Monday, June 1, 2015

31. HEDGE OF THORNS





     This blog is part personal journal, part search for healing from childhood wounds and part quest for treasure according to the Healing House prophets, synonymous I think with "breakthrough" per Dr. Bree Keyton.  I think I've been sent after a high level connection with God for directions through the tribulation which I believe will begin next September.  I don't have that from God or Jesus but from evidence I'm sifting through.  My highest priority however has been a search for my final partner of this lifetime and it's felt like God has blocked me in this effort, I was thinking maybe to heal me of co dependency or help me stay focused on His treasure.
      I keep telling Him I'd focus better if my mind wasn't on the woman so much and why He seems to be blocking my efforts at meeting one and dating.  I was even accusing Him recently of taking away my free will in this area, breaking His own rules, but I think I have a breakthrough here and I believe He did build the forcefield.  He didn't set out specifically to take away my free will though, so I'd serve Him better, He did it in answer to a woman's prayer she didn't know she prayed.  He may have kept His rules but as I've said recently, whether God put me in a pit or turned me over to satan to put me in a pit, it doesn't really much matter to me, I'm still in a pit.
     If what is foretold comes to pass, this blog might become well read so I'm sharing things as I learn them and it seems I'm learning something new almost daily.  Much could be useful to others so I'm sharing details as I go along.
     I pondered today, why me for the quest for treasure, I have no active gifts, I'm just an old guy who's gone through life with a bit more than average brokenness, looking to slow down and enjoy life a few years.  Why not someone like Dr. Keyton who writes seminary textbooks and "moves among" all 9 supernatural gifts.
     Thinking it through, I've come up with a few reasons that may make me uniquely qualified.  I've studied my Bible most of my life reading through once a year but that doesn't take a lot of effort, 15 minutes a day or so.  Recently though, I've done so rather intensely at the instructions of a couple higher level people of God, so I'm much more knowledgeable about it than the average person. Pardon my arrogance but at times it seems I know it better than some pastors I've spoken with.  I'm not after glory or leadership, will be happy to get into heaven as a toilet cleaner.  I'm a good problem solver, usually scored in the 99th percentile on standardized high school tests, (they didn't give 100's) and I think there may be some significance to the fact that I was briefly dead as a young man in a drunk driving wreck and / or for a few seconds, as an adolescent was stuck, hanging from a tree in excruciating pain.  (Cursed is he who hangs from a tree.)  Combining all these points, I may be in a very rare group of people.
     I've been feeling God has really messed up my plans.  I made a move across country a few months ago for business and family reasons, ending a dysfunctional relationship I shouldn't have been in, in the first place.  God blessed my tithing through some hard times and by making this move I felt economic conditions were such that I should be able to set up a retirement pension off rental property, find a compatible woman and enjoy life for a few years before I'm too old.  With what I see happening in the near future, my plans might not have worked out anyway and since I'm just spending a few hours a day on my quest for God and the blog, in reality, I'm pressing on with the plan as I obey God's calling.  Actually He seems to be giving me extra help financially with some easy money from unexpected business deals.  I wrote earlier that it seemed God had put up a forcefield around me that deflects women.  I think He has.
     I'm somewhat introverted, never was good at flirting or coming on to women but keep myself in shape so they usually come on to me if I put myself in the right places.  That hasn't happened lately nor have my efforts at posting on craigslist or joining a christian dating site resulted in more than conversations that don't go anywhere.  My mother's visiting for a few days and when I mentioned my frustrations to her, she recalled hearing a sermon about a "hedge of thorns."  I'd never heard of this but researched the topic to see if it was biblical and it certainly is.
     I should take what I know to a sci fi writer in Hollywood and show him something he could never have dreamed of, our world as it actually is.  We humans have a tiny range of vision of our world with our "earth eyes."  We live in a multiple dimensional world with angels and demons all around us doing battle.  The demons aren't supposed to be there, weren't in God's plan but are the result of promiscuous angels of God, who were given human form as watchers, having sex with women creating Nephilim, who's souls didn't fit anywhere so are stuck roaming earth, tormenting us humans.  The demons come in different sizes and shapes and have different personalities matching those of the giants they came from.  The angels also are in different classes or choirs, to save time, I lifted some info from wikipedia:

