
waited. Suddenly a light shone on the door. I got up and walked right over to
it. Many times we don't wait. We keep
trying this and trying that, and then it's hard to hear.
God always provides a red cord. We
have to look for it and ask for it and not assume things.
Sometime there is a change for
you, but you can miss it if you are too busy doing what you always do.
Blessings!
Kathie Walters
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