After my Jordan shoveled the entryway and sidewalk, I went outside to start my car and watch my lads get on the bus.  When the bus arrived at 7:03am, I remember saying, “Oh, the bus is a minute late today.  Everybody is late at some time or another.”  After the bus left, I saw a car pull up to the bus stop.  A few more lads got out, stood there, and waited for the bus to come back around to its starting point.  They had missed the bus when it came the FIRST TIME.  SELAH!

Then, I heard, “GET IN POSITION!  Even though you missed it the FIRST TIME, if you would just get in position, stand there, where you are supposed to BE, it will come back to you and you will BE ready and waiting for it.”  What is IT?  Whatever you missed the FIRST TIME when you were not standing in position.

I looked at the clock again (I have this thing with time), and it was 7:08am.  It took FIVE MINUTES, a big ole’ FIVE MINUTES, just a dash of grace for the bus to return.  That is not a long period of time to STAND and WAIT!  SELAH!  Again, I say, GET IN POSITION!  Stand there and wait for it!  Don’t BEcome wishy-washy and shilly-shally.  BE still and patiently wait for it!  I guarantee you, it will come back around and it will not take a long period of time.

This morning, as I was receiving therapy, I thought about how I will be in constant [regular, steady, continuous, devoted, unbroken, perpetual] therapy for the next 4-6 weeks; realigning my body from an accident I had on February 4, 2012. 

Some 20 years ago, I had fallen down a flight of stairs at Big Momma’s house.  I remember taking a cooler up the stairs, not realizing that it was dripping water.  So, when I was going down the stairs, I slipped on the first step and slid all the way down the stairs on my butt-bone.  Over the years, I’ve had stints of immobility; and even with that, I was able to bear two more children and remain physically healthy.  This accident, although mild in impact, affected me wholly from head to feet.  However, it was refreshing to get up and go back work.  Albeit I am sore, with bouts of dull pain and sharp tingles, I am doing much better than last week. 

While driving and meditating, embracing the morning dew and the fresh wind, I looked into the sky before me and saw the horizon.  Then, these words entered my soul:  “RISE UP to the horizon; the place where earth [you] meet the sky [heaven].  Great things are awaiting you.  You are closer than what you appear to BE – keep moving forward.  Yes, moving TOWARDS, not PARALLEL to, the horizon.  There is where “your will BE done on earth as it is in heaven” blessings are; at the horizon.”  

As I paused and smiled in agreement, I heard, “Constant Praise Therapy!  It will get you there!”  Where is there?  Again, there is where “your will BE done on earth as it is in heaven” blessings are; at the horizon.”  Constant [regular, steady, continuous, devoted, unbroken, perpetual] Praise Therapy will get you to the horizon.”

This is what I dreamt today, February 10, 2012, concerning Refreshing Springs COGIC, Pastor A. Wendell Brown, Jr.

I was in a temple and people were coming in from prison, and needed to get things done like applying for jobs, getting picture ID’s to cash checks, finding out about child support they owe, getting medical insurance paper work completed, contact list of family members, and other resources.  They were almost fighting to get in line to get all they needed in order, in order to be successful outside of the wires.  One caucasian man sat behind me because he was afraid that if he left he would miss something.

Then, some people started singing around the sacred instruments and had a tape recorder to play the song so that the minstrel could find the right key on the organ.  And, well, they just couldn’t get it right as a skilled Levite.  When they did get somewhat where they were trying to go, I was singing in my seat and a lady turned around and said, “You go to this church?”  I said, “No, ma’am, I fellowship at Refreshing Springs COGIC.”  She tapped the lady in front of her and said, “Girl, she don’t go here.  She goes to that Refreshing Springs church!”  The lady she tapped face lit up and she said, “OH MY GOD!  That is the place to BE!”  Then she passed some change to the lady in front of me and said, “Give this to her.  It’s all I have, but that place is the place to BE!”

What she gave me was about 12 coins, no quarters and no nickles; only pennies and dimes (which means pledges and tithes).  SELAH!

I wholly BElieve, no doubt, that people are going to start giving Refreshing Springs their pledges and tithes.  We will enter their dwelling place and they will inquire of “Who are you?”  And they will give.  Thus, we will BE able to take care of the congregants IN the house and accommodate those who are transitioning back into society.  And we ALL will BE productive citizens because of “The Springs”; the poor and needy amongst us will not BE forsaken.  SELAH!

LET the scriptures come to life according to Isaiah 41:17-18 (KJV) “When the POOR and NEEDY SEEK, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD WILL HEAR them, I the God of Israel WILL NOT forsake them.  I WILL OPEN RIVERS in HIGH places, and FOUNTAINS in the midst of the VALLEYS: I WILL MAKE the wilderness a POOL of water, and the dry land SPRINGS of water.

