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‘A Vessel of Use’

March 30, 2024: ‘A Vessel of Use’…He rose. Once. Why do you keep killing Him and raising Him instead of yourself? I did have to die first so that I could live. Why don’t you allow this for yourself? Since, you are so hell bent on sacrificing Him again and again, why don’t you look at Him…really look at Him. Do you not see what it takes to rise? The flesh was stripped from His bones. This has to happen to you as well. In order to truly live, you first have to die. And in order to resurrect, you have to strip all that hurt you from your bones! Do you not understand this?

A Vessel of Use

take me and break me
twirl me around
make me a dismissal
‒this awoken capsule

don't put me in dazzle
amongst men
who only leave me
to fizzle

instead, raise me in counsel
a straight-forward missile
upon sin….a muzzle

use my body, my mind
all that is physical
to be a beacon
somewhat an apostle
but more
upon pride…a chisel
filling up hearts
in a secret reversal

‒seeing you, my Lord†, work
changing me
from a broken-down weasel
to a fighter in wrestle

don't give me harmony
in a land or house parcel
but instead Spirit
that's beyond universal

give me the disposal
in order to build
in the Kingdom…a castle
where hearts aren't tousled
but…instead…sizzle

give me the words‒
on their hearts…let me stencil
foreverness in whistle
‒not just a drizzle
but a permanent fossil
engraved love
to be passed down
not just in miracle
but in worthy, God†-fearing appraisal

(March 30, 2024)—He led me to John 12:42-50.

Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in Him. But because of the Pharisees they would not confess their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue; for they loved praise from men more than praise from God.—John 12:42,43

Then Jesus cried out, ‘When a man believes in Me, he does not believe in Me only, but in the One who sent Me. When he looks at Me, he sees the One who sent Me. I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should stay in darkness. As for the person who hears My words but does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it. There is a Judge for the one who rejects Me and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day. For I did not speak of My own accord, but the Father who sent Me commanded Me what to say and how to say it. I know that His command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told Me to say.’—John 12:44-50

[I heard the title. Yes, the title was given to me. I didn’t realize that Yeshuah had used this title in 2021: ‘A Vessel of Use’.]

I have been writing, directed writing, concerning The Shepherd of Hermas in the Apocrypha. This may seem strange, but I’m going to go ahead and write it anyway. I read this part of the Apocrypha months ago, and while I was reading it, I knew He would direct me to write about it. I just knew. How? Because it sounded a lot like a lot of things He had been telling me since 2019. If I have learned anything from God it’s this: There are NO coincidences.

As I already knew, a couple of weeks ago He told me to take what was given and put into my words. (With the help of David, of course). So, I wrote about the twelve commandments given to Hermas by the Shepherd which was given way after Jesus went back home and it is believed that the ‘Shepherd‘ is Jesus. I see that, too. So you take it as you like.

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