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     Be careful about accepting anything about Bible interpretation as exact and precise because if it didn't come from Jesus it may be in error.  At my current level of understanding, I'm not sure about the classification of "stronghold" on that list.  It may be an angel class but it's also a collection of demons large enough to start controlling behavior vs. just whispering sinful thought.  I can understand how the scholar may have came up with it though from the phrase. "pulling down strongholds."
     From EPH 6:12 our struggle is "against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms," so we may need to add an angel class called "Rulers" to the above list. Oops, on edit I see it is on the list.   When looking at other translations it gets really complicated, in some, principalities is substitued for rulers, that's on the list, the Weymouth translation has its own thing though, despotisms and empires, which would be synonymous with a couple.......   God help me please.  How am I supposed to understand all this for the break through you sent me after?  I'm getting overwhelmed..........I believe "spiritual forces of evil" would refer to demons who weren't part of God's plan and aren't supposed to be here.  heavenly realm would refer to another dimension of our world which is first heaven.
     Also about first heaven, in MATT 18:18 where Jesus tells us "what you bind on earth I will bind in heaven, what you loose on earth I will loose in heaven," I believe he's telling us that when we cast out a demon or some evil in the dimension we live in, he'll be casting it out in the unseen dimension that's with us called first heaven.  That is, he's not doing something far away from us in second or third heaven, but unseen, right beside us taking action by our commands.
     The angels listed above may be fallen or not, the demons are under authority of the fallen ones. We can join the battle with help from God and Jesus, perhaps we can call on God's specialized angels with a request from Jesus, angel of the LORD, spirit of wisdom, counsel, understanding, might, knowledge and the one named fear of the Lord, as I the phrase from Paul illustrates, "I pray you will have the spirit of wisdom...".  The smarter I get the more ignorant I realize I am, so much hidden meaning here.
     I googled hedge of thorns and see several references in the Bible.  To save time, I'm going to lift from other sources, being sure to give credit and as long as I stay anonymous shouldn't get myself sued.

How To Build a Hedge Around an Unfaithful Partner

"I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge...that I should not destroy..." (Ez.22:30)

A certain man discovered that his wife was secretly seeing another man. She would meet him on business trips and spend long hours after work with him. For months she had neglected her home responsibilities, such as making any meals for her husband.
He learned about the "hedge of thorns" that he could claim in prayer for his wife, and one day he used it. That evening when he got home from work, his wife was in the kitchen making their first meal in four months!
A wife learned that her husband was spending time with a younger woman. She learned further that he was planning to leave her and marry this younger woman. She was told how to pray for a "hedge of thorns" around her husband. The next evening he received a phone call from the young woman telling him that she wanted to break off their relationship.
The wife of a young pastor left him and began working in a bar. She was planning to marry the barkeeper. The grieving husband learned how to pray for a "hedge of thorns" around his wife, and three days later, his wife called him up and was ready to return home.
These are only a few of the many illustrations which Christians are experiencing as a result of building a "hedge of thorns" or "hedge of protection" around their loved ones. However, there is far more to the story than just praying a certain prayer.
The Scriptural basis for the "hedge of thorns" is found in several passages. First of all, God looks for an intercessor to make up a "hedge" of protection. (Ez.22:30). Job is an example of such a man in the O.T. (Job 1:5-12)
He prayed for God's protection over his family - including his sons and daughters whom he feared cursed God in their hearts. The result was that God "made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that He had on every side".
By building a "hedge" around an unfaithful partner, his/her "lovers" lose interest and Satan is no more able to take your partner captive "at his will". Satan must get clearance from God for whatever he does, and his actions become God's dealings in love. II Timothy 2:25-26; II Corinthians 12:7; Job 1:5-10)
A further illustration of the hedge is found in Hosea. God promised to make a hedge of thorns around Hosea's adulterous wife so that her lovers would lose interest in her. (Hosea 2:6-7)
After God built a hedge of thorns around Hosea's unfaithful wife, and her lovers left her, she decided to return to her husband. However, if she was to remain under his authority and protection, there were several things that he had to do. These are listed in Hosea 2:14-16.
The NT counterpart to this truth is illustrated in Christ's interecession for Peter (Lk.22:31-38) and for his disciples (John 17:12 - the hedge of prayer - none lost but the son of perdition). It is also illustrated in Paul's prayer for those under his spiritual care.
The basic teaching of Scripture on the hedge is found in II Cor. 10:4-5 "For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds."
This emphasizes the fact that Satan is able to have powerful holds on our mind, will, and emotions, but that through God we can and must pull them down.
The purpose of "binding Satan" (Matt.12:29) and building a "hedge of protection" around your partner is so that you can proceed "casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ."
(II Cor.10:5).
There are a number of cases in which a husband or wife build a "hedge of thorns" around an unfaithful partner through prayer, saw the return of that partner, and then failed to follow up on the victory. Soon Satan regained a foothold in that partner's life. Thus, the following steps are very essential.

1. MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE A GENUINE CHRISTIAN.
God only hears the prayers of His own children. We become a child of God only through putting our full faith and trust for salvation in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ, in dying for us and being raised from the dead.
"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us..." (Titus 3:5).
"But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)
"If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." (Romans 10:9)

2. CLEANSE YOUR LIFE OF ALL SIN
God delighted in building a hedge of protection around Job and all his family and possessions, because Job was "a perfect and an unpright man, one that feareth God, and...(hateth) evil,"
(Job 1:8)
We can claim the righteousness of Christ as Christians by confessing our sins and cleansing our mind, life, and home of anything that grieves the Spirit of God and hinders His work in our life.
"...Make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof." (Romans 13:14)

3. BUILD A "HEDGE OF THORNS" BY PRAYER
The following prayer is an example of building a hedge of thorns around an unfaithful marriage partner:
"Heavenly Father, I ask You in the name and through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, to build a "hedge of thorns" around my partner. I pray that through this hedge, any other lover will lose interest and depart. I base this prayer on Your Word which commands that what You have joined together, let not man put asunder." ((Matthew 19:6)

4. RESTORE A SPIRIT OF ONENESS
Follow through on your prayer by getting alone with your partner (..."I will allure her and bring her into the wilderness.."), using gentle, kind, and loving words ("...speak comfortably unto her..."_, committing yourself to your partner's needs and visualizing hope ("I will give her her vineyards...for a door of hope"), restoring your partner's happiness ("...and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth..."), and restoring a spirit of deep friendship ("...thou shalt call me ish (my husband) and shalt call me no more baali (my lord)). (Hosea 2:14-16)

5. CAST DOWN WRONG REASONINGS
In the spirit of friendship and fellowship, cast down false reasonings in the mind of your partner by wisely using God's Word. Together, bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. (I Cor. 10:4-5)

GOMER
Gomer was the wife of the prophet Hosea.
She was an adulterous wife.
In this account, God gives us a graphic illustration of how the "hedge of thorns" works
Hosea 2:6-16

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PUT A "HEDGE OF THORNS" AROUND AN UNFAITHFUL PARTNER?
1. He/she will lose direction.
"...I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths."

2. Any other "lovers" will leave.
"...she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them."

3. Troubles will prompt a return
"...then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband: for then was it better with me than now."
Hosea 2:6-16

A "hedge will be ineffective if you have not resolved all past offenses, or if you do not follow through with Scriptural steps of actions.

THE PRAYER FOR A "HEDGE" INVOLVES THREE PARTS

1. YOUR SPIRITUAL 'CREDENTIALS'
We are able to approach a holy God through the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ's death and resurrection have already defeated Satan's power. "But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." (I Cor. 15:57)

2. YOUR REQUEST
When we pray, we must be specific; the more precise we are in our prayer, the more able we are to judge its Scriptural basis and the more alert we will be in seeing His answer to it. "...Ye have not, because ye ask not" (James 4:2)

3. YOUR SCRIPTURAL AUTHORITY
Every request must be based on the will of God as revealed in His Word. God's Word is the sword of the Spirit (Ep.6:17). Christians are able to overcome Satan "..by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony." (Rev. 12:11).

GOD GIVES FIVE STEPS TO WIN BACK A WAYWARD PARTNER
(Hosea 2:14-16)
1. Allure him/her away from ungodly influences.
2. Speak gently and lovingly.
3. Reestablish responsibility and by it restore hope.
4. Cause him/her to sing for joy.
5. Build an intimate friendship.