WAIT FOR IT!  IT IS ON THE WAY!  ALLELUIA!

On October 5, 2009, I sent an email to Prophet Kenner, Pastor Brown and Lady Brown and title of the email was “A Spiritual Goshen.”

Goshen:  a fertile region of ancient Egypt, east of the Nile delta; granted to Jacob and his descendants [the Israelites] by the King of Egypt and inhabited by them until the Exodus (Genesis 45:10); Egyptian fertile land; salvation for Jacob’s [the seed of Abraham’s] family. [O.T.: Genesis 46:28].

I am confident that El Berith [YAH of the Covenant] is establishing us, His people, in “A SPIRITUAL GOSHEN” [a fertile land that is salvation for us, the seed of Abraham, right here in Kokomo, IN].  It is a place of safety and provision for those who are obedient to His word and those who stay in the flow of His Spirit.  Our part is to maintain honesty and integrity, as well as to remain good stewards of what we’ve been given.  He will continue to pour out His mercy, favor and grace, and He will continue to give us wisdom and direct our steps.  LET US go forth in the power of His blessings.  ALLELUIA!  In the name of the Adonai I pray, Amen!  Psalms 27:13 ~ I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

On October 16, 2009, Prophet Bobby L. Dawson came and declared Prophet Kenner to BE The Prophet of Goshen; A SPIRITUAL GOSHEN that I spoke of just 11 days earlier.  He uttered accurately, “I’m gonna have to go study this I am not familiar with it, but God has just now over powered you to be the Prophet, here, in Goshen.  Goshen.  I got to study this ‘cause I don’t quite have the revelation; I have to leave here tonight and go study it.  I do know that Goshen was the wealthy place.”

I recall telling Prophet Kenner that when he was sitting on the floor, his face was lit with a golden like glow; one that I’ve not seen on him before.  Then, when he raised to his feet again the Word of the LORD through Prophet Dawson said, “…God is going to take you to the Mountain Timnah…” and this was after he had got back on his feet.  Well, the valley of Timnah is 35 square miles with high mountains on all sides except in the East.  Mount Timnah in the center rises above the surrounding valley and is a place where “COPPER” was mined during biblical periods, making it the oldest known copper mines in the world.  When I looked up copper, it was the exact color I saw about his face.

Starting at the 08:00 mark. 

The man of God had the opportunity to KILL the enemy

But he DROPPED his weapon; fooling around in the building

Doing a whole lot of negotiating and had no power

The building filled with people dancing and hollering

Yet the enemy STILL prowling

In a high place for every eye TO SEE him.

The barricades had been removed by BIG STRONG MEN in WARRIOR GARMENTS

And people were still trying to get in

They told us to flee BUT you stayed

Because they were now serving up some ice cream

NOW, I done got myself in a situation

Because I came back to get you…

YOU STAYED too long and didn’t even get to eat!  Selah!

On the move, people begin to yield

To the enemy’s thrill

And they headed up the stairs to his hide-a-way

We left the building searching for a place to hide

One man told us to come in a house

But there wasn’t enough room for us to abide.

Wandering about, stranded vehicles and darkness everywhere

Here they are, only a few lights on, and they are not the ones

Trying to help us

I TOLD YOU keep walking, me, you and these babies

And a hand full of YOUNG LADIES

Gathering up three more children that were left behind

No men, women, or seasoned mothers to be found.

Crying and praying, “Lord, please let my momma be safe!

Lord, please let my momma be safe!

My own life was not guaranteed

Then he comes; ONLY ONE!

You think he is your friend

Because of how handsome he is

And the color of his skin

But he comes to you with a plunger in his RIGHT hand.

You’re getting excited saying, “Here comes help!”

I tell you to keep walking, don’t be talking

Because he IS NOT here to HELP YOU!

I was working hard to get him off me

With A SON in each arm

Here comes the plunge, to take the breath I breathe

And NOT ONE OF YOU turned back to rescue me

Like I rescued you” (Smith, Angela M. 2010).

YAH’s messages are always clear about dreams and interpretations.  However, there are times when even the elect [the chosen] needs to hear Him speak through His sent prophets, and even enemies.  Judges 7, YAH used the enemy [a Midianite, worshippers of multiple gods, cruel to Israel] to speak of a dream he had to another Midianite, and the Midianite that heard the dream accurately interpreted the dream.  Gideon [who was of the LORD] overheard it and was encouraged at the revelation given to his enemy, from the LORD.

Do not interpretations belong to God?  Yes!  And, because this is true, He uses whom He pleases.

Gideon was not an unbeliever.  It is obvious that he needed some assurance [needed to BE strengthened] in that he was on the right path.   Not to mention he was even afraid to go alone to hear what the LORD was going to do.  Judges 7:9-11 (KJV) “And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.   But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host: And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host.  Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.”

Like I said, one Midianite interpreted the dream of another Midianite and the interpretation was accurate from YAH.  Someone said that doesn’t count in reference to dreams being interpreted, but my stance is this:  was not the dream accurately interpreted and does not interpretations come from YAH?  It is very much so countable.  In Judges 7, you had an unbeliever hearing accurately from YAH and you had a believer hearing and believing what he heard an unbeliever interpret, all at the instructions of the LORD YAH.

I say it is very much so countable, when in fact many BElievers don’t hear accurately at all.  SELAH!

THINKING OUT LOUD:  It was Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 4:11pm (EST) that the Prophet of Goshen, Prophet Durale L. Kenner, appeared before me and I saw him shooting the “arrows of deliverance.”  He was physically in Memphis, TN at the time, and when I saw him I blew in my right hand and waved it across my face, as I do on occasions.  As I felt the wind on my hand, I felt it come back to me on my face (like a ricochet effect) and then I heard the Spirit of the LORD say:

“The arrows of deliverance has a wind.  When the arrows of deliverance are released, it is the force of the wind that gives the arrows the power to destroy.  The tip of the arrow is anointed with oil to make whatever it is shooting BE-come clean, whole, and new; oil to prosper, to BE made whole after the deliverance takes place.  It is the oil of Mt. Timnah that is on the tip of the arrow.  The same anointing that the Prophet spoke over you is on you.  This arrow destroys, but the oil makes new again.”

It BE-came clear to me that when the Prophet releases the arrows of deliverance that it (the arrows) must come from the East.  He must open the window according to 2 Kings 13:17.  Even so it is the East wind (the Ruah and Pneuma [wind and breath] of YAH) that brings destruction and deliverance i.e. Genesis 41:6, 23, 27; Exodus 10:13; Exodus 14:21; and Ezekiel 27:26.  Then, the oil will sanctify (strengthen, restore, and give a fresh aroma) that which is now delivered.  As it is, after any destruction, there must BE purification of the vicinity that has been destroyed.

The wind and oil in this arrow of deliverance has two functions – deliver/destroy, and to make new.  The arrows of the LORD’s deliverance is coming to your house from the Prophet who is sent by YAH!

Selah!

It truly does matter what an item is made of; it is the elements of that item that makes it to be called what it is.  If it didn’t matter, then every item would be made of and be called the same thing.  If it didn’t matter what it was made of, we wouldn’t have carbonated water and citric acid for soda; we’d have water and water.  Or, we wouldn’t have a rose and a hydrangea; we’d have a rose and a rose.  And, yes, a rose is still a rose with our without thorns, but it is only called a rose because of the ingredients that makes it a rose.  Furthermore, it is not only called a rose; it is called a wild rose, a red rose, a hybrid tea rose, a hardy rose, a shrub rose, a cabbage rose, or a carpet rose all because of the other names [attachments, ingredients, diseases, breeding and mixtures] that makes it those types of roses.  However, its first name wasn’t rose; it was dirt and seed.  Selah!

In conjunction with the context of an initial thought about soul-ties, when we BE-come intimately involved with a person [in spirit and in flesh] we have then BE-come tied to many ingredients [if I may put it like that].  As the Prophet explained to me, those spiritual species [unconscious ingredients, particles you can’t see, spiritual diseases, breeds and genes] binds themselves to you and you take on their attributes distorting your true self-identity.  Those attributes didn’t just come from one person; they came from all the people that one person was tied to.  Unless we unfastened ourselves [spiritually] from the ties of that one person [and their attachments] we have no idea of who we actually are or the essence of our “true” name.

As people, our first name is not the name our parents gave us; that’s our second name.  Our first name is MAN, dust of the ground [dirt, powder, soil, air]; our second name is the name on our birth certificates.  And let the truth be articulated, we even lose sight of our second name when we bind our flesh and spirit to sexual, emotional, and psychological ties.  We become known [and named as] hysterical, schizophrenic, bi-polar, multiple personality disorder, sociopath, OCD, manic-depression and the host of all those NAMES that does not rightly identify us as God has created us to be.

My first name is MAN, dust of the ground; my second name is Angela Marie, and that name means Beloved Messenger, Bringer of Truth; and my prophetic name is Nataph, and that name means prophet who speaks by inspiration.  I AM what and who my name says I AM.

Who are you and what is your name? 

© February 28, 2010, Angela M. Smith