From Bill Gothard Ministries

     

    Jesus just tipped me off that our prayers may include our thoughts, not just what we're praying for as I explained back in the posting, HE'S ASKING FOR A HARLOT.  I certainly was not asking for a harlot but felt with my "experience" was deserving of an "experienced" woman.  I'll say it again God, I'd prefer an inexperienced woman if you can find one for me, I've given you a fairly comprehensive list and a few things in my head just between you and me.  I'd like to be the one who takes her places she's never been before or dreamed possible.  I hope we're clear on that now.  
    We see the hedge of thorns is effective for keeping an unfaithful mate faithful but how does one break it down when it shouldn't be there as in my case?  I don't see any guidance for this, but have prayed several times alone and with help that it be broken down in Jesus's name.
     As I've previously suggested, I think we broken people who cry out to God from places of deep anguish may be more likely to find Him in a big way than those who've lived relatively comfortable lives.  My companion of the last 3 years suffered from horrible childhood abuse as did I.  She's quite God connected with on call gifts of tongues and interpreting them and has had experience with the gift of healing but she also suffers from serious demonic strongholds from childhood abuse, as have I but I'm trying to get mine cleaned out while she's in denial and may never get healed.
     Our relationship was miserable for both of us.  I was in a very low place, happy to have some company and we've both suffered from co dependency, fear of being alone or out of a relationship so we stayed together longer than we should have.  My perception was that I didn't get the companionship I craved as she was busy smothering her daughter, she was messy, wouldn't replace toilet paper or paper towels when used up, at my insistence kept common areas clean but kept her area in squalor.  She'd had some kept women in her life and had a sense of entitlement.  I ought to be supporting her in exchange for intimacy, which didn't happen often as we both felt guilty about it while she was free to raise her kids or do as she pleased.
     I set up some boundaries and stopped helping her with car payments and insurance but gave her free rent, utilities and groceries though she made some contribution there from a local food bank.  The spirit named Jealousy was strong in her, as I saw in my father, and every 2 to 3 weeks she'd have an episode lasting from a few hours to 2 or 3 days during which time she'd rage at me for imagined transgressions, sulk and lock herself away, but it was ok for her to post herself on craigslist personals looking for a better man.  We co dependents prefer to go immediately from one relationship into the next and will stay in a bad one unless a better looking situation comes along.
     Only after we'd broken up, which happened numerous times would she decide she loved me with all her heart and that I was the man of her dreams.  I could have been but not with her behavior.
     In the recent counseling session she facilitated for me with Jesus, see posting COUNSELING WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT / CODEPENDENCY, she let me know that although she's still with the man she found within days of parting company with me and has had a wedding ceremony with him, not legal because she's still married for tax purposes to her estranged husband, but an informal deal which appeases her conscience for the adultery she's committing, she still loves me.  She let me know she'd like to be my wife.  I told her I didn't think it was God's choice but that if He gave her the question in my fleece, I'd marry her.
     Now it makes sense.  This woman has a powerful God connection and by her thoughts has set me aside for herself by having God build a "hedge of thorns" around me, even though she relayed Jesus's advice about having my mother pray with me for my next and last companion.  In the meantime, I'm in despair over loneliness and would like a woman to help me and share my life with.  I have much to offer. Knowing that we tend to hide our defects from possible mates, though they always come out in time, I'm asking God to send me the right woman with whom I'll be compatible for an instant marriage.  It took a year of marriage to my second wife to learn she was a compulsive liar and had a list of unpleasant sex related issues.  I know this seems very bizarre and will require supernatural action from God, but I've already heard from Jesus via my connected real estate agent about my request, (see HE'S ASKING FOR A HARLOT) so I think God just might bring her to me. I don't think we have much time left.
     Wouldn't it be great if it always worked this way?  Have God put 2 people together and tell us, this is my choice for you.  This is all you get, make it work.  If you misbehave, I'll turn you over to satan and he'll make your life hell.  Of course that would be taking away our free will so it has to be in our will for Him to do this.  I had conversations with a couple women from dating sites who seemed ready to "jump if God snapped his fingers" so I think she's out there.  We both have free will after we meet as to whether or not to proceed.
    I'm still a bit incredulous about what I think God has planned for me.  If the woman I'm asking for comes along, her question will tie everything together.  I may be on a mission of significant importance for humanity, then again, I may be delusional and going insane.  My sons think so and I'm wondering myself, especially on the burned out days with only 3 hours sleep.  Either way, I'd appreciate your prayers for me that the hedge of thorns be removed and that God will send me the woman I'm looking for.  Thanks for your help.
   
In His service, a Misfit Child of God   - I still haven't figured this computer stuff out, God let's add computer proficiency to the wife list please.


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